[instrumental music] hi everyone and welcome to the National Books festival. My name is anna lehman and im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. Im here today with megan twohey and gail collins. Both incredible authors and writers and journalists and i cannot wait for you to hear what they have to say. I mentioned that im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission, the commission is a very proud sponsor of the National Books festival this year, we are the sponsor of the fearless women trail, which is featuring authors who are fearless just like gail and megan also books and stories about women throughout American History. Its just really a privilege to be here in this place today with these two women. Id like to start us off with some brief introductions for gail and megan and then we will kick it off. Megan is joining us, she is the author of she said breaking the Sexual Harassment story that helped ignite a movement. She is a Pu
from california to florida, many states hitting triple digits. phoenix now reaching ten consecutive days of 110-degree temperatures. also developing as we come on the air tonight, the images coming in now, the massive landslide destroying at least nine homes and counting in los angeles county. the ground shifting 20 feet overnight, sending homes into a ravine. matt gutman on the scene for us. president biden on the world stage tonight. he has just arrived in lithuania for the high stakes nato summit. and already, major news tonight. sweden to join nato, and president biden is asked, should ukraine be allowed to join, too? elizabeth schulze traveling with the president. the news from the kremlin tonight. moscow now claiming that just five days after that attempted revolt, vladimir putin claims he held a three-hour meeting with yevgeny prigozhin, who led that failed attempt to march on moscow. james longman late reporting from inside ukraine tonight. here in the u.s., t
states hitting triple digits. phoenix now reaching ten consecutive days of 110-degree temperatures. also developing as we come on the air tonight, the images coming in now, the massive landslide destroying at least nine homes and counting in los angeles county. the ground shifting 20 feet overnight, sending homes into a ravine. matt gutman on the scene for us. president biden on the world stage tonight. he has just arrived in lithuania for the high stakes nato summit. and already, major news tonight. sweden to join nato, and president biden is asked, should ukraine be allowed to join, too? elizabeth schulze traveling with the president. the news from the kremlin tonight. moscow now claiming that just five days after that attempted revolt, vladimir putin claims he held a three-hour meeting with yevgeny prigozhin, who led that failed attempt to march on moscow. james longman late reporting from inside ukraine tonight. here in the u.s., the disgraced former usa gymnastic
with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go berserk and they re so upset this is happening. president biden responded overnight, accusing desantis and others of quote, playing politics with human beings. suggesting that those governors such as desantis should not interfere in the immigration process. instead of working with us on solutions, republicans are playing politics with human beings using them as props. what they re doing is simply wrong. it is unamerican, it is wreckless. the u.s. attorney for massachusetts will speak with the justice department about desantis transporting migrants to martha s vineyard as other atlantics are calling for an investigation. we ll take you there live in just in a moment. but we begin with a set back for the justice department in one of the investigations. a judge has named a special master to review documents seized at mar-a-lago but it paused the criminal investigation into classified materials confiscat
A live look at the dark in Lower Manhattan. Around battery park, rather ominous there. New york city. He met did i tell you that you are an evacuee . We wear it with pride. Political status . I dont know. Now, listen, one of the lucky ones. A place to go. There are shelters in the area of zone a. We have blackouts in 1977, but weve never had a blackout and flooding. You can see a cruiser right there, presumably locking down the street. Parts of Lower Manhattan have serious flooding, as well as the subway systems there. Tony fernandez has been out there all evening. Can you paint a better picture breast . A lot of starbucks cups, no surprise, here there are larger wooden items that made its way throughout the course of wherever that water is originating from. The hudson river, where ever else it went through over the evening. It brought a lot of large agree with that as well. A testament to the power of the water when it was here. You guys really hit it on the head. It is very eerie out