In North Carolina, charlotte. A special yeah. Give it up to the queen city. I want to thank especially our esteemed guests. I would lick to thank the members of the first bipartisan here. When i started 8 years ago, i had no idea that we would grow to have more than 100 members but now 8 years in i know that the strength is a strength of how much support we had. Last year we were about to get ignite funding for hbcu through appropriations. Because of the work that we did, 50 million in grants are available to our schools. All right. [applause] make transformative investment and, of course, this includes research productivity, fact ultimatey expertise, graduate programs. Human capital leading to external funding. The investments made in our schools today in investment in the future and so i just yaws myself as an example. I am a living testament for importance of hbcu. My mother raised me. She did domestic work. She was not formally educated but understood the value of education and the
Okay. I think were going to go ahead and get started. Thank you everyone so much for coming. My name is cody and help with the events are at book culture and we are so pleased to be hosting meryl gordon tonight. This conversation on the life of an americanstyle legend, bunny mellon. Maybe a quick show of hands that this is your first time to book culture. Well, welcome. We are nestled here on the west side and we have been almost three years. Some of may remember this 20 years ago. So we are so happy to be here and to be as basis of a great and important work. Do take note of it cspan booktv recording the talk, so tonight discussion and q a can live on in perpetuity. During the q a session after meryl speaks, if youll give us a a couple seconds to run the microphone to you so that when we can record your end of the conversation so she is not talking to no one on the recording. And then after the talk either give us a couple of seconds to set up, we will have signing queue up at the fro
Tim people are riding backandforth on metro when bullets start flying north of the tracks. ,nvestigators are on the scene metro transit officers. The investigators on the platform investigating this. We know one person was transported to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries, a man who was shot heard the investigators are still trying to find the person who pulled the trigger. Theyre looking for two persons of interest. Not suspects, persons of interest. One is wearing a gray hoodie with possibly tattered jeans, the other a dark jacket. The detectives want to talk to these two people. As soon as we get more information about what happened tonight, we will let you know, or right now the orange line is single tracking to get around this as the investigation continues. We will bring them to you on abc 7 news and the free abc 7 mobile app. Tim barber, abc 7 news. Nancy a deadly wrong way crash on the beltway in landover. Sky track 7 over the scene on. He outer loop near arena drive
Trained meteorologist. [laughter] what should he be wearing . Veronica he should take along the coat. He could get by with just that this morning, but take along the coat. The high today 50. Look at wednesdays High Temperature. Just 33 degrees. We will do better on thursday with a high of 36. Both of these days will be quite blustery. We will be talking about wind chills on top of that. Out the door this morning, as we were saying, not too bad, 43 to about 42 or did are currently quiet. Here is what will bring the cooler air this cold front in ohio and indiana currently sweeping our way. It will take us from 50 to 42 later in the day. The 42 will feel more like 35 de wind. Along with that, we are tracking a little bit in the way of snow coming up wednesday late. Will have more on that coming up in 10. Julie all right, v. J. It is still slow cell phone atng 270, still crawling this point heading down to 370 where we have the crash. Already a 41minute commute traveling about 9. 5 miles h
They need to vote, but where are they now . Alison this as a teacher is arrested, accused of possessing child pornography. Nancy and a vehicle smashes into a building. 11 00, onc 7 news at your side. Alison good evening, everyone. We are starting in the stormwatch 7 Weather Center with another night of freezing temperatures ahead. It may mean slick spots even in the morning. Tonight i am hearing everybody about slipping. And we ares very icy already starting to see delays. Fairfax, prince william, spotsylvania schools all opening two hours late. Chief meteorologist bill kelly is here and we are not playing around with these. Bill the sidewalks, will be fine. It is not a big deal in terms of the roadways, but we have had a number of people , close to hear where it has happened. You really want to be careful. The numbers right now, good evening. Most of you are above freezing currently. A couple of spots, frederick 32, hagerstown a couple degrees above. We are 38 degrees in the district,