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publisher chris jackson talks about working on the award-winning book between the world and me and he will attend a book release party for steve hilton, former senior advisor to british prime minister david cameron. on monday and extra day of booktv. he will hear from annette gordon-reed and peter onuf on the intellectual life of thomas jefferson, radio talkshow host discusses the importance of the 10 commandments, npr s diane reed shares her involvement with the right to die movement and you will look at the namesake of the john burke society. that is just a few of the authors on booktv this holiday weekend. for complete schedule go to booktv.org. booktv on c-span2, 72 hours of nonfiction books and authors this memorial day weekend, television for serious readers. we kick off the weekend with pulitzer prize-winning historian annette gordon-reed and peter onuf talking about thomas jefferson. this is booktv on c-span2. welcome to the library of philadelphia. i am repre ....
george. that getaway could account for lighter traffic. this accident cleared from the traffic lanes but it s the slowest traffic past the scene that we have seen all morning and the backup is building for the westbound ride coming into the altamont pass. no delays for 101, 280, 85 or the guadalupe parkway. and your trip to the bay bridge this morning is a light easy one. no metering lights yet. and less than a 20-minute trip time for the carquinez bridge to the maze. the search continues today for a vallejo teenager after her alleged kidnapper was killed in a shootout with sheriff s deputies. kpix 5 s anne makovec is live in marin county a focus for the serial for pearl pinson. reporter: her alleged kidnapper was seen this is area or his car was seen in this area according to officers yesterday morning. so this is now part of a very wide search area near the richmond/san rafael bridge near the sir francis drake area of marin county. here is a look at the rest o ....
over the weekend. he said given that the senate is in recess, we don t expect the president to rush this through this week but instead we ll do so in due time once the senate furnishes recess. at that point we expect to consider the nominee. senate comes back in session next week on the 22nd. but majority leader mitch mcconnell who controls the clock on all of this doesn t sound like he wants to do this before the presidential election. he put out a competing statement that said quote the american people should have the next supreme court justice therefore this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president. charles. thank you very much, peter. well, of course republicans want to keep conservative majority and they hope to drag this out past election, here with more on the rules that actually surround the confirmation process. thanks a lot for joining us, david, because we ve heard everything from historical precedence to every other strategy out there. ho ....
other forces in the syrian stronghold of f raqqa this week - have killededore than two dozen isis militants. jonathan vigliotti cbs 3 news paris. 3 france has stepped up its airstrikes against isis in syria since those terror attacks last wewe. yesterday the ench aircraft carrier charles de gaulle left to help french military operations in syria. 3 and right now. a man from iowa is walking from normandy to paris. he started his journey for climate awareness. because of the u - n climate summit that ll be held in france at the end of the month.ed fallon started walkininnovember 11th. he was in the town of (bin - oo - vill) benouville. france. when paris was attacked. but his walking partner s wife and child got into paris and were staying in a hotel not far from where the attacks happened. luckily. they were luckily safe and able to join the walking journey y o days later. that s when ed said they stumbled onto a vigil with two thousand people. 3 the thing i got was, yo ....
nbc coanchor al roker discusses the hurricane of 1900 committed to this national disaster in american history. hi there, how are you? would ve been embarrassing if the weather had been so nice. thank you for being here. i really appreciate it. the genesis for this book i was trying to think about i actually sink in a little more than a year ago thinking about this hard to believe but it s been 10 years since hurricane katrina struck on august 28th. in researching where katrina fell in the pecking order of natural disasters in this country, i started researching the hurricane of 1900 that hit galveston, all the lift it off the map. it s a fascinating story to me and as i got into it a little bit more, i thought i don t think a lot of people know how bad this is. folks in the gulf region have a pretty good idea but the average person in america i don t think nose and the more i research the more deeply into it i got. i decided maybe i could make a book out of this. i ....