Hello im david rubinstein, the National Book festival, welcome to the National Book festival, which this year is being done virtually. Our guest this year is melinda gates, for the first part of our program. Im coming to you from washington dc at the library of congress and from another washington, seattle washington, is melinda gates. Thank you very much for doing this. Im so glad we could do it david. Melinda, youve written your first book recently, a book about women its a book about empowering women and i want to talk to you about that and what prompted you to write this book. How long did it take you to write this book and what prompted you to write this book . Melinda i wrote it over most of the year and what prompted me to write it was, ive been so incredibly fortunate with the foundation to travel to so many places in the world. Its the people and particularly the women ive met in these incredibly difficult circumstances and seeing what they are doing to empower their families
Book club get started quick. It exists because of one young man who wanted to give back but go his name was glenn and was on death row in texas at the age of 16. He wrote a letter to kelly taylor and myself at the time when we were Television News producers in dc at australia broadcasting and basically said i want to stay alive and i want the world to know how many men of color are on death row. He was next ordinary person and human being. And then they became friends. She is a book lover they would read the same book and discuss it by letters. So the idea for the book club was born because after he was executed in 2000, he wanted us to work with the youth charges we started free mines just for the boys that are in the adult criminal legal system. But then the insatiable curiosity and hunger for knowledge and learning took over and young men wanted to keep it going so eventually starting 2002 and 2005 we became an official nonprofit. Host how many prisons or jails around the country qu
Afternoon tomorrow warmest day of the week showers return late week rain for part of mothers day weekend may warmth in sight today mostly sunny. Chill start, nice afternoon. Highs 6569 winds nw 5 mph tonight partly to mostly cloudy. Not as cold. Lows 4451 winds s 5 mph wednesday partly sunny. Milder. Highs 6872 winds n 510 mph julie toss to johnny breaking overnight. Chaos at a florida airport after hundreds of flyers sam sweeney is at the live desk sam . Passengers so angry with Spirit Airlines Law Enforcement had to be brought in this all played out the Fort Lauderdale hollywo Od International airport after nine flights were canceld. Posted to twitter showed at least three people being taken away in handcuffs by deputies. And others crowding the ticket counters. Spirit is blaming its pilots claiming they are refusing to fly to influence the outcome of labor negotiations. The airline has filed a federal lawsuit. In a statement overnight the airline said quote we are disappointed that
Hillary clinton is looking past election day pondering her pick for cabinet positions. Reporter donald trump is on the attack saying hillary and bill clinton used their service and Public Office to get rich. Hillary clinton put the office of secretary of state up for sale and if she got the chance, she would put the oval office up for sale also. Reporter hacked emails show bill clintons aide offer president clinton paid speeches and arranged more than 50 million in for profit activity for the president. Mr. Band called the arrangement unorthodox. The rest of us call it outright corrupt. Reporter the Clinton Campaign will not confirm the e mails authenticity. Women and girls is allstar on the ballot in this election. Reporter clinton will make what the campaign describes as her final pitch to women voters in iowa. Clinton is also making plans for if she wins. Joe biden is atop the list to be her secretary of state. Earlier this week, biden talked about what he wants to do when he leaves
Heading back to school. Go figure. Good morning. Welcome to the best place for sunday Morning Television on wusa 9 and cbs throughout the morning. Good morning, erika. Good morning. My kids are going back to School Tomorrow and they are so excited and so are all the parents. Its the most most wonderful time of the year. Its going to be a hot start to the school week for the kids. Lets take a look another our day planner. Temperatures rising into the 90s today. It will be 86 degrees at 1 00, 90 at 4 00, 86 degrees at 7 00 with just a few clouds from time to time. You will see the dew points increasing throughout today and tomorrow as well. That will make the heat index increase. It will be a factor into this afternoon. Right now 68 hagerstown, 64 frederick and gaithersburg, 64 leesburg. Notice the temperatures are warmer than this time yesterday. Still dry on satellite and radar. A cold front approaching from the north and west will try to bring us a thunderstorm this afternoon. Ill sho