[background sounds] hello, everybody. I have the job of introducing dr. Moore for todays book presentation and discussion. Now, when i agreed to do this she and i talked for a little bit about the best way to introduce her in the talk and we decided the best way was to mix things up and change it up a bit. So im going to begin by briefly introdiscussing her Research Interests and professional activities and then say a bit more about what where shes coming from in the book. First, her Research Interests. Her first book examined the interaction of race with the United States Senate Procedures from the 1950s onward. The book shes currently working on probes the politics of the Supreme Court Decision Making on race. And the book to be discussed tonight is about race and criminal justice. I guess you can say dr. Moore practices what she preaches. He was appointed by governor paterson to the new York State Commission and later appointed by the new York State Senate to the Advisory Council on
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. And welcome to our book forum here at the Cato Institute today for a republic no more Big Government and the rise of american political corruption by jay cost. I am john samples, Vice President and publisher here at the Cato Institute. And i again would like to welcome you to this event today for this very important book. Now, if you have been to book forums before youll notice today our event will proceed in many ways the same as all other book forums have that is, you will hear from some participants and then there will be a question and answer session about 1 00 and then lunch. Also one other thing is like all of our other events please turn all your cell phones now so that we can have the event both in peace and quiet. But some things are going to be different today. Were trying some different things, different format. In this particular case our author, jay cost, will speak for a while about the book to give you a general sense of the lay
United nations General Assembly. What will he say . We will talk about that. Lets go to south florida, first. Residents in floridas lower keys, you saw them there. Finally on their way home for the First Time Since irma hit. Key wests mayor says you better be ready for a shock when you o get back to that island. Nick valencia is live for us along the line of cars trying to make it back. What are they saying to you . How concerned are they about what we are going to find . Most of them know whether they have a home left . Reporter its been a week since Hurricane Irma hit and i think people are as helpless and hopeless as the day it made landfall. A lot of residents this morning know they are going back to absolutely nothing. Its an estimated onethird of these homes in monroe route are either uninhabitable or flatout destroys. This is one of the two checkpoints. The first checkpoint that residents going back into the keys will come across this morning. What the officials are doing is mak
this is the top of the tram at heenly ski resort, where is really comg down tonight. if you re goingake tahoe, chains are a must. let s get started with leigh glaser. who is following the system on live doppler 7hd. leigh: most of the heavy rain thatoved through this morning has push into southern california, where we have new band of showers. th re not widespread, scattered, but if you get caught in one of these, you can expect moderate rains. and check out this new band of heavy rain now starting to move in toward point reyes. tiburon reporting rain, moving over the golden gate bridge, and ean beach and san francisco will definitely get hit as well as albany. you can see moisture starting to move in towards the walnut creek area, and all of this will continue off and on this evening. boy, did we get some rain thi morning. check out these 24-hour rainfall tals. oakland, close to an inch and half. a new rainfall record for you guys for today. much othe bay area, over an inc