And now on book tv on cspan2 it as live coverage of the brooklyn book festival. Todays author schedule includes msnbc chris hayes, law professor cheryl and National Book award kathy oneill and recently named National Book award finalist. We will kick off today with a discussion on the immigrant experience. This is a book tvs live coverage of the brooklyn book festival. Good morning. Welcome to the best law school in brooklyn. Those of you brooklynites get that punch line but being the only law school and the best law school in the most vibrant and largest borough of the big apple in the greatest country on earth we got that going for us. So weve got that going for us, too. On this day in late august, our law school welcomed its new class of students of 371 students plus about 35 international students. And they were all enthralled with americans across the country with an extraordinary event that was the day of the totality, the day of the eclipse. People across the United States and h
Hurt our Brooklyn Borough president talk about for today maybe the only divide that matters, and that is americas really basically only two groups of people. One either group of people who live, work, study and enjoy brooklyn. And the other is everybody else who wished they could. So weve got that going for us, too. On this date in late august, our law school welcomed its new class of students of 371 students, plus about 35 international students. They were all enthralled with americans across the country with an external event. That was the day of the totality, the day of the eclipse, and people across the United States and our students and faculty gazed up from, with their safety glasses i hope, and it was as if nature itself was conspiring to bring us together if only for a few hours. But that sense of unity and wonder while pleading was very welcomed from the tumultuous events that continue to roil this country. As of this writing, floridians, some of them graduates of our law scho
[inaudible conversations] hello. We are an independent bookstore and we have a second location in jersey city and you confined more information about us online. We are honored to be here tonight celebrating the launch of richards nose book iron don. Lets give richard a round of applause for his neighbor. [applause]. [applause]. [applause]. He has previous been editorinchief and written several books including two novels in a book of poetry and he has written for films including pbs film coney island. Thank you for coming. Enjoy. Richard, why dont you come on up. Thank you very much. What a nice store and thank you for having me. This is the books publication day, so for the last few weeks i have been and what a writer friend of mine calls the role before the wall, but anyway i am pleased and honored to have iron dawn make its debut not only in brooklyn, but Greenpoint Brooklyn has many technological wonders, but perhaps the most impressive i mean, the uss monitor. Its the single most i
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Were going to see all of those types. And that really starts to get under way today, where we see some snow falling in the jersey shore. And thats where we find our own elise finch with the mobile hi, elise. Reporter yeah, john. Yeah, weve got the mobile weather lab here in toms river, new jersey, where were getting a light snow. We pulled off to a residential area. Traffic. So you can see the light dusting theyve gotten here on you can also see on the windshield of those cars, some fallen. And of course, it is sticking. Were not expecting a tremendous amount of snow here. But still, we are seeing this snow right now. Were also talking temperatures, as you mentioned. So as we swing around here to the back of this mobile weather lab and look look at the temperature in this spot, its 26 degrees. Obviously, were welow freezing here below freezing. We continue to have an issue of take a look at this graphic. Gives you an idea of what kind of snow were expecting in this part of new jersey.