On sunday, august 2nd booktv is live with media benjamin cofounder of the Political Advocacy Group code pink on in depth, our live monthly callin show. Shes the author or editor of nine books including her most recent an investigation into the use of drones for military purposes, drone warfare. Other titles include the greening of the revolution which examines cubas use of organic agriculture and stop the next war now on how to create political change through activism. Her other books cover topics such as how to aid People Living this the third world profiles of Inspiring Women and further examinations of cuba. Media benjamin, live, sunday august 2nd on in depth. And you can participate by sending your questions or comments to facebook. Com booktv, on twitter booktv or call in. Ginger adams otis talks about the 100year struggle to integrate the new York City Fire department which continues today. The fdny has only 300 black firefighters out of a total of 11,000. During this event held
Morning july 19th. Im gasia mikaelian. And im dave clark. Lets check your weather. Steve paulson is right over here. How does it look . Looks cooler than yesterday, gasia and dave, no doubt about it. Lots of fog and maybe a little mist for you. And a little more yesterday. Temperatures, even if its clear, some coolness here. Lows dipped into the 50s. Fog in place. Temperatures continue to be where they should be but it is a cooler pattern, for sure. Some 80s in land, but a lot of 70s. Some areas along the coast will get some sun, as they did yesterday, but it will take longer to warm up. You get the west wind, usher in that fog, you 50s for everybody here. Upper 40s for a few. Woodside, a cool 47. 50 in stanford. Nenlo park at 51. Right in the ballpark there. Picking up again, 25 to 30 miles per hour. So no change there. This low churning off the Pacific Northwest, Northern California keeps us cool. Low clouds, sunny and breezy. Below average temps, highs 50s, 60s, 70s, and as we say,
Community activists gathered for a separate event, demanding that the District Attorney in San Francisco file murder charges against two officers who shot and killed the victim last year in the mission. Do the right thing. Bring this case to trial. Let us have our day in court. Reporter supporters of paris lopez gathered outside of the hall of justice. The 20yearold guatemalan immigrant was shot to death by two plainclothes officer Francisco Police officers last february. Paris lopez wednesday police say paris lopez lunged at officers with a knife. There is some evidence however that she may have been running away during the attack. There might be serious breaches of protocol. The body was removed from the scene before members of the District Attorneys office could arrive. The physical body is the bulk of the physical evidence. Take away the body and the complete criminal investigation becomes so much more difficult. In the vas own words, this is a serious breach of protocol. In our vi
Voice normally fed janitor does not inspire that degree of enthusiasm. [laughter] the guide asked the group to walk faster and they were happy to oblige. The most important event of 1920 in my opinion but it took place on the roof of the factory just outside pittsburgh pennsylvania. In the mass media of which there is no force and what they did the first tuesday night was to broadcast a news event five. Never done before. It was though harding election and the the the country nor the world would never be the same again although few people could have imagined one day radio with the two television and nobody could imagine in keeping up with the kardashian is. [laughter] small towns were always thought of as the home of virtue then Sinclair Lewis wrote our town. American literature. Kyushu the home of entertainment then in 1920 regained the first of the four Pulitzer Prize and the theater was never the same again. Poetry was the home of romance and dash 1920 Carl Sandberg came along and w
Tonight as we welcomed the discussion for the book firefight. All cell phones, ipads or whatever that makes noise please silent or put on vibrate. There there books for sale at the register and buy them plentifully so we can continue to do for events like this one. There will be a short reading and a panelist discussion and then assigning to follow. Tonights event is being filled by cspan for book tv and we are honored to have them with us, please be aware that you may be a bill for this event. Well be passing a microphone around for the questionandanswer period. So if you have a question at the end please make sure that you have a microphone in your hand. Thanks for working with us on that. Our featured author is ginger adams otis, she has been writing about new york City Politics for more than a decade. She is a staff writer at the Ny Daily News and has written for the New York Post. Wnyc, the ap, bbc, National Public radio and the village voice. Her new book, firefight is a century