jim shows us a hack use egghead lamp and jug of water. >> it'll burn for at least ten hours just on the double-batteries that are in here right now. and this can be instant light. >> reporter: your garage door opener will not work. so you'll need to figure out how to open it manually. maybe people will be buying their first gen r renerator. generator. run it ide, and away from combustible material. >> you didn't even know that you had to keep those outside. >> no, it's a new learning curve. i never in my life thought i'd have to get a generator! and that's why i'm asking all the questions. how safe is it? >> reporter: so the emergency operation center here opening up at 8:00 am tomorrow. the city of san jose has opened up three community centers as outreach to the citizens. >> will bart be running tomorrow morning? yes, it will. and that's because the transit system has its own power substation substations. the airports will be open, andhe toll bridges. no free rides across the bay. gas pumps, line snaked around the parking lot at the concord costco today. in case the pumps are not work

part of what i'm trying to do is reach, in my own egghead way is to reach and not in the way that yould but as a politician to reach people who might be susceptible to hearing about judging attitudes. we go back to gay marriage, it's been done. there was a point in which people of a certain age would have even thought about that. like what? of course that's wrong. and that has changed. >> this has been a great conversation.i got a lot out of it, thank you so much. >> thank you. thank you so much for coming. [applause] [inaudible background conversations] you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. booktv was on hand at politics and prose bookstore in washington dc where cbs news legal analyst kim whaley discussed her book "how to read the constitution and why". here's a portion of her talk. >> a monarchy traditionally the power comes from god. if you slay the monarch on the battlefield and the jolly shares of england the idea is god decided you would be king. or clean. the power comes from god, the peo

over time, it is not just the bespectacled eggheads. if the guys driving nuclear subs talk about it this way or folks driving spy planes, the folks at space command, you sit down and they call themselves space warriors. the latest phraseology today. it is not theoretical but is playing out in real terms. and to confront it. it is not as visible or tactile were that kind of thing, hard to get money spent on that kind of things. forget about the money part. it is harder to focus attention and concocting strategies and taking some of the steps. and in 2015, general john heighten, the head of strategic command went out there and raised the alarm about this and in classified session, got to get together. and those folks are thinking in those terms. >> i mike nelson. when i did a washington dc scan of your book. >> how many did you buy? >> the index makes clear this is a comprehensive look and you haven't talked about that. one is in the arctic, norway is and you talk for several phases about what russians have been doing to claim the arctic