This festival highlights to the best things mississippi does. Our authors and our readers. As you will soon see, we will unveil a new literary map. We have lots of authors to celebrate. More than 220 will be on hand today to engage the readers and we hope, sell a lot of books. We are grateful that cspan is here to broadcast many of our panels and we are honored to have the librarian of Congress Join us in this celebration. [applause] immediately after this opening, congressman greg harper, thank you for coming mr. Chairman will join the doctor and engage in this room and a great conversation about reading books in the library of congress. This great room that we are in, the Old Supreme Court chambers have become nickname the cspan room around the capital. It is also the senates Main Committee room and we know our manners in mississippi and we would not be in this room without the graciousness of the lieutenant governor. Thank you. What a privilege it is for us to be here in the mississ
The dads body. Melanie michaels is following this tragic story. Reporter good afternoon from the banks where this tragedy still remains a mystery at this hour. The search for 38 yearold billy morris was massive and nonstop. His body discovered this morning after he went missing on a jet skiing trip with his 3 yearold son. They were supposed to be gone for just an hour on return, billys wife used face time to call them. The toddler answered the, if any, and was alone on this island in the river and billy was gone. Less than 24 hours later, the dads body found along the shoreline. Right now, investigators trying to figure out what led up to this tragic accident and billys wife tells me its a very difficult situation for the family. And the candidate wills in a fight to win votes in florida. Donald trump has taken the lead in numerous polls. And Democrat Hillary Clinton is trying to take her florida lead back to lets go to news channel 8 candice where Hillary Clinton is on stage in dade c
On the scene to talk about her experience with donald trump but crowd supporters are telling me they are trying to remain confident in a tightening race. Of course im worried. Thats why im here. This gets people out to vote. I dont believe donald trump is going to beat her in florida. Bill clinton working to assure the crowd. We heard the tape and we heard what he does to women. I am not going to repeat it but you know what donald grabbing women. Mistreating women. And i have to tell you, since that tape came out, 12 women have come forward to say what he said on that tape is what he did to me. Reporter an the fbi found more emails connected to her private email server. Thats taking its toll and even her supporters want to know more. It would make me feel better if james comey would come out and say what he has found so far. Reporter seven days left and work to be done. Clinton wants to claim florida as her own. I hope you will think about how you will feel the day after the election.
To the new job. This marks for months that she has been a state trooper. She is a former motocross racer but decided to try something new. I wanted to do something that meant something. Reporter the florida Highway Patrol is looking for a lot more people like her. Over the next few years, they will desperately need to fill some vacancies. We have a lot of people getting rid getting ready to retire so we want to combat that by hiring now. Cut out for them. Reporter as recent uprisings have shown, Law Enforcement is battling a bad reputation. It has become more challenging simply because of all the events that have taken place over the last year. Reporter and money is an issue. If you want to be a trooper in new york, starting salary is 75,000. Iowa pays 49,000. Florida is the lowest starting salary in the nation at just under 34,000. Understand is that when you get into Law Enforcement, you are here to help people. Reporter and thats what matters to katrina. She not only gets to impact
And as it turns out, it during billys job as an elephant trainer for barnum and bailey, the father shared countless adventures with his little boy. Monday afternoon, the two went jet skiing as they often did. Hours later, billy was missing and his son was alone on an island in the river. Our marine unit deputies couldnt get on the scene quick enough to recover the reporter the threeyearold was rescued when he managed to answer a facetime call from his worried mother. Impressive that a threeyear old would have the whereabouts to answer the facetime call from his mother and tell his mom where he was, i guess the island they frequented. Reporter vomits after he was found, rescuers began searching for the childs father. Crews in the air, divers in the water and detectives on the ground. Just before noon, billy morris had recently taken a job as a tracker working for amazon. A particularly sad sight today, his rig still parked in front of their home. So many unanswered questions. I guess th