[no audio] good afternoon and welcome to the 86th winter meeting of the mayor s. i am the mayor of the great city of new orleans. [applause] start, we can start on a moment of levity. the mayor of vancouver is here. she wants us to note that today st birthday of vancouver. birthday madam mayor. [applause] honor to introduce steve benjamin of south carolina. second vice president of rochester hill. director tom cochrane. we also have with us in the audience, our past president. elizabeth of burnsville. several formal mayors who have served in the leadership in the audience today. there are many newly elected mayors who are with us for the first time. new mayors, can you stand up? [applause] thank you. we look forward to it. for those mayors who are joining us in washington dc, welcome to our meeting and thank you all for being here. i am going to introduce our speakers as we move through the agenda. this is all available at u.s. mayors.org. for those of you on facebook, twit
dc for the u.s. conference of bi-rs by annual meeting annual meeting. it started with an address from new orleans mayor mitch landrieu. mayor landrieu chatter] good afternoon, everybody. good afternoon and welcome to the conference of mayors. i am at mitch landrieu, the mayor of the great city of new orleans, president of the conference of mayors. thank you. [applause] we can start on a moment of levity. the mayor of vancouver wants us 161 st that today is the birthday of vancouver. new orleans is going to celebrate her 300 birthday in a couple weeks, so congratulations to us to. [applause] it is my great honor to introduce the confidence leadership. steve benjamin of columbia, south carolina is with us. hillsbarnett of rochester is working on something for me. executive leader tom cochran, thank you so much. net mick our cornett. we have elizabeth. you are several former mayors who have served in the conference leadership in the audience today. new mayors, can you stan
we do say good morning, everybody, on this monday. big changes and new challenges for the trump white house this morning. retired general john kelly is officially taking over as white house chief of staff today as president trump tries to hit the reset button going into another busy week. abc news kenneth moton has the latest from washington. kenneth, good morning. reporter: good morning. after that surprise announcement on twitter, president trump s new chief of staff will be sworn in today and his to do list is already long. today general john kelly will take the reigns of trump white house. john kelly will do a fantastic job. reporter: the homeland security secretary replacing chief of staff reince priebus, hoping to bring order off six months in office for trump. he brought kelly in for the same reason he brings in successful businessmen and generals. reporter: this week set to be a busy one for the new chief of staff. two u.s. bombers flew over the korean pen
what it is, you have your peach, boil it for 30 seconds, sub mersubmerge it in an ice bath, when it cools down, you can peel it like this. it s real. video number three oh. he wants us to believe he threw it and it didn t spill out? we re supposed to think he opened that can. you see the liquid inside. you even hear him sip it, he does the whole water bottle toss, and nothing spills out. fake. you see him open it up on camera the soda off camera. i m going fake, too. fake. i had to take a closer look at this one. i slowed it down to see if it s been staged. the flip did look a little weird. i think we all agree this is fake for sure. thanks for joining us today. we ll see you on the next brand-new says she was drugged stuffed in a bag and kidnapped in italy. that model is expected to talk to police today about her ordeal. reporter: smiles and relief from chloe ayling, after surviving what authorities say was a bizarre kidnapping in italy. i ve been t
about integration of two different various stories of the integration process in nashville. its triumph and its failures and to all of you at home watching us on c-span, welcome as well. and i know you ll enjoy our author s talks and we ll have questions we ll save until end of the presentations. both of these deal with integration and education. and we in nashville take a lot of of pride in our history and we see ourselves as a moderate progressive southern city and we also like to present the story of integration as almost a triumphant story with the success of the sit-ins. we didn t have the violence of other southern cities. and unfortunately, we ve chosen to craft that narrative and forget some of the painful parts of our story. and today, we re going to hear some of the painful parts as well as some of the successes. our presenters today are andrew maraniss who lives in nashville now and went to vanderbilt. he has written a book about the integration of athletics at van