Looking really light right now john but turn on those car heaters right chilly out there right now. Youre looking out to folks coming out of macarthur maze right now trying to get into a San Francisco across the upper deck just under 10 minute drive time for you the span into San Francisco getting to that fremont street heading over to the san mateo bridge looking well were definitely seeing a more cars on the road on the right hand side, your screen thats the commute side. But hey nothing in your way its going to be a smoother ride over to the peninsula. And im clocking in at about 12 minutes for your westbound 92 right ill be back with the richmond san mateo bridge or the Richmond Sandra fell bridge rather and the golden gate coming up back to the news. Thanks a lot. It is 5 oh one and our top story more than 2,800 people died of coronavirus yesterday with a new record of more than a 185,000 new covid infections here in the bay area Santa Clara County is seeing record covid cases and
Youre welcome to our event series. Before i start, i want to mention real quick, if you have questions tonight, you ask us in the chat box or comments on the youtube page, and well get to as many as we can. If youre interested in purchasing the book, and i hope that you do, you can find it at most major retailers, but we like to point people toward bookshop. Org where you can find just about any book youre looking for and support independent booksellers across the country. Again, thats bookshop. Org. Please give them a look. I mentioned to someone the other day that i was reading the senates words in preparation for the event tonight, and they said, oh, thats the new faulkner biography. I said, well, you got the faulkner part right. The best way i can describe this book is equal parts. Literary history, social commentary and literary criticism. I think it will band to either of those subjects. What the book really did for me was force me to give serious thought on where faulkner stands
Guest my great pleasure. Thank you so much. You can watch this and all of our what are you reading interviews booktv. Org. Use the search bar at the top of the page. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to politics and prose, live at lunch, where we bring you our politics and prose programming during your lunch time hour. My name is beth and imn Event Coordinator and we thank you so much for joining here to celebrate the release of a livewired by doctor david eaeman. At any time to the event you can click the link that will put in the chat to purchase a copy of tonights bo on pnps website. You can ask the author of questions by sabina to the button for which can be found at the bottom of your screen. Be sure to put your question in the q a and not in the chat to make sure that the author and i see it. On to our main event. This afternoon doctor David Eagleman is a neuroscientist in the New York Times best selling author and he has the nter for science and law a National Nonprofit insti
Good evening, everybody. Im dan ashley. Thank you for joining us. Its especially urgent in santa clara county. New data reveals hospitals could exceed capacity by middecember. The county pleads with the public to follow covid19related rules and restrictions including the new 14day mandatory travel quarantine. Abc 7 News Reporter chris ngueyn has the story. Reporter the coronavirus rages on, a grim assessment this afternoon, hospitals in the areas of the county hit hardist by covid19 are nearing capacity as administrators scramble to ensure they have enough beds. More specifically the hospitals serving East San Jose collectively have less than a dozen icu beds available. Hospitals throughout the county are working together engaging in phone calls at least daily to redistribute patients as needed to ensure that we are continuing to provide safe and high quality care. Reporter with the growing number of patients being admitted to hospitals each day, county leaders are urging the public to
Make sure the author and i see it. Ono our main event. Dr. David eagleman is a neuroscientist in york times bestselling author. He has the center for science and law, National Nonprofit institute inserts as an adjunct professor at stanford university. He is best known for his work on century perception, time perception, and narrow law. Livewired, his new book come presents new findings from his lab from dreaming to wearing devices of revolutionize how we think about the senses. He will discuss while hacke, humans using echolocation and the present and future of an eye. I am so excited to hear him talk today. Welcome, david. The floor is all yours and i will be back in a little bit to moderate some q a. Great, thank you. Its a great pleasure to be here. I have been to politics and prose in person in the past and since couldnt be there this year but i am so pleased you can join me this way online today. I want to tell you a little bit, give a brief overview aut some of the main themes in