Laughing with the stars and. Skinny dipping in the himalayas choose wi fi, choose snapchat, choose a pre ordered macchiato with almond milk, choose likes, choose follows, choose pizza delivered by drone, swipe right, swipe left, follow, follow, follow. We are constantly being bombarded with updates, tweets, information and fake news. Were glued to our phones, addicted to digital status. Were even smashing up our gadgets, obliterating them to pieces in a violent quest to rid ourselves of these virtual assistants. Our self imposed restraints. Well, its time to get away from all that, just for a few minutes. This week, Justin Rowlatt travelled thousands of miles to a village in the himalayas which is getting electricity for the very first time by enhancing the power of the sun. Ivejoined a team hiking up the frozen zanskar river. Weve got an eight day 140 kilometre trek ahead of us. Our destination hanamur village. It has around 50 people, its four houses huddled together under granite cl
University doesnt do enough to help victims. I felt very attacked about two years after brock turner was convicted to convert the assault site. Without emilys voice here, without her decision and her quote that she chose here it is partially meaningless that stanford made this. Now just as this event was getting underway i got a statement for stanford. They are absolutely against Sexual Violence and created this space as a way to embrace suggestions made by emily does representatives. They did reject her quotes as inconsistent and even troubling. The University Says it offered several alternative quotes but were told by her representatives that she was no longer interested in a quote. Well have a complete update at our 11 00 newscast. Nbc bay area news. Thank you. Following news out of oakland. Historic building went up in flames. Youre looking at sky ranger video from 90 minutes ago showing the fire its on miller avenue near 14th. This used to be a library on the National Historic reg
After a passenger plane crashed in the south west of iran. President trump criticises the fbi for missing Warning Signals about Wednesdays School shooting, describing it as unacceptable. Harry potter star emma watson gives £1 million to a new campaign aimed at making uk workplaces safe for women. The donation comes as nearly 200 stars sign a letter calling for an end to Sexual Harassment at work. Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week, dancing with the stars, laughing with the stars and. Skinny dipping in the himalayas choose wi fi, choose snapchat, choose a pre ordered macchiato with almond milk, choose likes, choose follows, choose pizza delivered by drone, swipe right, swipe left, follow, follow, follow. We are constantly being bombarded with updates, tweets, information and fake news. Were glued to our phones, addicted to digital status. Were even smashing up our gadgets, obliterating them to pieces in a violent quest to rid ourselves of these virtual assistants. Our self
In the main reading room. It lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. That is the way it should be, but scholars are really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the Madison Building is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts collection is, and there are 60 million items. This is from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jeff Flannery, an old friend of the society in particular friend of scholars who work in American History, like my former colleagues and i. For 40 years, put together a document history project, and it brought us to jeff virtually every week. He and his staff helped us produce those volumes. Jeff is the head of the reference and services section. He has been in the management for 31 years, and that is all i will say. I know you are mu
Im a librarian at the library of congress. All day here at the library from the National Book festival we are recognizing and celebrating the importance of authors and books. The oklibrary of congress does this every year but the truth is, the National Book festival is a huge undertaking. Its a huge financial undertaking. And it has been made possible by generous support from our sponsors. You can see who they are in your program and on the video monitors around the convention center. We take it for granted this event will continue to exist so i would ask you to consider making a contribution right now using your cell phone. You can send a text to make a onetime gift that will be r added to your mobile phone bill. Details on the screen on the back of your program, and as soon as you initially making that contribution, please silence cyour cell phone. And now on to the main event, id like to introduce cochair of the National Book festival, david rubenstein. [applause] we are very honore