lindberg will be joined by admiral yamamoto, the former ambassador to ethiopia and djibouti. and the council on foreign relations. on the second panel, we will hear from the leader of the humanitarian operations throughout the region, and then the africa center and a former professor with madison university.

his name was charles lindberg. >> another famous flier who visited billings was amelia earhart.arnest hemingway got into a car accident and was hospitalized here with a broken arm. fortunately that didn't end his writing career. >> billings was placed in the heart of crow country. the crow indian reservations is across the yellowstone river. the crow have always been a part of billings history. early on. they came here and traded in the stores that opened. later on, the crow were a big part of our annual fair and of course today a lot of people in billings travel to the annual crow fair and celebrate crow culture and traditions. >> billings is also known for its striking natural beauty. it's hard to believe this area was once covered by a great sea. >> there are large cliffs of sand stone around billings, great walls of rock. we call them the rim k rocks. the rims. that's all that's left of the great island sea. >> from the top of the rim you can see the present day billings. >> billings has always been a major transportation center here in the northern great plains. it had irri

had become to ecn today the achievement gap in new york city is as wide as it was when mayor bob lindberg -- >> guest: that is because the improvement has calm on both sides of the gap. so in other words -- if what you are telling me is if the disadvantaged. >> host: is that why 75% of the kids -- >> guest: you are just cherry-picking data. >> host: you cherry-picked data, come on. i don't think you are familiar with most of the education research. let me just to shift for the moment, you know when you look at the fact that one of the women you profiled in this book jessica reid quit from the harlem success academy, it was too hard hadi get 3.5 million teachers or 3.2 million teachers who can do that job? >> guest: that is what the book says which is why do you characterize the book was so inaccurate. i'm the one who said that. i say that is difficult. you can't do it by improving the best and the brightest. guest cohost of the best and brightest will not come into a profession that has been turned do a job where they have no job security and where they are being measured by the test scor

lindberg will be joined by admiral yamamoto, the former ambassador to ethiopia and djibouti. and the council on foreign relations. on the second panel, we will hear from the leader of the humanitarian operations throughout the region, and then the africa center and a former professor with madison university. from thely, we'll hear associate director who was based in nairobi and returned to their visit of the drought affected areas. i highlight the growing urgency of this, and helping those as we continue to partner with the international agency in the warm-up -- horn of africa. i look forward to your testimony. >> i want to welcome all of those who will testify today. a headquartered in my hometown of atlanta, georgia. i have been on site in kenya and tanzania, and seen firsthand what they do to deliver humanitarian aid as well as in the case of life sustaining techniques that people can learn to be self sustaining on themselves, which is so critical in areas of that poverty. i appreciate you being here and testifying, and i am happy to have the home team here, talking about

predecessor aircraft to the dc-3, and panam is inaugurating service with the s-40 flying boat with lindberg at the helm. 80 years ago, alpa was formed, and your first president, dave banky recommended creating an independent, multimember board to investigate accidents and make recommendations to improve safety. what a great idea. [applause] at the board, we have five independent board members working together to improve transportation safety, and we have a fantastic team of five board members right now. 80 years ago, pilots are flying as many as 170 hours per month. early print editions of the airline pilot report that there is a pilot death on average every 28 days, and there's a page in the paper dedicated to those pilots who were killed on the job, and it's called a page of sorrow. eight years ago, one of alpa's very first issues was flight and duty time. your leadership then said a tired pilot is an unsafe pilot, and that fall, the department of commerce limits the first pilot or the captain to the max mum of 110 flight hours per month, and as we all know the decision and the debate con