Washington post columnist, thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead as our guest. His most recent book is the under ground railroad. Mr. Whitehead, whats the appropriate response new book is appraised by oprah, president obama, you won the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . If only it took the pain aw away. [laughter] has taken off in a way thats unexpected and startling and wonderful. Just try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years doing fiction 20 some years, sometimes we write a book and people dig it and understand it sometimes write a book and no one cares and its sort of disappears so i have the pride the job i did with the book. Either you dig the groups of two prospectors or you dont and so you are either along for the ride description or not. Definitely when i was writing was my second attempt at a novel. My fir
As he urges all americans to get on board second night chaos in Wisconsin Police fired tear gas at police and protesters clash for a second night of protests in the wake of that shooting of a black man in front of his protesters who defied a curfew children and shot fireworks at police 125 members of the National New Video of the confrontation guard were activated there on sunday police shot emerging with growing calls for 29yearold jacob blake in the charges against the officers involved back as his children watched onetwo punch. Blakes family has said he is in after marco makes landfall along serious but stable condition the gulf, all eyes now on laura california firefighters are set to strengthen into a major making some progress this morning against dozens of hurricane later today. Wildfires burning across that millions of americans in its path state. Forecasters yesterday canceled a al is tracking it. Red flag warning about dry lightning and strong winds that coronavirus concern.
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Weekend. Our roadmap begins with the record setting week. What are the risks to the rally . Plus tesla on a tear, set to open at record high after topping 2,000 for the first time. And democrats demanding answers, the embattled postmaster general testifying this hour amid a political furor surrounding policy changes ahead of the november election guys, its going to be an interesting morning to sort of take stock of where weve been over the past couple of days the s p all time high, apple 2 trillion, scott, tesla 2 k even though b of a this morning says that weekly outflows look like they may be the biggest in about 15 weeks despite some of these new highs. Maybe this is the week, carl, where technology said, do you know what, wait a minute, not to fast, growth, not to fast, value. Ever been has been coming out of the woodwork trying to make these calls that there is going to be this great rotation, carl, from growth into value stocks and these cyclical and epicenter names as tom lee ha
Building a better bay ar, whta as a peaceful show of solidarity with protesters in portland took a violent turn. Oakland cleaning up after windows were smashed and buildings hit with graffiti. Hello, thanks for joining us. Im eric thomas. And im dion lim. A night of unrest after a protest march threw downtown calling for Racial Justice turned violent. There were clashes with Oakland Police and a fire was set at the Alameda County courthouse. Abc7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard has images and reaction. Police say demonstrators set fire inside the Alameda County courthouse in oakland saturday night. Sky 7 captedth f set outside the building. The Fire Department put both fires out quickly. Windows were broken here and at a nearby apartment building. At Oakland Police headquarters a group kicked down barricade. People are very upset. Vanessa dub joined the protests in support of black lives matter and police reform. And against federal agents being deployed to portland, oregon. There were g