And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Please welcome the New York Times bestselling author, perennial the New York Times bestselling author reza aslan back to this program. His latest book is one that examines how humanitys intense belief in god has shaped our history. He says it is the most personal book hes ever written, and i think i read somewhere the hardest book hes ever written. Yeah. Its titled god a human history. Reza, as always, my friend, great to have you back on this program. Thank you. Its great to be back. Why the hardest book to write . Part of it is because this book is about the history and the evolution and the very development of the concept of god. So i had to go way into prehistory, i mean, 500,000 years. And you know, when youre talking about that long ago, yourealking about concepts such as cognitive theories and anthropological and sociological theories. And you know what ive always prided myself on is being able to take ve
Documentary for the History Channel and Discovery Communications including the widely praised modern marvels, apollo 11. Has been a professor at a university and lecturer with Johnson Space center. He presents Amazing Stories of the space age which features 20 of his favorite films from the golden age of Space Exploration. Join me in welcoming rod pyle. [applause] thank you very much. Normally i kind of dance around a bit while im performing these things but because theyre taping tonight and we have kind of a weird microphone setup, i will sort of stay with the podium. I will go back to my professorring days at university of laverne. I know it is rough getting here on week night. I used to drive to ucla when i was 18 years old in 30 minutes to pasadena. Last time i did that drive it was 2 1 2 hours. I appreciate yall going through what you went through. Let me go back Amazing Stories of the space age has kind of a long story behind it. I wont bore you with the whole thing but ive been
A lot of things to think about getting in and out. Reporter member of the white house staff will be frantically moving out nants of remnants of the Obama Administration and getting it ready for the new ones. New paint is put in, new carpet is laid, new pencils, desks. Reporter what about house hundreds of white house Staff Members that have spent years. The remainder of the folks at the white house are career staff and they will stay from president to president. Many of the folks, some of these people have been here for 30, 40, 50 years. Reporter as were learning a little more about what a Trump White House might look like. Change that with the trump penthouse in manhattan, which is filled with gold, from what i hear they are not going to rep i indicate that at the white house, but im sure they will make a few changes. Reporter after obama accompanies trump here. They will head off on marine one for vacation. Upon their return, they will move into a rental home a few miles from the whi
With his arms raised. Right. He is the guy doing the wave. Admonishing the kid for taking the candy. This is a clear view. A view that has changed over the years. Thank you for joining us. Mike and sal enjoying the day off. We are joined by Rosemary Orozco and frank mallicoat. I have news for you, sitting next to the window up here, it is cold. Yeah. When you come in at 3 00 in the morning, you feel the cold too. Yes. Unavoidable. Right. Temperatures are finally beginning to turn around. It took some time. We even started with an advisory this morning for our inland valley location. That has expired. And temperatures will be in the low 50s to mid to upper 50s in the afternoon. Here is a look at Storm Tracker 2. In the overnight hours we had cloud cover pull through that offset the chill in the air. Even though it is cold out there, it could have been worse. The cloud cover helped to insulate us a little bit. Still we are looking at temperatures just above freezing in santa rosa at this
For as i like to call it lets move. Early today starts right now. Good morning. Ill miss the two of them when they are gone. Im frances rivera. Donald trumps two controversial picks seems to have survived following days of heavy questioning. But we begin with the explosive day in new york. Trump holding a News Conference that ran the gamut. He made headlines from new cabinet nominee to the border wall, obamacare and his business dealings. But it was unsubstanceated allegations of russia. Clapper said he spoke with trump. He continued i emphasize this document is not a u. S. Intelligence community product. And president elect trump again affirmed his appreciation for all the men and women serving in the intelligence community. N reporter at trump tower a moment months in the making but not washington front and center instead moscow, russia dominating Donald Trumps First Press Conference as president elect. For the first time acknowledging what intelligence officials believe about foreig