Misread strangers words and actions. Many of these authors have appeared on book tv and you can watch them online at booktv. Org. Book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress about their reading list. So senator marsha blackburn, what is on your reading list . Mall come gladwell, and im just i was so jealous last week. My husband and son attended a breakfast where he was speaking, and of course ive Read Everything that he has written and followed his columns for years. So long with blink blink and outliers and the others ive new downlead on my win del, talking to strangers and just a little bit into it, but totally intrigued. Ive also made certain that i have my 2020 farmers almanac downloaded, and im looking at that. You cant beat good reading when it comes the farmers almanac. Its just i love it. And i keep track of it. Im a gardener, and love being outdoors, and so you got to have the farmers almanac. What kind of information do you get from that . Weather. A lot
Sackett definitely was. No not very much but ira written, he said he was in a run and i thought he wasnt running and certainly that was in my book and he doesnt run but he has an impact on the century on this country and all of a sudden these droplets of rain storm started about two weeks ago. Selected mr. Bloomberg anticipate and biography. He took questions, he allowed me to interview people i wanted to interview and talk to him several times. I followed him around a lot. But also written about in who almost 12 years. On and off who 12 years. As a member of the New York Times Editorial Board who had met note a lot of editorials about him when he was mayor of new york. How to get a start. He came from a very small sort of workingclass family in massachusetts. His father did not give him Million Dollars news in the third greg. If at his father, may not sure his father made it to see Something Like 5000 and then sometimes it was 8000 and then, but anyway, he went to Johns Hopkins, and h
At ross. Yes for less. We owe it to our constituents to act. There ceo of pg e sent his own letter to the cpuc, the state regulators, saying he understands the hardship but folks should, quote, keep in mind the statistic that matters the most,er hugeincial incentive to go bigger than they need to. We want them to be surgical. Reporter state senator scott wiener also wants pg e to be more competent and accountable. Pg e is so used to getting its way. Theyre completely tone deaf here. Their ceo continues to just blanket the scale of the blackout affecting millions of people. Theyre not selfaware of how impactful in a negative way their actions far. The cpuc has called for emergency hearings that begin at 1 00 tomorrow. Joe vazquez, kpix 5. Fire watch. Ye a fire that broke n video juste newsroom. Its about 10 acres. Part of highway 29 remains closed at this hour. Some people in the area told to evacuate but those orders have now been lifted. Right now theres a high surf advisory. It does
It is the portrait of a predator. Thank you for being here and thank you for coming out it is the portrait of a predator. Thank you for being here and thank you for coming out. Over the last year i have read several books the american spirit by David Mccullough and a little bit of history and a time for truth if you can keep it. David and goliath by Malcolm Gladwell and the power behind and andy andrews. They are nine of them. How do you select the books that you read quick. It varies. Biographies and history i tell people smart people learn from their mistakes but brilliant people learn from other peoples mistakes thats what im interested in biographies because its not about dates and names and others but its experiences just as important or more important to learn to learn from other peoples mistakes. On vacation im not much of a beach guy i take a bag full of books and i go through them pretty quick i read on the plane anytime i can find a quiet place with a hot tea that i can read.
I know more about steelworkers than anybody thats ever run for office. I know the h1b. I know the h2b. Nobody knows it better than me. A lot of people dont realize abraham lincoln, the great abraham lincoln, was a republican. laughter i love the poorly educated laughter its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, not so sharpie plus, stephen welcomes Vice President joe biden. And musical guest pixies. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen hello how are you . Jon please have a seat, everybody. Thank you very much. Welcome, welcome, one and all, to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. The big story the big story continues to be Hurricane Dorian, which, as we speak, is churning towards my hometown of charleston, south carolina, which is under a mandatory evacuation. I hope everyone down there stays safe. Dorian devastated the bahamas over the weekend. And we a