We appreciate their support as well, and now i wanted to introduce todays Panel Moderator ralph u banks im honored to introduce my friend ralph of mississippi native a journal in mississippi dark path which book critic name as one of the best of 2003. Ralph the graduate of the university of mississippi and university of michigan a recipient of a guggenheim fellowship hes been a fellow at the if new america foundation. Ralph lives in washington, d. C. With wife and three children and former editor of the virginia quarterly review at the university of virginia and scholar in southern studies here in jackson so welcome ralph. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you im really honored to be moderating this panel. We have a really great lineup, and i just want to start off by introducing each of the panelist. Our first panelist to my left is derby and book wednesdays in mississippi proper ladies working for radical change and to her right is author born of conviction white med dis and mississippi cl
Of the cases the suspect appears to be targeting asian women. We have much more on the story on 7 news at 11 00 oclock. Good evening. Our other top story tonight. Tourist helicopter makes a hard landing into the water near the uss arizona memorial in hawaii with five people on board. 16 year old boy who is in Critical Condition after that impact. Witnesses jumped into the water to save the passengers immediately. Tonight the ntsb is investigating. David curly has more. It happened in just seconds. Helicopter just short of land rolling over in the water. Bystander jump in to help the five people on board. Knife needed to free one of them. Chopper coming down in pearl harbor near the uss arizona memorial. Clear in the video that the tail wrought or not turning and sound from the engine erratic. The rotor. Scott is a helicopter pilot for k abc. Appears at some point he lost some type of power. He disengage the rotor system from the engine. Hard to say fori certain and just didnt have enou
The timeframe is looking earlier and earlier, to midmorning. Here is a look at the wind shear, the midlevel spin in the atmosphere. The yellow is the greatest spin. As we head into wednesday morning, that is to the west. Wednesday afternoon, a lot of the wind shear, or thunderstorm fuel, moves towards kentucky. A bit of it moves through charlotte and greenville, south of i85. That brings us the threat of thunderstorms. John, we have the flood threat high. But really, all the threads are on the table. The threats are on the table. John tornado threat, low to medium because of the wind shear. Especially in the eastern and southern upstate. We will watch this system closely. Now back to you. Nigel now to commitment 2016 coverage. The first in the south gop primary is behind us. It was a big win for donald trump, and marco rubio and ted cruz rounded out the top three. The republicans are now getting nevada. Gabrielle and now, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are in South Carolina ahead o
In Mississippi Black lives did not matter. I am senator david jordan from greenwood who attended the emmett till trial and have written from a cotton field to the state senate and include one chapter in my book which has been not the bestseller but a very good seller. But its for sale, too, in the bookstore so you all should go buy one of his books affect. Yes. So i attended the trial but the experience that i had there on the outside forward where the news media were where my first time meeting and africanamerican congressman named davis was with mrs. Teal and i was just a freshman that Mississippi College state, college at that time. And we were asked to give a report. Sargasso 25 cents a gallon. We headed for summer mississippi but when we arrived there worth staying around on the outside for a few minutes a beautiful lady walked up to his welldressed and reporter said were going to ask you some questions. Whether emmett till will get a fair trial in mississippi. And she said, well,
Like, feinstein didnt offer specifics but she borrowed another page from the president s republican critics warning of paris style attacks here. I think they do have the capability to hit in the United States. Reporter essentially, suggesting that preventing an attack in the United States now requires sending more troops to the middle east. If we dont change our strategy and come up with a ground component, there will be another 9 11. What i do know do is to take actions either because it is going to work politically or in the abstract make america look tough. Or make me look tough. Reporter so growing pressure on the president to do more. What exactly that should look like, theres no consensus. But here you have Dianne Feinstein rejecting the president s policy and warning of possible attacks here in the United States. And the other day the president used rhetoric saying that his critics were popping off but i dont think you can look at Dianne Feinstein and say she is popping off. She