Returning to selma. The powerful moment the body of civil rights icon john lewis passes over the Edmund Pettus bridge one last time and the tribute from Martin Luther kings daughter. Also this morning, meet the 99yearold woman who is not just a pilot, shes also a Flight Instructor. And from the 120pound st. Bernard rescued from a mountaintop to the black bear desperately trying to cool off in the backyard, all the trending videos to kick off your monday morning. Good monday morning. Im mona kosar abdi. And im alex presha. Kenneth moton is off. We begin with breaking news. A hurricane threatening hawaii right now. Hurricane douglas has been swirling in the pacific fewer than 100 miles off the coast of oahu as a category 1 storm. Officials said overnight theyre optimistic but said hawaii is not out of the woods yet. Heavy rain and winds battered maui sunday. Forecasters say douglas will likely remain a hurricane as it moves past the islands. Meanwhile, in texas hurricane hanna lashed the
Hi. Thanks for turning out. Im laura miller and im the books and culture columnist for slate. Com. This is another social social distancing social from future tense in partnership with a partnership of slate, new america foundation, and Arizona State university. Today we talking about the future of books, and im joined by priscilla painton, who is Vice President and executive editor of simon and shuster and brandon tensley, a writer for cnn politics. Hi, i priscilla and brandon. You have to up mute. Nice to be here. Thanks for having us. When i was asked to sort of moderate this, one of the things it brought up brought to mind are brought up in my memory is how in the early 2000s it seemed like everywhere you went there was like a Panel Discussion of the future of books and peopling making predictions but the future of books and how things had to change and which they needed to go, and that was all tied to the emergence of ebooks and ebook technology. Most of the people said at that ti
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Anybody want to sever any items . Yes, please. Item number 49. Anybody else want to sever . Seeing none did somebody Say Something . Madam clerk, go ahead and take role call on the remainder of the items. Items 5055. role call . Mr. Mar, did your audio go out . If thats the case, we should pause. Madam clerk, supervisor mar looks like he dropped off of the rotter anroster. Well pause for a moment and take his vote. pause . Supervisor mar just arrived back in the meeting. Continue the role call. Now. Aye. Ok. Then you were muted, madam clerk, but without objection, then, items these resolutions are adopted and everything passes. Lets go to item 49. Item 49 is a resolution to support California State Senate bill 939 authored by senator scott weiner and david chu to protect businesses and nonprofit organizations for evictions and permits, Small Businesses or restaurants that decline during the shelterin place. Supervisor stephanie. Today i have to make a motion to table this resolution af
He writes trumps conversations with xi, referring to the chinese president , reflected not only the incoherence in his trade policy also the confluence in trumps mind of his own political interests and u. S. National interests. Trump copling manied permit and national not just on trade questions but across the whole field of National Security. Im hard pressed to identify any significant trump decision during my white house tenure that wasnt driven by reelection calculations. Now, Martha Radditz with abc news has the first sitdown interview with the former National Security adviser that will air sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern time. Network released a clip of her interview. Here is john bolton talking about Vladimir Putins perception of President Trump. How would you describe trumps relationship with Vladimir Putin . I think putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle. I think putin is smart, tough. I think he sees that hes not faced with a serious adversary here. I dont think hes worried a