Good morning from the studio beyou. Im annemarie green. Were going to begin with wildfires raraging across california. The fires are destroying homes, and mandatory evacuations have been ordered for some areas outside of los angeles. The saddle ridge fire is burning in sylmar, thats about 20 miles north of l. A. The fire has prompted the shutdown of at least two major freeways. So far it has burned about 1,600 acres. Containment is 0 . At least a half dozen wildfires are burning across california this morning. Earlier this week, electricity was shut off to hundreds of thousands of customers in Northern California to prevent wildfires. Overnight, the states largest utility company, pg e, says more than half of those customers power has been restored. Yesterday California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized pg e for neglecting its power supplying equipment. Over the course of years and years and years, the kind of hardening of the grid was not done. Those were decisions that were made by pa
Eli blog whether are are are it are [inaudible conversations] there, ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the 35th annual printer row litfest presented be near south Planning Board if want to give a special thank you to our sponsors for the generous support this year, especially win trust as our programming sponsor the robert r. Mccormick foundation, alpha food wings, the tribune, three l real estate and cspan booktv. Todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2s booktv which he are live now. If theres time at the end of the discussion, for q awith the author issue ask you to line up at the microphone and speak speak microphone. And finally i ask that anyone here that is just got with us, please silence your cellphones. Nobody wants to be that person and then if youre going to take a photo, please turn off the flash. As a courtesy to the presenters please welcome daniel green, professor of history at northwestern university, and curator of americans and the holocaust, an exhi
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