Note. At the news of his passing president obama tweeted e. L. Doctorow was one of americas greatest novelists. He taught me much and he will be missed. The prizes he won include National Humanities level, the saul bellow award for achievement in american fiction, and the National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to american letters. Joining me now is my great friend, kate medina, she was his editor at random house and knew him well as a writer and as a friend. So we are especially pleased to have her come here this evening and talk about her friend and the man she had the great pleasure to edit, e. L. Doctorow. Welcome. You said in an interesting way through books and characters i will never forget, he showed us americas great flaws and its astonishing promise and our own. So where is his place in American Literature . Kate for me, it is right at the top. It was exhilarating, always to read him and one of the things i loved most about edgar as a writer was he was a
Kochs belief in a free and Prosperous Society. And going back to some of the last panel which i thought was excellent as well talking about removing obstacles for opportunity talking about disadvantaged, the poor. If you want to help the poor, as we do, i think probably everybody in this room does, everybody on this panel does. Theres no better way than to reform our criminal Justice System because they are the most adversely impacted by that system that is so broken. So thats one part of it. The other part is we had some negative experiences ourselves with the criminal Justice System. Back in the mid90s. That we learned from. And we wanted to see whatever we learned and how the process went for us. If its happening to a big company with a lot of resources like us whats happening to the Small Business owners whats happening to the average citizen, whats happened to the average joe in the street out there, and so that got us involved working with the nacdl, National Association of crimi
And the heat bounces off of the smoke particles which increases the temperatures. Plenty of other records set across the bay area. 1 110 in santa rosa. Most of these records were way back in the 1950s. So tedecades here. Put it into perspective here, las vegas had 103 for the high. And the desert hot air sitting over the desert. Concord was 114. Tracking more on this heat and how the trend is going to play out on your saturday forecast. Full details coming up in 15 minutes. Hotter than las vegas. Take a look at how hot it is. Jodi hernandez tweeting out this photo. She continues our coverage from livermore. What are you seeing there . Reporter it has been scorching here in livermore. We witnessed a heat emergency right here in downtown livermore. It is taking a dangerous toll on many. Paramedics in livermore say they are responding to call after call of heat exhaustion. Hard time breathing and being overheated. Reporter nothing to mess around with . Absolutely not. Reporter allergy sym
The hallowed walls of tinseltown. Tonight, double oscar winning actor Emma Thompson gives me a full and frank assessment of how rife the problem is, how the culture of couch casting has worked. And of what needs to change before this kind of problem becomes an anachronism. I spoke to her in westminster this evening and asked if weinstein was somebody she would have called a friend. No which is the understatement of the century. I only had Business Contact with him because miramax owned nanny mcphee for a while and were very difficult about his bullying patterns, which also existed in his business world. So my main contact was shouting at him down the phone that i never wanted to work with him ever, ever, ever. So when i came into rooms where he was, which often happened, he would look. Well, actually, frightened. I think that is the sort of thing that happens, if you call out a bully on their behaviour, they tend to avoid you. You called him out for being a bully to women . Yeah, no, n
How the fbi tracked down the Fitness Instructor and air force veteran tying her to those documents as her distraught parents speak out. And its a boy and a girl. George and amal clooney becoming firsttime parents, the 56yearold actor and human rights lawyer welcoming twins, alexander and ella. The hilarious baby announcement and the special gifts from their famous friends and family. Good morning, america. Such happy news for the clooney family. Yes, it is, george, becoming a father, not one baby, but two at 56 years old. Nothing wrong with having a baby at 56. George, throwing a hint out there. Good luck. All right. Thats all i have to say. Congratulations, as well. We have a lot of news to get to including a brandnew poll on the russia investigation that reveals six in sen americans think trump fired comey to protect himself rather than the good of the country coming one day before comey testifies on capitol hill and well have much more ahead. A lot of anticipation for that. We begin