Nuclear strike is always on the table in my office. You should clearly know this is certainly not a threat but rather a reality. Oh, little rocketman has a little Nuclear Button on his litinlittle desk. How dear. Our dear layered and his speedy hot dock thumbs couldnt let that jab fly so the president tbeeted, quote, north korea president said that the Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times. Would somebody from his regime please inform him that i too have a Nuclear Button but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his and my button works. Great. Now we have a button swinging contest and hundreds of thousands of people might die because a couple of blow hards are in a twitter fight. So this is either the end of the world as we know it, and i dont feel fine, or the president and his genius has stumbled on to the only way to get the world strait from a Nuclear Armed sweet cheese [ bleep ] to childish taunts that will some day shame kim jongun to death. The upside is kim takes
President ial campaign, and books on the decline of intellectual habits, a movement by former gang members to rebuild their families and lives and a dual biography of Andrew Jackson and cherokee leader john ross. All this and more this weekend on booktv. For a complete television schedule, visit booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours this weekend of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Historian Sally Mcmillen is next on booktv. She recounts the life of abolitionist and suffragist lucy stone who she contends should be celebrated amongst the likes of susan b. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady stanton for her activism. Its now my distinct honor and privilege to introduce dr. Sally mcmillen who is the Mary Reynolds babcock professor of history at Davidson College in North Carolina. She earned her ph. D. At duke university, and along the way we learned today got a degree in library science. She has been one of the most important and productive scholars of 19th century womens histo
Fema one call from the administrator brock long as well as the secretary of Homeland Security, elaine duke. That phone call about more ways in which the tate of texas will be fema and the with federal government, and that will be part of the material that i cover today. Long briefing that i will want to break out in a lot as you know, ause theres a lot going on. What is discussing also on in houston, but will be covering the ongoing challenges that we are dealing of the other parts state. Weather. T with the you all probably know and have seen a lot of briefing about the weather. One thing that we are dealing here is basically a ongoing rain, that stretches one tip of which would e the Corpus Christi up to Travis County over to chambers county, and then back to Corpus Christi. Arts of those regions will continue to receive incredibly heavy rain that will lead to flooding and more danger for texans. And so many other areas n that region will sustain heavy rainfall. Focusize theres a lot
Designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. The mayor of houston had a message for his constituents in the nations fourth largest city today please, stay off the roads. The warning came as Hurricane Harvey still classified as a Tropical Storm dumped torrential rainfall on the texas coast along the gulf of mexico. Two days after making landfall as a category four hurricane friday night, harvey has weakened, but with little relief for millions of texans. At least five deaths are blamed on the storm. An estimated 300,000 texans are without power today. Parts of Southeast Texas expect a cumulative 50 inches of rain, the most ever recorded in the
As the disaster unfolds in a city and state under siege. Nightly news from houston begins right now. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from houston. Good evening. The nations fourth biggest city is a city of islands tonight. Neighborhoods straited by rising flood waters in the face of an unprecedented amount of rain. Stalled Tropical Storm hor have i still tormenting the region two days after coming ashore as a hurricane. At least two people have died because of the storm, including one here in houston where rainfall amounts could reach 50 inches, 50, before its over. Tonight, 3,000 National Guard members are deployed across the disaster zone from houston to corpus christi. As crews move mounds of debris in the areas that took direct hits from harvey, tonight it is water that has this city on its heels. Too much of it too quickly and no place for it all to go. And not since katrina have we seen so many dramatic rescues. Urban water rescues. People desperate to