of norman rockwell.she has a life different from his humors and optimistic thinking. ms. solomon was an art history major at cornell university and earned her masters master's degree at columbia graduate school of journalism. she's written several biographies of american artists including joseph curnow and she is the art critic for the radio which is the npr affiliate in new york. she was awarded a guggenheim fellowship in 2001 in the category of biography. asked to characterize her political beliefs, and this is my favorite part, solomon once said not dependably pro- anything except thinking. please welcome debra -- deborah solomon. [applause] >> hello, savannah. it's great to be here. thank you, linda for that gracious introduction. i arrived yesterday and i can't be revived in here less than 24 hours because i already have so many new girlfriends. especially to say to stephanie i had her yesterday and i said where can i get a haircut. i had just come off of the plane and was looking a little shaggy an

he wants to create a visual arts museum and learning center to help his movie memorabilia and norman rockwell collection. >>> santa clara county supers visors are slated to consider proposal tomorrow to find the san jose fire department if it doesn't improve its response time to emergency calls. some residents say a fire on gifford street last summer typifies the trouble with the budget strapped fire department. fire broke out at home right across the street from the fire station. but the station had no engine that could carry water. >> to have fire stations that have trucks that can't cap carry water i don't understand the reason behind that, and how the fire fighters are expected to put out fires. >> supervisor dave cortese he was running for mayor of san jose says the fire department is not meeting its contractual obligations to respond to 90% of medical emergencies within eight minutes. he proposes fining san jose $152,000 if the department doesn't rectify the problem by june. the fire department acknowledges is falling short of medical calls and says crews respond within the allowed time

of norman rockwell.e has a life different from his humors and optimistic thinking. ms. solomon was an art history major at cornell university and earned her master master's degrt columbia graduate school of journalism. she's written several biographies of american artists including joseph curnow and she is the art critic for the radio which is the npr affiliate in new york. she was awarded a guggenheim fellowship in 2001 in the category of biography. asked to characterize her political beliefs, and this is my favorite part, solomon once said not dependably pro- anything except thinking. please welcome debra -- deborah solomon. [applause] >> hello, savannah. it's great to be here. thank you, linda, for that gracious introduction. i arrived yesterday and i can't be revived in here less than 24 hours because i already have so many new girlfriends. especially to say to stephanie i had her yesterday and i said where can i get a haircut. i had just come off of the plane and was looking a little shaggy and she

trolley it has a main street we could walk to town we did great house i mean it was really kind of norman rockwell ask and i now live in manhattan in the west village which is a dream neighborhood for a lot of people i don't but i don't think that's the one hundred percent long term answer either that has a lot of you know it's hard to live in new york city in many ways so i don't come at this from a zero zero everyone must live how i live in new york city and live in an apartment i mean i don't think that's the answer from for probably for most people but i do think there's something wrong with the way we sort of a covert expanded and and people are really starting to to move and corporate america is starting to move in every every moving part that response to something like this is on the move because everything moves in cycles it's remarkably gallagher thanks so much for big and for right ankle. back to sears and other conversations and great minds go to our website at conversations with great minds. does the media lead us so we lead the media. by the scene pushes you to in the hallway your par

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the $700 million george lucas visual arts museum and learning center housing memorabilia and norman rockwell terribly disappointed if he decided to do that. i think this is the home of digital arts, and i would love to see his museum come in here. >> reporter: all the proposals remain under consideration for a potential alternative location within the presidio. >> we're essentially saying no to the site and yes to the program. >> reporter: what does the trust want where the commissary and sporting goods store is located? >> i don't know. that's a good question. >> reporter: indeed, one of the most iconic sites anywhere in the world. so whatever is going to be there is certainly going to be something that will happen sometime from now. reporting live for ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> now at 6:00, a 3-year-old girl found dead. her mother and boyfriend both under arrest. tonight, new details about a police visit to their home just days before. >> we checked the child, talked to her, made sure she's okay. >> 2 investigates the warning signs that may have been overlooked. >> a campus crime allegedly

george lucas' plan for a visual arts museum to house movie memorabilia, and his collection of norman rockwell paintings. >> he has mentioned before, he might move his museum to chicago. i would be terribly, terribly disappointed if he decided to do that. >> a spokesperson for lucas said he will start listening to other offers. the trust museum said they could be be offered at lower locations within the presidio. >>> we heard from the grandfather of the little girl found dead in napa. >> transitioning to a wet weather pattern. the changing conditions tomorrow. and how soon rain or how to find big savingsdeals on the things you need. just make a straight line to safeway. you'll find huge club card deals perfect for the big game. pizza's a football favorite. digiorno pizza is $3.99. get your snack on. wheat thins and other nabisco crackers are just $1.50 a box. and dreyer's ice cream is only $2.88. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>> tonight a new campaign by mineta airport, to lure passengers away from sfo. a look at the battle for your business.

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george lucas' plan for a visual arts museum to house movie memorabilia, and his collection of norman rockwell paintings. >> he has mentioned before, he might move his museum to chicago. i would be terribly, terribly disappointed if he decided to do that. >> a spokesperson for lucas said he will start listening to other offers. the trust museum said they could be be offered at lower locations within the presidio. >>> we heard from the grandfather of the little girl found dead in napa. >> transitioning to a wet weather pattern. the changing conditions tomorrow. and how soon rain could reach your neighborhood. >> pianos, and wi-fi. what the airport is doing to try to lure passengers here. >>> tonight a new campaign by mineta airport, to lure passengers away from sfo. a look at the battle for your business. >> reporter: frank, san jose airport officials tell me that they saw a 6% increase in passengers over last year. however, they might not be the biggest bay area airport, but any do have big aspirations. on this monday night -- >> it's funny that there's not more traffic going through here. >>

and the life of norman rockwell. part of the three president's day weekend.and wes from noon until 9:00 eastern. online on booktv's book club. bonnie morris, read a women's history for beginners. click on book club to enter the chat room. >> the u.s. and gambling in now and will continue work on a bill dealing with military pensions. it seeks to repeal one percentage point reduction in the cost-of-living adjustments for military retirees and the age of 62. at 12:15 montana democratic senator designate john walsh will be sworn in by vice president joe biden. john walsh will replace former democratic senator max baucus who last week was confirmed as u.s. ambassador to china. live to the senate floor on c-span2.

and on woodrow wilson and deborah solomon on the life of norman rockwell.he savanna book festival, heart of a three-day presidents' day weekend life saturday on book tv. march 2, but power, the civil rights movement and the obama era. calls, comments, and e-mails on c-span [applause] c-span2. join the conversation and go to book tv.org and click on book club to enter the chapter. >> now, discussion on privacy issues and digital technology. we will hear from matt salmon. this is the conservative policy summit. for being here and i am excited to be able to introduce color -- congressman matt salmon. 1994, mattrk year of was elected to the u.s. house of representatives where he served three terms. he grew a reputation as being a and a guy who went after spending, real fiscal conservative. he remained true to his promise to self impose a term limit. he went home and retired his seat. after the passage of obamacare like a lot of conservatives easter to rethink what he needed to do for the country. at the same time there was massive government regulation that was

coppell on astronauts and john rizzo on his work with the cia and deborah solomon on the life of norman rockwell. part of the three-day weekend on booktv. we will take your calls and e-mails and tweets from noon to 3:00 p.m. on keep -- c-span2. join the conversation go to booktv.org and click on book clubs to enter the chat room. >> a senate panel examines the highway trust fund which is expected to sell the gas tax. richard trumka also talks about this as well. >> this is such an important issue. >> including averting a major crisis and we will hear from witnesses who are national leaders representing businesses and states and workers and i am so pleased to once again welcome tom donohue i always feel when they are together that we have a winning issue. the transportation cabinet and doctor pete lorraine, president and ceo of american roads and transportation builders and i want to say to all of you here, there are devastating impacts they estimate at the that the highway trust fund may run out of funds as early as september of 2014. which would create cash flow problems for the summer construc

inwas conjuring a rockwell -- norman rockwell version of america. it was also forward-looking.we are back. but we don't want to go back where we were four years ago. i think the fact that the frommy had turned around the early years of 1981 in 1982 the administration found itself dealing with a recession, by 1984, things were looking better. reagan was asking if you were better off. in 1980 we were dealing with double-digit inflation. we had double-digit unemployment. they felt confident in posing that question. that has been asked in some for another ever since. host: that is all we have for today. director of is the the political communications center at the university of oklahoma. thank you for being with us today. guest: my pleasure. host: join us tomorrow morning. we will discuss health care and small business. joined bywe will be the human rights campaign. we'll be joined by the director of information technology from princeton university. we will see you at 7:00 a.m. eastern. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable s

and debra solomon rockwell. of norman the savanna book festival, live saturday on book tv. march 2, black power, the civil rights movement and the obama era. storian peniel joseph will take calls live on march 2 at noon eastern. and comment on february's in depth guest bonnie mars. read "women's history for beginners." go to booktv.org and click on book club to enter the chatroom. the director of national intelligence today told lawmakers a cyberattack is the greatest national security threat facing the u.s. here's some of his testimony before the senate armed services committee this morning. >> thank you, mr. chairman, director clapper, general flynn, thank you for your service and thank the people of your organization as well. as i ask these questions, if they are -- if the answer should be in closed session, i'm sure you'll let me know but one of the things that we worry about, obviously there's cyberattacks but physical dangers and what i always think is what keeps me up at night when i think about what can happen next, and you know, i wonder what your greatest fear is

people who don't have much history or prior touch pointing with farm or agriculture to have a real norman rockwell imagery in their mind when they fi of farming, they think of things like bib overalls and the farm life that spends all of their waking moments canning. but the reality is this is one of the most innovative industries in existence. when you look at a field of soybeans in the united states, you can assume that what you're looking at -- half of what you're looking at will be consumed outside of the united states. one quarter will be consumed by someone in china. . and so it's a quite innovative industry. m and we talk a lot in this country about being energy independent. there's a lot of countries in the world that are not nutritionally or protein independent. and that's been one of the blessings for the united states. not only are we table to feed ourselves, but we're also able to feed the rest of the world. and the fact of the matter is this has been favorable development over the last few decades. we've seen the largest development of people from poverty into the middle class in worl