burt always tried to take my lines and he just thought that was the funniest thing ever take me over is what he said but. the truth is kirk would take bert's lines because burt didn't burst out a little bit of a difficulty room remembering lines to be on the set and be like we're going to rob the bank and everyone's watching we're going to rob the bank and then the be nothing and it's a line and then the scripts over because because we need the money cause we need the money. line and then they would keep feeding birds and finally bert would go do i really have to say those lines and kurt would say i'll say those and. he was he was brilliant kirk was a lovely cat yeah 103 charming i know what you know an amazing life and he became the old but tough guy after his stroke the way you handle it i see you and i doing this is one of the 4. maybe i don't know when you when you hit 60 let me know just go quick when johnny carson gets pulled over for drunk driving in 1972 sorry officer didn't know i was swerving and i had to schlep 3 monkeys at the whole can cook. one of those bourbon i just l

reynolds pictures because he was, he believed himself to be a good friend of burt reynolds . >> and he told a lot of stories you have his stories moving into this because he fabricated. >> yes, he was an incredible fabulist and part of this was harmless, you just made up stories about everything and what was interesting is realizing as i was working on this that libraries are about the essential human need for story. it is the essential unit of human interaction. it's the stories we tell ourselves, it's the stories we share with each other. it's the stories we save and preserve and pass on. to the next generation. so having the young man at the center of this crime story be in his own way a extravagant storyteller, felt like it had a great deal of residence with the theme of the book, of this idea that our lives are all stories. >> so as a journalist, as an author, just how do you get the real library bug? most people would say like you said, a book about a library. >> right. and the writing, i became so passionate about this subject, i felt like every aspect of it fascinated me. th

maybe wave it around a little. [ laughter ] my friend burt tanner runs the hotel. us a few rooms because we sold him some closets for his high-roller suites. zebrawood, heated sock drawer, the works. hey, luxury bathroom, it's me, lowly closet. watch your back. mitchell? langham? hey, cam, it's langham and tim! hi! hi! hey! what are you boys doing here? bachelor-party weekend. we're getting married in june. what? oh, we really wanted to invite you, but tim's family is huge -- relax. we're getting married in may and you're not coming, so...

this comes from burt reynolds -- rand's number two. machines, about the oneav bertrand had this polish fig machine even to him in warsaw -- fake machine given to him in warsaw in 1939. it was crucially important to build more of these fake enigma machines. when the polish team reached him later in 1939, bertrand requisitioned, or put in an order and his favorite manufacturing company in paris for additional enigma machines. quote -- itgot the was very expensive -- for what he was ordering, in april 1940. that was like three weeks before the germans arrived. omehow, miraculously, bert rand managed to convince the manufacturing company to continue with its work and they managed -- and he managed to pay them even though they were working in the occupied part of france. by the early part of 1942, he of begun to take delivery parts of fake enigma machines made by this factory. them into theng unoccupied zone, bits at a time, where they were reassembled by shadow -- in his chateau in the south of france 1942, thee summer of polish had create

snorkel when they good swimming and can pick up a person clip the use you use your thumb and for finger burt we used to think the rumbling sound they made was indigestion. wasn't anything such thing. it was subsonic communications. it's now called silent thunder. and they send messages to herds of elephants that are far, far away, maybe it's a drought and they found a water hole and they tell those elephants who are long way away, you can come here and get something to drink, or today the chinese are capturing baby elephants from places and taking them to national parks and if the babies are being captured, places in africa, the wardens report that you can find another herd, all the way at the end of the park, up against the fence, trembling, because they have heard from these elephants our babies are being taken. the little mouse, ultrasound vibrations, a mechanism only sunshine our idea engines, we can't hear it but their friend can. chimpanzees can outsmart college students in memory tests. you put a smarty pants college student there and a young chimpanzee next to them, put symbols or nu

might have been burt reynolds and to explain audiobooks are not only for the blind or lazy we could onlyeam of prime time adds or a new york times best seller list for audio. >> i love my work with the industry and while he may compete with each other when it comes to driving the auto industry forward we have locked arms and work together so for all of you for what we have accomplished together. i will be watching. thank you. [applause] >> let me welcome to the stage new york times best-selling author, her next novel and audiobook published may 2020. welcome to the stage. [applause] >> so when they told us to be celebrity judges would have some moments the cutest story that i know about audiobooks and then to grow up with their family so put that in your head. what is better than one narrator? multiple. we are here together to create an intermittent performance for the listener the finalist for multi- voice performance are >> the audie goes to simon & schuster. [applause] >> . . . .the absolute rightnes. [applause]. performed by. [inaudible]. [applause]. have a nice day by billy crystal.

and sometimes, like burt williams and his partner, walker, george walker, sometimes they had to kind of kowtow to the expectations at the beginning of the career just as they were getting started and write songs that were demeaning and watermelons and the kind of things that were expected of them. but as soon as they got traction and they got clout and white producers and theater owners wanted them because they brought in the crowds, they started to tone down the material. and walker, george walker was a very bright man. unfortunately died quite young. wrote about this rather explicitly. i quote him in the book somewhere. and the -- williams, burt williams who went on to star in movies and lasted until the 1920s was quite explicit about it. that was their way of getting started, getting the economic power to be able to tone down, and by later in his career he was singing songs and writing songs that were about the human condition. they weren't about race. they were about things that anybody could relate to. so once -- it was sometimes a way of getting in the door. >> mm-hmm. >> and t

back in nearly days a rare celebrity performance might have been burt reynolds doing an abridged westerndove audio. we had to explain audiobooks were not only for the blind or the lazy and we could only dream, could only dream of prime time ads or a new york times bestseller list for spoken word audio. we have come a long way. [applause] >> i have loved my work as audible and my work with this group in this industry. i always treasured the fact that while we may compete with each other for particular projects, when it comes to driving the audio industry forward we have locked arms and worked together. you honor me tonight, i honor you for what you have accomplished together. i'm sure there are many advancements to come. i will be watching and listening, thank you. [applause] >> let me welcome to the stage celebrity judge emma straub, best-selling author of the vacationers and modern lovers, the next audiobook, all adults here will be published in may of 2020. welcome to the stage. >> high. when they told us we celebrity judges would have a few moments to ad lib. i thought the cutest stor

hospitals and other local nonprofits will receive them one available or >>the seal ucl >>in places like burt freeman is the founder and executive director of one dollar for life his organization has an office in the south bay and at a news conference in san jose wednesday. he says once travel bans are lifted someone 1000 masks will be imported to the united states for distribution to bay area medical staffers in need including coastal kids home care or nursing organization serving santa clara county. brenda be raul designed the washable masks made of cotton to make it would not. >>in fact hospitals where they're working on it as which cost about $0.30 to and in paul freeman says the workers producing the masks are getting paid 50% more than their respective national average wages. he says local grants are paying for the masks to be made and shipped to the united states that money will also pay to replace when it sent out. >>so that locals in the developing countries also receive mask seas will be able to be used over dollar for life says 9,000 masks have already been made and that they're sa

back in the early days the rare celebrity performance might have been burt reynolds doing an abridgeddove audio. we explained the audio books were not only for the blind or that they see we could only dream, weou could only dream of primetime ads or "new york times" bestseller list for spoken word audio. we have indeed come a long way. [applause] i have loved my work at audible in my work with this group in this industry. i've always treasured the fact that while we may have particular competes to deal terms of the comes to drive in the audio industry forward we have locked arms and work together. will you honor me tonight i salute all of you for what we have accomplished together. i'm sure there are many more exciting advancements to come. i'll be watching and listening. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> would the welcome to the stage celebrity judge emma straub the near times best-selling author of the vacationers and modern lovers for your next novel in audio book all adults here will be published in may 2020. welcome to the stage emma straub. [applause] >> hi. when they told us

. >> reporter: burt's marketplace in downtown detroit has been a staple in the african-american communityamas hangs inside. for voters here, tuesday's election is another critical moment. >> we're praying like hell that vice president biden is the nominee. >> is he just automatically a shoe-in with the african-american community? >> no. >> reporter: latrice murphy is leaning towards sanders. >> bernie sanders was marching beside martin luther king. so i feel that he could get the african-american vote because he was basically down in the trenches with us. >> reporter: in matter who voters are supporting on tuesday, one thing the voters we spoke to said that they could all agree on is that they would support the democratic nominee no matter who it is, because their number one priority, jake, is beating donald trump come november. jake? >> vanessa, thanks so much. our coverage continues on cnn right now. thanks for watching. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. we're following breaking news on the coronavirus pandemic. concern about the econom

let's bring in burt flic flicki.get what we need. >> shoppers want to get full stock, they should go to lowe's, the stores open at 6:00 in the morning. they have their own warehouses, their own trucking fleets. they can send their own trucks to clorox, send full truck loads to the stores, they have multiple daily deliveries. they're always in stock. they are taking care of the customer. so unlike their competitor, doing billions of dollars of stock buybacks, lowe's is investing working capital and inventory to take care of the pros and the consumers. bj's, chris baldwin, we strong and doing the same thing, bj's opens at 9:00 in the morning. weekdays and weekends. albertson's is going to do a successful ipo, they're doing a great job taking care of the customer. retailers that own its own warehouses, trucking fleets, and do around the clock distributions to the stores, the night crews pack out at midnight, viewers should go to the stores between 7:00 in the morning and 9:00 a.m. they'll get the products. lauren: not e

let's bring in to the conversation right now, burt flickiflickinger.l environment is faring? >> the winners are the ones who invest strategically the most in inventory, self-distribution, own warehouses and trucking and continuous replenishment. that's why target missed because it outsources distribution. the flick's picks for winners, walmart self distribution, lowe's, bj's wholesale club, perfect in terms of replenishment. if you look at the stores being wiped out, it's also noticeable today the best suppliers are helping the best retailers. color rocks, fan -- clorox fantastic numbers you reported earlier. whether it's them or their competitors, disinfectant wipes, bleach, everything -- maria: it's a good point, yeah. >> c george gordon taught us public school students back in buffalo, everybody should wash his or her hands, 30% of people aren't washing hands. there's great conge consumer aws from vice president pence, the president, dr. fauci so clorox will win. lowe's will get there. kohl's, michelle's great partnership not only with planet fitnes

burt. >> depends on what you want. >> i want you. >> i'm in the jail house now. [ laughter ] >> bryantncluding the charge brought against her. she got her one phone call and a mug shot. the birthday girl only spent a few minutes in the jail cell before going back to her assisted living center. and those are your headlines. >> she's amazing. >> that is one heck of a bucket list. >> pretty cool. >> to each their own. >> to each their own. >> we've got another great subject here. jed, you've been busy. >> yes. i spoke at wagner college, which is where i did my undergraduate work on staten island on tuesday. it was great. it was fun. we did a dinner with the students and some of the administration members. then i talked about personal responsibility. i talked about health care. let's go a little bit to that. >> it's just a bunch of people in buildings making decisions for you. why are you, if you're an independent minded citizen who feels they can take care of themselves, why would you trust someone you don't know to decide what's best for your life, your family's life many we do need heal