The National Book Award Finalist released this past week and four of the nonfiction authors appeared or will appear here on booktv. Next heather alabama thompson sits down with National Book awardwinning author tana if to discuss her book blood in the water. About the attica prison uprisings. Good evening im director of roosevelt house and on behalf of the president jennifer rab in the room tonight im delighted to welcome all of you here to the home of franklin d. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt one ever them as you know since were going to be talking about gubernatorial administrative work, of course, new york state governor bhefer became president and his wife was conscience of the empire state is just as she later became the conscience of the country and the world who was never afraid to confront challenging and uncomfortable issues like the one were going to discuss this evening. Even if it meant confronting her own husband. Privately, of course, because this was the 130s. I think
Remarks in just a moment from ron dermer, the israeli ambassador to the u. S. He is one of the speakers at the Antidefamation Leagues annual leadership summit. Follow that a panel on the agenda and the 2016 collective. This is live here in washington, d. C. [applause] welcome back. How our workshops . So it seems that earlier today we slide atlanta and i want to apologize. We would like to both recognize the regional Board Chairperson from atlanta and the National Civil rights chair. Thank you. [applause] we are seeing a lot of great reads and posts from social media. Please keep at it. Dont forget these are social networking sites to share your discussions with friends and family. And please use the hashtag adls somewhat. Thank you. Adl summit and hashtag might adl story. So welcome back to the National Leadership summit at Antidefamation League. The nations premier civil rights and human relations agency. For more than a century we have worked to fulfill our dual mission of fighting
Tonight, congresswoman Barbara Comstock wonders how he got that job. Right now, were not getting answers from ice or from any of the agencies involved that explain to us what type of process they went through. Reporter the allegations against youssef ali arent new. In fact in 1998, jim handly questioned the colonel on his military past in somalia. Youve been accused of ordering the executions of more than a hundred people. Do you deny that . Reporter the most recent claims against ali come from a somali man who says he was beaten, torture, shot and ultimately left for dead at the direction of youssef ali. In february, the court of appeals said it didnt have jurisdiction to rule. I spoke with alis attorney. Ali is entitled to immunity as an official or former official of the somali government. Reporter ali left somalia before the countrys regime collapsed. He worked as a Security Guard in canada in the early 90s. Ali for serious human rights abuses and then he came to the united states.
And the sun is down and a notable difference. The breeze picked up and its extremely cold. Bundle up and do not forget to bring the pets in before you go to bed. Brody oconnell wbtv on your side. Thank you. And a live picture of the college in banner elk. Look at the snow. Bitter cold temperatures are expected in the carolinas tonight and the dangerous conditions in the mountains. Windchills today well below 0. Steve ohnesorge in avery county where officials are warning people to be careful. When the clouds a a moving this fast and twisters of snow zip across the fields locals say its a bit much. Cold. In the banner elk area several inches of snow have fallen since monday and more in the next few days. But its perfect weather to sell coats to tourists. Its cold and they need it. Like this group from florida. For as cold as it is. We had to redo our store. Stores did not sell much in november and december still trying to play catch up. This is the week to do it. The temperatures this we
Kristen we have been talking about this a few minutes now, john and christine. Take a look at apple tv to show you where were talking about. If you know birkdale village, this is a Jewelry Store where this happened. That is the scene there, were waiting to get pictures back from the scene but let me show you what huntersville fire is telling us through twitter this morning. Apparently just a short time ago a vehicle was run right in the front of that Jewelry Store in birkdale village and by the time police and firefighters got there, that vehicle was gone. Police are now investigating this as a case of someone running that vehicle in the Jewelry Store with the intention of burglarizing the place, they are calling it a burglary using a vehicle. Huntersville fire determined that the scene is safe. The building is safe and we are actually im getting word were getting pictures from the scene, this is the first picture from the scene. Use our apple tv, our photographer on the scene shows us