hum, hum, yes. this is real sponge cake. that's okay. that's okay. i am a [inaudible] person anyway. do i have to eat it all? slurp... hum, yuk. slurp, hum... disgusting. i'm almost done. [laughter]. slurp, slurp. i gave up eating noodles. thank you, thank you. >> sometimes notable authors come to main stage and do more than read passages from their work. they sit in a live conversation with a reporter, playwright discusses the relevancy of his work with one of his theatre critics. as part of the yearly 1 city one book event. fields questions from sm scott chauffeur. >> before writing the book you want to louisiana and did a lot of research. what reception did you get there? what obstacles did you find? well -- it depends on which decade you are talking about. i did research, actually starting in from the time i was very small. and we went back every summer even though i was born here in berkeley, as a matter of fact we went back every summer to louisiana and i was always interested and did a lot of -- um -- both formal and informal research. startin

look at that baby hum. river of sludge. >> one of the things is we use bacteria that's common in our own guts to create this reduction. it's like an extra digestion. one of the things we have to do to facilitate that is heat that sludge up and keep it at the temperature our body likes, 98.6 degrees. >> so what we have here is the heat exchanger for digester no. 6. these clog up with debris and we're coming in to -- next wet weather season so we always come through here, clean them out, make sure that we get maximum heat exchange during the colder wet weather. sludge season. >> rubber glove. >> right here. >> rubber glove, excellent. all right, guys. >> thank you. >> good luck. >> this is the full on hazmat. . >> residual liquid. we're taking it time to let it drain. we don't want to get sludge on it necessarily. take your time. stand on the side of it. . >> should we let it release for a while? . >> let it release. >> is that the technical term? . >> this is the most important bolt on the whole thing. this

have been the biggest yet bush our us signed a decree removing the governor of the several city of hum our from office tens of thousands took to the streets nationwide rejecting ourselves promises of reform and demanding an end to his or authoritarian rule activists say the government crackdown which began in mid march has claimed almost fifteen hundred lives. at least thirteen members of a family died when a roadside bomb struck their many of us in southern afghanistan the group including two children were thought to be afghan refugees returning from pakistan through the volatile border area roadside bombs planted by taliban militants are commonly used in the country elsewhere in afghanistan the local council member was killed by two government who opened fire from the motorbike. so it starts between bahrain's sunni led government and the shia opposition following months of anti-government protests they claimed thirty lives the shia community in bahrain claims longstanding discrimination against the majority group thousands of people participated in nationwide demonstrations demanding

holding the temperatures for the evening hours. 81 at reagan national and that air conditioner is humming tonight. 75 leonardtown; annapolis, 78 degrees and in baltimore and that is not going to cool off a lot. when you wake up tomorrow, the temperatures are in the low to mid-70s and that is a big change after the last few mornings when we were waking up to 50s and 60s and one or two showers breaking out. off to north and west into central pennsylvania and some are creeping into maryland and virginia and i will put winchester to cumberland and hagerstown. they could creep closer to the washington area overnight. i think generally, we will wake up with a mix of sun and clouds. tomorrow afternoon, the cold front, which brought good thunderstorm activities will come keyser and to the showers and thunderstorms around here. a descent chance. 50, 60% chance of some scattered showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon and if you have plans, don't cancel them. be ready for a possibility of some afternoon showers and thunderstorms. the high temperatures tomorrow, 93 in washington; 93, leopardt

. >> 49, hum... >> i can see how you would say that, why do you say that? there is 49 of something. okay. did you notice the turns? the spins? how many were there in one piece? yes. no. yes. 9. how many times did we repeat that? how many times? 3. 9 times 3 -- is 27. we did 27 turns but we were going, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1. that's a sophisticated math concept, you were not wrong. i bet you will grow up to be a mathematician. i will give you my address you will have to send me your first paycheck because i taught you this. at this point we would like to thank you very much for coming. if you have any questions. i don't know if we want to open it you will for questions. may be just a few? okay. yes. what's your question? >> how do we get in this program? that is a good question. >> it's an interesting question because the answer with the 3 of us is the same. what i want to point out i look like i might be from india when i talk i sound like i'm from america. my parents are from india but i was born in america and i started this dance when i was 18. i was not a baby e. both charlotte and an

. >> 49, hum... >> i can see how you would say that, why do you say that? there is 49 of something. okay. did you notice the turns? the spins? how many were there in one piece? yes. no. yes. 9. how many times did we repeat that? how many times? 3. 9 times 3 -- is 27. we did 27 turns but we were going, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1. that's a sophisticated math concept, you were not wrong. i bet you will grow up to

low hum of a car radio. the feel of water. the taste of skin. thank you. [applause]. closing out our evening of readers is ahn wa received msa of creative writing. and the ardela literary composition prize in creative nonfiction. her work has been published in several an tholologies including our cheers to muses. in addition to writing and performing she published and hand bound artist books and is a photographer and print maker. lives and creates in oakland. i would like to introduce ahmwa. [applause] flesh of my flesh. the woman who invented clothes was a woman. she knew the power of a well placed leash. knew there was no looking back. once man laid himself upon her he was cleave into her. need the clay of her. she knew then shield always need a sheath. a shield from shame. the early pain of having been divided. >> first sin. forgive me for coveting my mother's breast until it bled iodine to deceive me. 165. you cried when i left for california. you and bastand figure the driveway. i didn't expect that from you. wasn't prepare for the weeping that would last until i

>> it is going to be more hum andid. for these -- it is going to be more humid. >> it is never this low. >> nightly news heading your way next. >> have a great evening.

we hear the hum of -- is it an air conditioning unit? >> reporter: they are working this morning. know the two people i've seen coming out of their homes. their first question to me was what time is it? i haven't seen a lot of people waking up maybe because they don't have their alarm clock or maybe because they've been spending the nights somewhere else. after days of -- without power, the lights are back on here. the traffic lights are on. you can see. so, there is the exception though of some of the homes not back online. that's because there is damage to their homes. they have to do some repairs. crews have been working nonstop since the storms hit sunday night. winds up to 70 miles per hour knocked down trees and utility poles. residents were told they would be back online monday night. that didn't happen. then it was tuesday night. but that came and went and finally, dominion power said 6:00 this morning, they finally delivered. in fact, lights were back on by about 4:30, 5:00 this morning. you know the storms were extensive. the repairs were complicated but dominion power d

kabul one of the country's lawmakers was also killed in the attack well the deaths come in a week the hum of coals lies hauffe brotherhood around the south of the country has gone down the taliban is stepping up its assault on afghan officials as they take home but chiefs begin their withdrawal from the will say but u.s. intervention expert stephen lyman says washington will want to keep its grip on off down a sound because waging war secretive. if. the president came out on the street with a small security detail not a practical a marine division mc i'd see him he wouldn't last five minutes the resistance in afghanistan want to liberate a country so take any opportunity they care to tie did anything any level in any term not only under one hundred thousand u.s. troops about thirty or forty thousand other troops there are well over one hundred thousand private security contractors and you never hear is this just in the major media so combat forces may come our private security forces may go in to take their place america wages wars not just to win them but to wage them because the profits

in sports pitcher ervin santana put an exclamation point on his otherwise hum drum season yesterday throwing the first no-hitter by an angel in nearly 27 years. here's fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> good morning. you know the old saying, it's not how you start, it's how you finish. well, that sums up ervin santana's no hitter perfectly. here we go to cleveland. angel pitcher got off to a rocky start. an error, a stolen base, and this wild pitch led to an unearned run. the indians are up 1-0. from there santana cruised. he struck out ten and had help from his friends. kendrick great driving stop to get the run at first and preserve the no-hitter. michael brantley, a deep right to center. not deep enough. santana no-hit the indians. third no-hitter of the season. about the only thing that could cool santana was an ice bath after the game. angels won it 3-1. >>> after a flown call ended a 19-inning marathon on wednesday, the braves and pirates needed extra innings again last night. david ross singled in a run. nate mcleod safe at the plate. no controversy. just

already killed the militants who carried out the a time when the murders come less than a week of the hum of calls lies half brother who ran the south of the country was gunned down by the taliban is stepping off the salt on afghan officials as nato combat troops begin to withdraw on sunday the alliance hundred eva control with the first of seven designated areas to local forces for more on the situation on full. in afghanistan i can now talk lifestyle and see why it's vis jim brown many being with us. now given this taliban attacks with senior officials did with afghan forces do you think be able to take care of their security on the road once nato troops withdraw. no i mean i think you have to ask the question security for who or for walks when they talk about handing over responsibility for security because by all accounts for example the afghan army as it's called is very much biased towards groups so it starts with the cup from the beginning so the idea that it would be an impartial force or seen to be an impartial force seems to be extremely unlikely and to what extent what they mea

the motor in motown is humming. >> i think detroit is like where you want to go and create your own opportunity here. i think this is kind of unique, in that you can do it very affordably from the ground up. >> reporter: margarita barry is among a youthful and talented wave that is shaking up the downtown here, reclaiming a city many had given up for dead. >> a lot of stuff going on over here. >> reporter: while the city's population has shrunk over the last decade, during that same period detroit has experienced a 59% increase in college-educated residents under 35. kristin talbot works for quicken loan, the lending giant, which moved its headquarters downtown from the suburbs. >> there was so much going on down here, it gave me more of a reason to come down to the city and explore more things. >> reporter: we talked with matt, a c.e.o. of an affiliate company of quicken, on the firm's office basketball court. >> this is not a polyanna-ish kind of perspective. we know there are things we need to fix, and we're working to do those. >> reporter: dan is cofounder of detroit labs, a high-tech star

and the british public seems to have a sort of ho-hum attitude about it. why did it suddenly turn on them that week? >> well, that's a great point. i think they mostly had a ho-hum attitude because the victims until this week were seeing and in fact were mps, members of the parliament that is, actors, either rich or influential people and there wasn't a huge resonance in the pubs and on the playgrounds and elsewhere in britain. of sympathy for these guys. but when it got to the point where the family or the victim herself, milley, the poor 13-year-old girl whos were abducted, the parents of two children who were abducted near cambridge, the families of terror victims, of british soldiers killed in afghanistan and iraq this raised it to a whole different level. >> now what sorts of stories did these investigators -- what sort of stories did all this hacking produce? >> well, in the case of celebrities it was tittle-tattle, the kind of thing that sold newspapers. you've got to remember, the news of the world was now selling far less like all newspaper as tha

hum. >> where is the rebuttal. >> i am going to show it to you.i think george takes the witness stand and talks not only about the affair, but his reference to an accident that snow balled out of control. take a listen to this. >> you never told christ malholloway while the two of you being romantic that this was an accident that snow balled out of control? >> assumes facts not in evidence. >> your honor,, the witness' answer was nonresponsive and i want to be clear on the answer. >> yes, or no mr. anthony? would you ask that one more time, please? >> you never told her it was ran accident that snow balled out of control. >> never . >> and so the jurors are left to figure out if it was said. was it said sort of a hope or guess as to what happened to his grand daughter or did he know because he was allegedlyy involved? >> and the prosecutor is pretty easy to decode it to the jury in a way that helps the prosecution. what is clear. listen to what he said. take it true for a moment he said these thingings, ladies and gentlemen. at that point his gran

[humming] [sighs] >> july 26, 2011!is is "the daily show" with jon stewart. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> jon: welcome to "the daily show"! my name is jon stewart. good show tonight! we got a nice one for you tonight. our guest tonight, npr's juan williams will be joining us. (cheers and applause) really? he's not there anymore? (laughter) well, i'll definitely ask him about that. (laughter) but we begin, of course, with our ongoing national crisis. (laughter and applause) one week, ladies and gentlemen, for our two parties to agree to raise the country's arbitrary debt limit for the 102nd time for the drop-dead august 2 catastrophic ultimatum we've already moved twice. (laughter) and so it was under these conditions that president barack obama interrupted a bachelorette's search for love... (laughter). ... to take that long walk down "we killed bin laden" lane. >> tonight i want to talk about the debate we've been having in washington over the national debt. >> jon: the debate we've be

. >> david, i mean, you are a conservative, i mean -- >> um-hum. >> i haven't heard a conservative yet deny this was the right mission. are there any critiques of obama's approach? >> look, it's a unifying thing, i agree with you. there are issues outside of race, outside of politics. osama bin laden's a murderer, a mass murderer, who is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands across the world, and thousands of americans. i don't think you'll find any rational person saying this was not the right thing to do. >> hmm. i see you chomping at the bit already, please. >> right, this is a unifying moment. i think it does provide some closure, but i am concerned that there may be a revival of some of the kind of islamaphobia and hostility towards, to the muslim world, towards the arab world that we saw in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and so in this moment, i keep hoping that people remember the kind of, the wave of revolutions that we saw in the middle east and africa and how we identified with people in that moment and the sort of universal desire for freedom and equult that we s

. >> reporter: today his harvard lab is humming with students. more than half a dozen are veterans. >> we're very focussed on this because these are our guys. this could have been us. it might still be us. it brings a certain level of urgency to what we're trying to do. >> i'll tell you, it's just a creative way of looking at some pretty tough problems. we're going to have much more next week as well on some of these battlefield breakthroughs. we're switching gears. less than a month away from our new york city triathlon. i'm a little nervous. next you will meet somebody racing with me this year. in order to finish she tells us she has to overcome one of her biggest fears. almost tastes like one of jack's cereals. fiber one. uh, forgot jack's cereal. [ jack ] what's for breakfast? um... try the number one! [ jack ] yeah, this is pretty good. [ male announcer ] half a day's worth of fiber. fiber one. >>> my favorite part of the show, when my producers and i launched the triathlon challenge we were looking for something specific, for people that wa

all too soon the foreign minister slams major members for their actions in the conflict toward the hum easing with his french counterparts. dogs are by nature wouldn't want to doubt the hague in an exclusive interview with colonel gadhafi his son reveals says views on why libya is a war saif al islam thinks his country is being told it is for its riches good says the people will fight to prevent libya from forming under foreign control. preserving the new to hand over its promise bail out of the parliament approved deep spending cuts and a state asset sell off the measures this include radical tax increases were approved despite three days of angry protests. next allergies must go out to make schools a divisive figure of joseph stalin discovers capital associated with in a tourist salvage dictator. allow was the pride on this week's moscow out so we'll be taking a lot of the most famous figures in russian history joseph stalin and we stuff here for me is the all hot sculpture park that's the famous nine hundred thirty eight granite sculpture of the soviet leader though many interesting

whilst in a heavy user of a tablet device and everything else, i think that is kind of ho-hum. it is fabulous you can build a startup in your garage again, but the challenge is how do we adopt this technology in a world where the rate of adoption is governed not by anything to do with technology itself but by the rate at which humans can evolve their skill sets as they face new technologies. that is what enterprise i.t. is. i can tell you with -- that its -- i can tell you the confidence that is what enterprise i.t. is. we need to get newer people in. we need to upgrade the skills that. let me try and describe it. the only thing interesting in technology is an exponential curve. and it doubles, and whilst we in our human experience live in linear times with linear skill sets, thinking what to do tomorrow, by the time tomorrow comes, technology has moved the world ahead a whole lot more than we could ever grass. so here we sit as humans in some roughly 20th-century experience of what consumer -- computer systems and networks and so on are, and the world is radically different in

leaders are in brussels for a crunch summit aimed hum ring out measures to tackle the greek crisis but many say with the debt epidemic spreading and threatening big hall meetings like italy and spain it's the very future of the single currency the state. meanwhile the e.u.'s troubles all just tiring aspiring states from wanting to join as serbia has to extradite his new car and fugitive to the hague arresting gordon outage was the conditions he has not fulfilled having to replace its becoming a member of the. on the investigation into the u.k.'s phone hacking scandal intensified with even more political figures coming under scrutiny and public passing on to the case by bringing down the next expert say it threatens the careers of the media executives including rupert murdoch himself but also the political future of prime minister david cameron. next box kinds or explains the consequences of deadlock over u.s. debt as he will behind the latest financial headlines the kaiser report is up next . for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the n

this hour activists say syrian forces killed sixty two people in raids across the country mostly in hum are it comes after government time stalled the volatile system reportedly leaving dozens dead on friday and other violent crackdown is said to have claimed the further twenty lives across the country so the answer government uprising swept syria in march activists say police violence has killed more than a thousand demonstrators. at least twelve of the kills the in the last at the lashkar guard police headquarters in afghanistan the taliban has claimed responsibility for the suicide car bomb attack local authorities say most of the victims were police officers it's less than a fortnight since nato led forces formally handed over security in this instance to afghan troops. maybe an eighty six quake and tsunami devastated japan but the number of dead to connect the tragedy continues to rise suicide rates and the government fears a depression epidemic could be on the horizon. reports. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage destruction and uncertainty forcin

is only humming its own interests in the region. the basic justification for this program is that it's protecting america it's necessary for u.s. national security in fact by all the figures that we've seen these drone strikes have been fury eight of the people pakistan we've quadrupled the pakistani taliban in numbers and violent attacks they've moved them east into the pool and you have the heartland to the point where they now pose a major threat to the pakistani government knew the pakistani military so much that there's now talk of an anti u.s. military coup on the front page of the new york times and most important we've poured into the u.s. ambassador and patterson is revealed in the wiki leaks cable. we're so the u.s. is so hated now in pakistan the government is afraid corporate with iran safeguarding its nuclear materials which are the world's fastest growing and bio experts will tell you the least secure so the result of this drone strike campaign is fastly creasing the danger in the united states of a conventional and or

did they hummed the death march as they lowered you down? the band play the land post and chorus? ♪ i can't help wonder why. to those that died here know why that they died? did they believe when they entered that they really believe to that this war would end wars? for this suffering, the glory, the pain, the fighting was all done in vain. then mcbride, it all happened. and again and again and again and again. did they beat the drums slowly? did they play the pipes slowly? did they hounded death marches they lowered you down? did the band played the last of? to the pipes play? did they beat the drum slowly? did they play that type slowly? today home the dead marge as they lowered you down? to the bands play the last chorus? ♪ ♪ >> so that it. if you get comments and questions i would be glad to hear them. [applause] [applause] all right. [inaudible] >> aside from these articulate and brave and well-connected individuals who oppose the war it will also, large parties that claimed that they would reject this in the name of international solid

already killed the militants who carried out the attack well the murders come at less than a week the hum of hoff brought the who around the south of the country it was. the taliban stepping up its assault on a afghan officials and they take on about chimps begin to withdrawal and sunday the alliance candidate for control the first of seven designated areas to local forces . but u.s. radio hi stephen amendment says that american private contractors will stay behind even often they say to me. if i'm like. the president out on the street with a small security detail not a practical marine division nic i see him he would last five minutes the resistance in afghanistan want to liberate the country don't take any opportunity they came here to tie could anyone fishel it any level in any time not only of iran hundred thousand u.s. troops about thirty or forty thousand other troops there are well over one hundred thousand private security contractors you never hear this discussed in the major media so combat forces may come out private security forces may go in to take their place america wages w

chris lawrence greece was humming along nicely one percent that's paying about three percent on their not the reserve currency they're down there your parent is a reference a. little you're saying is that you're getting your regular back in three hundred fifty eight he goes around saying we're only civilized country on the planet so we possibly for that's the that's you i'm not saying i'm not saying that all i'm asking you questions here compared to greece i'm pointing out a difference i can assure you this is sixty three percent of foreign currency reserves are in dollars foreigners own fifty four percent are publicly traded that is we have the worship a different name upon a little down market investors but the u.s. can no longer be trusted as with your currency and that you can't be trusted to pay back or get you're going to have such a massive rush to the exit that greece and japan has to worry about the reserve currency are you going to tell her you can say to me that the chinese are going to watch their holdings go down that you and watched your huge rise and prices plummet and

already killed the militants you carried out the attack well the mothers come less than a week off the hum of cars lies half brother who around the south of the country was gunned down the taliban is stepping up its own special forces native home but chips begin its withdrawal on sunday the alliance hundred overcontrolled of the first of seven designated areas to local forces well for more on the situation. falding in afghanistan let's talk live now to kind of speak as a retired u.s. air force returned colonel americans have big. u.s. troops are handing security over to afghan forces and i was just saying given this recent surge of taliban attacks targeting even senior officials how sensible do you think this decision is well it's sensible for the taliban to straight when you know when there is chaos and when the u.s. government is weak and it appears weak but. for the united states we can't stop it we caused a lot of this problem by. an invasion and occupation of afghanistan to begin with so we don't have credibility united states does not have credibility dear what it does seem to me tho

an unnamed friend said wiener told a pal, quote, i have three women to convince i am cured, hum arks her mother and hillary. if a cross clinton was not enough to bear, the pulitzer prize winner "inspire" set its target on the -- on them. they ran a full page add under a banner reading "angry wiener head. please tell whatever genius who wrote that line that we are hiring. >> let's go life to our actor's troop for an interpretation on how hillary planned on handling anthony. >> brava, hillary clinton. >> gillery. >> i understand why hillary would be mad at wiener. but she has for given before, hasn't she? >> and i think maybe he needs to work on his priorities. i know when i screw up my first thought is not, what does my spouse's boss think of this? it is not the first place my mind goes. and this feud between him and al-qaeda, we all love to hate anthony wiener, well we are on wiener's side. >> it is an east coast-west coast thing. >> do you think they are telling huma to dump anthony? >> probably not. if experience is the best teacher, hillary tends to have a knack for being able to

chris lawrence greece was humming along nicely one hundred percent that's g.d.p. and they're paying about three percent and they're not there in their currency they're very well there are things as a reference say ok but lord what you're saying is that you're going to your regular order men back in maybe three hundred fifty a.d. going around rome saying we are the only civilized country on the planet so how could we possibly for that's the that's you i'm not saying that i'm not saying that at all i'm asking you a question you're comparing to greece i'm pointing out a difference that i can assure you this that sixty three percent of foreign currency reserves are in dollars foreigners own fifty four percent of our publicly traded that is we have the worship a different name up on the wall but on the market investors that the u.s. dollar can no longer be trusted as the your currency and the u.s. can no longer be trusted to pay back her debt you're going to have such as. massive rush to get to the grid and you're paid to worry about the reserve currency and we're goin

jeanne great to see you guys back to you back then thanks very much but republicans plug their ears and hum to themselves and they go shooting table research from the center for tax justice is the republican argument against closing corporate tax loopholes is all smoke and mirrors as much as republicans like to argue the united states forces corporations to pay some of the highest taxes in the world. it's simply that to look at the numbers from the o.e.c.d. the tax justice center discover that u.s. corporations actually a the second lowest taxes in the developed world twenty four other developed nations including slovenia turkey and austria have higher corporate tax rates than the united states as the old saying goes you're entitled to your opinions but not your own facts and the fact the matter is corporate taxes in america are among the lowest in the world the us when you're only agenda is the lookout for millionaires and billionaires than you had to fight in the backs of the so you're part of the other ninety nine percent of those who are not worth millions of dollars actually the world

then you go to antioch, where it's still hearing the hum of air-conditioners, 71.of us in the 50s and low 60s. let's talk about the temperatures in the east bay valleys, mid to upper 90s. guess when they come back? tomorrow is probably going to be the hottest day in the forecast. east bay shore, 81 in richmond, all the way up to 89 in fremont. spread not as big in the south bay, 89 in sunnyvale to 94 in los gatos. on the peninsula 91 in palo alto. 83 in millbrae. then you have mid to upper 60s along the coast. sunset will be 68 and mainly sunny today. mid-80s in san rafael and vallejo. at your beaches, mid to upper 60s. 70 in monterey to 80 in santa cruz and 97 in gilroy. both teams are in town but they are playing fairly different times, 1:00, mariners and a a's, 77 and 80. not quite as warm for the giants game. it will be sunny and breezy, 70 degrees warming up to 73. 2:05 first pitch. if you are going to fisherman's wharf, temperature are falling into the upper 50s. the coast will be clear, fog will probably roll in after the fireworks are over. there will be br