And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to welcome lindsay clemmens to the program. Her book heralded as the debut novel of the year. It explores race, family, identity and grief. It is an honor to have lindsay on this program. How are you . Thank you. It is an honor to be here. How are you handling the mad love you are getting for this . It is better than hot hate. Take it from me. It beats mad hate. Anxious to talk about, i did not know that your cousin was fight dog. One of the greatest groups ever. That is your cousin . Yes. Unfortunately, he passed away a little while ago. He was always a big important part of my family that he was from our family. My great grandmother, her house is basically where he grew up. It was always really this pretty magical place that obviously he was very inspired by and my mother is also a wonderful poet. I guess we have a little literary tradition. We have a rapper and a poet and now an author. Did that impac
Moment. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Please welcome joann walsh back to the program, a national correspondent, and the writer of the piece everyone is a socialist after a national disaster. She joins us from washington, great to have you back. Thank you. Everybody is a socialist after a disaster, tell me more. I was just struck by senator ted cruz demanding instant Hurricane Harvey relief, which of course the people of texas and houston deserve that. But you know, ted cruz, he held up our relief for Hurricane Sandy five years ago here in new york, and continues to basically lie about it saying he opposed the bill because it contains so much pork. That really was not true, the things he thought were pork were things like funding for head start programs but they were programs that were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. There were other things like that if he had taken the time to understand the bill he would know they were not pork, so it was as
The man with a voice so bad it deserved a ticket from police. And we do say good morning, everyone, on this tuesday. It has been a rough overnight for millions of people in the southeast. Parts of georgia and the carolinas are under tornado watches overnight following a day of severe storms that uprooted tree, knocked out powers to tens of thousands of customers and damaged homes. Its not over yet. We take a look at the radar at this hour. It shows that line of storms stretching nearly 800 miles up to lake erie and its marching east. This morning, millions on alert. Severe storms spawning at least six tornadoes in the south. Look at that. This is really bad. Reporter this building in spartanburg, south carolina, flattened. And this tree crashing into ray home. The man taking the video says he was standing on the porch moments before it happened. At this airport northwest of charlotte, the high winds ripping apart one of the hangars overturning planes, even causing a car to flip on its
The man with a voice so bad it deserved a ticket from police. And we do say good morning, everyone, on this tuesday. It has been a rough overnight for millions of people in the southeast. Parts of georgia and the carolinas were under tornado watches overnight following a day of severe storms that uprooted trees, knocked out powers to tens of thousands of customers and damaged homes. And its not over yet. We take a look at the radar at this hour, and it shows that line of storms stretching nearly 800 miles up to lake erie, and its marching east. This morning, millions on alert. Severe storms spawning at least six tornadoes in the south. Look at that. This is really bad. Reporter this building in spartanburg, south carolina, flattened. And this tree crashing into a home. The man taking the video says he was standing on the porch moments before it happened. At this airport northwest of charlotte, the high winds ripping apart one of the hangars overturning planes, even causing a car to fli
Gunning down three people in ten days, the emergency town hall meeting overnight. Authorities now saying, everyone could be a suspect or a victim. And the clues that could be in this Surveillance Video. And a hot air balloon with five passengers on board runs into a tree and goes up in flames. Oh, my god. On fire. Forcing an Emergency Landing. Inside the scary ride. And we do say good morning, america. Great to have you with us on this tuesday morning. Lots to get to like the Severe Weather heading for the northeast, and recordbreaking temperatures out west. Triple digits again in los angeles just in time for the world series. Could be the hottest world series ever. We have more on that coming up. But first, we want to get to the severe storms tearing through the southeast overnight. Several reported tornadoes flipping small planes. Abcs gio benitez is there on the scene at the airport in hickory, North Carolina. Good morning, gio. Reporter robin, good morning to you. Were talking abou