His writing has been honored by the legacy award for creative nonfiction and any a literature, in his new book afropessimism, memoir and philosophy flowthrough and from one another as Frank Wilderson discusses an afro pessimist world of the occult with examples from his own life which in turn inform a lot. The screen is all yours. Guest it seems new every time. I thank everyone for coming up and sharing their evening with me in the auditorium of the free library of philadelphia. We are to gather like this perhaps. As horrible as this is, would have been in an auditorium. It is not worth the extra numbers. I hope everyone is safe and healthy. I am going to share with you an episode from my book. Those of you who have seen the book or read my other work or some are familiar with afropessimism, there are two trains running and i told John Williams of the new york times, what is the chain of critical theory which speaks to explain the structure the structure of black suffering that cannot
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Stronger srms later this afternoon. Were not under a humongous risk for Severe Weather but any s individualrms as you know this time of year could be a little on the strong side. The timing for most of the severeer weath chances run from 3 00 to 11 00 tonight. Otherwise, outside of that it will be warm, breezy, humid today. Now yesterday this yellow area, slight risk for severe weater included the d. C. Metro area. Today it does t. The severe risk does not look as high as it does yesterday. Again, any indivi storms could be strong to severe. O heresne thing thats working in our favor for not having bad weather. Showers and a lot more cloud cover out across West Virginia is coming our way. That might help to hold temperatures down today. That will limit any chances for Severe Weather. That would beod a go thing, indeed. Right now mostly in the 50s and 60s. Warm and breezy with afternoon highs in the low to mid 80s by later on. Keep your umbrella handy. Owts go over n to first 4 traffic.
Going. Rain already coming. Rain chance is 60 and climbing. Temperatures are way milder. Temperatures in the low 80s. I show you future weather, let you know whether those Storm Chances look all that high or low coming up in a few. Stay with us, melissa. Thank you, chuck. Chopper 4 over the outer loop afteror gea. We were hearing about a problem with a crash and the left side of the roadway being blocked. Not seeing anything from above. Hopefully it is being cleared out of the way. Chillum, accident there. Route 1, still have that crash hanging around. Or nbound 395 after seminary, brand new problem with a lane blocked. You can see the delays headed in bound. 66, 95, no major issues there. Aaron . Melissa, thank you. 6 02. New development in the investigations of deaths of a local couple in the Dominican Republic. We k a third american died just days before. Justin finch is live outside of the Dominican Republic embassy. Good morning. Reporter eun, aaron, good morning to you. We are he
The plane hit a house in danbury. Officials say the pilot was trying to make an Emergency Landing when the glider hit the roof. The pilot was taken to the hospital along with a mom and her two kids who were home at the time. Theyre all expected to be okay. Dozens of homeowners are on alert as a 5,000acre wildfire burns in southern washington state. An entire small town has already been evacuated because of the 243 fire. Some small buildings have been destroyed but so far no homes have been damaged. The fire is burning through some steep canyons, and its direction is changing. What started the blaze is unknown. Overseas, there are new developments this morning in that deepening mystery surrounding the death of a texas couple that was on vacation in fiji. This morning, several other people who came into contact with the couple are now reportedly under observation. Heres abcs paula faris. Reporter it was the trip of a lifetime. But david and Michelle Paul didnt make it out of fiji alive.