everything from your littlest little ones on up to enjoy here during the season. we have lots and lots of decorated christmas trees here this year and our affiliated garden clubs are wonderful. they re madly creative. this year their theme was flights of fancy, so they all took that theme and ran with it and decorated the trees in all sorts of different ways. interpreted it with blimps, with pollinators, with angels all over the place and that s one of the fun things for us as staff is just to walk through take a look at all these really cool themes that they have come up with. all of the christmas trees are spread out throughout the indoors here at the botanical garden. so any time, you know, any kind of weather that s going on you re going to be safe and nice and warm and dry inside, but we also have a spectacular light display outside this year for the first time. staff can t get enough of it. we keep going out, we re not getting a lot of work done. we re going outside and
i started thinking about competitive elections long ago, and i started the project thinking that i was writing as a devil s advocate. i saw people assume without question the competitive elections are intrinsically good and intrinsically healthy, and i thought it was important to have somebody make the argument in the other direction. later, go inside the cleveland public library s special collections to explore the life of harlem renaissance writer langston hughes and his connections to the city. during langston hughes time here, he lived in about five different residences. he said he lived in a lot of basements. he enrolled in central high school which was one of the first public high schools in the country, first in the city. but first, we hear from author john gras bow sky about the history of cleveland and how transportation has shaped its identity. east boulevard and university circle, but i wanted to look at a history, and i worked on this with my wife, dian
[inaudible conversation] book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they re reading this summer. i hope to finish a couple books, first of all i m reading freedoms task which was given to me by senator roy blunt and this is a book that is about the dome being put on the capital building pre-civil war but what i found is especially interesting is as i get into the book of focus on the house chamber and senate chamber and how those were added to the original capital building and one of the main proponents of that is jefferson davis so while we are approaching the civil war, we have jefferson davis really helping our country, helping build a capital building which would serve our entire country and we know later that he became the president of the confederacy so that the book i m hoping to get through, i started it and i need to finish it. i also want to read about destiny and power which is the book by john meacham on george hw bush. i would like
? the last weekend of the rio summer olympics. more medals to be handed out tonight and tomorrow, and of course, closing ceremonies tomorrow evening. today is day number 15. those shots never get old, do they? good evening. welcome to the olympic zone. over the next you set for nbc s prime time coverage. dominique joins us to talk gymnastics and we ll break down team usa swimming. first, out of the gate and the women s basketball team usa and spain. the u.s. dominates. 101-72. it s their 49th straight olympics win. so no surprise at all. diana taurasi led with 17 medal for the us ladies in the u.s. ladies in the summer games. very impressive. and running for gold in the men s 1500 meters final. brandon competes for team canada. is he also the cross country coach for st. andrews high schooling. the race is st. andrews high school. the race is set. the columbus native won in the round of 16 a comeback win in the quarterfinals but he ran that a tough opponent from ir
the downtown the skyline and instead, we get the moon. good morning everybody. thank you for joining us here on this sunday, august 28th at 6:00 a.m. just turned over to 6:01 a.m. there s downtown cleveland s skyline. there s the skyline. so many things happening this weekend. alyssa mentioned one world day happening. with a successful race for the cure yesterday. yes, and it was warm. it was a smidge toasty. a little humid and warm. so that s what we want to know. that s the big question. so we have a couple more days with temperatures in the mid- and upper 80s but i promise you that relief is on the way. into the next work week. so if you have been sweating it out, not to worry, just a couple more days with the ac on full blast and then we will see the cool down. this morning temperatures in the 60s and low 70s. at least we are nice and dry the day. by about lunchtime, temperatures in the mid- and upper 80s. we will top out close to 90 degrees. and as we saw y