And next, more from a 2023 library of Congress National book festival. Im Kevin Butterfield john w center at the library of congress. The centers were the sponsors of this years festival. We are proud to help bring americas most beloved writers here. The center works among scholars and residents work on the collections of the Worlds Largest library. And to do work of the sort she will be hearing about today. Welcome to everyone for joining us live on cspan as well we are proud to partner cspan again this year this Panel History is heating up environmental awakening versus Climate Change denial injures douglas brinkley, david lipsky and janet white sent New York Times bestsellers six have been chosen as New York Times notable books of the year. His most recent is silent Spring Revolution. David is the author of two New York Times bestsellers an andartist in residence at nyu. Our moderator jen whitest host whiteassociate daily to our prom when apo from National Public radio. Please join
Lawrence. He is at the live desk with new details. Police just wrapped up a News Conference in the last one to two minutes. We now confirm a man shot ten people in that theater and then killed himself. At least one of the victims is dead, and three others are in critical condition. Take a look. Here is what has been happening at the grand theater. Witnesses say they were at the 7 00 show eing of train wreck. About 20 minutes into the movie someone stood up and started shooting. Some of the witnesses say this was at the back, that he stood up and started shooting down. Now police are telling us they do know who the shooter is but all theyre saying is he is a 58yearold man, a white man. But theyre not giving out his identity. Although, again, they do know who he is. Right now the fbi and atf are on the scene. They are been sweeping the building and the parking lot for explosives. Right now there is no evidence of that. But remember, in the colorado movie shooting, james holmes had rigged
Looks good. Lets keep it this way. Not so hot on 15 shut down at lucketts road still because of the fire. Your alternate, new Valley Church road is the best way around that. Looking at 270 a little slow southbound as youre headed to 80. Had some debris in the roadway. Remember to listen to our friends on wtop 103. 5 f. M. Beltway, no problems. Aaron . Thank you. 6 01. Now to the developing story out of louisiana. Police are checking out suspicious packages found inside that louisiana Movie Theater. Police say that they found a backpack and a few other items inside the gunmans car. Now overnight the bomb squad blew up the trunk of the car. Were still working to figure out what was inside. We know that the gunman stood up about 20 minutes into last nights screening of the movie trainwreck and began firing into that crowd in lafayette louisiana before he turned the gun on himself. Two other people died, nine people hurt in addition. Some of those victims are in Critical Condition right no
It is going to feel like summer today. Definitely starting to get warmer back out there. The humidity is back with us and remaining with us for the next several days and another heatwave on our hands as well. Lets get it started with the michael son weather cam and the day planner. The temperatures quickly on the rise today, already 82 degrees at 10 00, 88 degrees at 1 00, 92 at 4 00 and thats dropping down from a High Temperature of 93 degrees, which will reach between 3 00 and 4 00 in the afternoon. The threat for thunderstorms is minimal until we get into the evening today with a slow moving cold front making its approach, it could trigger an isolated storm by about 6 00 or 7 00 in the afternoon and evening and then the chance for thunderstorms will start to increase as we head into the evening, kind of counter intuitive. We usually see the storms more so in the Late Afternoon but today we will see them later at night. Right now 68 degrees in fredericks, still 71 in hagerstown, 75 i
Lot and even through the toll on the ben franklin bridge. Good evening im iain page. Im lucy noland that. Chase almost two hours long. Fox 29s dave kinchen was near fitch town when the driver passed right by. Hes live in south philly to night. Dave . Reporter we are here at the scene where this whole chase ended. This is down by the airport. Atlantic aviation thats the facility near where all of this ended. You can see all of the Police Lights behind me here. Ill step out of the way. Photographer kenyata henderson will show was were looking at right now. We want to go to sky fox video that shows exactly how this chase ended. Youll see that this van flipped and rolled. This was moments ago after police rammed the vehicle at the Atlantic Aviation facility near that area we want to show you how this all started with skyfox video. We go to another video clip. That shows the suspect through Camden County. He was also in the area of the deptford mall and then entered the parking lot of the m