Alecia a big shakeup at zero p d right now merely the shaft was the fix this problem new man in charge in hes not the highestranking member of the Police Department reporting to city administrators who the mayor is put in charge of overseeing the Police Department. There was appointed interim chief than 1¢ net 10 years ago use to the title. He first accepted the position and decided he no longer want it because life would be in the spotlight. Reports are surfing for the dislike of his style of management. Hes a standup guy. Steve as alicia said. The oakland Police Department has several mike gant. A former homicide investigator. It turns out. He has played a key role in three of the recent kron 4s Haaziq Madyun explains gants connection. Reporter Sergeant Mike gantt is at the center of a swirling scandal that has consumned the oakland Police Department. Gant has played a key role in several incidents. Including. Accusations that gants girlfriend was allegedly writing and posting sensi
this will travel along a path to just north of the hawaiian islands. Light is still going to get lashed by that. Were going to follow this story throughout the next couple of days. mark we have a special section for this. reporter we are looking at an exceptionally light commute for the e short freeway. It was 16 to 18 minutes. This is heading for the berkeley curve it was no back up or slowing. With the backed up right here at the end of the east parking lot that is why were looking at 12 to 14 minutes drive times. Heres a report of some debris near mid spanned but it has not done much to slow the drive. And has not increased the drive time. A good trip heading over to foster city. This is a easy more rain ride whether youre heading to it or from it. president obama as commanderinchief, i will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq, and so even as we support iraqis as they take the fight to these terrorists,american combat troops will not be return
Turning to political strife in the ukraine. Cyber reports driven by mobile and holiday data continues to trickle in. An upgrade in acquisition and reports in china mobile all amounting to a rise in apple shares. And shipments expected to fall by double digits this year, the most severe contraction on record. And some food for thought as news from yum brands and krispy disappoint. Comscore says shoppers have already spent about 20 billion online this year, up 3 . Ibm also saying some pretty eye popping figures saying both mobile traffic and mobile sales came in at more than 40 higher from a year ago. The data just continues to add up regarding the strn of mobien mobile, jim. I reiterate this is an apple Holiday Season. Dont want to get too focused on apple. Thats the metaphor. Seems like people want to buy phones and buy tablets. The pc numbers are dreadful. On the Hewlett Packard Conference Call, they know they got to ramp up tablet. They know it but theyre more focused on the commerci
Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to remind you when the session ends, two authors go to the signing tents, and theres a place to buy copies of the books and take them to the tent and have them signed. Follow us out when we leave. To the left, george packer, staff writer for the new yorker magazine, author of asass sins gate, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, written two novels and two Nonfiction Books, a play off broadway, and lives this brooklyn, new york, the new book called the unwinding inner hist
Texas literary outlaws. Bill is a clinical professor of journalism at the university of texas of boston. He has written biographies including one of george w. Bush and one of molly ivins. So i just wanted to start, i have read a couple of your recent interviews last week, bill and when you were on npr you describe how in the early 60s dallas had become one of the most singular cities on the planet earth. I was just wondering if you could start i explaining what you meant by that . Sure. I think in the annals of American History and im a little biased to speak in such broad terms as we wrote a book about dallas called dallas 1963 but in the years prior to the assassination president kennedy, it seemed like there was no other place like that city certainly in america. But we had were a handful of people, people who lived above the cloud over a very popular people who work in forming the confederacy really have antikennedy ferber that had pushed the thinking there in some way to a fanatic