correct erik williams. the last person to turn in a speaker cards -- >> erik williams, the last first person to turn in a speaker cards. >> if we are talking about the alternative on the right-hand lane and making it a transit- only lane, saving the agency millions upon millions of dollars for operations, i think one would think about that first. we are giving the police department $16 million to make sure lanes are open, make sure bus lanes can't follow accordingly -- can follow accordingly. tuesday that it is going to help with traffic, to say that it is going to help all of the above -- at what cost? this agency is going to hemorrhage millions. we are going to invest again. i appreciate the effort by whoever put this in again, but we are hemorrhaging millions already. we can just make that right hand lane bus only with the enforcement that we give $16 million a year to. let's think about this. are we seriously -- and i hear from the public. i have to work hand in hand with the public and the agency, but

erik salgado. also tonight, serving as our judge and scorer, the executive director of the national scrabble association, john d. williams> jimmy: what are you guys laughing at? you don't know what that means. >> that's supposed to be my job. >> jimmy: are you familiar with julia and her work? have you seen "seinfeld?" >> i've heard of it. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: okay. >> just sit back, you're about to get your ass whooped. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: he's right. it's happened before, hasn't it? now, go ahead and why don't you take a tile out of that, see who is going to lay our times down first. julia, if you would be so kind to draw a tile for us. >> i would be so -- >> jimmy: what did you guys get? >> a t. >> jimmy: not too good. that stands for too bad. we got an s. >> you go first. >> jimmy: that's right. throw these times back in there. guillermo, shake it up. you nope how to do it, right? just maracas. >> jimmy: julia, draw seven tiles. >> am i doing this? >> jimmy: i'll put them down. i'll put them down, grab more. we need three more. >> coming, coming. my god, i'm terrified. i really am. i'm not kidding. >>

erik larson. there is another book called hitler land. i can't get enough of them. i am utterly fascinated. i think one of the greatest books of the 20th century was the rise and fall by williamshire. he was writing it on real-time as he was there. you think about what was there. by the time we got involved in the war, germany had already dominated poland. they were beginning to take on russia at that point. they slept through most of central europe and into france, and hitler had no rest and ambition than to occupy this country. thank goodness for britain, they hung on. i'm preparing an essay about what it was like in britain in 1941 and there's another book written about the american ambassador and how they were so helpful to winston churchill. we went back and tried to re-create the climate that existed then. it is so evocative to stand in this extraordinarily modern city of wonder. and also to remember that during the firebombing, the hundred thousand people were killed, and the model was keep going, carry on. and they would walk through the streets to the shelters when there was a bombing raid. and it was that that the author would record in the background of all that, w