Discussion during the afternoon session. Therefore, it is important to get your questions in early because she is going off to receive the womens history award from the Northern Virginia District Of Columbia maryland affiliate of the National Association of negro business and professional women. [applause] i came to know dr. Medford through a predecessor of hers at howard, lorraine williams, who wrote a book about wrote an article about intellectuals who campaigned for lincoln. Among the people she mentioned was my great uncle, general thomas osborne. Through searching that out, i got to know dr. Mitford medford. And she has been a friend and admired person. She is the chair of the department of history at howard university. She teaches 19th century history. She has lectured widely and has been actively involved in many activities. I have read her book and i strongly urge that all of you do, too. She has brought to the fore the story of those who had the most pressing interest and who
Overnight. Hes an along outside, you can see the rain has stopped for now. The cold air has arrived, look at the weather pulling away. And theres very little wrap around snow impacting northern ohio. We have a few light flurries and showers in holmes counter wayne county. We have an conveyor of snow forming over the Western Basin of lake erie re. Were not likely to see the widespread snowfall we were expecting. I think were going to cut that way back. But begin, the cold air sweeping in. Thats going to be the main impact area wide. Were down to 27 degrees from earlier highs in the 50s today. A big drop. My big concern, 27 cleveland, is theres still water on the roads untreated surfaces from the rainfall. Cause you problems tomorrow morning. What were going to chat about in a couple of minutes, updated morning snowfall expectations, School Delays perhaps, well talk about it. More snow snow is coming thursday. But it looks like spring may visit us next week. Its a battle that could impac
Another stabbing as tension heightens across israel and territories and u. N. Proposes a unity government to end the problems in india but the Parliament Still needs to approve it. Tunisias National Dialog quartet has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with the contribution of Building Democracy after the revolution in 2011. The quartet was formed in summer of 2013 when the democratzation process was in danger of collapsing as a result of political assassinations and widespread social unrest, it established an alternative, peaceful, political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war. Lets tell you a bit more about the quartet, it comprises four important groups, these organizations represent different sectors and values in tunisia society and members work to protect the rights of the entire population irrespective of gender and religious belief and the quartet was formed in 2013 when tunisia was on the brink of civil war and counters the spread of violence throu
Territories, proposes to end conflict in india but the parliaments still need to ap broov it. Approve it. Tunisias National Dialog quartet has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and Nobel Committee honored the quartet for contribution for Building Democracy after the revolution in 2011. The quartet was formed in summer of 2013 when democratzation process was in danger of collapsing as a result of political assassinations and widespread social unrest. It established an alternative, peaceful, political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war. The kwar tell is has four important groups and organizations represent different sectors and values in tunisia society and members work to protect the rights of the entire population irrespective of gender, political conviction or religious belief and it was formed in 2014 when true knee tunisia was on the brink of civil war and this is what it means for tunisia. On the brink of civil unrest, the democracy or the democratic
The u. S. Says it plans to overhaul its program aimed at training and supporting syrian rebels. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter admitted the Program Needs to change. We have been looking for now several weeks at ways to improve that program we are looking at different ways to achieve basically the same kind of strategic objective, which is the right one, to enable capable, motivated forces on the ground to retake territory from isil and reclaim syrian territory from extremism. Tom ackermann joins us live from washington. A stark admission there. Why now . Whats behind this decision . Its clear that this program has been a failure almost from the tart. The commanding general admitted to senators a couple of days ago that the objective of achieving a 5400 man fighting force by next year was unatainable, because of the tight requirements to make sure they werent getting isil infiltrators into the ranks. There was no unity in the units themselves. That was clear when a Splinter Group captu