More than 50 u. S. Senators appealed for the release of political activists and journalists facing dangerous conditions in egypt presents. To the youth sports news the Los Angeles Dodgers are on their way to baseballs world series after completing a superb come from behind victory over the Atlanta Braves. So the number of people around the world to have contracted coronavirus has exceeded 40000000 a quarter of those are still active cases iran has reported its highest ever daily death toll at least 337 people have died of covert 900 over the past 24 hours and it brings the total number of fatalities up to more than 30000 and more than 10000000 cases have been reported across latin America Brazil argentina and colombia among the top. 10 worst hit countries in the world and other nations across europe including potent and italy are imposing more restrictions to tackle the new wave who factions wales is going into a nationwide lockdown for 2 weeks that starts on friday it is one of the wo
About your book, with something you wrote toward the end of your book, which i think is jumping off for your book, he right, i tell everyone the hardest job is to eulogize the life of someone who did nothing. My friends, is harder still to eulogize the lifeblood of the country who did nothing and then you say i beg of you, give me something to work with when your time comes and im standing before your family as they prepare to take me to god, let there be something worthy, something of merit you did for your fellow man that helped lift them. The name of your book is rise up, talk more about that, why it is imperative for people to give folks like you and the rest of us something to eulogize, to look up to. I think the definition of ones existence is what they do in life, at the end of life, the only thing that will matter is what you did beyond your own particular making and living and having material things. What was the value of your existence . Did it change anything, did it continu
I write mostly comic novels. We have written seven or eight of those. This book is a memoir probably the only memoir i will never write. I dont have that much to say. May be going out on thin i. C. E. I dont think i will write another book than this one in part because it is so singular in nature. About two Extraordinary People who provided me with some amazing material for a book. Host what was it like to write the book . I sat down shortly after i buried my father last year i woke up in the morning with no intention of writing a book and started writing a book and i wrote a in 40 days. Was accidental there was no biblical collusion but when i looked at the calendar i saw 40 days had lapsed. I work hard to on my writing. It wrote a lot of it itself but we pretty much poured out. Host were you surprised at what poured out . Yes. I think the first sentence read Something Like im not sure how this book is going to turn out. I was indeed surprised at how it turned out. Host thats exactly
And also tonight the reopening of businesses and several local counties. Lets start with the latest on the wildfires. New video from inside of the burn zone on the czu complex fire. Up against lots of flames. But many of the big redwoods are still standing. Containment now stands at 26 . In the last hour cal fire lifted more Evacuation Orders on the eastern edge of the fire. Were tracking two other massive fairs. The scu and it stands at 35 containment and the lnu complex in the north bay, containment stands at 35 as well. Well get back to our fire coverage in a moment. But we want to explain the new rules when it comes to the coronavirus. Today the governor introduced a new tier system when businesses can reopen. Here is how it works. It is a lot to digest. Each county is assigned to one of the four tiers. It is color coated. They are based on the rate of new cases and the Positivity Rate. You could see here the criteria each county needs to meet. They have to stay in the tier for thr
Under the Circle Mission with the Community Working for social justice and encouraging diverse and marginalized, all through the virtual formats, we feel very fortunate that we have the privilege of talking to authors who live around the country during this time and we feel it is really significant that we continue to do the programming that we are to have scheduled because folks need history as we move through this historic time. There is really no, i cannot give a better book to help us focus on what the movement on right now and what we can do right now, and the books of 1962 and 2015. We have the editor here, michael and pam who is a lifelong collaborator for justice in his widow we hope will be on soon, shes having technical difficulties. Im going to invite you to settling and make yourself at home and we will get to some questions in the chat, please keep your cell phone and you can turn your camera on, you do not have to turn it on but were just going to enjoy some time with mic