Finalists include sean mcmeekins the ottoman in game which examines world war i, the end of the ottoman empire, and the instability in the middle east since the early 20th century. Next, the train to crystal city recounts a secret Prisoner Exchange program during world war ii and the american internment camp that was at the center of it. Also, Timothy Snyders study of the holocaust and tj stiles book on george custer. Custer. The history of nazi concentration camps is also nominated. The winners will be announced on march 30. Book tv has covered many books which have been nominated, and you can watch them on booktv. Org. Host this is book tv on cspan2 on the campus of university of wisconsin in madison. Joining us 1st is professor will jones whose book, the march on washington, came out recently. How long was that in the planning . Guest well, it was in the planning for over 20 years, since 1941. The march on washington was planned during the 2nd world war, and it was called up at the
The other,. Bund yields down by three basis points. 1. H the pound at 42. Increase the argument to leave the eu. The pound or reacting clearly. I want to go to london and bringing guy johnson. Bring us up to speed on events as they unfold. A lot of news. Started before the market opened. We saw the attacks taking place at the airport to the northeast of brussels. Two bombs going off. We have seen the pictures coming out of the departures lounge at the airport. The Second Attack took place in the metro. The metro then shut down. All transport nodes in and out of brussels being shut down. Going to catch peoples attention is the metro station attack. From theards away European Commission, the European Council. You get onto the main road and you want down 200 yards and you are at where this attack took place. This is right at the heart of europe. David give us a sense of the timing. We know the two bombs that went off for about 8 00 a. M. Local time. When were the attacks in the subway . L
Ten points. The nasdaq off by 22. Crude oil prices were up sharply overnight, topping 40 a barrel. First time weve seen that in quite a while. That came after the announcement yesterday of a surprise job in u. S. Inventories. However, wti has turned around since then. Looks like we flipped that contract, too. If you were looking at 40 overnight, were now looking at the may contract. Thats a decline of 7 cents to 37. 69. It will be interesting to see how this new contract plays out. We did see a huge gain in crude oil prices yesterday. The other big mover this morning, currency. The dollar hitting a 17 hch month low against the yen. This came after the minutes from the last months fed meeting suggested that the central bank is unlikely to raise Interest Rates before june. There were a lot in these minutes, but most people are looking at the doves comments after what we heard from janet yellen just last week. Brian . Some corporate stories to talk to you about this morning. Just go right
Lines today. Shows your dedication. It does. It makes us proud that they are part of our department. Reporter thank you, captain. We have been talking about the rain and that certainly helped. Help from mother nature. Lets take you to some video that we shot earlier and have some pictures from middletown. Rain on the roads. This is the town of cobb close to the start of the fire. This is gives you an idea how intense the flames were as they tore through on saturday as the rain fell today, we saw many spots still smoldering. They are keeping a close watch on the weather and also keeping a close watch as our chief meteorologist Paul Deanno Paul are they going to continue to get some rain . They need it. The rain is tapering off this evening but im happy to report, juliette, we received more rainfall than we were expecting. We were hoping to get about a quarter inch to half inch of rainfall in the north bay mountains. Some spots got more than an inch of rainfall. Its tapering off but that
With the possible exception of scooter libby. Im going to ask you to wrap up with something that dick cheney had talked about before and that was his state and religion if you can tell us about that. The one subject he doesnt like to pursue any depth with religion and we covered more than anywhere else in the heat talked to me about the sunday school experience, his migrations over the years and his beliefs about his faith. To sit there stranded by all these books having survived five heart attacks and a transplant to hear him say to me im a christian and i believe in a life hereafter is powerful. So if you love or hate it cheney or you are a millennial gesturing to learn about him in 9 11 and iraq you will learn how his mind and heart work. Its a really important piece of history and im glad you had a chance to do it. That was after words in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed. Watch past programs online at the booktv. Org. Br on the campus of the university o