I. Will with Everyone Welcome and thank you for being here at the 2022 texas book festival, live from austin, texas. My name is brian sweeney. Im the proud member of the Advisory Board at the texas book festival. And though i am biased, i firmly believe it is the best one in the country. So thank you for being here. We are absolutely delighted today to have two unbelievably talented authors on our panel talking about the environment both past and future. Im going to start at the end. Id like to welcome maya cave and ross and to austin and to the book festival. She is an author. Lawyer and activist. For 30 years, she has led the Delaware River Keeper Network, which is the area where she grew up and lives now with her family. And she is the founder of the green amendment for the generations, which is the subject of her book, which has been updated. It is called the green amendment the peoples fight for a clean, safe and healthy environment. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome maya, keit
Conversation. Elizabeth alexander is a prize winning and New York Times bestselling author, renowned american poet, educator, scholar and cultural advocate. Her memoir, the light of the world was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. And one of my favorite books and National Book critics circle awards. She composed and recited praise song for the day for president barack obamas. 2009 inauguration and is currently president of the Andrew Mellon foundation, the nations largest funder of the arts, culture and humanities humanities. So im looking forward to this conversation. I love this book, the trayvon generation. My first question really is about the books title, because it has multiple meanings and what what is this . What does it mean for you . The trayvon generation . Well, i think, first of all, im so happy to be here with all of you. So thank you so much for coming out. Im so happy to be here with you in what feels like an conversation that we get to focus in the here and now. So tha
Stephanie because i heard Rush Limbaugh expound on healthcare yesterday and i thought you might have some thoughts on it. Does he want to know if oxycontin is covered . Stephanie i dont know if i have insurance or not. His thoughts are really someone who can afford their own healthcare out of pocket. Thats someone that really has a grip on exactly what the average person goes through. I think hes in touch with the common man. Stephanie exactly. All right. In the meantime, heres nurse jacki in the current news center. As expected, cory booker has won the democratic nomination land go up against republican steve for senate. The popular mayor of newark won about 60 of the vote with 90 of precincts voting. His closest opponent, Frank Pallone came away with 20. If booker wins the special election on october 16th as he is extremely likely to do, he will serve out the remaining 15 month of lautenbergs term then would have to run began in 2014. Egyptian Security Forces in cairo are cracking do
Wimbledon mens champ. Now andy murray joins us right here to say good morning, america. And good morning, andy murray. Good morning, america. Welcome back from wimbledon, robin. It was fantastic. Thanks for the great weather there, sam. And wonderful to have you back too. Good to be back. A lot to get to this morning. The latest on the plane crash. Look at these images just coming in, were so close to the wreckage. Youll see the landing gear completely separated from the plane. Yeah, you can see it right there. We have full Team Coverage of the disaster and fastmoving investigation on what went wrong. Abc anchor david muir, you see him there, starts us off from San Francisco with the latest. Good morning, david. Reporter robin and george, good morning. Were learning much more this about the pilot trying to land that boeing 777 right here in San Francisco. You can see the charred fuselage over my shoulder still sitting beside the runway in San Francisco. That pilot was in training. This
Hey yeah yeah yeah and its gmas ultimate oscar party. Were on the red carpet as hollywood prepares for its biggest night of the year. Over much night the awards before the awards. Are they a predictor . And this morning our expert makes his picks as the stars deliver this message. Good morning, america. I wake up to the city of angels good morning, everybody, on this oscar sunday, and weve got a gma preshow blowout for you as the countdown to hollywoods biggest night. Were going to take you behind the scenes. Some of the star presenters have been showing up already at the dolby theatre dressed down, though. Of course, theyre going over their lines and try to get used to the oscar stage. I can imagine its just a bit intimidating. Oh, man, billions of people watching. I would be or maybe a billion people. I dont know the exact number. Ive never been good at math. Give or take. Nervewracking, nontheless. These are the envelopes. Is it envelopes or envelopes . Either or. Ron claiborne says