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work four times. can willie write me a note? glad to. the least i can do. morning show starts right now. as i said, this is and has been determined that this is a hoax. it was a publicity stunt. we believe that we have evidence at this point to indicate that it was a publicity stunt, done with the hopes of marketing themselves or better marketing themselves for a reality television show at some point in the future. needless to say they put on a very good show for us and we bought it. welcome to morning joe. by the way, the deficit, higher than ever before. yes it is. $1.4 $1.5 trillion. is that a hoax? that is not a hoax. are you sure? seems like a hoax. i wish that were a hoax but i will tell you, just all these cable news explosions breaking out all over the place. law authorities versus balloon boy s parents. oh, come on. it was so obvious. they re going to jail which is very exciting and hopefully they ll take the children away from these crazy
biologists and asked them that. he did a great job with that. thank you, everybody. [applause] .. daniel james brown recounts the attempted passage of the sierra nevada mountains by a group of immigrants. and during heavy snows and without food, 15 members of the party ventured away from camp on a 32-day trek to find aid. seven members reached the other side of the mountains but only after many of the group who died were cannibalized. powell s books in portland, oregon hosted this event. it s about an hour. [applause] thank you. thank you all for coming out. i think what i d like to do this evening is to talk a little bit about how i came to write this book in the first place.:c walk through some of the principal plot points as it were. it s nonfiction but it s a narrative and talk a little bit about what i think the general significance of the donner party and after that we ll have times time for some questions and answers. how i came to write this book. i have pretty mu