Good morning and welcome to sunday today on this march 3rd. Im willie geist. Residents in the mountains of california and nevada are hunkering down again this morning as a new blizzard threatens to bring ten feet of snow. Travel all but impossible as hurricanestrength winds create whiteout conditions, closing a major interstate and creating Power Outages across the region. Well have the latest in a live report from the storm. Plus, our sunday focus on the southern border where the current and former president visited on the same day this week, as voters say immigration is a toppish knew this years highstakes election. Then to our sunday spotlight on the famed photographer who has built friendships with some of the biggest names in music while taking their pictures. And later a sunday sitdown with one of the brightest young stars in hollywood, sydney sweeney, fresh off her big snl hosting gig last night, on her quick rise to fame with her hit movie anyone but you and the cultural sensat
Watch videos and get uptodate information on events. Facebook. Com booktv. Next on booktv, moscowbased journalist masha gessen is criticism of russian president Vladimir Putin result in the arrest and imprisonment of three of the right members in 2012. This is about one hour 15 minutes. Good evening. No applause necessary. [applause] welcome to cloud at the Central Library which is produced by the Library Foundation of los angeles. I and the culture programs director for the Libra Foundation. Im delighted to see you all here tonight to hear masha gessen and Suzi Weissman in conversation but if youre not already a member of the Libra Foundation supporting the Los Angeles Public library, please talk to one of our Staff Members afterwards and we will tell you about the great work of the Libra Foundations supportinsupportin g the mission of the l. A. Public library for access to ideas and information. If youre interested becoming a member tonight we can give you a book by and about author.
Looks like a lovely start to the day. If you like sunshine, plenty of it. Cloud builds up a little bit during the day, bringing the odd shower to Northern Ireland, but nor the north and west of scotland. Other areas stay dry. Away from the north west, winds will be relatively light, temperature is not as high as they have been, but i still think with light winds and september sunshine, it feels pleasant enough. A chilly night in the south tomorrow and the atlantic lowest taking centre stage for scotland and Northern Ireland by friday, so some significant rain on the risk when moving across scotland, Northern Ireland into the north west of finland and wales. Further south, largely dry. It brightens to the north later. It will be the north into the weekend where we see most of the rain. As they come further south, those weather fronts, of the rain. As they come further south, those weatherfronts, they come into the High Pressure and fizzle out. Showers continue for saturday across scotla
Information. Tonight we welcome masha gessen and as i said, Suzi Weissman. Masha has bravely chronicled her countrys tradition and dissidents for the Russian Revolution into the present is that. Doesnt she was even in the Russian Revolution, but her work covers that have time. She was born oscar and came to the United States when she was 14 and 10 years later she returned to russia where she became a prominent journalist covering the war in chechnya as well as becoming an outspoken advocate for lgbt rates. Writing in russian and in others, she is covered every Major Development in russian politics and culture of the past two decades receiving numerous awards and fellowships in the process. She bought weekly for the New York Times creatures with numerous publications and also edited several russian magazine. Recently shes relocated back to the United States. Shes the author of any books. Among the bestseller, perfect ricker, a genius and mathematical breakthrough. She knows her mass. A
President ial runoff for the incumbent. Its a crushing defeat defeat. And the homestretch in the industry go away a goalkeeping and timely goal scoring have pulled dortmund back within a single point of the league told by him. Hello and welcome. Good to have you. The Sri Lankan Government has confirmed that Police Received a tip off ahead of the bombings of churches and hotels that killed at least two hundred ninety people on sunday but a government spokesman said the information was not passed on to the Prime Minister or any of his cabinet minister says one report says another device went off today as the bomb squad was trying to defuse it no one has claimed responsibility for the attack so far but officials believe a local Extremist Group was behind them. You know the faces say to old one day after the bombings sri lanka is a nation in shock. A few people have gathered in silence outside one of the churches targeted in the capital sent antonys shrine. Soldiers are standing guard in a