. >> next, "astoria" by author john jacob. this an is hour and 14 minutes. >> thank you powell's books and thank you for being here. normally i have a more formal presentation. i have a reading i show at readings. but tonight is a special night so i am going to do something different. and i want to tell stories a little bit more and, of course, i will do some readings. it is special we are at powell's books, we are in oregon, astoria is nearby and we are also here with c-span so we have a national and oregon audience. i will tell stories and you may know some of them and may not some of the others. but i will start with how i came to this story. and actually, what is surprising about it is how this story was very-well known in its day. in 1836, when washington irving was commissioned by john john jacob astor to write these, irving's book also called "astoria" was a best seller in 1926. they have been forgotten now. i think some of you know about them. but in the national consciousness they are largely forgotten except along hi

similar tor is very the waldorf astoria in new york. >> for waldorf-astoria should last a lot longern the original hotel. a lot of history there. a lot of history. >> a lot of tvs in mirrors. that is a good idea. urkel jets into -- merkel jets into greece today. might be over plain slightly. she is excited to get a different reception today compared to a year and a half ago or so when she was last increased. there is still some people who won't welcome her visit. outsideb that exploded the bank or the imf is taking place. things have moved more in their favor at least with markets in recent months. the economy is still contracting. yield on ae percent five-year a realistic expected in? >> i don't think so. what is happening in credits and , it is all part of a similar thirst for yields. insee explosive growth places of high yields. we see bank lending areas. we see sovereign debt space -- c down to see rated rated sovereigns. risks in this. the markets are ahead of events. >> is it mispriced? as the market looking at greek debt with a much more german hue than it did two years ago? -

it is where astoria, oregon is. where they lay the cornerstone of the first building they decide they will call this astoria after john jacob astor. thorne drops the men and supplies and goes up to vancouver island to trade for furs. this leaves duncan mcdougal behind wondering where the hunting is. the indians who had initially created them and traded with them and were around their settlement disappeared, too. late summer, early fall of 1811, it is really spooky out there. their sense of exposure deepened. their camp was nothing but a wilderness in the vastness of the pacific with its crushing wells and storms. it felt like the end of the world. there was an unseen network of indian tribes each with loyalty and packs hidden by a communication network. the astorians could only guess what the native people were thinking. should the astorians need to free they had nowhere to go. the nearest reliable help laid a year's journey away. paranoia set in for mcdougal especially. he had drawn a target on his back. he set him

we will take a tour of israel's hotel indorf astoria jerusalem.y with "on the move." >> welcome back to "on the move." i'm an edwards in london. edwards in london. as of yesterday, it has been rebooted, restored and rebranded as the waldorf astoria's latest luxury location. our middle east editor elliott gotkine takes a look. >> the palace hotel of the 1930's lavished luxury on his visiting shakes and diplomats. things like phones, hot water and elevators. now, the waldorf astoria, costing up to $5,000 a night, guests can expect even more. the finest italian furnishings, a magnificent atrium with stunningn windows, czech chandeliers. >>, stood the cost? much did they cost? >> about $500,000 each. >> for light? >> a very special light. >> you can watch bloomberg tv while you are having a shaved. says making this hotel a reality was even tougher than expected. >> the main challenge was to restore the original facade from 1929 while we were digging 20 meters underground to add additional meeting rooms. the top of that, the famous had to be rebuilt th

sort of similar to the waldorf astoria in new york.e taste the original architect, but the waldorf astoria should last longer than the original hotel. just ahead, the tech selloff continues in the u.s. just as earning seasons kicks off. we will see which companies fell the most. ♪ >> welcome back. this is "countdown." i'm mark barton. seven minutes away from the european equity session. the top macro themes. you better start with technology. >> a remarkable selloff. many people expected it. here it is come a big selloff, the nasdaq down the most since 2011, some big names amongst them. netflix, google, all coming off highs for the year. all time highs. that is really the point, coming off all-time highs. >> before yesterday's fall, earlier this week i think i read a stat that 40 or so companies on the s&p 500 are down from their high, and the average decline is nine percent or something like that. >> it's on the screen right now. >> there you go. but we are not at valuation levels that we were back in the late 1900s -- the 1990's? >> w

just across new york city's east river, in the neighborhood of astoria queens, roommates, rob, and jill hanner, are settling into their apartment for the night. >> it's a calm, ordinary night and i'm in bed and i hear this really loud noise. it was like a gunshot. so i spring out of bed. i walk to the window. i want to see what's going on. i see fire. it was quite shocking to see a fire in what is essentially my backyard. and i immediately started knocking on jill's door and tell her to get up. >> i'm like, should i call 911? like, i don't know what to do. so i immediately got on the phone, called 911. >> that's when i grabbed my camera. >> there's a car fire, that -- a car fire that just -- in astoria. >> an suv has barreled into an empty lot just behind budon and hanner's apartment. >> this guy just drove his car right into this wood. i could tell that he was under some sort of influence of something. i couldn't get a read on what he was on, but i could tell that his mind was not all there. >> he's, like, taking the metal pieces and hitting the car and just totally fell over. >> from

it is special we are at powell's books, we are in oregon, astoria is nearby and we are also here with c-span so we have a national and oregon audience. i will tell stories and you may know some of them and may not some of the others. but i will start with how i came to this story. and actually, what is surprising about it is how this story was very-well known in its day. in 1836, when washington irving was commissioned by john john jacob astor to write these, irving's book also called "astoria" was a best seller in 1926. they have been forgotten now. i think some of you know about them. but in the national consciousness they are largely forgotten except along historians and people that follow western history. it is a really important story. it is historically significant and a great adventure story. that is partly what attracted me to it. it is also a store that i feel needs to be told because those events have had a big impact on the shape of the north american c continent and on the course of the american empire over the years from 1810-1813. i stumbled across this story randomly. t

day for you and i, at all, because when you're hosting that, you're up on the dais at the waldorf astoriand we are literally in between the -- whoever is speaking, huge speakers, so any little bite of lunch you take or any sip you take, the whole world is going to see it. >> you can't eat. you're starving because you're in the -- on the jumbo tron the whole thing. and you sit there like this looking at your food wishing you could eat it and you can't. >> and your wine. and would you like a sip. >> i want to drink it. >> okay, so anyway, hoda brought a little rap and congratulations to everybody that won. >> amazing, amazing ladies. >> and everybody deserving. and it was so freaking freezing there. i'm menopausal. i'm post menopausal. i'm post, post menopausal. i'm half dead. but i am always hot. right? i'm like this, in a little -- it is so -- and there is a vent, so i already have a severe herniated disc, going to physical therapy for a month now, three times a week. i'm like this, when it is finally over, these things take -- two and a half hours. i say good-bye, bye, hodi, they give yo

astoria had to do it this way, but there's no way. i don't know what the four plans there were four total. one of the american prosecutors murder book, one of the bibles of nuremberg. i went to columbia university to give them a. >> one more question. >> i was wondering suddenly why was he so well received by these people? >> the question was whether his german non-profit german and why he was so well received. .. >> he looks the part he was middle-aged. and he had a little tighter around his debt and aside from the pastoral manner they responded to him they had a lot in common. saul stages had more in common with him where he could express that. then is what brought that around. >> think you for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [applause] they q very led to. for this wonderful of opportunity and your interest in my new book "american spartan" i am grateful for support a family and friends here

run to astoria and then take the train home because it's going to be so windy. 40 miles per hour up ineven gusts 45. that could slow down airports, some planes today. there's the severe weather you were talking about from paducah back to st. louis. it is cold up here. 62 kansas city. 84 in memphis. that's the clash. that's going to be with us for the rest of the week. the front goes by. even rain here new york city and d.c. for friday, friday afternoon and now friday night. the bigger story will be the potential for severe weather this weekend. 19 million people saturday, sunday, monday. the biggest, i think, severe weather outbreak of the season happens this weekend. if you live in the plains, visit the plains, know anybody here, pay attention. major tornadoes this weekend. >> that's an important warning. appreciate that. we'll keep our eye on that. >>> let's take a look at what's coming up on "new day." chris cuomo joins us. >> we're following breaking news out of afghanistan. three americans have been killed in a shooting accident, not an accident at all. it's an attack at a kabul h

first is "astoria" and then "all america" and then "citizen explorer: the namesake of colorado's pikes peapeak" >> on the next washington journal, a conversation on prison reform. general mills announced they were reversing plans to make consumers to forfeit their right to suing the company. later as part of the spotlight on magazine series, brian miller talks about his article on trends in the gambling industry. and an update on the supreme court and take your calls. you can join the converation on facebook and twitter. washington journal each morning at 7 a.m. >> and now a look at lincoln and his boys. this is an hour. [ applause ] >> thank you for braving his weather. but as i understand it, last week might have been worse so i probably picked the right week to be here. i might have been delivering this from the airport if we had done this last week. i want to begin the story a little after the civil war on june 13th, 1905. it was less than three weeks before this death that john hay awoke on a boat ship as it steamed from liverpool back to new york. he was a noted poet, historian,

but we could take each one of these inmates and put them up at the waldorf astoria hotel in new yorkth with room service and still not get to the amount of money we're spending every year for them. does that make sense? (sirens blaring) >> narrator: it costs the state an average of $87,000 a year to incarcerate a child. kentucky spends more than $50 million annually locking up juveniles, most of whom have never committed a violent offense. >> we need to distinguish between who we're mad at and who we're afraid of. the united states comprises about four and a half to five percent of the world's population, yet we incarcerate 24% to 25% of the world's prisoners. and then you look at kentucky, and over the past decade, from about 2010 backward to about '99, we had a prison growth rate of 45%. the average for the rest of the country was 13%. kentucky had truly become the epicenter for prison growth. our spending jumped almost 220% to nearly half a billion dollars. (bell ringing) >> narrator: now states like kentucky can no longer afford this growth and are trying to reduce their prison p

at 8:00 peter stark on astoria >> on our next washington journal a conversation on prison sentencing. joining us from texas. a food company general mills announced last week and it was reversing plans to make consumers forfeit their right to sue the company. you will talk to the consumers union about the decision. later as part of our spotlight on magazine trends in the u.s. gambling industry. we will also get an update on the supreme court plus take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. washington journal each morning. >> robert clair recounts the physical improvements made to the white house in 1948. the german families blair house. from new york city bar association this is just over an hour. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you for inviting me. thank you all for turning down. it's nice to be here. this is, as you can surmise, something that is taken up the last three years of my life. in researching and writing this book which by the way encompasses a years, is no small chance to figure out how to present this to you all and still having yo

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