"janesville" and intimate account of the fallout from closing from those plants in janesville wisconsin and this story of the hollowing of the middle class the judges wrote that stunning specificity amy goldstein "janesville" costs about the middle class in one midwestern community to become emblematic and to buttress the family social fabric that you have that original social science into a portrait of workers and politicians and parents teenagers and educators and a community struggling to find a way forward and as a subtitle puts it, "janesville" is american story a triumph of nonfiction in the tradition of j anthony lukas prize she cannot be with us tonight she's at a conference in new zealand but she did send previously recorded remarks. >> thank you very much. i wish i could thank you in person i'm glad we could be with you all. i'm so grateful to columbia journalism school for this honor i had not thought about the gratitude to the nieman foundation but nieman has found a way. this is profoundly meaningful to me because of the value that stands for with any money -- the namesake

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hail damage in janesville, wisconsin. this house taking a beating from all the hail that came down.f ball size hail in some spots. here's the front stretching out. dallas, you will get storms this morning. we do weaken it a little but yesterday 67-mile-per-hour winds over the tappan zee bridge and i think we'll get it with the northern part of the front finally coming through later on today. damaging winds, some hail. maybe a tornado or two from pittsburgh all the way up through new england. the record heat the last day of it, and we'll get cooler weather on the way. your weekend getaways now brought to you by sensodyne pronamel. >>> good morning! i'm abc7 news meteorologist mike nicco. faster sunshine, the warmest day this week ahead of us. more cool temperatures and clouds, and warm temperatures this weekend, closer to average. today, 80s in inland east bay neighborhoods, upper 70s down in the south bay, mid-to-upper 70s in the north bay, and upper 60s to mid-70s around the bay. even san francisco 64. my accuweather seven-day forecast. warm again monday and thursday. >>> coming up