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Booktv visits montgomery, alabama to talk to local authors and tour the city at literary sites. For a complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. Now we kick off the weekend with rinker buck. He describes his covered wagon journey on the oregon trail. Thank you for that introduction and i am glad to see so many people here. There would not be any booklovers left in savanna. I am especially happy to be here and i thi...

Today and the highs reaching 69 degrees in san jose. 68 degrees in palo alto and fairfield 72. While oakland is at 66 and pleasanton a high of 6 8 degree. Well talk about rain in my near future and lets get a look at the commute this morning. Right now it looks like the Speed Sensors are show a smooth drive around most of the bay. The bay bridge toll plaza looks great with just a few cars waiting in the cash lanes. Were tracking one crash thats in horenda and thats to westbound highway 24. That ...

Custody today charged with multiple counts of Sexual Assault. Tonight we have exclusive interviews with some of the alleged victims. Nbc bay areas ian cole has the inside story. Reporter yeah, raj, the suspect in this case worked here on the second floor of this building. The alleged victims say he ran a cultlike culture that people were discouraged from talking to each other and requested extra sessions at odd times. This afternoon, Morgan Hill Police arrest david outside his gym wolf pak. Hes ...

Clouds and milder temperatures. More sunshine after those clouds and the fog clears out. It is milder. Look at the temperature in the south bay. Its 57 degrees and we have 50 in the north bay and some patchy fog developing there and in San Francisco. We will have a mix of sun and clouds again today and temperatures a couple of degrees warmer in a few spots. The north bay up to 70 degrees and 68 degrees in the peninsula, as well as the south bay. Our temperatures will be Holding Steady and then s...

Distinguished cochairman, senator wyden for his opening remarks. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. In early august, the finance committee released the final report on the bipartisan inquiry we undertook to examine the irs processing of applications for tax exempt status. Our investigation looked back at the period between 2010 and 2013. The committee reviewed 1. 5 million pages of emails and documents and conducted interviews with more than 30 irs officials. The finance Committee Inquiry collea...

Dramatic rise in the use of heroin, which belongs to the same class as painkillers, opiods. In fact, four in five heroin users, new heroin users, started out by misusing Prescription Drugs. Then they switched to heroin, so, this really is a gateway drug, the Prescription Drugs, become a gateway to heroin. Between 2002 and 2013, the number of heroin related deaths in america nearly quadrupled, although the number of heroin overdoses is still far exceeded by the number of legal Prescription Drug o...

Forward. They are not citizens and they dont get to vote. And they have to work somewhere where we want them to work. And its important to recognize that some of the industries in this country very much depend on that labor. And they would collapse almost immediately without it. But it can only be done by people who are here in a legal manner. And it is not an Amnesty Program because it does not make people citizens. It does not give people the vote. When you hear people saying carson wants amne...

Fully cooperating with this committee in the regulation of paid tax return preparers . Im happy to commit to both of those positions. We fully intend to use the 230 regulatory framework. In fact, if we were given the authority to require minimum qualifications for prepares, we would run it the same way we set up the program in 2010, which was under section 230, the regulation 230, so we have no intention of expanding that or changing it. The legislation youre talking about would simply make clea...

And i think the section 215 program is one that the government has made the argument that they need bruce force collection, they need the retention to identify previously unknown links in information. Have we given thoughts to whether there are technological options available to limit correction for a program like section 215, if you havent been more generally, you can be more specific about correction options. With respect to section 215 the data is collected initially by the phone company. The...

Facebook. Follow us on twitter in September Harvard universitys institute of politics in the Internet Association hosted a conference on internet policy and it included a panel of executives from google yahoo facebook yelp tripadvisor and ebay along with federal and local government professionals. Topics covered include Consumer Privacy and government regulation of the internet this. Is three hours well, good morning good morning i feel like we should vote on something but we are not going to do...