There. The bay area getting a brief break from the weekend rain. A series of storms is lined up off our coast and getting ready to roll in. When . Youll find out. Good evening. Im eric thomas. From Power Outages to downed trees crews had their hands full. In alamo cleanup crews took time chopping up two trees hundreds of years old, a few of the many that fell across the bay area. Highway 13, a tree fell across the entire road shutting down traffic for several hours, crushing that car. The driver was not injured already in the sierra, rain not seen there in decades causing problems for people near the truckee river. And a massive snow storm is on the way there. And back here in the bay area, looking live from our emeryville camera, quiet. But the break from rain wont last long. Lets check in with drew tuman. The temporary local in the showers today. The weekend started off with a lot of rain and it has added up over the past 11 days. December so far wet in a lot of spots. San francisco
Affecting them and to remember some of the artists we have lost. Russell butler is a local musician who was preparing to perform at the ghost ship warehouse moments before the fire broke out. Russell, i know that you were at the site of the ghost ship when the fire happened. Can you take us back to that night . What was going on . A lot of my friends were going to get together and just do what we love the most. There was a concert going on and people were there to celebrate art. Celebrate art and to celebrate each other. And you were going to perform. You had set up your gear, and where were you when the fire broke out . I was outside. Next to the door. What did you see, what did you hear when the fire broke out . You cant talk about it any understand. I lost a lot of people. They were all the best people. It is one of the reasons why it is especially hard, not just the building or the loss of life in general. These people were pillars, these people really held a lot of people up. I wa
You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] in the new book, James Baldwin escape from america, we have plenty of copies up front, so we do encourage you to pick up a copy or two or three so we can stay in this neighborhood as a community space. [laughter] okay. Im going to do this very elegantly. So, first, let me introduce our panelists. Carol weinstein is the mother of taan yell Baldwin Daniel baldwin, also on the panel, and was a partner of david whom she met in 1964. Later, jimmy would refer to her as his sister out of law, and when jimmy bought the house in st. Paul [inaudible conversations] thank you, david and carol first visited jimmy there together in 1977 from amsterdam where they were living at the time. They drove there to celebrate his buying the house. Carol also visited in 1974 and then again several summers from 1975 into the 80s with daniel. She and daniel also made nostalgic visits several years later after jimmy died, and d
Tonight is as the scholar in residence of the Kansas City Missouri Public Library system. Excitingn for a very treat. To keep it going in a flowing way, i am destined to read the introduction so we stay on point , but the person, my friend who is here tonight, who came from salt lake, utah, is the author till thek, emmett murder that shocked the world and propelled the Civil Rights Movement. Of the most definitive books on the subject. It took him 21 years from conception to completion to write the book youre i had the privilege to work on emmett tills case the book. I had the privilege to work on witht tills case, to work his mother to have the case reinvestigated and to have the the unsolved pass Civil Rights Congress is working on it right now. We expect it to pass. He is an editor at signature working onah and is a masters degree in publishing. He is the editor of several books on mormon history. He published his book on emmett basis ofit will be the a miniseries produced by jayz,
Of work per se, you will get a different argument there. That is something that i have argued with my friend and colleague about. So we promise to end directly and were right on time. Thanks to people that participated. I didnt get to all the questions but i got to most. One of the advantages of this book, unlike a lot of books written in washington this is thin and you can read it. I commend it to all of you. Thank you for coming. Thank you, david. [applause] [inaudible conversations]. I think well go ahead and get started. Thank you, everybody, for coming. A quick show of hands if this is your first time to book culture on columbus . Welcome to the family. 20 years ago this space was the endicott book seller. It was lost to the Upper West Side along with many other wonderful bookstores over the years. Almost a two years ago we took the plunge to open our third location. Were so happy a place to host jewels farber and this wonderful panel and talk about James Baldwin, James Baldwin. P