Tv television for serious readers. Good evening everyone and welcome to politics and prose im Bradley Graham the coowner of the store. We are delighted to have joshua hamare humor with us. He was here for his last book about four years ago and that one of course was very popular and it told a riveting story of how an archivist in timbuktu in northern mali managed with some very brave helpers to smuggle more than three and 50,000 historical manuscripts out from under militant jihadists. Someone with an eye for some really truly great stories. And hes done it again with his new book the falcon thief the falcon thief another true and gripping tale this one about wildlife smuggling. Generalist working for newsweek over nearly two decades. They joined them in the 1980s. Within a few years he was off to cover the rest of the world. With things that were in nairobi. On back here in the u. S. For the past decade cade and a half hes continued to report and traveled widely four years ago he won
Statement good evening everybody and welcome. I am the coowner of the store along with my wife and we are delighted to have joshua hemmer back with this at p p. Joshua was here for his last book, about four years ago, and i would of course was the bad librarian in timbuktu which told the riveting story of how an art you fist in timbuktu managed with a very brave helper to smuggle more than three or 50000 historical manuscripts out from under miltons to safety about 600 miles away. The book was a best seller and established josh as someone and i truly believe it was a great story. And he said to begin, with his new book, the falcon thief which has another true and gripping tale of adventure. But this one about wildlife. And josh is a journalist by training and had a pretty adventurous globetrotting run himself working for newsweek over nearly two decades. He joined newsweek in the late 1980s as a Business Media writer and within a few years, he was asked to cover the rest of the world,
More Live Team Coverage from d. C. To the bay area. Lets start with bob redell live for us. We are learning potentially thousands were exposed to the virus, now some tsa agents are under quarantine. Reporter they have tested positive for covid19. Unfortunately the statement doesnt answer a lot of the questions i think a lot of us want to know the answer to, namely, which security checkpoint were they working at, the one here in terminal b, at terminal a, at both of them . We dont know. How long were they contagious before they became aware they had the virus . Dont know that. Were they working behind the scenes or interacting and screening passengers . Again, not a question answered by the tsa. They confirm they are receiving medical care and all employees they came in contact with over the past 14 days are quarantined at home. The agency says it is working with the cdc, the California Department of health. As you can imagine this kind of news has made some passengers uneasy. I still n
Jihadists to safety about 6 miles away. The book was a bestseller and josh is someone with a knife or some truly Great Stories and he has done it again with his new book falcon sees which recounts another true and gripping tale of adventure this one about wildlife smuggling. Josh is a journalist by trading and had a pretty adventurous globetrotting run himself working for newsweek over nearly two decades. He joined it newsweek in the late 1980s as a business and media writer but within a few years he was off to cover the rest of the world. And back here in the us in los angeles. For the past decade and a half he has continued to report and travel widely writing for a range of publications. Four years ago he 10 National Magazine award in reporting. That was a prizewinning story that told the story of aor physician who would lead the effort to control the ebola outbreak. In addition to the timbuktu josh wrote three other previous works were on about his younger brother who became a relig
Garcia. Breaking in the bay area, San Francisco is issuing a moratorium on large gatherings of a thousand or more people in order to slow the spread of coronavirus. It starts immediately and will last for at least two weeks. Right now there are 90 cases of coronavirus right here in the bay area and one death. The highest number of infections are if Santa Clara County with 45 confirmed cases and this morning we have learned that south dakota has five cases. There are now only 11 states without confirmed coronavirus. And at least 30 people have died. Thousands of passengers at sgc san jose airport may have been exposed after three tsa officers tested positive for covid19. Nbc bay areas bob redell has been trying all morning long to get details about possible risk to passengers. Bob, a lot of us want to know, people have been traveling through there, my fatherinlaw was there last week. Why cant they know who may have been there and whether they may have been infected . Reporter those are