Court and the chance to make the conversation and connection. A couple of housekeeping things before we get started. In your zoom webinar you can see and hear the speakers but they cant see or hear you. You can youre welcome to post your comments and your thoughts in the chat as we get going am great way to show your appreciation for the author and interact with fellow attendees. You have specific wees you want answered post the questions in the q a module at the bottom of the screen by clicking on the icon that looks like two speech balloons. We will be pulling question from the q a so we ask thats where you put them. Other comments are welcome in the chat. Love and praise nor authors. We are recording the event to look for the video or audio version on our social Media Channels later on. And importantly tonights book is available for sale from greenlight, and its a great way to show your support for both independent book stores leak greenlight and for authors like kerri. You can ordi
Its so intrinsic memory that its hard to get free from what kids would come to our town for sports teams and then say your town smellslike [bleep]. Kerri, tell us about the bleach room at the mill. Ive never been there. My grandfather worked there but what happens in the bleach room is where the magic happens. Its where the pulp turns white. And to do that, at the beginning our paper mill opened in 1901 and up until 1997 a process was basically the same. Two bleach paper they would use elemental chlorine to bleach it and what happened in the combustion process of that had this byproduct, its a family of dioxins. And fat dioxins are one of the most dangerous toxins known to humankind. There the thing that is used in agent orange. Equally as nefarious. And that bleach room up until 1997 the use elemental chlorine and created those dioxins all over across the us and the world and the mills had to change their bleaching process and they changed it to elemental chlorine free bleaching, whic
Selloff. The dow industrials down 36 points, nasdaq up 61 and s p higher by 3 and a quarter. This as we await testimony from treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve chairman jay powell today, both on capitol hill later today. This follows a huge selloff yesterday sparked by an open Supreme Court seat and impact of it on the ledge Kellyanne Conway slalegislative agenda. Dow indusn 500 points, nasdaq lower by 14 and s p lower by 38. The state of our cities, the department of justice naming three major cities anarchist jurisdictions that could lose federal funding due to ongoing unrest. Rudy giuliani is back with us with his take on all of this. Then, fine on the field, nfl handing out massive fines for mask violations, all the numbers coming up this morning. Women and wellness, how some are expanding business while keeping their cool in the era of coronavirus. Super model Kathy Ireland is here with lifestyle tips you dont want to yo miss. Mornings with maria is live right n
It is phenomenal. We have the latest out of the United Kingdom right now. They are battening down the hatches because a resurgence in cases has them closing pubs earlier urging people to for the better part of valor quit congregating in large groups. Good luck on that. Meantime were looking at a spending bill that could be in disarray. Could be the fault of the whole Supreme Court. It was in the president s favor but, because of differences that some democrats have put up, to make it a more harder fight than that. Chad pergram, hey chad. This is not a fivealarm fire until funding the government, they still have the end of the month to do that but there is concern. I was told the house of representatives was scheduled to vote on the interim spending bill might pull back on that. They are negotiating with some members and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin is testifying today, indicating he is negotiating with the speakers office. You have moderate democrats, a freshman democrat on iowa co
Help, food aid. Yes, they are still talking. Investors like the idea of many more trillions poured into the economy, but it aint a done deal yet. The political world really cant stop talking about the debate. The president says he won. He, quote, held joe accountable, thats what the president says. Biden says the debate was a national disgrace. The Electoral Commission seems to agree. I they run the debates, and theyre looking at new rules. They agree, they seem to believe and blame the president for the interruptions and insults. Theyre even considering a kill button for the moderator to cut the mic of any offending candidates. The numbers are in. Far fewer people watched than i expected, just 73 million tuned in. Down from 84 million who watched the first debate in 2016. And if you look inside the numbers, the audience dropped away as the chaotic debate kept going. They tuned out. Stay with us for the next three hours, i promise it will be worth it. Varney company is about to begin.