kind of a different category. numerous areas had wind gusts that would do significant damage anywhere else in the country, but eastern north carolina, you are storm tested. you get storms like this often. the structures are built better. that s why we re not hearing reports of a lot of damage. look at our storm, it s almost now parallel to ocean city, maryland. it still has a well-defined eye with it. it s starting to weaken slightly but you can clearly tell we have a hurricane just off the virginia coast this morning. right now winds are at 100, pressure at 976. it s racing to the northeast at 21 miles per hour. it was due east of virginia beach about an hour ago. now it looks like it s probably a little bit north-northeast of that location. and so here it is on radar and satellite. the great news for the north carolina region that got hit hard last night, we re returning to your beautiful carolina blue skies. we have quick clearing of the clouds and rain, and even our repor
know, he satirized all the custom house cohorts and told that he had been fired in no uncertain terms, so the first part of the book created kind of scandal that s not scandalous to us anymore today, and then, of course, the second part of the book seems shocking, it s a novel about adultery. how dare you. c-span: we are out of time. this cover is what? guest: that is a wonderful portrait of nathaniel hawthorne that actually hangs in a club in new york city. and it was taken it was done of him when he was about 46 years old. (unintelligible). c-span: brenda wineapple, our guest, hawthorne: the life. thank you very much. guest: thank you. .. host: tonight we re speaking be at telephone with journalist and right 39 u.s. spent the last 28 years on pennsylvania s death row we re also joined by two distinguished scholars from princeton university dr. cornel west father of many books authored dr. patricia fernandez kelley from princeton university department of sociology.
the democratic leader of the senate says getting reform bill passed by the august recess cannot be done. we re live at the white house with reaction. sounds like something right out of the soso pranoes. the stunning arrests including mayors, lawmakers and religious leaders, it was even a plot to sell human organs. all the latest developments in that. talk radio and the blogs and water coolers around the country, the arrest of henry lewis gates at his own home. he was mistaken for a burglar. gates ended up in handcuffs. at his news conference wednesday night he says the police acted stupidly. he softened his tone but stood by his comments. i m surprised by the controversy surrounding my statement because i think it was a pretty straight forward commentary that you probably don t need to handcuff a middle-aged man, who uses a cane, who is in his own home. i think it doesn t make sense with all the problems that we have out there to arrest a guy in his own home, if he s