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Along the texaslouisiana border. People and pets pulled to safety by First Responders and selfless strangers. Back out in their own boats saving lives. They keep bringing boat loads of people out to the truck. Load them up and get them out of area. Reporter still more rescues back in hard hit houston. The sky is clear but water is still in homes. An estimated 30 of this county, 1700 square miles now flooded. People that are calling out, people have been stranded for days. Reporter with the water...

Lets kick off with first word news, with mark crumpton. Mark an encouraging sign for texas, as it struggles to return to normalcy. Hasus christi ship channel reopened, after being shut down nearly a week. Port Officials Say the reopening is a step toward resuming operations at seven refineries, and transporting that fuels to market. The channel was closed when harvey slammed into Corpus Christi last week. Are inan 1500 people louisiana, and officials expect that number to rise as more people are...

Author Michael Lewis. His most recent book is the undoing project a friendship that changed our minds. This is booktv live coverage. Can you hear me . I am hearing echoes. All good . We found out michael is supposed to do a power point presentation, takes half an hour to find the power point presentation. Thank you for being here and the library of congress. Thank you, the chairman of the festival. We will have a little chat, a couple of old friends with 1 million other new acquaintances in the ...

Pat tens are do divine by prieseest priests and the priests are paid a lot of money for it. That is crazy. The truth is that people dont like taking responsibility for managing making their own Financial Decisions and so theyll always pay these priests, i think, just to get rid of the problem. A they cant get in their heads that not only is that person not an expert, theres no such thing as the expertise. They can get in anywhere head he was a bad expert, he lost my money. Chant get in their hea...

You are watching the tv on cspan2 with live coverage of the 17th annual National Book festival. , talk that was Michael Lewis you are listening to talk about his most recent book. By the way, mr. Lewis will be our guest on our indepth program on the first sunday in november, so you can catch him again their. Joining us before we continue other author presentations joining us onset of the first floor of the Convention Center in washington dc is Thomas Friedman with his most recent book. Thank you...

Welcome to squawk alley for thursday were at post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange were getting some Oil Inventories in a moment here Hurricane Irma makes its way to florida as a category five storm, slamming into several islands in the caribbean overnight. We have Team Coverage this morning. Wmaq meteorologist is back at hq phil lebeau is in chicago. Lets start with you we have a very strong category 5 hurricane that is going to churn over warm waters and low sheer, those help keep the hurrican...

This hearing is about taking one small step. A small step on the big issue that has been locked for seven years, Health Insurance. It is a step Congress Needs to pick by the end of this month. By the end of this month. To the 18 million americans, songwriters and selfemployed farmers, those that dont get their Health Insurance from the government or onthejob committees 18 million by their Health Insurance in the individual market and about half of them have zero Government Support to help buy th...

Good morning its still moving to the westnorthwest it will continue that track through bahamas and cuba these are the spaghetti plots. The actual track has it looking like it will make a landfall in south florida going into early sunday morning between now and then you will start to see conditions deteriorate you have really the rest of the day today if youre in key west f youre in south florida to finish preparations and get evacuations underway alerts going on. A hurricane warning issued overn...

Education policy and the need for better schools and health care for students. She also criticized president trumps decision to end the daca program. Speaking at the National Press club, this is an hour. Good afternoon. Im pat host, im the americas aviation reporter for james, and im also on the board of governors here at the National Press club. Our sorry about that. Welcome to the National Press club. Our guest today is Lily Eskelsen garcia, the president of the National Education association....

Across the country. Well start with shoons commissioners from oklahoma, washington, tennessee and alaska. The Senate Committee on Health Education and pensions will please come to ord order. In the individual Health Insurance market for 2018. We have five state Insurance Commissioners. Thank you for coming from long distances some of you to be with us to give your testimony on how to help the 18 million americans in the individual Insurance Market. To give a idea of how many people are intereste...