Washington post columnist, thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead as our guest. His most recent book is the under ground railroad. Mr. Whitehead, whats the appropriate response new book is appraised by oprah, president obama, you won the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . If only it took the pain aw away. [laughter] has taken off in a way thats unexpected and startling and wonderful. Just try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years doing fiction 20 some years, sometimes we write a book and people dig it and understand it sometimes write a book and no one cares and its sort of disappears so i have the pride the job i did with the book. Either you dig the groups of two prospectors or you dont and so you are either along for the ride description or not. Definitely when i was writing was my second attempt at a novel. My fir
Nightly news begins right now. Good evening. No meeting was more anticipated or potentially more awkward. Barack obama and donald trump, president and president elect, coming face to face today inside the most powerful office in the world. Their Oval Office Meeting between the men whose contempt for each other is well known. Trump, a long deier of the president s american birth, and obama who has called trump unfit to be president. Yet, what the world saw today was cordial and hopeful. Well, i just had the opportunity to have an excellent conversation with president elect trump. We talked about Foreign Policy. We talked about domestic policy. And i believe that it is important for all party and regardless of political preferences, to now come together, work together, to deal with the many challenges that we face. Most of all, i want to emphasize to you, mr. President elect, that we now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed because if you succeed, then the countr
2003. Investigators made an extensive search through a rural farm and salvage yard on highway 21near irving after a tip lead them there. Police say the owner of the salvage yard was purks cousin. Police dogs were used to search the scene eventually finding bone and bone fragmentsalong with pieces of womens clothing. But the dna results werent a match to onkonskis. Kwwl spoke with onkonskis father during the time of the search in 2003. Jerry okonski the best thing that can happen is that sh but we dont expect that to happen, we think shes dead. And so the next best thing, you know, knowing that shes dead, is that we can find her body, find her remains and give her a and now sixteen years laterthe family awaking to a new possibility of finding out just what happened to cora purk is serving time in federal prison on unrelated drug and gun charges. He is set to be released from prison in april. Police have not give any indiciation as to whether hes still a suspect in the investigation. If
Right now. In the 30s to the mid 40s. But we may not climb too much more today with north winds at 5 to 15 mph. They will be mainly 1015 mph will gust higher for much of the day before dying down this evening. While cooler than we have been seeing, this is winds die down and will lead to a rather chilly night tonight. Ill have more coming up. Breaking news this morning. Waterloo firefighters rescue a man after a fire. It started in an abandoned Apartment Building. Kwwls Amanda Gilbert joins us live in waterloo with the latest. Im at the 900 block of commercial street and waterloo firefighters confirm a fire started in this abandoned three this morning. They say the fire is now out and no one was injured. Take a look at this video right here. Firefighters rescued a man who and down a ladder. The man said he believes other people were in the building he time the fire started. But firefighters have not found anyone else at this time. Waterloo police say this is an but they do occasionally
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