[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening, folks. We are going to ahead and get started. If you havent gotten a copy of the book outside, please do so. First of all, welcome to the open Society Foundation in new york city. Its our pleasure to host you for what promises to be a terrific event for the boldly titled book, the end of White Christian america. Its my honor to introduce tonights events. I grew up in the way to sit in the United States committed beautiful state of maine and the United Church of christ of this conversation hits close to home for me and professionally. Id like to thank robert jones was known for robbie for several years and Sam Tanenhaus for joining us that id like to think Elizabeth Berg newcomer nathan mckie and the society team for putting the event together. In addition to the foundation, tonights event is cosponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of new york, Ford Foundation and the new world foundation. Im a longtime fan of robert jone
Black residents make up 30 of lynchburg population. ; with that being said the Police Department is nowhere close to that representation. ; reporter as for hispanics. ; that one . Thats other. I assume thats me. That one . ; reporter the first order of business sorry getting out in the community to make sure all heard. Next hiring more women, local residents and people of color. ; no one should believe that in order to hire minorities you have to lower your hiring levels levels. Thats not true. Thats a falsehood. ; reporter chief diaz hire twod African Americans to join the team. Officer joe tucker. ; i would like to be somebody the community thinks they can upon depend on and count on. ; reporter empowers diversity in the police force in and the community. ; its important. People want someone who they can somebody who understands them as a person. ; reporter whether they are white, black or brown male or female when hes with his coworkers. ; youre part of a family not just a Police De
The last two weeks, he says hes had to get his scooter realigned twice. And cars dont have it any better. It shakes up everything in the engine, it shakes up your axle, it shakes everything in your car so you gon be spendin. Hes right. Mechanics at harris tire say the damage done by potholes bring in the big bucks. It could cost 60 dollars almost to thousands. Take a look at this. Another victim. If you ride around with low tire pressure and you hit a good pothole thats all it takes to do Something Like this and if you do have a faceoff with a pothole heres what public works recommends you should do. First call 856city to report it. We send people as quick as we possibly can because once someone hits it we dont want someone duplicating that. But if they do, they can file a claim with the citys risk manager. They are usually pretty good about doing the right thing by citizens. Still, every situation. Like potholes. Is different. Which is why on the lookout. For these money hungry holes.
Much above freezing for a while. ; reporter going to have to wait until next week before we see a significant warm up. Were looking out over wards road in lynchburg. The temperature dropped to 21. That light blue number is the wind chill. Thats how cold it feels. Actual temperatures teens and 20s. Virginia tech youre down to 16. Danville at 26. This map shows how cold it feels now. Single digit wind chills in roanoke. When you wake up tomorrow morning it is going to be cold everywhere with temps in the teens. Coming up later well let you know when we will see warmer weather and when we could see some snow returning to virginia. ; anchor state police are looking for a man who they said fled the scene of an accident. Troopers said they were in they say the car hit another vehicle near web road on route 2 220 flipped and caught fire. 4 people were taken to the hospital. Canine units are searching the area for the man who took off. With temperatures dropping so low overnight. There are imp
Barry letterman he can confirm that man is dead. He was in his 70s. We werent allowed to get very close to shoot video of where they were shooting. If it was anything like looking through this home you can imagine what they had to go through. Weve seen dozens like it today completely destroyed. Reminants of the folks that had a home here. Furniture. Food back here from a re refrigerator. Unbelievable chaos here tonight. This is one that we have seen. There are so many. Set up a staging area at Evergreen Baptist Church as they looked for the man. Shes in shock to see how many of her neighbors homes exist anymore. She saw her neighbor across the street get blown through a field she hasnt heard if he was okay or not. She feels unbelievably blessed to be alive. This is what appears to be a living room. I found this picture here. A broken picture of the folks that lived here. Again, just unbelievable destruction here in appomattox. Checking with the Sheriffs Office and bring them to you as