i'm jason reynolds and i'm coming to you live from washington dc.his is our night, i know there is so much going on in the world but this is still our night and it's a big deal. it's so much of a big deal but i woke up this morning anxious, nervous as usual, so i called my mother because i always call my mother when i'm anxious. at 7:00 a.m., she answers the phone, she said "uh oh" i'm calling to ask if you have advice for your child. she says what she always says when i make this call, let me ask you, what did i make you say every single night before you got in the bed when you were little boy? i said i don't want to do this Ãbwhat did i make you say every single night before you got in the bed when you were a little boy? i said, you made me say, i can do anything. she said, exactly! you can do anything. i said mom, you tell me this all the time but i never really asked you where you got that from. where did that mantra come from? why would you make me say it so much when i was young? where did you learn that? she started to laugh as she said, actu

thank you. >> congratulations to the winners now back to our host, jason reynolds. >> congratulationsur father and your entire family. now last, but not least the national book award for fiction. >> in a year when we are all more isolated than ever before fiction reminds us we are not alone the national book award for fiction spores the working class and church lady in the climate crisis and action movie stars and families at home during the apocalypse arranging, yes but in the enormous humanity infinitely familiar they are a chance to question who we are and who could be the author of the feminist about women and hunger. >> it's a pleasure to be here tonight always certainly wish we were in the same room it has been an honor to serve on the fiction committee of the 2020 book awards and to have an a truly incredible panel of judges and we have the endless and relentless support from the national book foundation so i think all of them. fiction is and always has been and will be my first love both as a writer and the reader i love it so very much one of the greatest gifts of the process

now back to our house, jason reynolds. >> congratulations. left me knocking at the door we believe in the work and if you want to support please consider donating to this year's national book awards next step is the category the most admiration, the national book award of nonfiction. ♪ >> 2020 finalists for the national subject informed. across biography, history, essays and memoirs. his book considered immigration and denial of citizenship. historical and literary icons. native americans and what it means to be black in america. the expand our world. the panel chair for this year's national book awards the author of 16 books putting the environmental literature classic refuge, unnatural history of family and face, she divides her time between the red rock desert in utah and cambridge massachusetts were she's a writer and resident at harvard divinity school. ♪ >> good evening thank you for supporting the national book foundation. bless you for bringing us together and thank you for hosting this. at the time when we hardly know who to trust or

and stamped by jason reynolds worthy of inclusion in every home and in curricula and libraries everywhere. impressive and much-needed. as you may have noticed this category and pleads to picture books, two middle grade books and two young adult or teen books, everyone is a try up, congratulations to all the finalists, the winner of the 2020 kirkus prize for young readers literature is, i am every good thing by derek barnes and gordon c james. >> thank you, holy moly. >> should we speak. >> ,. [cheering] [cheering] >> i'm over here hugging people, i just want to say thank you everybody who read the book and everybody who enjoyed the book, my san gabriel who is on the cover, say hi, everybody. >> hi, everybody. >> my wife ingrid for putting up with me being gone when i finish the books and my daughter astrid who is not here theater practice into my parents who was always put so much behind me you should i want this booktv out in the world so all the people who love them and the people who don't even know them can know that they are important and worthy and valued and if they're not getting

jason: governor reynolds, thank you for having me today.e are expecting the shipments to arrive around noon. which expecting 300 doses is what was communicated and another 200 doses next week. the intention of the first wave of vaccinations was really aimed at health-care workers as you suggested earlier. the moderna vaccine, the other that is the pfizer vaccine logistics ofthe trying to get 1000 doses out in a short time is difficult. there are two positive effects on rural communities. we are expecting 300 today, 200 next week. i was excited, about this. we did an internal survey of the staff to see who would be willing to take the vaccine if it were offered and we had a 75% affirmative response. we were pleased with that. vaccinateocally is to health care professionals. that includes physicians, nurses , food service workers, receptionists. anybody that comes face-to-face with patients throughout the day in tier one. we intend to start getting the vaccine today. we have a vaccination clinic tomorrow. we are very excited about that. the t