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at the tmp and everybody here at busboys, welcome. thank you for coming. we are very fortunate this evening to have with us eric lou to talk about his new book you re more powerful than you think. a citizen s guide to making change happen. what a timely work. in the wake of last november s election, my staff and i the bookstore have been approached many times by customers concerned about the course of events have taken and wanting to know what they can read to help them decide how to get more involved in civic life and effect change. well, eric s book is now a good place to start.he began writing it before donald trump launched his bid for the presidency trumps the election is one manifestation of a mounting turbulence in us political and civic life that we ve all been seeing for some years now. into a book about civic power, what is, how to practice it, and why anyone would actually want it. as as a writer, educator and cic entrepreneur, eric has been thinking about ....
mistake was the former mayor of newark, sharp james, how does they guy who was convicted of public corruption, how does he qualify for that health care. to bring us more, alex. he has been one of newark s move famous, and colorful residents for decade, but that did not make former mayor james immune to a health care screw up. former mayor james was in his doctor s office last week, he found out about it. i said, maybe. i did something wrong, i went to the desk, i said i have been sitting here three hours, i said am i next, she said no, you have no medical coverage, really? we checked. what? newark switched providers to state health benefit plan, after a dispute, who the broker would be, the paperwork was sent in late that meant retirees did not have enough time to sign up with the state, if they got their applications at all, some of the addresses were wrong. these people are without a health plan new the new roster is filled in. i am learning, we do not have ....
the suspected to be high. slightly higher than what was forecasted by those that stock talked about the highest estimate. we have to get the emergency services to where they are needed. that means we better know where the images is dark. so if you re clogging 911 we cannot find that out. we have to get the personnel to where people really need help. if your car is blocking the roads, we cannot do that. as to the current weather, the rank and i m happy to say it has passed. we don t anticipate anything more than a few showers are now one. in terms of the winds, they should go below the air force in the next few hours. they re already started to drop. as for the storm surge, a very big part of it is over the next couple of hours. the high tide was at roughly 815. it is not to:00. next low tide is at 6:00 a.m., so we are heading down. you will see a lot of the rose that have currently flooded the water we will drain off. most new yorkers have follow our advice. the coope ....
power. home field disadvantage. the cowboys out while the steelers beat the the chiefs in kansas city. now the trip to the super bowl. monday january 16th, 2017. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today on this monday morning, martin luther king, jr. day. i m tamron hall alongside willie geist. let s give credit, out from under the covers after her dallas cowboys lost. a heartbreaking season. it s over. a social media, that was the super bowl last night. that may be the big game. patriots fans may have something to say about that. more on the game in a bit. let us start with the weather and that lengthy ice storm creating dangerous conditions across the plains and midwest. nbc s morgan radford in icy omaha, nebraska. morgan, good morning. icy omaha, nebraska. good morning. reporter: willie, good morning. 45,000 americans waking up without power, after a dead ....
i don t believe you. [ light laughter ] hillary clinton will be the 2017 commencement speaker at wellesley college while joe biden is getting ready for freshman orientation at umass. [ laughter and applause ] back in the game! former president obama was spotted on vacation in the virgin islands yesterday, wearing a backwards baseball cap and flip-flops, and completely ignoring the bat signal. [ laughter and applause ] oh, oh. i m done. i m out of the game. i don t do that anymore. i have my flip-flops on. [ light laughter ] hat backwards. i don t do it. new jersey governor chris christie yesterday, slammed the rollout of president trump s executive order on immigration, saying it was terrible. added christie, it was the worst rollout since that time i got stuck in a hammock. [ laughter and applause ] cnn will host a debate next week between senator s ted cruz and bernie sanders, they re calling it alien versus senator. [ laughter and applause ] hillary clinton [ app ....