Hello, everyone. Welcome to the early sunday morning to the brooklyn book festival being hosted here at Brooklyn Law School. Our dean nick allard is here to welcome you. That dean has been a really wonder for bridge between the law school in brooklyn and the brooklyn book festival. Its on like to introduce nick allard to you all. [applause] thank you, professor. Well, welcome to all of you. Were so proud to be able to host part of the largest free letter very festival in new york city in one of the largest in the United States. It certainly is the hippest and most diverse book festival. So weve got that working for us. Also, welcome to the best law school in brooklyn. Some of you know were the only law school in brooklyn. [laughter] but, you know, we are the best law school in the largest and most vibrant borough in the greatest city in the leading state in the most wonderful country. So we have that working force. Its pretty good. Yesterday, marla and i returned from a short trip to r
Dos santos 102. The only man to ever beat him in the ufc, champion Cain Velazquez. Miocic trying to take a page out of the same book with a similar strategy. There he is again landing punches. Very important. Midway point of the first. Left hook by junior. Very good left hook. Outstanding. Truly the strike of the game. Miocic. Thats a very good right hand by miocic. Biggest punch to the fight so far landed by miocic. He got down for a single. Got junior up against the stage again and hits with another righthand on the face. Very important. He continues to do that. Another right hand and another one. Big swing and a miss. Technically they both landed the same amount of punches so far. Miocic have been more damaging. The shots he landed have been the biggest shots of the fight. That was a big one, though, by dos santos. Huge hammer over the top. Miocic hes finished more than one man with that punch. Big uppercut. He loves the uppercut. He loves the left hook. The fight and uppercut he la
The district Fairfax County rest of Northern Virginia most locations there low to mid40s. A little bit of fog in the air. Live view from our tower camera. Well have a cool afternoon. Storms likely tomorrow afternoon. Next weather and traffic on the 1s, your commuter forecast for the day ahead. Good morning. Accident activity remains east bound route 50 in maryland at route 202. Not causing any delays. It is off on the shoulder but the offramp is closed as well. Northbound bw parkway approaching route 198, we have reports of an accident there. Well give you more details as they become available. D. C. 295, youre running at speed after the beltway and as you approach the 11th Street Bridge you are slow in this area there. Beltway near braddock road looking good. More problems for the secret service this morning. A senior supervisor is on administrative leave accused of assaulting a female employee. Megan mcgrath is live at secret Service Headquarters thousand with more now with more on t
In around the globe. Weve lost one of the most influential and courageous. He belongs to the ages. Mandela served 27 years in prison after convicted of treason with the white minority government. Three years later, he won the nobel peace prize. He became the first elected black president. Has died atmandela 95. Well have more later in the show. Meantime, our top tech story, twitter has added the first woman to their board effective immediately. She was ceo of pearson until last year. Twitter faced controversy for not having a woman board member. There could not be a more exciting time to join. What is the latest . This was a priority to have tha woman joing the board. There are a number of things her the right candidate. She is smart and a forward thinking person. Speaking with someone who worked with her, she pushed the envelope on the industry. The International Experience and media experience is helpful for where twitter is now. Certainly questions about twitters business and she ca
The anguish their parents are feeling right now. In london with all of the latest in rome including decision time. People in Eastern Ukraine get ready for a crucial and c controversial refer endsum. Medical records suggest an al jazeera journalist on Hunger Strike could die without urgent treatment. The African National congress has officially been declared the winner in south africas general election. The anc has fallen just short of a twothirds minority taking 62 of that vote. It secured 249 seats in the national assembly, losing 15 seats. Thats the lowest number its held in 20 years. Leading opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, picked up less than a quarter of the votes but it actually made the biggest gains in parliament, securing 89 seats, 22 more representatives than the last election. And thats the highest number it has ever held. President jacob zuma says terror. Tod today marks the 20th anniversary of the day on which president Nelson Mandel a a was the first. We dedicat