Librarian at the library of congress. All day here at the library of Congress National book festival, we are recognizing and celebrating the importance of reading and authors and books. The library of Congress Makes it easy to do this every year, but the truth is the National Book festival is a huge undertaking. Its a huge financial undertaking. And it has been made possible by generous support from our sponsors. You can see who they are in your program and on the video monitors around the convention center. But we cant take for granted that this event will continue to exist, so i would ask you to consider making a contribution right now using your cell phone. You can send a text to make a onetime gift that will be added to your mobile phone bill. The details are on the screen and on the back of your program, and as soon as you finish making that contribution, please silence your cell phone. And now on to the main event. Id like to introduce cochair of the National Book festival, david
Because of crash duke strot and metro turning out to be on time now. I have you covered steve and allison. Thank you very much. Election day in alabama. Voters head to the polls today in one of Biggest Senate races since the president ial election. Roy moore, doug jones battling it out for Jeff Sessions vacated senate seat. Bell mel is live on capitol hill this morning to break on the highly contested senate race, mel. Good morning, steve, allison. When senator Jeff Sessions long time senator from alabama was chosen as trumps pick for attorney general political analysts physical urd that was safe move because there was no way in their opinion that alabama voters would ever fill that seat with dem caxt now race is toss up. And that could mean a shakeup in the senate. And. Jm roy moore wouldnt say much about politics or sports or anything else last night outside final election eave cap pain question validity of recent polls and talk need to challenge establishment. Its difficult to drain
Days ago showing moore with a 9 point advantage and then this fox news poll most recently showing jones democrat with den point advantage and average polls two percent of difference showing the candidate. Its a tossup no matter which way it goes. It as an impact. The night before the alabama special election roy moore and doug joes making final case to voters. Theres been plenty of outside help. Robo call from President Trump and former president obama and plus appearances by steve bannon and new jersey corey booker and monday night moore took a page from Trump Campaign play book holding drain the swamp rally and he wept after the women accusing him of Sexual Misconduct decades ago asking why the women stayed silent. I ran three county campaigns in this same county and never once was this mentioned. Jones said s we lagged behind in industry and lagged behind in education. But quickly focused on allegations against his opponent. Its time that we put our sdeensy and our state before poli
Like 14 below in the mountains, 3 below in reading, 1 below in lancaster, 2 above in philadelphia and 1 above in wilmington. Throughout the day the wind chill values will get a little bit better. By lunchtime it will feel like 12 in philadelphia and during the Late Afternoon and early evening hours, were talking about mid teens. So yes, it is a far cry from the 64 degrees that we had two days ago but its not going to continue to feel quite this bad as the day wears on. Satellite and the radar shows clear skies. Its going to be a nicelooking day, just blustery and cold. Mostly sunny, windy or breezy and cold with a high of 27, wind chills in the teens. When i come back in just a few minutes, well focus on how long this cold weather will stick around and the possibility of the snow in the accuweather 7day forecast. Another january thaw arrives this weekend and this past weekend has been bitter cold but there are signs we could be in the 60s by next weekend and ill have details in just a
Hello. Im [inaudible] librarian at the library of congress. All day here at the library of Congress National book festival, we are recognizing and celebrating the importance of reading and authors and books. The library of Congress Makes it easy to do this every year, but the truth is the National Book festival is a huge undertaking. Its a huge financial undertaking. And it has been made possible by generous support from our sponsors. You can see who they are in your program and on the video monitors around the convention center. But we cant take for granted that this event will continue to exist, so i would ask you to consider making a contribution right now using your cell phone. You can send a text to make a onetime gift that will be added to your mobile phone bill. The details are on the screen and on the back of your program, and as soon as you finish making that contribution, please silence your cell phone. And now on to the main event. Id like to introduce cochair of the Nationa