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Theres a deter warning to airlines are being told to look out for explosives being smuggled on a plane in toothpaste tubes. Theyre telling people that are going to the Olympic Games to be on alert. The toothpaste tubes could contain ingredients to make explosive. This is the type of threat that is very concerning. I cant go into detail but i can tell you that our intelligence people are working on issuing and working on with departments. theyve been on alert with threats of with islamic extremis...

The way the biota here is changing. So those lessons from the past are important. The Dark Universe a celebration of our ignorance. Think about it. Usually when grow an exhibit here wiese we know. And maybe theres a little bit of heres the frontier. We can measure the existence of dark matter in the universe, its 85 of all the gravity we see. We dont know whats causing it. We measure that the universe is accelerating against the collective wishes of gravity of all the galaxies. We dont know what...

In a letter to his brother, Winslow Homer said of his surroundings, there is certainly some strange power that has an overlook on me, directing my life. That i am in the right place, there is no doubt. I have found Something Interesting to work at and time to do it. For almost three decades, Winslow Homer made his home on prouts neck, a rocky point just south of portland, maine. His house still stands on the high ground overlooking the sea. Visiting the place where homer lived and worked is john...

Whats going to happen on the actual reopening of the federal government. Theres no question that today i think really offered an opportunity and whats fascinating now is that youve got the republicans in both chambers the house and the senate willing to give at least in the short term on the debt ceiling but the Senate Republicans also want to give on both. They really want to reopen the government and lift the debt ceiling. Charlie, what Speaker Boehner saw was this there was no winning path wh...

Whats going to happen on the actual reopening of the federal government. Theres no question that today i think really offered an opportunity and whats fascinating now is that youve got the republicans in both chambers the house and the senate willing to give at least in the short term on the debt ceiling but the Senate Republicans also want to give on both. They really want to reopen the government and lift the debt ceiling. Charlie, what Speaker Boehner saw was this there was no winning path wh...

Whats going to happen on the actual reopening of the federal government. Theres no question that today i think really offered an opportunity and whats fascinating now is that youve got the republicans in both chambers the house and the senate willing to give at least in the short term on the debt ceiling but the Senate Republicans also want to give on both. They really want to reopen the government and lift the debt ceiling. Charlie, what Speaker Boehner saw was this there was no winning path wh...

Still were uncertain about whats going to happen on the actual reopening of the federal government. Theres no question that today i think really offered an opportunity and whats fascinating now is that youve got the republicans in both chambers the house and the senate willing to give at least in the short term on the debt ceiling but the Senate Republicans also want to give on both. They really want to reopen the government and lift the debt ceiling. Charlie, what Speaker Boehner saw was this t...

Win . No. Even though we had that office and pulpool going . We do have patchy low clouds and the visibility is limited. Livermore only has 4 mi. Of the visibility. Were saying patchy low clouds even along the southern peninsula. As we head into afternoon we will continue with cloudy conditions and your highs will be much cooler than what we have been experiencing. Oakland is a milder spot as 63 degrees. Antioch will be checking in with afternoon high of 60. We have a cold front headed our way a...

[applause] our coverage of the International Summit of the book continues now by a panel called the publishing world yesterday and today. It about one hour 20 minutes. Good afternoon, ladies and supplement. Its a pleasure see so many of you, so many old friends here. I have a great privilege of being Senior Consultant for the librarian of congress, and i am also a writer and editor in chief and the world. And also a veteran of the publishing world. I have worked for many years as a Senior Editor...

Then finally, when i was 25, i took my fathers name. Cspan where did you get the name skippy . Guest from the time i was born the day i was born, my uncle raymond called me skipper, and then it became skippy. We were piedmonts on the river piedmont, West Virginia, is on the Potomac River, two hours west of washington, so theres a whole marine mentality there, and so i became the skipper. Cspan before we go back and talk about the past, what are you doing now . Guest im the chairman of afroameric...