Good morning. My name is david and would like to welcome all o i would like to welcome at the 31st annual southern festival the books today at the National Public library thank you for hosting this event we have been a great partner for several years and we just want to say thank you. The festival of books is an annual event presented by humanitys tendency and all who contribute to that organization for that support of the written word and Community History and civil discord one discourse our story and our state and also to help us to tell and preserve ourto stories. So a bed of housekeeping i will introduce ourl author and will share some stories and insights of the book, no surrender and then opened the floor to questions if you do have a and question please ask with the microphone at the conclusion feel free to join us at the tent where pastor edmonds will be to get a copy of his book and to hear more about his story. Senior pastor of the Baptist Church in tennessee and chief execut
Says the bureau looks at these kinds of propaganda videos dissecting each and every frame for valuable clues. Sot tc they will be looking at elements such as whether there are any cells or sources here to tie it too. The local fbi office is saying right now, that they do not believe the video poses a credible threat however, smith says the release of the video and the arabic with the message of attack could be inspiring to a home grown terrorist such as in the case of omar mateen the gunman in orlando. Manfredi sfpd just bc they are saying not a threat, we are always on alert. Spokespersons reporter and says the video is critical these days of the heels of orlando and in general to be extra cautious this theyre always on the alert. Britteny we start to cool things down into the next couple days, right into the Holiday Weekend like. Look outside right now we see cloudiness fog developing near the Golden Gate Bridge. Current temperature is still very warm especially livermore at 95 degre
Academy of Television Arts and sciences and at 90 hes still a consultant. Thanks to roddie for saving us. And thank you. God bless america. [ applause ] all i can say is i want to look like these guys when im 90. Im very honored to call upon american pastor chris edmonds, son of the late Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, righteous among the nations from the United States of america to receive the medal and certificate of honor on behalf of his father and to offer some remarks. [ applause ] lester, you did good. Thank you. Ambassador dermer, mr. President , might i say its an incredible honor to have you here. This is one memory that our family will cherish always. And might also say its my first time speaking at the embassy as well. [ laughter ] [ applause ] rabbi lau, mr. Wiff, senator corker, the gunden family, im going to mess this up, im from tennessee. The be say it for me. There we go. Ill get it right next time. And distinguished guests. Tonight on this noble occasion my moer mary
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Military. And we make a as you know, our Quarterly Report is the largest data call that goes out every year to the u. S. Government, or every quarter on whats going on. When we ask these questions, were not getting answers anymore because stick ka, because our resources in the field are not there to answer them. Youre on to a very important part that goes beyond the literacy issue. It goes to the heart of the issue and that is do we have adequate resource to understand the capabilities of the andsf. Thank you. Anyone else want to comment on that . Compared to two years ago i think if threat to our personnel who are serving in afghanistan has grown. And im particularly concerned about our embassies wity and th inability of our personnel to move around the city of kabul or even well or anywhere else. So my first question is, do you think that the danger there has increased, and what if anything can we do to mitigate those concerns . So, since the drawdown of u. S. And Coalition Forces, t