The raiders are south of the border for tonights monday night Football Game against the texans. Its happening live in mexico city, and you can see it all right here on abc 7. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us today. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. And im larry beil. Were counting down to tonights raiders game. You can check out the countdown clock in the corner of the screen as we count you down to our coverage of raiders and texans in mexico. All right. Thank you so much, larry. Well check back with you in a little bit. First, we want to the get to some breaking International News this afternoon. The threat of a large tsunami has forced evacuations in eastern japan. And this follows a powerful earthquake that hit in the same area of a devastating quake, tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown five years ago. This afternoons 6. 9 magnitude quake was centered 12 miles off the coast of the fukushima prefecture. A 24inch tsunami has been spotted in the area. This shot of port city onah ha
Mexican border. Heres david from the tower. Tonight from trump tower a new video message from the president elect. Transition team is working very smoothly, efficiently and effectively, truly great talented men and women patriots indeed are being brought in and many will soon be a part of our government. Reporter his first words at length to the American People in more than a week. No speeches. Or news conferences since election night. What we have seen revolving door of meetings. Job applicant some competing. Senator scott brown hoping to lead department of veteran affairs. Im not compete with anybody. I think im the best person. Reporter some of the meetings like former governor rick perry today at the time impression trump may be form ago team of arrive a. Perry out spoken faux in the primary. Let no one be mistaken. Donald trump candidacy is a cancer on conservatism and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded. Reporter now hes contender for energy second. Likewise there
Professor at virginia tech. During the 20152016 academic year, dr. Salaita is serving as the edward site chair of american studies at the American University of beirut. We are delighted he here today from beirut. Copies of dr. Salaitas book uncivil rites will be available for purchase after the event. Weve asked them to talk about 40 minutes, after which will open the floor for discussion. Those of you who are online can tweak your questions to us at Palestine Center. Please join me in welcoming professor steven salaita. [applause] okay. Can anybody hear me . Okay. Louder. Louder, okay. How is this . Okay. Thank you very much for coming out this afternoon and spend a little bit of time with me. I especially want to thank the Palestine Center and zeina and everyone who helped put the talk together. Im going to try not to be too long winded can which is sometimes a problem for me so we can have plenty of time for conversation and questions and discussion. I havent given a public talk in
Next, more from the 27th annual southern festival of books with a panel a Panel Discussion on race in americ pl good morning. Everyone can hear me . Wonderful. Good morning and and welcome to thet,015 southern festival of books. I am jim mccarrons, a writer and teacher from philadelphia by way of los angeles, now, now based here in nashville. It is long story. All you need to know is i am your prod host for this mol. Ings session. A brief note of business, this incredible threeday celebration of the written word depends heavily on donations. Not15ust to keep going every year but to also remain free. Free of charge. Do you keep that in mind, donations of whatever level can be made by mail or online through various socphl medph platforms, or even a person through actual time live, persontoperson communication. Any, and all are greatly apprecphte. Second your authors today will be heading to and signing books at the signing table iperedphtely follow our session. Books are available for pu
And its such relief for me as well and lots of other mothers that were like me. Reporter her story of great personal loss was documented in an awardwinning movie and the woman who was forced to give up her son shares her story with the pope. All eyes are on russia as the sochi olympics are officially underway. The most expensive Olympic Games in history began smoothly on thursday and qualifying events took place and the olympians arrived and the Opening Ceremony is coming soon and they talked about gay rights and security and promising a safe olympics and rolling out 37,000 police and Security Officers and good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America and im stephanie sy and we are in sochi and good morning and a pretty routine start to the games despite the weeks of anxiety leading up to it. Yeah, well stephanie i suppose as routine as any large Opening Ceremony can be in the most expensive Winter Olympics there has ever been. But, yeah, the Olympic Games always start with a huge gre