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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 ....
Everybody in lake charles, we were saying, probably have many weeks if not months of no power, trouble with the water system and even people as far north as shreveport and monroe, still without power. We are here today with jack davis in conversation, a professor of history so specializing in environmental history and sustainability and the author of Pulitzer Prize winning the gulf the making of an american city. New york times book review calls this book a beautiful homage to a neglected in addition to the Pulitzer Prize, notable book for 2017, made several other lists including the Washington Post and npr and forbes. Welcome. A pleasure to have you with us today. I turn the floor to jack and derek and have a conversation. One final thing, people have questions they can write in the chat room and get to the question if ....
Louisiana got lasted this past week via hurricane and i pray for everyone in lake charles and that whole area. We were speaking earlier saying they are probably going to have many weeks of not months of no power and trouble with their water system. And even people as far north as shreveport and monroe are still without power. Our thoughts go out to them. So anyway we are here today with jack davis in conversation with the author. Jack is a professor of history specializing in them for mental history and sustainability studies. Also the author of Pulitzer Prizewinning the gulf, the making of an american city. Nil in addition to the Pulitzer Prize the gulf was the news york times noted book of 2017 and made several other bestseller list that year including the Washington Post and pr in jack, welcome. Its great to have you ....
This is a special edition of the news with shepard smith. Hurricane delta makes landfall and good evening from cnbc the hurricane moments away from landfall right now and frankly, about to make history. Hurricane delta is closing in on the southwestern coast of louisiana as a very powerful category 2 storm delta is set to become the tenth named storm to strike the United States this year that has never happened in recorded history never have there been ten named storms i want to show you where we are right now. This is the radar. You can see part of the eye has already come ashore just south and east of lake charles, louisiana. The storm has been weakening throughout the afternoon it was 115 miles an hour four hours ago, maximum sustained winds now 100 miles an hour. The minimum pressure has risen that means the storm is getting weaker the higher the pressure, the weaker the storm, because its a low pressure center. Right now its m ....