Worldwide. For more information about the National Press club, please visit our web site at press. Org can. On behalf of our members worldwide, id like to welcome our speakers and those of you attending todays event. Our head table includes guests of our speakers as well as working journalists who are club members. If you hear applause in our audience, i note that members of the to general public are attempting, so its not necessarily of a lack of journalistic object it. [laughter] id also like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. You can follow the action on twitter using the hashtag npclunch. After our guests speeches conclude, well have a questionandanswer period, and i will ask as many questions as time permits. Now its time to introduce our head table guests. Id like each of you to stand briefly as your name is announced, and from your right, skip cottonhauser, an independent journalist who coincidentally organized ralph naders luncheon at the press club in 2004. Rehem
Rassoules. Hi, guys. Good morning. So today its my honor to welcome this great group of people. I want to get right to the conversation slowed to a lightning introduction of old in. Just about right is Christina Lewis halpern was the founder of a allstar code, nonprofit dedicated to closing opportunity gap between young men of color and the tech sector. Next we have taofeek rabiu, the senior technical manager at aol. He does products and key developer. Taofeek has been coding since he was 14. Last but not least we have nikolas rassoules who is a sophomore at pathways to Technology Early College High School in brooklyn. He is actually bit on the Robotics Team at his high school as a Software Developer and you just went to nationals this year, right . Awesome, cool. Thanks for being here. I would love to start with christina. Tell us of a bit the allstar code and what the program does and why you want to focus on young men . Sure. So allstar code is a prep program for the Tech Industry,
Billion to 5 billion to clean up the mix going into your gas tanks s. The refinery spending more on a new mix to make sure the emissions stay low and the gas prices stay high. And remember the stowaway . He wants to close the security gaps at some of these airports. Lots coming up. First, lets take a look at the Weather Forecast for your sunday, brian. Lets get to the important stuff. As we go to the bay bridge, a mix of low clouds over the city in marin county. Much of the rest of the bay area with some exceptions in the east bay and the shoreline of the peninsula, kind of cloudy this morning. Temperatures starting out. The readings mostly in the mid 50s and chillier in santa rosa. What were expecting are the usual low clouds in the shoreline. Most of today will be sunny and right on the beach of the peninsula and breezy this afternoon. Well have all the weather for you a few minutes from now, but first, lets get the latest. Crews are battling a fire in concord right now. Flames broke
Tablets again. Advertising started manufacturing just in time for the critical season. All of this according to people familiar with the matter. Its a move to boost the ipad business, its second largest after the iphone. To 13. 3 million, down 9 yearoveryear. We started asking what apple could do to get customers excited about the ipad again. Is probably not going to be much different than the existing ipad will stop it could add a less flair screen. When are they going to make it eager ipad . Something that is a more proversion. I would not expect that this fall. , i thinkarlier comment the ipad is the troubled child here. See the changes being enough to get the business kick started. There are some other things that could be going on but one of the focuses they will be eyeing. What about the new iphone . Couldnt they cannibalize sales even more . Big headwind a face. It has been down 3 yearoveryear. That has been a problem. There will be cannibalization from the tablet and thats a go
Is in with the story. Nanette, this is a notable night. Reporter well, it is for those who have been watching the two states carry this out. A field poll back in december found that 55 of californians asked supported the legalization of recreational pot. Thats the first time the poll found a solid majority for the change. But the movement couldnt get its act together this year to take advantage of the momentum. The wait in Washington State is finally over. 20 months after voters there approved the Recreational Use of marijuana, people can finally buy it. Its very liberating. I never thought i would see this in my lifetime, ever. Reporter washington now joins colorado in legalizing marijuana. California has definitely fallen behind. Reporter back in california, pot supporters are hard at work, trying to make the same happen here. Theyre surprised its taking so long. California was the first. We were the leading edge of legalizing medical cannabis. And the number of activists here, you w