[applause] good evening. How is everybody doing . This is my kind of crowd. When you talk through the video, that gives me a good feeling. Everybody is excited to be here and talk with each other. Im the director of him for him and Innovation Lab at the Commonwealth Club. Welcome to tonights conversation with leila janah, founder and author of the excellent book gives work reversing poverty one job at a time. Tonights conversation is moderated by laura tyson, phd, graduate of the school of business at uc berkeley. I think you already did this, but heres a challenge. Turn to somebody you dont know and introduce your self before we get started. [inaudible conversations] okay. That is the perfect 82nd friendship. [laughter] lets come back. This is my kind of audience. I hope that you are like this and it comes time to the audience questions. You are at the second event to take place in this auditorium. [applause] that is worth a round of applause. We are in our brandnew home where 114year
7 00. Its friday. July 31st. Im gasia mikaelian. Hey. Good morning. Im dave clark. Lets check our weather and traffic and Steve Paulson has a lot to talk about. I think some areas will get rain here. We have some sunbreaks but theres a lot of tropical clouds moving up this way. We have the big fog bank but we start off with some sun. But i think the cloud cover makes it up to lake county. We dont want the lightning but well take the rain. Theres also a howling breeze. Look at this, just near hollister, decent line. Heading right toward gilroy, i would think in the Santa Clara Valley in the next couple of hours. I think thats a sign of things to come. But some of that is already moving toward parts of napa county, lake county, into tomorrow. So possibility of thundershowers. I know the lightning is not good. A low offshore. A lot of cloud cover, were in line. 60s on the temps. A lot of 60s with low clouds and a just a screaming delta breeze. That all equals a cooler pattern today. Highs
Book tv is on twitter and facebook if we want to hear from you. Treat us or post a comment on her facebook page. Good evening. How is everyone doing . [cheering and applause] this is my kind of crowd when you talk to the video. Weirdly, that gives me a good feeling. Everyone here is excited to be here and excited to talk to each other. My name is marissa, im intractable in four of here at the Commonwealth Club. Welcome to this [inaudible] tonights conversation will be moderated by laura tyson, phd at uc berkeley. I thank you already do this but here is a challenge. Turn to someone you do not know and introduce yourself before we get started. More fun with a new friend. [background noises] that is the perfect 32nd friendship. All right. This is my kind of audience. I hope you are like this when it comes to Live Audience questions. That would be good. In extremely exciting news you are the second event to take place in this auditorium. [cheering and applause] that is worth a round of app
July 23, 2017. Big winner out in vegas. 8 million. Here locally. Hes from this area. He can pay that student loan at temple. Oh, my gall bladder hes young, too. 25 years old i think. Wow. I think the last three people won of them was from france. We a guy from brigantine and another pennsylvania guy, um, i think altoona maybe. Two local guys i think from our area. Unbelievable. Wow. Are are we going to hear this story. Yes. We saw the moment he wouldnt. That was pretty exciting. Hell share. Il have an interesting tidbit to tell you what his parents told him. Hot as you promised and the rain came and cool us off. Thankfully that rain most of it over for today. But then tonight especially overnight another round of showers and thunderstorms. Good news about some of that rainfall yesterday it will put an end to the oppressive heat wave that weve seen across the area the last several days. But not so much the humidity. Today well call it partly sunny there might be a stray shower or thunde
We have been here for over two years and we are very excited to be here on the Upper West Side supporting these great importance works and i am so happy to have Peter Moscowitz here i loved this book and i think you will all love it, too mac. We do not charge admission so we would ask you to keep supporting great people and great work. For those of you that dont know his work, he is a freelance journalist whos covered a wide variety of issues from disasters to the racist urban planning. A former staff writer at Al Jazeera America hes written for the guardian, New York Times, others. He is a graduate at the school of journalism and joining him in moderating the discussion will be the host of the difficult to name reading series that brings together journalists and others. He is a writer and currently working on a novel. If you noticed booktv is here from cspan and they will be recording. After the talking portion if you could wait for me to come and find you and give you a microphone so