Its a big night for the National Book foundation, for literature, culture, the big night for all of us. Whenever i have the opportunity to stand in front of people i always mention my mothers name, irma jean christin. She is the reason i like to say about my mother i am th imed amm because she is the woman she is or was. My mother was my first teacher. My mother graduated from college the age of 17 the first person i17 in the firstperson in her fo college for me to be a wellknown literary advocate in this nation, a place where only a few generations ago it would have been illegal for me to read is no small thing. [applause] literature is the birthright of every single one of us if you can read in at least one language you are in my definition free. That is to say no one can pull the wool over your eyes are give you what they want to call alternative facts and convince you what you know to be true is in fact not true at all. If you can read at least one language, you have the wherewitha
To take on germany. Good morning. It has been the cold est good morning. It has been the coldest night of autumn so far temperatures and parts of scotland close to minus seven degrees. After a frosty start some will see rain today, hopefully not too much for those areas that have had such major flooding. I will have all the details later here on breakfast. Its saturday the 9th of november. Our top story. A clean up operation is underway in parts of Northern England afterflooding caused by a months worth of rain which fell injust one day. In derbyshire, one woman has died after being swept away by floodwater. There are currently seven severe flood warnings in place along the river don near doncaster. The River Derwent peaked at record levels last night, causing fears it would break its banks and flood the city of derby but levels have since dropped. Jane Frances Kelly reports. Normal life has been put on hold here in matlock which was hit hard by the torrential rain. Dirty brown water f
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Matters to the markets an your money. Forget trump and xi and china. A new trade war just started well tell you what it is on this wednesday october 2 as Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning, good after, good evening wherever in the world you are watching maybe you are in australia, the home country of acdc if you live around here, this is a scene in new york. It is dark get ready. It is going to be hot. Right now, it is 5 00 in the morning. It is already 73 degrees it is going to hit 89 or 90 degrees. There is your weather hit. Our first ever lets see how the markets are coming off of yesterdays decidedly cold drop. Not only did we fall, we gave up all of our gains from the Third Quarter in a single day. Futures, as you can see, they are down dow futures are off 139 points right now. Remember something about october. October gets a bad rep it is known as a volatile month and one of the worse per forthiformin months of the year the last few years, october has been relative
Major french alleging it. To the brutal rights abusing regime of a countrys previous leader. Every year tuning in from around the world. International my names you know neal good to have you with us top story a prominent critic of donald trump is offered an eye opening interpretation of the u. S. President s now infamous ukraine phone call the old going impeachment investigation appears to pick up steam mr trump struck back at democrat adam schiff accusing him of simply making up his version of the conversation. Going to make up dirt on my political opponent understand lots of it on this and on that theres a lot of talk about bidens son and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do would be great. Im going to put you in touch with attorney general United States my attorney general bill barr hes got the whole weight. Of the american Law Enforcement. Behind him im also going to have attorney general and we will get to the bottom of it. And by the way dont call me