i feel honored that we call it those in the know or good friends of mine call at this time energizer bunnyhe book that somehow kept going all these yeersz. i will tell you up front it was a book i thought that may be they wouldn't publish. my very first book was women of the silk. i knew that i was writing about something that was a little bit different because i didn't know about the women of the silk until i wanted to write something telling their story much the second book is the test book for us writers you hear that a lot where the publishers are wondering if the author has a second book. everybody here i feel sitting here all of you have one book in you. whether it's a family story or your story whether it's ancestors whether it's your history you want to write about. but it's the second one that's hard. i felt that when i turnod the computer and thought, now i have to write book number 2. i had in mind that i wanted to write something very different from women of the silk that was strictly about the feminist chinese women during the turn of the century and i wanted to write about my

you know jump off, i was samurai's garden, i said it was an energizer bunny. danville shoes samurai's garden the end of last year. they had the danville theatre which is a nice theatre and they were doing roamioand juliette and there was me in the middle of a balcony. it was a nice audience when i walked in my brain was exat that timic, look at the people here. it's almost as good as last years. i said who did you choose last year. and the year before. and told me. i said do you realize they are dead already? >> i'm alive and shouldn't i pull in a little more? [laughter] to go off, thank you for coming. >> my pleasure. i just this month read your book dreaming water. and i was -- i'm very glad to have read it. i'm wondering 2 things. there seems to be more of an advocacy voice in terms of the discrimination of being you know an asian american. and secondly, warner's disease. i'm wondering how you got into writing about that? and the characters were wonderful. >> okay. your first question, first. you know to be totally honest, when i sat down to write dreaming

like the energizer bunny ron paul keeps going and going and going despite suspending his official campaign in may run paul still has his sights set on the republican national convention in tampa florida next month after winning a plurality of republican delegates from iowa maine minnesota louisiana ron paul needs to win a plurality of nebraska's delegates on sunday in order to secure a fifteen minute speech at the republican convention a speech he would use to influence the platform of the republican party but taking a barrage of his delegates may not be that easy mitt romney's camp is flooding in nebraska with advertisements and phone calls in an attempt to avoid what could be a major embarrassment and a previous state republican conventions in nevada and louisiana clashes between romney and paul supporters. even resulted in violent confrontations. early. thirty's you're. right. right right right you know that my i'm going to write a. book. that you know that you know the threat of violence like this between the two campaigns has prompted nebraska republican officials to step up security

. >> i remember someone once called you the energizer bunny of television news.know. thank you, wolf. look forward to it. >> keep going and going and going. >> you do. it's good stuff. >> you're working hard too. i see you in the morning, in the afternoon. >> eh. got big shoes to fill when it comes to you as my partner. okay. so the summer olympics just a few weeks away. london's gearing up to get the medals ready for the thousands of athletes showing up. and they are the biggest and most expensive medals ever. beautiful. so how much gold is actually in the gold? it turns out not so much. and wait until you hear what the bronze is really made of. here's jim bolden. >> reporter: the royal mint may be owned by the british government, but that was no guarantee it would win the contract to make the 4,700 medals to be presented at the london olympic and paraolympic games. the mint says it beat out more than two dozen other contenders. to make sure the medals have a real british connection. >> this wasn't about making money. we make quite a decent range of commemorativ

. >> i have never seen her give up, at no point in time, she is like the energizer bunny. >> for hern inspiration she credits the sacrifice and generosity of for mother and grandmother. >> they taught me at a very earned lee h. how important it is to give back. >> so for lending a hand to 10,000 oakland children, the jefferson award in the bay area goes to d. johnson. >> she is accepting donations of supplies in cash for the backpack give away. august 25th if you would like to help or nominate a local hero for jefferson award, you can do that on cbssf.com. click on connect and then go down to the bottom of the page to find the email nomination form. >> fourth of july right here in the bay area for those of you taking notes at home, highs in the bay area stretched from 65 degrees along the coast and in half moon bay. 92 degrees in vaccaville, low ninety's in fairfield and take a look at the embarcadero, right now as preparations began for tonight's 9:30 p.m. fireworks display. we will have the forecast. but look at that. two west of the embarcadero, it is overcast. we have a veil of l

. >>> here is some proof that the energizer bunny isn't only thing that just keeps going and going and1966 volvo sports coup that belongs to irvan gordon of long island, new york. >> gordon and his beloved volvo are closing in on the 3 million mile mark. yes, i read that right. 3 million mile mark. he only has about 34,000 miles to go. he expects to surpass that milestone sometime next year. >> that's incredible. this may be the best part though. gordon bought the car for $4,150. and i think it is fair to say he got his money's worth. >> isn't that something? >> 3 million. are you kidding me? >> yes. i have a volvo. and i have about 73,000 miles on it. i thought i was doing pretty well. i am going to drive it into the ground. >> that is proof of the old saying, they don't build them like they used to. not anything today is going to go 3 million miles. nothing. nothing. >> it looks good. >> looks great. keep on riding, man. $4,100. man. >>> all right. coming up next, drivers call her a hero, but the police busted her. your comments about a speed trap whistle blower. >>> and the life-lon

me.to >> she is eating and enjoying it.g >> her parents say she is so active, she could give the energizer bunnyrun for its money. >> but they have the perfect shot there. >> a lovely dress, too. >> go myfoxdc.com and sends uss enyour pictures. 64 in manassas, and let's see energy the mountains,mou winchester, 68 degrees.st should be a relatively comfortable. it won't be cool, but seasonalt with highs in the upper 80s to about 90. do have clouds working through at the moment, and will be a partly sunny afternoon with a few scattered showers ors hothunderstorms bubbling up her, but most of the day, much of this week should feature quiete weather as we don't havedo anything too extreme going on in the mid-atlantic going on. here's your five day, 90 thisur afternoon, occasional scatteredf showers or storms developing. tuesday, wednesday, thursday,esa less humidity for the end of the week. that's weather.ther let's do traffic and get a last look on the morning commute. >> we have a lot happening right now, specially to the east, thi, is where i have accident activity, northbound i-97 at 32, tieing u