Abandoned amid a major spike. Good morning everyone, its wednesday, july 15th. Im michelle griego. And im anne makovec in for len. Halfway through the workweek. And the weather looking pretty similar to yesterday. According to mary lee. Any changes . You know, its going to be maybe slightly warmer for today anne and michelle, but still looking at warm temperatures inland and mild around the bay and cooler along the coast. Heres a live look with our downtown san jose camera with mostly cloudy skies this morning. Right now, in san jose, 58 degrees and looking at 60 in concord and upper 50s for oakland as well as for livermore. As we go through our day, looking at 67 in San Francisco and 72 in oakland and 83 in san jose and 88 for concord. So a degree or two above average for this time of year and were going to warm up as we head through the week into the weekend. Details on that in my full forecast. Now lets check in with gianna and hows the commute for our supercommuters . Yeah, if you
He is the author of are we there yet . the american automobile past, present, and driverless. Its available for signing at the conclusion of the program. Please, without further ado, join me in welcoming him this evening. Thank you so much. Really generous and sweet introduction. Thank you so much. That was really lovely. Thank you, amanda. Really generous and sweet introduction. I think everybody for being i especially amanda told me that the smithsonian associate people have reminded me how engaged these audiences are. So i feel like i have to be up on my toes and really give you my a game to take that seriously. And to be a little intellectual, be a little heavy. Theres a lot of material in the book. Everything from teaching my daughter to drive to a freudian analysis. And a little bit of this theory of how one understands that. The reason i am doing that is to put us in the present moment where, as some of you may have heard, Driverless Cars are on the horizon. But at the end of th
Pleasure to read. I think is great and important because a lot of attention. And just wanted to start out by kind of pulling back a little bit and asking you why did you want to write about Political Parties visiting your first book was focused on lobbying and in the universe of potential reforms, the electoral college, one of the biggest ones money in politics between your tongue about. The growth of executive power, he chose to focus on parties. Thats really is the linchpin. Can you talk a little bit about the parties. In the process. Matthew is going to be with you again. If an reunion here. Lee on cspan. And so why did i write this book. Another because i was worried about american democracy. I saw hyper partisanship as a serious problem. Affecting a country and i wanted to think about if there was some way to maybe solve the problem. It kind of exploded in a somewhat indirect way for my previous book but the corporate lobbying in that book i had basically concluded that one race w
Ands available for sale signing at the conclusion of the program. So please, without further ado join me in welcoming him this , evening. [applause] dan thank you so much. Thank you, amanda. Really generous and sweet introduction. Thank everybody for being here, otherwise, i would be up here by myself. Especially, amanda told me the smithsonian associate people have reminded me how engaged these audiences are. I really give you my a game to take that seriously. Be a little intellectual, be a little heavy. Theres a lot of material in the book. Look at that. It is right there. Everything from teaching my daughter to drive to a freudian analysis of henry ford. I wanted to talk about the automobile and a little bit of this theory of how one understands that. To reason i am doing that is put us in the present moment, whereas some of you may have heard, Driverless Cars are on the horizon, but at the end of the day, i really want to talk about cars. I am both a lover and hater of cars for a v
Meanwhile, the finance minister also intends to allocate 180000000. 00 for Settlement Expansion in the occupied west bank. The money will reportedly come from cuts in the budgets of other industries, and this is a move thats backed by the settlements minister and will be debated at an upcoming Cabinet Meeting result we spoke earlier with. Im here in the show rods from the National Committee of Arab Local Councils and israel, who believes that the ministers move is aimed at weakening palestinian communities. And israel cutting this funding from the local or radian, the thirtys is an illegal step. This government started attempting to weaken the high of follow up committee and make it to legal, then attempting to make radian political policies illegal. And here we see a weakening of the heads of local authorities by causing these funds from them. This is of course, a huge extortion. This is an attempt to weaken the Palestinian Community living and is ready the territories. Im pretty sure