Faster Danielle Allen National Book Award Finalist kevin Young Software engineer ellen ullman and many others. First up is to look at some of the lesserknown stories from world war ii. This is like coverage of the texas book festival on booktv. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Good morning. My name is Jim Horne Fisher and its my pleasure to welcome you to the opening session of the 2017 texas book festival. [applause] thank you for coming out in support of our authors and second of his wonderful annual event now in its 22nd year. [applause]he and third of all the books that we discussed and enjoyed throughout this beautiful Texas Capitol complex hereom in downtn austin i would ask you to silence your cell phones t. Live tv, thank you cspan. After a session both offers authors are relocating to the book signing tent down the street to autograph their books. Books are for sale at that beautiful independent bookstore. You are supporting not only the author off the festival and a great l
Book tv is back live in austin for the second day of the texas book festival. Over the next three hours you will hear them discuss Sexual Assault on campuses. The first the professors Carol Anderson on racism in america. This is a book tv on cspan two. [indiscernible] welcome to the 26th annual texas book festival we appreciate you coming out in support of all of our authors and just in general great literature. A few housekeeping things. President and ceo in a gentle reminder for you to please silence your cell phone or turn them off. After our session here the authors will be signing books. And remember when you buy a book at the festival you support the author the festival in the local independent bookstore. Its mission is to support low income schools in texas. For your purchases they go very long way. And then you have the book drive going on its running a book drive to raise money to help rebuild the libraries affected by hurricane harvey. A donation of 15 and the foundation will
Northbound side of highway 101. Chp tweeted this picture, a car collided with a motorcycle in the accident has turned deadly. Chp says the only lane open is the slow lane and expect delays. There is lots of red meeting lots of backup in the area. We will continue to monitor and bring you the latest as soon as we get it. New at 10, a 21 monthold toddler was reunited with his mother in San Francisco. The toddler was the subject of a statewide amber alert that took all resources of multiple agencies to bring the pair together. Rob malcolm joins us live with more. Reporter the San Francisco da office says this was a lot of hard work the to see the reunion made it worthwhile. Keeping her distance drum cameras this child was reunited with his mother. The das office says this was a happy ending. Whenever we had a child missing or abducted our office will do Everything Possible to bring the child back. Investigator and that souza flew to los angeles to pick up the child. Speaking on behalf of
Good afternoon sara bloomquist is off, in the news what began as a fun trip began with dozens of people hospitalized. Why some people are stranded following a bad crash in knowledge. Plus President Trump is meeting with World Leaders as the investigation into russian meddling focuses on a member of the president s family. And the big news is the weather outlook and the unofficial start to the Summer Season. Sky 6 hd taking a live look at the ben franklin bridge at lunch time. Some clouds are in the sky and the sun is shining through and peeks of sunshine not a bad way to end the work week. Melissa magee has a first check of the accuweather forecast. You may want to keep the umbrella close by this weekend. That is certainly a good idea as we head into the Holiday Weekend. So far so good. Off to a better start across the region. Philadelphia 73 degrees, our high yesterday was just 68 and with more sunshine coming out today. Numbers are in the 70s and 70 in reading and the same thing in l
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