Writers festival. This is 45 minutes. Please welcome tim harford. [applause]. Thank you very much everyone. Host i dont believe in long preambles but i thought i should say a few words. I am well aware the many of you have no idea who i am printed as a thank you for showing up on the spirits of pure curiosity. It speaks very well of you. Even though its a really big name for the festival. I feel very honored to be amongst them. So who am i, few things. Already called the undercover columnist for the Financial Times. It is really good. I recommend it printed thank you sir. [laughter]. The second thing is im with radio. I chauffeur the media world service, fifty inventions that shaped the modern economy. And how we think about numbers and how numbers sometimes lead us astray. They help us understand the world. And i also have a podcast with a gentleman called Michael Lewis and malcolm. Read Cautionary Tales force all about things going wrong and sometimes in amusing ways. And what we can
She does not control, a staffshire terrier, regularly attacks people, to meet this its impossible to prepare for a couple of stafford and his owner, the reason for this is the complete unpredictability of the animals behavior, it seems like the dog is humbly waiting for the elevator to arrive, calmly lets the mother out with the stroller, and then rushes at the woman from behind, i didnt understand what happened, i stop the elevator , i say, woman, well , apparently your dog seemed to jump on me, but what did she tell me, and her paw touched you . So what . I say, well, my backpack is torn, she tells me, well, you probably tore it yourself, now i present what you want from me . Maria, of course, would like to never cross paths with this dog again, such meetings are too expensive, here is the result of one of them a woman was walking her small pet, which she eventually had to cover with her body when stafford went on the attack again, and it was lucky that the fangs and claws did not re
60s across england spots and at the bank we also have the upper 50s across parts of the coast and other areas years will we can expect little upper 50s for the more pressing. Michelle a as we continue on with the morning temperatures could fall few more degrees but by the lunch hour to but will quickly warmed up plan on the upper seventies with a mix of sun and cloud with the illinois locations the king and more 7 is the call to continue to stay on the courtsidecoolside. Michelle a we continue on with cooler temperatures as cool air continues to assure in with the marine layer will be stuck in the cloud of gray skies for a good part of the morning and then we will have some sunshine for of off to the east but if youre born to stay closer to the coast you have a mix of sun and clouds if you are across england spots here is with you could expect in concord right now 63 degrees temperatures will continue to stay into the mid 60s by 10 71 degrees is closer to lead our panel of for seven da
Protected or inside. Petaluma is 36. I have seen temperatures as let as 32 and 28 at other reporting stations santa rosa is 35, napa and American Canyon warmed to 39. We were at 33. The day planner jumps into the upper 50s by noon and upper 50s to nearly 60 with total sunshine this afternoon. Stormimpact scale is two for the weekend. Hillary clinton is urging americans to stay hopeful and bighearted. She spoke at chin defense fund event in washington, dc. She admitted the struggles after unexpected election loss. Show get emotional when talking of her mom alone as kid on a train after companies abandoned her. I dream of going up to her and sitting next to her and take her in my arms and saying, look, look at me, and listen, you will survive, your daughter will grow up to be a United States senator, represent our country as secretary of state and win more than 62 million votes for president of the United States. She signaled her focus is on children and families saying as listen as any
Some spots, not for everybody but areas of rain moving in absolutely, currently 49 degrees in the city of boston, 52 in the last hour, humidity is up just a little bit, seven miles an hour, lower 50s from taunton to 54 right now, nashua sitting at 39, amtraking drk i am tracking areas of rain, around the way to chat happy, dealing with rain, route 6, shutesbury to pelham, all this is moving from west to east, light right now but notice over the next couple hours this band of rain will shift north, get a little lull in the action then rain fulls back in around lunch time today, thats why i say have the umbrella with you, still areas of showers light to and then tapering off during the evening hours with partial clearing after that. Temperatures in the 50s too right on through the afternoon, gusty southwest wind by later on today, another round of rain tomorrow coming up, talk about that, first weather and traffic together. West of boston, few slowdown out there and a typical spot, for t