thank you so much. it s growth to be with you. it s wonderful to come into a city where there s rain. [laughter] i live in, my wife suzanne who is with me and you ll meet her later, we have live some years in tulsa, oklahoma where there s plenty of water and wood, it s a green place, but like the rest of this nation, it s been stricken and temperatures in tip l digit triple digits for many, many days. that s how it has been most of the summer. we re now in the last leg of the national book tour, and we ve been all over the country, deep into the eastern united states on the other side of the mississippi where i sometimes go, and all over the southwest and the west where i prefer to be. being a native of massachusetts, missouri, i always looked west, down the trails, down my rote 66, the mother road. this is the part of country i like the best. when i declared my major, if you will, as a writer, it was about the american west, not just cowboys and indians, not just the w
but it was very cathartic in that way. i mean it was really powerful. i mean, personally i am the proudest of this of anything i ve written. and i set out with that in mind. even though these are not fiction stories, i said you know, the nunn in my head said, this is literature. .. a lot of times authors have to drag them out of the barn, but with me, they ve got to try to cool my jets because i want to get out there, and i want to talk to people, and i want to share this with people of the country i live in. here comes trouble, out in fall 2011. thank you. up next on book tv, michael wallis recalls the life of frontiersman and politician, david crockett. he reports on his childhood in east tennessee. it s about an hour. thank you, so much. it s great to be with you, and it s wonderful to come into a city with there s rain. [laughter] i live in and my wife, suzanne, who is with me here, have lived in tulsa, oklahoma where there s lots of water and woods and it s a g
unproven claims of terror babies and didn t like what he saw. he told the office and now he s out of a job. is that fair? and later, the so-called ninja killings, nine kids at home, their parents killed by armed intruders dressed like ninjas. today the trial begins. we ll take you inside the courtroom where cameras are cameras are present, crime & punishment tonight. we begin tonight keeping them honest, with a congressional candidate running from reporters because his fighting words are drawing fire. his name is stephen broden running against eddie bernice johnson. you may be familiar with her name. it may ring a bell. we ve been reporting on her for weeks because she s been funneling tens of thousands of dollars in scholarship money for years, scholarship money meant for needy kids, she s been funneling it to her own relatives and relatives of one of her staffers. pastor broden is now trying to run from comments he s made that suggests he endorses the idea of a violent over
necessary, even violence. all options are on the table. he said it, now he s running away from it. and running away from reporters. tonight we re keeping them honest. also tonight, did congressman louie gohmert cost an educator his job? you ll meet a man who saw our report on congressman gohmert s unproven claims of terror babies and didn t like what he saw. he told the office and now he s out of a job. is that fair? and later, the so-called ninja killings, nine kids at home, their parents killed by armed intruders dressed like ninjas. inside the courtroom where cameras are present, crime & punishment tonight. we begin tonight keeping them honest, with a congressional candidate running from reporters because his fighting words are drawing fire. his name is stephen broden running against eddie bernice johnson. we ve been reporting on her for weeks because she s been funneling tens of thousands of dollars in scholarship money for years, scholarship money meant for needy kids, s
the only exception tonight south of warrenton and culpeper a little light rain or snow before dawn. lows 35 to 40. the temperature is above freezing. coming up we will talk about when the snow begins and how much it will accumulate. we will talk about the roadway temperatures, too and when the temperatures fall to 32 degrees because that will be critical in terms of folks trying to drive around tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. back to you. thank you, top. the winner preps across the area are one of the stories rewith are following. crews are loading up on the salt and sand ready to hit the road. plus, behind bars the two men accused of carjacking a senator s daughter will not be going anywhere anytime soon and the sad good-bye. one of the district s most famous residents will be going home to china for the first time. i m bruce leshan at the national zoo. tai shan is leaving home. the beloved cub has reached what amounts to the teen years for pandas and it is ti