. >> and now from the 2011 texas book festival in austin, a panel on the arab spring with robin wright, james zogby and austin bay. this is just under an hour. >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the texas book festival. i'm rick dunham, the washington bureau chief of the houston chronicle and hearst and my fan san antonio.com. also doing a lot on perry presidential because some guy from austin is running for president. in my free time, i'm president of the national press club's journalism institute, which -- of which the crown jewel is the eric freed heim journalism library and library is what we're all about here. the texas book festival benefits public libraries in texas and literacy programs, and i encourage you to buy the three books that we're going to be talking about in the next hour, not only because they're really good, and they are because all the proceeds will benefit public libraries in texas like the one in silsby, texas, where my wife comes from. the texas book festival really meaning a lot to the libraries. let me talk about the program about that, i've been asked b

if there wasn't a celebrity he wouldn't have married madonna or robin wright or dated bea arthur. >>r? >> greg: i made that up. >> dana: but you like the visual. >> bob: no, i don't. what do you think? celebrity-driven? too much so? the society? >> andrea: if you look further his quote, he does say it's not for the people -- it's a disease not for the people who are the focus of it. so people who buy "people" magazine or "us weekly" and that thing. criticizes people who like to follow celebrities. >> greg: the people. >> bob: have you noticed about "people" magazine, if you go to doctor's office it's the only magazine there and it's always ten years old. for me, it's helpful. that is when i remember the people in the magazine. >> andrea: he makes a good point but he is criticizing fans. >> dana: i don't think the fans like any of the people much. they get it because the magazines are entertaining, not because they fawn over them. >> bob: why did you know that he married madonna? i didn't know that either. >> greg: how did i know? >> bob: is that something, do you follow this stuff? >

that appears in plenty of arab newspapers for in post a weekly discussion and next to him we have robin wright author of "rock the casbah: rage and rebellion across the islamic world" reporting from 140 countries from "the washington post" to the near times in "new york times" magazine the atlantic and sunday times in foreign affairs and others. she has won many awards among them the u.s. correspondent gold medal the oversight stage overseas press club award for best reporting for exceptional courage and initiative. per six previous books include green and shadowed and the last great revolution and sacred rage, flash point*, in in the name of god. then a bad team cleanup is austan day he is author of nine books a nationally syndicated columnist the edge of a professor at the university of texas and radio commentator with npr and a retired reservist colonel and the iraq war veteran and a principal of the high-tech consulting firm his book the quick and dirty guide to war has been writing about the balkans for three decades. well research military biography and with special the vince today. i'd

david wright is there, and, david, the rain is providing some relief, but winds could still whip up those fires. good morning. >> good morning, robinis is one of the homes destroyed by this fire. as you can see, not a whole lot of it left. we happened to be here shooting a different story when the flames were at their worst, right behind the highway we were driving on. the wind so strong, it tore off a freeway sign and sent it hurdling into the back window of our car. terrible conditions for a wildfire. >> holy crap. i can feel the heat. >> that is really hot. >> that's bad. >> reporter: the fast-moving fire is still burning this morning. fueled at times by more than 80-mile-an-hour winds. the flames as high as 40 feet, licking at cars along highway 395, closing 11 miles of freeway. more than 10,000 residents were evacuated overnight. thousands more without power this morning. livestock, residents being evacuated. fire moving this way. >> reporter: overnight, more than 250 fire fighters beat back the blaze from the outskirts of reason know, where the flames were visible from some of the downtown casinos. but it was too late for mor

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