Suffolk county 8 00 a. M. This morning a good deal of sunshine today. Just high clouds later in the afternoon. Good rebound with these systems. Back in the upper 50s by noon. Forecasting a high of 60. Some rain in our forecast. Well get to that in a bit. Lets say hello to lauren scale la scala. You can see some minor delays because of an accident on the williamsburg bridge. Theres a downed traffic light at communipaw avenue. Theyre working on cleaning that up. This morning a robbery suspect is in the hospital with a gunshot wound after police say he pulled a gun on detectives in brooklyn. It happened last night in bedfordstuyvesant on monroe and bedford avenue. Tracie strahan is there live with this developing story. Police confirm to us that 20yearold man that is hospitalized was part of a trio that tried to rob this detective on this corner at gun point. After that detective opened fire, one man remains on the one. We are showing you Surveillance Video of what happened after that 20y
Temperatures north and west. A lot of frost out there, too. If you left the car out last night, maybe some extra time this morning to defrost it. A temperature of 58 by noon. Should get close to 60 degrees. First check of the monday morning commute, how is it looking . Quite a few subways affected by track work still until about 5 00 a. M. Eight of them including full or partial suspensions on the 1, 5, 7, l. Major commuter lines look good. 4 31. A robbery suspect is in the hospital shot after police say he pulcld a gun on detectives in brooklyn it happened in bedfordstuyvesant on monroe street. Police were there to investigate a recent robbery. Tracie strahan has more. Reporter the crime scene van that was last here left about 30 minutes ago. Police told me over the phone they are still looking for that third suspect. The two suspects he was with are in police custody. One shot after pulling a gun on a detective. Lets show you Surveillance Video. A 20yearold man being taken away from
Today we are joined by some esteemed panelist skisll bro abuse tremendous briefly. Jonathan holloway is a professor and teen of yale college the author of a number of volumes, most importantly, jim crow wisdom were also joined by Marcus Hunter Marcus Hunter holds appointments in africanamerican studies at yale and professor in sociology joining the attend of ucla this fall right . He is the author of the phenomenal back, black city makers. How the philadelphia anything grow changed urban america. Walter moseley is here. The phenomenal novelist, whose book [applause] whose books are too numerous to mention. So well move along to the wonderful, brilliant delightful, ammann any perry, the author of two major books on racial inequality in the United States and prophets of the hood politics politics and poetics in hiphop and finally but not least, the author of most recently ross unbound and he is unbound in that text. A writer in his books and a staffer at the the new yorker. Our moderator
He was definitely an engaging teacher and as you mentioned his experiments influence a lot of people including including you. [inaudible] this is a bit of a followon and im still trying to formulate what is probably a very elementary question but you talk about all the research you did and obviously he mixes in real historical characters with his primary fictional characte characters. Was he primarily using fiction to illuminate history and historical forces or using history to illuminate human nature . Yes and yes. [laughter] i mean thats a huge question. One of the criticisms that this book has received is that tolstoy intentionally distort historical facts for his own purposes so for instance he creates in the character could to save us a far more salt of the earth kind of character than he actually was. He was apparently much more widely, much more questionable in terms of his morals so historians have accused the full story of using history and distorting it for his own ends. I do
This month. Three or four books that i think particularly good. I wish i could take credit. And the Brilliant Communications director came up with this. No one is going to be interested in what i am reading. Surprisingly has become quite a bit. They like it. Interestingly, the kind of like to know what your thinking about. It is kind of refreshing. It actually reads a little class action. Thank you. It was fun. What are you reading this summer . Tell us what is on your Summer Reading list. Postage your Facebook Page or send us a name of. Her. You can watch panels and multicultural Book Publishing, the black Arts Movement, and more first, founder Max Rodriguez kicks off the festival the talk of the state of africanamerican literature. There is always that conversation of home for us. And we have an answer from. The theme of this years book fair is global. As we all are. And the book fair from this point forward will reflect that. We started with an event yesterday that Columbia Universi