Laurie garver, its a pleasure to be here with you. Thank you so much. Were excited for your new book escaping gravity. And as you say in the subtitle that its your quest to transform nasa, so i wonder if you can start with why in your view did nasa need to be transformed . Thanks chris. Its a great to be here with you too. I have been at nasa in the 1990s working under the nasa administrator at the time dan golden who was actively and successfully in many ways working to transform nasa. I had previous to that worked for a grassroots organization. That was really interested in returning human space flight to more than just a handful of astronauts and nasa had sort of lost. Its way i think after the shuttle accidents when they didnt. Have the ability to get more people into space for lower costs more reliably. That was the goal of the shuttle. So coming back to nasa as the deputy administrator in the Obama Administration. I thought it was very natural goal to want to continue that transf
To start taking members down from this system and the first member we take out and all of a sudden the system isnt there anymore. Reporter sophisticated computer modeling has now been completed on the old bridge, which is far different now than it was when it first opened in 1936. At that time, the lower deck carried only trucks and streetcars. So engineers want to make sure they understand exactly how the stresses and the loads are distributed. Its a huge structure. Very complicated. 80 years old, gone through various rehabilitations, various retrofits, very important for us to have this information. Reporter back to a live picture now in emeryville, this is the view from here. The cost of the demolition of the old cantilever section and the truss section that comes in from oakland, about 250 million, ken. And they are concerned about all the lookyloo issues once the new bridge opens. They will see an entire section hanging over there a gap in the middle and they are concerned people
Transform nasa, so i wonder if you can start with why in your view did nasa need to be transformed . Thanks chris. Its a great to be here with you too. I have been at nasa in the 1990s working under the nasa administrator at the time dan golden who was actively and successfully in many ways working to transform nasa. I had previous to that worked for a grassroots organization. That was really interested in returning human space flight to more than just a handful of astronauts and nasa had sort of lost. Its way i think after the shuttle accidents when they didnt. Have the ability to get more people into space for lower costs more reliably. That was the goal of the shuttle. So coming back to nasa as the deputy administrator in the Obama Administration. I thought it was very natural goal to want to continue that transformation process and president elect obama happened to agree. So it says my quest because its a memoir, but its a lot of peoples quest for decades and thats why i wrote the
If you can also find us online. Here is the headline in the New York Times. The pew center has a new study out called the impact on the fiscal cliff on states. Here is what it says. We would do more into these and how they will specifically affect states on an individual basis. There is a question on whether the fiscal cliff would hurt. It says our question for you this morning is whether the states should have a stake of in negotiations. Looking more in the story the New York Times. It says some of the benefits states could receive, nobody is retained that president obama and republicans in congress will fail to reach an accord because they feel they fear that the resulting combination of spending cuts and tax increases could prompt another recession, which their states can ill afford. Lets go to houston, texas and hear from barry. Caller high. Host am i should sit seven role in the negotiations . We are hearing about how republicans and president obama are negotiating. Caller i think
That from the political for tomorrow, were going to be joined by brian wall street is a republican strategist. Issueare the environments heading into the last two weeks before congress is scheduled to take it summer recess. Rs we are looking at race in america. Our guest will be mychal denzel smith. 30. Ill start this at 83 we will see you then. Coming up next, the confirmation hearing for the nomination met nomination for samantha bauer. Then a hearing with state department officials. He had been taken in a plane crash in 1948. Rose has literally seen her children and almost birth order disappear. In 1964, she wrote about what it is like in that summer. She said gone are the president ial helicopters that we will look forward to every week in bringing my son. I would see his children run out to him. Gone are those days. She missed that. She said gone are the days that we are said to be the most powerful family in the world. Barbara perry uses information from diaries and letters as sh