Archives flagship building in washington. Its on the insect drill land of the people. I am david farrow, archivist of the United States, and its a pleasure welcome you to todays conversation with kevin boyle and andy smith. About boyles news book, the shattering. Before we begin, i would like to tell you about two programs coming up soon on our youtube channel. On wednesday, january 26th, at 1 pm david mccain will tell us about his new book, watching darkness fall which recounts the rise of the third reich in germany, and the road to war from the perspective of four american ambassadors in key western european capitals. London, berlin, rome, paris, and moscow. On tuesday february 1st, at 1 pm, we will hear from sara pollack who will discuss her book fdr in american memory. Roosevelt in the making of in icon. She analyzes roosevelt as a cultural icon in american memory, and historical leader who carefully unintentionally bill to his public image. Kevin bail because his look at the 1960s
Illegally selling vip tickets. Its called one of footballs biggest ever scandals. Hello there. Welcome. Thanks for being with us. Its been described one of the strongest storms to sweep the pacific if in decades. These are the latest pictures from the japan Southern Island of okinawa. People are beginning to feel the brunt. Half a million are leaving their homes and seeking shelter. Flights in the area have been cancelled, sea laneses closed, 70,000 homes already without power. The storm will be at the most powerful as it passes okinawa island. Officials warn it could bring waves up to 14 meters high and wind gusts more than 200 Kilometers Per Hour. Now these incredible pictures give you a sense of how big this is. This is a view from the International Space station. It stretches from southern japan to taiwan. The typhoon is expected to gradually weaken over the next 24 to 48 hours. A lot of rain is still on its way. The islands south of japan and southern japan itself could see up to
To house their operational staff and service their vehicles are in a marginal poor state of repair. Are these facilities a threat to the health and welfare of our transit workers . First, i think i should be clear that we believe the systems are safe. Transit is one of the safest modes of travel we have available to us in this day and age. We also believe strongly there are steps that need to be taken in order to address the safety, not just of the general public, but the employees that work for the agencies as well. Theres no question, when you are dealing with an aging infrastructure and the needs required to maintain that infrastructure, employees are going to be working in Hazardous Conditions with moving vehicles and things of that nature that can make for an unsafe situation. But there are steps that transit agencies take and do take, and i know from my own experience, we focus closely at cta on making sure the operators have appropriate training, appropriate tools, the appropria
And ht has been here in the past and he is just a remarkable individual, and so we have got some good Success Stories but the bottom line is when it all comes down to it and the director sartipi knows that it is all about the numbers and so our goal on this for the construction aspects of the project, we have a 17 percent participation goal of sbede and lbes and i am very proud to say that we are exceeding the 17 percent goal and so we are in exception of that and the only thing that i would like to caution people is that we have large packages coming up and to take to and continue to unbundle the packages so that the people can compete and we will do everything in our power to exceed that 17 percent, and thank you, director, you were fantastic in your leadership. We would not be able to do it without you. Thank you. Are there any questions . Or comments on this item . I just want to say that i am very appreciative of the additional efforts that go into securing and out reach for sbes
It understands hearts and minds operations have been recognized the vital necessity of the source of things on the battle runs in iraq and afghanistan. It understands cultural diplomacy and understands it to be a strategic instrument of American Power. A huge part of this is the problem of our international broadcasts. Our international broadcasts, radio, television and obviously internet are the only unfiltered information that we can get into the minds of aliens in l. A. And the people around world. All other information that we transmit is filtered by the governments that control their media as does russia should this extraordinary extent as it has started to do. We have shut down the voice of america and the russian ukrainian broadcasts over a short wave. Weve barely had an imprint on a station for i dont know what the reason was why the pbg was not able to renew even the little am station that we had in moscow, but a subcontractor failed to review the contract and then putin basic