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In the sunshine right now. Sunny skies and this whole entire area through south jersey and delaware. A few lingering storms along the Eastern Shore that could move into southern delaware. But the Severe Weather threat has ended. That is got news. Gusts reported over 40 miles an hour along our shores and we a look at the peak wind gusts around the region. These numbers are impressive. Ship bottom lbi a gust of 47 miles an hour. West Atlantic City 46. Dubee beach, cape may 41 miles an hour gusts i...

Almost kidnapped him. Good evening, everybody, im joyce evans. That boy is just seven years old. Hes okay. But now investigators are trying to track down the man who jumped out from behind a spot out there and tried to snatch him. Our Joanne Pileggi has the story now from quakertown. Reporter its been quite unsettling for parents and children in this quiet quakertown neighborhood, and after this attempted abduction, parents arent taking any chances. Its kind of frustrating that somebody came and...

The north or northwest including out to the delta so everything changed starts wind direction goes, 40s on a lot of directions. Fremont excuse me 46 and all this cool air has to spill in so a couple buildups there but cooler air move in and temperatures drop off so a lot of low 60s, maybe a few mid60s at best. 4 31. How are you my friend . Doing well, steve. Good. We have traffic also doing very well. Im glad youre joining us. Lets go out and take a look at the commute from vacaville, vallejo, S...

Covering this week. Many of these events are open to the public. Look at them to air in the near future on the tv on cspan2. Senator lamar alexander, someone asked you for a recommendation for a book about tennessee or tennessee history, what would you recommend. Guest i would recommend alec stewart, by john griese. Alec stewart was a cooper, its a barrel maker. He lived up maker. He lived up in Hancock County which is one of our remote counties and John Rice Irwin is the creator of appalachia a...

Hello, good morning welcome to the seventh annual gaithersburg book festival. My name is gene taft khedama Committee Member the festival and the policy manager of Johns Hopkins university press. Please have you here but if i did make a couple of announcements here. Gaithersburg is a wonderful city that probably supports the arts and humanities will you please to bring the stay of this event thanks in part to generous support of our sponsors and volunteers. Our if you see our sponsors and volunte...

And now im booktv we want to introduce you to bill thomas was the editorinchief of the doubleday books. What kind of books is doubleday published country doubled it publishes the approximate 50 books a year, half our fiction and have our nonfiction. On the nonfiction side we publish a lot of history, narrative and fiction politics and science. Host how long has doubleday been a business . Guest 1897. Host founded by . Guest someone named mr. Doubleday. Host okay. We are here to talk to you about...

What is conveyed on the back as well as on the front. Because you were forced at that time with the people at that time were forced to write things in a very short, succinct format it gives you an indication of what they felt was important. In many cases is very different from what we feel is important today. In some cases its very much like we do. They tend to stick with, in the words of joe friday, just the facts. They really believe that conveying the most important thing more important but i...

A way of your countrys future or are over the next couple of decades. In it is intriguing question. A lot of the policies eisenhower pursued would appeal he did believe the government had a strong role to play of the for structure of the interstate highway system but he foresaw that the affair state is something that politicians that they cannot control is a runaway train and we saw the future more clearly with americas role in asia and the rise of china, the split without the fate of domestic p...

Tomorrow on q a, former defense secretary and cia director robert gates discusses his book a passion for leadership. Lessons on change and reform from 50 years of public service. The program airs at 7 00 p. M. Eastern this week on q a, Boston College Law School Professor mary sarah builder discusses madisons hand which takes a critical look at the notes James Madison wrote during and after the convention of 1787. Mary sarah builder, you have a book out called madisons hand revising the Constitut...

He wrote a book not as many people know about. It is a short book and i think it is about the role of religion in america. I read polks diaries. He sat down and must have with a quill pin, this was 1840s, and he wrote sometimes lengthy notes, probably 1011 at night. Something like senator houston showed up at 9 p. M. For an interview. Took a long time but where read it all the way through. I dont know of any president who has written such detailed diaries. What is counterly on your reading list ...