Winston groom will talk and rear about half an hour and then take questions for 15 or 20 minutes more. We encourage questions, we just need you to ask them from the microphone over here both so everyone can be involved and also for our cspan awed yes, sir. Its great to audience. Its great to welcome kin son bloom winston bloom back to washington d. C. Histories including a storm in flanders, shiloh 1862 and tonights book, the generals. One of Winston Grooms gifts is his ability to flesh out the characters of these three influential but different leaders, giving us insights regarding how their experiences shaped their personalities and choices in the Second World War. Another gift is style, so please welcome Winston Groom. [applause] first, id like to thank everybody for coming out to hear me on this lovely saturday afternoon in washington d. C. I have been on a book tour now for a couple of weeks. Ive learned something about what people want to know. One of the first questions im usual
Includes 900 billion in subsidies over 10 years for major commercial health insurance. The union health plans are not eligible, and they are being frozen out of that market by the government picking winners and losers. It is a mistake. Question. T what policy should the federal government pursued to improve our nations economy . Governmentsederal responsibility for growing alsomic disparity, and including an increase in the minimum wage. Thank you. The mostion touches on important comment of his campaign, the economy. The economy is the bedrock of so much else and have talked about tonight. The basic Building Block of the economy is jobs. Is pursuingent policies right now that are killing job creation. We have 8 Million People that have dropped out of the search for a job in despair. We have 7 Million People stuck in parttime jobs, and we have millions still unemployed completely. There is no silver bullet, but our concrete, immediate things that this government can do to creation. D f
Live in San Francisco, ryan takeo. And the medical examiner trying to confirm the bodys id along with how and when the person died. A bizarre case of arson and vandalism. A woman as arrested yesterday for attempting to torch a house and she also tried to set fire to a neighbor. Sheriffs deputies say the woman also grade graffiti on the property. When a neighbor out to confront her the suspect doused her with lighter fluid and tried to set her on fire. An offduty firefighter tackled the suspect. That same woman started a garage fire minutes earlier and she was arrested months earlier. Investigators say the suspect may be tied to several arsons. Northern california getting much needed rain and a little bit of snow, too. An incoming storm coming. The truckee tahoe area got some snow over the weekend. Not enough for the areas that had already shut down for the season ski resorts, but some help for some of the resorts still open. No chain remember requirements on interstate 80. In one Commu
may be minutes away from reopening that lane. there had been reports of an accident in the back up. if it is there will not add anything to the problem. there has been no confirmation from the chp. we believe the only problem is on the upper deck is the closure of the right lane because of the spill of transmission fluid. that is extremely hazardous. look at this back up. it reaches to the foot of the macarthur maze. the short freeway is another story. it is already slow coming down from berkeley all the way from golden gate fields. this will be a rough ride. westbound 24 commute coming over from the freeway. it has not backed up on to 580 westbound thankfully. it is likely we could see that heavy traffic moving in from there. that is not our only hot spot. interstate s 80 interstata solid back up through the altamont pass and out to the floor of the livermore valley as you can see the westbound ride slow all the way to airway boulevard. there was a diesel fuel spill that kep