Al Roker on 'Ruthless Tide'

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🗓️ 17 July 2018

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It's Tuesday: longtime NBC weatherman Al Roker has a new book about the most catastrophic flood in US history — the Johnstown flood of 1889, which killed more than 2,200 people in the Pennsylvania steel town. Roker says the story of that flood contains lessons about climate change, greed, American infrastructure, and the power of mother nature. Email [email protected] and tweet @NPRItsBeenAMin with feels.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders, it's Vinnie Minute.
0:08.1	It is Tuesday, which means we have a conversation for you.
0:11.4	Today's guest, Al Roker.
0:13.4	Yes, Al Roker, a long time weatherman for the Today Show on NBC.
0:18.2	But besides that work, what you don't know about Al or might not know about Al is that
0:22.4	he's an author.
0:23.4	He's written a lot of books and he has a new book out.
0:26.1	It's called Ruthless Tide.
0:28.3	This book is all about one of America's deadliest floods, the John's Town flood of 1889.
0:34.7	John's Town, back then, was the steel town in Central Pennsylvania.
0:39.5	And the story of this flood is epic.
0:42.5	It killed 2,200 people there.
0:46.2	And it has all these lessons about climate change and greed and infrastructure and the
0:50.8	power of nature.
0:52.6	So I talked to Al Roker about that book and what lessons that book and that story have
0:57.4	for us today.
0:59.4	We also talk barbecue, his cousin who was very, very famous.
1:02.6	We'll talk about that.
1:03.9	How he bikes to work.
1:05.4	It was really good chat.
1:06.8	Al was in New York.
1:07.8	I was in Culver City.
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