erica bar is an award-winning political reporter beginning her career as the texas observer. she worked for the austin chronicle, seattle weekly and the stranger. huffington post, seattle magazine and grist, and she was a cofounding editor of the beloved and feisty blog -- [inaudible] sorry for the air quotes. she now covers awe diction, housing policy, and virtually every topic. a seattle nailive and the author of two critically acclaimed memoirs and a forthcoming nonfiction book, her work has appeared in "the new york times," the paris review, the atlantic and other publications. she's also an ecker and has taught -- educator and has taught at the university of washington and other universities across the country. erica barnett's first book is called quitter, a memoir of drinking, relapse and recovery, and it's the subject of tonight's talk. please join me in welcoming them. >> hello. >> hello! i'm so excited to be here with you. >> you too. >> yeah. i'll jump in and say congratulations. the book is an incredibly impressive achievement. it reads like a house on fire, and as

erica barnett is in their award-winning reporter beginning her career at the texas observer cofounded by molly eisen and wrote [inaudible] as a reporter and news editor for seattle weekly and the stranger. she's written for a variety of local altercations including the huffington post, seattle magazine and was a cofounding editor of the beloved and spicy political [inaudible] and sorry for the air quotes. virtually every other minute config of and she's regular guest on ko w the weekend interview. she's a seattle native and two critically acclaimed memoirs and a nonfiction book investigating how relationships to good art from [inaudible] people. she is an educator [inaudible] erica barnett's first book is called "quitter" and it's a subject of tonight talk. please join me in welcoming erica barnett. >> hello. >> hello. i'm so excited to be here with you. >> me, too. >> i will jump in and say congratulations the book is incredibly impressive achievement and it reads like a house on fire and as a reader and a longtime fan of your work in a sober person i am so glad this book exists. i'm

when it made landfall as a category 4 storm, the weather observation site at cameron, texas was measuring wind gusts of 115 miles per hour. and as it continues to move up louisiana just right along the texas and louisiana border there, it's still bringing torrential rains and extreme and damaging winds. so watching this closely, and as it continues to move north and then northeast, it will rapidly weaken. so down to a tropical storm later today. but really watching this area especially in louisiana right now as it is still bringing flooding rains as well as looking at that onshore flow kicking in. so some good news at least we're looking at better air quality this morning. here's a live look with our south bay san jose camera right now it is 60 degrees. so we're in the 50s and 60s this morning. and with foggy conditions along the coast and right around the bay, with that onshore flow, even catching a little bit of drizzle in spots. even in oakland, you are noticing and catching that drizzle this morning. and the mid 50s. looking at mid 50s in san francisco and about 54 in santa rosa. so l

texas rangers. >> my initial observation was just from coming in through the foyer was -- that it was a clean house. then i made a beeline for the -- the laundry room, which was -- >> reporter: wait one sec. "clean" meaning didn't look like she'd interrupted a burglary? >> that's correct. that's correct. >> reporter: i mean, there was no stuff missing, drawers pulled open? >> right. >> reporter: something else was telling -- on the floor of the garage was anna's purse, which still held $300. and nothing else seemed to be missing, except anna's car. ranger mankin surveyed the scene with lead detective brian tschudy. >> that's when we notice some shell casings in the garage. um, just multiple shell casings. >> reporter: the casings easily identified the murder weapon as a .22 -- and a careful look at anna's body told them a little more. >> i observed her to be lyin' on her back. she was heavily clothed -- still wearin', you know, her jacket and a couple of scarves. i -- i saw what appeared to be a bullet hole in her -- in her scarf that was wrapped around her neck. and that's when i observed a hole i

texas convirtiÓ en el centro de convenciones en un hospital temporal para tratar enfermos con sÍntomas leves. >> los mÉdicos que trabajan en las unidades detallan la realidad que se vive en los hospitales. >> cuando entrÉ, observérendiÓ lo enfermo que puede estar una persona. pidieron a la poblaciÓn hacer todo lo posible para evitar mÁs propagaciÓn de la pandemia. >> el magistrado indicÓ que no se dio la preocupaciÓn para prevenir un posible brote dentro de. con el acadÉmico se estableciÓ en nueva york, el gobernador de nueva york fue uno de los mÁs activos y exigentes para evitar la propagaciÓn el virus pero ahora sorprendiÓ al permitir que las secuelas abran con clases presenciales. >> misiones de estudiante podrÁn iniciar el aÑo escolar en persona luego de que cuomo autorizara el regreso a clases de las secuelas. su luz verde significa que cada distrito escolar puede decidir si abrirÁ o no. siempre siguiendo las recomendaciones de los departamento de salud. dice que ese distrito no estÁ preparado. >> no se sabe bastante del virus y el impacto que puede tener a las niÑas. la escuela no tiene suficiente producto para limpiar la escuela todos los dÍas. una posible soluciÓn es que la tasa de infecciÓn promedio s

observation that children are bug bombs. you seem to get sick sometimes just from looking at them. let's get a call from rodney in houston, texas. caller: good morning. dr. roberta, i would like to ask this question. i'm asking you to be a straight shooter. i am from houston, texas, third ward where george floyd was from. i went to the same school. the reason i am bringing this up, we hear a lot of issues about black lives matters. there's a lot of incidents of prejudice in schools. the teachers are being put at a disadvantage. this is a scenario. let's say a white teacher is teaching black kids. the kids are not being taught how to wear the mask at home, or maybe they are, and the kid get that disease. what if a parent wants to accuse the teacher because they said you did not pay attention to my kid, or my kid was not allowed to watch his or her hands, and they was not wearing their mask correctly, you did not do anything? to me, the teachers are at a risk. it seems like a lot of education should given in the home, from the schools, some kind of curriculum. and the last question i want to ask you, are we glad this is not a nuc

texas border. the category 4 storm with wind 150 miles an hour, we check of some of the current wind observations at alexandria, louisiana. 79 miles per hour for gusts, we show you some of the storm reports kind of scattered around portions of the area. you will see just of course lots of wind and flood reports as well, these are just a few of the trees snapped, that is the minimum impact you would see with the storm coming out of effect lots of tree damage and also some flash flooding as well from earlier this morning. right now, the storm in fact weekend, this is a new development, it is now a category one, a category one hurricane with wind at 85 miles an hour, it weakens and continues as the system and hurricane continues to move to the north and eventually to the east. now, in terms of fire in the bay area, we have been watching this:clouds and fog collecting the firefighters over the past few days with clouds clearing up at the coastline of the winds pick up around 10-15 may be approaching 20 miles an hour. this afternoon we check out some of the conditions around some of the fire zones. the w

observing it. we also have the current president at the time, and 69, richard nixon, attending the game right here. we have this gentleman over here with the beat texas button. that's the person who bill clinton would lose his first lyrical race against -- political race against. george h dubya bush is attending right there, as well, looking towards the camera. our library isy late -- named after, all right here watching the football game together. it's a proud moment at the university of arkansas even though they did end up losing that game in a thriller of a game. so what we have here are two letters, several actually, in the fulbright papers from senator johnson. johnson was a longtime leader in the senate, majority leader in the 1950's. he became president after kennedy's assassination. he and fulbright had very close relationship and were good friends. but they also had a lot of disagreements over their time together. that's two of the major political leaders in the country. and of the letters we have, that i think are really, really telling, this letter right here is on the white house letterhead from johnson. so it's an official letter. but yo

texas. >> a subject that i have a new very little about. so looking back at history we think of things that were inevitable but not at the time. so with quite a few military observerst the time.mexico could hold its own. can you comment on that? >> there are a number of quotations in the back of the book. military observers paying attention to what's happening. winfield scott cuts himself off from all communication and walks toward the gulf of mexico people assume he is in. there's no way. he only has 10000 men. nobody ever heard from him again it would be a military disaster a stupid thing to do if flies in the face and then when he wins all of his observers say it's genius and wonderful he did a fabulous job. it's interesting even than 190 years ago how much attention is paid to these around the world. >>host: jeff shaara and e-mail from massachusetts. did you notice he praised both generals cromwell and sherman who were noted for their attacks on civilians and food stock and other noncombatant entities. by the end of world war ii these were called war crimes. what is it about sherman and cromwell? >> i think he meant cornwallis. >>guest: i will disagree with tha