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foundation gives awards for the books in the fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people s literature categories. we are now joined by the executive director of the national book foundation, harold why did the national book awards start? they started in 1980. i think they felt the other awards were not sufficient to get at the literary nature. in 1950, and been going ever since. giving awards to the best literature in america. who are members? well, they are not members. there s a board, it s a nonprofit organization. it was started by the publishers, the association of the american publishers, the national book council. it no longer exists. right now it s a separate nonprofit organization run by the national book down book foundation. who s on the board to present the nonfiction awards? who picked the nonfiction award nominees? all of the panels, four panels, and they are independent panels. they are always writers in that genera. for example, the nonfi ....
more trouble on the tracks for metro. it s fox 5 exclusive. a train operator apparently not paying attention is caught on camera by a passenger. we ll show you the video coming you want. charges dropped. d.c. councilman marion barry in the cheer this morning regarding those stalking allegations. fox 5 morning news continues at 6:00 right now. start you off way beautiful shot this morning. sun oming up. it will albright nice day today. temperature very comfortable right now in the mid-60s, even cooler in some of the outlying areas. good morning. thank you for waking up with fox 5 morning news. i m steve chenevey. i m gurvir dhindsa. tony is here with another look at our forecast. i tell you what. yesterday evening, i don t think i came in the house until it was almost time dark, time to go to bed. it was so nice outside. beautiful outside. very comfortable outside. great day to go for a walk yesterday afternoon in the evening. it will be the same today. plan a ....