without power since monday has been rationing oxygen tanks for their 5-month-old baby boy born premature just home from the hospital. they built a make shift heater from a pot on bricks. the family is boiling bottled water because there s no water pressure. this is no longer just an emergency. it s clear that it is a disaster. we ve seen a cascade of effects that have turned what is already a dire situation into something much worse. residents are frustrated. they re angry. they are cold. what they re enduring and continue to endure is heartbreaking. in the town of del rio, the wastewater plant is offline. officials are begging residents, do not flush your toilets. panic buying across the state leaving supermarket shelves bare. the state agriculture commissioner says they re, quote, looking at a food supply chain problem like we have never seen before. nearly 12 million texans facing water service disruptions this morning. look at that. nearly 1/4 of the state is under or
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overwhelming against it. i was drug czar, director of national drug control policy, 8 9- 90. we didn t have this kind of research then. we had some, smattering. but now it is overwhelming, the harm that marijuana does. and i just have to believe or want to believe the american people are not informed of these facts. and so the point of the book was to get these facts out so they can make a second judgment on this, an informed decision. let me get to the end of my story. i think in colorado which has been kind of ground zero here, that they will reconsider at the end of the day. host: uh-huh. guest: try to put this jeepny back in the genie back in the boding and recriminallize because they re starting to see the results. you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. and it s day two of booktv s lye coverage of the los angeles times festival of books. on your screen the campus of the university of southern california, home of this 20th annual festival.
los angeles times festival of books. on your screen the campus of the university of southern california, home of this 20th annual festival. yesterday we covered programs on journalism publishing, world leaders and more, and today we continue our live festival coverage with author panels on u.s. history, california history and crime. you ll also be able to talk with authors such azzam quinones and ben shapiro. they ll sit down with us on our outdoor set to answer your questions via twitter and by phone. check booktv.org for a complete schedule of today s events, and you can see schedule updates all day long at the bottom of your television screen. all right. we kick off today s l.a. times festival inside newman hall on the usc campus. you re going to hear from claudia rankin author of a book called citizen, which was a finalist for the national book award. live coverage of the 20th annual los angeles times festival of books starts now on booktv. [inaudible conversations]
during europe s 19th century scramble for africa. britain, germany planted their flags on vast pieces of the continue nexts. france grabbed a big chunk north of the belgium claim in the congress open. france forced the people who have been living their all along to pay the price of paris colonial adventures they handed it over to the germans and took it back again after the first world war. overtime the people of the colony fought back and tried to kick the french out. but cotton, identity tea, gold, coffee won the argument. it s been more than 50 years since france left. but the governments of the central african republic did little better than the french did in the previous 80 years. of the four and a half million people, in a country a little smaller than texas, there is poverty, illness, division, and now great danger. families are fleeing the central african republic by the 10s of thousands. as fighting between rival rebel groups, intensities. translator: there is noth