An evening. Welcome to an evening how many of you are at one of our events for the first time. Welcome. Glad to hear. We have your email address. In touch once or twice a week. Hopefully youll stay with us. Thank you to our partners who hosted partners in the state. Going to run through some Upcoming Events in the will get into the program. On sunday we have a voices series is a terrific firsttime novelist talking with us. That takes place at the Santa Monica Public Library and it is free. Theres no excuse not to give you a chance to come listen to their work. Monday night, Chris Matthews come store stage. He has a new book out, he will be interviewed by Frank Buckley who is one of the morning host on ktla. On tuesday night tim oreilly is with us. His book titled what is the future wide set of tests. Then, nancy weiner next thursday and a conductor, dan lather, and others. Tina brown is next friday, and jennifer lewis, and we Just Announced her first event for 2018. Tonight were hostin
Librarian at the library of congress. All day here at the library of Congress National book festival, we are recognizing and celebrating the importance of reading and authors and books. The library of Congress Makes it easy to do this every year, but the truth is the National Book festival is a huge undertaking. Its a huge financial undertaking. And it has been made possible by generous support from our sponsors. You can see who they are in your program and on the video monitors around the convention center. But we cant take for granted that this event will continue to exist, so i would ask you to consider making a contribution right now using your cell phone. You can send a text to make a onetime gift that will be added to your mobile phone bill. The details are on the screen and on the back of your program, and as soon as you finish making that contribution, please silence your cell phone. And now on to the main event. Id like to introduce cochair of the National Book festival, david
In touch once or twice a week. Hopefully youll stay with us. Thank you to our partners who hosted partners in the state. Going to run through some Upcoming Events in the will get into the program. On sunday we have a voices series is a terrific firsttime novelist talking with us. That takes place at the Santa Monica Public Library and it is free. Theres no excuse not to give you a chance to come listen to their work. Monday night, Chris Matthews come store stage. He has a new book out, he will be interviewed by Frank Buckley who is one of the morning host on ktla. On tuesday night tim oreilly is with us. His book titled what is the future wide set of tests. Then, nancy weiner next thursday and a conductor, dan lather, and others. Tina brown is next friday, and jennifer lewis, and we Just Announced her first event for 2018. Tonight were hosting scott adams. A cartoonist from the comic strip at gilbert. Hes the author of several bestsellers. Hes cofounder of. Com and work for 16 years as
Which one do you like, the most. Youve got the bowling. Youve got the electric slide. The pose for the picture. The baseball pitch. Which one do you like the most n a little bit but in a little bit we will put up a twitter poll. Were ready. People are voting, 26 votes , electric slide is what they like the most. What i loved is the announcers while they were doing it, they are in uni son did they plan this, they all came together. Guys, it is a line dance. Every wedding unfortunately ever been to. Get in there and vote. Yes. It is monday. We will retweet it my votes arent working. Plus heres sue. Lets get started, on your, cyber manor back to reality monday for most of us, after a licensing holiday weekend. You know what weather will in the give you any trouble, eight out of 10, bus stop buddy celebrating the win, make sure you have warm enough coat temperatures in the 30s and 40s, wind chills in the 30s, dont worry about what is going on in upstate new york, around here everything is
Well, tha a big question a big meeting on capitol hill tomorrow may give us some answers perhaps the fist big test of the new year will come from iran. Deadly empty government protest there, least 20 people reported dead calling those protesters, quote, enemies of iran. Big day, of course, as we kick off a new year 218 is here and Varney Company is about to begin. Well, have you noticed unless you live in very southern, florida or out on west side in california it is freezing outside frigid temperatures continue to grip wide swaft of the country from pink and purples youre in deep purple youre in deep cold. Heres that weather map where windchills bundle up we mean that is obvious isnt it and snowstorm by the way, is brewing we are told off the atlantic coast. And if it it pushes east it could be a major storm up and down i95 corridor, oh boy looking forward to that. Or more for us on that, potential storm about three minuteses from now. Lets take a quick look at the stock future for yo