Traumatic childhood, she was raped and went mute for five ars, to r days wking with martin lher kingjr. , and malcolm to the wting of r classi i knowhy the ced birdings. Thfilm is lled, ma angelou and still i rise. The writer has to take these most known things and put them together in such a way that a reader says, i never thought of it that way before. That is a challenge. Id i know many writers and said, no, are you sure you want me to do this . Amy we will speak to the filmmakers rita coburn whack and bob hercules, as well as Maya Angelous ran son Colin Johnson. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. More Senate Republicans have backed majority leader Mitch Mcconnells pledge to block any nominee president obama chooses to replace justice antonin scalia. Scalia died on saturday at a hunting resort in texas at the age of 79. Republicans are threatening to stall his replacement until a new president is in p
Remarkable life from her traumatic childhood, she was raped and went mute for five ars, to r days wking with martin lher kingjr. , and malcolm to the wting of r classi i knowhy the ced birdings. Thfilm is lled, ma angelou and still i rise. The writer has to take these most known things and put them together in such a way that a reader says, i never thought of it that way before. That is a challenge. Id i know many writers and said, no, are you sure you want me to do this . Amy we will speak to the filmmakers rita coburn whack and bob hercules, as well as Maya Angelous ran son Colin Johnson. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. More Senate Republicans have backed majority leader Mitch Mcconnells pledge to block any nominee president obama chooses to replace justice antonin scalia. Scalia died on saturday at a hunting resort in texas at the age of 79. Republicans are threatening to stall his replacement unti
56 kingston, poughkeepsie, newburgh, temperature still dropping a little bit here. Were looking at a temperature around 62 long island, 59 down the jersey shore. A couple little sprinkles are left on the eastern end of long island and up toward ulster and sullivan county. That will cut across dutchess. Sunshine returning today. 60 by noontime, 62 this afternoon. Stihl well have that wind today up to 25 miles per hour. More rain is coming and a big chill this weekend. Well all talk about that in the accuweather sevenday forecast coming up. Its weather then heather every 7 minutes. Lets see whats happening. Good morning everybody. Seeing delays on the 7 train. The problem is ongoing signal problems over at willets point. New Jersey Transit, metro north, lirr all on time. Watch for this problem on 84 eastbound towards exit 17 in dutchess county, a collision. Heres a look at the westbound side of the southern state, very solid here right through eagle avenue in nassau county. Going to our
Today is tuesday december 15th. High overnight . Very rare. That front brought us rain last night. Now that front has pushed through and skies are going to start clearing out. Temperatures are still warm. 64 degrees. The temperatures going to continue to drop now from the hours that we hit that record high, which was around 3 in the morning. Now its 60 at kingston and poughkeepsie. It should be 22 degrees there, its 60. 58 around bridgeport. 60 around islip. Today well see the temperature dropping on down. Then its going to warm up. Well have a high this afternoon in the low 60s. Were going to talk about the weekend which is going to get brisk and chilly. All that and your accuweather sevenday forecast in just a moment. Debbie duhaime is in the Traffic Center for heather this morning. Downtown delays with signal also on the g, no service between court square and nostrun avenue. New jersey transit, metro north lirr on time. Its ongoing maintenance. Up at the the Tappan Zee Bridge speeds
Goodbye to one of the greatest. Iran lays to rest the woman called the lioness. Welcome to the programme, there has been a night of israeli air strikes on the gaza strip, seven palestinians were killed. Israeli Officials Say more than 80 rockets were fired from gaza on friday. A 4yearold israeli boy was killed by a rocket launched from near a school, used by hamas. This is the sabre area, where homes were flattened in a barrage of israeli air strikes. Witnesses say intense attacks destroyed everything here. Translation two missiles hit a house. Within a few minutes there was another strike. All the block came down, for 500m everything was destroyed. There is nothing standing. People didnt have time to escape. Everyone was injured. No one was left. It wasnt just of the sabre area. Dozens of strikes lit you will gazas skies. Medical teams struggled to bring the wounded to hospital. Translation we were all sitting, me and my children at home, waiting to have dinner. We held a loud explosi