Across all lanes of traffic. The vehicle then rolled down this embankment, ejecting the man. I saw the debris on the highway, and i i immediately thought, well, thats not good because it was, like, you know, bumpers. Saturday mornings shooting is just one in a series of shootings on 80 near sam pablo, pinole, and richmond since november. All of these shootings have either wounded or killed someone. Rosa says from now on, she will be extra careful. Live here. Its really scary, you know. I i it makes you not want to even go out on the highway. Now, the chp does say that they do believe the man who was shot and killed was targeted. They also say that they are looking into the possibility that this was gang related, as well, as looking into the possibility that all of the rest of those shootings were also gang related. Reporting live tonight in richmond, scott, kron 4 news. All right. Scott, very unnerving for drivers. Two people are dead after a headon collision in the Castro Valley area.
Light. Afterwards airs every saturday at 10 00 p. M. And sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. You can watch all previous afterwards programs on our website at booktv. Org. As 2015 comes to a close many publications offer their recommendations for the best books of the year. Here is a look at some of the book the wall street journal suggests to its readers. Jonathan bordens american war lords looks at Franklin Roosevelts relationship with generals who helped win world war ii. In the fall of the ottomans, examines the middle east during the first world war. A manual jarrett, recalled the 1960 murder of the Prime Minister of the newly formed republic of the call and go. Although it was a cold war, the threat of military conflict throughout its existence, it was the non war, the single non war, the third world war which could have obliterated human and animal life on the entire planet. That is a look at some of the books the wall street journal recommends from over the past year. Booktv covered m
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. BookTv Television for serious readers. From my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when ones own interests or even ones own life is in peril. Growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the Second World War and greece that i always kept close to my heart. The first was in 1940 when Benito Mussolini italys Prime Minister asked the greek Prime Minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3 00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. It was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. It prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest figure of the 20th c
When i was growing up. My father was a plant geneticist so we found ourselves moving around quite a bit because he ended up going to places that focused on crop science. We spent some time in wales and then we moved back to india in 2007 and i spent a year there and for those of you who know a little bit about modern indian history, it was 1976 the year of the emergency rule a tough time for academics and there were a lot of restrictions on free speech. My father decided we have to get out of here so we ended up emigrating to the United States in 1977 and eventually ended up settling in setting california and that is where i grew up. Like i said my father was a plant geneticist. My mother was of biochemist who worked part time but mostly was of homemaker and she spent time raising s and they wanted me to become a doctor. In that generation especially among immigrant indians there was nothing more noble and better that you could do. Sort of coloring their vision was the fact that they h
Published as the president but a lot of stuff i didnt publish. One thing corry told me was the diary and write down the stuff that is interesting to you. So i did and i thought it was so important. When young doctors and aspiring writers asked me how do you get started . I say you have to record your reflections. I had been in school for 19 years. 19 years after graduating from high school. I had that quantum dot detour. So i was just ready to be done, and reap some rewards for all that all those sleepless nights and what i found was that doctors were very unhappy, and when youre in training, the focus is on the physiology and learning about the heart. Its not really about the culture of practice. So i was largely blinded to that. And then i took on my first role and im talking to doctors and i find theyre very unhappy with medical practice today. And it wasnt just about the stresses we all know. It upabout the paperwork and the malpractice fears and so on. It was a deeper problem. The