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Everyone. Fternoon yall find seats and will get our panel going. Good morning. Welcome to the fifth annual mississippi book festival. Im Chris Goodwin with Mississippi Department of archives and history. If you havent done so, please silence your cell phone. This panel on the u. S. Civil war is sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and Mississippi State university. One of the book festivals Board Members from Mississippi State John Marszalek is on the panel. Is Francis Coleman here . Dean of the libraries . Another strong supporter. As is stewart rock off director of the Mississippi ...

The airport, around 4 pm we got an update. There have been 298 flight delays and 129 cancellations period the reason for the mess stems from a painting project on the runway. It is also affecting two runways off and on here as the crews try to get the work done. This started saturday morning and will last for 20 days. Crews will lay down a new base later on the heavily used runway. We are hearing from people missing connections. Another traveler told me his plane was delayed for more than one hour on the tarmac period passengers were stuck on a warm plain. The airlines have cut flights by 14 d...

we're now learning the iowa democratic party will announce the caucus results tomorrow. let's go to nbc's sarah dallof in des moines for the latest. >> reporter: decision night delays in iowa complicating an already complex caucus process. candidates speaking to supporters before even initial numbers were released. >> and when those results are announced, i have a good feeling we're going to be doing very, very well here in iowa. >> we're going to walk out of here with our share of delegates. >> by all indications, we are going on to new hampshire victorious. >> reporter: the iowa de...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] youre watching booktv on cspan2 live from jackson, mississippi, this is the mississippi book festival, and the next author panel will begin in about ten minutes. This panel on history and biography, former Governor Haley barbour will be par tis night the panel as well. If you want to see a full schedule of events go to ms msbookfestival. Com and if you want to see the coverage of booktv, go to booktv. Org on the righthand side of the page its the word, schedule, and you can scroll through th...

Bring that to live as well. While we wait heres an interview conducted recently with mississippi native author john grisham. So john grisham what are you doing in new york city question mark. The mpa happens every year, signs and books this morning, hanging out last year we were here and had a lot of fun. Carl and i were on stage for about an hour and we could have gone for about three hours, it was a lot of fun, really funny. About four years ago i did a breakfast show, speech with john stuart which was terrifying. To be on stage with jon stewart. We did one in chicago many years ago and my f...