Introduce myself first. So you know not who to complain to later. My name is gregg barrios. Former book editor of the express news, worked for many years and los angeles for the Los Angeles Times. Ive written for the new york times, currently i write for the los angeles review of books. I am on the board of directors for the National Book critics circle. Im also the author of the book of poetry that deals with cute its called look house. This time i would like to introduce iowa miriam pawel. She is the former Pulitzer Prize winner and spent 25 years working at news day and the Los Angeles Times. Her book, the crusades of Caesar Chavez, a biography is the First Comprehensive biography of the iconic leader. She is also written the union of their dreams, a widely acclaimed and nuanced history of Caesar Chavez united form workers move. She recently received the National Endowment for the fellowship to support her work in the chavez biography. Please welcome miriam pawel. applause thank you
Lost more than 1 trillion in market value. And an 8. 5 drop in shanghai last night. Wiping out chinese gains for the year. Jim, what is the story today . I think it is china. What id like to do because its a terrible market. It reads something that is in keeping with that. I sent tim cook an email trying to understand covering apple because that is a crucial part of it. And tim sent me this this morning right before the show. Ill read it. As you know, we dont give mid quarter updates, and he rarely comment on losing apple stock but i know your question is on the minds of many investors. I get updates on china today including thing and we have continued to experience strong growth for our business in china through july and august. Growth in iphone has dproen and weve had the best performance in the app store over the last few weeks. I cant predict the future but our prediction is reassuring. China presents an opportunity over the long term and the growth of the middle class over the nex
Things in their past that seat things in their past that justify the things they have done that are terrible but in reality, it is the people who deal with life and go on to do good things that we should lord, rather than making its qcs for people who behave like this. Do you think it is Making Excuses rather than understanding . Making excuses. They are saying, he had a good background, how could he become a violentjihad . Good background, how could he become a violent jihad . All the good background, how could he become a violentjihad . All the newspapers have done this. He was reportedly abusing cocaine and steroids, 20 year history of violence and abuse, radicalised in prison. 0ne year history of violence and abuse, radicalised in prison. One of the other newspapers is saying that his first wife fled his home after weeks after being attacked. If he was not called the lead must suit and was not responsible for this attack, if he was a dream, 52, perpetrating some other violent act o
Background, the context is the theater. This was an act that occurred in a theater, by an actor, with other actors standing by. And i wanted to look at it through the eyes of those people. And when i was working on the president s book and i was working on the lincoln chapters, i kept coming across this iconic playbill for our american cousin. I looked at it and i kept thinking, these are real people most of whose names have been lost. I mean, if you asked people on the street who the people were involved with the lincoln assassination, certainly people know lincoln, they know booth, maybe 1 in 10,000 would know laura keene. But almost no one would know the names john dyott, harry hawk, billy withers. These were major names in the events of that night. So i started looking even closer to get a sense of, who were these people . I began to find in some cases their names were spelled wrong or the names were a misrepresentation. In some cases its really difficult tracking down actors, beca
From Michelle Carusocabrera in a few minutes, but first andrew is here with the top stories. Thank you, becky. Hope everyone had a great weekend. In corporate headlines we have a big one, netflix need for speed at the center of the big deal. A new deal with our Parent Company comcast. The two sides have struck a deal under which netflix is paying comcast for faster delivery of the video streaming service. This marks the first such agreement for netflix and is sparking speculation that other content providers may also strike similar deals. Were going to talk a lot about this throughout the program with a lot of implications, also potentiality time warner. And the whatsapp suffering an outage it blamed on a malfunctioning networking router. The founder there issues an apology to 450 million users of the service. Last week facebook bought whatsapp in a deal that could be up to 19 billion. Im wondering if there were a lot of people who didnt know what whatsapp was and caused a problem. And