Stories that i found circulating in American Culture in the war on terror after 9 11 we captured an american john walker lens and he had all of these front cover news stories and kept getting referred to as brainwashed, serious experts and newspapers were writing about him as having been brainwashed. My first reaction was can people be using this Science Fiction term to be talking about a real person. And then i kept wondering about what sort of work that story was doing or that kind of metaphor of brainwashing and describing the decision to be against america in this moment as unthinkable, as literally something a thinking person could unfathomably do. The manchurian candidate got made and the vision of the body snatchers got made, galactica, the homeland show that having a strong resemblance to the John Walker Lindh stories. So, in my book what i am trying to do is think about that story and why we want to tell it as a literary historian i am trained to think about why we need certai
Manila. They have been extremely supportive and my cousin is helping me to coordinate this mission for us. They will be in the philippines in one month and another kaiser team will be flown in to replace them. A union is sending help as well. The Service Employees National Union sent employees to the philippines. They pledged 100,000 for the relief effort and plan to send medical workers from the bay area to help. And in the philippines, more than 3600 people are confirmed dead. It will be weeks if not months before power is fully restored. We hope to be able to store at least partial electrical power to certain portions of the city by december 9. Kpix5 and our Radio Partners joined to raise money thursday. And thanks to you, our telethon brought in 410,000. If you missed the phone lines, go to kpix. Com donate. A collision brought down a power line in petaluma at around 4 15. At least one of the drivers had to be taken to the hospital. The road was closed several hours while crews dea
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod with a western edition of the broadcast. Were beginning tonight with a storm system thats dropped some significant snow on the Pacific Northwest and is becoming even more threatening as it moves east. More than two feet of snow have fallen in the Higher Elevations in washington state, and close to that much snow is on the ground in parts of oregon. But it isnt snow. Its high winds gusting between 40 and 55 miles per hour, and even the threat of tornadoes that are most alarming as this snow tracks to the midwest. Lauren casey of our minneapolis station wcco joins us now. Lauren, who is about to get whalloped the worst . Well its going to be a large portion of the lower midwest thats under the gun. The highest risk area includes ohio, indiana, southern michigan, parts of eastern illinois, and Northern Kentucky as well. Axelrod any forecast that contains the word tornadotornas always a scary one
Senator Bernie Sanders recovers from a health scare as the impeachment uproar threatens to drown out the democratic primary. Focus on this man, what hes doing. With months left in the primary campaign, who is standing out . Ill speak to president ial candidate senator Amy Klobuchar next. Hello. Im jake capper in washington. The state of our union is watching the evidence pile up. We begin this morning with breaking news. The lawyer for the first whistleblower tells me he is also representing a second whistleblower who has spoken to the Intelligence Community Inspector General. The news first reported by abc is another development that could play into the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Its the latest in a stream of new evidence this week wbacking up the original whistleblower complaint. The public call for ukraine and china to investigate his 2020 rival. Perhaps most damning, Text Messages between three senior u. S. Officials discussing what looks like a quid pro quo in offic