Reporter the conditions are good this morning. Cool temperatures, no winds, because otherwise, firefighters have a lot working against them. This is prime fire season. The fuel is drive and accessibility around here is near impossible. This fire started monday night when a building caught fire near Bear Creek Canyon road and deer creek road in Boulder Creek. Its 5 contained. It burned about 300 acres and four buildings. Not sure how many of those are homes. The fire is burning in steep terrain, dry fuel, leaves and brush. A lot of the strategy is to fight the fire from the sky with water drops and fire retardant. 150 homes are under evacuation orders today. I turned around and all of a sudden i saw the flames in the living room and i saw like a light. I took my stuff and ran. I got asked to leave about 1, 2 a. M. And i finally left at 7 a. M. I got my truck over there. Everything i own is in the truck over there. Reporter now, the evacuations going on in the middle of the night. Many t
I want to thank the foundation for supporting the initiatives where we do events that are science themed so we have a shout out to the assignments and i want to mention the amateur Astronomers Association in new york will be in the gardens with telescopes and helping to view the skies and the claim is that the clouds will clear write about exactly as we finish the last question and we will have a book signing for the glass universe so we will have a book signing and do qanda after the conversation. He introduced the guests. Im sure a lot of you have heard. I want to introduce the bestselling author and superb author when you spoke about your book longitude you said your son asked for what you are working on and he said nobody is going to read that. A best selling book and most recently galileos daughter is a popular book and marcel acknowledged in the Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2000 so that was quite an honor and then we have the glass universe we are here to talk about tonight which
I want to thank the Simons Foundation for supporting all of our initiatives here where we do private events, events that are science themed or science inspired and its really with the support that we are able to using these events, were excited to shout at simon. I want to mention before i do this, our guest is an amateur astronomer, he will be out in the cold gardens, applaud a lot louder. Hes out in the cold garden tonight and helping us and the claim is that the cloud sphere, is right about exactly as we sent it in the last question and also we will have a book signing for the glass universe so we will have signing over here and we will do a little q a after our conversation so let me introduce our guest. Im sure a lot of you have heard of our guests so i want to introduce david sobel. David sobel is a bestselling author, a superb writer. I remember when i heard you speak about your longitude, you said i think it was her son, asked you what you are working on and he started, i didnt
I just realized i didnt know if we did a sound check. If so glad to see everyone here. I love doing book events because weve got to keep us alive. Science books are the best. I want to think of the Simon Foundation for supporting all of our initiatives here where we do light events and private events that are science themed or science inspired. Its really with their support they were able to use these events to shout out to the simon. Woo hoo. I want to mention before i introduce our guest about the amateur Astronomers Association of new york will be out in the garden. [applause] its going to be out in the cold garden tonight with telescopes and helping us to view the skies and the claimant is that the clouds will clear write about exactly as we finish the last question. Will also have a book signing for the glass universe. Well have a book signing over here and do a little q a after our conversation. Let me introduce our guest. Im sure a lot of you have heard of our guest. I want to i
I just realized i didnt know if we did a sound check. If so glad to see everyone here. I love doing book events because weve got to keep us alive. Science books are the best. I want to think of the Simon Foundation for supporting all of our initiatives here where we do light events and private events that are science themed or science inspired. Its really with their support they were able to use these events to shout out to the simon. Woo hoo. I want to mention before i introduce our guest about the amateur Astronomers Association of new york will be out in the garden. [applause] its going to be out in the cold garden tonight with telescopes and helping us to view the skies and the claimant is that the clouds will clear write about exactly as we finish the last question. Will also have a book signing for the glass universe. Well have a book signing over here and do a little q a after our conversation. Let me introduce our guest. Im sure a lot of you have heard of our guest. I want to i