Remarkable places and events like this are really remarkable opportunities we have. I always like to start with these events especially on nights when we are inviting remarkable writers into our midst to talk a little bit about the shop. First i want to talk about richard bell tonight who is a scholar and writer, beautiful writer. This particular book really jumps in with this incredibly human picture of a young boy and from that moment i knew i was in short creative hands as well as scholarly hands. He is educated at cambridge and harvard and beloved professor at the university of maryland. One of the Major University system of maryland awards. I think if there is a round of applause as well its for people educating the next generation of people to have a sense of our history and a sense of what it means as human beings in the world but also particularly americans and someone from elsewhere dedicated to helping us mind history. He is a 2017 public scholar after the National Endowment
Moment. And the back and forth at the rose bowl. Georgia and oklahoma taking it to double overtime. But only one is heading to the National Championship game. It is tuesday, january 2nd. From abc news, this is world news now. The best laid plans, we thought all right, well have a beautiful shot of all the people in times square suffering through the cold at this hour. Yeah. And there goes laura and becky. They seem to be freezing, dont they . The overnight temperatures. Oh, theres sam and joe. Sam, yeah. Yeah. This just means that people in new york, both tourists and locals are smarter. Smart enough to know if its 15 degrees overnight. Im going to stay inside. Exactly. A large part of the country is dealing with the cold gripping the nation. We are seeing temperatures as low as any in the past century, even in the middle of the night. You saw the two people in its in the teens right now in new york city and it feels like minus six. Yeah. So later this morning it will feel like 20 belo
Maybe hes been reading some of those relationship books because he knows women like sensitive men. He tries that approach. Can i show you something . Whips out a blog of his where hes getting very emotional, starts to cry, and just gets weird. Im sorry. Cant even hold it together. I love that hes impressed by his own comedy. I know the feeling. Hes not alone, though. Hes got, i dont know, lets call him steve. Steve the serial killer. Hey. I have a date for two and a pez with your name on it. Youre telling me heelies and pez dont work except when youre at school . Elementary school. Exactly. Hey. Then the other guy gets involved. Kind of screwed that one up back there. Its a vlog. He keeps laughing at his own joke. I would have started laughing hysterically. I think honestly theyre just scared to engage him. Hello, cutie. Grimacing as he walks away. If youre wondering how not to pick up women on the street, this is the video to watch. Can i show you a cool little number . Okay. That was
These flames. Many of the cars just burst into flames due to the intense heat from that one fire. It ended up putting virtually the entire parking garage up in flames. 1400 cars. Luckily no serious injuries reported. A thousand cars. 1,400. Back here in the u. S. , theres a brandnew champion for the me too movement. Gretchen carlson is taking over. Heres abcs linsey davis. Miss america is Gretchen Carlson. Reporter here she is, Gretchen Carlson, the 1989 winner is taking over the pageant after sam haskell resigned after leaked emails exposing alleged crude, sexist and derogatory comments. 2013 miss America Mallory hagan belittled for her weight and love life. Having someone bully you, belittle you, demain you, degrade you in any way is not okay. Reporter both she and carlson are among the 50 former miss americas who demanded haskell and others step down, describing a toxic environment, something carlson says she experienced first hand at fox news. You fear youre not going to be believe
What they were doing when they made the discovery. And while were you sleeping, the first day of summer happened. So how do you celebrate the first day of summer on good day philadelphia . Well, you throw a pool party. Where do you get the pool . Yes, ask your friends to build a pool at fourth and market. Alex is already in. This is one big pool. Everybody in the pool. Now, what do you need for a pool . You need recepticle, a tank. Yes. Do you need water . Yes, i would say you need little water, yes. There is no water. Come on down, hey, jeff, can you help alex out . So come on down to fourth and market. By the way, weaver special lifeguard watching overall of us, let me block that shot. Let me go the other way. Do you have your suit on already . Birthday suit, i think i saw something. Oh, start the water. Here we go. Oh, here comes the water, my phones still in there. Oh, no, get your phone, oh, no. We cant reach it. Oh, your phones in there. There we go. Common lets do this. Nice sav