[applause] my name is justin desmangles. I am the chair of the before Columbus Foundation. About eight years ago i proceeded in that position, our founder, ishmael reed, we are very fortunate to have with us joining the program today. There were some very big shoes to fill. Of course, i want to thank our friends at the San Francisco jazz center who had been so generous in their support of the american book awards for the last several years. Also our friend at cspan who continue to support the Historical Mission of the before Columbus Foundation and american book awards. I will say a few things about our direction that we embarked on recently. Over the past several years we have expanded our programming to include a number of partnerships in the bay area and nationally, including those with the San Francisco Public Library who i am very honored to say, one of the representatives, stuart shaw who has been instrumental facilitating the collaboration between the before Columbus Foundation
High school says a drug, a was found. Principal claims there was no threat to the safety of students. Wesh 2 has accrued headed to the school. Information. Meredith angela from Osceola County Konrad Schafer, the teen charged in two murders, has confessed to the crimes. Schafer was 15 years old when he was arrested, following the executionstyle murder of a 22yearold man, and a driveby killing of another teen. Jim wesh 2 s greg fox was in court for his plea. And greg, this clears a lot of crimes off the books without a trial. Greg it sure does. When he talked about the number of cases one after another, dragging on for years. Instead, family members got to see and hear schafer admit to his brutal crimes. Jon morgan i find that your decision to enter these pleas has been freely and voluntarily greg Konrad Schafer said in open court, he did it, he was behind a string of shootings and robberies, including two that ended the lives of 22yearold Eric Roopnarine at his home, and 17yearold david
Results. Im lisa bell. Glad youre with us. Im matt austin. Chief meteorologist tom sorrells is pinpointing all of it for us. When will this rain go away . Come see me about 10 00. 10 00 . By the time were talking on the late night newscast, hopefully things have slowed down. Fingers crossed. Thats my forecast. Take a look at whats happening right now. From Flagler Beach to bunnell, raining heavily, from astor to deleon springs, raining heavily. Back to the west, raining heavily from the villages to leesburg, to bellevue right now, rainfall rate is an inch per hour. There are pockets where its really just pouring. Its moving on but pouring heavily as it does. Heres windemere and orlando. Its raining hard just outside of Hunters Creek. This band of rain should make it all the way into Hunters Creek because it is fastmoving. It will be there in 13 minutes from right now, updating all the way to taft in 25 minutes from now. All of it pushing out to the so the heaviest of the rain will be o
The driving around is going to be rough because the extra rain all over. From Flagler County to volusia. Heres Daytona Beach right now. Ive got big showers falling, better than a quarter inch per hour. Its pouring from Daytona Beach and ormand beach too and palm coast, dry, dry, dry, bam, rain rolling in from the southwest as well. Heavy showers, all of Seminole County getting wet. Downtown orlando is also getting big rain to the northern side of the city. 37 of an inch around Fairview Shores over to winter park, the rain is just pouring down. Theres plenty more where this is coming from. Look at this, some of the heaviest rain of the day is moving on shore around tampa right now. So weve got hours to go before all this is said and done. Future radar takes much of that heavy rain from tampa and rolls it right into orange and osceola counties between now and 7 00 tonight. The other things you mentioned, Daytona Beach visibility is only a mile and a half. One mile in sanford and a halfmi