, and his horse flaired its nose and rushed up at the gully, and he took that as a natural symbol, the horse's reaction, that that was a deeply morally wrong thing, slavery, one of the real events that caused him to deepen his abolitionist sentiment. >> [inaudible] >> i'm sorry. thank you so much. [applause] >> that event, part of the 2011 national book festival here in washington, d.c.. to find out more, visit loc.gov/bookfest. >> getting back at the last ten years and draw three lessons. one, the most important lesson is that the most important thing to happen in the united states in the last ten years was nothing. the last ten years never saw another successful terrorist attack in the united states, and one -- and i think the most important question to ask is why and whether it was worth it. to me, the most important decision was one that president bush made as commander in chief and chief executive on the night of 9/11 which was to treat the 9/11 attacks as an across act of war. the way we thought about it at that time is if any country attacked us in the same way as al

it is pointing out a goalie in the middle of the sand. -- a gully in the middle of the sand. >> woodywas just given this time. >> i have been wanting one of these for years. i know they were at 5300. >> the building is still there. >> they were not the most enlightened company. they were strict about not showing homes to minorities. they got in trouble for that. willie brown actually made his name by going and trying to see one of the homes. it was a very political thing. he would walk up with a whole bunch of people in the person showing the home would sneak away. >> even in the teens, there were a lot of neighborhoods that had restrictions against certain groups of people. >> this was in the 1950's. willie mays had trouble buying a house in san francisco. a couple of people would not show him a house. they had to enlist the mayor and a bunch of people. this is their reservoir. companies would take a block and there would start wrecking houses. there were building two a day -- they were building two with a. the 1930's were the big boom times for the sunset. >> this is a recession. >>

. >> i pent most of the morning keeping that fire down and it was raging in our gully. e sad part we witnessed our neighbor's houses just burn down in front of our eyes. >> tonight the fire is 80% contained. >>> crews remain at the scene tonight of a five alarm fire in berkeley, one that left some cal students homeless. anne makovec explains why firefighters are still keeping watch nearly 24 hours after the flames erupted. >> it felt so surreal. >> reporter: she saw the smoke from her apartment window and shot this video with her cell phone. a raging fire in this five story commercial and apartment building. >> kept getting bigger. there was black smoke coming out of the windows too. >> her building was evacuated but it was the people that lived in the 39 apartment buildings in this building that she really fell for mainly students at u.k. berkeley. >> they are just sticking out because they just lost all their stuff and they were crying. we are so close to finals week 2, they are just freaking out about the whole building. >> reporter: firefighters still don't know how

the garage. these two cars a total loss. >> went down into this gully and went roaring into one of the doctor's homes over there and then just expanded over to here. >> dennis saw the flames and didn't wait for firefighters to take action. >> we got the garden hoses and i spent most of the morning keeping that fire down. and it was raging in our gully. >> and his efforts paid off. one of the lucky ones. his home was saved. he just wishes others had the same outcome. >> sad part, we witnessed our neighbors houses just burn down in front of our eyes. >> paul watched as burning embers got into this attic and smoldered three hours later. attacking the flames from all directions were enough to save it. >> the wind was so strong that it just went through the attic and flames were shooting out. probably 30, 40 feet downwind. >> so now, as people survey the devastation in the neighborhood. when these homeowners come back, all they will see is the cracked china and mangled metal from what used to be a dining room chair. >>> well police say they solved a disturbing sexual assault case. how a suspect was linked

he did not stop the overseer but he bush's forced back into the gully but the horse flared nostrils and took the natural reaction of the morissette this is morally wrong of slavery so that was won the event that causednt. hindu deepen his abolitionist sentiment. thank you so much clap >> host: ben mezrich where did you find this story the accidental millionaires? >> iran them e-mail a harvard student and he said my best friend co-founded facebook and nobody has ever heard of him. i had heard of facebook. this was made the egg get some mixed up but 2008? right before 21 came out. the move the 21. my eight wife had forced me to be on it soared new what it was but not something to look at parties i was not invited to so i went out for a drink with the diary and he was angry, are really angry. and bell little drunk and wanted to tell me his story. >> host: why did he send an e-mail to you? >> i am the go to guide for every college kid who does something ridiculous are crazy i guess they have a big college audience and these kids want to tell their story. i have become that guide when somebo

the village of congolese is in that gully or one of the country's poorest regions local peasants used to regard themselves almost as urban dwellers they lived in flats with all modern amenities and now one in every two flats is vacant. the local boy louse plant doesn't work. the few people who still live here have to heat their homes with by woods. sometimes i fetched firewood once a day sometimes i do it twice a day and then i don't do it for three or four days my grandchildren give me a helping hand when they were little i would bring firewood by cart. and he has five children none of them live in latvia now they are trying to make money in western europe. and pieces spends her pension to feed her grandchildren she likes talking about her big family which is now scattered around the world the people who did this is my daughter to give me that's. in the high yield so it was and here is a good lama and good company in nigeria is my granddaughter play went to china went to london to work there she left these little things in my care this boy was one year old and that one was in the thi

building to the east of that is the chicken ranch, and you can see beyond to the west all sand dunes and hollows and gulliess one of the row houses we were talking about. as late as 1910, there were crackdowns and vice raids on road houses all the way to the prohibition. people would to the west side of town to get a drink and to kind of escape public scrutiny. [laughter] >> that is a good way to say it. >> that is the racetrack grandstand. >> that is huge. >> opening day in 1895 through 14,000 people. they put a train line to it. they had a street car line. it was a big deal in those days, horse racing was. >> reason really interesting progress about car bill. tell us about what cargo was. >> in 1895, adolph sutro owned a couple blocks of land, which were sand dunes. the pavement, the streets. south of golden gate park. there was a train line that brought people from downtown to the beaches. mostly, it was used on sundays. it went along with a good way to the beach. top of that, a few people started using old horse carts, which are essentially street cars that were pulled by horses. they became obsolete as

. >> we got garden hoses and i spent most of the morning keeping that fire down and it was raging in our gully. >> reporter: and his efforts paid off. he is one of the lucky ones whose home was saved. he just wishes others had the same outcome. >> the sad part, we witnessed our neighbors' houses just burn down in front of our eyes. >> reporter: he watched as burning embers got into this attic and smoldered. three hours later, not even three fire engines attacking the flames from all directionses were enough to save it. >> it was amazing. the wind was so strong that it just went through the attic and flames were shooting out probably 30, 40 feet downwind. >> reporter: so now as people survey the devastation in the neighborhood, when these home- owners come back, all they will see is the cracked china and mangled metal from what used to be a dining room chair. >> hundreds of passengers are stranded at l.a.x. tonight and that's nearly two days after their plane was supposed to take off. a jumbo jet had just started down the runway thursday evening. the flight was bound for guam. there are reports

the bay area forecast tomorrow. most of them mid-morning to mid- afternoon hours, heavy gully washer? no, but unsettled cooler. and the umbrellas will be needed for a time. here comes the weather system. cold air, the colder the system the less water it can hold. this is a cold one, not a lot of rain, 10-15 degrees cooler, showers spread south, that is not it. snow in the mountains, it hanging around, through to a bay area, looking at the clouds, look at the temperatures, look at the overnight lows, chilly, wintery, and you will notice it first thing tommorow as we head into the weekend. more chances for scattered showers. >>> all right, what a change, thank you. >>> when we come back here, continuing coverage on the massive occupied protests going on right now, an estimated thousand people at the plaza, which you see here as the port of oakland where there are at least 3000 and probably more people there right now. they have essentially shut down the port of oakland for tonight storewide. unlike other stores, we don't make you come back to save. get $10 off with no exclusions. we make style affordable. you mak

slave whipped by his other than.cau he felt complicit because he didn't stop the overseer, but also olmsted was back in a gully, and his force flared its nostrils and rushed up out of the galley, the horse's reaction that this was a deeply morally wrong thing, slavery.at w and so that was one of the real events that caused him to deepen his abolitionist sentiments. >> i'm sorry, thank you so much. [applause] >> that event part of the 2011 national book festival here in washington d.c. to find out more visit loc.gov/book fest. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's a look at our prime time lineup for tonight beginning at 7 eastern. steven pinker presents his book, "the better angels of our nature." then at 8:30, condoleezza rice details her tenure in the bush administration. at 10 p.m. eastern, "after words," corey robin discusses the reactionary mind with s.e. cupp. that all happening tonight here on booktv. >> i want the start by talking about why i wrote the book and what i hope to accomplish with this book. i wrote the book because our party is certainly at a crossroads, and there's a division. and go

he became complicit and he didn't stop the overseer and olmstead was on a gully and a horse flared his nostrils and olmstead took that as a very much a natural symbol, a horse's reaction that this was a deeply morally wrong thing to slavery. that was one of the real events that caused him to deepen his abolition sentiment. >> thank you so much. [applause] >> that event part of 2011 book festival group. for more information go to booktv.org/booktv bookfest. >> coming up next on booktv, paul blue stein, a country that defaulted on a loan from the world bank, this is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much. i'll just start by saying that i suspect there may be one or two people from the world bank here and i know people from the world bank are always concerned that perhaps they're the ones who are being picked out as the villains as a book like this. the world bank doesn't figure in this book much at all. it's barely mentioned so you might ask who are the bad guys? and i suppose i could tell you what the dedication says. i dedicated it to my children. i say in the