Talk we will have an author signing. Finally located across the lobby and finally we will have a question and answer session after the talk so come down to the microphone where you can ask questions and then you can access the microphone. Now want to turn to our speaker. The awardwinning investigative journalist and the twitter writers of the boston globe had the documentary series on pbs. Please join me to welcome our author. [applause] and with the introduction. Thank you to the Boston Public Library for sponsoring this event and to cspan books. Can everyone hear me . No. Into the stellar, columnist joining me later in the program so that is the format for 25 minutes or so and with the introduction of the highlights to you and then we will open the conversation i brought a few photos of material i also brought a few audio clips and some excerpts from interviews that i conducted while i was working on the book. On the morning of april 3r april 3rd, 1968, Martin Luther king junior died
Accused of murdering the father of her two children. Opening statements were scheduled for today but that did not go according to plan. Abc 7 News Reporter chris reyes is live outside the hall of justice to explain exactly what happened today, chris. Reporter good afternoon. Thats exactly the right way to put it. It has felt like a series of false starts. Tiffany li and kevin bayat were inside the court house. This morning we were expecting Opening Statements but instead the judge briefed the jury for 20 minutes and sent them home. Opening statements have been delayed without any explanation. In a stunning development, the Prosecution Team just moments ago asking the judge to remand one of the key witnesses to custo custody. Olivier adella has pled guilty to dumping the body of keith green. The prosecution argued today that he broke the conditions of his plea deal, which included not using social media and contacting witnesses. Judge robert foils agreed just moments ago to remand adell
Watched with glee and joy in his eyes. In case you missed it earlier today it was absolutely amazing his wish to become k9 officer coming true and the first step in his transformation right here at fox5. Heres the deal. Holly as we just saw earlier this morning was with him when he learned that he had to go where, holly . What was his first stop . Well he had to come here to fox5 because he has to get his officially issued Police Uniform because, you know, hes going to be looking for bad guys today. Hes going to be helping keep the city safe. Let me tell you this right now. Every k9 officer on the d. C. Metro police force wishes that he was riding around in that right there. Hes got a very special ride to take him on his mission today. Let me just tell you, its not a good day d. C. It is an awesome day d. C. Because this wish is being granted for ember. Hes just eight years old. Hes been fighting Cystic Fibrosis. He lost a lung when he was just two years old. And he has a feeding tube.
In on hermine. It weakened a little bit from 70 to 65. But its still out there. Its still creating problems for some coastal communities and that means that were going to have to deal with it. Theyre keeping the warnings up from long island to nantucket and and these things the wind about 160 Miles Per Hours if you get rain on the coastal areas, maybe an inch or two. The bigger problems is prolong surf, rip currents and this thing unfortunately will still be out there and it will still be out there wednesday. Right now, its moving a little bit closer to the coast. Just a little. West it northwest at nine Miles Per Hour then stalls with winds about 50 miles an hour at 8 00 before starting to make a turn to the northeast on wednesday. So while its a weaker system and consider post tropical more lokay a northeaster, been out there for a long time. High pressure. That mean as prolonged period of strong winds. Thats been a problem. For us, we wont feel much from hermine here but we are goin
Officer responded to all of this. It started when witnesses, however, reported seeing several men fleeing after those shots wefe heard near 102nd street around 8 30 last night. Holder and his other officer encountered a man who said his bicycle had been stolen at gunpoint. The two then came face to face with a man on a bike several blocks later, according to commissioner bratton. Take a listen. Officers from the Housing Bureau anticrime unit in plain clothes encountered a male on a bicycle at east 120th street along the fdr drive. Thats a pedestrian overpass over the fdr drive. There was an exchange of gunfire orbetween the male suspect and the two officers. During this exchange, officer holder was struck in the head. Reporter officer randolph holder was pronounced dead nearly two hours later at harlem hospital. The alleged suspect in all of this suffered a gunshot wound to hes recovering. Three men have been take into custody, and they remain there at this hour to see if they particip