barry lynn is the director and senior fellow at the new america foundation.for more information visit and nablus book festival.com. >> new yorker magazine editor david remnick talks about the life and political career of president obama with npr's michele knows that politics and prose bookstore hosted the hour-long event at the avalon theatre in washington, d.c.. >> host: this is such a treat for me because david and i are old friends. when we worked at the "washington post" you always knew when you wrote a particularly delicious piece of copy because david would send love notes. and i still remember that. this book was so wonderful to dive into. most people in this room have read much about barack obama. and in every chapter you learn new things about him, but you also learn much about this country. when i first talked to you about this, it wasn't clear that you were writing a biography. i want you to tell me a little bit about the process. how you came to write this particular. was at the book you plan to write? >> guest: i think probably

lynn barry is at the news desk with that. good morning. >> lester and jenna, good morning and good morning to all of you. we begin in afghanistan where a nighttime assault on the nato's biggest base wounded coalition troops and civilian employees. it was the second attack on a major military institution in this week and the taliban is claiming responsibility. >>> back here at home, major tornadoes touched down in rural parts of south dakota saturday. this huge tornado tore down power lines and ripped across land. officials say a super cell thunderstorm dropped golf ball-size hail in some area, dumping enough rain to create a flash flood warning. so far, there are no reports of injuries. >>> mexican police have admitted they cannot find bruce beresford-redman. the producer who is a suspect in his wife's death. redman was ordered not to leave mexico after his wife's body was found in a cancun sewer last month. his passport was taken away, but he was allowed to travel freely across the count. >>> lindsay lohan is back in the u.s