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Watching kron 4 news at 9. Now at 9 a steady drop in coronavirus cases across the state has cleared the way in 9 counties for the wider reopening of businesses and that includes most of the bay area good evening, everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis alameda. San mateo and solano counties received the green light to move forward with reopening. Those counties were added to the red or second tier of the states colorcoded for tier ranking system. This category means that there were 4 to 7 daily new cases per 100,000 residents or a 5 to 8 Positivity Rate with the addition of these counties every bay area county is now in the red tier except for contra costa and sonoma counties but contra costas Health Director says they are on track to enter the red tier next week. And as more b ....
Starting now on booktv the life, career and opinions of harper lee author of to kill a mockingbird. She moved next door to me and her sister alice in monrovia alabama for 18 months and spend time with the two women on a regular basis. This is about one hour and 20 minutes. Lets see if this microphone is hot. It is. Right on cue. Im with the alabama booksmith and on behalf of our dedicated staff of the books callers and this entire crew in the magnificent alabama theater and those at Penguin Press who published the book the literary world has anticipated for half a century it is my privilege and my pleasure to welcome a mockingbird tribute. We would also say a big high to the viewers on cspan. The audience enjoyed watching and hearing on the big screen the personal stories before the start of the main event. Each attendee has received a signed First Edition of the mockingbird ne ....
This is about an hour and 20 minutes. Lets see if this mic is hot. It is. Good evening. Right on cue. I am jake reese with alabama booksmith and on behalf of our dedicated staff of awesome booksellers and this entire crew at the magnificent alabama theater and the geniuses at Penguin Press who have published the book the literary world has anticipated for half a century. It is my privilege and pleasure to welcome you to a mockingbird tribute. We also say a big hi yall to the viewers on cspan. The theater audience has enjoyed watching and hearing catherine check in with them on the big screen tell personal harper lee stories before the start of the main event. Each attendee has received a signed First Edition of the mockingbird next door with their ticket. Many of you wanted extra copies for friends and for gifts. They are available at alabama booksmith. Com. The folks sitting h ....
If that were on for me, can you imagine what it was like for her . And i think on a sad note she had been so complementary of Philip Stephen hoffmans performance of Truman Capote, and somehow managed to inhabit this very petite figure and very sort of particular mannerism of Truman Capote who, have been hurt childhood playmate for a time in monroe bill, and adult friend although not without bumps. As adults. She predicted that evening well before he was to win the oscar that he would do so. And said it was uncanny the way hed been able to capture something essential about Truman Capote. I remember making a note to myself that when the book did come out that it would be wonderful to be able to share a look at more about that within. I was driving to the airport here whe ....
It was refreshing. And everything wonderful perception that so many of us think of her as mysterious but you made her seem as normal as Blueberry Pie and many aspects. Getting a sense of them in that town where they grew up, one of the great pleasures for me is there was a story for of them, on a drive to every property we drove by, the story of a family that lived there and a feud that had started three generations earlier and the way it had been patched over and all the stories that lurked in that landscape and i also would just try to get a sense of what it was like for them growing up their end being the one listening to those stories they had and alice, their mothers sister who sounded like quite a character. Whenever there was an and dallas story didnt take long before i heard most of those that time or two. It was welcome hearing about them more and they grew up as a lot of people of their generation did here, hearing storie ....