Prouder to watch the festival grow into the incredibly popular and impactful event and has become. I wouldnt be surprised [applause] thank you. I wouldnt see us surprised to move some bestsellers on the needle today. It is important to keep the book festival a free event that serves the community. The library of congress and the book festivals real purpose is literacy which leads to learning an opportunity, which matches our goal of helping our community succeed. Learning to love books and learning to Love Learning are what the book festival is all about. In this session, ron chernow will discuss his biography of ulysses s. Grant. If we are lucky, certain other popular founding fathers. One thing i learned from this story of president grant was how people can evolve through persistence and hard work. Acknowledge and overcome their imperfections. An incredible story that reminded me a person of good will can learn from their mistakes and reach their potential. I hope you enjoy this sess
The real purpose here is literacy. Learning to love books and learning to Love Learning are what the book festival is all about. Turnout sion, ron chernow will discuss his book about ulysses s grant. One thing i learned from this story was how people can evolve through persistence and hard work. It isnt an incredible story. Me that a person of good will learn from their mistakes. I hope you enjoy this session. Welcome to the 18th annual National Book festival. Ron is an awardwinning journalist, historian, biographer. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and the National Book award for nonfiction. In 2016, he won the National Humanities medal. His book on Alexander Hamilton with the inspiration for the awardwinning musical. He worked as a historical it is worth noting that are cochair of the festival was supposed to conduct this interview today. I just happen to be a big admirer of ulysses s grant. When you are first approached to create a hiphop musical about your book, what was
The sun coming up 7 30, setting east bay, and then early into at 7 10 and in between. Wednesday this all fades away well be cloudy, cool with into the central valley. We are looking at not only the temperatures at least ten cool day today but as we get on degrees below march standards. Liz . New details about the grand the back side of the system in the north bay, numbers will warm princess cruise ship off the up tuesday into the 70s. Wednesday were mild, if youre california coast. Not seeing any rain, you could passengers were told they will see some sun and then into be docking in oakland tomorrow. Thursday, were well into the media partner the east bay times reports the ship will dock in a terminal in outer thid a mid and upper 70s. Harbor that is no longer in another cool day today, mostly separation. Cloudy skies, mid to upper sifts Princess Cruises sent out this from the coast around the bay, tweet saying the logistics plan maybe 60 degrees inland. Went into further review by the
Some fog with 36 in napa and 41 by the delta. Much colder than we were yesterday especially in the north bay and were looking at not only the chilly afternoon today with the later sunrise and later sunset going for us. Well move into the 40s by 8 00 9 00 and with the clouds around, not a lot of warming out there today. Liz . Lisa, thank you. New details about the grand princess cruise ship off the california coast. Passengers were told late last night that they will be docking in oakland tomorrow. They were face told it will happen today. Mdia partner the east bay times reports the ship will dock in a terminal in outer harbor that is no longer in operation. Princess cruises sent out this tweet saying the logistics plan went into further review by the state and federal authorities and the ship will not berth in oakland sunday. It will now be monday, time to be determined. The ship has been circling off the coast with 21 confirmed coronavirus cases on board. We finally got our first view
It will go to a noncommercial fort and all of the passengers and crew will be tested. There are more than 3500 people on board and the grand princess is off the coast of san mteo right now. San mateo county. While giving the update on the tests, Vice President pence thanked california for its help. I want to express our gratitude to Governor Newsom and the state of california for their full partnership, not just in dealing with the grand princess, but throughout the advent of coronavirus. California has been a strong partner. The grand princess was returning to San Francisco after a 15day trip to hawaii. A man who sailed to mexico on the same boat last month died of the coronavirus. Abc 7 News Reporter kate larsen spoke with passengers today. Shes live in San Francisco. Kate, what have they been telling you . Reporter well, right, passengers are just learning about this news. Most of them heard it on tv first. They just heard from the ship captain a few minutes ago. What we do know and