she was inspired by dickens to you can tell. yes. all right.ovides a huge boost to the local economy, generating a nearly $1 million each year. the great dickens christmas fair takes place every weekend through december 22nd. if you're talking about the dickens fair, you got to be talking about the holiday season, but it just doesn't feel like it. rob looks like it outside around christmas in the park. but you're right, terry. it's 60. that does not feel much like christmas outside after a high today of 70. in san jose. more 70s on the way and i'll show you why. we may have to wait a while f been here before? or haven't been here at all? your next favorite thing about this place is waiting to be discovered. did you know you can do this? ... pretty cool, right? ... and you don't want to miss that. you can also ride this ... and then race on over to do this... and before you leave? you definitely wanna see that. you order the snapper or the swordfish, but that's not what ends up on your plate. new testing shows it's happening a lot in parts of th

you saw the dickens festival there? that was indoors. if you have been wearing those elaborate costumes outside, you might have been a little too hot today. you know, san jose, for example, one spot today that managed 70 degrees on the first day of december. and if you like the weekend weather, well, there's more to go as we head through at least the middle part of the week with temperatures around the santa clara valley likely to stay in those upper 60s and low 70s. right now, not too chilly out at christmas in the park. 58 degrees there in san jose. as we take you over to dublin, it was just a couple nights ago at this hour. we were in the upper 30s, but not the case right now. 50 degrees high, earlier of 66 up towards san rafael. less clouds tonight, still 51 degrees and around san francisco. some partly cloudy skies, currently 57. so we've got dry weather in place and one of the side effects of strong high pressure. unfortunately, this time of year is a winter spare the air alert. this is for smoke pollution building up and you proba

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let's hear it for our adorable elves and our dickens era carolers. you, the live studio audience. give yourselves a round of applause. >> i am tom shillue. >> merry christmas to all and to all a good night's.

es una feria que sumerge a los invitados en un mundo inspirado en el famoso escritor charles dickensste día con el estilo tan particular de ellos, o sea, lleno de color. ya son 10 años que llevan realizando este evento que también busca reflexionar sobre este padecimiento y también recordar a esos amigos, a esos seres queridos y vecinos que murieron a causa de esta enfermedad. bueno, el distrito castro no fue el único lugar donde se conmemoró esta fecha. también se unieron otras partes de la ciudad en esa zona, precisamente en un tema en el que se necesita mucha conciencia y sobre todo mucha educación para saber de este padecimiento y apoyar también a los que estén padeciendo mucha vocación. fátima y también mucha, mucha habilidad y conocimiento para poder entonces trabajar junto con estas personas y ser empáticos sobre todo. qué bueno que hubo también líderes locales apoyando esta causa. gracias a ustedes por su sintonía. los esperamos esta noche con más noticias en punto de las 11 aquí en noticiero telemundo california musica gracias. >> esta tarde en noticias telemundo, no da treg

si necesita un evento que le ayude a entrar en ese ambiente, sepa que la feria navideña de great dickenslos preparativos para romper el récord guinness de la margarita más grande del mundo. serán 40.000 litros de sabor. tradición y esfuerzo compartido en la gran margarita cachanilla. el actual récord lo tiene las vegas, con una preparación de 32.000 litros de esta bebida típica mandaron de de guinness world record. las especificaciones. desafortunadamente, como venimos a romper un récord, algo que ya existe, pues nosotros tenemos que primero cumplir con esos lineamientos y luego sumarle. y como escuchamos la elaboración de la bebida tendrá estrictas medidas de salubridad y los ingredientes clave para un sabor único proveniente de baja california. el evento tomará lugar del 11 al 13 de julio, pero se lo estamos contando desde ya porque los boletos están a la venta. feliz esta noche en noticias telemundo. el presidente joe biden indulta a su hijo hunter biden, quien serÍa sentenciado en unas semanas tras ser hallado culpable por delitos de posesiÓn ilegal de un arma y declararse culpable d

our neck showdown challenge features authentic dickens era carolers. come on out. to the music. our singers will sing a line from a classic christmas carol and you are going to have to continue and saying the next line. each answer is worth up to three points because you are going to be judged on music and lyrics. okay, are we ready? rachel, we will start with you. take it away, carolers. ♪ fa-la-la-la-la ♪ >> tom: sing it, you can help. ♪ don we now our gay apparel ♪ >> tom: it is a line, do you know the line? ♪ strike the harp and join the chorus ♪ >> tom: i'm going to give two points to the green team for that. you have a chance to really steal. three points on the board. take it away, carolers. when the snow lay round about. ♪ ♪ >> tom: what's the next line? 's payment you are looking at me? >> this is so obscure. >> everyone here knows the line. >> i'm going to give you a hand. this was a tough song. looked out on the feast of stephen, when the snow lay roundabout... it's about the snow. what kind of snow was roundabout? >> yellow. [laughs] >> this is so easy.

and it is important that this the aliens of dickens, the vile that they are going to protect the ship outside of music. we also are aware that there might be an issue with that see me going to who is the current president of protecting the disease that they are going to ensure that the molly, even with this phone said inside jesse is going to remain a concrete that the is independent and is not the last to me that might be the home of one of the most important freedom 5 does enough because more deep. okay. so this is the, what do you book a to is now the sergeant in the same you go eat the on risk on see is that that particular country is also moving in the direction of ensuring that they are liberated from frank domination on. once again, we know the modeling is a concrete that as a long history with some of the i took a the with the month, some was on the new chevy, buff knows the on supplies on, on in the area site. just to book to, you know, the money, we know that the major resources the same with the gwinnett going up, chris, which may not be described as being specifically in t

you'll find a lot of cultural doctor folks that was dickens from the kingdoms of been in. and this was to be found in countries such as nigeria, the gumby. i did not promise much, but was frontage to the extent that it was one of the outlets out there in the atlantic ocean. now becoming artillery, spar dies steadily, all was the same as a full, a number of minerals and was also nearer to the united kingdom on the ultimate who we know cool, cool was a major commodity that was being faded. i dont particular time. and when you tell us about how does buries talk late, you must never forget that it is big jump plate on the call call from gun. that was being used to open up a couple of funk restart just categories. so please, when you go to zimbabwe, which was also a separate community because of the weather that was there, you'd find a lot of things that was coming from that particular area of the textile industry was big in that area under of cost. we know that in uh, in the present day, uh, the zombie. uh, which was the noise under these. yeah. and was administered in for som

it's been ravaged by dickens long leadership struggle that has continued to claim lives, including investigators, husband. it was shot and killed recently. and i'm have the most painful thing is i haven't seen his body. his daughter keeps asking me mother, where is father? the christmas dates back to 1967. when i'm present king was the throne, an excise by government officials or difficult it was replaced by a member of the course isaac drive. while the majority is hooking into exist on a monthly basis, i'm on the list of the top dated up to 17, say $319.00 century, somewhere. 1958. when the tape testing was taken from different places in different sizes, we've gotten most view on the, the contrast is assessed the regions coordinators. we feel that they should be madeleine in most no to recognize the oratory team. that is there for the time to choose fall apart or thought to come, what is the minority member successor, rounded by the course sizes, and can only leave their on leave under military escort boys, an old trading hub, connecting gunner with burkina faso and total is that trade has slow

he is published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, abraham lincoln gore vidal, and now thomas jefferson in his masterly pen. kaplan offers us a biography of thomas jefferson by giving an english professor's kind attention to jefferson's written words. jefferson only published one book in his lifetime notes on the state of virginia. but, of course, jefferson wrote consul treatises like a summary view of the rights of british north america legal briefs, memoranda the declaration of independence, and above all letters, thousands of them, which kaplan calls among his most powerful and revealing writings throughout his masterly pen, kaplan brings a skilled biographers attention to how jefferson reveals himself through his writing, often without without intending to, as kaplan says of notes on the state of virginia. it's a book about jefferson partly because jefferson did not want it to, a book about himself. the jefferson we meet here is not surprisingly learned and forceful. but kaplan also shows this jefferson as a writer who's of

like like dickens and twain and so on and like out there and a great and glorious country. they're fascinated presidents, you know so of course and writing about lincoln i became very conscious of john quincy adams and and had to do of course with lincoln as the great emancipator and as adams someone who went through a long, a long life, born into the revolution and almost living through the civil war. and after you all this. so, so i became enthralled with adams's diaries. so among some of the great literature. both of of of of our literary writers of our historical and presidential writers. the diaries are so vivid, alive and then i did that book and i thought, well, the only other president who i have any interest interested in a writer is jefferson. he's the only, only other president who has contributed to the whose language his own self-created language has contributed to the american historical conscious. so we carry it with us and. so i said, why not? okay, i'll learn something about the 18th century. what do i know about it, you know. and again, this is the biograp

it for th let's hear it for our adorable elves and our dickens era carolers, and you, the live studio audience, give yourselves a round ofe st applause! i am tom shillue, merry christmas to all and to all a good night. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ tis the season when neighbors battle to see to see who can be brightest families. gather around the video screen for warmth, and people regift the cake that dare not speak its name. here are the ten most merry, festive, magical. jolly. peaceful, snowy, unwrapped. angelic tales of the holiday. who can forget christmas? >> are you ready to deck some halls? >> an entire evening of christmas specials, starting with the grinch who stole christmas. >> the annual christmas specials were an event. >> when you first see that advertisement, it's like frosty the snowman returns tuesday night. >> this was on once. if you missed it, you were screwed. >> mom, mom, can we watch that? can we watch that? mom. >> on sunday, december 4th, burl ives again tells the exciting new story of rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. >> i was obsessed with claymation, and the rudolph the red nosed

. >> a christmas carol and charles dickens, which you might not think it but is kind of the preeminentchristmas horror story. >> but it was 1974. black christmas, about a serial killer hiding in a sorority house that brought holiday horror to the masses. hello? >> pulls on that old like urban legend about the call is coming from inside the house. that is always frightening. >> there are no elements of hallmark in that one. >> no, black christmas is really scary. billy the killer you never see. he's really just, like, kind of an eyeball and a creepy voice. >> by the 1980s, the christmas slasher had gone mainstream with the release of silent night, deadly night in 1984. >> you've made it through halloween now. try and survive christmas. >> that seemed like a watershed moment for this subgenre. >> it was a big moment. it came at a time where a lot of things were converging, because you had this idea of a of a santa with an ax. he's killing people willy nilly. the tv advertisements were famously run during football games and daytime tv. >> little house on the prairie, the film sparking a w

most people, after a little adjustment, do not find it hard to read charles dickens, even though he is in for victorian, but there is another aspect to emerson's writing having to do with how he assembled these essays which really opened my eyes and in a way made me so much more tolerant towards this. their number is lost, but towards the sum of the characteristics of his prose that can be hurdles for a modern reader. i will read a passage about these compositional methods and then speak to you a little more about that. oh, the thing to say at the beginning, because i start, i'm talking about this at the beginning of this passage -- he really was a man who lived and died by the sentence as a writer. you know, he likes the small, extremely compact, concise expression. sometimes he works by the paragraph and there are many, many incredible mounting paragraphs in his work, but you consider the sentence really his unit of thought and his unit of composition. and so, this passage begins with a little bit about that. as a writer, had almost 0 interest in telling protected tales or tales of a

just as we do when we read dickens. i mean, most people after will little adjustment don't find it hard to read charles dickens even though he's another victorian, but there's another aspect to emerson's writing having to do with how he assembled these essays which really opened my eyes in a way, made me so much more tolerant towards this. they're not really flaws, but toward some of the contactics of his prose that can be hurdles for a modern reader. i'm going to read a composition about these, and speak to you a little more about them. oh, the thing to say at the beginning because i start -- i'm talking about this right at the beginning of this passage, is that he really was a man who lived and died by the sentence as a writer. you know, he likes the small, extremely compact, precise, and sometimes he works by the paragraph and there's many, many incredible mounting paragraphs in his work, but he considered the sentence really his unit of thought and composition, and so this passage begins with a little bit about that

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has said repeatedly all of the confidential scif level briefing he gets its tiktok that scares the dickens out of him. it's a very real threat. it's not simply about tiktok is an entity that has some type back to china there are plus factors with tiktok that we know from his own conduct there's a very serious problem. od and i, cia director, everybody in the national nationalsecurity apparatuses rae alarm on it. this is the bill with an appropriate response all of that. >> in the jurisdiction over communication network and the national security issues there. give us your perspective on how we ensure that our communication network safety and secure? >> tiktok in particular the main focus of action is going to be congress or other agencies other than the fcc that have some authorities as well. the way of approach of the fcc you look at national security threats generally we do have some expertise what it comes to dataflow and entities beholden beholdingto the ccp. we took action called the device layer and the action the fcc took. we then moved up took action at the carrier level we took act

and if it is going to put them in pages with a free country, then dickens bus that vote says they've rich as they've done in the last so many elections. so i think the right thing would be for the cos, choose the cortex, sir, to reconsider his decisions, which according to the legal export, would be questionnaire, especially as prefix back in touch said that the elect shows were free and fit the georgia school. the candidate guzman was number, has one shannon spread. hawkins to turn their own decision in 3 days. while i will . so now want to listen to some reaction that we're getting from romanian politicians. this is the moment when the romanian state trembled on democracy. god truce, the romanian people and the little will prevail. it's not about me. the economy is collapsing, you are destroying democracy. you are leading the country into ama key. we should have gone ahead with the vote, respect to the will of the romanian people. i strongly condemn what happened today . they destroyed everything that was achieved with great difficulty in the last 35 years. the ccr decision is ille

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we would be, my brother, sister, and i would be in our bathrobes and my sister would wear a little dickens like nightcap and we would come down and bow, my sister would curtsy to the guest and they would say that so cute. then they would send us back upstairs. if it was a big party we would be checked into a hotel. it was half being a kid and half being part of the guest, part of the family. >> tell me about both of your parents, as close as you can to being a kid. how did you perceive each of them when you were at that stage in your life? >> as i say in the epithet of the book, i have a quote for my father who ended up a very different man than the child we grew up with. i remember i was angry with him about something and he said, what can i say, i am just a work in progress. he was very much a work in progress when i was growing up. my impression at the time, my father was not terribly athletic , he was accused of being a touch feminine who loved movie stars and wanted everything to be just so production and designwise. as a kid growing up , he was an embarrassment. i wanted my friends,

we would be, my brother sister and i would be in our bathrobes, and my sister would wear a little dickens like nightcap, and we would come down and bow, and my sister would curtsy to the guest, and it all to go that's so cute. and then send us back upstairs. it was a big party, we'd be checked into a hotel. so, it was like half being a kid, and half. >> tell me a little bit, to being a kid. how did you perceive each of them when you were that stage in your life? >> as i say in the epithet of the book, have a quote from my father, who ended up a very different man than the child i grew up with. and i remember once saying, i was angry at him about something, and he said, the quote that i used is, what can i say, kid? i'm just a work in progress. and so, he was very much a work in progress. so, my impression at that time was, my father was not terribly athletic, maybe even accused of being a touch effeminate, who loved movie stars and wanted everything to be just so, production design,he was an embarrassment. my best friends, their fathers were movie stars, one was jack pallets who almost ki

my brother, sister, and i would be in our our our bathrobes and and my sister would wear a little dickens like nightcap, and we would come down and bo and, my sister would curtsy to the guests and they'd go, oh, that's so cute. and then send us back upstairs. or if it was a big party, we'd be checked. a hotel. so it was. so it was like, you know, half a kid and half being part of the guests, you know, part of the family. tell me a little bit about both of your parents, as close as you can to being kid. you know, how did how did perceive each of them when you were when you were at that stage, your life? well, you know, as i say in the in the epitaph of the book, i have a quote from my father who was very ended up a very different man than the child. i grew up with. and i remember once saying i was angry at him about something and he said the quote i use is, what can i say? i'm just a work in progress. and so he was very much a in progress. you know, when i was when i was growing up. uh, so my impression at that time was my father was not terribly athletic, maybe even of being a touch effem

books by mark twain, charles dickens. helping you to understand life beyond racism. one other thing i want to say, books a very important, but today since so many young people are visually stimulated, i think looking at documentaries regarding history and the world is very important. and by the way, "things fall apart," those are the things that i wanted to talk about. the emphasis is very important. one other thing quickly. i've been working with understanding how fourth-graders and eighth-graders, assessing how they read and react, and i tell you, if kids can't read before the third grade and understanding what they read, it is very difficult for them to analyze what they read. thank you. guest: i absolutely read a lot of classics going up, a lot of the books that you mentioned. walt whitman and ernest hemingway, ralph emerson. so many things that shaped my understanding. the key pieces that you mentioned our analysis, being able to not only read the works, but have a further understanding and have concepts of how it all plays out in history, really expand your hor

your head ♪ ♪ you'd wake up every morning in a big old feather bed like a house ♪ ♪ i've read in dickensming clear there's no way we're going to find that here ♪ [ cheers and applause ] this is nightline. >> tonight. holiday. grinches. tis the season for porch pirates. swiping your packages. targeting expensive new iphones. even dressing like delivery drivers. >> he was actually wearing a fedex shirt. >> it's a stealing frenzy,ba

. >> christmas carol is the classic story written by charles dickens in 1843. >> merry christmas to you, uncle. god save you. >> i'm bound. and it has gone on to become the most adapted work of literature in the english language. >> what reason have you to be merry? what right have you to be merry? >> you're poor. a lot of what we see as christmas stories are retelling in a different way, with different characters. the dickensian a christmas carol. >> you don't like christmas much, do you? >> christmas carol holds the greatest archetype. >> ebenezer scrooge, he looms as large as santa claus does. >> scrooge is a meaty role, and a lot of actors have taken it on. albert finney, alastair sim and george c scott, patrick stewart, michael caine, bill murray. >> ebenezer scrooge is shakespearean in his interpretive possibilities. >> everyone wants to take a crack at scrooge. >> it's like a great character that you measure yourself against. >> you want all day tomorrow? i suppose if it's quite convenient, sir, it's not convenient. >> one of the enemies of christmas is greed, and dickens is resp

i quote from the dickens classic because sometimes it feels like we are living in a tale of two narrativesthe news broke on both of those big stories the inevitable social media opinions follow suit. on the daniel penny acquittal new york city council member tiffani kuban said this. jordan neely deserved better than the violence of being denied access to stable axing -- housing and health care and then being dehumanized for him. but then readers gave him -- her a bit of a fact-check by x community notes. they pointed out he nearly got a plea deal after punching a 67-year-old woman in 2021 and did get free access to housing and health care but he bolted from the facility after 13 days. like clockwork tiffany locked down her ex account so only her followers can see her posts. too bad for us. then, after the made for social media outburst from luigi mangione after police custody we have a lot of armchair marxists celebrating the murder of a ceo, meanwhile you have people talking merchandise supporting an accused killer. and then you have the ever reasonable rachel. >> why would you be in such

charles dickens. figgy pudding. what is that? who has that? they used to be everywhere.'d find them at, at, at shops and grocery stores. of course, in your neighborhood, from door to door. i mean, at first, when you're a kid and you see carolers come, you're like, oh, this is nice. and there's a little snow outside. they're singing christmas songs. they seem really, really happy. then you realize those neighborhood people are drunk. and they're on the best bar crawl in the neighborhood. is that mr. adam berry stumbling? that's always a good idea, probably to have a drink or two beforehand. there's a social awkwardness with caroling. you see that house down the road that we've never been to and we have no idea who lives inside there. you knock on the door and you see the guy who's just had the worst day of his life. he's like, really? you got to start with the deck, the halls. oh, geez. these are slurred voices of amateurs. and they go on and on, particularly as they do the 12 days of christmas. nothing against the song. it's wonderful. okay. but it's also 9 minutes and 1

first, today is -- in 1843, charles dickens published "a christmas carol" for the first time.s that day, an anniversary of that day. this seems like the exact opposite of the message of that novel that he wrote, bankly saying taking a rich person and saying this is what life looks like when you don't care about other people, and then obviously redeeming that person into sort of saying, yeah, mankind is my business in the course of this. this is the exact opposite of that message. you have a billionaire and a multimillionaire in elon musk and vivek ramaswamy who were not even elected. this is what i don't seem to understand. they weren't even elected. they t even require senate approval in what they're doing, but seem to have control over elements of the government in this. the idea that they're telling basically republicans who seem to be skittish about it that the best interest of the american -- of americans is to shut the government down, which is, you know, quite ironic that a billionaire is trying to tell some working class person is this is what's in your best interest i