47,000 Potomac Edison customers. These icy problems were not limited to maryland. In loudoun county, a molar sign a similar scene. In leesburg, we have an update on the icy situation. Maryland,the case in most of the ice has melted. Leesburg,reet, in some tree branches have come down. There were trees that came down on other street. Those cause big problems. It is unbelievable. That unbelievab sight in leesburg this morning. Looked out the back door and said, i know why my generator came on. I did not realize that its now several more down the road. , this tree came crashing down onto utility lines. About 45 different locations. There is water on the ground. Crews worked all day to remove tree branches. They reinstall polls. It will be night time before they expect power to be flowing again. Than 1500ght, more people were left without electricity in Northern Virginia. Leesburg was one of the hardest hit. Residents will go to their community coded. I could not get my car out. The i star
Were on the red carpet. Finalist in poetry, young adult literature, nonfiction, and fiction books, and of course being booktv, we focus on the nonfiction. We want to let you know who some of the nine fiction finalist are. Domingo martinez, his book is boy kings of texas. His fourth volume on the lbj legacy, and robert caro appeared on q a and at the National Book festival in september. The late Anthony Shadid has been nominated. He died in syria while covering syria for the Washington Post. His wife will be here representing him, and thats nada bachary. Katherine boo has been nominated, behind the beautiful forever, about mumbai, and Anne Applebaum has a book out and is scheduled on our q a show in september. So well be interviewing those authors as we go. Well be watching the red carpet here as some of the authors have their picture taken. Right now we want to talk to the chairman of the National Book foundation, and this is david steinberger. Mr. Steinbergers is also head of the beco
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Poems that stevenson wrote. The other one is one of the ones one of the last poems that he wrote when he was out in samoa, before he died. And its homesick for scotland. You know, blows the wind today, you know, and the other thing i notice about your work is well, youve talked about how important listening is. Yes. And you talk about hearing the ocean. And you literally do hear the ocean here. What do you hear, in a poetical sense . Well, thats what you cant say, isnt it . You know, thats why you have to keep trying, keep trying to say it. Oh, i dont know what you can what you can say about that. And, you know, you cant ever say these extremely intimate things. I cant you cant tell me what the coffee tastes like this morning. Can you . Mhm, because you know because [indistinct] words dont do it justice, or the words dont do it justice. The words dont begin to do it. But thats your language. Your forte is language, and youve studied other languages in order to understand this language.