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about is blood at the root: a racial cleansing in america . please welcome patrick phillips. thank you so much. for the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. this will con turn into a the book really began with a conversation in a taxicab about 10 years ago when my friend tosha treadway who some people think of as poet laureate of the us but at the time was not yet. we knew each other through the poetry world and 10 years ago we were at a professional conference and not tosha and i are old friends but she on this one night decided to challenge me because i grew up in forsyth county georgia which is known all over the state as a quote, white county but this is not something i knew in new york, had any familiarity with but natosha is an african-american woman who happened to go to the university of georgia college a little way down the road from bursae and this meant when she heard me offhandedly mentioned that i came from this state , she stopped and r ....
mike: a cyclone in fiji killed six people and destroyed hundreds of homes. authorities in fiji have imposed a curfew, and declared a month-long state of disaster. wind speeds from the cyclone were estimated at 177 miles per hour. officials say this is the strongest tropical cyclone to hit fiji in recorded history. back in the states now, new hampshire emergency crews rescued a woman stranded in a fast-moving river. it was all caught on camera. take a look at this video. when crews got there last night, they saw the woman s head ladder for the woman to hold onto as they waited for a rescue boat to get there. it was hard to see the woman because she was dressed in dark clothing. there, they are taking her to an ambulance. investigators are looking into how and why she got into the river. in north carolina now, trooper southeast of raleigh says a car kit four bicyclists. officals say a 1992 ford crown victoria approached the cyclists from the rear saturday afternoon and ....
lead to ponding on roads and creeks and streams coming out of their banks. in western north carolina, wind advisories out and also for the piedmont, too. as we continue to watch the system unfolds, let s go to chris justus and get an idea of what area may be impacted the most. chris: the concern is for your morning commute this morning. into the afternoon, it shifts east of charlotte. you can see a couple of lines towards the west. the latest computer model showing that line of heavy rainfall pushing into our area between now and 8:30 from asheville to greenville. after that, this line begins to energize as to get to the afternoon hours. around 12:00, potential big storm s east of charlotte from i-77 down to columbia. this area really will be at home, periods of rain and gusty wind as the low moves through. a look at the highest that for severe weather includes eastern cherokee, union and newberry county s. from charlotte to columbia, but it is a bull s-eye across ralei ....
to myrtle beach, they could see severe weather. there is the low-pressure system and we continue to get rain through 7:00 this evening and gusty wind. taken a look at live super doppler 4 hd, nothing severe right now across the area. this linebacker the west we are watching this line back in the wet we are watching this line back in the west. we are putting a track on it. it should be in toccoa at around 6:38 and walhalla before 7:00. allyson: thank you. taking a look at the roads, flashing lights on the right-hand side of the screen with a roadway washout. water on the road that i-85 south of you gets a highway 14. we are looking at that. it is from our deity camera from spartanburg into greenville. an accident in greenville on in lawrences laurens county also at that accident. watch out for wet roads. we have mark lyons driving on i-385 and headed into downtown greenville. not even using wind chill diapers so not to have the in the area. let s not even using the ....
i know that god is looking out for them. reporter: it s terrible. obviously, a ton of questions left for us. who fired the gun like we said and is there going to be any arrests. they don t have those questions answered yet. is there anything in this particular case that s slowing down that process? reporter: they do have a language barrier. they have translaters on staff but they re having a difficult time getting ahead of them. it s going to be a journey. a greenville county toddler is being hailed a hero for saving her mom from a fire. it happened at this location on south buck horn road. officials say the 2-year-old was in the kitchen when a space heater caught fire. she woke up her mom who was sleeping in the bedroom and both were able to get out. with no smoke alarms the naacp is demanding transparency. a warrant is not a license to kill. we have to make sure we ask the right questions. the bottom line is the truth will set us free. police shot and kill ....