Good morning. You can applaud. [applause] i know you are applauding because you are here at the 2017 Miami Book Fair here in miami, florida. What a Beautiful Day it is here in miami this morning. That is why we live here and why it is such a wonderful destination. Welcome again to Miami Book Fair. We have a truly wonderful treat in store for you today. I hope many of you have had the opportunity all week to enjoy the outstanding presentations that have been taking place this year and hope you will continue through tomorrow evening when the 7 days closes. This fair just would not take place each and every year without the cooperation, collaboration, passion and volunteerism of many, many people in the community. Namely the students, faculty, staff of miamidade college. [applause] and really hundreds of high School Students, middle School Students and others in the community. We truly thank everyone for coming together and unifying behind this Miami Book Fair. I also want to thank the ci
Would you minds i went out and came in again. I would lake to say how special this night is but you beat me to it. Im steve roth rothstein, and on behalf of all the colleagues, were really thrilled you can be here. All of our forums are great but tonight is really a treat because of the speakers who is here and also the beginning of the john f. Kennedy centennial weekend and we planned this months ago, and we really literally thought, who would be the best pair about speaker of and moderator we can get for this historic time and were thrilled there here. [applause] before i introduce them, a few brief announcements. First i want to thank our underwriters and sponsors. The lead sponsor, bank of america, the lowell institute, our Media Sponsors, the globe, xfinity, bur and the Media Sponsor for the centennial, wcbb tv. As i say, were kick off the centennial and there are information when you leave or maybe on your chairs about what we are doing over the next few days but, there are oppor
We start with breaking news from half moon bay, a pedestrian hit and killed by a chp patrol car, it happened outside a restaurant called sams chowder house. Katie has the latebreaking details for us. Reporter we are standing here in the parking lot. Look to the side, you can see a number of Highway Patrol cars as they start the investigation. At 8 30 tonight, a chp officer driving north radioed in sing he had just hit and killed a pedestrian. The man was a 74yearold filipino man, staff said that he had just finished leave the he was trying to leave the restaurant when he was struck by a patrol car and officers say that this is a call they never want to get. It is the last call you want to hear. They said that the officers should have dash camera or body camera video. They are still trying to figure out how and why this happened. The road will probably be closed for the next six hours as they continue investigations. We are here in the parking lot where it happened in front of sams chow
Talk radio show host eric erickson. Liza randy and many others. For a complete schedule visit booktv. Org. We are Facebook Twitter and instagram. Were kicking off todays coverage on the life and politics of mohammed ali. This is live coverage on cspa cspan2. [inaudible] of money. Think you for coming and welcome to the 29th southern festival of books. It is my pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce our author. Another that i really admire and have been reading his work for years. Hes here to talk about his biography of mohammed ali. This is only his third stop so thats an honor for us. Before he speaks the book festival is free but if youd like to contribute to the cause you can do that at the headquarters for the book festival outsider online. Also remind you that after the remarks will be heading over to the signing tent seeking to have him cite your book over there. Is one of the typewriters of nonfiction a fantastic author in addition to writing for bestselling books jonatha
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