It could be a very long weekend, and its already getting off to a busy start for firefighters in napa county. Thats where cheryl hurd is live tonight to begin our coverage. Reporter what youre looking at right now is a pg e base camp, an area where trucks are standing by if and when a wind event takes place. Tonight we got a preview of what could happen. Cal fire trucks lining up along the valley road in napa county after firefighters were able to stop a vegetation fire from jumping the roadway. The firefighters they got a lot of, you know, big dozers, theyre working on it really strong. Reporter working to control the fire that has salvador rios worried. We live on the same property, so hopefully, you know, it wont keep going. Reporter did you evacuate your family . Not yet. Reporter one witness tells me the fire started at around 3 00. It started out as a very small grass fire but quickly grew to over 30 acres. That acreage more than doubled tonight near the populated area of pope va
The channels available to people to take action. And most of turning to doing something here for the next generation. Is for the environment series of global 3000. 00 on d w and online. Welcome to news from the world of op sun culture provocative olfa naomi klein talks about a new book called on 5 the burning case for a Green New Deal also coming up. Clint eastwoods latest movie Richard Jewel hits a. Corner of a trial of one of the in the film script we dont read on this story. Age old wood carving craft. Thats being given a. Canadian author and activist. Books that criticize capitalism and globalization whether you agree with her views or not she has strong intelligent. Shes on a book tour promoting her latest home which is called. The burning case for a Green New Deal which is advocating a new green contract to save the planet. And viral mental activists naomi klein points of a total collapse she says politicians are too afraid to take drastic measures out of ignorance and fear of lo
Everything. We have an economic system. That defines success as and less Economic Growth and much of that growth is is connected to an ideology of endless consumption and that is incompatible with what our planet can take and so we need a different economic paradigm for this much needed change the renowned intellectual uses a phrase heard a lot these days the Green New Deal it refers to reforms implemented by former us president franklin d. Roosevelt a series of strategies that managed to overcome the Great Depression in the 1930 s. Strategies of the Green New Deal could include investing in jobs agriculture Public Housing National Parks and museums when he talked about the depression he wasnt only talking about the economy being depressed but also people were to pressed right so. How do you lift up the people spirit and part of that was need access to nature and part of that was access to the arts. And also advocates improve Community Spirit and the strongest social safety net she say
The book festival will continue in a half an hour the final program of the day joined by other contributors to her book to discuss their relationships with their mothers while we wait we will show you their recent visit to toledo ohio. Known as the glass capital of the world. Up next we learn about edward libby and his role to turn toledo into the glass city. The city of toledo has been called the glass capital of the world referring to the glass city because of the influence of the Major International corporations producing some aspect of glass and that has been the case since 1888 when the first Glass Factory was brought to toledo in 1868 scott who owned much of what is downtown toledo who was a Real Estate Broker so the article was titled the future great city of the world. So at that time it was founded in 1837 dayton ohio with 18 oh three so there was a 30 year period summit was arrested development so Justice Scott bought real estate when it was pretty cheap and decided he would
The u. S. Senate. I want to thank senator lankford who is here with us at the table for agreeing to appear before us today to discuss the merits of his resolution. In 2010 this committee undertook a comprehensive examination of the filibuster in the United States senate. That examination was conducted in response to an ongoing debate about invoking the Nuclear Option. While no action was taken immediately following the conclusion of the committees work, the senate did take steps in early 2013 to modify rules and procedures considering bills, conference reports and certain nominations during that congress. Later that same year the senate took a more drastic step and invoked the Nuclear Option for certain nominations. Invoking the Nuclear Option affected a permanent change as my colleagues well know, but the other changes which improved the efficiency of the senates operations were temporary and expired the at end of the 1 13th congress. Today well resist it one aspect of the temporary c