Presence and persistence and devotion to this very worthy and necessary and urgent, and i would say even medicinal, organization. At the beginning of this year, in january, United States lost one of its most innovative and exciting writers, baracka. Twice winner of the american book award, who is a strong supporter of the before Columbus Foundation. In fact, his last appearance here in San Francisco was at a fundraiser at yossis, not far from here to raise money for the before Columbus Foundation. So, in our embrace, of the arc and an panorama of american art and history i want to dedicate my portion of the program to the memory of a poet and writer, ameri baraka. We have quite a harvest this afternoon. And were honored by the presence of many of the most fertile writers. Who offer illumination and insight, and as i mentioned, a few moments ago, some very strong medicine, and some very ill times. So, before we get into that, id like to start with a gentleman, good friend, who cant be w
Go to booktv. Org. The before Columbus Foundation presents the winners of the american book awards in San Francisco, calif. I am the chairman of the board of directors and i want to thank our friends for their sponsorship for this afternoons awards and my colleagues on the board of directors for their presence and persistence and devotion to this very worthy and necessary and urgent and i would say even medicinal organization. At the beginning of this year january, the United States lost one of its most innovative and exciting writers, mary barracca twice winner of the american book award a strong supporter of the before Columbus Foundation. His last appearance in San Francisco was a fundraiser not far from here to raise money for the before Columbus Foundation. Still in our embrace of the panorama of American Literature and history of this afternoon unlike to dedicate my portion of the program to the memory of appellates and writer, amory bar barracca barracca. We have quite a harvest
Wilmington and dover so these are the locations where we had recordlow temperatures this morning. Allentown minus one and 1 degree at the airport there in Atlantic City. This is what you felt, however, when you stepped outside early this morning. Wind chills below zero, 34 degrees below zero this morning in the poconos, 17 below in philadelphia, fifteen below in wildwood and 20 degrees below zero in trenton. Now, early this afternoon and early this evening we do have a bit of a recovery. It feels like 4 degrees currently in philadelphia from where we were earlier today. Zero in the poconos, wind chill currently in wildwood of three. Same thing in dover. We are tracking some changes just in time for the start our weekend. Storm tracker 6 live double scan radar showing you snow breaking out in atlanta, same thing nashville tennessee so theres an area of low pressure. The low is over texas but this will work its way from a southwest to northeast direction as early as overnight tonight and
We begin tonight in Central Africa where the United Nations is trying to prevent civil war in south sudan. The u. N. Agreed to send another 6,000 troops to the region, more than doubling the number of peacekeepers there. Fighting between the countrys army and rebels loyal to south sudans Vice President has been particularly fierce in the city of bore. Some of the images in her report may be difficult to watch. Reporter collecting bodies in bor is going to be a grim task. South sudans Army Officials say these men defected scombroined the rebels. Jz cannot independently verify this. Civilians are among the dead. Some of the bodies are starting to decompose. The killings happened during days of fighting between Government Troops and rebels loyal to the former Vice President. They say he tried to topple the president. Hes now on the run with other rebels. Theyre moving together and he they collected all the cars here, the government cars, the cars of the ngos, the cars of oil executives. A
Pressure on them. The fact the pressure on judges both of employees and executive power in from the media should be a case of law. I spent it with epithets. Just a couple watches us with our judicial system has improved by twenty three positions over the four years since the fifth congress of judges the criterion of the independent courts in Global Competitiveness of drinking proves it nevertheless we only take the place means that we need to improve our position order to enter the top thirty most developed countries in the world. Therefore it is necessary to strengthen our common work and all the activity in legal system reform especially the core of the system that is the system of justice which is optional the president of context and also instructed to develop the new code of civil procedure according to the leader of the state the order proceedings shall be easy and fast for all sides of the process over there should be irresponsible method for distinguishing cases that require ad