Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to remind you when the session ends, two authors go to the signing tents, and theres a place to buy copies of the books and take them to the tent and have them signed. Follow us out when we leave. To the left, george packer, staff writer for the new yorker magazine, author of asass sins gate, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, written two novels and two Nonfiction Books, a play off broadway, and lives this brooklyn, new york, the new book called the unwinding inner hist
For today and cspan 2 booktv so make it all proud just to give a brief sense of how we do things in the next 15 minutes. Im going to introduce just an art. Make sure thereve book will have a discussion. I think the title of this panel is rebuilding or evolution informally in my mind. It is detroit and austin that the beginning and end of all things. That appeals more to my grammatic sense. So jeff kerr is the author of austin texas history. The first was austin, texas then and now. The next was republic of austin. On the most recent one of the reason we are here this morning is seat of empire the embattled birth of austin, texas, which is a history of the founding of boston and the battle in the republic of texas over by this capital would need. Jeff also raised a regular history and he is practicing pediatric urologist at the same time. If we have and the emergence sees. The author will take care of them. Mark binelli is the author of vincennes msi, contributing editor to relate to an
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The Canadian Hockey Team again shatters our dream of winning gold. But an american teen becomes the youngest olympic slalom champ in history. We have the latest from sochi. And good morning, everybody. Much of america dealing with extreme weather right now. A really nasty mix of twisters, high winds, and flooding rain. Check this out. This is lightning hitting a skyscraper in nashville. Unbelievable. Look at this. In atlanta. Howling winds saepd pine tree on a house. Fortunately, no one was hurt. Some 600 storms in the last 48 hours. 600 storms. Well get the forecast in a moment. We kick off with Marci Gonzalez in laguardia airport. Scene of massive delays overnight. I can attest on this personally. I arrived at 11 00 last night. Didnt get a lot of sleep before the broadcast. Reporter oh, thats painful dan. Sorry to hear that. You were one of many. Thousands of flights delayed yesterday. Here in new york, travelers held up for more than two hours because of fog. Elsewhere, all kinds of
Lets take a look at conditions now this, is our mount tam camera. You can see rain drops on the lens. Winds are swaying trees lets get the latest now from abc7 weather anchor Spencer Christian. Here is a look at live doppler seven hd. You can see by greens and yellows weve got rainfall spread across the bay area now and more off shore. Lets close in on this area, though. East bay and south bay, were getting a steady rainfall in east bay lobings Like Union City and pleasanton. And down in fremont look at animation sheing you the sweeping radar now. Weve got the movement of the radar, looping radar is what im trying to say. More patches of moisture moving into our direction and pretty intense activities out to sea going to bring us more heavy rainfall overland shortly and a bit of a lightning going on about 125 miles off shore may work inland in the evening hours. We also have another element complicating the weather picture, strong winds developing along the coast. Gusts could reach or