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Temperatures in some places dropped as much as 40 degrees in 24 hours. More than a foot snow has fallen, nnmia,esot wisconsin and michigan and the storm is heading east. Your face is are you cold . Yeah obama has the first oneonone meeting with president xi jinping. He needs one of these things around the white house. The Postal Service suspects Chinese Government hackers of breaking into a computer system. The white house is shocked. Even m sorehocked that theye hav a computer. Hawaii, slowmoti...

[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone. Id like to welcome you to this afternoons session of the washington history seminar, and for those of you who dont know the seminar is a joint project of the Woodrow Wilson Centers History and Public Policy program and the american Historical Associations National history center. My name is Eric Arn Ericsson from George Washington university, and i am the cochair of this seminar. As is our custom, i want to thank two people whose behindthescenes...

Accommodate that kind of demand driven by change and growth unless we invest in transportation today. And specifically public transport. Of course more people means more people trying to get to work and because this is america it also means more people starting and growing businesses and they will need to connect to workers. A very recent example. When the big blizzard in january shutdown bostons Public Transportation Massachusetts General Hospital had a real problem. According to the hospital, ...

Americans support for anticolonialism in africa during the early cold war. She looks at the politics of south africa and the role of the naacp. Her book is bourgeois radicals the naacp and the struggle for colonial liberation, 1941 to 1960. The Wilson Center and the National History center cohosted this 80 minute event. A few years ago, my brother sent me a youtube clip from the macarthur Award Winning author c hamamanda adichie. She explains as a young girl has used to write these stories about...

New programs that will focus on current Passenger Rail service and the development of future Passenger Rail service. New amtrak grants that would Keep Services in good working condition. The Rail Service Improvement program, which would provide competitive grants to drive development of high performing Passenger Rail networks. This program also includes funding for ptc implementation for commuter railroads and support for states and localities to mitt grait the adverse impacts of rail operations...

Given everything that she had read, that appeared to be the story worth telling. With all great parables, there is an underlying message in that story. That underlying message is that there are these stories that we hear over and over and over again. We hear them so much, that they go by without interrogation. Without question. And they begin to frame our worldview. They begin to frame the way we see the world. So for instance, she says, africa is poor. Immigrants are mexicans. And legal. The po...

She explains as a young girl has used to write these stories about girls who are blind eating apples in the snow, and then there were more blondes, and more. And her mother said, child, do you know youre in nigeria . And she said well yes, but all of the book that she read had blondes eating apples and playing in the snow. Given everything that she had read, that appeared to be the story worth telling. With all great parables, there is an underlying message in that story. That underlying message...

Standing around the lookout area when the ground collapsed. We heard like huge, like i would say, a splash. And a lot of sand and rocks falling down. Reporter the two hikers fell 70 feet and were buried underneath the rock and dirt. Some Good Samaritans nearby helped to get them out. And marin county fire sheriff and park ranger showed up to assist in the rescue. Both people were transported by hospital, but one was pronounced dead. Just a few days ago, the National Park Service Posted these pic...

Beautiful morning and its going to be a great afternoon eva. Take a look at satellite, we had cloud cover overnight. Its filtering away to the south. We had fog at the shore area, but we expect it to be breaking up quickly. 57 degrees in philadelphia. 62 in washington. Cooler in the upper elevations of western pennsylvania, pittsburgh 46 degrees. Generally speaking the winds out of the west for at least a bit of today. Should warm us up rather nicely. As we head into the afternoon around 4 00 p....

And why wild weather is plaguing the u. S. And europe. The ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych says antigovernment protesters have crossed the limits. After 24 hours of violence in which 25 people have been killed. Russia said it will not intervene after the worst clashes since the protest began in november. Several countries are considering sanctions. This morning in you ukraines independence square, tension is building as protesters gather ahead of another day of demonstrations. The smoke th...