Mississippi festival board of directors, i had the pleasure of working with scott on the board. Hes something of a lifer. Hes been on the board since the very of the book festival in 2015. Scotts also a member of the mississippi arts commission, the Mississippi Institute of arts and letters hes an ardent champion of arts. Hes the coowner of books and cat island coffee, house and Pass Christian and gulfport gulfport. Thank you very much and welcome to our session this morning on nature and the environment for of my life, my entry to america in history was through the biographies of our founding fathers, washington, jefferson, franklin, and then through to lincoln, frederick douglass, Theodore Martin luther king, chisholm, henrietta lacks, james baldwin, eisenhower, among many others. But then two years ago, i was fortunate enough to read jack davis as the bald eagle. And then a whole new world opened to me and missed the little earth upon which our country was founded and without which
Smyrna beach, florida. We are hearing so many reports of high winds and the damage is pretty incredible. Lets go right to lauren now. Reporter good morning. The eye of Hurricane Matthew is still 50miles or around there off the coast of florida but the impact of the category 3 hurricane with 120mile per hour winds is really being felt here with pelting rain, major gusts and power outages. Hurricane the brutal conditions intensifying as the eye of the storm pounds cities. Overnight violent winds along the beaches. Gusts in some places clocking in above 70 Miles Per Hour. The storm bringing the look and sound of fireworks in the form of downed power lines, thousands facing outages. Officials fearing up to 3 million may end up in the dark. The National Weather service saying matthew will be floridas governor making this dire warning. Unfortunately this is going to kill people. Reporter already, it has. Matthew taking the lives of more than 100 people as it swept through haiti. The death to
House. Good evening. And we begin tonight with a deadly campus shooting. This evening, authorities confirming multiple deaths after a mass shooting, a Quiet Community College South of portland, oregon. The gunman opening fire in multiple classrooms, several dead. At least 20 injured. As you heard, the president speaking moments ago, saying another community stunned with grief. That campus on lockdown, s. W. A. T. Teams on the scene at this hour. The emotional reunions, a closeknit community now reeling. The aerial pictures coming in at this hour. Bombsniffing dogs there in the parking lot. The fbi now on the scene. And word coming in, the gunman, a 20yearold male, was killed after exchanging gun fire with authorities. Abcs Neal Karlinsky in oregon tonight, leading us off. Reporter 10 30 a. M. , the frantic calls started coming in. An active shooter on the rural oregon campus. Copy, active shooter, ucc, 1140. Reporter within minutes, students inside were tweeting their terror. Oh, my go
Surf and high wind gusting to 50 mph. For those of you along the shore, you are not out of the woods just yet. Play it safe and be cautious. These will begin to settle down tomorrow. We have coastal flooding alerts in effect through this evening. For those of you along the jersey shore, you have a coastal warning and in long island it is and advisory. Wind cranking up to 50 mph along the coast. There is a wind warning effect until 10 00 a. M. It will be wendy all day long along the shores. While there will be improvements inland, things will be caught will be dicey along the coast. High tide is at one deck 16. At sandy 1 16. Sandy bay close to 4 00 this afternoon. Then overnight, the high tide street is the less flooding than this afternoon. Looking at the radar picture, there is green over the top of us. Most of us will stay dry. We will warm to the low 60s sunshine this afternoon. For all of us, the wind will make an impact on the day. I will have calming winds and warm temperatures
About the families who are not so fortunate. I would ask the American People to think about how they can get our government to change these laws. And to save lives. Up. To let young people grow and that will require a change of politics on this issue. It will require that the American People, individually, whether you are a democrat or republican or an independent, when you decide to vote for , you are making a determination as to whether this cause of continuing death for innocent people should be a factor in your decision. Problem,ink this is a then you should expect fewer elected officials to reflect your views. I would particularly ask americas gun owners who are using those guns properly, for sport, for protecting their families, to think about whether your views are problem properly being represented by the organization that suggests speaking free. And each time this happens i will bring this up. Each time this happens im going to say we can actually do something about it but we