. >> host: today i'm talking with william burrows about this enjoyable book, "the asteroid threat." i wouldn't characterize it as a story about astronomers, planetary sciences, engineers might someday save the world. well, how would you characterize your book treachery i think you did it very well. i characterize it by saying that my point is that we don't have to be the hapless, hopeless victims of a nature. my friends in nasa and elsewhere in the space committee like to say the dinosaurs had a space program they would still be a. we've got the wherewithal to save ourselves. the book, there was an important point of the book is that it explains that and comes up with a plan. and a plan was not invented by me but it is pretty universally accepted within the community. >> host: so my impression at least you are advocating as spent quite a lot more on this problem, on planetary defense, is that right? >> guest: this. the cold war is over. peace alaska has broken out. what i like to tell people who say it will cost an astronomical amount of money, pardon the pun, to do this, i say wher

. >> host: today i'm talking with william burrows about this enjoyable book, "the asteroid threat." i wouldn't characterize it as a story about astronomers, planetary sciences, engineers might someday save the world. well, how would you characterize your book treachery i think you did it very well. i characterize it by saying that my point is that we don't have to be the hapless, hopeless victims of a nature. my friends in nasa and elsewhere in the space committee like to say the dinosaurs had a space program they would still be a. we've got the wherewithal to save ourselves.

five william burrows 3881. for those of you in the mountain and pacific time zone we are taking comments finally we're worried born and raised? >> guest: as well, tennessee's. >> host: why? >> guest: why was i born in asheville? to in must be where my parents were. >> host: what was your carries like? >> guest: we one of my high-school teachers to me was that i should not tell people that i grew up "where that i was in an orphanage was not part of the upwardly mobile middle-class. i never took her advice. i will explore my mother raised us. my father left tibia and she raised me and my brother under very difficult circumstances. alice thought that if the circumstances have not been so difficult and we have more jeter would be tall. sp one windy believe? >> guest: i left to go to college. i went to howard university. i went to an -- in washington d.c. nelson went to the university of michigan graduate school and to law school. >> host: when did you become chair? >> guest: i was elected in 1990 by my peers. >> ho

burrows avenue. that was blocking the left lane. >>> let's keep the price of gas from driving you crazy. this half-hour we're taking a look at prices in western prince william county. according to aaa the sheetz on washington street in haymarket is selling regular for $3.09 a gallon. pretty good. >> but if you head to the mayhughs store on greenwich road, $3.30 a gallon. >>> now time for the question of the morning. only 10% of people 6 on and older do not -- 60 and older do not have these. is it a, gray hairs, b, prescription drugs or c, reading glasses? >> one wrote, the only folks over 60 with no gray hair have no hair at all. that's why the answer is a, gray hairs. thanks for playing along. we'll be right back. ♪ there it is... this is where i met your grandpa. right under this tree. ♪ (man) some things are worth holding onto. they're hugging the tree. (man) that's why we got a subaru. or was it that tree? (man) introducing the all-new subaru outback. love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru. >>> good morning. i'm vanessa herring. officers will be out again searching for jacob and sarah hoggle. the told letters have been missing for more than a week and