My name is jimmy carter, i am running for president. [applause] tonight, tonight i have some good news for you. We will have a democrat in the white house in 1977. Ladies of the convention, probably i present before you the name of jimmy carter as the party, of the democratic the next president of the United States. Election 1976, the Democratic National convention. Analystt is political richard scanlon. Richard inis is washington, with me are professor Howard Penniman and mr. Stephen hess of the brookings and touche and. We want to discuss the Democratic Convention. We will do the Republican Convention at a later time when that meeting has been finished. Before we do either of the detailed discussions we have to spend a few minutes talking about the basic purpose of the nominating convention. One has said these are real ideological struggles told by circuses. Penniman, beyond that, how can we briefly describe the cosession of American Convention . Convention national is the nominating
News. Theresa may has announced a series of measures ahead of the conservative Party Conference which she is hoping will appeal to younger voters. Theres to be a freeze on tuition fees and students wont have to start paying back loans until they re earning over twenty five thousand pounds a year. The Prime Minister says these are the first steps in a wider review of university funding. Labour which has promised to abolish tuition fees has called the proposals desperate. Our Political Correspondent alex forsyth reports. Bruce davidson has told delegates to unite and fight for the country, in the past hour. The first day of conference, a big day for the Prime Minister. Reporter happy birthday, Prime Minister she has not had much to celebrate lately. Theresa may knows she has a lot to prove, to her party and voters. Her first pitch is to the younger generation, with the promise to look again at how tuition fees work. When we set the policy, what we expected would happen would be a range,
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Rumbles through the atlantic, just a few hundred miles from the east coast, its path of destruction has already killed at least 30 people across the caribbean. From space, you can clearly see the size of this thing. It has Tropical Storm force winds extending almost 300 miles. Its shield of clouds stretching almost 2,000 miles. The storm is far enough away that florida will escape the brunt of the danger, but what we cant escape is beach erosion. The search punding up and over. This should not be happening right here. The beach usually starts about 50 yards out. Through the weekend, sandy will snake around the coast, lashing the carolinas with its westernmost tentacles before making its dirty turn directly toward the u. S. Somewhere from the midatlantic to new england. When you factor in the unusual track that its going to be taking, that is coming in from the east, across the jersey coast, its a once in a lifetime storm. Arer the reporter the socalled once in a lifetime storm will onl
This is nightline, october 26th, 2012. Good evening, im cynthia mcfadden. Tonight, millions of americans are bracing for impact, as Hurricane Sandy rapidly approaches, threatening to morph into a rare superstorm as it barrels up the east coast. Abcs ginger zee of our extreme weather team is on the ground in florida with the latest. Reporter as Hurricane Sandy rumbles through the atlantic, just a few hundred miles from the east coast, its path of destruction has already killed at least 30 people across the caribbean. From space, you can clearly see the size of this thing. It has Tropical Storm force winds extending almost 300 miles. Its shield of clouds stretching almost 2,000 miles. The storm is far enough away that florida will escape the brunt of the danger, but what we cant escape is beach erosion. The search punding up and over. This should not be happening right here. The beach usually starts about 50 yards out. Through the weekend, sandy will snake around the coast, lashing the c