Welcome to the session of the 25th annual texas book festival. My name is Julie Schwietert collazo and im an author and im also the midrater of this panel, border stories, immigration, refuge and justice. And today im honored to be speaking with the writers who know a great deal about these subjects. Before we begin our conversation, i have a few housekeeping items to review. First, wed like to encourage you to leave mints and a chat box and skinned send kudos to our authors. If you have a question for an author pleasic the ask a question button which in crowd cast. The producerred will send me your questions and well get to as many of these questions as we can. One more housekeeping item. This is a bilingual panel. And in addition to serving as your moderator ill be doing double duty as your translator. This will work as follows. I will ask questions in english and then spanish, will translae answers in the same way. Over ore purist the translation will not be word for word. I will ta
Valley, down to the 20s and 30s this morning. It is definitely a colder start than what we have been noticing. One of the coldest mornings this season. 31 right now in santa rosa. 38 in napa. Right now, 39 in redwood city. Down to 33 in mountain view. 36 in san jose. Right now, 39 in in San Francisco lets talk about that frost advisory for the northbay Interior Valleys. Temperatures down to the 20s and 30s. So, below freezing. That is why the frost advisory is in effect until 9 00 am today. As we go through the afternoon, we will see the sunshine cool below average. Daytime highs in the mid to upper 50s to low 60s this afternoon. I will let you know how long this will last and when we see our next chance for showers coming up. It is cold and windy. Plus, we have a Traffic Alert around westbound 4. Right in martinez, we still have lanes blocked because of this trouble spot involving some sand in the roadway. Caltrans should be on scene shortly but in the meantime, you have quite a bit o
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