Good evening, everyone. My name is jasmine and on of Harvard Bookstore. I am so excited. Welcome you to our event with megan buskey presenting her new book ukraine is not dead yet a family story of exile and return. Joined in conversation by emily channel justice, our spring event season is in full swing here at bookstore you can find our full time schedule at harvard dot com slash events where you can also sign up for our email newsletter. Tonights will conclude with some time for your questions, which well have a book signing here at this to ask the question. Raise your hand during the q a portion and our speakers will call on you. Cspan booktv is also our event tonight, including the q a. So if you ask a question, please just wait for their microphones to reach you before you ask the question and if you havent already, you can find the copy of ukraine is not dead yet. At the register in the next room. Thank you for continuing to steam. Ask it as we strive to keep our Community Safe
A magnitude six point four earthquake rocks the east coast of taiwan two people have been killed and more than a hundred others injured Syrian Forces pound a socalled deescalation zone one hundred thirty eight people are killed in just forty eight hours. I. And lift off in florida the worlds most powerful rocket with a car as its payload takes off from Cape Canaveral care a billionaire in long months. And im Tatiana Sanchez with the latest sports news where three days ahead of the Winter Olympics clean russian athletes begin to arrive in youngstown others are still fighting for the right to compete ill have more on that story later. And tell you why a six point four magnitude earthquake has hit the east of the islands killing at least two people and injuring more than one hundred others the quake has brought down the hotel and at least three other buildings the United States Geological Survey says it struck near the north when eastern port city of wiley and several people are thought t
Nigeria. All of this really having an impact on the markets. The Global Markets tumbling after the president s address last night. The futures at one point down by about 100 points. We have seen some improvement, that there are still some pretty sizable declines this morning. Youll see those dow futures down by about 47 points below fair value. The s p futures off by seven points. This is coming after the markets closed lower yesterday. The dow closing at its lowest level since april. The s p 500 closing at its lowest level since may. So again, pressure this morning. This looks like a third week in a row of losses for the markets here. Also in europe, if you want to see how things are reacting, you can see the dax down by another almost. 9 of a percent. The ftse in london off by. 7 of a percent. And in italy, thats the only ed a vancor that were looking at. In asia, the nikkei suffering its worst deline in five months. A decline of about 3 . Shanghai and hang seng saw much more modest
This evening we have cspan here. Is the microphone working back there . We have just one microphone here to ask questions. Cell if you need access to this microphone, if you are sitting over there you can go back there. I want to welcome Lilly Ledbetter who has come this evening to talk about his new book grace and grit. This is the first time Lilly Ledbetter has been to politics and prose. He is from montana which is why think he has written many books. Including the song of the dodo which expects a medal for Natural History writing. He holds honorary degrees from Colorado College in Montana State university where he serves as prof. Of western american studies. He has won the National Magazine award three times for articles in a wide variety of magazines including esquire, the advantage and rolling stone. The third of these awards was for a National Geographic storing called when stock went wrong. National geographic now, David Quammen has the title contributing editor which gives him
Can you talk a little bit about it . Guest it was the other side of the mountain. During the time my parents were working in the United States, i would look at the mountain something about my parents being on the other side. Host where did you grow up originally . Host where did you grow up . Guest the little town in mexico that no one has heard of. But when they mention it, if you mention acapulco, people know where it is. Its about three hours away from their my father came here in 1977 and december my mother a few years later. My mother came here in 1980 when i was 4. 5 years old. Host when did you come to the United States. Guest i came in 1985, in the month of may of 1985, i was nine and a half years old. Host what can you tell us about coming to the United States . Guest i have been separated from my father for about eight years. When he was sent to mexico in 1985, my family convinced him to come back here. To take us to the United States, we beg him to bring us here. We didnt wa