john day was one of these original astorians who was part of this huge overland expedition sent by john jacob astor from new york in 1810 to found the first american colony on the west coast. and what astor hoped would be a transglobal, trans-pacific trade empire. well, john day, i didn't know the bigger story at that point, i just knew that john day was this guy who had been -- i'm trying to think where his trauma started, but it started early. he was a 40-year-old kentucky hunter, and he ended up being nearly starving to death, poisoning himself with death cam misbecause the thought they were the edible type of root, survived by shooting a wolf and eating its skin, was helped by a number of indians along the way, was left behind by his main party, wandered a winter trying to find the tracks of the main party, lost them, found a band of indians who he thought would help him who ended up stripping hip of all -- him of all his clothes and sending him out into the wilderness with nothing. after that, john day was just about done with the wilderness. [laughter] he was actually quite traumatized.

he recalls the partnership between business magnate john jacob astor and thomas jefferson, creating akohl think on the pacific coast -- a colony on the pacific coast in the early 19th century. the settlement, dubbed astoria, had a short existence in present-day oregon. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> well, thank you for that nice introduction, and thank you, powell's, and you all for being here. normally i have a more formal presentation, i have a video that i've shown at readings, but tonight's a special night, so i'm going to do manager a little different -- something a little different. and i'm going to tell stories a little bit more and, of course, i'm going to do some reading as well. but it's special because, one, this is powell's, we're in oregon. astoria is very nearby. the center of this story. and also we're here with c-span booktv x so we have a national audience as well as a oregon audience. so i'm going to tell some stories, and you oregonians may know some of the stories, and you may not know others. but i'll start with how i came to

. ♪ >>> hello, my name is john jacobs, and i'm james jacobs, and we're here at south by southwest. >> we're in "the stream." >> joining us now is a man who uses drones to make food production more efficient, and a 3-d maker for pastries. what are drones doing to help farming? >> here in japan, 40% of the ice crop has been dusted with drones. and that's going to happen fairly soon in the u.s. drones will give farmers eyes why they don't have eyes now. and down the road they will provide more automation and more distinct access to individual parts of the field and individual plants even in the future, so you can do more with less and apply pesticides and fertilizers exactly where they are needed in exactly the right amount, so farming can become smarter in the sense that an industrial operation turns into a more help as needed operation. >> our community tweeted in . . . it takes a gallon of gasoline to produce one pound of gas, lisa, did not make this stuff up. . >> and kyle what innovations are currently needed right now to really have food science and tech address food sustainability

he recalls the partnership between john jacob astor and thomas jefferson, creating a kohl gnu on the pacific coast -- colony on the pacific coast in the early 19th century. the settlement, dubbed astoria, had a short tenure. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> well, thank you for that nice introduction, and thank you, powells and you all, for being here. normally i have a more formal presentation. i have a video that i've shown at readings, but tonight's a special night, so i'm going to do something a little different. and i'm going to tell stories a little bit more and, of course, i'm going to do some reading as well. but it's special because, one, this is powell's, we're in oregon, astoria is very nearby.

american leaders like jefferson, gallatin, and john jacob astor. is the complexity of the character and personality that ultimately made her worthy of very close examination. in her many letters to friends and family she absolutely later waste to american culture and to american ideals. she decried the narrowness and the emptiness of a society whose main focus on money making to the a exclusion of all else and his women were destined to nothing more than accommodating their husbands and producing children. she embrace european aristocratic society with bill not on meritocracy the bloodline its appreciation for artistic and intellectual achievement and validation of a public role for women. yet this season only behavior often relied her rejection of all things american buried in the same letters of greater contempt for american men imprisoned in accounting houses and obsessed with gains and losses she revealed her on meticulous and focused attention to money and money making. she had an absolute obsession with wealth and its acquisition. she was dar

with american leaders think jefferson gallatin and john jacob astor.it's the complexity of elizabeth's character and personality that ultimately made her worthy of very close examination. and her many letters to friends and families, she absolutely laid waste to american culture into an american agenda ideals. she decried the narrowness of emptiness of the society whose focus she sat on money making to the exclusion of all else and his women were destined to nothing more than accommodating their house and send produced in children. she embraced european aristocratic society with the leadership ill-timed meritocracy the bloodlines. its appreciation for artistic and intellectual achievement and validation of a public role for women. and yet, betsy's own behavior often belied her rejection of all things american. in the same letters that character could tempt her american men imprisoned in their counting houses intercessors gave thomas says, she reveals her own meticulous in focused attention to money and money making. she had an absolute obsession with w

joining me is a distinguished group father john jacobs is president of the university of notre dame. father james matterren is editor at large of america the national catholic magazine. and -- will join us letter a professor of religion at prince stop and -- is professor of the holy see at the university of day taught i'm pleased to have each of them as we mark this year as i say with a great sense of pride because i happened to be there for the conclave and in rome. as soon as that took place, it seemed to me that spread out an idea of this is new and this is difference and this is a unique human being. fair appraisal. >> certainly true. >> from the moment he made his first public appearance. >> he had the remarkable ability to communicate. i met him and we were at a cantina and here's this man who can communicate wonderful warmth and kindness in a remarkable way even though i don't speak italian and he doesn't speak english. but at the end of the session, there was a picture to be taken. he had his chair in front of our group. and here's this 77 year old man, he pushes the chair in

jacobs, abc news, new york. >> that's not all. in the eastern third, people love waking up to january-like temperatures. >> below zero. weather continues with accu weather jim dickey. good morning, jim. >> good morning, john and marci. can you split the country in half here. a quiet day expected. you see clear skies across the region. to the west coast and east. powerful area of low pressure. powerful winter storm is moving through. we see wind-driven snow fall. seeing numerous power outages. from wind and heavy thunderstorms. the snow, though, coming to an end. area of low pressure moving out into canada. holding on through maine, vermont and new hampshire. continues to usher in an arctic air mass. many spots, 20 to 40 degrees colder today than tuesday. real temperatures through the morning hours, many spots feel like it is down below 0. john and marci. back to you. >> all right. thanks, jim. >>> now a little girl that simply could not wait to come into the world. she was born tuesday in texas. >> born on the way to the hospital. mom and dad were racing this. mom, brenda, said her bundle of joy arrived after just a few pushes. >> they stop oefd at a fire station for help and guys there checked her out, d

john terret reporting for us. more than 26 countries are helping is for the search for the wreckage. jacob ward. >> it is a british telecom company that's one of the biggest satellite services, the company says it's done an unprecedented analysis of the signals that came to inmarsat satellites. a new picture of flight 370's final hours. even after all the aircraft addressing systems, so-called acars system stopped transmitting, the system continued to receive signals, they are not gps enabled, there aren't multiple of them, just basic combination satellites. the company had to do complicated math to figure this out. analysts combined elevation information from the time it took to reach the satellite. either moving north or south along a pretty specific line. then they figured out the doppler effect, the aware that waves change form when the thing observing them is moving. in this case the satellite. to figure out the plane was moving south, they had to make up a cruising speed but by comparing their projections to other flights they say their projections add up. the company says other inde

jacob candelaria, thank you for being with us. i want to bring in eugene o'donnell, a professor at the john jay college of criminal justice. and a former new york city police department officer. welcome. good to have you on the program. can you talk to me about what you have seen in the video and give me your reaction? >> in a narrow sense this is about a few seconds at the end. i would say these are leadership issues. how did this come to pass? how did this set of circumstances occur where a mentally ill person left to his own devices became attended to by the police, got their attention, how did they diagnose this, and what is the infrastructure for preventing this? by the time you get to the last few seconds, it's a less large issue, becoming a small issue of the police saying they made a direction to the person to drop weapons. people saw the video, they can make their own judgments. in typical police shootings, where there's a doubt, it can be resolved in favour of the officers. the larger question is is this a police department that has the right emphasis on preserving life, using every alternative. does it inculpate