North. Gusting to 21. We will have a breezy. Maybe 35 Miles Per Hour along the coast and the higher elevations. If it wasnt for the breeze, we would be cooler than this. Look at fairfield, 59. 57 in san jose. If you dont have the breeze, it is much colder. Danville, one observation, 37. Martinez, 50. Brentwood, 59. That is a big difference. Oh, my gosh. Thats a big spread there. We will all even up and see upper 70s for a few. Very windy conditions down in Southern California and the developing low into the four corners. It will make for a blustery day. 60s and 70s with lots of sun. 7 01. What do you have, my friend . We have bart delays that continue because of the stalled train that was at one point at the lake merritt station which was put basically not allowing trains to move through downtown oakland station. That train which to us on the video looks like one of the new bart trains, the ones they have been testing out overnight was pushed off and down to the hayward jard. It hasnt
[inaudible conversations] youre watching booktv on cspan2. Joining us now from chicago and the publishers convention is ron charles who is the editor of Washington Posts book world. Mr. Charles, what do you do for a living . Guest i assign most of the daily reviews in the Washington Post, and every wednesday i write my own review. Host of books . Guest of books, yes. Host how many books a week, seven books a week . Guest we review 20 books a week, and we get about 150 of them. Host about 20 books a week are reviewed in the post. Guest right. Host why isnt there a standalone book section . Guest there is online, but we decided about four years ago to spread the reviews out through the paper to try and see if we could find more readers. It seemed like a disaster at the time to me, but i have had to admit that we do, in fact, have more readers for book reviews now. We just put them in places that people read more. Book world, the old book world, the supplement, was much beloved but tended
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Advisory because as temperatures drop later today and tonight and the winds continue to pick up were going to actually see wind chills that are going the make it feel well below zero, down negative 15 across much of the region. The poconos could go to 20 degrees below zero in terms of your wind chills so very cold air on the way. For this morning a drivers alert, possible icy patches on nontreated roads and sidewalks its kind of a pedestrian alert as well and right now temperatures are already treating us pretty unkindly. 23 degrees in philadelphia, 18 wilmington, 14 in allentown. Over the last hour the winds have started to pick up so when we started the broadcast at 4 30 i talked about how the wind chills werent all that bad. Now with the hourly posts coming in and winds picking up it feels like its 12 degrees. Nothing like its going to feel overnight but still very uncomfortable. Temperatures today it stays cold 23 degrees by 9 oclock 25 by noon. Technically well get a high of 26 pr