Investigative report on u. S. Disastere joins us to discuss a report on u. S. Disaster response. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host it is tuesday, september 3, and this is washington journal. The house and senate in for pro forma sessions. They will likely face new requests for more disaster aid money in the wake of Hurricane Dorian. As we begin the program, we americans to ask are have we become too reliant on government assistance during and after disasters . Andou live in the Eastern Central time zones, that number is 2027488000. Mountain and pacific, that line, 2027488001. If you live in a disaster prone area, particularly if you are anticipating Hurricane Dorian, that line, 2027488002. Also looking for your posts on facebook. Facebook. Com cspan and your cspanwj. Well at we will talk to florida congressman on the coast and fema. The front page reporting of usa today on the hurricane, bahamas b
Impact of Climate Change. Members talked with james witt and Atmospheric Science professors about efforts to prepare for Natural Disasters which might result in change in weather patterns. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objections, the chair is authorized. This is our third in a series of Climate Change hearings, continuing with Natural Disasters. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Mentioned, this is the third in a series of hearings. History ofning the the Scientific Consensus of Climate Change and the Public Health effects of Climate Change in our first two hearings, the subcommittee turns to the impact of Climate Change on Natural Disasters. This subcommittee has three goals today. First, we are going to illustrate how Natural Disasters are made both more intense and more frequent to to Climate Change. Climate change israel and we are constantly reminded of that fact in terrifying ways. Just two weeks ago, it was reported that greenland l
Live, today from noon until 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Be sure to watch indepth with author lee edwards next month. Watch book tv every weekend on cspan2. Our guest on newsmakers this week, we are joined by stephanie schriock, of emilys list. Working to elect prochoice Democratic Women to state and local elections. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. We should tell our audience that you had a big announcement that you are committing 20 million to 20 races to flip state legislatures in 2020. We will talk about that and lots of other electoral politics questions. Let me introduce the two reporters asking questions. Dave is the National Political correspondent for the washington post. Thanks to both of you for being back again this week. Dave, you are up first. Dave starting higher up the ballot, im sure youve interacted with a lot of donors that worried that the woman cannot win the presidency after 2016. Have you detected any shifts and that over the past couple weeks or sinc
Director of speechwriting for president bill clinton, overseeing production of domestic policy speeches. Over a career spanning 40 years he has written for nasa administrator Charles Bowden as well as top executives at ibm, columbia university, time warner, the list goes on. He is a graduate from Morgan State University and is adjunct professor at hofstra university. Our next panelist, sarah hurwitz, served in the white house from 200920 17, first as a speechwriter for president obama before becoming had speechwriter for first Lady Michelle obama. Previously she served as chief speechwriter for Hillary Clinton during her 2008 president ial campaign. She is a graduate of Harvard College and harvard law school, and has an upcoming book about judaism coming out in september. And John Mcconnell served more than 10 years in the white house staff under two administrations. He was a senior speechwriter for president and was responsible for the president s address to the joint session of congr
Hes been complaining about it for a while. You have to get a fan. Its hard to sleep in that temperature. Four hours. Youre looking at four hours right here. Mike, you have to answer for this. I say four hours looks pretty good. Thats what i say. Lets talk about whats going on outside. That sea breeze a lot of us are clamoring for so we can sleep better and get temperatures back to average. Were either calm or three to six miles an hour and blowing off the coast. Lets take a look, n n at 73. Same temperature along the coast at 4 00. 64 at 7 00. Look at the bay at noon already warmer than average. 74 to 76. If you have a convertible its nice to drive around during the evening hours but you cant sleep in it. Just because. The sun is not up yet. Were looking pretty good. Inside the Robin Williams tunnel. Its pretty dark, even the street lamps are out on the southbound side. Just be aware of that. And first reports of an accident involving three or four vehicles. Just before highway 242 and