Get people out of buildings that have collapsed, hand tonight hundreds of residents had helping soldiers, Police Officers and firemen search the rubble for survivors. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley. That massive earthquake struck shortly half 1 00 local time. The government says tonight at least 149 people are dead and that number keeps growing. There are real fears tonight that the death toll will rise quickly. Thats certainly the expectation. This is Live Television coverage from mexico where it is 11 00 p. M. Right now. The powerful 7. 1 quake was centered about 100 miles southeast of mexico city. Heres abc News Reporter max guttman. Tonight a scramble for victims entombed by the quake, so powerful it pulverized buildings. One woman covered in dust carried through the crowd on a stretcher. Rescue rescuers racing into the badly damaged building rushing this woman to safety, and from the air its easy toe spot the devastation. Officials saying more than two dozen
L. A. Times festival of books on everything connects the Building Blocks of daily life. Im john wiener, i write for the nation magazine, and i also host the weekly podcast called start making sense. You guys have been here before, you know the rules; silence cell phones, no personal recordings. You can watch us on cspan when this is over if you want to relive those unforgettable moments. [laughter] we will have time for questions at the end. We will have a book signing afterwards. The signing area for this session is signing area one. Two of our authors appearing today are are prolific, old pros. Ed humes has written 14 books, brian fagin has written more than 40. So lets start with jonathan waldman. This is his first book. Jonathan waldman [applause] [laughter] jonathan studied writing at dartmouth and at boston universitys Knight Center for science journalism. Hes written for outside, the washington post, the New York Times, mcsweenys, the utney reader. He has worked as a forklift dr
Getting smarter brith sensors and electronic and dynamic tolling. Depending on the congestion but people may create decision to igo at this hour . It is hard to talk about with the mayor of indianapolis began talkedabout congestion pricing because that puts together the words they dont like to hear but we now have transponders in cars sonorities states and started cooperating so we need a National System but we can sense of popples that this city works with the entrepreneurs if it is then your carpet or your connected it is to test the epo polls the carlow report that for you. I hope theyre not smarter with and we are bad is the future. Sharing cars was a big idea dealing with global but they work it out with this technology and how you get in remotely like other Similar Services is more where you summon on demand or get information exactly where they will take people on a common route and it will tell you where to be there. If this will revolutionize. It is exciting. Just a couple of
It comes out of your head. So i think actually he was raiding a really good point. When just to when i was writing he had so many girlfriends i could take my children anywhere because there was a girlfriend there to interview. Including the dirt road across my daughters writing camp in vermont. Thats another way to save. Give you a tip. So, i have to say, without sounding polly annish, i loved every moment. Maybe because it was my second job and i still had another fulltime job was very consuming, plus im one of five children people up here, but it was really fantastic. There were a lot of people alive, or are, who knew jonas salk so i did over 100 interview starting we people in this Grad School Class who were still alive, and although the archives gave me this enormous amount of material, and i read all of the scientific articles he wrote and everyone else wrote about polio and aids and influenza and all the other diseases he was involved in. Wasnt just involved in polio. The intervi
That should be easy to verify if that is in fact true. Thank you very much. It has been a pleasure. [applause] he might give you at all like to have your book signed, he will be right over there signing books. Get them here and pay for them upstairs. Or if you have them with you, that is terrific. Thank you so much for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] shes welcome to this and all a daily times festival of books on everything for mac of the building life. I am john weidner. I write for the nation magazine and i also host weekly pot cast, start making sense. U you guys have been here before. You know the rules and silence cell phones. No personal recordings. You can watch us on cspan when this is over if you want to relive those unforgettable moments. S. We will have time for questions at the end of a book signing afterwards where the session inside an area one. Two of our authors appear today are prolific old pros. Edward humes has written 14rittm books. Brian fagan has writ