Seniority is very important in my my workplace. So scalia, although he was three years younger, he was appointed to the court many years before i was. Thats why it is skill he ginsberg. You can watch this and other programs online booktv. Org. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome dave and carl. Was your name again . Carly harrison couldnt be here but im in his place. He probably be famous if youre an enormous spelling. Thanks for jamie for putting on this incredible writers always thought we would do in the few minutes we have left is where both to briefly talk about our newspaper careers, first we need to thank the festival for fitting a million and a half people in this room. Thats a National Park service estimate. Ive never seen a crowd this big its an amazing credible crowd. So for those of us i dont know were going to tell you about our careers. And then well talk about little bit while well talk about florida. I started the newspaper business in 1971 and work for newspaper the pennsylva
What was your name again. Carl hiaasen couldnt be here but im in his place. Thank you for coming, thank you to jamie. [applause] what we thought we would do in the few minutes we have left is we are going to briefly talk about our newspaper careers but first we think the festival for fitting 1,000,0001 2 people into this room with an incredible crowd. National park service estimate in this room. I would never see a crowd this big. Most amazing incredible crowd. Huge crowd. So we are going to tell you about our newspaper careers and then talk about florida or whatever. I started the newspaper business in 1921, worked for a newspaper in pennsylvania called the daily local news in westchester, pennsylvania. A local paper. On the front page, woman beats off would be rapists. That is the kind of paper we were. I was a general assignment reporter. I wrote obituaries and covered fires and a lot of municipal meetings. I went from there to the associated press. Left journalism for a while. And.
In europe in this early hour, this has been our focus all week as concerns about the brexit rose. Weve been looking at weakness in european stocks. You can see in early trading that most of these shares are up by 1 . Dax up by 1 . Ftse up close to that. Take a look at crude prices. Crude under pressure once again and again this morning. Wti is below 48 a barrel. Sitting at 47. 95. Brent sitting at 49. 12. Lets get you through the big stories were watching today, it is another day and yet another survey on the brexit survey. Coming from comres showing that the poll remain leads, in favor of the uk staying in the eu which is recovery from 55 reported yesterday. On some of the polls, by the way, the margin of error, on some of these, is looking like 10 . Hard to make a judgment whats going on. On the economic front, prices expected to rise. 3 . The fed announces its decision as we said 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. I laugh, because we know what the decision will be. And we will look for, as jo
Remember, this is texas. Also he wanted three fajitas. He also wanted a whole pizza. He requested a meat lovers pizza, which as far as i can tell is a pizza hut branded pizza that has pepperoni and ham and more ground beef and bacon and sausage on it. He also requested a pint of blue bell ice cream, vanilla flavor, and he asked for a slab of Peanut Butter fudge with crushed peanuts on top. He then also asked for three root beers to wash it all down. That was his requested last meal before he was executed by the state of texas. He requested the meal. The prison obtained the meal for him. And then he said he was not hungry and did not eat any of it. And that was why texas got rid of the practice of granting prisoners their chosen final meal before their execution. Because of what Lawrence Russell brewer did for his last meal before texas killed him. Just before his execution, lawrence brewer, the same guy, told khou in houston that he had no regrets, the crime for which he was being exec
Were still ascertaining those details, but we can confirm from two Law Enforcement sources that he died by suicide and was found in his jail cell in cardiac arrest this morning. You know, this comes, as you say, after just last month when epstein was found in his cell unconscious with some marks around his neck and was moved to a suicide watch unit, so there are a lot of questions here about how this did happen just several weeks after that initial attempt and how did he have the means to be successful this time, you know, in killing himself this morning . Right, and the timing of this may be questionable to some as well because just in the last 24 hours there were hundreds of pages of previously sealed documents from the defamation suit that were unsealed, and there were some really lurid details in there from accuser Virginia Giuffre. This suit was settled, by the way, in 2017 but she was claiming that she was a sex slave of his. Would the release of those documents have anything to