Negotiation table in paris in december . Well, you got a lot and that [laughter] let me just add that hank paulson as many of you know is lifelong committed along with his wife conservationists and environmentalists. So thats hit him at his everywhere he has tremendous knowledge of Cross Section of china and the environment. Thank you, andrea. And the Polson Institute is the biggest programs we have our air quality and climate, and a u. S. Of China Council focus on sustainable urbanization. So him and i see where the question comes from because if you had asked me going back, if im sitting here today and i didnt know how bad the air was which i sure do, i just was a couple of weeks ago was at ground zero of this problem. You could hardly see you couldnt see the sun come and everything was archaic. A chapter in my book is called darkness at noon. But if most of all the things the chinese were doing in terms of investing in a new clean technologies, turning down shutting down dirty plant
This weekend, booktv is in topeka, kansas, with help of our local cable partner talks communications. Michael church of the kansas state archives looks at the life of local pioneer samuel reader who kept a diary for 64 years beginning in 1849. Samuel reader was a kansas pioneer, farmer, soldier artist and photographer among many other things. He kept a Daily Journal from 1849 all the way up until 1913. From age 13 all the way to a 78 i believe. And the diaries were donated to the society by his daughter right after his death in 1914. He created 15 journals over the period of his life. But we only received 13 because in 1890 his farmhouse burned and they were only able to save 13 of the journals. Two of them volume one and volume four, perished in the fire. Apparently is influenced by a great reading of the journals of lewis and Clark Expedition and you want to keep a Daily Journal like they did and it was a special interest in their illustrations that they included and he wanted to ill
In terms of blood, nearly 120,000 u. S. Troops paid with allies and another 20,000 were wounded. It was a dramatic dramatic conflict. To my second point, the media Lessons Learned after this conflict, its odd that this sort of idealism emerged, and this idealism trump sober pragmatism come and sort of a realistic assessment about the nature of man, the nature of the international system. We saw the league of nations form which tried to impose the domestic Structure International of domestic law internationally. We saw later in the 20s a aipac, 1928 which sought to outlaw war. Something, they could just outlaw. Within the United States, rather than sort of prepare for possibly there could be another major conflict, this is from a u. S. Army history, the war deparle urged congress to authorize the astonishment of permanent regular army, about a half a million, and threemonth the universal training system, and congress and the American People said no. Rather, not just meltdown, we tore do
First, hundreds and thousands of people have been forced out of their homes as the wildfires raged up and down the west coast. The death toll in california, oregon and washington since mid august stands at 33 people, the dozens more still missing at this hour. As you know millions of people are suffering another day of hazardous air quality from the dense smoke. Welcome to americas news headquarters on the sunday afternoon i am eric shawn. Arthel. Laura i am laura and fol neville. The wildfires have scored more than a million acres in oregon alone. Officials there warned of a potential mass totality incident. Whether whether is offering hope in parts of the northwest and the high temperatures and strong winds are expected to return this week. Meanwhile Tropical Storm sally is churning in the gulf of mexico picking up strength as ahead towards the u. S. Gulf coast, governors across the country are warning residents to be prepared. We saw the perfect firestorm and incredible wins, we saw
Masks do not apply because they dont fit the president s mood or his political interests. Yet again the president whose oath calls on him to uphold the law ignores it. The nevada governor called this indoor rally reckless and selfish and the president s supporters insist they have every right to be there and they are not fools. If i thought i was a risk are, i wouldnt be here. Im not an idiot and neither are these people. They have enough wherewithal to realize whether or not they are putting anybody at risk, including themselves. Americans are not stupid people. More on virus just ahead. We begin this hour though with the sunday and fury in the atlantic and in the gulf now five different active some systems, Tropical Storm sally expected to become Hurricane Sally soon and then to hit the United States sometimes tomorrow. The outlook, massive disruption across louisiana, mississippi and alabama. With four months worth of rain anticipating to snarl coastal cities there. Just moments ago