holiday weekend make sure you do so responsibly. or you may find yourself pulled over. 35 different law enforcement agencies are teaming up this weekend to keep impaired drivers off of the details. near the busy roads they ll spend the weekend protecting, law enforcers line up for a friday evening roll call. they re kicking off the southeast wisconsin o-w-i task force s labor day weekend effort. it s the opening of college football this weekend the badger s game is on saturday afternoon. lots of home parties going on and we want to make sure that people either stay home or they drive home safely with some type of designated driver program. thirty v the task force. and lt. gary gabrish says they re very effective: since last october, not including regular patrols, the task force alone has made 230 operating while impaired arrests. i believe we have about eight percent of the owis that occur in our county just on our deployments. they ll be keeping a close eye on drivers
all told, there are six moments of silence this morning, including one for the crash of flight 93 in shanksville, pennsylvania. president obama is making remarks at the pentagon and he s already observed another moment of silence at the white house. we have a lot to get to including the latest on the presidential campaign. slew of new polls and interviews with jay johnson and one of the bush administrations supporters of the war in iraq that was prompted by the 9/11 attacks. but first, joining me now is tom brokaw who was on the air when he realized america was under attack and here we are 15 years later, presidential campaign in the backdrop. donald trump and hillary clinton are both there this morning. what a difference 15 years makes. well, it was 15 years ago it became one of the worst days in american history. it unleashed the wrong war in the wrong place. there were no weapons of mass destruction. it s been costly. 4500 americans have died in the war and a cost with
good morning, everyone. i m scott mcgrew. we have been thinking a lot lately about the future of work. certainly how robots will replace many of us at work. but a very smart fellow points out we may have been ignoring something called augmented work. technology working with us, not against us to make us the worker more effective. this is video from microsoft, but there are any number of companies developing these sorts of ideas. headsets and holograms, giving us very new views of work. tim o reilly is famous for something called his o reilly radar. the ability to predict the next big thing. i can tell you that tim s ability not magical. it s because he s a voracious listener and a good learner. tim o reilly is the founder of o reilly media. he s the leading intellectual. so leading intellectual is a lot to live up to over the next few minutes. i like to say my reputation precedes me. augmented work. this is wearing the goggles. what else with might we see in the future
good morning, everyone. and happy st. patrick s day to you. it has quickly turned into a major political battle talking about president obama s desire to fill the vacancy on the supreme court. and right in the middle of it is judge merrick garland, who president obama has tapped as his nominee. today garland begins what is going to be a long road, and that road ultimately could lead nowhere. we get the details right now from abc s kenneth moton who is joining us from d.c. good morning, kenneth. reporter: good morning, kendis and reena. senate republican leaders have made it clear they will not fill the supreme court vacancy until after the november election. but that won t stop the president s nominee from marching up to capitol hill today. this morning supreme court nominee merrick garland will meet face-to-face with democratic senators, but it s the republicans who control his fate. at a time when our politics are so polarized, this is precisely the time when we sho
it has quickly turned into a major political battle talking to fill the vacancy on the supreme court. right in the middle is judge merrick garland who president obama tapped as his nominee. today he begins what is going to be a long road and that road ultimately could lead nowhere. we get the details from abc s kenneth moton joining us from d.c. good morning, kenneth. reporter: good morning, kendis and reena. senate republican leaders have made it clear they will not fill the supreme court vacancy until after the november election. but that won t stop the president s nominee from marching up to capitol hill today. this morning supreme court nominee merrick garland will meet face-to-face with democratic senators but it s the republicans who control his fate. at a time when our politics are so polarized this is precise precisely the time to play it straight. reporter: it intensified the second president obama introduced his pick and the rose garden moment emotional fo