Roadways this morning. They just cleared a crash that westbound 580. The bad news is were seeing some residual slowing. Of course east of there weve got the usual slow and go conditions as you head out of tracy into the liver more valley area. So the delays between mount house and grant line are in full effect. Some spots as far as your speeds go. Your drive time on 680 southbound. About 24 minutes. Im Katie Neilson at the live news desk happening right now in oakland. The homeless mothers who took over a vacant house on magnolia street are currently being evicted by the Alameda County Sheriffs Department. They wanted to draw attention to the homeless crisis thats happening around the bay area. They took over that house and have been living there since november. Those women went to court asking a judge to be allowed to stay but on friday the judge ordered the women to be evicted within 5 days. The Sheriffs Department there right now with deputies. We just saw some of them in handcuffs.
Please send yours up. They dont have to be related just the book. All right, here we go. My name is melissa king, welcome to Common Wealth club bsting of scott adams n new book, scott dives into the epidemic of mental shortcuts that he believes is making us prone to believing in bad ideas, according to scott, responsible for people stereotyping all of Trump Supporters as racists believing that gun control is equal to full confiscation and most importantly avoiding selfreflection when personal relationships end. We are excited to have him here today to discuss new book loser think and whatever else you guys would like to ask him, he has told me nothing is off limits today. Please welcome scott. [applause] loser think is a word i invented because i noticed when i was on twitter mostly the debating with various trolls and real people too and every once in a while somebody would make a good comment, i dont quite agree with that, thats really well put. , lawyer, economists, scientists and t
Are here in the room and all of you watching at home at cspan book tv, we are delight today start the third day of this years fourth day celebration, today we will do 32 events, i hope you are all staying all day. [laughter] we couldnt be more delighted, thank you for making more time in the morning and check out schedule and come back for more things tomorrow, we will star today, how we win, shes in conversation with hannah and i will send you over to them. [applause] okay, what have i dont . Anyone who knows me, technology is not my friend. [laughter] hi, welcome to madison. Thank you. Let me just tell you a little bit about sarah, her bio is on the website, its in your information and its on the book that you all will be buying many copies of. [laughter] but sarah is a very incrediblable woman, she was getting ready to leave after president bush the second and getting ready to go until Hillary Clinton brought her in the office and said, talk to me about what youre doing and she said
Im the provost at the university of tennessee at martin and tiff pleasure of hosting this session, shared history, americans of hispanic and african decent. Southern festival books remains completely free thanks to Strong Community support f youd like to donate to support the festival, you can do so on site at the Festival Headquarters or online via the humanitys tennessee website. You can purchase copies of the books that will be discussing today at the books sales area which is up on the Memorial Plaza and after the session both of our authors will be signing books at the signing tent. Our session today is going to focus on two books, dr. Kerry gibsons book el norte, epic and forgotten story of hispanic north america and Kristina Coles american founders how people after african decent established freedom in the new world. In just a minute we will hear from both of the authors and after that questions from the audience. Dr. Carry gibson grew up in United States and graduated from the
And thats something we really cant take for granted. The festival begins on individual donations to keep going into say free and you can donate at any level via the southern festival of books through their facebook page. The southern festival of books app. This weekend in person at vessel headquarters. See mac i want to encourage everyone to visit humanities labor literary website. There are wonderful reviews there. You can also sign up for a weekly newsletter information about upcoming author events. And also a great way to be a part of the literary community. In tennessee. Finally, after our session jason will be signing books at the signing tent on the plaza. And plaza. And copies of the books are for sale at the sales area and a portion of the proceeds directly benefits the festival. Enough announcements it is my delight to introduce jason depaul. I could talk for a long while about his decades of extraordinary writing about poverty and immigration among other publications in the N