I am the moderator here. I was one of the judges from Los Angeles Times science and Technology Book price and its wonderful to read so many and have a conversation with these folks here today. We are going to get started in a couple of reminders. Please silence your cell phones, also personal recording is not allowed. All of our lovely authors will be available for signing books through the door. Im going to introduce our panelists and then we will have a conversation and the new guys will have a chance to ask questions. Im going to start here with thomas hager, Award Winning author with a history of science and medicine including the demand under the microscope. It is a courtesy professor of journalism and communication at the university of oregon. Next to him is marsha, her book, time fullness, she is a professor of geology and environmental studies at Lawrence University in appleton, wisconsin. She told me it is still snowing. Her journalism has been published in the news york times
Minutes. Roberta has the forecast. Official sunrise is at 6 38. Good morning. Were already seeing the sun rising in the mount vaca area. Clear skies not a cloud to be seen but thats not the case along the seashore where we have some patchy stratus. Right now we are in the 50s and 60s. Santa rosa what the at 49 degrees at 3 a. M. Serious heat for the next four to six days in the hundreds. Hot at the coast at 80 near daly city. Clouds breaking up sooner today. Temperatures in the 60s, 70s, 80s, through the low 90s. Outside number will be 93 degrees. And that will be in the brentwood area. As you just heard, we had a second landfall for Tropical Storm harvey. This is what it looks like. We have a little bit of good news. Its beginning to see some steering winds help it lift north towards the Tennessee Valley buying relief from the folks in houston. For an update on harvey, we send it to michelle. Harvey is taking aim at parts of texas and louisiana as it moves back onshore for a second ti
Talks about recommendations for improving efficiency at the Environmental Protection agency. Congressman tim murphy chairs the subcommittee on oversight. This is an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our hearing oversight and investigation subcommittee on energy commerce. The subcommittee convenes to examine unimplemented recomme recommendations and Government Accountability office. Acting on these recommendations would improve the ability to carry out the core mission, protecting human health and the environment. This mission is never more important than during times of national disaster, Natural Disaster like the one the gulf coast are experiencing in Hurricane Harvey and about to hit with another hurricane on the florida coast. First of all, on behalf of the committee i want to express my sincere sorrow. Hurricane harvey is one of the worst National Disasters the United States has ever faced and it is still too early to tell the full extend of the devastation that d
Congressman tim murphy chairs the subcommittee on oversight. This is an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our hearing oversight and investigation subcommittee on energy commerce. The subcommittee convenes to examine unimplemented recomme recommendations and Government Accountability office. Acting on these recommendations would improve the ability to carry out the core mission, protecting human health and the environment. This mission is never more important than during times of national disaster, Natural Disaster like the one the gulf coast are experiencing in Hurricane Harvey and about to hit with another hurricane on the florida coast. First of all, on behalf of the committee i want to express my sincere sorrow. Hurricane harvey is one of the worst National Disasters the United States has ever faced and it is still too early to tell the full extend of the devastation that displaced thousands of people. Members of this committee represent experience of loss and dest
Okay, we are going to start. Good evening everyone, thanks for joining us. My name is yael yisraeli, im the Community Relations manager at the nyu bookstore. This is an ongoing series that weve been having here for the past 70 years featuring nyu alumni like tonight with Haroon Moghul as well as nyu faculty and the General Community as well. Its a real pleasure to be hosting tonight Haroon Moghul who is an nyu along. Welcome back to nyu, pleasure to have you here. We are going to hear from haroon and then have time for questions and answers and a book signing. I want to start the evening by giving a brief introduction. Haroon, i think. Haroon has been very active since graduating from nyu so i dont know if i will cover everything but i will leave it up to him to fill in the gaps. Haroon is currently senior fellow and director of development for the center of global studies, policy, excuse me. He is a commentator and broadcaster who wishes he could be a writer and i think you are, haroo