[applause] , everyone. I love coming to cleveland for the annual event i enjoy every minute standing grows and grows. Thank you for your loyalty loyalty, the support and for your enthusiasm. Give that up to yourselves. [applause] every time i think of this prize a poet in the 1930s a white to woman now one of the first if not the first prize is in celebration of what to do recall excellence and diversity. An extraordinary person anisfieldwolf and she would have been it used to be named to the black Pulitzer Prize at least up down on the cover of the saturday review in 1941, Martin Luther king himself won its coverage of the five years ago under the leadership under montagu a dear friend friend, it was transformed to focus on artistic excellence and today we use the buzz word cultural diversity. I was put on the Selection Committee and a foundation generously asked if i would be the chair. So weve restructured it and i asked my friends and my colleague and the man that i met and i asked
48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. Booktv. Org. The 78th annual anisfieldwolf book awards that recognized books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures is next on booktv. This is about an hour, 40 minutes. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. You know, i love coming to cleveland for this annual event. I look forward to it, i enjoy every minute of it. , and it just grows and grouse. Thank you for your loyalty grows. Thank you for your loyalty, thank you for your support, and thank you for all your enthusiasm. Give it up to yourselves for being such a great audience. Ms. [applause] you know, every time i think about this prize, i think a poet, a poet in the 1930s who happened to be a white woman endows one of the first, certainly, if not the first prizes in celebration of what today we would call excellence and diversity. I mean, what an
We are natural partners. Decides United States to other countries work closely with the vatican . Yes, peter. 179 countries have diplomatic relations and 30 of them are islamic countries. What kind of work today due . Well the islamic countries any of them are trying to work with the oecg promote interreligious dialogue and find solutions to radical islam. Many of the secular European Countries are historic monarchies and have had relationship with the holy c or centuries. The latin america, a strong number of catholics in america and the intense social issues in the church deeply involved in is a very strong relationship. In your view ambassador renny has the vatican ever overstepped its bounds as a religious organization into the political . Well, i probably shouldnt answer some of the issues that came up in the two bush campaigns in United States that were highly controversial about the intersection of the elegy in politics. My focus is the diplomat is to show how the oecg and inter
The historic drought drying out much of california only getting worse. Images from nasa here clearly showing the extreme lack of snow covering the state, rain is in the forecast this week. It will help a bit, but it is not enough. Public School Administrators even being asked here to dramatically cut back on water use from kindergartens to community colleges. Meanwhile, for many of those who enjoy the springlike weather this past weekend, hey you better buckle down. The polar vortex is coming back. The cold wave will push down temperatures to below zero and down to the 20s in parts of the south. What that means is yet another huge blast of winter is in store for tens of millions of americans. Nbcs bill karins will have more on the extreme weather in a few. New details this hour, this morning on why the secretary of defense is proposing to shrink the army. Chuck hagel says the nation can afford a military being smaller than before world war ii, but only if it keeps its technological edg
Before it flipped on its side. No other people or cars were involved. Lets start our coverage this hour as we await this news conference. Lets go to the hospital where tiger woods reportedly has been undergoing surgery. Cnns Josh Campbell is on the scene for us. What are you learning, josh, what can you tell us . Reporter wolf, tonight golfing legend tiger woods is recovering behind me here in the hospital. Were here at the nearest level 1 Trauma Center in the south bay of los angeles, after that violent car crash this morning after 7 00 a. M. Were told authorities arrived within six minutes and saw this vehicle in just a state of this crash, this violent crash. Were told this golfing legend tiger woods was brought out through the wood, that according to the los angeles times. Apparently were told hold on a second, josh. The sheriff, alex villanueva, is about to brief us. Joining sheriff villanueva is captain james powers and other members of the executive command staff. Also joining u