university celebration of black history month. i d like first to thank the program sponsor abs corporation for the generous support. it s this kind of support that so crucial and making the series possible as a public service to our community. our speaker this evening is university of kansas professor dave tell, author of the 2019 book titled, remembering emmett till which will be available for sale and signing in the foyer at the conclusion of tonight s program. doctor tell, who has a doctorate from penn state, has one new was around for both research and teaching. his research focuses on issue of race, memory, and the digital humanities. since 2014, he has focused in particular on the legacy of the murder of emmett till. in which he has been a long time partner with emmett till memorial commission of tallahatchie county. his work has a taunt strong public dimensions, scholarship is written for broad public audiences, he s worked extensively with the tally memorial commissio
55 and walt whitman bridge five minutes and route 38 to 168 take you 13. Ill continue to update you on your traffic when i see you again in about ten minutes. Thanks for that. We continue to following breaking news from overseas. Isis is claiming responsibility if a truck bomb that went off in a crowded market in baghdad and killing more than 60. Officials say the market is crowded on thursdays baus people come from other provinces to stock up on food for the weekend. We will bring you updates instance we get them. Out of minneapolis, a concertjn venue a stage partia collapsed and sending two people to the hospital with injuries. Other concert goers were treated on the scene. Right now fire officials are investigating the cause of the collapse as well as the overall Structural Integrity of the building. We expect to lower than more today about the plan for the ben franklin bridge during the popes visit. Monique braxton is live for us in camden. What can you tell us what we expect to le
Good morning. Strong reaction from around the world to the news that broke overnight. North koreas claims it tested a Hydrogen Bomb. The south and u. N. Inspectors can only confirm there was some sort of explosion underground at a nuclear site. They say it showed up on sensors to the north of the 5. 1 earthquake. Adrian brown has the latest from beijing. A short time ago, the Foreign Ministry here in beijing gave a briefing to foreign news agencies. The rebuke was quite mild. They appealed to north korea to cease its provocative action and urged north korea to return to the 6party talks. Now, china, of course, is about the only friend that north korea has right now. They have in the past been ideological alleys but there have been deep strains in that relationship during the past few years, namely because of north Koreas Nuclear program. China in the past have supported sanctions against north korea and, of course, it could be in that position once again if that is what the un 50i9d na
A weekup call for American American cities. 321. Plus tis the season, perhaps the only thing republicans and democrats can agree on, tonight, the history of the capitol tree. He is a physicist and expert in mid evil history and may very well be the next defense secretary. His name is ashton carter. President obama tapped him to replace chuck hagel but how would he change the pentagon. We have details. The man who appears in line to be president obamas fourth secretary of defense has been a fixture in the National Security world for years and most recently was the number two in charge at the pentagon. Ashton carter who likes to be called ash made his mark as a top weapons buyer sheparding in a 10 year plan to safe 500 billion. He lifted two priorities, Getting Better weapons to the troops and getting the public a better deal. My second priority has been to deliver better buying power to the taxpayers and the war fighters for their defense dollars. At times, carter has with senator john
Here, traffic looks good heading south. It is 4 30 lets go back to the desk. We begin with breaking news, the investigation is underway into a mass shooting in palo alto. One person has been killed, three others were injured and it happened on perdue avenue and hunter street. Janine de la vega joins us with more to tell us what we have learned so far, janine . They have hunter street so police can investigate with crime scene tape. It all starts to center around a car that is here and there is still a body lying in the street and everybody is at stamford hospital. To get more information, we are joined with the Palo Alto Police department and this all happened at around 11 30 what happened. What we know is there are several people sitting inside of a car unidentified came up and shot four people. Reporter what happened after that . One of the gunshot victims died on the scene and the other three were transported to the hospital and they are expected to survive. Reporter okay and do we