Welcome to the session of the 25th annual texas book festival. My name is Julie Schwietert collazo and im an author and im also the midrater of this panel, border stories, immigration, refuge and justice. And today im honored to be speaking with the writers who know a great deal about these subjects. Before we begin our conversation, i have a few housekeeping items to review. First, wed like to encourage you to leave mints and a chat box and skinned send kudos to our authors. If you have a question for an author pleasic the ask a question button which in crowd cast. The producerred will send me your questions and well get to as many of these questions as we can. One more housekeeping item. This is a bilingual panel. And in addition to serving as your moderator ill be doing double duty as your translator. This will work as follows. I will ask questions in english and then spanish, will translae answers in the same way. Over ore purist the translation will not be word for word. I will ta
Ama daetz. California set a single day record for diagnosed coronavirus cases with more than 13,000. The previous high in july. Were seeing the Positivity Rate spike. The 14day rate is 5. 2 . Thats an indicator of the spread of the virus. Another member of the trump family is infected. Donald trump junior tested positive and is quarantining in upstate new york. Rudy ghoiulianis son also test positive. He serves for trump. The citys Health Officer said today he expects the city to move into the restricti tivi purple tier as early as sunday. Abc 7 is committed to keeping you fully informed about the vaccine and when approved by the fda, it will be the most reliable way to beat this virus. We have assembled the abc 7 vaccine team. Dr. Patel, kate larson, andlars, to bring you the host complete cov most complete coverage and answer every question about the vaccine. Here. Reporter developmentdeve. Reporter developmentdeve. They have 40 million doses stockpiled. The fda said the Vaccine Advi
Thanks for joining us, welcome to another wonderful session at the southern festival of books on behalf of humanitys tennessee be want to thank some of the festival sponsors including the Metro National arts commission, ingram content group, tennessee arcs commission Vanderbilt University and burnett books. If youre watching today on facebook live, or on youtube and you have questions for the authors during the session, you will need to switch over either to the festivals app which you can download in the app store on whatever device youre using, or you go to their website which is hum tn. Org sf be southern festival of books. And then there is a chapter where you can ask questions for the authors at the end of todays session. We want to mention that parnassus is our beloved bookseller for the southern festival of books. And your purchases of the books being debuted this weekend at the festival help keep this festival free. Youll be able to find a link straight to their online store in
Sen members. We have a lot to celebrate tonight and who to talk i over with us we have associate administrator of human exploration and operations kathy lueders. Johnson Space Center Director mark geyer and social distance down the hal deputy commercial Crew Program Manager vincend International Space station mager joel. We will let them each give a few opening remarksnd then open it up to questions lets kick it off with kathy. Yeah, what an amazing last couple of days. I just cant tell you how wonderful it was to see the crew, through the hatch and we have been talking a lot about all the firsts, right . This mission was a dream, a dream of us to be able to one day be able to have crew Transportation Services to the International Space station. And today that dream became a reality. Huge step for us, right . And took a huge team of folks not only spacex folks but nasa folks and our federal agency friends, and the dod, a ton of people made this happen today. Just an amazing feat, was n
Radical dems would no longer consider the china virus pandemic an issue once the election was behind us. Well, that election is now only six days behind us, and we learn that there is, indeed, a vaccine, a powerful vaccine, and that hope is restored. President trump has repeatedly said a successful vaccine candidate could be announced as early as october or perhaps just before the election. And he was roundly criticized, mocked by the. [laughter] wing the leftwing National Media, of course, the radical dems, specifically one joe biden saying a vaccine could be brought forth as early as the election, they just absolutely rejected his forecast. The president s estimation, is as so often the case, was absolutely correct. President trump also warned, however, that partisan politics could well delay any such announcement. Please take a listen now to what he had to say just one month ago. Listen carefully. Were going to have a great vaccine very,ing very short lu. I think we should have it b