Good afternoon from washington washington it is 12, noon eastern on cspan2 book tv. And once a month, we spent three hours in depth with an within author and this month our guest was scheduled to be steve forbes who this morning you might have heard was on a train en route from new york to savanna georgia when a derailment took place just south of philadelphia. He is safe and now en route back to new york city and joining us live on the phone. Thank you for being with us. Good to be with you. What a morning you have had. Explain what happened. Outside of philadelphia the train was moving along and then it made a sudden jerk like it was going to make an abrupt stop. It wasnt a normal slowdown you have when you come around the curve. Then it moved a little bit and another stop. Then it came to a complete stop and there was smoke and it felt like the brakes were smoldering so we just sat there wondering what had happened. The electricity was knocked out so there was no system. So the rumo
People working to get themselves out of poverty. Sam from the financial times. Thanks very much. You were talking earlier about the u. S. As a bright spot, among advanced economies. The story of the president ial campaign has not been that American Voters feel this has been a bright spot recovery. Is there a risk the administration is feeling out of touch with public mood about the u. S. Economy at the moment or are we overestimating just how negative people feel about the economy . First of all, i dont know, you know i look at evidence from the measures that economists look at about how people feel about the economy are the Consumer Sentiment index and the Consumer Confidence index from the Conference Board and the university of michigan. When you look at measures like that, you see that confidence has been consistently rising since the recession. And last year reached levels we hadnt seen in over a decade. So i see a number of ways in which people are positive both about their situat
While. It would be 7 00 or 8 00 tonight. We are monitoring the Development Story and well have much more details and keeping tabs on the situation at 5 00. Until then, live in arlington, Jeff Goldberg, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you. Abc7 and Jeff Goldberg first to break the story on twitter and online. For the latest updates as they happen go to wjla. Com and search olivera. Michelle metros Top Executive grilled on the hill today. Paul wiedefeld answering questions about the controversial shutdown. Jonathan he made the decision last month to take all the trains out of service for one full day. Emergency inspections finding frayed cables underground. Some of the tissues so bad that if they knew about it earlier the trains would have been halted a lot sooner. Brianne carter has wiedefelds explanation. He took the hot seat for sure. Brianne well, the hearing is still ongoing here on capitol hill. Just beyond these doors. That hearing again he said continuing this a meeting with the houe e
Good afternoon and welcome to Public Safety committee and Neighborhood Service of San Francisco boferd supervisors. Im john avalos the vice chair. The chair is supervisor kim and will arrive shortly and david compose and joins by supervisor aaron peskin. Our Committee Clerk is erica major. Could you share announcements please . Silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and documents included should be submit thood the clerk. Items will appear on may 20 agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you mpt as we start our meeting i want to announce that todays meeting is broadcast on sfg tv by jesa larsson and jim smith. Item 1 is hearing to answer type 21 offsale license for west portal express. Thank you. We have a presentation from the Police Department and not sayingthank you, come forward. Usually in the bull pin isyou are up now. Good afternoon supervisors. Before we start if you can identify yourself sergeant [inaudible] San Francisco al unit. Thank you before we star
May 20 agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you mpt as we start our meeting i want to announce that todays meeting is broadcast on sfg tv by jesa larsson and jim smith. Item 1 is hearing to answer type 21 offsale license for west portal express. Thank you. We have a presentation from the police departnt and not sayingthank you, come forward. Usually in the bull pin isyou are up now. Good afternoon supervisors. Before we start if you can identify yourself sergeant [inaudible] San Francisco al unit. Thank you before we start the item there is one condition removed and that is number 2 so want you to know that in advance that item will be not be read into this report because we have removed it. That will bewell file or continue that . I gave copies for aench wn. Everyone. Okay. You have west porter daily x pres oallicated 36 west portal avenue. They apply frd a type twin license and this will allow them to sell off sale beer, wine and distilled spirit. Zeer letters of protest, zero lette