Abbey where the late queen was married in 1957. And crowned back in 1953. When she was just 25 years old. Her astounding 70 years on the throne saw a world transformed. From scientific breakthroughs, world war ii, to a changing monarchy. And to her own changing family. Yet, threw it all this remarkable woman endured. Through 14 american president s, 15 british Prime Ministers, through financial crisis and, of course, the troubles through the rise of the internet and the fall of the berlin wall. In a few minutes, the royal navy will begin a procession to transport the queen from Westminster Hall where she has been lying at rest. Queen elizabeth ii led her people for over seven decades on the throne. She was 96 years old. The longest reigning monarch in british history. Along with joe, willie and me, we have u. S. Special correspondent for bbc catty kay. Its wonderful to be with you early this morning as we cover history in the making. Lets set the scene. Last night i posted a picture of
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, please find a comfortable seat and before we begin i need to tell you that theyll be a book signing afterwards and its outside on table h and all the authors will be there with their books and let me introduce the speakers for today. The first speaker will be darrell pinckney, and then i dont know who wants to be the second speaker but we might as well do it in order. Yasmine el rashidi, the bottle of egypt, and important pieces for the new york review and lastly on my right, masha gessen who has written several books about russia, including the man without a mace, totalitariaism. We will be talking about immigration, theres so many different ways to address it. We will start with darryl. Oh, god, i cant ad lib so i will do something to read sorry. I dont know anything about immigration. You live with an immigrant, my boyfriend said but i think of you as englishman in new york just passing through, yes, im an immigrant just passing through. Its
Oh, god, i cant ad lib so i will do something to read sorry. I dont know anything about immigration. You live with an immigrant, my boyfriend said but i think of you as englishman in new york just passing through, yes, im an immigrant just passing through. Its change showed me how racialized immigration is for me as a subject. Is there a distinction between company xenophobia and racism, maybe frightened or whatever but they wont be proceeding from priority. Elizabeth ordered council to promulgate an order to expeople black from kingdom because they had become numerous, because it because they were black or historians because they were nonchristians. Did black skin did mean nonchristian and muslim. What do we know about family tree . Bethoveen had a black grandfather. According to black journalists and amateur historians, late 1940s, rogers published on his own fourvolume work, race and sex arguing that theres no unpure unmixed race apart from japanese and look good had it done them. R
Im lets head over to meteorologist mike bennett. Hey, mike. Let me say this, though. Heavy rain for some of us. Others of you even by tuesday or wednesday may be saying what rain . So lets get right to it. Heres the Hilton Clearwater beach cam. You can see the waves have been rough all day and thats going o be the case for the next four or five days, so regardless of the rain, not exactly the weather through midweek. Heres how much rain weve seen so far. You see its pretty scattered over most of the area. The one exception being out across the nature coves. Look at those rainfall totals ot of hernando and citrus counties. Were talking more than 7 inches of rain according to radar estimates on shore. Youre talking about 1, 2, 3, 3 and a half inches of rain, right hernando county, close to 2 inches of rain, so certainly this has been the area thats seen the most rain over the last several hours and this will be the area that well have to wath closely in the coming days. As far as rain go
These are some to have current t selling Nonfiction Book withs according to the washington post. Booktv asked, what are you reading this summer . I brought some books that i have recently realize that i thought people might really like, and the first one is by scott berg called wilson. And it is a new biography of Woodrow Wilson and, actually, a very favorable and thoughtful volume. Scott berg took 13 years of meticulous scholarship to write this book, and it shows. Its one of the most thoughtful, balanced biographies of this very complex figure and progressive figure in American History who had his own contradictions. But i think it gives you some really new insights and new appreciation for Woodrow Wilson, a very pivotal figure in the history of the american presidency and just a delightful read. And i absolutely recommend it. One of the best biographies ive read in a long time. Another book is by a professor at the university of virginia and a former neighbor of mine, a wonderful sc