In vietnam. And earned a masters degree in history from George Washington university in 1971. He currently lives in middleburg, virginia. And is a member of the library of Virginia Foundation board. He has been a former staff writer for Congressional Quarterly in washington, d. C. He has written for Many National newspapers and magazines, among many others, the smithsonian, the washington post, the New York Times, baltimore sun, chicago tribune, and the Christian Science monitor and usa today. He is the author of five books, including the one that hell be speaking on today, including, saving monticello, published by the free press in 2001. A book that received excellent reviews and offered the First Complete postjefferson history of this american icon. The book reveals an amazing story how one jewish family saved monticello for posterity and used the house as a family home for 89 years, which is longer than the tenure of the jeffersons at monticello. Mr. Leepsons newest book is flag an
See, looking at oakland. 62 in San Francisco. We are talking about the rest of the week including that weekends forecast. A few more cars hit the roadways. Still pretty lightly traveled. 20 minutes to go in the toll plaza. No delays on the upper deck into the city. Golden gate bridge looks good here. No fog opt golden gate. Traffic light north of. There well see some brake lights as you work your way south of 101. If you have road work there, only one lane will be available. So you will see some lights coming through. Crash here, south 101 and holly. Not causing a lot of delays. South of there, you will see some construction in the clearing stages. Where you see the brake lights, this is cloudy companies out of tracy. Heading into the altamonte pass heading towards the dublin interchange. People are rallying together in hopes of saving a cafi in San Francisco from evict the business thats been there for decades. Kpix 5 is there this morning on the fight to keep it open. Reporter caffe
Off. We are looking at markets this morning, firmer tone. 102 points higher, nasdaq up almost 50 points, all three majors rebound yesterday on trade and currency fears, beijing and washington still in stalemate with china digging in for drawnout fight, pretty good market yesterday, lindsey, your reaction . Yeah, im actually surprised the market is taking everything that we learned through the last couple of days in such good stride, again, today like you said at the top of the show you see the yuan being weakened. Not to the extent we saw sunday night which sent the market into kneejerk reaction. I think what we are seeing the two countries are in it for the long haul and i dont expect us to have any resolution before tend of the year and we go to a point of no return, we go too far and the Economic Impact around the global is really too, too far to come back from. Definitely stoke uncertainty, dagen. Dagen uncertainty that the Federal Reserve cant fix, uncertainty is the greatest enem
Michael welcome to the daily show im michael kosta. Weve got so much to talk about Summer Vacation is coming up, nikki haley is giving up, and the Supreme Court might face consequences. But dont worry, they wont face any consequences. So lets get into the headlines [cheers and applause] we start tonight with the fundamental battle of the ages. Not the one between good and evil. Evil won that immediately. Im talking about the fight between marijuana and alcohol. Alcohol has had the upper hand for decades, but now it appears that marijuana is pulling ahead. Well, for the first time ever, daily marijuana use is outpacing daily alcohol use. This is according to a new national study. Millions of people in the u. S. Report using Marijuana Daily or nearly every day, according to the National Survey on drug use and health. Those people now outnumber those who say they are daily or neardaily drinkers of alcohol. Michael thats right. Daily pot smokers are beating daily alcohol drinkers in the ra
Michael welcome to the daily show im michael kosta. Weve got so much to talk about Summer Vacation is coming up, nikki haley is giving up, and the Supreme Court might face consequences. But dont worry, they wont face any consequences. So lets get into the headlines [cheers and applause] we start tonight with the fundamental battle of the ages. Not the one between good and evil. Evil won that immediately. Im talking about the fight between marijuana and alcohol. Alcohol has had the upper hand for decades, but now it appears that marijuana is pulling ahead. Well, for the first time ever, daily marijuana use is outpacing daily alcohol use. This is according to a new national study. Millions of people in the u. S. Report using Marijuana Daily or nearly every day, according to the National Survey on drug use and health. Those people now outnumber those who say they are daily or neardaily drinkers of alcohol. Michael thats right. Daily pot smokers are beating daily alcohol drinkers in the ra