2009. Conducted by Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture. The American Folk Life Center at the library of congress and the Southern Oral History Program at the university of North Carolina chapel hill. My parents were walter b. Ghaiaither and fannie b. Little gaither. Gray fall was my fathers home. My mother, fannie mae, was originally from anderson, South Carolina. And my mom and dad met while they were students at Friendship Junior College in rock hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship, they of course moved permanent ly to great falls. And initially, they were both school teachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching. Because he discovered that what was listen on his contract as his per month payment for teaching was not the same as he was receiving. And this was at a time when the board of education were all composed of white men. So at the end of the yea
Bay for today and tomorrow and the hottest times of the day will be between 11 00 a. M. And 7 00 p. M. Today and tomorrow. Santa rosa expected to be the hottest area and maybe in the triple digits. Red flag warnings were issued for Sonoma County until tomorrow, 5 00 a. M. Opening up several cooling centers today. And the complex opened up at 8 00 this morning. And the steel Lane Community center opens up at 8 30. And at 8 00. And all of this is keeping people busy. Steve . We will go from more extreme to the other. This is the extreme that we are heading up on the temps here with the heat advisory out. Temperatures will be hanging out there, they will continue that march today and tomorrow and warm and hot for very many low humidities so far and we have been fortunate with the mostly stronger gusts above 2,000 feet and it is not that bad yet where it is plenty warm. Yet you can find 50, 60. Thats warmer than livermore and san jose. Mid50s including in town, los altos, atherton 55. Hill
This morning, we have new aerial video to show you of this firefight. This is burning in a remote part of the merit island preserve on the southwestern tip of the preserve. It is not threatening any buildings or homes on merit island. It is an air are i cant that is step with heavy brush and veg taig, its been difficult to access some of the fire. It has burned 7 acres since 3 00 this morning. The fire is a percent contained according to firefighters so its not spreading out of control, just accessing it has been difficult. They do have hydrant service on merit island, the challenge for firefighters have running fire hoses to get access to the flames, firefighters tell us this fire was started by someone who intentionally cut power poles causing lines to come down and spark the fire. Can you clearly see someone tried to saw into the sides of the power pole there and caused the line to droop, the fire investigator believes someone who did this may have been trying to steal copper wiring
Took advantage of me and put me in a chokehold like this. He says he was panicked and yelling for help. Thankfully, his 13yearold son, sebastian was with him and came to his rescue. It happened so fast and i was in the bathroom and i grabbed the bat and it was over. Reporter the video shows sebastian running toward the back of the store to grab the back. The customer told him to put it down but he feared for his dads life. I was thinking to myself if this keeps him going on, if this guy keeps strangling my dad im going to hit him. If it had lasted a couple of more seconds i would have hit him. Reporter 61yearold paul eagle onto was arrested that day. He has a previous arrest in oregon back in 2017. Im afraid of the bad guy gets out he will come back here. We started to call police. This is not the first incident like this. We are told on thursday homeless woman entered the business and grabbed something and tried to run out but the owner grabbed her and started to call police. When he
This christmas sunday, as we wrap up 2022, we cant ignor the fact that its been a toug year over the past 12 months, theres been a recurring theme and the stories weve covered. The fight for democracy here and abroad we have witnessed th resilience determination of th ukrainian people as they continue to resist russia invasion over in a wrong, the death o mahsa amini sparked mass protests and civil unres against the ruling regime. Here in the u. S. , voters pushe back pushed back at the ballot box. Overcoming ideological differences to reject election denialism. And as we head into the ne year a new poll by ipsos showe that 65 of adults worldwide say theyre optimistic tha 2023 will be a better year for them then 2022 earlier, i spoke with the most reverend Michael Curry and dr. Barry see black. Chaplain of the senate who reminded us that in a worl that can often seem dark, ther is always one thing that can provide light and guidance hope the most reverend Michael Curry presiding portio