Landfall a couple of hours ago south of charleston, South Carolina. Lets give you a reference where we are. North carolina, South Carolina, georgia, florida, charleston is right there. This little shade of red. Thats the eye wall that came onshore 2, 2 1 2 hours ago, thats where the 105mile an hour winds are. Thats where were seeing the tremendous amount of flooding because of the storm surge. Look at the shield of rain in the carolinas, charlotte, raleigh, wilmington, Cape Hatteras as the rain runs parallel to the coastline theerng owe ethis evening, into the overnight. 50 to 80 Miles Per Hour sustained winds constant wind speeds with higher gusts. A storm surge a wall of water on top of normal tide between 5 and 7 feet. Rainfall totals 8 to 12 inches isolated heavier amounts to 15 and there could tornados out there. Look at the rainfall totals. This shade right here is 8 to 12 inches of rain. Florence, 8. At a itville at a the wynfield is 39 Miles Per Hour or higher. Thats Tropical S
Two distinguished authors to our panel, doctor Patrick Phillips and doctor jason ward. We will have presentations by both Patrick Phillips and jason ward and after both panelists are finished with their presentations we would like to open it up to discussion. Following discussion, we will go up to the War Memorial Auditorium upstairs and the book signing, i encourage you to continue discussion with both authors once you get there so we will get started. Patrick phillips is an associate professor of english and a poet as well, previous book he produced, eulogy for a broken mechanic was a National Book award finalist. Todays book we are talking about is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome Patrick Phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a conversation, questions and comments but a little bit about the book blood at the root a racial cleansing in america and how i came to write it and a littl
Chris is the historian here. Bed andworking breakfast, conference center, a great place to hold the symposium. He has just written a book, which will be available. He has coauthored two magazine articles on the battle of the spotsylvania courthouse. Those are available through the emerging civil war website. Chris and i have known each other for 11 years. , fightlike john and paul a little bit, get along, but we are best friends. He met his life right where our projector is set up. Chris, one of our friends described him as the Rupert Murdoch of civil war publishing. He is now becoming a very prolific author. Atwas a former historian fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National parks. Chris will talk about the battle of the spotsylvania courthouse. Pleasure toor and bring you this prolific speaker, author, and my best friend. [applause] that the firsty symposium i spoke at here, jennifer was where matt is. No offense. He is here all weekend, folks. Tom delighted to be able share with you t
Decider. To adjudicate competing worldviews and privatization, deregulation and austerity these are the buzzwords that have become common sense. If we live in that kind of state we have the other thing going on. My book has that assumption but in each case to give us a bigger story what it means to be nobody. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Be change you are watching booktv on cspan2. Live coverage of the southern festival of books in downtown nashville was the last soccer panel of the day the look at violence in africanamericans throughout history. Offers Patrick Phillips and jason ward. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the southern festival of books and this particular session. Standing against oppression, racial historical violence. It is our pleasure to welcome two distinguished authors to our panel, doctor Patrick Phillips and doctor jason ward. We will have presentations by both Patrick Phillips and jason ward and after both panelists are finished
Move over atlantic atlantia new pup in town who is credited with saving its owners life. Matt pellman is in for karen rogers and david murphy has accuweather. Reporter we have light precipitation pushing in, just a little bit, falling a part. Doesnt look bad. Overall were looking at plenty of sunshine today. Looks like we might start out cloudier in the northern suburbs, but overall were expecting these to break a part and well look at sun and clouds. 56 degrees in philadelphia. We have dipped to 48 in allentown. 54 in reading. 59 in wilmington, 54 in trenton. 57 in millville. Still 62 in cape may. Its a little bit on the breezy side out there. In philadelphia a 13mile an hour breeze upper Single Digits and low double digits elsewhere. Up in allentown, not as much wind. As we roll through the day, were expecting sun and clouds, it will feel like autumn this week, more than last week. 67 by 10 57 by 10 00 a. M. , 60 by noon, 64 by 3 00 p. M. Before we dip into the upper cooler air is on