Welcome to booktvs fiction edition. Youve written 50 fiction books. Lets start with devil in a blue dress, the book that launched a series who is easy rawlins . Guest a kind of every man for the black community in the middle of the twentieth century. His whole view of himself has changed. He came back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there because of what he has learned and he and thousands of others, from texas and louisiana moved to los angeles. What we do is follow him as a kind of unofficial detective. What he does is reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that havent been talked about. Host how did you come up with the name . Guest i was writing a story and there was a voice speaking firstperson talking about a party he was given and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and a woman he was in love with who was in love with another guy and mouse comes in and looks at the person who is talking and says hey, e the, how are you doing . That
Kardashians and ellen degenerates. A train crash in belgium. At least three people have been killed after three trains collided. Denver broncos star shot at a strip club in dallas. He is expected to make a full recovery. His injury reportedly not serious, but this coming as the broncos had to the white house this afternoon to celebrate the super bowl win. Remembering the greatest. The world mourning the loss of mohamed ali, especially in his hometown of louisville kentucky. We would take you live this morning. Asian markets little changed. In europe, markets edging higher. The latest polls out of red now show that voters are in many have many more transacted in the eurozone. The referendum is on june 23rd at future showing markets higher. The Dow Jones Industrial average up 26 points right here. Nasdaq is a 500 taken a cue from european markets. By the way, janet yellen giving a speech. The fed chair is expected to speak this afternoon following fridays dismal report. Well focus on wha
Routes on highway 138 and interstate 15. The blue cut fire has spread across 15,000 acres since it broke up this morning. Its burning at a rate in excess of 1000 acres an hour. Right now Officials Say it is 0 contained. 34,000 homes are threatened. 82,000 people are under mandatory evacuation order. We get the developing news from ktvus Monte Francis following demand developments from our newsroom tonight. Reporter we dont have the exact number but at least a dozen structures have burned including some homes and historic restaurant off of interstate 15 called the summit. The flames are reaching up to 100 feet in the air and this fire is growing bigger by the hour. Fierce winds are fueling the flames as the blaze known as the blue cut fire rages out of control north of San Bernardino. In its path, tens of thousands of homes. We got to go. Reporter residence under mandatory evacuation orders, frantic to salvage what they can and make their escape. We have to evacuate. Right now trying to
With this heartbreaking homecoming. It really is. Frank and julie, Matthew Porter was going to the olympics for the third time in rio. He is the one in the middle. He is responsible for repairing the fencing teams equipment. Nothing could prepare him for what he saw today when he came home to limp lake county. Reporter there Olympic Dreams realized. All of the fencers did a wonderful job and it was an honor to be part of that. That was reporter Matthew Porter played the part of armor. His job was maintaining and preparing their recruitment. Helping them parry and thrust their way to the podium. We were hoping to get three medals. Reporter they ended up with four. Two silver and two bronze. Elated and excited, porter was ready to come home to his other dream. The house he and his wife karen had bought a few months before he left for rio in lower lake. Karen email sunday saying they had been spared from the wildfire but an hour later, the fire jumped the line. The yard was filled with sm
From pneumonia. Rick leventhal has more on clintons stumbling into her van. Reporter this video Shows Hillary clinton standing on a sidewalk outside the World Trade Center site. She appears unsteady stepping off the curb with aides in her protective detail holding her by the arms. She simples as she gets close to the van with one of her shoes falling off before shes helped inside. A Law Enforcement source who was 15 feet away said they were caught off guard by her premature departure which is why mrs. Clinton had to wait for her motorcade pull up. He said he saw her knees buckle and watched as someone picked up her shoe and gave it to one of the agents in the two vehicles that followed the former first lady to her daughters apartment nearly 3 miles away. Mrs. Clinton left because she felt overheated and was feeling much better her statement said and just before noon she emerged from her daughters building smiling and making remarks. I feel great. Its a Beautiful Day in new york. Report