0 contained five another day of dangerous heat is on tap. Of flex alert is in effect. We are asked to conserve energy today and tomorrow. Mary has another check of the forecast in a couple of minutes. Back to fire watch, or keeping an eye on a wildfire burning in Santa Cruz County that has doubled in size. It broke out north of davenport and flames have gone through 120 acres and it is 20 contained. The river fire continues to burn in the hills of south of salina, at least six structures have been destroyed and 1500 others are being threatened. We are lucky that we have kept all the houses right here. My brother is across the canyon and it came through that brush yesterday. I have never seen anything like that. Cal fire says that area is not safe for people to come back to but they hope to have a timeline for returning in the next few hours. We have learned that hundreds of San Francisco School Bus Drivers are about to lose their jobs. Some after decades behind the wheel. The president
Facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. This is booktv on cspan2 television for serious readers. Heres our prime time lineup. In anticipation of next weeks release of harper lees second book, so get a watchman, booktv presents several programs about the pulitzer prizewinning authors life and writing career. Next Mary Mcdonagh murphy looks at the impact of harper lees to kill a mockingbird. Then at 7 30, maria mills reports on the 18 months she lived next door to harper lee in monroeville, alabama. And at 9 p. M. Eastern on after words, charles shields author of mockingbird a portrait of harper lee, discusses the events leading up to the publication of her new novel go set a watchman. That all happens next on cspan2s booktv. And now heres Mary Mcdonagh murphy, author of Scout Atticus and boo. Good morning everyone. And welcome to the auditorium speaker series. My name is m. Claire knowles and i serve as a member of the American Library Association Executive board. But i also have a day job
With passion and commitment, perhaps with a disagreement but with principal disagreement which is respectful. Because in my country and australia, editing perhaps here, too, there are a lot of people who yell at each other from one side or another but never really come constructively to engage with the issues of such profound importance that we face here in australia and around the world. So i welcome you to the first session. We have a marvelous panel were going to talk about history and what we are as an island. It is being shared by john podesta who is in the center and joining him [applause] please. John and henry, please welcome them all. [applause] john, your presence here, as to every hour of everyday of your life for other people who are in your presence conjures up the specter or the memory for the muscle memory of the experiences for decades ago with watergate, as we sit here in the week or the beginning of the 11th week of the Trump Presidency, obviously one of your themes o
Dean, carter speech writer Hendrick Hertzberg and reagan speech writer John Podhoretz offered their thoughts. This event hosted by the New York Public Library. Good morning, everybody. Id like to welcome you here to the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session in shades of red and blue uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff. Im the executive director of the ethics center, and on behalf of our partners in presenting this session, id like to welcome you. Id like to do so on behalf of the Carnegie Council for ethics and International Affairs, as well as the bard globalization and International Affairs program and advance, which is a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Its significant, i think, that we are meeting just after midday on the 1st of april. Some people saw the choice of this date and i thought it was a delicious irony, but, in fact, its a somewhat deliberate irony, because in most countries around the world, people are
I would like to welcome you here to the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session of shades of red and blue, uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff, executive director. On behalf of our partners in presenting the session, i would like to welcome you on behalf of the Carnegie Council for ethics in International Affairs as well as the bard globalization program, and a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Its significant i think that we are meeting just after midday on the 1st of april. Some people saw the choice of this date and they thought it was a delicious irony. In fact its a somewhat deliberate irony, because in most countries around the world, people are aware of the fact that today is april fools day. And the significance of the fool is often underestimated. In literature, we know from plays like king lear and also from medieval history that the role of the fool was to speak truth to power. Not just to speak truth to the p