to all of you. [applause] >> i want to thank c-span for being here tonight and hope we see you back here real soon. thank you so much. [inaudible conversations] >> this weekend on booktv, featuring the writers festival from california. they start at 9:30 p.m. eastern.

>> diseases are verbs and not nouns your cancering, heart diseaseing, altheimering, what doesn't get cancer, it is something of the body does. >> barbara boxer resigned, you are a disgrace. i said no. all i tried to do is find common ground. if you want to twist it, be my guest. >> reporter: panel discussions on the state of america's hospitals. life and politics in florida and the environment and lawrence right. >> i lived a lot in the middle east and if there is one listen you learn from spending a long time in the middle east, things can always get worse. >> reporter: sunday beginning at 3:00 pm eastern, dennis prager. >> make a list of things that would make you happy and if they all arrive you would be

temporarily happy. >> doctor gary small director of ucla longevity center. >> if you can achieve your brain health, you are going to be able to remember and think about all those decisions you need to make every day to keep your brain healthy. >> panel discussion, the writers festival today on booktv. this weekend c-span cities tour along with our comcast cable partners will look for the literary life and history of fresno, california, today at noon eastern on booktv. author tim hernandez with his book of a will call you about the 1948 plane crash in california that killed 32 people including 28 mexican migrant workers. >> when the plane crash happened in 1948 the news reports went across re-one of the great rebellious folk icons that he

is, he heard the news report that he wrote a poem about it, goodbye rosalina, you won't have a name when you rise at the airplane was all they will call you will be the poor t. >> reporter: learn the life of david massa moto, author of harvesting, planting a new soil as he recounted personal stories about childhood, race and identity in central valley. >> japanese americans had a very vibrant agriculture community partly because when the immigrants first came this was the only entry night for a lot of them in the american economy and american community. >> reporter: sunday afternoon at 2:00 on american history tv on c-span3 the history of farming in every culture from fresno county farm bureau executive director ryan jacobson. >> a mediterranean climate found throughout the regions of the world and we are the only ones in the united states.

>> we visit the kearny mention museum and learn about theodore carney, an early contributor to the developers of the culture in fresno it established the california growers association. >> interested in the growing of a co-op of raising growers to structure the pricing control quality of raisins. >> watch the stand cities tour of fresno, california at noon eastern on c-span2's booktv and sunday on american history tv on c-span3 working with cable affiliate and visiting cities across the country. >> early on friday morning. a procedural vote in the senate announced the nomination of betsy devos to education secretary, setting up a final confirmation bill, and