Impact of the latest planned outage. It now says about 4,200 customers in four bay area counties are expected to have their power cut due to the high fire danger over the next couple of days, beginning at 8 00 tonight. Solano county has been removed from the list altogether. But you know, between the past shutoffs and this looming outage thats coming homeowners in napa county are really reaching the breaking point. Abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard has that story. Im not even a whining type, but its gotten to the point where theres nothing else to do but complain. Reporter we found bill fletcher filling up a gas can. Its fuel for a generator. To power his east napa county home. Fletcher just got this alert. His power would likely be shut off. Its not the first time hes been impacted by a psps, or as bill calls it psbs. Thats what i think of. Reporter this napa valley mini mart has lost power twice this season. Managers dont want it to happen again because no power, no freezers. Were
Cspan3, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. I come here tonight to the Al Smith Dinner knowing im the underdog in the final weeks. If you know where to look, there are signs of hope. Even in the most unexpected places, even in this room full of proud manhattan democrats, i cant i cant shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me. [ applause ] im delighted to see you here tonight, hilary. [ laughter ] i was thrilled to get this invitation and i feel at home here because its often been said that i share the politics of alford e. Smith and the ears of alford e. Newman. Its an honor to be here with al smith. I never knew your great grandfather. From everything that senator mccain has told me [ laughter ] the two of them had a great time together before prohibition. Of course im delighted, but not surprised, by the final repeal of the 18th amendment. I felt all along that when this matter was
For and in a way that is not argumentative but i find highly per was persuasive he makes a strong case and along the way using his incredible stretchtive powers and descriptive powers and second to none in being able to in a concise way describe a scene, a room, a group of people, he carries you along through this own travels, along the southern border and borders around the world, and along the way i believe he makes a strong case for his ideas of how we should deal withour borders. Peter, this is not the first book that you have written and in a moment well enumerate the other books if you have within d have opportunity articles and radio programs, short form news and long form talk shows. Youre quite literate on these matters. And let me begin by talking about some of the Current Issues related to immigration. For example, just a week or two ago, a nurse who turned whistleblower at an i. C. E. Detention center in georgia went public with charges that a medical doctor there had perfo
Philosopher. He was the chief rabbi at the rabbi at the United Kingdom and the commonwealth of wealth of nations. He is the author of over 30 books. And there will be a link at the bottom of the screen. I know most of you have already preordered the book thank you so much. You can purchase it right at the beginning of the screen. David brooks who was an off at columnists. He is the author of several books most recently the second mountain. I am getting handed over to the rabbi in one second. After a couple of minutes we will open this up to q a. If you have a question you can go ahead and write in your question in your ask the question box. Without further ado. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and david. I will do some questions we can have a backandforth conversation. I like to start out with the most broad first question and that is even had written 30 books. This is the first one called morality. What took you so long . In some sense morality is the subject of all your books. What is a subject
Hello, my name is kai bird, im the executive director of the leon leavy centers for biography at cuny, university of new york. We are sponsored by Sheldon Whitehouse and the abto promote the arts and crafts and biography among other things. We been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years. We are here on a session with the 20th anniversary actually of the National Book festival, the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable publican intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholar, currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer is himself the author of eight books, professor witmer is now on my faculty abwe will be discussing his latest book lincoln on the verge thirteen days to washington. These are two very different books. Im going to hold up each of them. This is literally a mini biography, not so many, its a substantial book, focuses on 13