Sandhya patel. Every drop is welcome. Absolutely. Earlier in the day today, the showers came in sooner than expected. But its okay. Let me show you what it looks like right now. People on social media are talking about how i received a few hundredths. I got a little bit to water my garden. But people in the north bay are saying, what about us . Guess whats showing up near our radar site . Were starting to see the atmosphere moistening up around santa rosa. None of this is actually reaching the ground yet, but soon enough you will see your share that youve been waiting for so patiently. You do see some moisture just southwest of monterey, and that will continue to feed in off the ocean. Thats what ear waiting for. We will see more showers developing in the next few hours. If you take a look at how much weve received, nothing in the north bay to five huhths hundredths. And in half moon pay, three hundredths. We will be counting additional rainfall and ill be back to let you know what you
On drugs people rarely change their mind to say that is wrong but that criminalization of marijuana is probably next then gayrights it is not that i feel oppressed ive lived in l. A. [laughter] but you hear how they dont have morals. At all conversations coming up next on booktv after words, White House Correspondent april ryan recounts her 25 year career in journalism at the president ial administration shes covered. Shes interviewed by anne compton former White House Correspondent for abc news. Host april ryan i dont think any africanamerican reporter has covered the white house as long as you have and now you have taken the clintonbush 43 and obama years and have written about them through the prism of something important your listeners on the networks and that is the Race Relations in the United States and i have to ask you when you first arrived at the white house in 1997 did you imagine that you would ever be there to cover the first africanamerican president . We have seen unsuc
I could never explain to him. He was there and he saw what happened at dachau, but he cannot understand why i cannot believe in a god. When i took over on faith, when i started on faith, i had absolutely no particular faith or beliefs. I was an angry atheist. I was mad at god. Even though i did not believe in god. I was really mad that this person, this thing, this idea that people worshipped, could create so much suffering on earth. And by the way, as of today, i have still yet to hear anyone who is religious explain to me in a way that makes sense why there is suffering on earth, if there is a god, an allpowerful, allknowing, all loving god. How could there possibly be suffering . That has always been a problem for me. Jon meacham, who is a great friend of mine, a religion scholar, and i had a great debates about this. About the time i started the website, we were having lunch and he said you are not really an atheist. I said, yes, i am. At the end of three hours, he said, i will tel
Started on faith over seven years ago, i was an atheist. , this was notere your first, why did you say you were in atheist . I had been in atheist most of my life. I became an atheist when i was about 4. Id always been taught to say my prayers, i pray the lord my soul to keep. The my father was in military and he was in germany during world war ii and he limit and he liberated dachau had the Staff Photographer takes pictures of the holocaust victims. He made scrapbooks out of them which are at the Holocaust Museum museum. She brought them home. I looked at the photographs and i thought it cannot be a god. This happen . Od let thats when i stopped believing in god. I did not know the word if he is a but i just a new idea not believe in god. I learned the word atheist when i was 13. I told my father and he went completely crazy. Even on his deathbed, i was with, when he died and one of the last things he said it was, please do not to be an atheist. I could never explained to him. He was
It. What people might want to read in the newspaper if you are writing a solid story that you know is a responsible news story that should be in the paper, but you also know it will not get a lot of traffic, you may not be as enthusiastic as writing about paris hilton. Which of your stories has gotten the biggest response . I did a column about suffering and how no one gets a pass and we all suffer. That seemed to resonate. People really responded to that in a way i was stunned. People stopped me on the street. Their eyes welled up with tears telling me their stories. It was interesting because i was talking to my editor and talking to him about my feelings about suffering. He said you have to write that. At first, i got you would be happy to know the productive aging award from the center for Jewish Center for something i cannot remember the name of the organization. It is a very good organization. And so i gave a speech to them and they honored me at this dinner. I gave a speech. It