Molette green. And im erika gonzalez. We begin with weather alert day. Absolutely. Snow making the way into the area. Enough to make howard schools close 90 minutes early. Meteorology Sheena Parveen is in the weather center. Sheena, getting home this afternoon could be a trek, huh is this. Heres the thing, i think ts more of a headache and a noi ance than anything else. Our temperatures are notarizing too much. We are going to keep rising that too but we have a weather alert for the d. C. Metro area and maryland. So not for everybody, just those areas. After lunchtime light snowfall developing over the area, causing low advisability. But most of those treated roads will be wet. Look at the temperatures. We havent seen Much Movement with these numbers. We are still below freezing at or below freezing right now. In the upper 20s. Heres Winter Weather advisory. Around d. C. And also maryland. Thats why we are talking about these areas having the advisory. Radar is trying to pick up on may
On booktv we are live from jackson, mississippi, the home of the first annual mississippi book festival. All day long bringing events from the Mississippi State capitol including otter panels, civil rights, the civil war and more. First up today is of panel on harper lee whose book go set a watchman written and 1915s was released this past july. This is live coverage of the inaugural mississippi book festival in jackson, mississippi. [inaudible conversations] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We welcome you to the mississippi book festival, to our harper lee panel. The rules the we have up in here, there will be no beverages allowed in here. If you have beverages we ask you to go to a garbage can and placed in the garbage can. Second thing, please silence yourself phones. We need everyone to please silence yourself funds. Again we would like to thank you and i would like to introduce the moderator, amanda nelson, editor of the largest book site in north america. He is also a judge of
Of heavy rain but its this line out to the west were watching very carefully in fact we did have a Tornado Warning over the western part of North Carolina north of charlottesville zoom in here and this is a cell we were looking at and again at this point as we updated you can see again theres that nice Severe Thunderstorm Warning and then the Tornado Warning that is out for the county of alexander the city of taylorsville this cell right here that continues to move off to the north so this is whats out there again i tornado watch for much of central North Carolina and then out to the less we do have a thunderstorm warning and that Tornado Warning for that sell out there were already seeing some rotating cells and thats the thread through the afternoon i wanna take it off she could see out to the south the year is under the watch chain in this kind of magenta color. There are flood watches out to the west across western parts of virginia. They will likely be another watcher comes up bef
The sprawling mosque and community center. The community, which is a small, rural community, this proposed mosque was way too big. Reporter the shelf Valley Islamic Center has been trying several years to get the green light on the project. A spokesperson said, svic is committed to engaging in a dialogue with its neighbors and the county of santa clara to ensure that the project fits with its surrounding uses and makes a positive contribution to the community. But it faces stiff opposition in an area where faith and fear intersect. Its easy to call people names. And then, you know, youre not being hurt. And it was a huge frustration for everyone that, you know, has legitimate concerns. A similar battle is going on in san joses evergreen neighborhood. A buddhist temple wants to be built there. But the proposal goes back before supervisors tomorrow. New at 6 00, we learned San Jose Police are looking into whether a School Principal broke the law when he failed to report a sex allegation
The federal government is overreaching. Loretta lynch saying it offers protection. What do you think about the law and the lawsuit . And heres your chance to let us know. For democrats, 2027488000. For republicans, 2027488001. And for independents, 2027488002. Also North Carolina residents, 027488003. Host joining us to set up the current cases that were lobbied at each other yesterday is Michael Gordon. Hes with the Charlotte Observer. Mr. Gordon, good morning. Could you give us a brief sketch that the legal arguments of both sides are taking . Guest sure. Overnor pat pat macquaries lawsuit accuses the Justice Department and by extension, the obama conversation of a radical reinterpretation of the Civil Rights Act. 2 is nothat house bill discriminatory. It is a common sense law that basically basks traditional restrictions on bathroom access. He focuses in on Employment Law that says nontransgender employees of the state of North Carolina required to use a bathroom of their biological