At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter as its literature, music and art as congressman greg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee on House Administration and serves on the House Committee on energy and commerce, the joint committee on printing and perhaps most pertinently for us here today, as the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gre
Most extreme red flag warning. This is pretty typical for this time of year when the highs build in, the winds go offshore and that is whats happening now but the winds so far have been light compared to what you expect. Perhaps this red flag warning is going to be a little bit, you know, we are not going to see 60 miles per hour. A heat advisory tomorrow. Temperatures are warm now. It will be real warm tomorrow with temperatures in the triple digits. When we back we will look at that and the 5day forecast. People in the sierra foothills are without power tonight to prevent power lines from starting fires. Pg e shut off power to 21,0 customers today. Pg e says the Power Outages could last from 24 to 48 hours. Residents and Business Owners in Nevada County have been without power since 5 00 p. M. I have thousands of dollars of inventory that are go some on gas operated generators. People are coming in for batteries and generators during the power outage. There are no planned Power Outag
[applause] [applause] oh come on. Good morning. Thank you for that warm welcome and thank you for being in person all the people watching on line or listening remotely we say thank you for joining us for the 2024 state of the state. Youve all been thoroughly welcomed this morning but i want to give a special shout out to a few people in the course ive got to start with first Lady Catherine and her family members she spirit their sister julie and her cousin lisa and watching on line to the rest of our rest of our extended families and their sons joe and tom and her daughter jesse and their extended families. When you serve your family serves with you so i want to be sure to at this time thank them for all their support in the seven years in todays a special day because its jesses birthday and so we need on a one, two, three everybody to yell happy birthday jesse. It will be the Largest Group to ever yell her birthday at the same time. One, 23, happy birthday jesse [applause] way to go.
C oh come on. Good morning. Thank you for that warm welcome and thank you for being in person all the people watching on line or listening remotely we say thank you for joining us for the 2024 state of the state. Youve all been thoroughly welcomed this morning but i want to give a special shout out to a few people in the course ive got to start with first Lady Catherine and her family members she spirit their sister julie and her cousin lisa and watching on line to the rest of our rest of our extended families and their sons joe and tom and her daughter jesse and their extended families. When you serve your family serves with you so i want to be sure to at this time thank them for all their support in the seven years in todays a special day because its jesses birthday and so we need on a one, two, three everybody to yell happy birthday jesse. It will be the Largest Group to ever yell her birthday at the same time. One, 23, happy birthday jesse [applause] way to go. You guys did fantast
The gaza strip. All signs seem to point to an imminent ground assault into gaza. Israeli military have amassed tanks and troops at the border. People in gaza say the rails the military has been watching from the sky warning them that attacks are imminent and they should try to seek shelter. The war has claimed the lives of at least 1500 people in gaza and at least 1300 israel is among the dead at least 27 americans. A large member of congress have it on the steps of capitol hill for a candlelight vigil morning the victims of the palestinians and the israelis. The l searches for another speaker of the house. Antony blinken was in israel today meeting with the israeli minister and pledging u. S. Support. That as the Israeli Military sets up his attacks against hamas in retaliation for the militant groups are real massive and brittle terror attack. A lot of headlines on both sides happening. Here the united states, the aid to israel hazily bounced until the House Republicans elect a new s