Guest my great pleasure. Thank you so much. You can watch this and all of our what are you reading interviews booktv. Org. Use the search bar at the top of the page. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to politics and prose, live at lunch, where we bring you our politics and prose programming during your lunch time hour. My name is beth and imn Event Coordinator and we thank you so much for joining here to celebrate the release of a livewired by doctor david eaeman. At any time to the event you can click the link that will put in the chat to purchase a copy of tonights bo on pnps website. You can ask the author of questions by sabina to the button for which can be found at the bottom of your screen. Be sure to put your question in the q a and not in the chat to make sure that the author and i see it. On to our main event. This afternoon doctor David Eagleman is a neuroscientist in the New York Times best selling author and he has the nter for science and law a National Nonprofit insti
Event. At the Elementary School in san jose, a time to say thank you, and these people answered the call for help after coyote creek flooded nearby neighborhoods exactly one year ago today. It was a tuesday afternoon, and we can still remember. We didnt know what was going on. Reporter chris was one of 100 students at the school directly impacted by the flooding. That day was very emotional for me. Reporter they were rescued by boat from their flooded rock spring neighborhood. They stayed with family for a month while their home was repaired, but it was the community from the Elementary School and Franklin Mckinley School District that gave them food, clothing, and gift cards to help with everyday needs. Our Community Needs help, and well step up doing whatever we can. Reporter this group stepped up. About 38,000 dollars was raised by teachers and the community to buy gift cards to give to the families. Food, clothing, and other items were donated and handed out on campus in the weeks
Want others to go through the kind much pain that youve gone through. And todays white house roundtable came as hundreds of students across the country walked off campuses in solidarity with students from Marjorie Stoneman douglas high school. Tara paul mere i has the details. At the Florida State capitol, survivors had harsh words for lawmakers. Before they arrived, legislators rejected a vote on an Assault Rifle van. I can vote and i know who im not voting for. They were hopeful after the meetings, they seemed defiant. They wont push us into another room as they dance around our questions. We came here prepared. Around the country, students staged walkouts in solidarity. Here in washington, hundreds of students protested outside of the capitol and then marched to the white house. Its not going to be talk like in the past. Its been going on too long. Too many instances. Were going to get it done. President Trump Holding a televised listening session with students and teachers who surv
Entire of the 55 Million Dollar modernization. And acknowleding the planning that went on, the Airport Commission chairman says they were guided with the idea of changing the now 30 year old terminal in a way that future Airport Commissions would still find useful. This commission really felt the we now, the commission 30 years from now and passengers, appreciate the work that we did, and that it is a sustainable, well thought out project. Now the next phase of construction will probably start sometime next year, and it will go on about a year and a half. Some things will be behind the scenes, some things will be rather disruptive, like totally changing this concession area. Airport leaders hope passengers will think the end result is worth it. Live in meteorologist Justin Gehrts has your first even with filtered sunshine, we have a warm day ahead thanks in part to erly breezes. Record highs will be in jeopardy as we soar into the lower to middle 70s. Well stay mild tonight, not droppi
Prevalent. The virus is still only found in mosquitoes outside the country, and no cases have been transmitted in the continental u. S. In february, president obama requested emergency funds to fight zika. But summer is near, mosquito season is coming, and the centers for Disease Control is about to release a National Rapid response plan. All it needs is about 2 billion of your tax dollars. Journalist Jonathan Katz and his wife were working in mosquitoinfested haiti last january. Jonathan so, we were wearing long sleeve clothing. We were sleeping under a mosquito net that was treated with permethrin, which is a powerful insect repellent. Our clothes were treated with permethrin, and we were basically bathing ourselves in deet every day the way that we always do. Sharyl they still got bitten by mosquitoes and came down with the dreaded zika virus. Jonathan one night, in the middle of the night, claire started to feel sick, and we were wondering what it was for about a day, until the tel