Greetings everyone we have the distinct pleasure to welcome our to guest today author of the furious sky of the hurricanes in america. Louisiana was blasted this week and our thoughts and goes out to the whole area speaking earlier to say many weeks or months to have trouble with the water system and with shreveport and monroe is still without power. So with jack davis today in conversation with our author who is a professor of history specializing in sustainability studies. The New York Times book review calls it a beautiful homage and with the Pulitzer Prize the notable book for 2017 and several other best of list including washington post, npr and forbes. Welcome. Its a pleasure to have you here with us today. We will turn the floor over to jack and lets start the conversation. If people have questions they can bring into the chat room and also to encourage people to have signed copies here at the bookshop they can go to the website we will be happy to ship books for you anywhere in
Thoughts and prayers go out to everybody in the lake charles in Cameron Parish and the whole area. I know we were speaking earlier saying, there will probably have many weeks if not months of no power and having trouble with her water system. Even people as far north as shreveport and monroe are still without power. Our thoughts go out to them. Anyway, we are here today with jack davis, will be in conversation with the author and jack is a professor of history specializing in environmental history and sustainability studies. And also the author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning the gulf the making of an american sea. The New York Times book review called this book a beautiful march to a neglected see. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize it was a New York Times notable book for 2017 and that several other this list that you including the washington post, npr and forbes. Jack, welcome. Its a pleasure to have you here with us today. My pleasure to be here. Im going to turn the floor over to jack
In new orleans. Hurricane sally churning backyard, the gorgeous oakland towards the gulf coast estuary. We have had a bright in rosemar threatening dead surge and deadly flooding. People on the gulf coast are making last minute preparations ahead of Hurricane Sally arrival filling sandbags as the look happening. Storm prepares to make landfall you are right. Near the alabamamississippi that orange sky came to us last border. The storm is expected to move wednesday and then the smoke slowly and dropping up to 30 came the day after and been inches of rain in isolated areas from the central gulf coast to the florida pan with us ever since. Handle. Once the water gets up high we are seeing some improvement as hoped and expected. Enough to start floating debris little improvement with each you want everything tied down passing day. Yesterday was better than the to be there when the water goes away. Day before and today moderate sally shifted east sparing new orleans from the worse of air qu
We heard the warning from the Prime Minister there saying that every city every province is at risk now in vietnam thats because of last weekend is a resort town on the coast and what has been happening like a lot of nations that have have been Success Stories in 1000 pandemic and that is trying to spur the economy by telling citizens to travel internally Domestic Tourism and travel that will help spark spark the economy thats what they did in vietnam and thats where the 1st cases locally transmitted cases in 3 months took place last week and then and then you have tens of thousands of vietnamese citizens going back to their home cities and thats where theyre very concerned now that it could spread further and then weve seen some cases that have roots in denying and spread to other cities like hanoi and city those are the 2 largest cities in vietnam those are the big concerns and there are cases that can be traced to particularly in hanoi there was one where a gentleman worked at a piz
Chaos in mali people demanding the president steps down for failing to rein in armed groups and revive the economy. There so. Press the hard youre sophia for Turkish Court rules in favor of turning the popular heritage site into a mosque from a museum. Top story to u. N. Security Council Votes to extend humanitarian aid to syria have failed to pass the 1st was vetoed by russia and china and the 2nd by china the remaining 13 Council Member states voted in favor aid agencies have warned the decision could lead to diet consequences for millions of displaced syrians the u. N. Has said that many people in the countries northwest highly depend on it describing it as a lifeline joining us live this hour diplomatic editor james bays there at the u. N. In new york hi there james what are they trying to achieve here and what can they achieve. Well i think there are different names or different members of the Security Council book clearly in just a matter of hours all the existing authorizations