Cloud mix clouds increase towards evening. Rain showers by dawn sunday with scattered showers sunday morning and mostly cloudy in the afternoon a high of 56. Next week we stay above average for the first couple days in the low to mid 40s. Carstar single lane closure on southbound i75 at galbraith road single lane closure on southbound i75 at galbraith road beginning at 9 p. M. , followed by a double lane closure at 11 p. M. Each night monday, feb. 22 through thursday, feb. 25, with lanes reopening by 6 a. M. The following day. Also, the ramp from southbound i75 to galbraith road will be closed beginning at 11 p. M. Each night, reopening at 5 a. M. The following day. Breaking now breaking now. A pedestrian is a pedestrian is hospital after semi tractor middletown. State troopers this morning. At 14th street and verity parkway. Dispatches indicate the womans legs. No word on her condition. Well bring you any new soon as we get it. New this morning new this morning. A pedestrian struck by
Senior fellow here and its my privilege to kick off the event. I say our event and today is that for self reasons. For one thing itses t to welcome and launch a book into the world. Given that its a red letter day for antoine and fred complengt new book is just out, and if i do say so we shall rush to pick up a copy. I think we have some beyond the back so on the way out please do that. Todays is two experienced economic observers focusing not on the standard inside the beltway u stuff. Not on the usual spin cycles, but on some of us think that it is the most fundamental ailment of National Well being. R d and stem worker intensive advance ranging through reare nubble energy. Customer clusters and technology equal systems, critical and thats part of their had focus, and then cities. And the collaboration it is that they accelerate. The fact that cities and regions themselves can become incubators of growth. Antoine traveled the world for decades. Now come back to embrace the local, the
Berta caceres in honduras, another indigenous environmentalist has been murdered. We will speak with caceresdaughter as well as Lilian Esperanza lopez with copinh. Then as the u. S. Congress holds more hearings on lead poisoning of the water supply of flint, michigan, Governor Rick Snyder teifies fothe firstime. Toask y repeatedly co to flin you adm youid not ow up fomorehan seve after asked y. m no famiar. I uld have to check my schedu. Tt is what he said, you did not put october until 2015, is that right . I dont know if that is right or not. Amy well get reaction from two flint residents. Nayyirah shariff, coordinator with Flint Democracy Defense League and melissa maze, of water you fighting for, a flint, michiganbased research and Advocacy Organization founded around the citys water crisis. She and her three children suffer from longterm exposure to heavy metals. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. I
Republican candidate donald trump World Leaders reach a tentative agreement in the flight against global warming. We take a deeper look at progress made at the Climate Summit in paris we begin with news breaking out of london. A stabbing in the underground that police are calling a terrorist attack. Three people injured on the knife attack on the laceon metro station in the northeast. This is cell phone video of police in a standoff with a man, british Authorities Say he screamed this is for syria, before police used a stun gun to detain him. A victim was injured, two sustained minor injuries, according to london police. Now to the fight against i. S. I. L. , the rebel group claiming responsibility for wednesdays shooting in california. I. S. I. L. And its supporters kill the 14 people, and called on to accept the attackers as martyrs. The residents of San Bernardino are struggling to come to terms after the attacks, tributes and memorials as the people honour the fallen the key to def
Today we are joined by some esteemed panelist skisll bro abuse tremendous briefly. Jonathan holloway is a professor and teen of yale college the author of a number of volumes, most importantly, jim crow wisdom were also joined by Marcus Hunter Marcus Hunter holds appointments in africanamerican studies at yale and professor in sociology joining the attend of ucla this fall right . He is the author of the phenomenal back, black city makers. How the philadelphia anything grow changed urban america. Walter moseley is here. The phenomenal novelist, whose book [applause] whose books are too numerous to mention. So well move along to the wonderful, brilliant delightful, ammann any perry, the author of two major books on racial inequality in the United States and prophets of the hood politics politics and poetics in hiphop and finally but not least, the author of most recently ross unbound and he is unbound in that text. A writer in his books and a staffer at the the new yorker. Our moderator