Witnesses. Just because my own story touches on everything these three write about, i recommend all the books. Theyre wonderful. I and ellie native, which is something that does not surprise people as much as it used to, but my family came from the louisiana, from new orleans. My father came in 1942 during the war, and this kind of to margarets book. My family did not talk a whole lot about what happened in the south. You just did not hear a lot. I put it together over the course of my life, really. As an essayist, i always tried to sort of dove right i dont know write about the history of black folk and about my own individual life, which is very hard to do. I think im still trying to put those pieces together, so all these books speak to that effort, i think, by black people to continue to do that. We are in the era of black lives matter, which is the same campaign we have been running for a very long time. I think of dr. King in 1968. His last campaign for the sanitation workers in
Good day at 9a starts right now. Good right now. Going to be cold a whole lot later. Get ready to snuggle in. Were glad youre with us on this tuesday, december 12th. All right. Ahead this morning were celebrating National Gingerbread house day. With major sugar rush. Well catch up with local chefs at National Harbor to see how they brought this giant display honoring the district live and get this, the entire thing took 340 hours and 200 pounds of powdered sugar to build. Wow. It looks spectacular. I wouldnt where it goes after its done. Somebodys belly. A lot of sugar. Every attempt ive made at Gingerbread House forget about it. You have to have double the candy. You eat the candy. Put it on. Eat the candy. Expert on the way to get the answers to all of our questions. Outside right now. You better get yourselves ready by this time tomorrow well be dealing with arctic blast. Weve been talking about it all morning. Expected to keep temperatures below the freezing mark. Lets send things
San francisco. Some slowing there. We had an earlier accident long gone but very slow. Ill update that in a couple of minutes. A call from a group of Health Advocates to yank an app off the market. Amy hollyfield is live for us in menlo park. Reporter the pressure is on. 97 signatures on this letter from child advocates from individuals and nonprofits sent here to facebook. Looks like were having trouble with amys signal. Well get back to her. A huge step in recovery after the devastating wildfires. Crews finished the fire debris removal process. Workers had to clear debris in the neighborhood. Altogether 58 of the wildfire cleanup completed in the north bay. Starting today its supposed to get easier to get permits to rebuild in Sonoma County where thousands of homes were destroyed. The resiliency permit plan goes into full motion today. Officials are helping handle permits and inspections. Part of a 23 million plan approved by the board of supervisors. Charges expected to be filed aga
As Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe steps down ahead of his planned retirement in march. Suspends peace talks with the rebels after a series of bomb attacks. On Barnaby Phillips on the scottish island of its for sale should it belong to the local community or wealthy landowners. Syrian warplanes have killed at least twenty people during an offensive on the rebel held province of the monitors said the jets targeted market at a hospital full of people who were injured in the strike it comes as russia is hosting a new round of talks and sochi the main Syrian Opposition group says it will boycott the negotiations Stephanie Deca reports from the town of kill us on the turkish syrian border. Theres just been incoming from syria into turkey we were actually preparing for a live when we heard a whiz over our heads and we were dropped. And then we saw the smoke london around five hundred metres from our position when the police have now come to inspect the crater this is a reminder of course that
Why not, you know. The Weather Center right now shows you cloud cover and of course we do have that first band of precipitation that has swept through the region. It was over philadelphia earlier. Now were getting kind of a break but down the shore rain has changed over to snow and theres that second band coming in from the west. That will be here a little bit later this morning. Right now most of our focus is on the coast and storm tracker6 live double scan shows that you the ma is off the coast. Were getting clipped for maybe a couple hours along the northern portions of the jersey little bit of precip starting to pop up in New Castle County delaware, Chester County, lancaster county, berks county picking up a little bit of atd become more of an issue for us a little later, maybe after 7, 8 oclock this morning. As we take a look at temperatures, still 35 degrees in philadelphia. So even though roads have gotten a little wet from some rain and some light wet snow, they are just wet an