L. Good morning, hampton roads. Lets check traffic now. Go on at a Newport News High School even after someone made a bomb threat. Denbigh High School Officials say the threat is not credible. As a precaution though, they are increasing security for today, and police plan to have more patrols at the school. Rico bush is live outside denbigh high this morning. Rico, you spoke with parents how are they taking the threat . Don, katie, one parent says shes not sending her son to school today despite there at. The mother saying shed rather keep her something happen at school. Heres what we know. Spokewoman Michelle Price said School Officials learned of the threat last week. Police and resource officers plan to sweep the school this morning to look for evidence related to the threat. Price said the school did security checks on friday, like making sure doors and locks were working properly, and found prld us an automated message went out to parents about the bomb threat yesterday. She al on
The star of a new comic book, and he has boricua roots, if you will. Well tell you how the comic books creator is trying to pass on Old World Culture to young latino comicbook readers. More on that coming up in just a few minutes. Right now, though, with the president ial general election just a few months away, we focus today not just on the 2016 latino vote but, more specifically, latinos and the Republican Party. Now, through his actions and his words and his proposals, g. O. P. Frontrunner donald trump has infuriated many latinos. Thats just one of many sort of interesting backdrops leading in to the annual new york city republican gala. It takes place here in manhattan in the next few days, and, of course, many latino republicans will be in attendance, as well as all three g. O. P. President ial candidates. Joining us now is arcadio casillas. He is the finance chairperson of the new york state Republican Party. J. C. Polanco is a republican strategist. Welcome to you both. Up is i
And Cornell University provided the booknotes. And now a few words shes a specialist in history and art and reserved her undergraduate from harvard and phd from columbia university. Shes been a recipient in the Fulbright Foundation and columbia university. The dean at the school of undergraduate studies at the school of Public Engagement for which i am extremely grateful. Shes doing an amazing job. And before i close, one of the reasons i accepted the invitations to open this event is she never gave me a job that i applied for but it was to be her driver around france visiting chateaus and castles. I dont think she took me seriously but it was great and ive disappointed you didnt take me up on the offer but nonetheless, congratulations. Its been an incredible piece. Im looking forward to reading it. Please come up. [applause] thank you, everybody and especially tim. As i explained at the time the reason that job went to somebody else is it points to a scotsman that promise to wear a ki
Reading any books that they like, and you can do it at home or in any of the many venues participating across the country which include libraries and bookstores and schools. Host and why are you promoting this . Guest thats a wonderful, large and come mr. My candidated question. Complicated question. But essentially, our hope is to find different ways in the coming years to really foster a culture of reading in america and refind people of remind people of what the experience is like to sit and dedicate a nice long swath of time to reading. We hear feedback all the time that people read books lase now because they feel they dont have time or they do it in little snippets here and there, but theres a real pleasure that comes from getting lost in the world of a book thats different than if youre checking your upon the every few minutes phone every few minutes. And we wanted people to get a little lost again in the world of books. Host so you are actually setting a time frame for this fou
You sort of have these multiple reinforcements of this process all the while opening cascading throughout the night. Again, thank you very much for coming out helping me to tell these stories. [applause] i am happy to sign books either to you or to any of your holiday gift recipients. Thank you very much for coming out tonight. [inaudible conversations] booktv is on facebook. Like this to get publishing news, schedule updates, behind the scenes pictures and figures. Author information and to talk directly with others during our live program. Facebook. Com booktv. Heres a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. Saturday january 24 is being called National Readathon day by a group. What is National Readathon they . So National Readathon day is a day in january coming at january 24, were all across america we are inviting readers to commit to spend the afternoon reading any books that they like and you can do it at home or in any of the many venues par