Home of the corner of 49th and b street south east. This has been a violent day in the city. Two resulting in homicide. I asked if there is a connection here but none they are talking about publicly yet. It has been a bad day for violence in d. C. We come back live to the scene. You can see a lot of detectives out here. They will be here for a while. This is close to an Elementary School. That is an Elementary School up the hill from where the murder happened. I dont believe there were kids in the area at the time it happened from what i am hearing. But this happened close to Elementary School. Its one of two homicides today in the city. One of five shootings overall. Maureen we have video of a brick wall coming down. Abc7s brad bell has more on this video and what caused the wall to collapse. Brad the video is eye grabbing. First in slow motion and then the wall comes down. Just missing the alert driver in the silver s. U. V. It draws a reaction from everyone we slow it to. It came ri
Please silence your cell phones if you would. In terms of books which i know you all want to make sure you get the books you are going to be hearing about this morning outside the Capitol Building on mississippi st. There are number of sellers who will have looks and adjacent to the industry as the signing tent. In the back page of your brochure you will see this fantastic schedule. Authors will not necessarily be on immediately after the panel so just check the other name and the time in the brochure. We are delighted to have cspan broadcasting live this morning so welcome to jackson. The panel will also be shown on october so if you want to review it again. Thank you for the state legislature for the use of this facility today and i want to thank the authors and the moderators for being here with us this morning. The first panel is sponsored by the university of southern mississippi friends of the University Library so we are grateful for their support and now i will introduce jesmyn
Reporter i just recently was promoted to full professor. Congratulations. [applause]. So my colleagues might be watching this morning. James baldwin, i have a very Good Relationship with him when i first encountered his name i encountered it as my dad working in the village together. Then then i met him when i was 14. I remember coming behind him and tracing collars as an adult in graduate school his words blonde with audrey and it literally saved my life. I was one of only two africanamericans in the program to my knowledge on the first africanamerican to graduate in poetry and the msa program. So it was very isolated. My friends were the ladies who cleaned the building and we would talk about those sort of things. I would remember that i was young them. Them. I was in my 20s feeling a real rage. His rage really help me it was sustained and it was intellectual. It was not messy rage it was purposeful rage. That was a real lesson that i learned from him. I remember when he begins and i
There will be some clouds around as well, but generally sunshine, 60s and 70s for bus stop buddy, who is back at the bus stop and we are looking at the rain just off shore from former her kaine hermine. A few of those showers could make it inland probably just, along the coast but those are hermine cloud. Please get out of here, hermine. 73 degrees. 15 miles an hour wind. Sunrise happening at 6 34. Seventytwo in allentown. Sixtyone in lancaster. 69 degrees in dover. Atlantic city interest that the has 73 degrees. The breezes oncoming out of the north at 14 in Atlantic City and dover and it is a day, there they are, there is no kid yet i guess. We will get the idea. High of 88 degrees. I noticed those school buses were driving with no drivers. Breezy with a high of 88. Bob kelly, it is tv land we can do whatever you want. New school buses. No drivers. Auto won. Heres something, every kids dream, disabled school bus on i95. Dont worry though, we will make sure you get pick up, and get ta
This is an author panel on education issues. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Welcome again to the 2016 mississippi book festival. [inaudible] all right. I think were ready to get started. Welcome to the 2016 book festival. This is our panel this morning on schools and change. I just have a few housekeeping rules. Please remember to silence your cell phones. Books of these and many of the other authors here today will be available outside the State Capitol building. The booksellers are out on mississippi street, and signing tent is directly opposite that. Youll see in the back of the program the full booksigning schedule with authors and the times that theyll be signing today. Were delighted to have cspan broadcasting live with us today from jackson, mississippi. I want to thank the state legislature for allowing us the use of this facility today to come together. I want to thank the authors and the moderators today for helping us celebrate literature and the written word togeth