Reading of a comic book, and im not really sure how to do that. Because, you know, usually what happens with a regular book is someone comes up, you know, to a podium hike this and they say, you know, hello, im amy tan, ask im going to read you my new book, what japan did to china again. [laughter] but im not really sure what to do this time because its pictures. So do we all just go like, wow, look at that. Heres another page. Wow. So i think what im going to do instead is just talk about it for a little while, talk about this project, sort of how it came to be, why im doing it, and then ill take questions from you guys. In 1917 the United States entered its first war of choice. And what i mean by war of choice is a war that we didnt have to fight and a war we werent sure we wanted to fight. Because every war up until then had had a very concrete goal which was a war of independence from britain or a war to hold the union together and free slaves, or we really liked california, and we
We begin with rob in morgan city. Rob. Reporter hey, charles, if you can hear me there, i dont have isp, i hope you can hear me, but were in morgan city, louisiana. Ive lost my earpiece out here in this nasty storm weve got here. Still barry is a Tropical Storm at this point here in southern louisiana. It could become a hurricane here at any minute. Were about 75 miles east of new orleans which is where a lot of the attention for this storm has been because it is a lowlying area, very populated area. But here just to west is where were really getting hammered. Were not too far away from the storm which is making its way onshore. Were here on a lake which looks like the gulf, its just getting pounded so hard. The waves are high, and this is usually just a flat lake that you can ride your boat around on. Not today though. Here in morgan city weve seen gusts at about 55 miles an hour, sustained winds a little lower than that and a lot of pounding rain as these outer bands and now a little
At least nine people were killed and two are missing after a fire broke out at a vacation home in eastern France early Wednesday morning, authorities said.