The National Press Club Journalism institute, and were very happen happy to be hosting this program on newsrooms after thews summer of protests, has anything really changed. Thank you to National Press club members for pairing this program rtin partnership with us and wih e e communicators committee. Its going to be an interesting and informative conversation first among our wonderful panelists, and then we hope youll join in using the q a. So im going to turn this over to our moderator, michael mccarter, who is usa today managing editor of standards, ethics and inclusion. But first, i want to say begun aglcome and thank you to our panel amanda barrett, Deputy Managing Editor of the associated press, Renee Sanchez, editor and Senior Vice President at the minneapolis star tribune, and Dorothy Tucker, Investigative Reporter in my hometown of chicago and president of the National Association of black journalists. Thank you all for being here. And michael, over to you. Thank you for having
Her. Postchristmas rush. The deals arent done. The best bargains th you running to the stores this morning. Surprise. The epic secret santa moment that has this military mom jumping out of her seat. My love my love and good morning, america. Happy friday, guys. The last friday of the year. Ah. We have to make it count. I cant wait to show you guys the rest of that secret santa surprise. So cute. Thats all coming up. We have to start with some nasty stuff, the weather. Its severe at this point, in particular out west. It has put a delay on a lot of peoples postchristmas and trying to get home plans, and also their prenew years travel plans as well. Well begin with marcus moore. Hes at Los Angeles International airport. How we looking out there, marcus . Reporter hey, t. J. It is the start of a busy day here at l. A. X. We have seen waves of travelers coming in, lining up, some of them at 2 00 this morning to catch flights home. This morning, with millions of drivers heading home on the
Store today. It is going to turn breezy here. 7 a. M. Temperature about 66 degrees. But 84 at noontime. 88 degrees at 3 p. M. And 7 00 this evening, back to 80 with those increasing clouds. I have the timing on those friday showers coming up. Julie with live drivetime traffic. Julie the icons are overnight Construction Projects that will wrap up by 5 a. M. South of the pike things are moving along fine. Light. 12 minutes on route 1 from 128 to the tobin. 20 minutes on 93 south. 22 minutes on 128 southbound from route 1 in peabody to the weston tolls. Now to that breaking news in lawrence. Fire crews have their hands full after an Early Morning fire spread to multiple homes. This is happening on summer street. Fox25s Michael Henrich is on the scene now and michael, still a very active situation. Reporter this is a very active situation here. Lawrence where you can see here, they are putting water on no less than four buildings right now. One building in particular you can see the side t
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