Welcome to the session of the 25th annual texas book festival. My name is Julie Schwietert collazo and im an author and im also the midrater of this panel, border stories, immigration, refuge and justice. And today im honored to be speaking with the writers who know a great deal about these subjects. Before we begin our conversation, i have a few housekeeping items to review. First, wed like to encourage you to leave mints and a chat box and skinned send kudos to our authors. If you have a question for an author pleasic the ask a question button which in crowd cast. The producerred will send me your questions and well get to as many of these questions as we can. One more housekeeping item. This is a bilingual panel. And in addition to serving as your moderator ill be doing double duty as your translator. This will work as follows. I will ask questions in english and then spanish, will translae answers in the same way. Over ore purist the translation will not be word for word. I will ta
Strangers. Probably not today. We will see. Maybe things will change in the next couple of months. We will see. Lets change the topics here. A call to address the covid19 pandemic and other disasters like hurricane laura. This morning were joined by cathy from the traveling nursing staff to tell us about the demand and tell us about how this works. Cathy, good morning. Does the agency hire people from here in the bay area . Good morning. Thank you for having me. Certainly we hire nurses from all over the country, and some live in Northern California and taking their skills among all of the counties whether its in california or other parts of the country. Reporter all right. I was areas. Reading a little bit about the theres nothing like jumping on that and seeing it going. Theres a good way to get the agency, sounds like these nurses exercise and just a good sport. Are highly qualified and ready to go between 24 and 48 hours, you know, speakingover sports, what a day that we had in the
Tonight the Major Concerns and how families are cope being the double duty. The streets are quiet now. Is the shelter in place doing enough to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Its not fair to me that people are taking this quiet as seriously as they need to. Now, at 11 and streaming on the bay area, the shelter in place order will cover the whole bay area. I am aliz beth cook. The county johned seven others in the bay area with the emergency order. Napa county is the lone hold out. They will start to do their own shelter in place order starting on friday. This evening, the governor announced a new effort aimed at helping the most vulnerable. New york is deal being the most biggest spike in cases. More than a thousand people have tested positive over the last day alone. The cry suss is showing no signs of slow nothing italy where the virus has killed nearly 3,000 people. 475 of them in just the last day. Were learning that three residents have tested positive for coronavirus. As a re
Of hello, im sean murray, and this is the conversation where we take an alternative look at political events and Current Affairs through anaries lens. In this show we hope to pick, probe, investigate and uncover the stories that you want to hear. We go where mainstream wont go. This week we talked to a man that defied all odds after he was seriously injured during a gun and bomb attack that killed three of his fellow bond members in july 1975. Going to become a beacon of reconciliation, my next. Has embodied the essence of the iris peace process, but before we speak to our next guest, lets get a quick overview on this weeks topic. So lets introduce todays guest. Joining me today is steve trovers, a former bis guitarist in the miami show bond. Steve surveived horrific attack by the lawyers paramology group, the olster volunteer force, that took the lives of a Three Friends and bondmits. Steve, welcome. The show, thanks john, nice to be here. I usually begin by asking the generic questio
Of hello, im sean murray, and this is the conversation, where we take an alternative look at political events and Current Affairs through annaries lens. In this show we hope to pick, probe, investigate and uncover the stories that you want to hear. We go or mainstream wont go. This week we talked to a man that defied all odds after he was seriously injured during a gun and bomb attack that killed three of his fellow bond members in july 1975. Going to become a beacon of reconciliation, my next guest has embodied the essence of the irish peace process. But before we speak to our next guest, lets get a quick overview on this weeks topic. So lets introduce todays guest. Joining me today is steve trovers, a former biz guitarist in the miami showbon. Steve surveyed a horrific attack by the loyals paramelogy group, the Ulster Volunteer force that took the. Of a Three Friends and bondmits. Steve, welcome to the show. Thanks john, nice to be here. I usually begin by asking the generic question