I am laura shepard, director of events and im pleased to welcome you to our author event for comers new book grothman. In conversation with San Francisco columnist, we are pleased to have them here for the first time. I would like to find out how many of you have been to the Mechanics Institute before and how many are new . Please come back and we will give you a free tour of the library and show you the Incredible Library on the second and third floors. The International Chess club is down the hallway and we will tell you about our history. We were founded in 1854 and at the Mechanics Institute we have ongoing author events like this one, the International Chess club with their ongoing lectures and tournaments and book clubs and writers groups and on friday nights, we hope you will join us for all our cultural events. I would like to introduce our guest Roland De Wolk, an Investigative Reporter in print, broadcast and online journalism and a historian university adjunct and author. Du
They dont expect those to fundamentally change their findings that vaping is simply not good for your health. A man that allegedly stabbed his girlfriend and kidnapped their young daughter in san jose has been arrested. New cell phone video shows him being arrested. People recognized his car from an amber alert, saw the 2yearold inside, and the bystanders physically restrained him until police came and took over. It was unbelievable. He hit the window twice, trying to break in. Finally a guy bear hugged him from behind, and i took the rock away. He likely will face charges of attempted murder. Police say he fled from his girlfriends home after stabbing her last night. The victim is the little girls mother. She is in the hospital in critical but stable condition. Child protective services is working to reunite her with her family. The investigation is still ongoing. Chopper 5 over the scene of a fatal crash. 2 white suvs collided just before noon. It appears one of the cars rear ended t
Interview Prince Andrew talks about his relationship with jeffrey epstein. Agents of change. The fbi marks a century since hiring their first africanamerican special at as we get rare access to the bureaus archives. See how lessons from the past are impacting today. Street smarts for 50 years sesame street has been a trail blazer in television. Well talk with the creators and characters to make us smarter, stronger and kinder. We begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We have more testimony, more testimony, witness to nothing. This has to be the worst day of the presidency for donald trump. President trumps tweets hang over impeachment testimony. I think its considered a joke. Never before has a president publicly attacked a impeachment witness at the moment they were testifying. Its very intimidating. Do you think youll get impeached . I shouldnt be. Prince andrew has answered questions for the first time about his relationship with jeffrey epstein. It wa
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At the end of the day, 31 democrats joined all of the republicans in the vote to begin the impeachment inquiry into president clinton. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story, as we take book tv and American History tv on the road, with support from our spectrum cable partners. This weekend we traveled to laramie, wyoming. Coming up in the next hour and 10 minutes, well experience the history of this western city with a population of about 32,000. In about 10 minutes, well learn about senator Allen Simpson through his papers at the American Heritage center. After that, a tour of the wyoming territorial prison, where outlaws of the wild west were held, including Butch Cassidy. And later, we visit the deerwood ranch wild horse ecosanctuary to hear about its relationship with the bureau of Land Management. We begin our special feature with a visit to a mansion to hear about the early days of the city. Were in the mansion that edward ivenson built in 1892, and it is now the h