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Hi, don. Hi, suzanne. Thank you very much. Im don lemon. Brooke is off today. The eyes of the world are focusing now on the white house. Within the next hour, congressional leaders will begin to arrive for what is likely to be a very tense meeting with the president. This is perhaps the final effort to avert the tax increase that is expected to cost the average family several thousand dollars a year. Four days remain to reach an agreement, get it passed by the house and the senate and signed int...

Its exciting to see just this much interest and this kind of resistance bubbling up. So ill read a little bit from the book from the introduction, and then ill introduce the panel, and well all talk, and be then well have some time for questions and comments. So this is the introduction starting march 4, 2012, about a little over a year after rahm emanuel was elected mayor. So march 4, 2012, with chicagos 175th birthday, and the city celebrated with a public party at the chicago history museum. ...

Bell thanks so much to hay market for inviting me to do the project, so wonderful to work with, and thanks to hay market brewery for having us here and for the talents 23r joining us and everyone for coming. Its exciting to see this interest and resistance bubbling up. Ill read from the introduction and introduce the panel and talk and have time for questions and comments. This is the introduction starting on march 4, 2012, a little after a year ron was elected mayor. March 4th, 2012, chicagos 1...

Stoically carmichael and caught the man who started the whole thing, James Meredith and we were like sheep lucky to capture all of those. Host lets backtrack about the march how did you choose the title . Guest the title is down to the crossroads civil rights, black power, and the meredith march against fear the civilrights march begins memphis and ends three weeks later in jackson. During those three weeks the Civilrights Movement transforms with the crossroads. The call for black power is firs...

Bratton helped reduce Violent Crime when he headed the new york and l. A. Police departments. We talked to oaklanders who are skeptical after hearing city leaders talk about different plans to stop the violence. Theyre unhappy. They re miserable because they haveo hope and they have no, no money. Ouncil votes it might tamp some of it down just like putting armed guards on every Street Corner might tamp some of it down, but it wont make peoples lives better. I live over in the rolling 20s in the ...

Coldest wind is only in the mid 20s. We can handle that. In the clear clouds the northwest. If you more clouds may drift in during the day but overall mainly sunny today. Mild with a high near 50. Increasing clouds towards the evening. Maybe a sprinkle later. We could see some snow late saturday into sunday. Maybe up to 1 in. In some areas but overall fairly quiet. Would drop into the 20s and for a high on sunday. So far so good no major delays on the expressways or the tollways. We do have a cl...

Sunday morning. Here in the 44hundred block of north sheridan road. The uptown neighborhood. Not exactly the best neighborhood. It always seemed a little sketchy but it never seemed that dangerous. A lot of drugs, Gang Activity tom schabow is a neighbor. Some may say hero now, for stepping up to do a neighborly thing, just as he got home from work about 130 this morning. I heard a woman yelling for help and came downstairs. Saw a guy on top of her. Called the police once i realized what was goin...

Tax hikes and spending will kick in. Economists say it could send the country back into recession. Republicans and democrats are blaming each other for the stalemate. The democrats want to extend the bush era tax cuts for those thinking less than 250,000. To taxes will go up for every taxpaying american. Republicans are not about to write a blank check to us because we find ourselves at the edge of the cliff. Consistently show that a majority of americans support the president s position on tax ...

Freedom ceremony coming two days before the 90 anniversary of president john f. Kennedys assassination. Kennedy created the award but didnt live to bestow any. Mike viqueira is at the white house, mike, 16 awards given. Three of those people no longer with us, and one unable to attend. A Welcome Break from the poisonous atmosphere in washington, remembers of the sports world, the entertainment world as well, one of my person favorites, arturo sandoval, and ernie banks still i have a 1969 card st...

Moving in, moving through. You can see the white there. As i zoom in on d. C. , you can see that weve got it right now around fairfax, around warrenton. The snow will be moving eastward. We have the chance of snow now for the next three, maybe four hours until noontime, but were not going to get much. After noon, its rain that takes over and starts eating away at the storm system. This whole event is over with at 3 00, except for the wind and cold. Ill have more on that and what you can expect f...