Steinbeck's hometown to close libraries

Facing record deficits, the City Council of the Californian city Salinas voted to shut all three of libraries. Salinas is the 1902 birthplace of the Nobel Prize-winning writer John Steinbeck, author of "Cannery Row", "Of Mice and Men" and "East of Eden." The blue-collar town of 150,000 inhabitants will become the first U.S. city without a public library.