. >> host: you are watching booktv nazis been to of location malibu california at pepperdine university we like to visit universities and colleges to talk to professors who were also offers. we're talking to the author of "igods" here is the book cover but before we get into that what duties jeopardized? >> i am a film maker first so i teach his screenwriting, of production in helping to navigate the entertainment industry. >> host: also a director for the center for its entertainment is part of your professorship? >> a think tank how media and culture impact each other of bull's-eyes hall film and shapes the public conversation to figure out the greater good. talk about christianity and culture? >> as a theologian i have always been interested in how religious feelings are transmitted across culture i have been moved by moving pictures so a this is in a chance with that small screen takes over the big screen. >> host: but also with a jet? train wreck that's right. by lookit these companies that have overtaken our lives whether apple or google or facebook for a amazon those are the big

this interview recorded at pepperdine university in malibu, california, is part of booktv's college series. ... >> the problem with the issues of mounding marijuana there is an advocacy group sobel side so the public has no direct -- no idea what direction they're pulled in on but the issue of legalization to agree on the facts. >> host: garett use the of personally? >> guest: i was hoping you would ask that. each author was required to publicly declare their position on the subject. that is uncomfortable because you don't want to show your hand when doing research to not be biased with the perspective but in this case we were asked. i was in support of the commercial legalization. >> host: why are you in favor? >> guest: as i noted my drug of choice and refers to the drink of wind when i was 13 during communion. and then say save consumer of wind so my drug of choice is alcohol. the social harms of alcohol dominate marijuana's. indigested not see there was the strong case given with those forms that are associated are so much greater but as the matter of colleagues thought but in working

we are on location at pepperdine university in malibu, california, as part of our university series.e like to visit universities and colleges and talk to professors who are also authors. joining us now is craig detweiler. his book, "igods: how technology shapes our spiritual and social lives." here's the book cover but, professor detweiler, before we get into that, what do you teach here at pepperdine? >> guest: i am a film maker first, and so i teach screen writing, i teach production, i help students navigate the entertainment industry. >> host: and you're also director of the center for entertainment. is that part of your professorship here? >> guest: yes. it's a bit of a think tank looking at how media and culture impact each other, you know, sort of on both sides, you know? how film shapes our public conversation and how maybe, you know, students can figure out, you know, how to contribute to, hopefully, the greater good. >> host: well, your book, "igods," is listed and class tied as christianity and culture. why is that? >> guest: well, i'm also trained as a theologian. i'm gra

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jane wells in malibu california. robert frank is in west hampton. what's included in the good life in the hamptons? >> here are some other favorite things and status symbols in the hamptons this summer. living the good life in the hamptons has always been expensive, but now the hamptons has taken status to a whole new level. leave the ferrari in the garage. the real rich get to the hamptons on blade, the new uber for helicopters, you'll need sandals like they at $135, and bondy glint in gold and silver. >>> and to keep up that beach body, hampennites have taken to paddleboarding. >> it allows for the user to get very intimate. >> down this alley is one of the hamptons best kept secrets. a bar owned by a billionaire and bon jovi, and they make one of the hottest drinks in the hamptons, 9 spicy marg gritta at the blue parrot costs only $14. >>> here in paradise, you begin the day at malibu bluffs park above the pacific doing tie which i, th taichi, and then to biodynamic kale, and then rent gear. jay quood to be a stand-in no clint eastwood, then use

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not just in the south, it's present in tennessee, in georgia, and present in malibu california and iowa and salt lake city. >> some people say steer to the south, it has the history. you are looking at malibu. what is going on? what is going on in chicago? it has its own - you talked about race and class. how do we explain the places that to most americans are like maybe we can understand the historical legacy. what gives. there are some distinguishing characteristics, but what you see across the board are district. neighbourhoods on the periphery of districts. they want to become districts. they want to keep the tax dollars closer to home. opponents would say they are failing to take into consideration those matter. >> if the baton rouge education system was excellent. they'd have no prom. dent the parents and the communities, don't they justify in providing their child the best education. the system is so bad, one of the worst in the nations, if we don't incorporate. the children's future. you have to have sympathy for them. >> we were drawn to the story because of the complexity. alm

house through a back door and police say they got away in the car, 2014 silver chevrolet malibu with california license plate 7bl g-8 13. >> officials lifted after evacuation order near yosemite national park. resident could go back home at 9:00 this morning. fry other homes are off limits in the community. so far the fire has burned five square miles near the when end of the park. crews reported 19 percent contained and it broke out on saturday. >> drone video of the sand fire burning near sacramento fanning flames of controversy. at firefighters criticize this, they think the technology could help them in the near future. katie marzullo is in the newsroom with the story. >> fire officials say in this instance the drone operator put the crews in danger but that is not to say they are not experimenting using drones in firefighters as they can go where no equipment has gone before. this is the drone this question. this is the el dorado county man at control. >> he doesn't want us to use his name because of the heated reaction of the drone video the at sand first bunk east of sacramento. official

jane in malibu, california. robert in westhampton, on long island. jane, has her yoga mat out. [ speaking in foreign language ] how's the humidity, carl? >> how about the bugs? we don't get that here. the moat expensive home for sale. $54 million. just the poolhouse. hearst castle. on 6.35 ac5 acres of gardens. ready to move on. 13 bedrooms 14 full baths and a poolhouse used as back drops for things like "true blood." >> it's like a palace. on the beach, in malibu. one of the most trophy locations. really across the globe. interior poolhouse was built with 1 million-plus shells. it's probably the most glamorous indoor pool i've ever seen. every day, whether it's, you know, january 1st to summer, we wake up to this. >> reporter: now, there has been some interest, mostly foreign, mostly cash. while you do have the occasional fire, or earthquake, mudslide here, the odds are federal reserve forever in your fave around there's always insurance. >> not always the case. case in point, turn eastward. something closer to home? >> reporter: yeah, carl. at one of the holdest, grandest est

. >> reporter: high above malibu california, amidst the cliffs and views, is a rustic neighborhood calledanette and dan bercu thought their home here was their castle. the perfect spot to raise a family and the perfect real estate nest egg. until one day they say something reared its ugly head, something that would ruin everything. their safety and their property value. >> what are you absolutely nuts? we are never going to go for something like that! you'd be crazy. >> reporter: the threat is something they never anticipated. this. >> good girl! >> reporter: a white siberian tiger. trainers irena hauser and sophia krysek want to move their tigers to their home here. they brought one in a temporary cage to show us. >> around this entire area would be a perimeter fence with barbed wire on top. >> reporter: the sisters thought it would be a formality to get a permit to permanently have tigers on their property. they thought wrong. >> they are our closest neighbors. and a tiger could get here in 30 seconds. >> reporter: the bercu family lives a few hundred yards away. >> we are a young famil

. ♪ >> reporter: high above malibu, california, amidst the cliffs and views is a rustic neighborhoodght their home here was their castle. until one day they say something reared its ugly head. the threat is something they never anticipated. ooh. >> reporter: a white siberian tiger, trainers irina howser and sophia creshak brought one in a temporary cage to show us. >> around this entire area would be a perimeter fence with barbed wire on top. >> reporter: the sisters thought it would be a formality to get a permit to permanently keep the tigers on their property. they thought wrong. >> they are our closest neighbors and a tiger can get here in 30 seconds. >> reporter: the family lives a few hundred yards away. >> we're a young family. last thing we want to worry about is tigers getting lose and eating our children. >> reporter: they weren't the only ones upset. signs went up all along the roadside. >> deer creek not tiger creek. >> as mothers we empathize. >> it is safe. >> no tiger has ever escaped a property and gone to a neighboring property and killed anybody. >> reporter: but da

. >>> in southern california, a kidnapping suspect led police on a wild chase through malibu until he on foot. choppers tracking his every move and stumbled down a steep hill and eventually fell to the ground exhausted and out of options until he was eventually arrested. the woman he allegedly tried to kidnap is safe this morning. >>> a different kind of highway drama in arizona. a man rushing his pregnant wife to the hospital ran out of time so he used his emt training and he helped deliver his daughter right there in the family minivan. great story, happy ending. >>> finally, when it comes to cooking the ultimate steak forget about barbecue. a british chef discovered red hot molten lava is really the only way to go using an artificial volcano sam figured out when you cook it overthere . >>> our special backpack drive, members of the boys & girls club modeling theirs, what you can do to help right now. let me have that. all coming up live on "gma" here in times square. [ cheers and applause ] we made it. >>> "gma's morning menu" is brought to you by next judgment. new nexium 24 hour,

california. it began as a car chase with police pursuing a bmw as it weaved in and out of traffic from los angeles to malibu. then a man abandoned the car in a parking lot and tried to escape down a steep hillside. that plan didn't work with the helicopter following his every move. police arrested the man whom they originally went after for allegedly shooting at an officer. >>> well, the father of one of the ucsb shooting victims is teaming up to push for tougher gun contro richard martinez's message something needs to be done before it's too late. he is working with a victim of a mass shooting at a community college and a man who lost a family member at a sikh temple. they are urging people to keep reaching out to their lawmakers. >> i asked people to send post cars to the elected officials with the words "not one more." as of today, there are more than 2.4 million postcards have been sent. but we're not done. >> richard martinez says political party affiliation should not matter. he says all lawmakers should be getting behind legislation. >>> a south san jose couple got an alert about a break-in at their

agent in california after ditching his car in malibu. the suspect made a run for it but fell down. a 90-minute standoff on a hillside overlooking the ocean before cops finally took him in. >>> the f.a.a. still investigating why a small plane went down in the parking lot of a costco in san diego. it burst into flames killing the passenger. the pilot is in the hospital. >>> another scare for mall laborer shah airlines. -- malaysia airlines. a jet forced to boater -- to abort take off to avoid colliding with another airlines. a tiger airlines plane was coming in for a landing on the same flight path. crisis averted. >> we see these videos all the time because they make us happy. >> after a nine month deployment in kuwait, this lieutenant returned to the sweetest welcome home ever courtesy of his dog izzy. they join us now. we are so thankful to have you here today. thanks for being with "fox & friends." 48,000 views that this video has had. how surprised are you, lieutenant? >> very, very surprised. we just put it up a couple of days ago and had no idea i'd be sitting in a news room t

california freeways caught on camera. it began when a man allegedly shot at an off-duty officer yesterday in a fitness center parking lot. the suspect tried to flee police by weaving through malibu traffic. he eventually got out of his car and stopped at a hillside and that's where a 90-minute standoff began. eventually the police arrested the suspect. >>> in san diego, a woman died in a small plane crash. while the single engine craft was attempting to land at montgomery field yesterday it bounced and went airborne again. then it crashed in a costco parking lot. a second woman on the plane was injured and a witness suffered minor injuries helping to get the woman out of the plane. >>> and workers are still trying to clean up the mess left behind when a water main broke near the ucla campus tuesday. last night six people who were helping to clean up the mess at the pauley pavilion were treated for exposure to carbon monoxide from the exhaust of a generator. danielle nottingham reports on the impact of millions of gallons of water flooding the college campus. >> city leaders inspected the ruptured water main on sunset boulevard near ucla. workers say they have a complicated and d

california. check it out. police pursuing a bmw weaving in and out of traffic from l.a. to malibu.imania bond on the a car in a parking lot tried to run away down a steep hillside. the plan didn't work out very well because the helicopter following his every move with the camera police eventually arrested the man whom they originally went after for shooting at a police officer. >>> 5:43. the opportunity rover has set a new record by driving just 25 miles on mars. that's the farthest anything has driven anywhere other than earth. a russian rover drove 24 miles on the move with the previous record. next up the operators are looking to break the marathon mark of 26.22 miles. the opportunity rover has been exploring mars since 2004. >> fascinating stuff. love it. >>> fremont is about to shake up its warm spring's neighborhood. >> as kpix 5's kiet do reports the mostly industrial area is about to become a vibrant live work and play community. it's a story you'll only see on 5. >> reporter: if you haven't been to fremont's warm springs district you're not missing much but to hear the may

. >>> in southern california, a kidnapping suspect led police on a wild chase through malibu until heot. choppers tracking his every move and he stumbled down a steep hill and eventually fell to the ground exhausted and out of options until he was eventually arrested. the woman he allegedly tried to kidnap is safe this morning. >>> a different kind of highway drama in arizona. a man rushing his pregnant wife to the hospital ran out of time, so he used his emt training, and he helped deliver his daughter right there in the family minivan. great story, happy ending. >>> and finally, when it comes to cooking the ultimate steak forget about barbecue. a british chef has discovered that red hot molten lava is really the only way to go using an artificial volcano sam bompas figured out when you cook steak over lava, there's no smoke and since it's pure heat, the meat seals quickly without a char and as i've said in my many years of cooking, the best way to deal with meat is add a level of unnecessary danger. back to you guys. >> wait. where does someone get lava? >> the lava store. >> where

bill: southern california watching a high-speed chase on the road and then on foot. firing a gun with officers following the suspect deep into malibuor it, leading to a 90 minute standoff before he was eventually taken into custody. patti ann: running is usually not a good idea. bill: especially in a helicopt helicopter. patti ann: house republicans moving ahead with plans to sue president obama. voting to authorize john boehner to take legal action against the president for allegedly exceeding his constitutional authority. >> 80 years ago some in the minority and clean the ranking member of the rules committee were plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by democrats against george w. bush. the majority were brought by a small group of legislators for individual members. today the house as an institution will vote to authorize the suit which gives the case i believe a far better chance in court than previous attempts. patti ann: joining us now, syndicated radio host, and a former president of the women's media center and fox news contributor. thank you both for joining us. a spokesperson for former speaker nancy pelosi 2007 said this. the p