Africanamerican history and culture hosts this event. Its an hour and a half. It is such a pleasure to be here. I want to thank you so much for joining us in this celebration. Were here tonight to celebrate two important cornerstones of our democracy. One, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights act and as mr. Ellis said, also the 75th anniversary of the Legal Defense fund, and i positioned them as two cornerstones of our democracy. One is obviously a law that helped to transform this country and provide the Legal Protections that allowed this democracy to evolve into what it is today. Still in progress, but its certainly better than it was, but with any law you need enforcers. With any law you need those who will protect that law who will enforce it, who will allow it to live out its fullness and i know that the Legal Defense fund has spent all of its days since the passable of the Voting Rights act working towards that goal and then many, many others. Im particularly
Africanamerican history and culture hosts this event. Its an hour and a half. It is such a pleasure to be here. I want to thank you so much for joining us in this celebration. Were here tonight to celebrate two important cornerstones of our democracy. One, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights act and as mr. Ellis said, also the 75th anniversary of the Legal Defense fund, and i positioned them as two cornerstones of our democracy. One is obviously a law that helped to transform this country and provide the Legal Protections that allowed this democracy to evolve into what it is today. Still in progress, but its certainly better than it was, but with any law you need enforcers. With any law you need those who will protect that law who will enforce it, who will allow it to live out its fullness and i know that the Legal Defense fund has spent all of its days since the passable of the Voting Rights act working towards that goal and then many, many others. Im particularly
Discipline up to and including termination. Agents are also investigating myers other son, a San Francisco Police Officer to see if he had anything to do with the burglary. It took fire crews several hours to contain a smokey two alarm fire this afternoon. The building is a mix of Small Businesses and apartments. Were told the fire started in the basement which was packed with produce and refrigerators. Crews say heavy smoke and flammable material mugged it tough to fight because the made it tough to fight because the fire kept flaring up. Its been running the floor and the walls, because of these Small Businesses, everything is subdivided and compartment lied, a lot of plywood and hard wood floor. Its difficult. Fire fighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to other businesses. Crews say one man suffered smoke inhalation but walked a i way before an ambulance arrived. The red cross is helping about 20 people who have been displaced. Now to the wet weather, its been raining o
Over the next few days. Steve jerve has the very latest and joins us live. Were still a little ways away from this but man weve had to watch this every day for days now. Invest 99l we speculated about it. It was a difficult storm to forecast, still is. Its now a tropical depression and could become a Tropical Storm in the next day or so. Theres enough negative influences so hopefully it would stay that way below hurric tropical depression 9, 8, and of course gaston out to sea. 8 would effect North Carolina were most concerned with 9. You can see the forecast track does strengthen it into a Tropical Storm tonight or sometime tomorrow. The forecast we dont move it to the northwest and northeast which most computer models do. That would be close to a landfall in cedar keys. In this scenario the advancing counterclockwise rotation would be on the southern part of that center of rotation. Wed have to watch high tides at that Time Thursday afternoon. That time will likely change as well as t
Including the beautiful witnessing of the structure that is across the way that will house the history of the people in this country who have done so much to bring its truth to reality. In this country who have done so much to bring its truths to reality. So many of you may know the Legal Defense fund for its masterminding and being the architects of brown versus board of education, but our legacy in the area of Voting Rights is equally powerful. For decades we have worked to enforce and expand the protections under the Voting Rights act which itself was enacted to enforce the 14th and 15th amendments. Weve done that for well over five decades. We played a vital role in the pivotal events that led to the passage of the Voting Rights act by representing the marchers. We were the legal team that worked with the marchers that worked with the late dr. Martin luther king in not only mapping out the logistics of the march but even the root of the march, and we have the historic order that al