Pulitzer prize winner lawrence wright. He talks about his book thirteen days of september of 1978. [inaudible conversations] [applause] [inaudible conversations] thank you. I appreciate you all coming, so ive been asked to talk about two books, originally i was asked to talk about 13 days in september, the carter summit in 1978 which i will do but since i was invited to this conference, another book of mine has come out thats the collection of my articles on terrorism called the terror years and so i will first talk about peace and then i will talk about terror. [applause] seems like a national progression, right . I guess the best way of beginning this is telling you how i got started 13 days. Gerald who was jimmy carters adviser in the white house called me up and if i was willing to write a play. Pitch was born again christian, or orthodox jew and emerge with the only durable piece in the middle east. Pretty good pitch. And it was affecting because my wife and i had lived in georgia
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Northward as it stalls over the north atlantic. Atlti forecasters say it could hangca out there for sevstererals sa me days. The storm is packing windsds as high as 70 miles an hour. Many beaches still closed and a Tropical Storm warnings remain i in effect. In effec so, the big question now, howow much longer will it hang han around . Tucker is here witheit that. Yeah, not so much locally. Ml we just have a little cloude cl cover. Probably felt the windst theds occasionally pick up for theickr last couple days. Ple d thats all the effects. Were still on the fringe but little further east the cloudlo cover out at the beaches, beach, hurricane service. Anervice we appreciate you joining usning this day. Good morning. Give us the latest update on whe there l thiest ungs stanh hermine and what we need to beeb concerned about now. Anyone on the beaches from nyon the Midatlantic States all thera way into netlw england youc s ss have a few more days of dangerous surf, rip currents, beach ero
Fairfield, lancaster, newberry, greenford, nor chester, everywhere to the north and west of columbia. There is a big swath of rain. Check it out, all of these yellows continuing to rain where its rained for several hours already. Its adding up quite a bit. As we go off to the west, as you can see, the line continues off across georgia and extends south of atlanta. This is going to be with us for a good part off the afternoon. In terms of rain totals here, let me show you this. Really were going to have to watch out for the flash flooding, as i said, in the places where its continued to rain in all the counties thats in red north and west of columbia, thats going to be through tonight. Reminder, turn around, dont drown. This is a situation we should really take seriously when we talk about flooded roads. You never know whats on the bottom of that road. If you start in, you may lose control and its too late to do anything about it. As far as rain totals, check this out. Here in columbia,
Pretty well with the delays north of springfield but clearing up pretty much as you approach the 14 street bridge. Rt not too bad so far this morning. Thats a check of fox 5 on time traffic. A vote is expected in new in york tonight. But the draft resolution does not include any threat of force ifof syria does not give up its weapons and it does not blame the Syrian Regime for usingg chemical weapons. Cal also this morning the worldwide chemical weapon watchdog groupp is calling for inspections toios begin by next tuesday. Da only a few days before a partial shutdown of the federal government. So far theres no compromise on federal hill on funding the government. Theres votes expected today buy for more on that we are joined by sherri ly. This vote is headed to the senate where a vote is exeatedd somexpectedthis afternoon. A bill to defund obama care is at the crux. E it got to midnight on monday to avert a parch the shutdown. A stop gut measure, would send the bill back to the house w