In october of 1835, there was a letter sent to my family asking them to join the revolution. A copy of the letter is actually in my office here in washington, d. C. You can see them saying, the time to revolt is now. Over the generations, what has your family done for a living . Rep. Taylor i have been working in commercial real estate, oil and gas, farming, my family has a long history of texas with a lot of love for our state. I am very honored to represent the people of the Third District of texas. Who are your parents . Rep. Taylor my father is an attorney and a businessman, my mother is a homemaker. I grew up in midland, texas and i was born in dallas. I live about 50 miles from where i was born, not too far from home. I joined the marine corps, took a commission after i graduated from college, served on active duty for several years, continued to serve my country, got my mba from Harvard Business school, then i moved back to dallas where i was born. Went into real estate, and i w
These. But first, lets take a look at the weather. Yes, darya james here get rain is standing by with traffic in john here for stuff back with a look at the forecast foggy . Yeah, those little bit, john, just a touch of fog. Overwhelmingly great day for sure. And we are going to be seeing some increasingly bright skies here just a few minutes, as you can see behind me. Nice little sunrise there behind the bay bridge going on right now. Similar perspective is what you just behind our ian james, a little bit of that light coming up over just a touch of fog out there across a lot of the bay where you are seeing it. There are a few dan spots like through the golden gate and into the north bay. So watch out for those areas. A much calmer start to the morning. Then we saw yesterday not looking at any convictions. So no thunderstorms. Its 50s 60s and some 70s to kick off this one later on today. Were going to be just as hot as we were yesterday, right back around 100 degrees for a lot of our
Good evening, everyone. My name is elijah and id like to welcome you all to the Elliott Bay Book company, where were very happy to have stephen here to give a reading on his most recent book, inequality kills us all. Covid 19 Health Lessons for the world stephen bezruchka, m. D. M. P. H. , is an associate teaching Professor Emeritus in the departments of Health Systems and Population Health and of Global Health at the school of Public Health at the university of washington. Were also joined tonight by cspan booktv, who are recording tonights event. Were going to have a little conversation and start off with stephen, have a little q a from, the audience, and then were all done. Well wrap up our book signing in the back where you can also purchase stephens book from me. So with that lets all give a warm welcome to stephen. Thank you, elijah. I hope you can hear me and thank all for coming and i want to i think this is a complex hearted book. And if i were to read passages from it, it mig
Its wednesday, the 3rd of april. Three british aid workers who died in an israeli air strike in gaza have been named. John chapman, James Henderson and james kirby were amongst seven others who were killed. The men were part of a Security Team working for the Charity World central kitchen. Theres been International Condemnation of the strike, with israel saying it was unintended. Graham satchell reports. The pictures tell their own devastating story. The team from the Charity World central kitchen was travelling in a convoy of three cars you can clearly see their logo. Each car was hit in what looks like a precision targeted attack. The charity has now paid tribute to the seven workers who lost their lives including three british nationals. 57 year old john chapman who is believed to have served in the Royal Marines was working for the charity as a security adviser. James henderson, who was 33, is also understood to have served in the marines. James kirby was a7, and another armed forc
Welcome to bbc news. Egypts military says it has carried out air strikes on those behind the deadliest islamist terror attack in the countrys recent history. More than 300 people were killed and more than 100 injured, after gunmen detonated a bomb and stormed a mosque in a remote town in north sinai yesterday. Egypts air force says it has destroyed vehicles used by the militants, as well as weapons and ammunition at what it described as terrorist locations. 0rla guerins report contains some distressing images. A rush to save those wounded when a place of worship became a place of carnage. The attackers struck during friday prayers. For egypt, this was a grim new first. The mosque was popular with sufi muslims, who revere saints and shrines, and are viewed as heretics by islamic extremists. Within hours, a televised address to a nation in shock. President Abdel Fattah Al sisi telling egyptians their anguish would not be in vain and there would be decisive punishment. The sophisticated a