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well as an encore presentation of our recent program with just a physicist -- astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson. 72 hours of nonfiction authors and books. booktv, television for serious readers. for complete television schedule visit booktv.org. >> carla hayden, give us a preview of the book festival. >> it is going to be one of my favorites because i am a big nonfiction fan and the types of authors we will have from david mccullough to jd vance whose book is on every reading list you can imagine in every book club. i am thrilled. >> host: how many offers do you invite? >> guest: when you think about a one day festival, the national book festival and you have over 100 authors from children's authors, illustrators, graphic novelists, all these different authors, 100,000 people come in and celebrate books and reading, you can't have a better time. i'm prejudiced because i'm a librarian but any reader or anybody that wants to get inspired, the book festival is the perfect place. >> host: the seventh the book festival, your second, your personal your second? >> guest: is my second. i was sworn in a

by neil degrasse tyson. thank you for coming. thank you for your interest.ou do good by science. ♪ charlie: al franken is here. he's a two-term senator from minnesota. before entering politics, he was a comedy writer and performer on "s.n.l." and hosted a progressive radio talk show on air america. he's recently emerged as a forceful challenger of president -- of the trump administration. his tough questioning of cabinet nominees during hearings went viral. al: if there's any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator franken, i'm not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate a time or two in that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians. >> i think if i'm understanding your question correctly around proficiency, i would also correlate it to competency and mastery so you -- each student is measured according to the advancement that they're making in each subject area. al: that's growth, not proficiency.

>> you've got to follow neil degrasse tyson on twitter. >> and you've got to watch his show. the new season of "star talk" premieres october 1st on nat geo. >> the show we talk to celebrities and describe what role science has played in their lives. you come for the celebrity and stay nor the science. >> science and art are intertwined. science and art have always been trying to help what ails the human condition. >> wonder why people say you've raised that to an art. or it's down to science. >> some things are art. some things are science. some things are both. >> my recent book is, like, number one now on "the new york times" best seller. which is completely crazy. >> fits in your pocket. >> for people in a hurry. it's crazy because we celebrate any time anybody's science book lands anywhere on a best seller list. it's always the pundit books and the celebrity tell alls. it's a science book. whoa! so maybe people care again. i don't know. >> neil, thanks a million. great to see you. >> thank you. stick around, everyone. we are getting new video from mexico city. you know wh

with neil degrass tyson. he is director eye hayden planetarium in new york city, and the author of men books including, welcome to the universe, death be black hoe, and latest, astro physics for people in a hurry. >> in your new book, astro physics for people in a hurry you open it by saying the universe is under n obligation to make sense to you. what does that mean.

with neil degrass tyson. he is director eye hayden planetarium in new york city, and the author of men books including, welcome to the universe, death be black hoe, and latest, astro physics for people in a hurry. >> in your new book, astro physics for people in a hurry you open it by saying the universe is under n obligation to make sense to you. what does that mean. >> guest: get over it. i think up until -- well, really, up to the year 1600 when we didn't have any particular tools to investigate the natural world, our five senses were the primary means by which we obtained all information about the universe, and not even knowing that our five senses had limits. if it's everything you know you think it's everything the universe is trying to give you, but in fact it's not. and so around 1600 with the invention of the microscope in one direction and then the telescope in the other direction, each invented wind a decade of one another, all of a sudden pieces of the universe become available to us that transcen

. >> even before hurricane harvey made platform friday afternoon, neil degrasse tyson considered it a teachable moment. the celebrated astrophysicist on twitter, no -- others were not far behind. >> it is fairly likely, certainly very likely that the effects of this hurricane were exacerbated by climate change. >> it's exactly the type of thing the experts on climate had been predicting. >> the national oceanic and atmospheric demonstration officially lists extreme weather events as one of several phenomena occurring more frequently because of climate change. but the shooting specific storms to climate change is, "much harder." this branch of science is known as extreme event attribution and is still in its infancy. after hurricane sandy ravaged the midatlantic, professor gary lachman of north carolina state university, a leading atmospheric science, research the extent to how much world range climate change conjured into -- these claims are on high resolution numerical situations in conjecture with analyze and projected changes from a suite of general circulation models. of his resul

coming up this sunday on "sunday today," my guest is neil degrasse tyson. right? >> that is -- you know, we get to do a lo of cool things. that might have been the coolest. the three presidents along with phil mickelson, tiger woods and everybody else. >> did you get the selfie? >> i got a selfie. >> let's go to megyn in studio 6a. >> o.j. is about to get out of jail. we got prosecutor chris darden along with the goldman family. and the ladies of "snl." >>> nbc 10 breaking news. >>> breaking news we're following right now in center city. police have a suspect in custody after a deadly stabbing this morning near the intersection of 19th and vine streets. the suspect stabbed the victim multiple times around 7:45. medics say the victim was dead when they got there. >>> let's get you updated on roads with jessica boyington. >> center city on the vine street expressway, both directions are good, just showing typical volume but everything is moving. also admiral wilson boulevard from camden into philadelphia, no problems, a smooth drive. >> looks like a nice morn

coming up this sunday on "sunday today," my guest is neil degrasse tyson.x. >> very cool, right? to do a lo of clthings. that might have been the coolest. the three presidents along with phil mickelson, tiger woods and everybody else. >> did you get the selfie? >> i got a selfie. >> let's go to megyn in studio 6a. >> o.j. is about to get out of jail. we got prosecutor chris darden along with the goldman family. and the ladies of >>> this is a "news 4 today" news break. >>> 8:56 is your time now on this friday, september 29th, 2017. good morning to you. i'm eun yang. we want to check on the roads with wtop's jack taylor and a look at your roads. how are they looking? >> not good. 270 southbound out of frederick, all lanes are blocked on 270 before 85. also we had some activity on 95 after their195. that crash still in the right lane. in the delay, outer loop top side before university boulevard, late crash blocking the left lane. >> we'll take a quick break and check your forecast when we come back. stay with us. >>> good friday morning. comfortable temperat

by astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson. some of these have or will be appearing on booktv.you can watch them on our website booktv.org.>> one common investment front is the pyramid scheme which involves promises of profitability and then initially, delivering on the promises by taking the money that later investors put in and using that to pay off the dividends to early investors. and of course this cannot last forever because eventually run out of people at the bottom of the parent. one of the, the actual form of that -- but so is the form of marketing and almost all of these types of schemes, the approach is to look for some group of insiders and to have someone in that group. almost all of the schemes are perpetrated by individuals that can expect to have trust because they are selling the scheme to people like them who are distinct from the rest of society. so the most famous example of this probably still is the ponzi scheme. we call it that because charles ponzi operated this in boston in the early 1920s. he focused on the entire community.

coming up this sunday on "sunday today," my guest is neil degrasse tyson. that is -- you know, we get to do a lo of cool things. that might have been the coolest. the three presidents along with phil mickelson, tiger woods and everybody else. >> did you get the selfie? >> i got a selfie. >> let's go to megyn in studio 6a. >> o.j. is about to get out of jail. we got prosecutor chris darden along with the goldman family. and the ladies ofi )m - -... one person is injured after a >>> good morning. it's 8:56. i'm marcus washington. one person is injured after a second large rockslide in as many days at yosemite. the latest slide sent visitors scrambling for safety yesterday afternoon. it left a dust cloud briefly resembling a war zone. one visitor had to be airlifted to the hospital. rocks pushed his car off of the road. the first slide on wednesday killed one hiker. >>> san francisco police fire and coast guard teams getting ready for traps the biggest week of the year. fleet week. they're taking extra security measures to make sure things stay safe. >>> happe

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. >>> coming up this weekend on my show "sunday today" on nbc my guest is astrophysicist neil degrass tysonhim and we talked in the midst of all the hurricanes about climb change and the response to it. here's what he said about the lack of imagination in preparing for hurricanes. >> i'm tired of looking at photos of countless thousands of cars exiting a city because a hurricane is coming. where are the engineers and scientists saying, you know instead of running away from a city about to be destroyed from the hurricane, let me figures out a way top tap the energy of the hurricane to drive the power needs of the city that it's otherwise going to destroy. where are those people? you need a culture where that becomes a natural state of how people think, rather than buy toilet paper and buy water and run. that's our current natural state. and i don't think that was the country i grew up in. i don't think so. >> his point is not that we can, as of right now, tap the cyclonic energy of a hurricane but we're not doing a good job in thinking about ways of being prepared for them and reacting for t