All of us. Rabbi, i reverend and thought were extraordinary. Lets give them a round of applause. [applause] before i begin i would like to knowledge my partners in progress who are here with me on the stage today. Lieutenant governor, lets give her a great round of laws. Eaker carl hes deep. Leader client. Leader brian cole. We had with us today our court of appeals, judges, and the great chief judge. Lets give them a round of applause. ,ts not that they are unhappy the judges. Its by protocol they dont applaud for anything. I didnt realize that the first couple of years, but i now got it. Another round of applause for not applauding for anything. [applause] my friends, looking back to 2017, it was a tough year by any measure. Also, new yorkers rose to the occasion. We had frightening incidents of terrorism in new york city, as mayor bill de blasio well knows. We also have the best police and First Responders in the country. And some of them are here today. Lets give them a round of ap
Expressing his citys grief over thursdays rampage sources tell us it was armed with an ak47 type rifle and enough ammunition to keep police at bay the wounded include a sailor and a Police Officer his title was a military recruitment of of the Navy Operations support center will paid within 30 minutes the caught up to and kill the 24 your shoulder they recently traveled to the middle east but they say he was not in any other u. S. Databases of suspected terrorists. Reporter those who know them are in shock of that the man they described as a nice guy to be a killer while we have learned a little bit more about the shoulder we have not yet learned the name of the former ranger were killed in chattanooga guest today the marine corps is what the process of notifying their next of kin. We expect to get a briefing from federal and local officials with the latest on this investigation. James the shooting and tennessee did lead to increase security you consider video on the right showing that
Candidacy but havent release books. Next up a Panel Discussion on new orleans, ten years after hurricane katrina. Thank you all everyone for coming this evening. Its my pleasure to welcome you to this wonderful public launch of robertas new new book. It is how the people of new orleans rebuilt the city. On behalf of the new school and nation books, its my pleasure to welcome everyone. Before we get started i just wanted to say a couple things about some people would have helped helped make the series possible. They are mary watson and pamela tellis from the executive deans office and they are wonderful partners. I also want to think cspan. Its so great that you are here filming us and the cspan audience. Thank you. It is such a pleasure to get to publicly introduce roberta gratz, someone who has been a hero has been a hero of mine for a long time. She is an amazing writer and thinker. She is an acclaimed urbanist and has published for previous book including the battle for gotham. Her
Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition january between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Gue layer, for five minutes. Thank you, era madam speaker. Today i rise to honor someone i was lucky to call a colleague and today i rise to honor someone i was lucky to call a colleague and mentor. Redland city councilmember, pat gillbreth. Heartened to learn of her passing in early october but ill be grateful to her contributions to our community of her imprint can be seen throughout the city and o
Thank you for being here, andin the strange times a strong journalism and good books and challenging ideas are critical. That is what the Los Angeles Times in this book festival aspire to and try to provide. After this will gladly take your questions and look for your insight to will have a Panel Discussion in about ten or 15 minutes after. Just as a housekeeping note, please also phones off. Therell be a book signing withs our authors after a area one. No personal recordings of the session please. Now, i would like to introduce the panel, christopher phillipsh is senior lecturer in the International Relations at Queen Mary University of london. For several years in syria and often returns to the middle east for research. Ndhe he is an associate fellow at middle east and north africa program. He has written many publications and has appeared on the bbc, al jazeera, and cnn. His just published his second book, the battle for syria, International Rivalry in the middle new middle east whi