50s at times. Best chance for rain is about 8 00 and 10 00 this morning. Well talk about tomorrows best chances in a few minutes. Thanks, chuck. Whether you are up early to cook dinner or just to say happy thanksgiving to everybody, we want to extend our happy thanksgiving greeting to you. Thats right. And because its thanksgiving day, its the best time to travel. A look at the roads now, see, not a lot of traffic. It look like it is up anything. Everybody will take that. Especially compared to what we saw yesterday, which was the busy est travel day of the year so far. Take a look at this footage from chopper 4 over the beltway in Montgomery County last night. You see those brake lights, headlights . According to aaa, more than 48 million americans were expected to travel 50 miles or more for the holiday. And from the roads to the air, the lines just kemt ongoing. If you are one of them this morning, we just checked. There is one delay at reagan national. Thats a jet blue flight depar
Service to the American Literary community will go to ms. Zimmer we will learn more about that this evening. This is the booktv coverage of the red carpet of the National Book awards in new york city. After this you will see the actual board sarah ray. Awards ceremony. Good to see you. [inaudible conversations] spec on the red carpet right now is one of the finalists. Shes having her picture taken. Hopefully we can talk to her in just a minute as a cartoonist of the new yorker. Joining us now on their red carpet is David Steinberger president and ceo of Perseus Publishing Group and also chairman of the National Book foundation and. What is that . The National Book foundation is committed to increase the impact of culture what we are best known for is a National Book awards it is great to see her up there it is the first graphic novel or the first graphic works ever to win it is for her amazing book. Host did we just hear your vote . I dont have the vote we have judges we fly in from ar
Bigotry to take power away from the people in our country. Their use eight Voter Suppression which Justice Alito and thomas go to the Koch Brothers retreat then come back to this bill they get a the Voting Rights act of civil rights of this country that is part of their agenda. The other half is to use big money to john that the voices of every citizen votes has the right to vote then it Koch Brothers and mccutcheon know that there antimiddleclass and antidemocracy agenda they know they will fail. While they spend there billions of dollars it is no surprises congress voted over 300 times over environmental laws. 300 times. We are here today because we need to send a clear message to people like mccutcheon and the Supreme Court we lost it byebye the dream of american democracy is torn up at the feet of Justice Roberts said his Supreme Court. Were here to tell the Supreme Court that american democracy is not for sale. Thank you. [cheers and applause] and now all of you in the audience in
Sreenivasan and its friday. Mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan a shopping frenzy descended across the country today, as post thanksgiving shoppers lined up for holiday savings. In some places, the mad dash for deals turned violent, with several shootings and fights breaking out. Well have more on black well have more on black friday right after this news summary. Investors on wall s
Sreenivasan and its friday. Mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan a shopping frenzy descended across the country today, as post thanksgiving shoppers lined up for holiday savings. In some places, the mad dash for deals turned violent, with several shootings and fights breaking out. Well have more on black well have more on black friday right after this news summary. Investors on wall s