Welcome the nbcc and to welcome to this Years National book. Critics circles awards. The new school and the nbcc have a long standing relationship going back to the very earliest years of the nbcc. Our faculty have been Board Members and awards recipients and our communities have worked together in classrooms and and events since before the memory of anyone here, the annual awards have been hosted at the new school for over 20 years. This few years have been very challenging for all of us with covid, we are finally back on campus for an in real life nbcc simone and of course at the new school we are emerging from last fall when all of us were tested and our ideals and faith in one another and the future working with the nbcc is something to remind us what were here for and were enormously grateful to have a friendship that extends beyond any of us individually. To begin, i have to thank our teams at. T. A. At the new school for bringing us to this evening. Look out for stuart pennebake
is critical. it really is. look, you know, to the survivors and families, jill and i, my wife jill is not here today with me. she is in delaware right now. she had to go back up. jill and i have gotten to know many of you over the years. some of us have become friends for a long time. we ve kept in touch. mark, it s good to see you again and your family, and the losses may be different, circumstances, but we ve shared before us something that s helped our family. when my wife and daughter were killed in a tractor-trailer struck them, just after i got elected, my two boys weren t expected to live, and then later when my son beau, who was the attorney general and volunteered to spend a year in iraq died, stage 4, glioblastoma. my daughter ashley taped a message to the mirror, the way everything gets to me through my wife and daughter now is they know i have to shave in the morning, so they ll tape on the mirror, for real. so i see it when i m shaving. one day she left me a quot
Hello, im john reed faculty here in the Creative Writing Program and the director of the creative Creative Writing Program at the new school. The one time i was on this stage, i was a board member of the nbcc chairing a category. Its my great honor tonight to welcome the nbcc and to welcome to this Years National book. Critics circles awards. The new school and the nbcc have a long standing relationship going back to the very earliest years of the nbcc. Our faculty have been Board Members and awards recipients and our communities have worked together in classrooms and and events since before the memory of anyone here, the annual awards have been hosted at the new school for over 20 years. This few years have been very challenging for all of us with covid, we are finally back on campus for an in real life nbcc simone and of course at the new school we are emerging from last fall when all of us were tested and our ideals and faith in one another and the future working with the nbcc is so
We will show you live pictures from Ventura County you could see the massive flames being whipped by the winds, and it is burning over this huge area in Ventura County. Here is more with this report from the fire lines. He stood along as his parents watched their home go up in flames. It is very surreal. How long have you guys been living there . About 25 years. The grandkids have spent many years there. They dodged the fire last night that the parents were not so lucky. I looked at my house and then i found out that my parents house was burning down. That was fast. The vegetation just took off. Reporter this is one of the homes destroyed by the fire. They were afraid that the flames took down that took down the neighbors house would take down there is. You keep praying and you keep helping. Reporter have you ever seen anything like this before . Never. I am in shock. Reporter they are trying to save as many structures as possible. They rely on pump systems they are electrically powere
And excessive heat warning for philadelphia. Highs today, high humidity as well. Its going to make it feel like over 100 in many spots. Heres a live look outside. A hazy start to the day. Certainly can feel it as you step out. The weather drapes over you as you step out. Heres a look at where the excessive heat warning is. Thats where you see the pink. Philadelphia trenton wilmington. North and west south and east outlying areas of orange thats where the heat advisory is. Temperatures, off to a mild start, 77 in philadelphia. 76 in northeast philadelphia as well as wilmington. 71 in pottstown. 68 this morning in mt. Pocono. 75 in Atlantic City. And it is 72 in wildwood. As we go throughout the day, well see the temperature rising very quickly under mostly sunny skies. 79 by 8 00. Warm and humid by 10 00. Temperatures already into the 80s. 86 hot and humid. If youre going to exercise new york get out very earl exercise this morning, get out very early. By 10 00, mid 80s then 92 by lunch