48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. Booktv. Org. The 78th annual anisfieldwolf book awards that recognized books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures is next on booktv. This is about an hour, 40 minutes. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. You know, i love coming to cleveland for this annual event. I look forward to it, i enjoy every minute of it. , and it just grows and grouse. Thank you for your loyalty grows. Thank you for your loyalty, thank you for your support, and thank you for all your enthusiasm. Give it up to yourselves for being such a great audience. Ms. [applause] you know, every time i think about this prize, i think a poet, a poet in the 1930s who happened to be a white woman endows one of the first, certainly, if not the first prizes in celebration of what today we would call excellence and diversity. I mean, what an
We are natural partners. Decides United States to other countries work closely with the vatican . Yes, peter. 179 countries have diplomatic relations and 30 of them are islamic countries. What kind of work today due . Well the islamic countries any of them are trying to work with the oecg promote interreligious dialogue and find solutions to radical islam. Many of the secular European Countries are historic monarchies and have had relationship with the holy c or centuries. The latin america, a strong number of catholics in america and the intense social issues in the church deeply involved in is a very strong relationship. In your view ambassador renny has the vatican ever overstepped its bounds as a religious organization into the political . Well, i probably shouldnt answer some of the issues that came up in the two bush campaigns in United States that were highly controversial about the intersection of the elegy in politics. My focus is the diplomat is to show how the oecg and inter
We could get thunderstorms in parts of the bay area. Here is a camera picture from our heavenly resort camera in lake tahoe, there is a light dusting of snow. Good morning, where is the storm now . We saw mike getting wet. How much rain did we get the last 24 hours . Meteorologist mike nicco is tracking the storm. What is going on on live doppler 7 hd, mike . A lot of rain is falling. Right on time as we said. It came in at 10 00, the heart of it is moving through San Francisco right now. We had. 6 here and 1 in richmond and. 33 in san jose. We another area of High Pressure along the cold front as we said, and the lighttomoderate rain is showing up on live doppler 7 hd not only here but, also, another 60 miles offshore. It will come in, in a couple of ways. This is from point raise down to about Half Moon Bay and san mateo bridge up to about highway 37 where we are getting the moderate rain. The light rain is in the green will take over other areas as we head throughout the next couple
1,500 people in the dark. On highway 17 the road is clear with not a lot of traffic. The wet roads are a concern, obviously, for people hitting the roads this morning. The c. H. P. Says overnight they did see a spike in collisions because of the wet weather. You can track storms from the smartphone with the bay areas radar live doppler 7 hd installing the weather app which can be downloaded for free to iphone or droid device right now. You can track weather any time with live doppler 7 hd on abc7news. Com or follow us on twitter. The weather is being investigated as a possible factor in a horrific accident in the north bay. A disabled vallejo man was hit by two cars and dragged for a nile. Amy . Police are looking into the condition. Weather was probably a factor. The roads were wet. It was dark. It was a rainy night. It happened at 6 00 last night if vallejo. A disabled man was hit by a car and was knocked into another lane and a car in that lane hit him and dragged him for a man. The
Athletes have. But for too many students, their biggest disability isnt a physical limitation. Rather, its the lack of opportunity to participate. That, however, is changing, thanks to a movement called adapted sports. Adapted sports are really sports that are designed specifically for kids with disabilities. The white house says that students with disabilities shouldnt be sidelined. They need to be given the same chance to play sports as other students. Sometimes that just means making some simple adjustments to existing programs. For example. If youre deaf, you could use a starting light, as opposed to the starting gun, in order to run on the trackandfield team. In other cases, School Districts will need to set up programs that are specifically geared to disabled students. The new guidelines encourage schools to follow the lead of states like georgia. The American Association of adapted sports programs has been supporting disabled athletes here for over 20 years. I would tell anyone