emperor norton's will close its doors for good tomorrow night at 8:00. in san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >>> as we've been reporting, health experts say testing is going to be a crucial part of moving forward during this pandemic. in san francisco, at least 2,000 people are registered for ucsf's free mission district testing project. everyone in the mission's encouraged to get tested over the next few days to help researchers understand how the virus is affecting the community. data shows about a quarter of all positive covid-19 tests in the city are from the latino community, which only makes up 15% of the city's population. one challenge is some, especially undocumented immigrants, are too scared to get tested or get government help. >> i want to make very clear that that's not true in the case of covid-19, that the immigrant population can accept medical services, offers of hotels to isolate and quarantine. >> the push to test everyone in the mission district is similar to the operation in bolinas earlier this week, which became the firs

when we come back, we are with arnold schwarzenegger and ed norton.us what they're up to. ♪ >> dicky: portions of "jimmy kimmel live" are brought to you by bose headphones700. the most advanced noise-canceling headphones. ♪ it didn't take us long to realize ... ...we weren't in the car business. at lexus, we were in the people business. we needed to be helpful . . . . . . respectful . . . and compassionate. to treat people like guests. it's what we all signed up for. and now when people need this most, we will do what we've always done. take care of people first. the rest will follow. (up-beat techno music throughout) eveso we can stillg a answer your calls. now. and we are monitoring our system 24/7 to ensure that we have a fast reliable network, keep the customers connected, and making sure people are staying safe. and we're still on the road. solving critical issues as they arise. ♪ go to xfinity.com/prepare. thank you. >> jimmy: welcome back to "jimmy kimmel live" from my house, joining us is arnold schwarzenegger and edward norton, his friend, ho

[applause] richard norton smith comes to us today from grand rapids. doug brinkley from austin texas, and edna greene medford from howard university. i would like to start off by asking doug, because lincoln's number one, he got back from the lincoln library in springfield and richard opened it for us all. hat year was that, 2006? what did you find there? why do we think everybody should go? douglas: everyone should go visit springfield, illinois, if you can. they have built an incredible new library and museum for abraham lincoln. he is always number one, as susan pointed out, largely because no matter how bad other presidents think they had it, lincoln had it worse. the fact of the matter was he was not on seven states' ballots to vote for him. he comes to washington dc having to have a body double. the executive mansion -- it wasn't called the white house until theodore roosevelt dubbed it that. so the executive mansion had lacked security. lincoln is sitting there so vulnerable. i came in at austin and landed at dulles airport, which is very close

norton. >> yes. >> mr. sanchez. >> yes. >> thank you. >> item 5 is bay area scores audio poem. >> every year the san francisco school district teams up with kalw radio station and one of our great community organizational partners, america scores to celebrate national poetry month. we are grateful for the partnership to showcase talents of our students. tonight we will play one of the poems aired this month. it is from redding elementary titled i am an art master. >> i am legend. i am an art master. i have nopa no patterns. on to the counters of the world. i can take paintbrushes chasing each other crushing the paper with my imagination. i can see the bright colors of every stroke. the colors bursting to the piece of art. i can see the checkered patterns oozing black and white and people sketching their patterns. i am an art master. i am from redding elementary. the title of my poem is i am an art master. for national poetry month they have partnered to bring the voices of young poets from different schools

we will be joined by douglas greene norton, medford, and richard norton smith. i heard him talk and i am thrilled to read "american john f. kennedy and the great space race." on the panel, dr. medford is the professor of history into dean at howard university. she is the author most recently of "lincoln: an emancipation." richard norton smith, and acclaimed author of a wonderful book on george washington called "patriarch: george washington and the new american nation." he has written many other books, including one on herbert hoover, and has served as the director of five different presidential libraries. tonight, these individuals will discuss their new book, "the presidents: noted historians on the best and worst chief executives." please join me in welcoming them tonight. [applause] susan: good evening, everybody. nice to see you. and thank you very much, kevin butterfield. i can't think of a more appropriate place to talk about presidential leadership than mount vernon. it is a delight to be back here tonight. we talked about this book for the first time ab

we're thrilled tonight to welcome a claim historian mary beth norton. she is the author of five books and coeditor of five others in her textbook of u.s. history has been published in ten additions and has sold more than 5000 copies. norton is a pulitzer prize winning finalist and was a 28 teen finalist. she is a effexor emerita of american history at cornell university. her new book, "1774:the long year of revolution" is available for purchase and signing following the program. so now please join me in welcoming mary beth norton. [applause] >> it is really nice to be here. i want to make sure this is on question marcus and seem to be. okay there it is. actually don't show them quite yet. i want to show you when to show you briefly the little bottle on that is famous if you are colonial historian. follow-up anybody recognizes it? it is in the collections of the massachusetts historical society. it claims on the label, which is impossible to read. that it contains t picked up from boston harbor on the shore the day after the tea party. this is a quite we

>> there is more booktv coming up with historian mary beth norton writes about the year 1774 and how it led to the beginning of the revolutionary war. >> good evening. i'm with the smithsonian associate and i would like to welcome you to tonight's program. to the members i'm so glad you are here andnd it is your suppot that we things like this possible and to those of you joining us for the first time, and equally warm welcome and invitation to explore the programs we offer. now's the perfect time to turn off your cell phones or anything else that might make noise during the program. thank you for doing that. we are thrilled to tonight to welcome acclaimed historian mary beth norton, the author of five books and coeditor of several others inn her textbook people n the nation a survey of u.s. history has been published in ten additions and has sold mores than a 500,000 copies. norton is a pulitzer prize finalist and 201 in the 2,018th president of the american historical association. she is the professor emeritus at cornell university. her new book 1774 the long year of revolution is

the bruins, a career that >>> the late show (upbeat music) the following is a paid presentation for norton60 with lifelock, paid for by norton lifelock. - we're all on our phones and laptops texting and emailing, surfing the web, shopping, paying bills. and we believe that what we're doing is private and safe. sometimes it's not. technology has evolved and so have the criminals. (beeping) anyone can be a target for cybercrime or identity theft,

join us tomorrow with arnold schwarzenegger and edward norton.ere watching you sleep. the pandemic and after. abc 7 inside look at the site of san francisco's largest coronavirus outbreak. >> tonight details about what may have been the first coronavirus death in the united states. >>> a front line nurse going to work got a front tire but left stranded because she had a flat tire. >> i'll have the temperatures coming up. abc 7 news at 11:00 starts right now. >> announcer: now your health, your safety, this is abc 7 news. >>> tonight we're learning more about the south bay woman now known to be the first person killed by the coronavirus in the united states. governor newsom wants deaths from the beginning of the year reviewed and today he made the %-p california. >> when can we go back to some semblance of normalcy? there's no date. >> as some states plan to reopen business by may 1st, president trump urging them to pump the brakes. >> it's just too soon. i think it's too soon. >>> good evening. i'm dan ashley. and i'm ama daetz. we're learning mo

norton. >> no. >> mr. sanchez. >> no. >> ms. sandaval. >> yes. >> that was a failed vote. >> thank you for your leadership. that is an amazing turnout. i would love if you could share it with us the survey language, that would be helpful. did we vote on commissioner collins' amendment? okay. now we are going to vote on the resolution. roll call. >> the resolution was amended and accepted by general consent. this is just the resolution as amended. >> ms. collens. >> yes. >> mr. cook. >> yes. >> ms. lam. >> yes. >> ms. lopez. >> yes. >> mr. moliga. >> yes. >> nor to be. >> yes. >> sanchez. >> yes. >> that is a unanimous vote of the board. thank you. >> thank you. now, we are moving to another resolution that we are going to vote to suspend the rules for. we need a motion and second for suspension of the rules for resolution 204-28a1 in support of utilizing school district property in conjunction with city-wide plan to establish safe sleeping sites for unsheltered people offered by me civil and commissioner lopez. >> moved. >> seco

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brian: thank you, richard norton smith, for helping us on our series on presidents. name of the book, on amazon and other places as a used book, this one by the way comes from a library in milford, michigan, the one that i have. the name of the book is "an uncommon man: the triumph of herbert hoover." and we thank you very much. richard: thank you. ♪ announcer 1: for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. ♪ this is "american history tv" on c-span3 where each weekend we feature 48 hours of her grams exploring our nation's past. >> we begin with scholars from rice and georgetown universities on u.s. naval war college role of middle east oil in american foreign policy since ii.end of world war american history tv, this week c-span 3.eekend on mr. henesy: my name is greg henesy. i'm one of the people who give school tours to the weeks and the world war ii section. in this area we have set up represents the buildings we quickly put up at the start of world war ii. the re

brian: thank you, richard norton smith, for helping us on our series on presidents. name of the book, and it is available on amazon and other places as a used book, this one by the way comes from a library in milford, michigan, the one that i have. the name of the book is "an uncommon man: the triumph of herbert hoover." and we thank you very much. richard: thank you. ♪ for freemon man transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you are watching american history tv. 48 hours of programming on american history, every weekend on c-span three. all of us on twitter for information on our schedule and to keep up with latest history news. >> this is american history tv on c-span3 where each weekend, we feature 48 hours of programs exploring our nation's past. >> harold berkman served in the u.s. army in the 80th division under the command of

. >> this week on q&a, presidential historian richard norton smith. he discusses his book "an uncommon man the triumph of herbert hoover." >> richard norton smith, why did you call your book that you wrote 35 years ago "uncommon man?" >> it's taken actually from the title of a relatively famous hoover speech about the uncommon man. if you remember vice president henry wallace who was the second of the fdr's game a speech about the common man and wallace from the leftist center perspective was projecting in effect the goals and ambitions of the generation that was fighting world war ii, and it wasn't simply to defeat the nazis but to create at home a true democracy a place where the common man would finally come into his own, and hoover approached this from a different place in the political spectrum, and he was in effect making the case for what we might call amerit ameritaucracy. when you get sick you want a doctor, when you go to war you want an able general. you get the picture. the advances in society were brought about not by common but uncommon

commissioner norton. >> thank you.o agree that it is really powerful for us to make a statement as a district that we want to first and foremost approach this crisis by meeting the needs of our students at the most basic level and then working open from there and incredibly disparate impacts on the community from the crisis and we should all center that absolutely. i guess i have some concerns about the process. i think the timeline is incredibly challenging. will be incredibly challenging for the staff to meet. i just want to encourage the authors -- i appreciate vice president lopez what you said about the dates in there being there to acknowledge the urgency and i agree about that urgency and agree that these are -- many of these things are things we are already doing or should be already doing. i guess i would just say we don't know as board members all of the millions of things that our staff are doing right now. this is an unprecedented time, we keep saying. to kind of throw this down with this kind of aggressive

commissioner norton. >> thank you.o agree that it is really powerful for us to make a statement as a district that we want to first and foremost approach this crisis by meeting the needs of our students at the most basic level and then working open from there and incredibly disparate impacts on the community from the crisis and we should all center that absolutely. i guess i have some concerns about the process. i think the timeline is incredibly challenging. will be incredibly challenging for the staff to meet. i just want to encourage the authors -- i appreciate vice president lopez what you said about the dates in there being there to acknowledge the urgency and i agree about that urgency and agree that these are -- many of these things are things we are already doing or should be already doing. i guess i would just say we don't know as board members all of the millions of things that our staff are doing right now. this is an unprecedented time, we keep saying. to kind of throw this down with this kind of aggressive

we are thrilled tonight to welcome a claimed historian mary beth norton. author of five books and coeditor of several others and her textbook, a people and nation, survey of u.s. history has been published in ten additions and is sold more than 500,000 copies. norton is a pulitzer prize finalist and was a 2018 president of the american historical association. she is the mary [inaudible] professor emeritus at cornell university. her new book, "1774", is available for purchase and signing following the program. so now, please join me in welcoming marybeth norton. [applause] >> it is nice to be here. i want to make sure that the quicker -- is the clicker on? it doesn't seem to be. oh, there is spirit great. i don't want to show you that one quite yet. that little bottle on it is famous. if you are a colonialist historian, i don't know if anyone here recognizes it but it is in the collections of the massachusetts historical society and claims on the label on it which has impossible to read alas that is contains he picked up from boston harbor on the shore of d

: the triumph of herbert hoover." >> richard norton smith, why did you call your book that you wrote 35 years ago "uncommon man"? >> well, it's taken actually from the title of a relatively famous hoover speech about the uncommon man. if you remember, vice president henry wallace, who was the second of fdr's vice presidents, gave a famous speech in 1942, maybe '43, about the century of the common man, and wallace from a left of center perspective, was projecting in effect, the goals and ambitions of the generation that was fighting world war ii. and it wasn't enough simply to defeat the nazis, but to create, at home, a true democracy. a place where the common man would finally come into his own. and hoover approached this from a different place in the political spectrum. he was, in effect, making the case for what we might call a meritocracy. i shouldn't paraphrase it, but when you get sick, you want an uncommonly skillful doctor. when we go to war, we want an uncommonly able general. you get the picture. the advances in society were brought about not by common, but by uncommon indiv

. >> major norton said covid-19 has changed the way the salvation army is able to serve the homeless population. they can no longer offer group meals so they deliver food instead. >> we are so excited and grateful we can provide this food to these people plus a visit from a salvation army volunteer or staff member to let them know we care about them and we just want to help them during this crisis. >> hello, salvation army. >> saturday they delivered 665 meals at even camp camps. volume volunteers helped pack the food. >> i wanted to help those that cannot find the food. >> it's a beautiful thing you still have people in the world that care about others, you know, and we greatly appreciate it. >> the salvation army is in need of additional volunteers and donations to continue this food box program. the plan is to provide meals seven days a week during the pandemic. this is the safest option to prevent an out break at a camp. they don't want people to expose themself to the virus while searching for something to eat. >> they want to shelter in place and remain where they're at. >> ktu

. >> caller: my question is about norton lifelock.as wondering if you saw it with everyone staying at home, it might benefit from the stay-at-home economy >> i think the company itself is very cheap the spin-off and symantec business, my friend was involved in the split off i think norton lifelock is a stock worth owning i need to go to maz in california maz. >> caller: hey, jim, it's maz from sunny california. >> let's go to work. >> caller: i want to pick your brain about uber obviously their core business is down, but i'm thinking they're well positioned to repurpose the business and with uber eats and potential runways with potentially teaming up with an amazon to help with their delivery constraints i know they're already doing some -- with the government and helping out. what do you think about the valuation -- >> all those things need to occur. i think that uber -- you know, it's funny there are these stocks i liked then you had the pandemic. you can't like them as much. it's harder to like uber after the pandemic because there

and mary beth norton is the author of five books and coordinate one --dash co- editor of a survey of history has been published in ten additions with the 20 president of the american historical association. contact cornell university. 1774 and like the following program please help us welcome mary beth norton. [applause] >> it's nice to be here. is the clicker on? so the cover of the book because that little bottle is famous if you are a colonial historian if anybody recognizes it in the massachusetts historical society and the claims on the label that it's even possible to read and to pick up from boston harbor. and it is a well known object in colonial america. with the new york journal which is a newspaper that coordinate with the sons of liberty and i like to joke this is the kind of thing that historians have to mess up so just read the first two lines with my song you shall here we shall crowd 74 the most glorious year and that is what my book is doing. 1774 is commonly given short shrift for the coming of the revolution if you are familiar with the literature you know that to

any governance structure or bankers and businesspeople wielded enormous -- and norton influence on policyto complete the analysis engine analogy the political leadership of the day displayed profound indifference to the fate of the environment and to society's less fortunate. now i find these parallels uncanny. and in the book i remind the reader that it did not end well back then. and that today, the risk of history repeating is real. so yes, the 20s was a glamorous, prosperous fun decade full of sports stars, celebrities, starlets but is also a reckless and disruptive money obsessed scandal ridden and polarized decade to. in short, an era remarkably similar to what were living through today. so i thank you for listening. i hope you read and enjoy the book. and i am happy to take any questions. [applause] smack i read something in a odd i like to ask the question you're the person to provide the answer. i read in the 1920s unscrupulous land developers attached oranges to mangrove trees and marketed them as orange groves. is that true? [laughter] is that just a story? >> guest: i could no

you know i'd seen it norton. and right next to it everything else now needs to get guys of the drunk tank of. tuesday we have heard right through you know. they're all gone. past when the screen. my mom my father killed the cell phones 5 story. there my step dad it was my dad because i didn't even know my dad really was. here he was a lumberjack up there and careless of them can set a tree fall on. him cut down a tree last thing he remembered was the tree hitting the ground. so you got parallel. he died i was in prison and he died. my mom she died a double pneumonia in 2005. but 2. thank you lord for be my friend says he holds near again and run love your brother. thank you for helping me. and i will get by another day i will get by another day because i will. if you had a magic wand waving giving everyone. my family back. my family. my grandmother. he was here you know i just looked. for my grandma back in maybe or i just don't. you. don't. because i have to have like. i didn't mean it but that. i know you think

and on thursday, my guests will be arnold schwarzenegger and ed norton.he terminator and the hulk. our guest tonight is a super-talented super hero, who by day helps run his family charitable foundation, the brothers trust. he is social distancing all the way from a place called england. please say hello to tom holland. hi, tom. >> hey, how you doin', jimmy. nice to see you, mate. >> jimmy: thanks for doing this. tell us about your living situation right now. >> i am in london, i'm living with all my pals. normally when we do your show we do a live audience. we couldn't obviously have a live audience now online. i actually have my own live audience. [ laughter ] >> so the laugh track will be provided by harrison. >> jimmy: they've been with you how long? >> harrison and i have lived together maybe four years. >> jimmy: i mean as far as -- >> oh, the quarantine. we've been on lockdown in london for about a month, yeah. >> jimmy: how are you getting along? are there any issues that need to be worked out? >> not really, because we're all drunk all the time,

the finally, what happened, clair of course left when she married henry loose and helen brown nortony briefly as its managing director. conde had a brief affair with her. she wrote about him in her book "a stranger at the party", but i think he would have been very upset to find out that she was public sizing their sex life because he was a very quiet, a very shy man and he didn't want his private life to be talked about in public. and this is the last-- this is the last issue of "vanity fair" in 1936, february of 36, helen brown norton became helen lawrenceson as went to quite a lot for esquire and became a biographer for clair as well. and "vanity fair" was subsumed into vogue and frank and conde were broken. it was their love affair with new york that had created "vanity fair" and they were just so upset, they were never going to be the same. now, one of the other things that "vanity fair" got wrong, it decided it would of course talk about mussolini and hitler, but their predictions for what they were going to be doing to europe and the world were entirely wrong. and of course, h

mary beth norton the author of five books and cowat it one - - call author several others and it has been published ten additions over 500,000 copies. as a pulitzer prize finalist and present of the historical association she is a professor america of american history at cornell and her new book it is available for purchase following the program please join me to welcome mary beth norton. [applause] >>. >>. >> i want to show you the cover briefly because if you are a colonial historian on --dash i don't know if anybody recognizes it but in the massachusetts historical society the claims on the label but it contains t from the boston harbor the day after the party this is quite well known object in colonial america. now i want to start with this verse from a poem that i discovered in the new york journal that coordinated with the sons of liberty in new york. that this is the kind of things historians have to make up so read the first two lines you will crown 74 the most glorious year. yet 1774 has commonly been shorted with the coming of the revolution that those books, and the stress

you know i'd seen it norton. and right next to it everything else was good next to dead guys of the drone of. the sea we have heard right through you know. they're all gone. past when. my mom my father killed the cellphones fives. then my step dad it was my dad because i didn't even know my dad really was. here he was a lumberjack up there and cameras can see out of tree fall. is cut down a tree last thing he remembered was the tree hitting the ground so you got parallel . he died i was in prison and he died. my mom she died 6 of double pneumonia in 2005. but 2 thank you lord for been my friend says he holds near every day and then love you brother. thank you for helping me. and i will get by another day i will get by another day because i will. if you had a magic wand waving giving everyone would you get. one family back. to my grandmother. or have. you want to you know i just looked. back you made me write down. everything. i didn't mean but. i know you're not dude i know it. might you wanted to know. so i said

you know i'd seen it norton. and right next to it everything else was cut next to dead guys of the drunk tank of . the reactors right through you know. they're all gone. past when the screen. my mom might well my father killed himself when i was 5 so. then my step dad it was my dad because i didn't even know my dad really. here he was a lumberjack up there and careless of them can set a tree fall on. him cut down a tree last thing he remembered was the tree hitting the ground so he got parallel . he died i was in prison he. was to see. my mom she died a double pneumonia in 2005. but. thank you lord for being my friend says he holds near again in love your brother. thank you for helping me thank you for being one. and i will get by another day i will get by another day because i will. if you had a magic wand waving giving everyone would you get. my family back. to my grandma's. or have. the one who you know i just looked. at my grandma back you may be right death row don't. you. don't. let me think. i didn't mean

in this 2018 interview, presidential historian richard norton smith talks about herbert hoover's is inis career and humanitarian work as well as his trouble presidency in the early years of the great depression. mr. smith is the author of "an uncommon man," the triumph of herbert hoover. this interview was included in c-span book "the president's." ranked 36th in c-span's historian survey of presidential leadership. ♪ announcer: this week on q&a, historian richard norton smith, he discusses his book "an uncommon man, the triumph of herbert hoover." ♪ brian: richard norton smith, why did you call your book that you wrote 35 years ago, "umo

it's been checked and gone through at raf brize norton.s deliveries from china, when china have been meant to deliver around 200,000 bits of kit and when they went through it there was only 20,000. these have to be checked to make sure they are there in sufficient quantities and up to standard. elsewhere, we are told the government is expecting quote millions of additional face masks from china this week. again, we will have to wait and see when and how thatis have to wait and see when and how that is delivered. more broadly, the government is still under real pressure to explain why it's not making greater use of british companies. the health secretary matt hancock said they had been contacted by around 8000 yesterday, so they have been inundated by companies saying yes, we can do it. the issue seems to be the government wants to rely on established wide providers, many of whom are in china. china is on the other side of the world and you therefore have logistical issues about getting the kit from chinese producers to the uk. labour argue

tomorrow night when arnold schwarzenegger and edward norton will be my guests.even arnold's pony and donkey too. my guest tonight is more than 7,000 miles away. but i feel like he couldn't be closer. he has a new movie on netflix called "extraction" streaming starting friday. please welcome chris hemsworth. hello chris. >> hello, mate. how's it going? >> jimmy: it's going all right, how you doin'? what's it like in australia? what's the situation right now? >> things are pretty good here. i feel, wooe've flattened the curve, and there's discussions every day about lifting restrictions and so on. we thankfully, we're very fortunate. we didn't have an extreme lockdown as many places in the world. we're not in a busy populated city. i feel for anyone who is. but, yeah. due to the restrictionis put in place pretty early and staying home, things seem to have stabilized. >> jimmy: are people over there hoarding toilet paper like they are here? >> my wife was order ago of toilet paper about a month ago and thought it was 15 rolls and it was 15 boxes. so we're stocked.

. >> there is more booktv coming up with historian mary beth norton writes about the year 1774 and how it led to the beginning of the revolutionary war. >> good evening. i'm with the smithsonian associate and i would like to welcome you to tonight's program. to the members i'm so glad you are here andnd it is your suppot that we things like this possible and to those of you joining us for the first time, and equally warm welcome and invitation to explore the programs we offer. now's the perfect time t

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smith,ans richard norton douglas brinkley, and edna green to the each contributed book.igs at a forum -- rankings at a forum last spring at mount vernon. kevin: good evening. welcome to mount vernon. my name is kevin butterfield, i am the director of the fred w. swift national library for the study of george washington at mount vernon. it is my pleasure to welcome you back here. the ford motor company each month sponsors a free book talk like this one. an opportunity for the community to come and learn from the

phillip norton reports.d flavoured crisps and either a cookie or a cake. the school lunch menu today. a team effort with the skeleton staff remaining at weston primary school in grimsby. but forget meals on wheels, this is meals on heels. ido i do these that i quite close by. and most of our families are. everyday since the coronavirus crisis began, assistant headteacher zane powels has pounded the pavements to personally deliver more than 100 students a packed lunch. gets me out, i suppose. i enjoy it because i can check on the kids. and it saves all the parents coming out of the house — picking up lunches from school. so they're doing the right thing so i'm just doing everything that i can to do the right thing as well. and his friendly face and food parcel drop—offs have become something to look forward to in this part of town. thank you! it's nice seeing mr powels everyday. it's my turn. and he's doing a good job bringing everyone dinner. like a breath of fresh air. they love coming to the door and seein

and later colonial historian mary beth norton looks at the year 1774, the lead up to and the beginning of the revolutionary war. enjoy book tv, now and over the weekend on c-span 2. >> please join me in welcoming scott adams and melissa cane. [applause] >> is there a gavel? i just don't think it is official. >> it is not official until it's gavelled. >> unless we have the gavel. >> i don't feel right. [laughter] >> so the way it's going to work, we're going to dive right in and start with questions. i read a little intro. we will do the thing and start the thing. we'll jump right in. scott here no interest of giving a speech before we start asking questions. we're going to start asking questions. here we go, just in time for thanksgiving, a book to help you deal with people with whom you disagree. [laughter] >> so everyone get your copy. [laughter] >> all right. so intro, questions. please send yours up. they don't have to be related to just the book. all right. here we go. my name is melissa cane. welcome to the commonwealth club's hosting of scott adams. in his new book "loser think"

. >> next on book tv colonial historian mary beth norton looks at 1774 the lead up to the war. after that columbia university professor reports on the social roots of sexual assault on college campuses. and later, we t

richard norton smith, douglas brinkley, and edna green medford each contributed to the book.s at a forum recorded last spring at george washington's mount vernon.

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norton says this is the safest option to prevent an outbreak and an encampment. they don't want people to expose themselves to the virus while searching for something to eat. >> there is a lot of fear and uncertainty amongst them out there, they want to shelter in place and remain where they are at. >> reporter: elissa harrington, ktvu , fox 2 news. >>> as the bay area work on reopening, health workers are on the lines, making crucial decisions for the communities. >> it is like we are sort of now in the eye of the hurricane. we have gotten past an emergency place and we have got a little bit more time but it is not the time to take the shutters off the windows because the virus is still out there, it is still in our communities. >> are political reporter greatly held a special form with the public health officers from public customer, alameda and kern counties. they cover topics range from new face covering orders, testing efforts, how public spaces could look different in the future. you can watch our digital public-health form in its entirety tomorrow night du

that's because it's the last time they'll be able to enjoy a meal at emperor norton's italian restaurantafter more than four decades the restaurant is closing for good. >> unfortunately, it feels horrible, like losing your second home. this place will be missed. >> reporter: employees say they struggled with increasing rent, labor, and food costs, but it was coronavirus that pact an unexpected punch. >> it had to do a lot with the covid-19 crisis going on. >> reporter: employees say business is up 40% with customers coming in to say their final good-byes. the now empty restaurant is filled with good memories for brent przybus. >> we used to come here as kids a lot in the late 70s. >> reporter: he says he's sad. >> it's sad to think about the covid-19 thing and everything else. i'm sure that had a contributing factor. something that's been around this long and has done well. >> for some who were self-employed hope may be on the horizon. the state will take pandemic unemployment assistance. the owner of fashion plus in san jose says she plans to apply for the help since covid-19 forced her

i'd also like to thank the publisher www norton. so tonight we will be hearing about a book that deals with the pacific war. when you analyze the huge library of world war ii books and kind of what i do for a living, the first thing that you notice that the pacific war has not received the amount of attention that the war in europe has and has received far less than it deserves. now, fortunately here at the museum, we've always had the services and the friendship of one of the leading scholars of the pacific theater and that's our dear friend rich frank. rich works on public programs and advisers of any numbers of areas of expertise specifically related to pacific war. he's author of downfall, end of immotherrial japan empire among other works. richard asked me to keep it short but i will try. a list of accomplishments that i think is worth noting. rich is a founding member, one-time convener of presidential counselors and guide and he's a man, favorite, for sure. when rich stands up to talk, people listen. he was the keynoter of re