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We signed it now its going through hopefully quick. Plenty of praise for recovery officials. What a job. The water is disappearing we have a long way to go but the water is disappearing. The flood waters are disappearing, but the clean up and recovery facing millions ever texans is just beginning. Well get updates from our team in texas as well as the mayor of houston and the head of fema, brock long. Plus well look at the potential health risk as result of harvey and hear from Bob Schieffer about the spirit of the Lone Star State and its ability to get through tough times. As tough as this was, its been a wonderful thing, even for the country to watch for the world to watch. But as Congress Heads back to washington and face battles over funding the government, will that spirit of unity prompted by harvey last . Well talk about that and the president s plan to potentially overturn an Obama Administration directive that protects children of undocumented immigrants from deportation. Its
Welcome to the show its great to have you here lets have a local whats coming up today. Mystery man white then brown last given his characteristic coat crack. Gold how design has a turning trash into as a. Good german hiking trail thats guaranteed to take your breath away. But he is regarded as a king of coat stand around as one of the worlds most successful writers with more than two hundred million books sold his breakthrough came with the da vinci code in two thousand and three now his new novel original has been released with another outing for his protagonist Robert Langton for the first time the harvard professor has to crack a coat this time in spain. Dan brown is back with a vengeance the american author just presented his latest novel at the frankfurt book found origin was published last week in the original english and in fifty five other languages in many countries it lets try to answer the bestseller list brown remains true to his tried and tested recipe for success a thril
If theres time at the end of the q a session with the author, we ask that you use the microphone located at the center of the room for homeviewing audiences so hay can hear your questions. Before we begin todays program we ask that you silence your cell phones and turn off your camera. Please welcome our introducer Elizabeth Taylor. Literary editor at the Chicago Tribune. [applause] can you hear me . Is that all right . Im Elizabeth Taylor and im so excited about this book. I got this book seems like nine months ago and read it so quickly and found it it is the story of the 70s. It was amazing social history. So just in short, its blood in the water, i read this book and then we had the book for the Chicago Tribune row lit fest and how much we looked, Pulitzer Prize in history. Its really wonderful. Its an extraordinary book. Its about this 1971 uprising but it is so much more. Its extraordinarily social history. Its fantastic. It also sort heather is an Investigative Reporter and digs
Make sure they are connected to the value of the Broader Network . This seems that your book lines up very nicely with your next book that i hope youll write. So that is the biggest challenge of the time so the first time to be disconnected from that opportunity in that is made possible like all of those who are immigrants and it sounds like you have a pretty good answer to help you write that down in another book but until that time my note everybody looks set your newest book. Great to be with you. I enjoyed it. Great conversation. The implicit argument with that opposition movement. So to have some background about the book it is only two blocks from the house of truth. And i was reading that bin biographical note with that biography of Oliver Wendell holmes in his young friends. So that set off a label bin my head with a little bit of research and here we are it is finally done with a bigger undertaking than renew i had a book. To the task commissioner of indian affairs. And starte