Part but as of right now were not hearing reports of major damage so the biggest concern is flooding. Texas governor greg abbot called evacuation says Hurricane Harvey approached the states coastline and warns the storm will likely bring disastrous flooding. Flooding. You can hold that. Thats the report. Sure. Well good afternoon. I wanted to let you know about dates. We had a statewide call. That involved more than 30 state agencies that are involved in helping to respond to this hurricane. Call that involved local officials. County officials and everyone involved in this process. We talked to people from the gulf coast all the way up to north texas that are helping in their own way to respond to these challenges. Let me make several points in then ill take your questions. First i want to thank fema. The department of Homeland Security. The president for their commitment to helping texas respond to the challenges and thank the red cross for all that they are doing. I want to thank the
Part but as of right now were not hearing reports of major damage so the biggest concern is flooding. Texas governor greg abbot called evacuation says Hurricane Harvey approached the states coastline and warns the storm will likely bring disastrous flooding. Flooding. You can hold that. Thats the report. Sure. Well good afternoon. I wanted to let you know about dates. We had a statewide call. That involved more than 30 state agencies that are involved in helping to respond to this hurricane. Call that involved local officials. County officials and everyone involved in this process. We talked to people from the gulf coast all the way up to north texas that are helping in their own way to respond to these challenges. Let me make several points in then ill take your questions. First i want to thank fema. The department of Homeland Security. The president for their commitment to helping texas respond to the challenges and thank the red cross for all that they are doing. I want to thank the
Part but as of right now were not hearing reports of major damage so the biggest concern is flooding. Texas governor greg abbot called evacuation says Hurricane Harvey approached the states coastline and warns the storm will likely bring disastrous flooding. Flooding. You can hold that. Thats the report. Sure. Well good afternoon. I wanted to let you know about dates. We had a statewide call. That involved more than 30 state agencies that are involved in helping to respond to this hurricane. Call that involved local officials. County officials and everyone involved in this process. We talked to people from the gulf coast all the way up to north texas that are helping in their own way to respond to these challenges. Let me make several points in then ill take your questions. First i want to thank fema. The department of Homeland Security. The president for their commitment to helping texas respond to the challenges and thank the red cross for all that they are doing. I want to thank the
I think that may be a perfect way to end the afternoon. Thank you. No, no, no. Thank you for your patience. Im aware of the fact that we live in an age with fewer and fewer readers, fewer people who have taken on the difficult text. Aware for you are if you are more my age than the age of the young and you dont exactly belong to that civilization Steve Johnson was more my age than he was your age. Whatever there is in this room that still holds references to the text remember those of us who are christians, jewish, muslims we are people of the book and if i ever go to a bar mitzvah where the kid comes in with a kindle i am leaving. [laughter] thanks very much richard rugg rugg richard rodriguez. We will be signing books upstairs. [applause] [inaudible conversations] iraq war veterans kevin powers is next on booktv. From the 2014 san antonio book festival treat you presents second book of poetry, letter composed during a lull in the fighting. [inaudible conversations] all right. I think
The Texas Military Service said the incident was non-mission related but they did say the initial findings indicate it was an accidental firearm discharge.