gives an illustrated talk about women who were recruited to work at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california. from the university of mary washington, this is 50 minutes. >> now to introduce tonight speaker nathalia holt. having studied at humboldt state university and having received a ph.d. from university of california and for her study at tulane university, ms. holt has conducted research at the jet propulsion archive, the cal tech library on the history of women in america at harvard. she has been a fellow at the reagan institute of massachusetts general hospital, m.i.t. and harvard university. her first book was "cured, the people who defeated hiv." she has also written widely for prominent publications including "the new york times," "los angeles times," the atlantic slate, popular science and "time magazine." in 2016 she published the work that is basis of her talk tonight entitled "the rise of the rocket girls, the women who propelled us from missiles to the moon to mars." that work was a best seller and was widely praised by critics, including one who described it as imm

this is where they went, to this isolated canyon outside of pass -- pasadena where they could set off in peace. this is the late 1930s. rocket science is considered a fringe science. no serious scientist or engineer would ever aspire to be a rocket scientist. in fact, their professors would tell them what they were try doing is impossible. you would never send a rocket into space. a computer meant a person who computes. laboratories would hire large numbers of computers to perform calculations for experiments. this is one of the earliest known computers. his name was alexis claude curout. he was a french mathematician and astronomer. in the late 1700s, he was working on calculating the return of haley's comet. he had been brought on this project to work as a computer. he was not doing this alone. he was working with a woman named nicole rain lapote. they spent long hours calculating the gravitational pull of the planets to determine an exact date for the return of the comet. in 1756, they presented their results to the scientific community. however, only his name was on the paper. the

this is where they went, to this isolated canyon outside pasadena, where they could set off rockets in peace. it's important to note that at this period in history, this is the late 1930s, rocket science is really considered a fringe science. most serious scientists or engineers would never aspire to be a rocket scientist. and in fact, their professors would tell them that what they were trying to do is impossible. you would never be able to send a rocket into space. now there was a woman who is part of the suicide squad and barbie worked as a computer. for most of human history, a computer men simply a person who computes. and companies would hire large numbers of computers to work on their experiments. this is one of the earliest known computers. he was a french mathematician an astronomer. he was working on calculating the return of haley's comment. and he had been brought on to this project to work on this computer. he was not doing this alone. and he was working with another woman, nicole. they were working on calculating an exact date for the return of the comment. and then 1756,

he sat with president johnson on an open phone line to mission control back at the lab in pasadena as they heard a live feed of ranger six as it approaches the lunar surface. you can imagine what this moment is like. the room is quiet. it is tense. everyone is waiting. then suddenly they hear a voice. spray on avon and walk in fragrant beauty. everyone looks around at each other. where is this voice coming from? surely, this is not coming from the moon. then they realize in pasadena, they have switched feeds with the ongoing queen of outer space contest. this is an incredibly embarrassing moment. even worse is when they learned that ranger six has also failed. what i found interesting in my research was that our first successes in the space race were not to the moon at all, but to the planets. such as mariner 2, which launched in 1962, and was the world's first interplanetary spacecraft. it flew by venus giving us a look into the temperature and heat and wind on that planet. at the same time, in 1964, that we are struggling to get a camera 238,000 miles to the moon, we were successful

lisa ceo of the boys and girls club of pasadena. [applause] eunice davis whose husband hal david was a dear friend to nancy reagan. [applause] of course the hard-working and dedicated volunteers of the reagan library who makes your visit in our work so rich and memorable. and finally of course our reagan library visitors to whom we are so grateful to see after such a long journey back to normal. [applause] thank you all for joining us today to honor nancy davis reagan. when simon and schuster contacted karen about writing the definitive book about mrs. reagan, at first she declined. she had written just about every kind of story you could imagine. but she had never written a book. even for a most experienced of biographers, writing a book about someone with the breath, character, and life experiences of nancy reagan would be a monumental task. but the editors persisted and eventually karen embraced the challenge. and boy, did she ever embrace it. there is no doubt about it, karen has written as what has become and i am sure will lon

. >> was caught on camera in the driveway of a southern california town in monrovia just east of pasadena. city officials say it's not unusual for bears to break into homes or make sure their trash cans looking for some food people are being encouraged to block areas under decks where they're sometimes like that hybrid. still ahead, remembering their names. tonight we are highlighting the legacy of 12 black firefighters who died on 9.11. >> we'll hear from one family. they say they don't want their loved one to be >> and weather looking nice for the weekend ahead. if you're headed out about we've got your getaway forecast coming up next. and its port another chapter in the legal saga. dodgers pitcher trevor bauer. the latest decision and what it means for the team, battling the giants for the battling the giants for the national league west title. you know when you're at ross, ooh! and the fall finds are everything? and those brands at those prices are everywhere? okay, yes! that's yes for less! bring on the fall looks you've been waiting for with the best bargains ever... ...at ross. yes

. >> sam, have your colleagues and friends in pasadena reached out to you or are they waiting to see you go through it first? >> they have been in frequent conversation. hayward approved it, contra costa is also discussing it, and i believe sacramento and san diego. this is a statewide conversation, and i did read a news article today that the department of health statewide is considering it, so hopefully we'll get some direction from the state because that's what we really need. we're seeing the issue on the ground, but this is really a state issue. >> dr. ghandi, final question as we wrap it up. our conversation 90 days from now, will it be a lot different? will we be talking about a lot of districts implementing this? >> i think that's absolutely true that we'll probably have it nationwide. 12 to 15-year-olds, it's under authorization because they really wanted to make sure it was safe. by the time it gets fully approved, which they estimate november, you can be secure that we ever a lot of safety data, real world and from the clinical trials. i do think after it's fully approved,

off and feeling very fall-like 66 in long beach. 68 in ventura, 74 downtown los angeles and 81 in pasadena in the high country and doesn't look like a bad start as we head toward friday, temperatures, mid 70 south lake tahoe. it will be warm up there about 88 in reno. but if your plan on sticking around the prepared. we're going to see some much cooler air and yeah, even a cold front rolling on in bringing a chance of rain late saturday night and into sunday it will bring with us some showers, a much cooler temperatures, almost 20 degrees cooler by sunday afternoon. all right. here in the bay area. we're tracking our storm system approaching the coastline patchy fog for tomorrow. no rain to speak of the bay area on the better part of friday and saturday given that storm system to the north through saturday evening and overnight saturday night into sunday morning. here comes bringing with it a chance scattered showers. again, not going to be a huge storm system. but the fact we might get some rain this early in the season. and that's significant. we could use that for sure around th bay are

continue to lead the way when it comes to space exploration i'm at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadenaalifornia here at nasa they call this the center of the universe, and that's because virtually every probe that has visited and explored our solar system was built in a nasa clean room like this missions that are monitored and controlled from here >> so the drill went into the rock there >> reporter: including the mars perseverance rover, today exploring the read planet looking for signs of life, this is the mars 2020 project manager. let's start with the exciting news, you have mars rock >> we got it we got a sample from mars and now we're carrying it along with us one of our technology demonstrations extracts oxygen from the carbon dioxide atmosphere it can be used for astronauts to breathe or for rockets to take off on mars. first they have to prove they can return something from millions of miles away another probe will be sent to return those core samples, but that will take a decade. >> the sample return is a critical component to showing that we can bring something back to mars.

i'm at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california here at nasa, they call this at the center of the universe that's because virtually every probe that has visited and explored our solar system was built in a nasa clean room like this missions that are monitored and controlled from here >> so the drill went into the rock there. >> including the mars perseverance rover, today exploring the red planet, looking for signs of life. jennifer trosper is the mars 2020 project manager. let's start with the exciting news. you have mars rock. >> we got it we got a sample from mars. and now we're carrying it along with us >> missions like this building blocks for the future >> one of our technology demonstrations extracts oxygen from the carbon dioxide atmosphere, and that oxygen can be used for astronauts to breathe or for rockets to take off on mars. >> first nasa has to prove they can return something to earth from millions of miles a way. another probe will be sent to return those core samples, but that will take a decade. >> the sample return is a real critical component to showing w

beautiful long beach 81 in los angeles. 19 hot anaheim and 93 in pasadena.y, this will be a place, a lot of people be going, but they're saying don't go this weekend. you got that active fire burning up there temperatures in the 70's and 80's. but so much smoke even if you're up there, not enjoyable. also stay away from the tahoe area. looks like there's going to be a lot of smoke, but hopefully we'll get that under control very soon. temperature wise around the bay area 69 degrees in the mission for tomorrow. 61 in the sunset about 64 degrees in san francisco along the coastline, you're going to see some patchy fog that will keep you cooler. mainly low 60's here, maybe size 65 in daly city still going to be hazy outside the air quality still suffering out there, but it should be improved by tomorrow afternoon. 70 degrees in san bruno about 76 in millbrae. also the burlingame and then we start to warm things up. san mateo, you're looking i 77 degrees. 78 san carlos about 77 in redwood city and 78 degrees in mountain view. temperatures warming up in the south

and it's for pasadena aiming to get the season back on track and the champions me and you have that story. ah, the news news news news with me. o a u. s. government scientists of officially given up trying to find 23 species, declaring them all extinct. thank the i rebuild woodpecker, which is attracted public attention several times on the on confirm some things. but the fish and wildlife service officials say they've now exhausted efforts to find it along with 10 other bird species, 2 types of fish and 8 kinds of underwater muscles. it's a sad thing, it's a difficult thing. there will be some losses. but at the same time, i think it's important to reevaluate from time to time where we are and because new species haven't been seen in a very long time, despite a lot of effort to find them. you know, i think it's probably time to declare them extinct. and hope we learn the lessons that we need to learn and move on. one of the world's oldest tropical rain forests has been officially handed back to its original owners. me then train was returned to the eastern cuckoo yolanda people in a hist

discussed, i think may or may not change in the post merkel era with journalist and author thomas pasadena. the elections will at least show whether the the center rightist or the center. leftist can of the political that there is no really right kemp that is insignificant in germany, but there's has been lots, lots of talks about left shift in german politics and we will see tomorrow whether this will come true because that would be definitely it could be a game changer, lot of observers are wondering if there's going to be any drastic changes in germany, foreign and domestic policy. i do not expect rapid changes, not for not for the near future, simply because the political landscape has been hardened in a way round. her style come very reasonable, non drastic, non charismatic, and both candidates wonderful, which will likely make the chancellor. mister lush, it or mister shows they share this, this, this attitude which is popular in germany, because mrs. murphy to the end, has been among the most popular politicians in the country. and probably would she have run another time tomorrow.

and nasa's jet propulsion, laboratory and pasadena to join us standing oh and perseverance landed on mars last week. whereupon perseverance tweeted, i'm safe on mars perseverance. we'll get you anywhere. and not only do we see mars, we can hear it in a word was the sound like, i mean, i guess i say breezy. if you listen to these, all you hear is a very few seconds of a soft wind blowing in the background. turn off your volume because the martian atmosphere is so thin that what you're about to hear will be faint. but listen to the wind. me. that had to be the selfie of the week. it's the shadow of and shot from the ingenuity drone helicopter on the surface of mars. and here is actual video, not a nasa. animation of ingenuity is take off and landing this 1st flight was 3 meters, about 10 feet up and down and lasted 30 seconds. ultimate, our data set it for form this 1st 1st slide number planners and technology is seemingly changing everything here on planet earth as we reported from the consumer electronic show. if you thought that k cups made coffee convenient, get a load, a drink wor

inland looking at the 90's there in pasadena, kimono and then a central california triple digit temperat res. i am picking up some heat advisories. i'll tell you all about that coming up in just a bit. jonathan. >> erica, thank you. just 9 days until the recall election. governor gavin newsome on the campaign trail to keep his job today. he was in southern california handing out pizzas during an appearance with minnesota sen amy klobuchar in orange county. he continues his push in this message that recalling him and removing him from office would cost californians lives as we continue to battle the pandemic. meanwhile, security questions are now being raised ahead of next week's recall election, a group of cyber security. researchers are now urging the california secretary of state to do a statewide risk-limiting audit after the auction election. that audit would use paper ballots to detect possible interference. you may remember just weeks ago my pillow ceo mike lindell released software for the dominion voting election management systems used in the majority of counties here in the gol

we're looking at one. '02, out there in pasadena. if you're heading in that direction heat advisory actually in some parts of southern california as well as the fresno area and some parts of central california tomorrow. of course, we do have the wildfires in various parts of northern california. air quality is not going to be good up there bringing it back home across san francisco tomorrow are expected to be in the low to mid 70's. looking at 72 and half moon bay 83 in a millbrae. when you wake up, you'll see a little bit of that pot patchy fog still. but it should clear out by lunch time out in the south bay going to be mostly sunny skies tomorrow. looking at upper 80's 90's, 98 out in pleasanton and livermore tomorrow. 80's for hayward from down to oakland. we're looking at upper 70's 87 in castro valley and you saw some triple digits there near walnut creek vacaville 99 for day time high. close to a 188 in santa rosa and in 91 in petaluma coming up in just a bit of a look at our 7 day extended forecast. for now. i'm going to send

enjoying some sunshine and some warm weather 86 downtown los angeles 77 in santa barbara hot 94 in pasadena. the high country, of course, we've been worried about the calder fire. but they're starting to get hold on that fire and that is some good news there. quality has been improving across much of that whole region, although the south lake about 78 truckee. a nice warm 86 degrees in reno. all right. we are going to see nice weather around the bay area to lots of sunshine coming our way. couple patches of fog along the coastline that will keep in the 60's right out of the water's edge you're looking 74 in redwood city tomorrow about 73 and lael about 80 degrees in the napa valley next few days. temperatures looking nice warming up sunday and kind of hold steady into monday warming up again on tuesday. and then cooling down big time late next week. are still ahead making an in app purchase. a new ruling is changing things up. if you're shopping on an iphone. >> san francisco has lost out on billions of business tourism dollars because of the pandemic when the [ sfx: bzzz bzzz bzzz ] [ sfx:

and the 70's southern california enjoy about 85 degrees and long beach 88 in los angeles, 99 in pasadenabout a 102 in anaheim. if you head to the high country boy, just one avoid lake tahoe this weekend. the fire's going 50's close down. it's a mess up there. all that smoke out there as well. so stay away from the tahoe area may go to reno and then temperatures there in the 90's around the bay area will be hotter tomorrow. mid-nineties at least i think in the valleys 70's 80's around the bay and some 60's along the coastline. these temperatures warming up over the weekend getting close to triple digits into sunday and monday. i think cooling down next week. but right now looks like over the weekend still hazy out there. still a lot of smoke from the fires. guys. looks like that will probably stick around for the weekend. so when you say you met a bunch of officers lately like you've been getting pulled over allowed just friends of mine. you know, the people out on the road they just want to meet you yet. >> let's look at your license to make sure you're want to talk slow decay. well, sou

it feels like the icu kept pasadena has been negative for a while. >> right, exactly, we're not usedhat term. some people took it in the literal biblical sense. when i was really referring to, was a breakdown of a social order. a breakdown of our ability to expect that we as a community, especially medical community can care for each other. if your father, like mr. demonia, is in need of acute care because he's having a cardiac emergency, you assume, in a normal world. where we do take care of each other, that you can actually go to an emergency department, maybe not the one next to your house, but maybe within a 20-mile radius and get care, his story is unfortunately incredibly sad, and tragic, and it's heartbreaking, and we are seeing that play out. this is not an isolated event. most of our emergency departments in the state, are really overwhelmed. and were boarding people. there were taking care of people who really need the icu beds. that you mentioned. and they're in such short, supply right now. our icus are mostly filled with people who require to be on a ventilator. and tha

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the leader of the organization based in pasadena, california. told us he was a member of his family, essentially. he had four children, three boys, one girl. and they were expecting to immigrate to the united states. the ngo that employed him had applied for refugee resettlement to the united states four days before he was killed. >> all right. evan hill, thank you very much to you and your team for that eye opening and very important report from afghanistan. evan, thank you. >>> still ahead, a bombshell new book reveals just how afraid the nation's top general was that donald trump would actually start a war and the top secret actions he took to stop it. plus, we're following breaking news in the california recall election hours before polls close. governor gavin newsome adds a campaign stop. we'll bring you a live report from there next. first, former "saturday night live" cast member norm mcdonald has died after a long private battle with cancer. mcdonald was on snl in the mid 1990s, largely remembered for his sharp delivery as the anchor on

sunshine and temperatures mid 80's in long beach about 81 event or 88 los angeles 99 and hot in pasadena. of course, we watching the high country and there dealing with all the fire 50's close. not a good weekend to get up there to tahoe. but if you're heading to reno, you're talking some 90's up there, some hot weather and expect some hazy conditions, especially in the morning hours with that smoke temperatures around the bay area tomorrow. 80's and 90's, especially hot the next few days looks like it is going to be hot through the holiday weekend and cool down the middle of next week. all right. thank you, lawrence. >> now to the east bay. a warning for people planning to celebrate this labor day on lake berryessa. it's more the north bay, the charcoal barbecues or campfires will not be allowed this weekend. napa county is issuing fire restrictions at the lake restrictions will last until further notice due to concerns over fire danger last august. you recall the lnu lightning complex fires tore through that area of lake berryessa. >> happening right now. the highway patrol's maximum e

. >> in pasadena. >> where i think back on watching the world cup in 19 99 and seeing brandy and my heroesay them over. we had the commentary memorized and i think it was like magic of the patriotism and seeing people with their faces painted as a flag and the realization these women were representing our country, they were the best in the country drew me in. i was at home in st. louis watching the game with my dad. he's in his rocking chair. i'm on the floor with my head in my hand just watching and that was the moment for me where it was like whatever it ftakes. whatever it takes, i need to know what that feels like. the fight for equal pay has been going on for a long time. it been going on since probably this team started. >> i shutter to think where we would be without those players and leaders and we try to really just continue on the fight that the abbies and christis and before that, the julie and acres, that they were fighting. >> it was always a battle. >> still scoreless in the title game of the women's world cup. long-time member of the team. >> a lot of the mind set back then

in pasadena the rose bowl and ucla is reminded everyone who comes to game has to wear a mask even outsidehe president and boris johnson both vaccinated and very encouraging of people to get vaccines and mandating it in some cases. what is going on with all this confusion? i get frustrated when i see staff that has to wear a mask in a restaurant when the rest of us don't. >> i think this is part of the challenge of the guidance from cdc. it hasn't been articulated in a way that we can make very practical use of it. when we should and shouldn't be wearing max. what the risk factors are to trigger mask mandates and people using discretion to wear masks. we should be consistent first of all. in the high prevalence environment with vulnerable people the use of masks can help protect one of those individuals. if you want to reduce your risk it would be prudent. a cloth mask won't afford an individual nearly as much protection as a level three procedure mask and you get much more protection from an n-95 mask. if you're someone who wants to protect yourself because you feel you are at risk of cov

so if you think about a trip like manhattan to jfk or lax to pasadena, those are routes millions of people on the ground taking these trips. these are trips we can fly five to eight minutes. we do it back-to-back all day long with the vehicles. charging time typically take place between loading and unloading of passengers to enable continuous flights all throughout the day. stuart: so again, you can recharge fully just as you unload the passengers and load them back on again. that implies maybe an hour you can completely recharge? >> well the good news, stuart, we're not going to use the entire battery on every flight. so we will hold a certain amount of the battery in reserves. a certain amount of the battery will hold, that will just keep there as backup as well and then we'll take the battery down, typically around 30% permission. when you go to recharge, you're basically topping off the battery every time for missions, that enables quick turnaround times here. we're talking turn around times of ten minutes or less. stuart: are you fully authorized by the faa? is your machine, equipment

host: letter to michael calling from pasadena, texas.aller: this whole thing with health and politics, they have muddied the waters when they have politics involved with people's health. it is a shame the people are basically either going to do it were not going to do it. they are going to pack a gun or not pack a gun. in texas, you can tell the way a lot of people are going. being as red as the state is, a governor and lieutenant governor like we have, everything is always a ploy to take over the government. this is one of the ploys by the democrats to take over the government and still everybody's desk and steal everybody -- and steal everybody's rights. well we have to stop at stop signs and wear seatbelts. we have mandates. you have to do what you can, and maybe that includes mandates. host: the director of cdc came out and overruled a recommendation by an advisory board on the booster shots. i will bring to you what the new york times wrote about that. "the cdc overruled a recommendation by an agency advisory panel that refused to e

host: letter to michael calling from pasadena, texas.aller: this whole thing with health and politics, they have muddied the waters when they have politics involved with people's health. it is a shame the people are basically either going to do it were not going to do it. they are going to pack a gun or not pack a gun. in texas, you can tell the way a lot of people are going. being as red as the state is, a governor and lieutenant governor like we have, everything is always a ploy to take over the government. this is one of the ploys by the democrats to take over the government and still everybody's desk and steal everybody -- and steal everybody's rights. well we have to stop at stop signs and wear seatbelts. we have mandates. you have to do what you can, and maybe that includes mandates. host: the director of cdc came out and overruled a recommendation by an advisory board on the booster shots. i will bring to you what the new york times wrote about that. "the cdc overruled a recommendation by an agency advisory panel that refused to e

host: this is mike in pasadena, texas on the line for others. go ahead.aller: i would just like to say that people that sit there on their behind and talk about people who don't want to go to work, you know, there is help wanted signs all over texas. there are jobs there. they can be had anywhere but people are, like they just said, getting hit unevenly. the poor continue to get poorer. they continue to be mauled by this thing. they cannot go back to work because of health care, home care, childcare. there are so many things holding them back. the schools are inundated with covid. it is just a problem of our economy will survive, it is strong, but right now the workers have the upper hand and we will have to see how it plays out. thank you for your help in taking the time to put it all out in the open. hopefully we can get this country back on the right road. host: the washington times in the editorial this morning talked about the president's efforts, highlighting some of those things some viewers have made saying it was in june about 1.8 million out of

host: our guest is the seven term representative from pasadena, california.r of the asian pacific american caucus. judy chu. let's go to christina in mcdonough, georgia. democrat line. caller: good morning. i think that democrats should highlight a little bit more of the benefits that are in the build back better deal for the elderly. you need to talk more about the plans for the disabled, how president biden wants to do more in-home care and increase pay for nursing home workers. you need to highlight that a little more because i noticed more emphasis on childcare, family leave, but you are not highlighting the things that will benefit the elderly and i think people need to know more about this. republicans to a good job at criticizing, but people have got to understand that republicans are not for them. they are getting richer. they are doing damage, but they do -- they don't care nothing about the people and they talk about spending, but they gave themselves all this money. the conservative media -- people have to understand they have been paid by corporat