mcmillan commission plan would have had a harder go when they first presented the mcmillan commissionan in -- it was over corporate. they had a giant model set up at eye level. eye level. you could look down in mall and it was a mess. they built this model and people stood, this is interesting to me. thousands of people stood in line to look at that. one of the people who came in for a private viewing was teddy roosevelt and he went back out. what's interesting is they can only find two times in all of american history where thousands of people lined up to see plans to renovate a city. one was in where people lined up to see the mcmillan commission plan and the other is people lined up in lower manhattan to look at the various plans for the renovation. i can't remember if that was a year afterward. i can't remember if those plans were they had competition in the various plans. what was going to happen with the rebuilding of lower manhattan manhattan. i think it was one financial line up. thousands of people lined up to see what might they do again with allower manhattan. the only two

thanks so much. >> thank you administrator mcmillan.now i want to turn the program over to our session moderator, diana mendez senior vice-president and director of america's transit at aecom. diana, please. >> thank you. good afternoon, everybody. welcome, and thank you very much acting administrator mcmillan for communicating the message from secretary fox and the update from fta. please do send secretary fox all of our well wishes and we wish him a speedy recovery. i'm diana mendez as phil mentioned, and i'm delighted to be your moderator today where we'll be having a lively and interesting discussion with both the transit administration and the federal railroad administration. now joining acting administrator mcmillan, we also will be hearing from sarah feinberg acting administrator of the fra, who joined the administration on january 9th 2015. in this capacity, she manages a $20 billion rail investment portfolio and helps develop and enforce rail safety regulations and oversees research and technology programs. prior to coming to t

i'm now joining acting administrator mcmillan. we'll also be hearing from sarah fineberg acting administrator of the f.i..a, who joined the administration on january 9th, 2015. in this capacity she manages a $20 billion rail investment portfolio and helps develop and enforce rail safety regulations and overseas research and technology programs. prior to coming to the f.i..a miss fineberg served as chief of staff to the secretary of transportation rngs providing strategic advice and counsel regarding all modes of transportation. now updating us about the major goals and initiatives about the federal railroad administration we'll turn to miss fineberg. please join me in welcoming her. [ applause ] >> good afternoon. it is such a pleasure to be here today with my colleague and friend therese mcmillan. you know in my old role as the chief of staff for secretary fox, i always appreciated the commitment that this organization shares with the administration's goal of making our national transportation network safer, more interconnected,

john mcmillan faces assault charges tonight. he pulled a knife on the driver on the route 23 driver on the bus. they hoped someone recognized the suspect. mcmillan surrendered on his own. >>> he could have killed us all if he wanted to those words from one of the four firefighters held hostage inside a montgomery county firehouse. nbc 10 today spoke with the firefighters from the lamont volunteer fire company. a former colleague is undergoinging a psychiatric observation after holding the four at gun point yesterday morning. firefighters say he was upset about being fired. they identify him as paul jordan. his ex-co-workers didn't want their faces shown today. they showed us the damage to the firehouse and say they forgive jordan. >> then he got mad. he shot a shot inside the wall which was about six inches from one of our guys. if he wanted to he could have killed us all. >> we still love him. i'll be there to see him. >> the firehouse is expected to reopen tomorrow. >>> 16 people are out of their homes after an apartment fire

more than a week after police say he pulled a knife on a septa bus driver. 40-year-old john mcmillan turned himself in yesterday. bus driver told mcmillan -- told police he got very angry after he asked him to please step aside so others could walk through. nobody was hurt but mc mail license faces several charges including assault and making terroristic threats. >>> to a developing story now. new jersey senator bob menendez indicted on charges for using his office to improperly benefit a florida eye doctor and political donor. federal grand jury just indicted the democrat on charges including conspiracy to commit bribery and wire fraud. prosecutors had been investigating whether he improperly advocated for the doctor's business interest. menendez acknowledged he did fly on the doctor's private plane and failed at first to properly pay for those trips. he later did reimburse but menendez dez previously said he has done nothing wrong. >>> in less than an hour family, friends and fellow officers to gather to remember a darby police officer shot and killed last week. tonight candlelight

he is currently reading nixon and mao by marge great mcmillan which looks at the diplomatic relationship between the united states and china. in the 1972 meeting between the leaders of the two countries. he recommends coke can i roberts' explore asia of the influence of women on the founding generation. next on the list is a biography of pioneering aviator amelia earhart by doris rich. and also the story of actress mary francis thompson who as a representative of the chickasaw nation provedor at state dinners for a president roosevelt and was named oklahoma's first state treasurer in 1987. next is this million more, managing martians, by donna shirley who spent 35 years as an arrow space engineer in which she led the team creating the sojourner mars rover, and finishing all the list is a look at the life of cleopatra. so see what another book congressman coll has recommended, visit coal/house.gov. >> here's our primetime lineup. tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern the argument that's first amendment was created to protect the democratic process. not individual rights. at 7:30 princeton universi

police say john mcmillan surrendered after seeing himself on the news.nvestigators say mcmillan pulled a knife and threatened the driver aboard the route 23 bus in toga last month. police released this video last monday hoping someone would recognize the suspect. two days late mcmillan turned himself in. >>> in montgomery county the coroner says the couple found dead from chainsaw injuries died as a result of a murder suicide. this happened at a home along country lane in lower moreland. the couple's 14-year-old son found the bodies on tuesday afternoon. investigators say christopher peppelman killed his wife nicole with a chainsaw before using it to kill himself. >>> and today, northampton county, a man accused of shooting and killing his stepdaughter and abusing her corpse faces an arraignment. gregory graf is charged with the death of jessica padgett from white hall township. prosecutors say graf shot padgett and hid her body behind his shed on her property. it touched off a massive search for the missing mother. police say graf videotaped himself abu

police say john mcmillan surrendered after seeing himself on the news. investigators say mcmillan pulled a knife and threatened the driver aboard the route 23 bus in tioga last month. police released this video monday hoping someone would recognize the suspect. the suspect recognized himself and turned himself in. >>> in the atlantic city casino crisis, a judge could rule today on the sale of the bankrupt revel casino. the main lender wells fargo, wants a judge to approve the sale to a developer. they claim new bidders are not serious. wells fargo says it has already spent more than $60 million on the revel bankruptcy proceedings and cannot wait any longer. >>> happening today, college students will protest an obstacle to a new branch campus on the atlantic city boardwalk. students at stockton university plan to march from the closed showboat casino to the trump taj mahal this afternoon. they're protesting taj's refusal to allow stockton to turn the showboat into a satellite campus. the owners of the taj said last week that having college students next d

john mcmillan now facing assault charges. police say the bus was at germantown and erie avenue on march 21 when the driver asked the suspect to clear the walkway of the bus witnesses say the man got mad threatened the driver with a knife. investigators say mcmillan turned himself into east detective after seeing himself on the news. >> philadelphia's district attorney has approved charges against a teenager wanted for knocking out a man on a septa train earlier this week. investigators say the 16 year old was identified after the surveillance video was released. authority tell fox 29 the boy is making arrangements with his parent and his lawyer to turn himself over to police. >> controversial new ad front and center here in philadelphia, and drawing all kind of backlash. the ads show photograph of adolf hitler with palestinian lilled err reads islamic jew hatred it is in the koran. more than 80 buses are bearing the ties many. initiative purchased the ads septa took issue with this to court, but lost it fight to ban them. >>

we showed this video earlier this week, john mcmillan faces assault charges they say mcmillan turned himself into east detective after seeing himself on the news. >>> philadelphia's district attorney has approved charges against a teenager, wanted for knocking out a man on a septa train earlier this week. investigators say the 16 year old was identified after tipsters saw the surveillance video. authority tell fox 29 the boy is making arrangements with his parents and an attorney to turn i have self over to police. >> this morning, lower moreland police, murder suicide, chain saw wounds covered the bodies of 48 year old chris pep he willman and 43 year old wife nicole. investigators say the husband killed his wife, then himself but say they are unclear as to why. sources close to the family say the couple had marital troubles and were separated. >> it is tremendous sadness because both of the couple, and as a couple, friends in the congregation, people that had them over at their house. >> the coroner says nicole was also stabbed multiple times and choked. investigators say it was th

professor mcmillan has written many books. she has written on british women in india, on nixon's opening of relations with china. she has written on the uses and abuses of history. most of all, she's known for her two wonderful volumes on world war i. the first that she wrote about a dozen years ago was on peacemaking in 1919. the other just appeared last year and is about the origins of world war i, the war that ended peace. that's the name of the book. the former book, the one that in some ways will be the framework for today's lecture, i suspect one a half dozen of the english-speaking world's most prestigious prizes for the best book on international relations. i'm incredibly happy to have margaret macmillan here with us. she's going to talk for 40 or 45 minutes about wilson in war and peace, then i will engage her in a conversation for 10 or 15 minutes, and then i will open it up for questions. thank you. [applause] margaret: i would like to thank you for that og 5:00 p.m. kind introduction. i should warn you about that j

my question pertains more towards the workforce and the jobs part to acting administrator mcmillan. we know just last week an initiative, a pilot project came out on geographic hiring preferences. and the question i am is if we can get some definition on the local hire as it pertains to rolling stock procurement. as manufacturers we employ a variety of subsuppliers all throughout the u.s. and we're just having a little difficulty understanding what the intent is when the geographic hiring pertaining to rolling stock procurement. and is it the intent that we're going to be looking at moving factories to in order to accommodate the local preference? >> the local hire initiative has a couple of elements to it. one is, as you mentioned is the pilot program. it's very important. it is a pilot program for communities and entities that want to explore -- well, and particularly for fhwa and fta because we have statutory requirements now for, you know, competitive procurement, is to say, to lift what has been interpreted as a prohibition on geographic hiring. this is for folks who want to ex

mcmillan know there is no freedom of religion or separation of church and state. the state regulates of religions that is just part of this deal when communist run a country in a china is run by the communist party. only atheists are permitted to be a member of the chinese communist party. you may want to bring fees up to your next trip to beijing giving your success to indiana and arkansas i am sure you'll have no problem to give that chinese equality under law and freedom of religion. with the power of corporations as we tried to explain the timidity of two new governors with the anti-church bigotry of pay interest that controls legislation and indiana. you don't have to lobby the government any more. they are the government. in the words of jim hightower we will be right back. >> up next president netanyahu was no way the obama administration and thinks it is real survival is negotiable but the iran program isn't? former ambassador to the united states joins us. and what cost $50 but only takes 24 hours lou: breaking news senator mendez moments ago lashing out

first up is fta acting administrator trees mcmillan.y who could not be with us. she will also speak specifically about fta's initiatives for 2015. ter ees joint fta's deputy administrator on july 9, 2009. she has assisted the administrator in leading a staff of more than 500 in the washington d.c. headquarters office and ten regional offices throughout the united states. with the passage of map 21 she assumed a key role in guiding fta's implementation of transit-related provisions in the law and overseeing the development of critical guidance. she has also played an integral leadership role in advancing several critical fta priorities to improve the quality and the american public( including assisting in the development of a streamline process for the new and small starts program and securing new funding responsibilities for state of good repair of transit assets. she took the lead in working with staff across the country to ensure the timely accurate allocation of 8.78 billion for 1,072 recovery act grants. she represented federal tran

john mcmillan faces assault charges after video captured him pulling a knife on bus driver there is was earlier this month. police say the bus was at germantown and erie avenue on march 21st, when the driver asked the suspect to clear the walkway of the bus, witnesses say the man got mad and then threaten the driver with a knife. investigators say mcmillan turned himself into east detective after seeing himself on the news. >> turned himself in. interesting. 7:07. >> new jersey senator bob menendez accused of excepting nearly $1 million worth of quits and campaign contributions, from a florida doctor, in exchange for political favors. >> he says they were just friends. he is set to appear in federal court this morning, steve on the case over there in jersey. steve? >> we are on the white horse pike in barrington, where menendez south jersey offers s coincidentally shared it with couple of doctors, chiropractor, and dent ills. but a doctor from west palm beach florida has him in trouble. he complained he lived under cloud every justice department leaks and suspicions for three years, wom

. >> brad mcmillan and andrew played basketball with aaron beginning in middle school. >> he was twiceize of me. we were like the same height, but he was just more athletic obviously. he practiced like all the time. >> practiced because his father dennis pushed him constantly. >> his father was pretty strict. he told me his father used to make him shoot 500 shots before he went sometimes to play with his friends. his dad clearly kept him anchored. >> i saw a closeness with them that i had never seen before. there was something about dennis and aaron, the way they intertwined. it was just magic in my eyes. >>> just ahead, in a heart beat, that closeness is gone. and aaron hernandez changes his game plan. ♪ ♪ for the 51 million of us who may need a different kind of underwear, this is new depend silhouette active fit. it's slim and smooth so wearing it is no big deal. get a free sample of depend at underwareness.com why do we do it? why do we spend every waking moment, thinking about people? why are we so committed to keeping you connected? why combine performance with a conscience? why

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. >> it's interesting, mcmillan does seem to be doing any number of important things and it would seemere down not long ago on the important wage decision they made. >> now speaking up on this arkansas bill asking governor to veto it saying it violates the spirit of inclusion. we asked him to come on air and talk about it today. that's not going to happen. i mean it's surprised some people a company of that size said don't do this. >> i think a at of people -- this is a hot button -- i'm going to refer you to a new york time stories says these are not the same as 1992. those are about government intrusion in people's lives. this business corporate, corporate trade-offs where a corporation, small corporation, can say no to you to do business. >> the supreme court's decision in the hobby lobby case which did give power to corporations to say, we're not going to do that. >> let's just open hand a lot of people feel that this is about same-sex marriage and being able whether you get the camera deal. other people say that's a complete misread. i'm saying corporations are weighing in great a

another example, and of course this could go on for hours with examples, is the mcmillan commission for michigan. the senate commission of washington d.c. park, charles mckinnon was a member of this along with frederick olmsted junior and daniel burke of chicago. it's took many years - it took many years for the lincoln memorial to be finished. it did not turn out quite exactly like this. there is a spark going on in the air, sometimes called "city beautiful" or the urban art movement. but the sense that we have got to be able to do this. going inside, another important influence -- there were a couple of books, but in particular, this one here is the most important. the declaration of houses, as you can see, authored by edith wharton. published in new york in november, 1897. i am showing you the table of contents. this is just a portion of the contents. this book is edith wharton's first book. she has done a couple of poems a few short stories, nothing else. this is her first published book. "the age of innocence" -- all of those are to come later. she teamed up with a man by ogden cog

walmart ceo doug mcmillan said today's passage of house bill 81238 threatens to undermine the spirit of inclusion and for these reasons we are asking governor hutchinson to veto this legislation. there were more than 100 protesters with the human rights campaign on the steps of the arkansas capital to veto the bill. the bill's sponsor says all those people simply do not understand the mission of this bill. he spoke with "new day" early this morning. listen. >> there's a lot of passion. they don't want to see this bill passed so they're -- i think that a lot of times people are getting the cart out before the horse and they don't realize what this is. this is really a relatively minor increase in protection for what a person believes and for the most part everyone believes that an individual should be able to carry out their beliefs the way they want without government interference. >> reporter: his argument that this prevents people from being forced to participate in activities that contradict their deeply held religious beliefs. the opponents of this bill say it is a thinly veiled

ceo doug mcmillan releasing a statement which says, quote today's passage of hb1228 threatens to undermine spirit of inclusion present throughout the state of arkansas and does not reflect the values we proudly uphold. but zombies owners support the bill saying it has nothing do with discrimination. >> we've happily served them, we do so again. the issue is i've not for having the government or any entity force me as a business owner to do any particular item. >> governor hump inch son could sign the bill into law as early as this week. all this on the heals of the growing fire storm in indianna over a similar measure. jacky ibanez, fox news. >>> meanwhile, in indianna, the governor is asking law makers to send him a clarification on the state's religious law by the end of the week. clarification is supposed to make it clear that the law is not designed to discriminate against those in the lgt community, it is called days of backlash since being signed into law on thursday. governor mike pence defended the bill again in a news conference yesterday saying it is similar to federal law. >> th

. >> reporter: today randy mcmillan got to ask the governor for himself who's paying to clean up this city. >> we're going to find all the resources we can at the state level, work with the city and from the federal government. >> so it going to come out of our pockets. >> well, some things will come out of your pocket. >> right, right. i understand. >> we'll try to provide all the help we can. >> he said some positive things in there, but i got the feeling that he was unsure himself about the programs that he was going to try to implement. >> we lost 200 businesses on monday night. over 100 of them are minority-owned businesses. many people didn't have insurance. >> reporter: while the powers that be work out lark larger issues, community organizers are taking care of more immediate ones. >> i'm glad you were able to stop by and get something. >>> there are new details tonight in a savage attack inside a metro station. investigate rz have named the suspect seen in this video. he was beating a 69-year-old man. police are looking for him right now. they say it is not the first time tha

prior to the arkansas governor press conference earlier today, walmart ceo doug mcmillan recently calledto pass the religious freedom bill in that state "it all starts with our core basic belief of respect for the individual. today's passage of hb1228 threatens. present throughout the state of arkansas and does not reflect the values we proudly uphold." so does walmart's respect for the individual not extend outside borders? turns out one of the biggest customers to china's manufacturing sector is walmart. working at a manufacturing plant in china that's not such an easy life. multiple reports reveal some factory employees in china can be forced to endure days as long as 16 hours with very little pay, often amounting to less than a dollar an hour. why aren't the executives at walmart, why aren't they speaking out about that? to this example just corroborates hypocrisy from corporate america. to be fair we asked walmart to have a representative join us on the program to discuss this, but we got no response. here to react is the death of cool author gavin mcguinness, juan williams and meli

john mcmillan faces assault charges police say the bus was on germantown and erie avenue back on march1st when the driver asked the suspect to clearly walkway for the bus. witness got mad and -- the guy got mad and threatened the driver with a knife. investigatorinvestigators say mc mail land turned himself aft seeing himself on the news. >> little more light tonight what happened to new jersey man who died in police custody. as the investigation into what happened continues we're now hearing vineland police officers responded a call on the 100 block of grape street yesterday to help with a quote disorderly person. as they arrested 32-year-old philip white they say he was having problems breathing and during the ride to the hospital became unresponsive. police say the emt did try try cpr. investigator it's are now awaiting an autopsy report to find out his exact cause of death. >>> more people could soon the help of medical marijuana in new jersey. the state is now considering expanding its medical marijuana program. a panel of experts will come up with some recommendations but some ex

. >> reporter: today randall mcmillan got to ask governor larry hogan for himself. >> so we just turn on our neighbors so i figure what used to cost $1.70 now is going to go up to $2.30, $2.40. >> reporter: the exchange between the two as the governor toured the riot-torn section of the city was an honest one. >> we're going to find the resources at the state level and work with the city and federal government. >> so will come out of our pockets. >> some things will unfortunately. >> i understand. >> we're going to try to provide all the help we can. >> he said some positive things in there, but i got the feeling that he was unsure himself about the programs that he was going to try to implement. >> we lost 200 businesses on monday night. 100 of them, over 100 of them, are minority-owned businesses. many people didn't have insurance. >> reporter: meanwhile just a few blocks away at the new shilo baptist church -- >> this is not just a baltimore problem. >> reporter: -- reverend al sharpton talked about healing the city after freddie gray's death and monday's riots. >> we can't keep ru

we're very pleased that joining us at the conference today will be fta acting administrator theresa mcmillannd joining her will be acting administrator director sarah feinberg. they will be acting on proposals and taking your questions from the audience. we're also thrilled that joining us here on the stage will be two great leaders in the transportation field that work tirelessly here in washington, d.c. when you see me testify up on capitol hill, there is very often two people standing right there next to me, janet kavinoky and dr. pete ruane. great transportation leaders. they're going to help tell the story about how we have to work together to move the ball forward. now, passage of a surface transportation bill, it's a lengthy process. the first stage, we passed that in december of 2013. we gathered the information, we gathered the needs, we put the data together, and we brought it to the hill and we brought it to our partners so we could all see together what those needs were. now we're in the second stage of that process when different ideas are put together that start to coalesce int

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brad mcmillan joins from us commonwealth financial network, doug gordon from russell investments, peter costa from empire executions and our very own rick santelli. lindsay, let me start with you. how bad is the first quarter gdp number going to be? and what's going on with the second quarter? are we getting much of a rebound here? >> as we saw in this morning's number, it was up 4%. not normally met by disappoint. the details, looking at that proxy for business spending we saw orders decline for the seventh consecutive month. down 4% year-over-year. down nearly 10%. this is significant weakness that cannot be discounted because of one-off disruptions and certainly not because of unseasonably colder winter weather. as we look out to the remaining nine months it's likely to continue to drag. consumer spending is down. housing is bouncing along. >> we have choppy economic numbers as she just referenced. what's going on with the old school tech names? when was the last time microsoft was up 10%? amazon is up 15%, google is up 4% or so. why does the world suddenly decided they wanted to own

walmart ceo doug mcmillan said the bill undermines the spirit of inclusion in that they'd.s posted its share at 17 to 19. values the company around $4.5 billion. go daddy is expected to begin trading today after the opening bell. and some people on twitter said i don't know what you're talking about. what commercials are you talking about that we'd probably like to see. there aren't many. that's bar, isn't she? i don't know. that's just from leo. >> the woman that you're looking at is on "dancing with the stars" right now. >> and that was danica. >> danica. >> and danica has been on. that was bar? anyway, it's going to list on the new york stock exchange with the ticker ggdy. go daddy. >>> on the show sam zell to make money in a time when everything else is falling. by the way, he knows how to time a deal better than anybody else. he's sounding the alarm. sam, what makes you think that stocks are overpriced here? >> well i'm not a stock person. and i don't claim to have clairvoyance, but there's a significant and growing glare between the stock market and the economy. almos

air force captain charles mcmillan. i thank the speaker and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker members, i rise to recognize israel, our part in peace and prosperity for 67 years of independence. mr. green: on april 14, 194, hours before the british mandate was due to end israel's founding fathers and mother, led by david ben gurion declared the birth of the state of israel in tel aviv. on that day, 67 years ago, the population of israel was 806,000 people. today, after many difficulties and hardships and a strong, resolute israel has a preponderancelation over eight million. many of the jews who lived in israel in 1948 were survivors of the second world war and the holocaust which pushed international opinion for the need for a homeland for the jewish people where

representative cole is currently reading nixon and mao by market mcmillan which looks at the diplomatic relationship between the united states and china. .. >> it's a great thrill to be introducing a personal hero of mine lynsey addario for riveting new memoir it's what i do. lynsey is one of the most respected photographers working today. her fearless work in "the new york times" national geographic time and other publications has borne witness to the struggle of more violence all over the world world. in "it's what i do" she takes us along for passing right through wars on the battlefields but she