Book club get started quick. It exists because of one young man who wanted to give back but go his name was glenn and was on death row in texas at the age of 16. He wrote a letter to kelly taylor and myself at the time when we were Television News producers in dc at australia broadcasting and basically said i want to stay alive and i want the world to know how many men of color are on death row. He was next ordinary person and human being. And then they became friends. She is a book lover they would read the same book and discuss it by letters. So the idea for the book club was born because after he was executed in 2000, he wanted us to work with the youth charges we started free mines just for the boys that are in the adult criminal legal system. But then the insatiable curiosity and hunger for knowledge and learning took over and young men wanted to keep it going so eventually starting 2002 and 2005 we became an official nonprofit. Host how many prisons or jails around the country qu
Courthouse square. We remember the days and nights, the weeks that we covered the terrible north bay wildfires. Here we are, it is a new page. On the drive up, it was hard to not think about the 40 people killed, all those injured that remain in the hospital. The 9,000 structures destroyed. Many of them homes just around the corner from us here in downtown santa rose a the tens of thousands of people that ran for their lives. Saying n i also think about the First Responders, the deputies and the police officers, the nurses, the doctors, the firefighters who helped people run for their lives on that day. I have been up here to Sonoma County a few times in the last couple of weeks. I do get a sense of a little frustration. People are still displaced. Not everybody has friends or families that they can stay with after their apartments or homes were destroyed. There is also that sliver of hope and even more determination, that individuals and businesses will rebuild and the communities not
We are in Sutherland Spring texas monitoring the latest of elements. Reporter the Vice President just left, he spoke with authorities here saying he wants to be here to make them know that he will bring the full force of the federal government. Right now, i truly believe that itll make a difference in their lives, and we will continue to support those families in the community in the days ahead. Reporter he received an on the ground briefing from shooting investigators. This is looking into reports. Authorities are also working to access devin kelley cell phone, they have the phone and described it as encrypted. They believe he acted alone. He made a domestic dispute involving his motherinlaw that attended the church. They confirmed that a pregnant woman was killed and her unborn baby. We have a loophole here that needs to be closed. Reporter reports indicate that he was a suspect in the 2013 texas Sexual Assault case. On the air force, he briefly escaped from a Mental Health facility
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