good morning, luann. your 30th novel.ou. >> you started writing at the age of 11? >> i did. i did. i wrote a poem, it appeared in my hometown newspaper. >> and tell us a little bit about this book. >> little knight, it's about the dark side of sisterly love. two sisters are closer than close, grew up together in new york city, come to a real breaking point when one of the them becomes involved in a domestic violence marriage. >> i'm so in awe that you have written 30 books. how on earth do you fete all of these ideas? >> you know, life has given me no shortage of material, which has, you know, it's my pleasing and my curse. you know, it's just endlessly fascinating. especially families, which is what i write about. so much drama in any given family. in this family in particular, in "lyttle knight kwtsz, you love so much and so much can happen. >> turning your real-life experience into a long string of art. such a pleasure to meet you. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> best of luck with this new book. >> thank you. >> we

. >> for luanne the rest of his -- lou and the rest of his neighbors, a wildfire began in their late saturday night or early sunday morning on kent and came within 50 feet of the homes along this street causing the evacuation of about 30 homes. >> we thought it was pretty serious because the smoke was getting heavy. -was falling out of the air. we just did not want to deal with it. >> by the time of the broader under control, closed at 50 acres have burned. a volunteer firefighter said it was exhausting. >> we had it contained 90% of the way. >> it was a small, slow-creeping fire. the lower humidity came up and it grew. >> this forest ranger took 11 news to some of the most charged areas. some of them were still on fire. >> it still burns freely. it is the last spoke for the residents of the area. we are still keeping it in check. what they called the their roads firebreaks to keep it from spreading and it appears that it's working. >> this way you have fire on one saide. >> used equipment from about one dozen agencies from as far away as glen burnie and parts of delaware. thankfully

good morning, luanne. your 30th novel, quite a feat. >> thank you. right here. >> you started writing at the age of 11? >> i did. i did. i wrote a poem, it appeared in my hometown newspaper. i got the early idea all you had to do you write something and it would appear in print. my mom sent it in. >> and tell us a little bit about this book. >> "little night," it's about the dark side of sisterly love. and it's about how two sisters are closer than close, grew up together in new york city, come to a real breaking point when one of the them becomes involved in a domestic violence marriage. >> i'm so in awe that you have written 30 books. how on earth do you get all of these ideas? >> you know, life has given me no shortage of material, which has, you know, it's like my blessing and my curse. you know, it's just endlessly fascinating. especially families, which is what i write about. i mean, there's so much drama in any given family. but especially, i think -- in this family in particular, in "little night," that thing were you love someone so much and

. >> by the countess luann de lesseps. >> jimmy: luann. god, she's gorgeous.e new season of "real housewives." >> it's going good. cleaned house a little bit. >> jimmy: yeah, you did. >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: i mean, where's my jill zarin? >> she's no longer on the "housewives." yes. >> jimmy: no, bethenny frankel moved on. >> she did. >> jimmy: she's got a spin-off. >> yes. >> jimmy: and you've got aviva. >> aviva, yes. bethenny found aviva, actually. >> jimmy: what? yeah, she called me one day. we were looking for housewives -- she goes -- >> jimmy: "i have a lunatic that you should film for a week." >> no, she said there is a woman who -- as it turns out -- her ex had relations with two of the current housewives. she's beautiful. she only has one leg. and she's amazing, and i think you should meet her. and i said she sounds interesting to me. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: what else can you say there? yeah. >> that is fascinating. >> jimmy: it's good. it's good. it's a good season already. "most talkative." congratulations on this, buddy. this is awesome. a really

. >> sonia morgan, ramona singers, and luanne de la fepz will return.s on the block. aviva, carol and heather. i bet they're going to need plenty of pinot grigio to deal with this. >> you're passive aggressive and don't start with me. you want to start with me, i'll go right back at you. >> i don't want to start anything with you. i'm just saying -- >> another time. >> you crossed the line and you know you did. >> no, you did. >> girls, we said we were going to take the high road. all of us. >> we are taking the high road. and i'm taking the higher road. this way. >> the higher road's that-a-way. yeah. get out of town. >> what have you ladies done signing up? what were you thinking? >> we don't know! we don't know. we don't know. we're not sure if we're going to be happy or sad at the end of 16 weeks of watching ourselves. >> well, you've wrapped your season and you've seen the premiere. so that you're happy with so far. >> yeah. >> but you also know what happened while you were taping. >> we do. we do. >> you've got to have a good sense of humor about

brought the iraqi army down in size sir luann and so i had no question about that. as we developed a plan i was concerned that not enough force was going in in anticipation of what else might be a problem once we got there. i called general franks and said don't want to getting your business but are you sure you have enough troops to deal with this? you don't know what is going to happen after you have achieved the initial objective. he was satisfied with what he did. the joint chiefs were satisfied. secretary rumsfeld was satisfied and these are the military authorities and they persuaded the president. baghdad fell quickly and what surprised me is as soon as baghdad fell you could almost see within a week or so ministries being burned down. things that saddam hussein kept suppressed popped up between shiite and sunni and kurds and the bombings started and my colleagues dismissed all of this as dead end as one of my colleagues describe it and seemed we were not dead ends. while this was emerging we were sending troops home and we stopped the flow of additional troo