Have a good night. Booktv continues now on cspan2, Television First serious readers. Hello. Im ann druyan and im speaking to you from my home in ithaca, new york, and i am the author of cosmos possible worlds. Deeply, truly honored to be participating in an event for the library of congress. In the very first cosmos exactly 40 years ago, carl sagan and Steven Sotloff and i celebrated the Great Library of alexandria. And the library of congress mean so very much to me. Because of the democratic idea of world knowledge belonging to all of us. And so it is my great honor to be here. Im here to talk about possible worlds which is a book ive written but also a Television Series that i have the pleasure of producing, writing and directing with my collaborator. So why possible worlds . Why a third cosmos after 40 years . The first cosmos was an effort to get the broadest possible public a Global Public coordinates in space and in time. It was carl sagans dream, one that i completely share, th
The pandemic. Attacks and interruptions. That is what most of the audience remembers from the first president ial debate between President Trump and Vice President joe biden. Now the commission on president ial debates is calling for a new format. Senator blackburn will be my guest. Stocks finishing higher on hopes of a new stimulus bill, but it was a choppy day. Abigail doolittle joins us from new york. Walk us through the ups and downs. Abigail certainly fitting it was a choppy day because it was a choppy quarter. And following the pattern we have seen over the last few months. Redad the premarket in the after that debate, the chaos, investors not liking it. The s p 500, up more than 1. 5 . Afternoon news that a stimulus agreement had not been reached, stocks really nosedived, not into the red, but the s p 500 only up about 3 10 of 1 . Day, windowf the dressing to the third quarter, it was the mega cap stocks that did save the day. Apple and microsoft, both up about 1. 5 , again not
Efforts at latino outreach. And not letting up. Breonna taylors mother tells us why a 12 million settlement does not equal justice for her daughter who was killed by police. First here is todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The flooding has already begun. This storm is 500 miles wide and wind is not the biggest concern, believe it or not. Its the water. Sally, expected to bring historic flooding to the gulf coast. Nine feet of storm surge. This is not survival. Smoke from Deadly Wildfires in the west has drifted all the way across the country. The air outside right now is at historically polluted levels. Nancy pelosi wants an investigation into a complaint alleging detained immigrants are undergoing questionable hysterectomies. Why . I had no answers as to why. Town hall meeting. Why would you downplay a pandemic . I didnt downplay. I actually, in many ways, i upplayed it. Israel and two arab states signed deals establishing diplomatic ties. The city of louisville, kentucky, a
Californians. Reporter californians applying for unappointed benefits will have to wait pick the States Employment Development Department has halted taking new applications until october 5. A two week reset while they switch their updated online Identification System and moved to id me. This comes after a strike team put forth recommendations to update the service. They have been plagued with issues with so many californians applying for caliph fournette an appointment benefits at once. Theres been a massive backlog in claims because so many people are out of work. The former edd director says some very significant action needed to be taken. And i think there is reason to say this new approach with the Identity Verification that at least is claimed to be able to reduce the manual claims which are holding up the process from a 40 to 10 . Reporter with maidla proces which led to that bottleneck here it will still take months to catch up. Part of the statement reads, i am concerned this i
As part of her summer series. Tonight you will hear from five of the last six men who have sat in the oval office. Now the practice of president s books, began with Thomas Jeffersons memoir in 1821. Eighteen president s since have written books prior to the 20th century, president ial memoirs were rare and Ulysses S Grant and mark was an exception since then, it is taken off since the 1950s. First of this evening, is one of our most prolific residents turned author. Jimmy carter. He is the author of 25 books including publicpolicy books, Foreign Policy books, a novel, and he is also written a Childrens Book which was illustrated by his daughter amy. In 2010, president carter appeared on book tv afterwards program where he discussed his white house diaries that he kept while he was in office from 1977 1981. Heres president carter being interviewed by president ial historian. Welcome to washington dc. It is wonderful to see you. I was wondering you fly in here, and you go over all of the