newscast from july 22nd and tribute to jim vance special that aired.lso head to the nbc washington app to take a look at all the ways vance had an impact on our community. >> we continue to remember jim. that's a tough one. >>> heads-up. if you're driving to the beach this weekend, you can face heavier than normal backups because crews are making road repairs on the chess speak bridge on salisbury continuing this fall. the right hand lane will be closed to help ease congestion. urging drivers to take the u.s. 50 business route that runs thro >>> coming up, it has been a huge construction zone for years. route one in the fort belford area is now open. >> reporter: traffic is moving along a new section of the highway between jeff todd way and telegraph road. that 3 1/2 mile section is now six lanes instead of four with turn lanes and upgraded signals. the benefits aren't just for drivers. >> it provides safer ways to get across the street for pedestrians, better bicycle connections and additional capacity and space for future transit. >> reporter: becaus

and third, jd vance recalls his childhood in a rust belt town in ohio in hillbilly elegy. >> then markbenson's advice on leading a happier life. and a collection of excerpts from the diary of humorist david harris. >> oh five/one new and i'm the director here at the commonwealth club. welcome to tonight's conversation the author of a brand-new book wild ride inside the quest for world domination and the executive editor of fortune. we are especially excited he will be speaking with care and executive editor of the host of the recode podcast calle hot one trail of the story since the beginning

. >>> when jim vance died, our community lost a legend.ne who helped make the world a little clearer each night and we lost very dear friend. so many of you have reached out to us and comfort us to share your memories. we want you to know how much we appreciate you and your thoughtfulness. you really have lifted us up. vance's sense of integrity lives and we'll try to continue up to high standards. now more than ever, w they carry your fans shpassions, hopes, and dreams.s. and maybe, a chance at greatness not dandruff. >>> one man died when this ride fireball malfunctioned. seven others were injured and one person is still in a coma this evening. the maker of that ride said excessive corrosion caused the ride to break down. >> with the montgomery county fair opening soon, news 4 tom sherwood is working for you to get answers about ride safety there. >> the montgomery county fair opens are putting together the kid di rides and adult seekers all the carnival rides. >> i'm afraid all that. >> this high flying ride is called khaos it spins aro

vance and political writer of 538. josh. is it a fair assumption that the president is now making it clear that he is all in with the base and the idea that steve bannon could be on his way out is nonsensical because that is his conduit to the same base. he's going to -- he's going to go against his own, clearly he's got one strategy, and that's to go hard at the right. >> trump is always thinking about his base. also not thinking ahead to his legislative agenda, clearly or he wouldn't be doing what he did the other day. i think we saw his true feelings the first time he gave a statement about many sides were to blame. he had a kind of forced march to walk that back. as always happens with trump. it didn't last. his true feelings came out. he was angry. even though he had advice not to do this, he had steve bannon saying you have to connect with the base. this isn't fair. if there's one thing we know motivates trump is the idea he's being attacked unfairly by the media. >> there is just a stunning cover. i hope you can see r

they're hoping to vance add van the competition.he show is tonight at 8:00. >>> and today is better than yesterday. 79 degrees for a high. we are not dealingh tomorrow looks good, too. maybe an isolated shower and into the weekend. those are remnants of harvey coming saturday. sunday looks good and monday looks good, too, so not the entire weekend seeing rain. >> not bad overall. >> one day really. >>> that's the broadcast this morning. thanks for joining us. the "today" show is next. >> we're not going anywhere. we'll be back in 25 minutes. we have more weather, talk to sheena and chuck and more news to tell you about with another update. >> make it a great wednesday, everybody. >>> good morning. breaking news, harvey breaking news, harvey roars ashore for the third time with even more torrential rain. a deluge in beaumont, texas, an unprecedented foot in a matter of hours overnight. two feet in a day and more rain on the way. the storm's death toll growing. a sixth day of misery pushing residents to their breaking points. >> not k

there will be a celebration of vance's life on tuesday, september 12th. we'll broadcast that live on nbc4 and online at nbc washington. also, there will be a limited number of ticketsai online and do o come, you'll that by going to our app or website and searching celebration events. if you'd have told me three years ago... that we'd be downloading in seconds, what used to take... minutes. that guests would compliment our wifi. that we could video conference... and do it like that. (snaps) if you'd have told me that i could afford... a gig-speed. a gig-speed network. it's like 20 times faster than what most people have. i'd of said... i'd of said you're dreaming. dreaming! definitely dreaming. then again, dreaming is how i got this far. now more businesses in more places can afford to dream gig. comcast, building america's largest gig-speed network. there's the view. there's more to life than the climb. you've got to stop... ...and look around a little. remember who you are. let the child inside you out to play. come... shed life's layers in asheville. vi

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. >>> first, some of you may have been asking about a memorial vance. nbc4 and vance announced a celebration of his life an september 12th at the washington national cathedral. we're planning live coverage of the service and many of you who would like to attend and we'll share details as soon as we can. he died in july. he spent 48 years here at nbc4 and we miss him every day. there's the view. there's more to life than the climb. nd look around a little. remember who you are. let the child inside you out to play. come... shed life's layers in asheville. visit lonely planet's best destination for 2017. and let the magic find you. asheville. discovery inside and out. >>> the pride of prince george's county made it home. >> we're talking about nba champ kevin durant. the entire area squeezed into seat pleasant to welcome him home. there he is. in a silver corvette. look at that. his championship trophy. thousands came out for kevin durant day. k.d. brought the trophy that he waited ten years for. that was a surprise for many. he did say he was going to br

vance joining us who grew up in a rust belt town in ohio, a state that easily went to donald trump inelection. author of "hillbilly elegy: memoir of a family and culture in crisis" and in the book dives into how many missed the mark on the white working class that fueled donald trump's campaign. j.d., excellent book. thanks so much for joining us. give us your, your reaction when you saw what was going on in charlottesville. >> well, wolf, you see people marching around doing the nazi salute. i come from a family with a large number of military veterans and from back in the day, people who actually went and fought the nazis. it's really disturbing to see this display of white national inch and became doubly terrifying because it led to somebody losing their life. like a lot of people, watched the tv, was horrified and forced me to think what's going on in our country and happening that this stuff is becoming seemingly more common. >> you've done a lot of research in this area. it's the nazi slogans that you hear. the anti-semitism. racism. comments about women. what motivating it? the

freedman, former secretary of state condoleezza rice and best-selling author michael lewis and janey vance heard the national book festival live saturday starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >> book tv recently visited capital to vast members of congress what they are reading the summer. >> tell us about the book you're reading the summer. >> i'm delighted to tell you that. i tried to undertake something, i think, a great volume. the three books about eleanor roosevelt written by blanche wise and cook, the early years, the middle years and the prewar in the postwar years. that will be my project. i'm going to try to read all three of these volumes. i think eleanor roosevelt was an extraordinary influence on public policy and what she espoused and the differences between herself and franklin roosevelt. there's also another one that i would get to it but it's about the firebrand in the first lady. as i said, it's a big undertaking and i'm excited to be able to do it and to learn from a great role model. >> book tv wants to know what you're reading. send us your summer reading

joyce vance, former u.s.r the northern district of alabama, it's a real pleasure to have you here tonight, ma'am. thank you for your time. >> thanks. >> that does it for us tonight. i will tell you one of the things people are watching in terms of this manafort fbi raid news is the possibility that it was related in terms of the timing with the -- related to the fact that manafort had been testifying on capitol hill just that morning, less than 24 hours before the raid. we talked about that a couple different times tonight on this show. all of the talk about that is speculation. there's nothing in the reporting about that, and there's nothing from anybody, even source near whether that testimony to congress and that raid were connected. that is speculation entirely at this point, but someday i expect we will get that answer. now it is time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> rachel, i'm going to be asking mieke eoyang about that. she's a former committee staffer who has familiarity with that kind

here's author jd vance, "hillbilly elegy". ♪ ♪ >> this week on q&a, author jd vance discusses his bethling book, "hillbilly elegy. >> do you have any idea when he wrote this book that it would be a huge bestseller? >> guest: no, i did not expected to have the response that it had. >> host: why do you think it has? >> one, i think just the weird nature of the election has called people task what who are these white voters supporting donald trump for making waves, and second, a shuttle light on an area of the country because people are curious that they didn't know whole lot about. hopefully showed them about what folks in this region of the world are like, the good and the bad. >> host: where were you born? >> guest: i was born in middletown, ohio. it was in between cincinnati and dayton, that was the most important impressive thing about it. i spent time in eastern kentucky because my graham prince i grew up with were appellation dice poor. they came from the coal country, worked in steel mills which is a story, and that area. >> host: can you paint a picture of middletown a jackson ke

the typesof authors we are going to have, katie vance's book is on every reading list you can imagine in every book club. it is an exciting time. i am thrilled. >> join booktv for the national book festival live in washington dc saturday, september 2nd on c-span2. >> now to a mock trial based on a scenario of william shakespeare's play neck best. a panel of federal appellate court judges and supreme court justice including stephen breyer heard oral arguments in the case of the weird sisters, the kingdom of scotland. at issue, whether or not the sisters were using witchcraft to aid and abet macbeth in the murder of king duncan of scotland. this was another installment of the mock trial series presented by the shakespeare theatre company of washington dc. [applause] >> thank you for joining us in this event which is our 26 mock trial. this is one of the events we do that is a labor of love and it is because of the people you will meet in a moment that

and there's diminished trust. >> let me get back to joyce vance who has been a prosecutor. it seems to me if i was a prosecutor, i have a long career behind me, a fabulous resume like bob mueller who has done everything right in his life. here's the last professional chapter and there's a guy toward make his case. i would think any time i heard this flakory coming from the white house or the lawyers, thought denial of the obvious, i just get a little more juice when i get up in the morning say i want to get the job done. >> a great thing about being bob mueller is that you have nothing to prove. that's true of a lot of the people on his team. they are people who have had storied careers. they're legends inside and outside the justice department. my suspicion is that they're not paying a lot of attention to what's going on in the white house. instead, they're waking up every morning. we know mueller's group is divided into teams, looking at potential crimes. they're compiling evidence, putting it on to a time line. now going to a grand jury for whatever witness support or wh

vance is a son of the white rust group, a family and culture in crisis, this was released in the middle election year and immediately found an audience with the populace appeal of president trump. >> it is not me, to the being democratic elite, it's the sense that people don't care like you. >> rose: exactly right, they don't care. >> exactly. that feeling unfortunately, as you think about the political dialogue that we're already starting to have, you know, both on the left and the right there's a movement to sort of gloat over the afact that the elites were right about donald trump, i'm a never trump guy, i never liked him. but i've noticed this willingness from people who think a lot like do i, that look, we told you so. to all these white work class voters, we told you so. we told you trump was going to be aterrible candidate. we told you you would be an idiot to vote for him. if you take that as gloating over trump's defeat then you're playing over what gaifer rise to trump in the first place that the eleads are smarter than you and think you're a bunch of idiots. >> rose: what aff

jim's chili bowl for the mural unveiling for our own jim vance.e was 84 years old. >>> a new law in virginia is helping to battle the opioid crisis. it expands access to narcan. people gathered at the oakland library to train on how to use it. it is one of the first grassroots events since the law took effect. the chris atwood foundation organized the session. in addition to learning how to use it, people got free doses to take home. >>> tonight, tempers flaring in dallas, texas, the scene of protests over confederate statues. you're about to see new video of the gathering outside city hall. police are estimating a crowd of more than 2,300. hours after it wrapped up things got tense at pioneer park, a civil war cemetery that houses a memorial to confederate statues. a scuffle supporters of the confederate monument and counter demonstrators. there were no major injuries >>> in boston today, tens of thousands of counts protesters flooded the speech drowning out the small right wing free speech rally. a few altercations but no serious injuries. polic

presentation then viewer call in segments featuring alyssa prize-winning historian david mccullough, jd vance and former secretary of state condoleezza rice. sunday, september 17th, look for us at the brooklyn book festival with other discussions on the supreme court, immigrants, and more. later the baltimore book festival taking place at the city's inner harbor and over 200 authors will speak at the southern festival of books. for more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals, click the book fairs tab on the website booktv.org. >> booktv visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> one was a wonderful book called the rise and fall of prohibition, the definitive history, how it got started, the ancillary movements the jointed, the women's suffrage movement was pro-prohibition and the disaster that created enormous violations of the law, frankly criminalized a lot of americans and led to a criminal underground in our country. a tragic story of good intentions and a law that went bad. one of the best histories of prohibition i ever read. scars

david mccullough and formerfriedman, secretary of state condoleezza rice and michael lewis and jd vance. festival,al book live, saturday, september 2 starting at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span twos book tv. >> next, a discussion on some of the ethical challenges facing journalists. then, how data from social media sites is being used in politics. after that, a discussion on president trump's new strategy in afghanistan. now, a discussion about some of the ethical challenges facing journalists in the media age. posted by the chautauqua society, this is about one hour and 15 minutes long. >[applause] fallows: thank you so much maureen thank you to robert franklin, thank you to the hall -- the department of religion, to the hall of missions, to tom hagan and

he was added at the same time as our jim vance. yesterday stopped by that mural to remember how gregory was both a comedian and civil rights activist. >> just big in so many different areas. in comedy and civil rights and in consciousness. all of it. i could talk about dick gregory for hours. >> you know, he just spoke from the heart and told it like it was basically. >> gregory tried twice unsuccessfully at political office. he died on saturday here in d.c. at the age of 84. >>> it's now 4:20. we want to talk about our forecast with sheena parveen. >> good morning, eun. we want to talk about what the weather is going to be like for the eclipse later today. so if you're watching and hopefully you have the proper eyewe eyewear, of course. everyone is waiting for it. here's what it looks like on satellite radar. we have passing clouds. later this afternoon, we'll see a mix of sun and clouds. more clouds in the afternoon. i think most of the thunderstorms should hold off until after that maximum eclipse time. coming up in a bit, we'll

former secretary of state, condoleezza rice, and michael lewis and jd vance. the national book festival, live starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern and on book tv. >> next, black hawk down authors talks about his latest book about the turning point in the american war in vietnam. [inaudible] >> good afternoon. welcome to the 33rd annual chicago tribune printers road lit fest. my name is thomas and i thank you to our sponsors. today's program is being broadcast live on c-span twos book tv.erview, this time like to go over to our interview chicago tribune film critic, michael. [applause]hank you >> thank you. thank you for coming out today. my leisure to talk to you aboutt his new book, hugh, 1960. hughes the national correspondent for the atlantic, contributing editor for vanity fair and longtime philadelphia inquirer writers, 24 years. and author of many books on subjects literally all over the world the account of the d-day to the killing of osama bin laden. many subjects.ts probably best known for black hawk down. , an account of the 1993 grade and somali that led

sharing a heart felt message for all of you who have shown us a llt of live since the passing much jim vancei would like you to see that. you can find it on our nbc washington facebook page. ♪ introducing xfinity mobile. a new kind of network for the way we get around today. with america's largest, most reliable 4g lte combined with the most wifi hotspots. >>> the cycling community is rallying around a man struck and today they presented burgess johnson's family with a memorial ghost bike. the family plans to decorate the all-white bike and place it at the crash scene on 29th street in southwest d.c. at the end of june. a driver hit johnson as he was riding his bike. that driver stopped for a moment, and then you see that car leaving the scene in this video. the family is pleading for that driver to come forward. >> we all have a conscience as to what kind of repercussions that we have to deal with, so i do believe that they will find the person. >> more or less we're just looking for closure. if the driver can come up and just apologize, it w

vance gathered on the hollywood walk of fame to pay tribute to country music star, glen campbell. campbell, best known for his son, rhinestone cowboy, died tuesday after a long battle with alzheimer's. experts are one about the dangers of copper mugs. the traditional vessel for the moscow mule. the metal may react with a popular cocktail ingredient and cause illness. the mug should be lined with another metal like nickel or stainless steel. that's a look at some of the headlines we're chasing today. >> a battle between the mba and the players union. whether not the player should be forced where something like an apple watch. you have a right your biometric data? i get why some sports ownersrs mine. >> welcome back to jason's. on bill. here with our panel, jeanette, and matt we saw an article in the atlantic mixing recently about a battle between the nba and the players union. apparently they are at heads over whether players should be forced to wear a biometric reader. something like an apple watch. or maybe a fitbit to show how their heart rate, skin temperature, all of these dif

authors including david mccullough and thomas friedman, former secretary of, and michael lewis and jd vance. liveational book festival, september 22 on cease -- september 2 on c-span twos book tv. there are several legislative items that congress will need to address when lawmakers return next month from their august recess. on "washington journal," we discussed what comes ahead and what role the president will have based on his current relationship with members of congress. this is about 25 minutes. host: i want to welcome back matt schlapp. thanks for being with us. guest: it is not good friday. [laughter] host: let's begin with this sentence and finish it, please. estate of the republican party between the president and republicans is -- guest: uncharted. we have never been here before. we have never elected a president with such shallow roots. maybe jimmy carter was similar, but he had been elected governor of georgia. an interesting relationship when congress and the president do not see eye to eye. host: why is he going against the very people he needs the most? or does he need them?

. >> when jim vance died, our community lost a legend. you lost someone who helped make the world a little night. we lost a very dear friend. so many of you have reached out to comfort us and share your memories. we want you to know how much we appreciate you and your thoughtfulness. you really have lifted us up. advance's sense of integrity lives on in all of us here at news 4. we will try to live up to his >>> good morning. it is 4:43 on a friday morning here in the nation's capital. skies are partly to mostly cloudy as you get ready to start your friday off. a relatively nice start to your friday. rain chances are rising with time during the course of your friday afternoon and evening. it could be a rather rainy start to your saturday as well. i'm optimistic. better. i'll start talking temperatures warm and humid both days with that ten-day forecast. any 90s in sight yetment i will let you know. that ten-day forecast is coming up in just a couple more minutes. for now, let's go back on into the news. aaron and erika. >>> 16 before the

i'm pleased to have jd vance at this table for the first time, welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: you should have been here earlier so i thank god we've got you here. tell me what drove you to write this. >> yeah, so i started writing it when i was a third year student at yale law school. and i was sort of troubled by this question of why there weren't more people like me at yale law school. i was the only white working class person that i knew or at least was open about it. and it seemed to me not just that i was relatively low income relative to my peers but that i had this cultural outsider attitude that was very, very unique. that i was not just, like, sorry i was not just lower income but i actually felt like a cultural outsider. that is the first time i ever felt like that in my life. so i really started to wonder what was it that made me different and i decided to start writing to answer this question of why there weren't more kids like me. >> rose: did you feel like you were living in a world where people looked down on you or something, because you qualified to be where you were at

>> right. >> joyce vance, in alabama, your office prosecuting a hate crime for what a man tried to hirehought was a kkk hitman to murder his african-american neighbor. how active is the kkk in the south at this point, and also tell us about any sort of newer white supremacist groups that are active in this country because there are people that don't necessarily know the activity of these groups. >> fortunately, thanks to the groups that groups likalisha's employer, the kkk is bank runned for the most part in the deep south, but rick and i, when he was the fbi s.a.i. in birmingham and i was u.s. attorney had the opportunity to work together on a number of cases that i would call domestic terrorism or white supremacy linked groups. we see groups like the sovereign citizens rise up in areas across the country including alabama and seattle where protests are going on today, but also many of these groups that have infiltrated police and in alabama, the department had to let go of two officers who had links to white supremacist groups and this is as rick says, it ebbs and flows and it's a con

. >>> less than nine months after getting his new contract extension the 49ers traded vance mcdonald in the draft pick to the steelers for a fourth round pick next year. the tight end spent four seasons with the 49ers, but new general manager john lynch had been trying to deal mcdonald since april. >>> former stanford golfer mcneilly decided to place his business career on hold and give it a shot on the pga tour october 5th at the safeway open in napa. today he asked johnny miller about mcneilly's debut. how important is it for him to get his feet wet in an area he's comfortable with? >> i think it's an advantage, really important when you do go out there. pick an evenwhich he's done on grass that he's used to near moment with a friend -- home with a friendly atmosphere and a lot of his ddieshowing up. >> johnny miller gave me about who are these people? the energy conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something... humongous. a little thing here. a little thing there. starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. who are all these caretakers, advocates too?

thomas frieden, former secretary of state condoleezza rice, best-selling authors michael lewis njd vanceational