Hello. My name is kai bird. And executive director of the leon leavy center for biography at City University of new york, and we are sponsored by the Leavy Foundation when we do events like this to promote the arts and crafts a biography among other things. We had been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years, and were here on a session with of the 20th anniversary i chose of the National Book festival and the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholars big is currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer is himself the author of eight books. Professor is now on the faculty of holy Honors College for today will be discussing his latest book, lincoln on the verge, story about a 13 day train journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington, d. C. , to be inaugurated as president. These are two
Enter this world awake for justice. Again you can find all this on our website at schaumburg. Org. If you are watching from the festival website you can scroll to the bottom of this particular page in shop the featured book. You can shop the rest of the festival from the bookish things my schaumburg shop. You can navigate or you can check out the full schedule of events. And just to let you know in the screen that is in front of your coffee look up in front of you if youre not seeing the chats, the little sort of comments if you where, talking bubble should the expansion chat for you. An ill be joined by alexander who is a senior staff writer it columbia journalism review. Previously she was a reporter at the Village Voice and covered education for the project were to partnership between columbia university, columbia journeying ten Journalism School part shall be in conversation with wando small following will introduce one that there will be a reading. And then following the conversat
Translated to growth in other facets of their lives. I just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that theyre engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how theyre doing, like, in general. What i like best is they really care about me, like, im not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. Were creating surfers, and were changing the face of surfing. The feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. Its definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but its definitely fun. It leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kids going to go out and do. I think its really magical almost. At least it was for me. It was really exciting when i caught my first wave. I felt like i was, like it was, like, magical, really. When they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. I was on top of th
See on the map, those indicate the outages. Abc7 News Reporter anser hassan is live in sonoma with more on this. Good morning, kumasi. This neighborhood in sonoma is without power. If you look up, you can see the power lines and trees are part of the reason why pg e is so concerned about neighborhoods like this one. The Utility Company cut power throughout the state due to the threat of wildfires. In the north bay, close to 7,000 customers have been left in the dark. Though the strongest winds of the week have passed, temperatures are expected to reechl treach the upper 90s today. The north bay still faces dangerous fire weather conditions. Many are trying to coast the best way they can. If it prevents fires, anything will help. Were still not in a safe zone yet at all. We have not been getting rains, its still hot. The winds are high. Its still a risk, if they shut off the power to prevent fires, i guess i would wait another day or two if it gets us out of the red zone. Pg e says the
Worrying scenes in the last hour or so this was a lot fuller than than it is now a lot of the protesters a lot of who were supporting various different opposition groups that its a very peacefully gathering here showing some sort of unity. Basically left because a group of rival opposition supporters from maine who support the new Prime Minister a man that was voted in by an emergency parliamentary session. Last week who was freed from jail by those protesters a group of them came into the square they were both tools projectiles thrown. Scuffles the statue behind me that you can see there were indeed gunshots. And as i say a lot of people here are very nervous and have left the square now the supporters of the Prime Minister most of them have gone back to where they are protesting around the Prime Ministers office but there is a great sense of factionalism here in tension this evening and as you say the president has called this state of emergency concern what he says about possible co