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Hello. Im [inaudible] librarian at the library of congress. All day here at the library of Congress National book festival, we are recognizing and celebrating the importance of reading and authors and books. The library of Congress Makes it easy to do this every year, but the truth is the National Book festival is a huge undertaking. Its a huge financial undertaking. And it has been made possible by generous support from our sponsors. You can see who they are in your program and on the video monitors around the convention center. But we cant take for granted that this event will continue to ex...

Something people are curious about. I get asked how my mom is doing, she is doing really well. Host not married but living in ohio. She has been clean for a long time and mom may not be ready to play this role so i wont foist it up on her, she is a really good example what can happen when even after 5 or 6 times you get knocked off the horse of addiction and back into relapse it is still possible to climb back out, find the right support and make another go about it. She is incredibly tenacious. [applause] host does she now have a Business Card that says j. D. Vances mother . Guest she does no...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] im a librarian at thear library of congress. All day here at the library of Congress National book festival, we are recognizing andportan celebrating the importance of reading and authors and books. It makes it seem easy to visit every year, but the truth is that National Book festival is a huge undertaking, and hugege a financial undertaking. It has been made possible by generous support from our sponsors. You can see who they are in our program and on the monitor around the convention center. We can take for granted event will continue to e...

[inaudible conversations]y herea. Details are on the screen and on the back of your program and when you finish making the contributions violates your cell phone now onto the main events i would like to introduce the cochair of the National Book festival david rubenstein. [applause]e book how many people here have read the book and are going to readad the book. How many people are going to buy the book today . [applause] thank you very much for coming. A native of middletown ohio and graduate of the middletown high school. He then went to Yale Law School. They are here somewher somewhere along...

Whipping up the surf. Breaking waves about 10 feet tall, expected tomorrow. This will cause a lot of beach erosion, bad news for the jersey and delaware beaches. Minor to moderate tidal flooding especially tomorrow night at high tide and dangerous rip currents. I know most of the beaches are not allowing swimming because of that. So, it will stay offshore, no threat to land but really the big story in the atlantic is not jose, its Hurricane Maria. This is now a cat four hurricane. Its rolling right to the same islands that were just decimated by irma. Ill talk more about maria in the full accu...