19th amendment, the [inaudible] serves as a destination for discovery and inquiry and to introduce our audience to new narratives and themes in american history. We cant wait to see you again when the library opens to engage in new conversations about womens history, equality, democracy and the right to vote. [background sounds] good afternoon. My names nathan, and on behalf of humanities tennessee, i want to welcome you to the 32nd annual southern festival of books. Humanities tennessee would also like to say a special thank you to their key sponsors, the Metro National arts commission, the ingram group, tennessee arts commission, Vanderbilt University and parnas us books. Before we get started, i want to share a bit about our session. Theres these are unique times, and the book festivals also unique this year. So we we really appreciate everyone being here, and humanities tennessee carrying on with the event. If youd like to purchase a book, please use the parnas saws book link, and
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About the blockbuster revelations about hunter biden, biden got a pass, the network fix was in, beat up trump, give biden a pass. We do have news on the stimulus. A little give on the part of the white house, Speaker Pelosi and secretary mnuchin have agreed on the democrats Virus Testing strategy. It is not much, a strong report on retail sales just came out, a halfhour ago, big loss for the stocks yesterday but a rebound today in part on the back of the retail sales report. The dow is up triple digits 130 points, the nasdaq, 93 94 points higher. Censorship are very much in the news, social media may be in trouble after blocking coverage of the bombshell allegations against hunter biden, the authorities are taking a close look at facebook, twitter and other social media liability immunity after four years of obvious media biased in social media censorships and is there any doubt that you are blocked so frequently from seeing or hearing conservative opinion. We will get more on that com
Now at 11, will it look like mars again when we wake up tomorrow . Weve got live team whether coverage on what to expect. If you feel like the world might be ending, you are not alone. Tonight we get some expert advice on how to cope. A dire warning from climate scientists tonight, if you think the fire and extreme heat are bad now, just wait. Things will get worse until we start being serious about doing something. Now at 11, and streaming on cbsn bay area, these eerie orange scenes all over the region today and people we spoke to kept coming back to one word, apocalyptic. Weve got Team Coverage of this unprecedented situation tonight. Meteorologist paul heggen will join us with a closer look at this otherworldly set up. That is exactly the right word. These are not pictures of her, they are from the surface of mars and titan. So literally the bay area looked like Something Else in the solar system today. I want to get into why exactly the atmosphere looked orange, why not green or pu
And its still showing a lot of Forest Management to creating smoke for the bay area. Innovative policy to battle those red and purple colors Climate Change. Its 35 35 right now. Indicating all of that smoke even up in the higher lets get a check on traffic elevations and thats the reason why we saw those orange colors in the sky yesterday. With gianna. As we head through the day, hey there. Hey, good morning. Taking a look at the roadways. It is an early start to the because of that smoke, kind of backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. Inhibiting the heat, so our temperatures will be below this is the work on the upper deck and you are looking live average once again. Here and metering lights are mid 60s in San Francisco and turned an this morning and ll t upper 60s in oakland and mid 70s for san jose and upper 70s 880 overpass. That road work on the upper for concord. Were going to talk about the deck of the bay bridge just before the tunnel has a couple science of why we saw those oran