Good morning. Good morning. How are you . Ive been asked to remind you to turn off your cell phones if you have been. I assume everyone does. And no flash photography, i was told that. If you do that will quickly we would appreciate it. My name is bobby hawthorne, i live in austin but a group in northeast texas. During the time of segregation i went to school that was segregated until i was in ninth grade. I have a little bit of time textured also worked university from 19372006 and by that time by the time i got there, schools have been integrated but there was still in the constitution, participation is open to all students except for correctives and defective spirit were dealing with some kind of an organization that wasnt always politically correct. Its my pleasure to introduce michael hurd, a man ive known for many years and his friendship i value deeply. Michael is the director of prairie view a m texas and in for the preservation of history and culture which documents the histor
Tur and meet other authors. For more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and watch previous festival coverage, click on the book fairs tab on our website booktv. Org. National book award kevin young and many others. Now, first up its a look at some of the lesser known stories of world war ii. Live coverage of the texas book festival on book tv. [inaudible conversations] ready . Yeah. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning. My name is jim, its my pleasure to welcome you in 2017 book festival. [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you, for coming out in support first of our authors, second, wonderful annual event in 22nd year. [cheers and applause] and third, of all the books that will be discussed and enjoyed throughout this beautiful Texas Capital complex here in downtown austin, if i may pause a beat, i would ask you to silence your cell phones, live tv, thank you, cspan. After our session both authors will be relocating to signing tent down the street to au
Faster Danielle Allen National Book Award Finalist kevin Young Software engineer ellen ullman and many others. First up is to look at some of the lesserknown stories from world war ii. This is like coverage of the texas book festival on booktv. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Good morning. My name is Jim Horne Fisher and its my pleasure to welcome you to the opening session of the 2017 texas book festival. [applause] thank you for coming out in support of our authors and second of his wonderful annual event now in its 22nd year. [applause]he and third of all the books that we discussed and enjoyed throughout this beautiful Texas Capitol complex hereom in downtn austin i would ask you to silence your cell phones t. Live tv, thank you cspan. After a session both offers authors are relocating to the book signing tent down the street to autograph their books. Books are for sale at that beautiful independent bookstore. You are supporting not only the author off the festival and a great l
Tedd is out enjoying the rays as the Balloon Festival prepares to kickoff. tedd florendo nice and comfortable afternoon and winds back to light and variable for your tuesday. Thats expected to change though as another system especially for the Colorado River valley. Some locales could see those winds as early as tonight but expected to be windiest in the Colorado River valley where a fire weather watch will go into effect. Evening planner shows another mild to cool tnight under mostly clear skies. Winds remain light early with breezes kicking up a little later in the evening but the real wind comes tomorrow. E not anticipating those winds to be as windy as this past weekend but nonetheless it will become breezy for tomorrow as well as thursday. Controlled the city but were still trying to confirm those details meanwhile iraqs elite special forces have captured the christian town of bartella, which is about 10 miles east of mosul there was intense fighting there yesterday and Iraqi Mili
So much for starting your day with us on this sunday. Here is a live look for you to start off your day here on august 14, 2016. So good to have you with us. Im christine kim. This weekend is a hot one. Were going to hit 110 today very close to time the record high. Record high but it is 111. A long hot summer is almost over doesnt mean that we can get hot temperatures into septr. Hottest week we have now for the next nine months or so. And what will be go down as one of the hottest if not the hottest summers on record. A3 degrees currently at russell and Mountain Vista. 83 at Liberty High School as a kid to getting back to school in a couple of weeks from now. We have wind gusts up to 19 Miles Per Hour were not expecting much in the way of wednesday. In elementary washington mount hood 81 degrees these are the to where they should be for this time of year. 77 in North Las Vegas in any downtown las vegas. Mountains edge coming in 81 wind speeds at seven Miles Per Hour or lower than tha