Pleased to have with us Toni Morrison for indepth conversation about her lifes work. Toni morrison, as he began, ive seen several citations that you told people that its easiest best most apt to describe you as a black woman novelist. Is that correct . Absolutely. What are we the public to take away from your choice of those three words . I think it was an attempt on my part to choose to be given the status of honorary white male writer. Generally speaking, womens work has been reduced to regional or merely or people complement ethnic writers by saying or implying that they are as good as mainstream writers and whereas i understand the complement, i thought it would be better for me to, at least in the late 60s early 70s to establish once and for all that all three of those things play, and black, i am a woman, and im a writer and they go together. Youve also always been a teacher. Yes. Why is that important to who you are and what you do . Edit quite know what else to do when i gradua
Bell respect for the ritzer family as they continue their journey to heal. Anchor terrifying threat against the quincy detective. Police say this man left a menac menacing message threatening the lives of the detectives family. Dan hausle live in quincy now with what prosecutors revealed in court a little earlier today. Dan . Reporter prosecutors say this guy has been in and out of jail. He has been convicted almost more then a dozen times for a variety of charge. They say threats against officers still are kind of common but when you make a threat against an officers family, well thats something else. Salvatore mendez back behind bars leaving one detectives and his family breathing easier. Investigators say the detective had gotten an arrest warrant for break breaking and entering when mendez left a troubling message on the detectives voice mail. He told the detective that he was going to kill him and his family tonight. This threat was did you to recent court cases that he has with m
It is sunday morning. Thanks for joining us. I am sarah rosario. We will get to the days news in a moment. Floridas most accurate forecast first. People are excited about last nights win. We think about tampa bay is that you can go to the hockey game one night and go to the beach the next. Not a bad day. We are starting off chilly. It is crisp there right now. That is riverwalk in downtown tampa. If you havent been down there that really is a lovely place to see a lot of really pretty sites. The urban center of tampa bay. Look for temperatures to bump up into the upper 70s by later on. Especially further inland. Starting off with temperatures in the 50s. We will see warm into the workweek. A complete look at the forecast coming up. Stick with us and we will have those details. Faa investigating an emergency plan lending on the st. Petersburg golf course. An 18yearold pilot and his dad took off from the lakeland area with a group of planes. They were headed to Manatee County. The taylor
Head. For the first time that muscle intolerance to statins is a real problem affecting a significant portion of patients. There may be some relief, its not cheap, though, two drugs with fewer side effects have been approved by the fda, but they will set you back about 14,000 a year. Developing right now at 5 00 achl, a chase that started in maryland ends in the district. Im eun yang pmg t. The video just in and what were learning about the Police Involved when we check in with the live desk. And its decision day for voters in wisconsin, but are the republican and democratic frontrunners in trouble . The crucial vote that starts in just a matter of hours. And im melissa mollett, first 4 Traffic Center talking about a problem headed out of the district. Well tell you what you will have to deal with first were off to a cold start this morning. Take a live look outside of Union Station where the wind is blowing the flag. Looks like it picked up. Lets get right to storm item 4 meteorologis
New tonight amtrak trains on the northeast corridor are running on schedule again a day after a train hit a backhoe just outside of philadelphia. More than 30 passengers and the engineer were taken to hospitals after the collision which derailed the train. Now investigate rs are trying to learn why the backhoe was on the rails in the first place. Reporter its still unclear at this hour why that backhoe was on the tracks, but new york senator Chuck Schumer says it may have been clearing debris from the storm that night or was being used for regular maintenance since fewer trains run on sunday mornings. The train was heading from new york to savannah, georgia at about 8 00 a. M. On sunday when it hit a piece of equipment on the tracks. The impact derailed the lead engine of the train which was carrying more than 300 passengers and seven crew members. The People Killed was the equipment operator and u. S. Senator Chuck Schumer said the other was a supervisor and both were amtrak employees