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characterize your book? guest: i think you did it very well. i would characterize it by saying my point is that we don t have to be the hapless helpless victims of nature. my friends at nasa and elsewhere in the space community like to say if the dinosaurs had a space program they would still be here. we have the wherewithal to save ourselves and the book though it s an important part of the book is that explains that and comes out with a plan and they plan was not invented by me. it is universally accepted within the community. host: it s my impression it leaves you are advocating spending quite a lot more on this problem and on planetary defense. is that right? guest: yes, the cold war is over. peace allies has broken out and what i like to tell people who say it will cost an astronomical amount of money to do this i say what is your collective life as a civilization were? the dinosaurs got blown away. it can happen again. the chances are it s not going to happe ....
will when the road will reopen. mornings on 2 starts right now. you are looking live at the scene where a young boy was killed in a hit-and-run crash. it happened near san leandro. this is near san leandro. we ll tell you what led up to this tragic chain of events. as you see a makeshift memorial at the scene of the crash. flowers, candles, teddy bears. we ll have a live report coming up on that shortly. good morning. welcome to mornings on 2. i m tori campbell. groorming. good morning. i m dave clark. let s talk about weather and traffic. steve, i ducked out a little while ago. a little chilly. mostly cloudy. could be worse. most of the country is in a deep freeze. mostly sunny skies. 60s for highs today. some 40s. our system is moving toward us. it s weakening. i think we ll get to maybe .10 to .30. rainfall projections have come down. it s moving away from the low. we ll see a lot of cloud cover in advance of that. some of the higher clouds are beginn ....
mostly because it takes the place of milk and the calcium children need for bone strength. those are some of our top stories on this monday, september 29th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. i m so glad it s international coffee day and it falls on a monday. and i think we can have a barista here with us all the time, which we actually have today. very excited about that. yes. you re working an me. i ll get there. i m trying coffee from all over the world this morning. i m not a coffee drinker, even though i m a morning guy. you re naturally an a caffeine high. i ve got a twinkle in my eye. we ll begin with damaging storms bearing down on an already hard-height region. the southwest. in particular, phoenix right now. look at that, folks. this weather has just been battering the region there. heavy rains, winds up to 75 miles an hour. abc s rob marciano has been keeping a close eye on these storms on the move. reporter: so much for the d ....
and police there as investigators try to sort out what happened. ken? reporter: frank, this is still a very active crime scene even though the shooting happened four hours ago. officers are gathering evidence talking about what they ve recovered so far and planning how they will try to track down the shooters in this case. earlier tonight they also warned residents they should stay indoors. all residents stay inside your houses. reporter: police say the shooting happened around 6:30 in front of this mini market in this residential east oakland neighborhood. one or more shooters opened fire sending bullets flying everywhere. i heard the gunshots and i hit the ground and a bullet went straight through my ponytail. this is really kind of outrageous. 6:00 at night isn t that late at night and a fair number of rounds fired out here. so really pretty brazen stuff on a street corner. reporter: police sealed off the area. victims reportedly told police there may hav ....
happened four hours ago. officers are gathering evidence talking about what they ve recovered so far and planning how they will try to track down the shooters in this case. earlier tonight they also warned residents they should stay indoors. all residents stay inside your houses. reporter: police say the shooting happened around 6:30 in front of this mini market in this residential east oakland neighborhood. one or more shooters opened fire sending bullets flying everywhere. i heard the gunshots and i hit the ground and a bullet went straight through my ponytail. this is really kind of outrageous. 6:00 at night isn t that late at night and a fair number of rounds fired out here. so really pretty brazen stuff on a street corner. reporter: police sealed off the area. victims reportedly told police there may have been two gunmen. is there anything people need to know who live in this area? no, no. actually the area is contained right now. police are out here. w ....