Cake. Its a wonderful feeling to know that something so positive representing Jefferson County will be on national television. My job tonight [ applause ] is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She graduated from st. Louis and graduated from columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her work as a grad student to go to work as a copy editor in the mid 1980s and later, after three years in the newsroom of the hartford in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. As a book editor, she assigns and edits book reviews choosing from some 300 or so new books each week. Shes written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors from sam and rushdie to e. L. Doctorel. So tonight she adds to that and she will be having a conversation with caroline fraser. Carolin
Representative rick larsen, a democrat from washington recently joined book tv to discuss the books he is reading. Congressman rick larson of washington, what is on your reading list . My reading list is or has been long but its coming into this middle of the summer announcement working on rack, the third iq novel by joe e day, los angeles mystery writer. Iq is his character and racked is the third book in his series. Its a detective, detective novel and hes a private investigator and a lot of action and a lot of great relationships in that book and so im working on that. Im also working on Frederick Douglass biography published recently and im working on that. Its a fairly book and so im popping him popping in and out of that book quite a bit and taking that in chunks. The policy in me, david dollar one of the think tanks in washington dc as a lead editor of a book called china 2049 where hes brought together some reform minded chinese scholars to look at what the chinese economy migh
He young spy agency chased down the worlds most notorious nazi. Good evening everybody. Welcome to the National World war two museum. Im the associate for the media and Education Center here at the museum. First and keeping with the tradition i would like to recognize any were front veterans, holocaust survivors, if your president please stand and wave. Its always a pleasure to honor you. This is your museum. Even if there is no one here we should still clap. And also, to take this moment to recognize any veterans or active duty personnel, also stand or wave to be recognized, thanks so much for carrying on the great legacy with the world war ii generation. I would like to welcome all of you to the special evening. Acclaimed, author, neil is here to describe his works on icommon. He also did a webinar with almost 3000 students earlier today as part of our twoweek family Holocaust Education program which has been very well received so far. A fantastic program. Tonights program is part of
Then very spotty elsewhere and actually the skies may start to open up a little bit but because we still have the same scenario set up there is that possible chance of an isolated thundershower being dry lightning until 5 they have the red flag warning thats been posted really for the entire bay area technically, Solano County not in that and theyve also pulled away down the Monterey County as well. Down to the south so things are improving live shot of the golden gate as you can see that we have the marine layer that certainly checking in that tends to be a stable air mass, the winds across the greater area little bit of an onshore wind nothing major. Our temperatures into the 60s for the most part fairly mild 72 going on for any aac were ahead of the ball game in most regions of around the bay compared to where we were 24 hours ago so the skies will open up however that will give the atmosphere more energy in which to work with so concerned again for isolated elevated dry Thunder Sho
Santa cruz county. Lets zoom in now on the czu lightning complex fire. You take a look at this map on your screen. The red line shows the outline of the fire and it has grown so much you can see that spread now to the coastline. New this morning that fires turned deadly a 70 yearold man was found the body of 7 yearold man was found in the last chance area of Santa Cruz County kron fours will tran live this morning at the Cal Fire Base Camp thats a Scotts Valley. He has the latest will. Marty so far right now as of the update yesterday at around 11 oclock last night 74,000 acres have burned for this fire. We do know that at least 131 structures have gone up in flames with many others damaged. We expect a News Conference in one hour from now they have thousands of firefighters spread throughout california. The moving forward the biggest challenge will be the resources heading to this location. Yes, very dry very smoky. But the good news is i did not see any Lightning Strikes thats the fe