University announced winners for the annual george polk awards in journalism. They talked about the challenges reporting during wartime domestically and internationally. This runs one hour. Good afternoon and welcome. I am john darnton the curator of the george polk awards and it is my pleasure to announce the winners for the most outstanding works of journalism in 2019. I would like to express my gratitude to long island university, the sponsor of the klein, li kimberly you president , for her unflagging support. I would like to thank my friend and colleague, ralph engleman, our faculty coordinator. As many of you know our awards were established in 1949 to commemorate george polk, the cbs correspondent assassinated the year before during the greek civil war. Yeare now in our 71st having bestowed, as of today, 3125 prizes. Legacy,ng with polks our judges on a reporters whenever possible and not just their news organizations. Dogged out those who are in their investigations, resourcefu
And that is why learning from each other in a bipartisan way is so important. And whether its infrastructure or economic development, there are lessons that we can learn one challenge we all have is Public Health. The vaping crisis is going all across this nation, spreading with a frightening facility among young people. We have two great governors who are going to speak to us about it now. It is my pleasure to introduce governor to wine from ohio and Governor Brown from oregon. [applause] good afternoon and chair of the nba health and human services. Thank you, governors, for your great remarks and i appreciate everyones patience as we took a set break. Im delighted that all of you are here today to join us to talk about a critically important issue that is facing our young people in our state. That is the nicotine epidemic. And the Public Health crisis that we all know is vaping. It is claiming too many lives and is making countless of our Community Members sick. While the nicotine a
Last sunday monday that we say were finishing up winter on a warm note, but were going to start spring on a cooler one, last few days of winter have been 70s for us. Lots of sunshine. And today. The very last day of the season is eventually going to bring plenty of sun with it. And another day with some of those 70s that i hope you got a chance to enjoy this weekend. Tomorrow, your first day of spring, just the opposite. We start our downhill slide back into cooler and eventually wetter weather where were sitting right now, the east bay hills getting a few peeks of sunshine, but still pretty clouded out areas that had been foggy this morning are getting increasingly clear as that fog lifts and begins to burn off. Skies are going to be nice and sunny this afternoon and temperatures under all that sunshine will rise really quickly. Were still hanging out in the 40s to 50s right now. Fremont and dublin, 8 at 47 48 degrees. Berkeley nsf at 52 right now later on today, sunshine prevails. Da