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
Vote. Pamela preis fighting off the recall effort. The message faith leaders are sending. Think youre joining us today. We are five days away from the california primary. A number of races and issues on the pallets but so far the Coalition Says voter turnout is very low. The group was now working to boost that turnout. With super tuesday around the corner a group of Health Centers is pushing for people to cast their ballots. Healthcare is highly impacted by policies made from the local to national levels. These are the ones we are entrusting and making change on the biggest issues that we are facing. Over 10 of voters so far have returned mail in ballot. It is slightly lower than average. This is the lowest turnout. It was brought up in the last election and the City Council Seat with more than 5000 votes ending in a tie. It was essentially decided by a coin flip. It feels a little intimidating and that lose power on the table in this community. They will even have tables set up on how
Coming up, chief architect of obamacare sikh emanuel. Who is to blame. Massive cyberattack crippling 12 countytries and two american companies. British hospitals forced to turn patients away because of the outage. Reports are that the hackers used leaked nsa hacking tools. Latest on dissing story. David merck and among the dows biggest drags. We have breaking news on unprecedented global cyberattack. We heard a little abt it from melissa. It is now affecting fedex and microsoft in a big way. Ashley webster with details from the new york stock exchange. Ashley, this could change fortunes of some companies. Ashley certainly could, david. Massive attack in europe and asia. 12 countries at last count. You mentioned individual companies. Fedex certainly one of those affecting. They say their windowsbased system has been interfered with. Theyre not say you how widespread the problem is whether it is impacting deliveries. They say they will deal with it as quickly as possible. Microsoft has r
Clinton email case. Good afternoon. Im michelle griego. Donald trump is working to fill positions in his upcoming D Administration and as Kenneth Craig reports were getting word if he plans to prosecute his former rival for her e small scandal. Reporter one more one, more prominent republicans made their way into the gold elevator at trump tower. While no announcements were made this week, senior trump advisor kellyann conway told msnbc that mr. Trump does not wish to have pursue charges against Hillary Clinton for using a private email server, and he is considering fellow republican dr. Ben carson for secretary of housing and urban development. The Trump Transition Team released video outlining plans for his first 100 days in office including withdrawing from the Transpacific Partnership but no mention of a border wall or repealing obamacare, two key campaign promises. Before heading to his florida estate for the thanksgiving holiday, mr. Trump is also meeting with the new york times.
A mix of snow, sleet and flooding hitting a large swath of the northwest and now the great lakes to the Southern Plains could be blanketed by the storm. More in just a bit. A shortened trading week on wall street today. The closing bell is set to ring at 1 00 eastern time today. Dow futures up by 30 points. S p futures up by just over 4 points and the nasdaq is up by 20. Beyond retail theres other stories this morning. Russia looking to retaliate against turkey. Moscow plans to cut economic ties and cancel major investment projects. More from our colleague in russia in about 20 minutes. The e. Coli outbreak has been traced to a tainted celery and onion mix used in it. And a lawsuit raising all kinds of questions about media mogul sumner redstone. Hes described as mentally vacant and prone to uncontrollable crying spells. The woman was chose on the make Health Care Decisions for him if he was not able to until the billionaire removed her in a new agreement in october. Member through a H