fiction than nonfiction. and it's too easy to shoot down nonfiction if you have a slight fact wrong or something happens on a tuesday instead thursday and you discount the whole thing. i wanted to relay the emotional content and import of this time and this place in our country's history. and fiction lent itself very well to doing that. and as far as navigating the painful and would have been no matter how i would have done t. i think it was more painful in fiction because i wanted to capture the emotion. it was worth it to me and because so much of african-american stories are verbal i was so intent on putting something down in writing from a different point of view. >> we have time for one more question and lalita will with in the lobby signing books. >> i had an opportunity to be in horn lake, mississippi this year this summer i was at a hotel with my family. jim crow was gone. this was at a time there was a little league tournament and children were playing with children of all races the accommodations we

fiction has to have the life blood running through it of the real world and none of your intentions. would like to reader to take away from it a sense that this was an extended reflection on our human nature. i mean, i don't just think we're fools. we're incredibly clever. we make amazing medicines. we're capable of extraordinary acts of -- amazing machines. we're capable of extraordinary acts of love and kindness. but also short-term thinking. it is a reflection on human nature. tavis: the new one from perennial best selling author ian mcewan, the book is called "solar." ian, good to have you on the program. i appreciate it. um next on this program, former "deadwood" star, timothy olyphant. stay with us. tim estimate a talented actor whose credits include "deadwood" and "damages." his latest spronlt the new fx series "justified." here now a scene from "justified." >> let him go. >> just wait one second. consider the situation, shall we? i am a deputy, a united states marshall. we don't do these things alone, either. you know i got back-up. listening to everything right now on a litt

for these seekers it's more than just science fiction.mong the merely curious are also serious astrophysicists, astro biologists, astronomers, science fiction writers and astronauts. >> the science fiction is there because it's about ideas. so that's a great thing. but we're fundamentally about the hard research. where's the data? you think might be true? you think we might be able to go to the stars that way? you think they may have come here? let's look at the data. >> seti-con runs through tomorrow at the hyatt regency in santa clara county. >>> the challenge, lift 90,000 pounds in just one hour. the woma attempting the feat is just 97 pounds. can she do it? >>> and we're still looking for some summer heat around the bay area. haven't been able to find much of that. is it coming in the next 7 days? we'll talk about that next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, mighty. 5-foot tall, 97- pound we enna ho >>> she may be small but she is mighty. 5 feet tall, 97-pound weightlifter, she added a third guinness world record to her credit today. she dead lifted

still, there's a little science fiction thrown in as well. >> the science fiction is there bus afterout ideas. so that's a great thing. but we're fundamentally about the hard research. look, where's the data? you think this might be true? you think we might be able to go to the stars that way? you think they may have come here? let's look at the data. >> if you're interested in going, it continues tomorrow. that's kind of weird. maybe you'll want to catch the panel discussion entitled "where bill gates' great great granddaughter will go for her honeymoon: the top tourist sites of the solar system." what if she wants to go to hawaii? >> with the little green people. >> she'll go to the discussion, throw that out. >> throw them a curveball.

i could not understand what it bothered with fiction. i read some and liked it, but the world was so much more complex than any fiction book i ever read except maybe the tale of benji. it was where you could go when it was too late in the house, which is, having an american family -- 99% of the time it was too crazy in the house. it was good to have that. i am hoping to do lots of stuff in libraries. my dream is to do things with little kids, things look older people, and having a right to write. i'm hoping to be able to do some of that. i am here -- i hope i will be here to serve the city. this is a great city, and in 1961 i had flown out to visit michael mcclure and stay with him. i was a single mother and came out on a prop plane that was supposed to get me to san francisco but got me to burbank, a little distance away, with a 4-year-old daughter. and i knew this was where i needed to be. coming and going was -- it was in my books. a move that permanently and thought of it -- my crazy husband, we took him back to the east coast. i shi

and then realized a, that real life in fiction is dead. it's inert. life is chaos, it has none of the symmetries and patterning of a novel. also that you can't write about your own sex life without being disgusting or at least embarrassing. there's just not... there isn't a voice that can do it. in fact, writing about sex may, indeed, be a dead end. i manage it there for in the sex that is described is pornographic in nature and there are various plot reasons why this is so. and it's perfectly easy to write about emotionless sex. but what has always defeated writers is... including lawrence and updike and everyone else who's really tried it is that you cannot... sex is deuniversallizing. >> rose: john harris and martin amis next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin this evening with a continue situation about our conversations about the obama presidency and the challenge the president faces. tonight we look at domestic politics, including the midterm elections and yeste

showing and the snot flying and my father wanted to portray football the way hollywood portrayed fiction. with a dramatic flair. >>sabol: and that became the style of nfl films. >>reporter: it's a style that's won nfl films 97 emmys, and proved a vital tool for the league's marketing team, back at nfl hq in new york... >>signora: nfl films is a hugely important part of the nfl. they are able to capture the essence ofour game and tell the story of our game like no-one else. >>reporter: the films are created here in new jersey. from the numerous edit suites to a sound stage able to hold a 72 piece orchestra, it's an impressive enterprise, that produces over a thousand hours of original programming every season, and covers more than 250 games, each with between 2 and 20cameras... >>swain: we can take any team, no matter how rotten they are. we can take any game, no matter how dull it is and i'm convinced that any of the producers here can make it into some sort of a compelling or at least entertaining bit of programming. >>reporter: and then there's the sound of football itself... >>sabol:

. >>> stranger than fiction. a tale of intrigue and a woman denied. but this stieg larsson story is real. the author died before his novel became an international best seller. but is bad blood keeping his lover from his millions? >>> and, hell on earth. unbearable heat, drownings and air so thick with smoke, you need a gas mask to breathe. an extraordinary dispatch from apocalypse now. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with martin bashir and cynthia mcfadden in new york city, and terry moran in washington, this is "nightline," august 6th, terry moran in washington, this is "nightline," august 6th, 2010. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. and we're going to begin tonight with a rag tag band of amateur adventurers that love nothing better than a vacation mired by rain, giant hailstones, especially a tornado. while everyone runs away from the storm, they run to it. thrill seekers looking for that next rush, and an up close look at the destructive beauty of mother nature. eric horng reports. ah, vacation. we all have our favorite memorie

georgian media fiction and reality. wealthy british style holds. the key. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on. the bummer of dead in the wall five sweeping russia rises to fifty two to step up the battle as flames approach areas can tell mated off of the chernobyl catastrophe . calls for a nuclear free world as it marks sixty five years since the atomic bomb which destroyed the city taking tens of thousands of lives. is being sworn in as bold and snoop president protests in central polish capital join us from warsaw for all the latest details. all say with the drought and finance raging in russia will be assessing the economic impact of pacific joining us with business update in about twenty minutes time. friday night here in moscow welcome if you just joined us here at. the top stories this hour and with the summer heat wave fueling wildfires in twenty two regions across russia the death toll has risen to fifty two more than three and a half thousan

georgian media fiction and reality. you're watching live from moscow and poland's new leader has been sworn in at a ceremony in warsaw run as he was elected in june after the former president and other senior officials were killed in a plane crash in russia and as a look for yourself give reports calls to keep a memorial cross dedicated to the late leader are overshadowing nor curation. we expect the country's new president to move on to his new residence inside the presidential palace in central war so the question is whether going to come out of steel would be able to get inside this presidential palace because now this whole area around the presidential palace essentially warsaw is filled with protesters we saw several dozen people gathered there and front of the presidential palace near that wouldn't cross which was mounted there off to the country lost its president and most of the country's political elite in april to commemorate the dead and these people are protesting and defending the cross from removal we know

the science fiction writer ray bradbury says the purpose of science fiction isn't to predict the future, it's to prevent the future that's described. i don't think the corps of engineers intended this report to fall into the category of great science fikds, but that's what happened. the present day bay looks more like this. bcdc was created to stop the uncontrolled filling of the bay and we've done that. in fact, we've reversed the shrinking of the bay. it's now 8,000 acres larger than it was 40 years ago and the conversion of salt ponds in the north and south bay to wetlands will make it another 26,000 acres larger. we are very proud of what we have accomplished. not all government agencies know what they are supposed to do. fewer even do it. we do. well, our smug self-aduration was interrupted last year in march when the california climate change center published a report titled, changing climate, assessing the risk to california. the report looked at 3 scenarios for cutting the amounts of emission that we pump into the atmosphere and depending on whether and how much green house gas

charge of media fiction and reality on our t.v. . hiroshima is marking the sixty fifth anniversary of the day it was devastated by u.s. launch nuclear attack more than one hundred forty thousand people died either in the blast or of radiation poisoning after the u.s. dropped the bomb in the final days of the second world war there was a surprise of the ceremony as the u.s. sent a representative the first time that's ever happened and un secretary-general ban ki moon was also they are to commemorate the anniversary and this trip was his first to the event as well despite the international attention there are still a group of victims in japan that are only now getting the help and recognition they deserve are to shun thomas and hiroshima and sent us this report. at eight fifteen in the morning on august sixth one thousand nine hundred forty five the united states destroyed the city of hiroshima instantly with an atomic bomb while not directly hit the people living in the surrounding area faced another danger black brain. that there was

think it's science fiction? it's very real and it's happening in one bay area city. >>> random attack or hate crime sp spree? in the east bay. >>> it wasn't a whale. i know what i saw. it was the real deal. >> jaws of death caught on tape. witnesses watch in awe at something out of animal planet plays out right in front of them and right here in the bay area. good evening, i'm lisa kim. >> i'm jessica aguirre. sea lion snack caught on tape. scary moments when a great white shark chomps on its prey at a popular surf break in pacifica. stunt witnesses watched in horror. tonight the warng signs are up, stay out of the water. nbc bay area's jean elie has the video and how that shark attack happened. and what swimmers are a little water shy. >> reporter: surfers paddle out at the beach in pacifica despite the shark warning signs posted on the beach. >> i surf all around here, mavericks, rock way, every local spot around here. and i've never seen a great white. >> reporter: this longtime surfer might ignore those warn

this has nothing to do with the eve fiction, so if that is what you want to talk about, we have -- with the erection, so if that is what you want it -- with velthe eviction, if that is what you want to talk about, we do not have that. >> amy. >> i think it is interesting to see the work you are trying to do and that you're not pursuing to deny the permit. that is it. i have been going several times a month. i never felt any danger. it is a really lively and avers crowd of dancers. i hope you can do anything you can. there is nothing in san francisco that is anything like jelly's. >> thank you very much. >> i moved here 12 years ago from new york. it spread quickly. it was were a homeless shelter used to be. they had an appreciation. it became among the regulars with people to connect as a cultural place. there is a community that has provided a place. it has become a place where one can express cultural and artistic means. they have been returning for an excess of 12 years. we can attend without feeling like we are in a nightclub. >> thank you very much. please restate your name. >> my

the idea is fiction. you found this in an underground garage similar to watergate tapes. give us a history of the book. >> larry, didn't ask for these diaries, they came to me. you're familiar with the watergate complex, right? been there, pedicure, manicure, in the salon there, yeah. i was coming back from a pedicure, and these -- this envelope of all these things that look like diary entries to me popped up on the hood of my suv. i was shaking, larry. trembling, frightening. i start looking through these things, looks like michelle obama's diary, barack obama's diary, joe biden's diary. it can't be. i'm looking at the last 18 months, health care reform, stimulus bill, auto bailout, trips to europe and so forth. and the diaries, lo and behold, match up to the historical narrative. i have tried to verify these with valerie jarrett, the president's senior advisor. i approached valerie jarrett, she claimed she had no knowledge of these diaries, after reading them myself, i understand why no one wanted to talk about them. that's all i can say. >> larry: why did you choose so

it all sounds like science fiction, but these really do contain organisms that can survive an hour -- in airspace. -- in outer space. >> aid is arriving but still not enough. pakistan has called on the world to step up to its response. officials are warning the floods and slow response represents an opportunity for militant groups. the taliban was driven out from one area by a major army offensive last year. >> a place of a stunning 3 d vehrs new stars. the floods -- bears new scars. many communities are caught off as they become so it has to be carried in punishing heat. we joined the track to one of the worst hit towns. where i am standing now they're used to be a hospital complex. like so many other vital parts, it has been washed away. it is clear a massive injection of aid will be needed and the fear is if people don't get enough support from the government, then others will be waiting to fill the vacuum. it is just a year since these people escaped the taliban. no one has forgotten the brutality and the headings, but desperation could give the militants a foothold. we met a band

. >> this is non-fiction, mostly? >> i read fiction as well. read poetry. >> you are a graduate of villanova. >> yes. >> theodore roosevelt's and the rise of america to world power. this is a series of lectures and it talks about -- the second part of this is how did roosevelt and his embrace of global power arrive at his convictions and become the first commander in chief actively to project american power around the globe? your book also talks about global power and how eisenhower and roosevelt fit into that. >> it was a series of lectures at johns hopkins. it is interesting to me because roosevelt's reputation was at a very low ebb at the time. this was the mid-1950's. there was a famous older prize- -- pulitzer prize-winning biographer of roosevelt, published by a man called henry pringle. he described him as a grown-up little boy roaming around the world and making trouble. if you ever have seen "arson and -- arsenic and old lace," that is sort of the image of roosevelt in terms of the old uncle running around the house. even among scholar

recently completed large hadron collider peter lavelle's gas on cross talk try to separate science fiction from science fact stay with us for the discussion coming up. if you can. follow him and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the great quest for what is called the god particle the big bang experiments conducted by the enormously ambitious and expensive large hadron collider is seen by many is a scientific breakthrough others say differently the safety of humanity and the earth maybe its day. to. discuss and explain the meaning of the l h c i'm joined by neil on the swami in london he's the author of the edge of physics and a consultant for the new scientist also in london we have jordan nash he's the head of the high energy physics research group at imperial college and in stuttgart we cross to auto rustler he's a professor of theoretical biochemistry at the university of tuning in and another member of our crosstalk team yell on the hunger all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want first of all jordan i'd like to go to you i didn't d

she was well known for many big roles including the female lead in the science fiction film "the day the earth stood still." she won an academy award in 1 63 -- 1963. she earned several more award nom mu nations and in-- nominations and inspired millions of people. she had lung cancer and shorly before she died, her family said, "i had a lovely time." she was 84. >>> authorities in wyoming relatived one of two arizona escapees they believe were hiding in the area. tracy province was taken into custody after he showed up at a church looking for part-time work. john mccluskey remains on the loose. they escaped near kingman, arizona. mccluskey's mother was arrested over the weekend, accused of aiding her son's escape. the trio are linked to the killing after couple in new mexico late last week. >>> late this morning, a spokesman for the alameda sheriff avenue office -- sheriff's office spoke out today. a dog was shot. the family said they were just leaving to go out for a walk and the dog got out. >> i think it's messed up. he could have shot him once in the back leg or tased him. he wa

and georgia the anchor woman on the talk show had announced that the program would be based on a fictional situation only a minute before it started so anybody who tuned into the program after that warning thought they were watching a regular news bulletin. there in a few minutes president saakashvili is expected to make a special statement on the situation in the country don't know if it's going to be recorded all written but it's been reported that the russian troops deployed fifteen put on combat. descriptives something straight out of a. action flick. opposition leader. to meet members of the russian government. russian agents without mincing words according to the authors of the program. change and dividing georgian territory. human history. of the building housing the television company. it's true the. changes why haven't they detained the people featured in the script up still saakashvili has to bear in mind that she must produce concrete facts about being otherwise he will demonstrate once again that she's a liar and irresponsible provocator god someone of. the most common epithets

this looks at a state of the art of what's fake, real , fact or fiction about global warming. we have to make up indecisions, it may go 25 feet but some of us won't be here in 150 years. we have to know what's available to us in the next 25 years so you have to get in your mind the range of possibilities. finally the worst thing we can do and i'm a general manager of a water district, is to believe we are not going to have to build this investment because we could flip the switch and the trends we see will continue from ten to 20 years. you understand that? we're not going back to our customers and say we're going to do greenhouse emissions and do things to stop it. first of all, we don't control the whole world, we can only do what we can do and that's a lot since five percent of the world produced most of the greenhouse e mibss but there's an economic move in japan and china and their moving forward but we can look back and say, tom i heard this morning say if it goes up a foot we have to and we're going to have to start educating the customers and people we serve. it's anot

when you are writing historical fiction, how do you know where the line is? when you are taking too much of liberty? >> well, you have to be careful. i sometimes of real people, like president woodrow wilson is in this story, and if he says something in a conversation, it really has to be ideally something he really did say, maybe in a speech or maybe something he wrote, the words he actually said, or something very close to what he said, because it is important for me and i think for my readers that the history is accurate. even though that is not the prime thing. the prime thing is the story. nevertheless, the history has to be accurate. that it is true to these real people, these great leaders and to the ordinary people boat. tavis: you mentioned earlier that when you get a chance to write these long forms, these big, dense books, you suggested earlier in is good for the writer -- it is good for the right to dig in. i imagine this must be torturous at times -- it is good for the writer. tavis: yes. >> one of the things i've taken to do is keeping an xcel s

. >> it sounds like science fiction, but they really do contain organisms that can survive in outer space. >> it might be winter in argentina right now, but things are hopping in buenos r.f., where the tanker championship is taking place. -- buenos aires, where the tango championship is taking place. >> they say it takes two to tango, but more than 200 couples have descended upon the city for the championship. since the united nations declared the dance as part of the cultural heritage, the annual event shows participants from as far away as japan and britain. they queued up for tickets. >> tango is my life. i have been living here for years just to study tango, and for that reason it is my life. >> this stance emerged in late 1800's in the suburbs of buenos aires and in uruguay. it eventually became popular in europe, the united states, and japan. the world championship attract tens of thousands of visitors every year. rules dictate a couple must not separate while the music plays and must move constantly anti- clockwise. >> i feel super happy. there are a good couple from all over the w

this is not a scene from a science fiction movie with a post-apocalyptic.

and georgia the anchor woman on the talk show had announced that the program would be based on a fictional situation only a minute before it started so anybody who tuned into the program after that warning thought they were watching a regular news bulletin. they were in a few minutes president saakashvili is expected to make a special statement on the situation in the country we don't know if it's going to be recorded all written that it's been reported that the russian troops deployed have been put on the combat. descriptives something straight out of a hollywood action flick the russian tanks approach tbilisi the president's life is in danger meanwhile opposition leaders go to moscow to meet members of the russian government the film bush and. russian agents without mincing words according to the authors of the program the moscow talks are about regime change and dividing georgian territory. human history and about that by eight thirty an outrage crowd was in front of the building housing the television company. but i guess it's true that when i wanted my leddy change of government it wa

claim the irreparable harm will be to same sex couples whose marriages will be in danger of null fiction if they get married now. >> it will be great. i think we could all live with a little uncertainty so long as this case gets a fair hearing. >> reporter: walker questions whether prop 8 supporters have any legal standing to ask for a stay. the case is called perry versus schwarzenegger. kate kendall, head of the national center for lesbian writes says if the state doesn't want to stay in the fight any more, the appeals court may decide that prop 8 supporters can't continue the battle on their own. >> i do not think a stay will be granted and i think marriages will go forward. >> reporter: profisser leeb is not so sure. he thinks it's possible the 9th circuit court will keep the stay in place so they can work methodically and fairly on this case without the heightened sense of urgency that ongoing nuptials could bring. now, the city's recorder who is in charge of marriage licenses says san francisco has been ready since last week to start these weddings going. he says that they have mor

about how i have to keep up with social media, how you control the rumors, help people establish fiction from fact. >> thank you. denise wagner, what do you tell your students -- i think you oversee 600? 523 journalism students at san francisco state. so how do you talk these days about the quality of the news? >> overall, the quality is quite spotty. there has been some stellar news stories coming from traditional, legacy media organizations, but you are also getting some really interesting coverage from some start-ups. talking points memo, a blog that does a lot of journalism. propublica doesn't allow as well. there is not any one place you can go to get stellar reporting. it comes from a lot of different places. the ecosystem itself has changed. we have citizen journalists, private-public partnerships, legacy media, start-ups. it is an uneven thing right now. >> how do you define who the journalists are in your class? >> that is an interesting question. many of my students think "the daily show" is news. while "the daily show" provides interesting insight, provide satire and parody of

charging media fiction and reality. t.v. . with more than half a million people tomsk is a lively and bustling city but if you're looking for a little peace and quiet the countryside is just a short drive away. if you wanted a symbol of siberia this would probably be the siberian stone pine tree they used to be millions of these in the forests but now its numbers are declining ironically because of its own pine cones the seeds in here are used in the source is sweets and literally thousands of people come and gather them up every summer and sell them and it means that the tree is having trouble reproducing naturally but here in this garden center trying to make sure that the species continues to survive. so he has been running this nursery for almost a decade the idea is to sell people their own trees so that future generations will have no need to raid the forest for seeds for the stone pines numbers can start to recover he's brought different varieties here from across the country and beyond and even created some of his own.