one! well, those aussies, they know how to do their fireworks. they do. too right, as they say. beautiful. yeah, sydney harbour there with the glow. kind of looks like my neighbor s house. i m sure. here s another plus, down there in australia, they are just kicking off summer, so ga-day. welcome to 2023. do you have any big plans tonight? no. it s 12:01, quick cheers and good night, everybody. us, too. cnn this morning continues now. and good morning. it is saturday, december 31st, here in the u.s. we ve still got a bit of time left in this year, happy new year s eve. thanks for waking up with us. i m martin savidge in for boris sanchez. glad to be with you, martin. i m amara walker. thank you so much for joining us. we began this morning with breaking news and sad news to end the year. pope emeritus benedict has died. his health had deteriorated over the last several days prompting pope francis to ask for prayers. for the
Immigrant Legal Resource Center and with mi familia vo, the vota. She has been named embassador for citizenship and naturalization by the white house. Tonight she is joined by the Baltimore Suns Award Winning education reporter liz and liz we thank you very much for being here and moderating this conversation with dian. Please welcome dian and liz to the Pratt Library. [applause] hello. Good evening. Can you all hear us . Hello. Oh, this does work. [laughter] well, i just wanted to start the conversation off by having dian tell you u you have probably know of her as an actress but maybe you dont know her back story, so i wanted to ask her to give us a briefest of introductions about her story just to sort of structure of it and who she is. Thank you. Thank you, liz, thank you, judy and thank you Pratt Library and thank you for all of you for being here today, i feel so honored that you guys came out to hear me speak, i will try my best. Well, my name is dian guerrero, my parents are co
Baby and we were just having a really difficult time coming up with names, finally my husband suggested Eleanor Francis, i googled the name and what popped up was a woman named Eleanor Francis and there was a beautiful picture of her black and white taken at nasa in the 1960s accepting an award. I was stun by the picture because i had no idea that women worked in nasa at that time much less a scientist. So i really wanted to learn more about i found out that actually Eleanor Francis was not alone and they were known as computers so at the time before the digital devices a computer simply meant a person who computes. Host how did that group woman together when women in technology, engineering that was being done at jpl was a rarity. Guest it ended up being an allwomen group simply because of macy roberts. In 1942 she was made supervisor of the computers and while she had men that applied for the job, she decided that she we wanted to make it all women and her thinking is that she wanted
[inaudible conversations] booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. Well, first of all, thanks to cspan for all you do on this front. Its very Important Service you give to the country. My folks are watching this. My kids will get a kick out of it. I hope they see their picture behind me. Ive got a pretty extensive reading list not only for the summer, but over the next year. I thought id start off with prayer for people under pressure by jonathan aiken, written by a former member of the english parliament, so he knows a little bit about pressure, and i thought i could learn something from him. Troublesome young men by lynne olson has to do with the rise of a small band of conservatives in the parliament during the churchill period and kind of motivated by im a member of the House Freedom caucus. We have 40 or 50 great folks that are trying to solve some of the fiscal problems. And just kind of represent the people more closely, do
Donald trump angrily denying allegations thae has groped women, calling the accusations out right lies. This is cnn tonight, im don lemon. Trump claiming he knows the source of the allegations. But let me state this as clearly as i can. These attacks are orchestrated by the clintons and their media allies. The only thing Hillary Clinton has going for herself is the press. Without the press she is absolutely zero. And the first lady, Michelle Obama, calling comments that trump has made about women beneath the basic standards of decency. And i cant believe that im saying that a candidate for president of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women. A lot to get to this hour, the hour ahead. I want to begin with cnn senior media correspond none other than mr. Brian stelter. The perfect person because i want to talk about the audio uncovered from howard stern today. What can you tell us . This is audio of howard stern interviewing donald trump many years ago and actually