Hello im david rubinstein, the National Book festival, welcome to the National Book festival, which this year is being done virtually. Our guest this year is melinda gates, for the first part of our program. Im coming to you from washington dc at the library of congress and from another washington, seattle washington, is melinda gates. Thank you very much for doing this. Im so glad we could do it david. Melinda, youve written your first book recently, a book about women its a book about empowering women and i want to talk to you about that and what prompted you to write this book. How long did it take you to write this book and what prompted you to write this book . Melinda i wrote it over most of the year and what prompted me to write it was, ive been so incredibly fortunate with the foundation to travel to so many places in the world. Its the people and particularly the women ive met in these incredibly difficult circumstances and seeing what they are doing to empower their families
By cochair susan tourial and im pleased to welcome me to the book festival awardwinning afternoon featuring journalist dan ephron in conversation with nancy updike, producer for this American Life. And her second journalist, mike kelly, Senior Executive producer at georgia public broadcasting. We are also happy to welcome cspan booktv to a book festival programming this afternoon. On behalf of the book festival we are truly grateful for the support of barbara, this years presenting sponsors greenberg and wells fargo. In addition to our over 25 valued sponsors who support our book festival year after year. We are also a proud affiliate of the Jewish Federation of greater atlanta. Please check your playbill for the lineup of our calendar events for the rest of the book festival. Tickets for all book festival events are available in three different ways. You can purchase them online, by telephone or in person at our box office or any other Customer Service desks. The format for todays pre
If its not raining where you are yet, it likely will be soon. Showers are moving into the d. C. Area and could dampen your friday evening plans. The orioles are starting at 8 07 tonight. First alert meteorologist erica grow has the timeline for you. Its a really big contrast between the image you saw on the weather cam, downtown d. C. Cloudy there but look at the slug of heavy rain thats heading your way on dob letter 9,000. This is a twohour loop. You can see the heaviest rain is moving at a pretty good clip at 30 Miles Per Hour. So some of these initial showers that you see here, its a big, widespread shower event here on doppler 9000. It didnt hit the ground initially because we had that dry air earlier in the week. Now that is going by the wayside. The heaviest rain indicated in the reds and deep oranges here just on the southern edge of Prince William county here heading toward dale city, route 123, chain bridge road, up toward the arlington area, well see the heaviest rain moving
The civil war in 1850 unlearned the whole business of growing tobacco from his father. And his father also is entrepreneurial and pretty sure it recognized its great to grow tobacco, but it may be even better to sell the tobacco himself into process that it, too manufactured. He took a tobacco accreted on his own plantation in manufacturing any other slaves and sons figure out how to turn the tobacco plant into chewing tobacco. He was selling chewing tobacco before the civil war and after the civil war and during the period of reconstruction he had a sense continue earning his business. So his father was very entrepreneurial, figured out you are losing money in the tobacco trade over the course of the middle of the 19th century in the end of the civil war and beginning of reconstruction and taught his sons how to do the business. His sons, particularly r. J. Reynolds relies the price for transplantation was away from marketing possibilities. If you saw this tobacco come you couldnt do
Country and virtually nothing happens. No sustained comprehensive action is taken. But it is happening and it does every day. Illegal guns are the weapons of mass destruction on our streets. We experience as one of any fellow mayors has said has murder once by one by one in slow motion every single day in the United States of america. And so i ask the question, where is our right red line on violation violence in america . 10,000 plus murdered americans every year. That is a crime against humidity. We have a civil war unfolding in our cities every day, week, every month. Mary landrieu and i have both have spoken with president obama on this issue. He is ready to act. The question is where is the congress . What are they prepared to do . So let me ask this question, what if our response to domestic terrorism was as thorough and engaged as our response to International Terrorism . What if we had a 9 11 commission about black men getting slaughtered on the streets of america . A National