And lake mead. Now to the other big stories today. Were live at a local best buy where doors are opening. And more than a hundred people whove been standing in line. Will be let inside to shop good evening. Im faith tanner. Im adam herbets. John and christine have the night off. Today is thanksgiving, happy thanksgiving, but that also means tonight is the start of christmas shopping. Even though several stores are keeping doors closed for turkey day. Plenty are opening early. One of them is the best buy at sunset and marks. And thats where fox5s Abby Theodros is while people across the valley are celebrate thanksgiving. For some. That meant helping the less fortunate have a happy holiday. Fox 5s eric hilt. Spoke with people who got a free thanksgiving lunch from the nevada. And he shows us what the holiday meal meant to them. Nats is here okay for you . Seats at these tables at the Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada were hard to come by. Nats welcome these tables. Filled with people
Highlands. According to nv energys website they say its because of an equipment failure. It looked like a small substation caught fire near decatur and cactus. And people in the area say they heard a pop. It was the power going out for 4 to 5 seconds and then a large boom and i realized Something Big had exploded so i knew right away it wasnt good and we saw large black plumes of smoke going up over our neighborhood. According to nv energys website power is expected to be fully restored to some customers by 11 00. And for other customers. After 11 00. While the thanksgiving festivities are wrapping up for most of you a lot of people are just Getting Started on another tradition black friday shopping it seems like the sales are starting earlier and earlier every year. And of course that means the stores are already packed. Fox5s Abby Theodros joins us live from the target on sunset and stephanie after spending the who were waiting in line for more than a day. A lot of shoppers chose ski
[inaudible conversations] hello and welcome to the heritage foundation. Thank you all for joining us today. I just want to take the opportunity remind everyone watching inhouse to silence your cell phones. For anyone who is watching online, youre welcome to submit questions by emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Hosting the program is lindsey burke. She focuses on reducing federal intervention education and empowering families with School Choice. With that, i will hand it over to lindsey. Great, thank you, andrew. Thanks for everyone being here and everyone watching online as well. We are happy to welcome vickie alger to discuss her thorough and newly interested new books in the failures of federal intervention and education and she doesnt miss words at all. The title failure, its time to end and not mend federal intervention and education. Dr. Alger explains in her book federal government left education alone for about a hundred years recognizing that it was purview of states and local
L. A. Times festival of books on everything connects the Building Blocks of daily life. Im john wiener, i write for the nation magazine, and i also host the weekly podcast called start making sense. You guys have been here before, you know the rules; silence cell phones, no personal recordings. You can watch us on cspan when this is over if you want to relive those unforgettable moments. [laughter] we will have time for questions at the end. We will have a book signing afterwards. The signing area for this session is signing area one. Two of our authors appearing today are are prolific, old pros. Ed humes has written 14 books, brian fagin has written more than 40. So lets start with jonathan waldman. This is his first book. Jonathan waldman [applause] [laughter] jonathan studied writing at dartmouth and at boston universitys Knight Center for science journalism. Hes written for outside, the washington post, the New York Times, mcsweenys, the utney reader. He has worked as a forklift dr
Which is a big topic in our election these days. Whether its good or bad for the economy is another question, but he wasnt unintended consequence. Brian, do you have any unintended consequences from the domestication of animals that you like to mention . Basically, thats a very very complex question to answer because if you look at the domestication of animals, you immediately and completely are altering into the microphone, please. You alter human relationship with the environment, landscape, with the land, with each other, with animals who become profiting. With the animals themselves. Immediately, although, in the early stages the relationship was fairly ultimately the animal becomes a commodity and in a way it is rather like of the container because on the one hand you have got all of these changes made, but on the other hand you have more interaction with people from a distance and as you got donkeys and then youve got horses and camels the distances got larger and larger. A whole