thunderstorms across our interior county. so we are in a wetter pattern than normal with this. now, we have a front to the north out ahead of it is why we have all of the moisture coming in that streams in from the gulf of mexico. temps holding into the mid to upper 80s today with the cloud cover and rainfall. when we hear about a crash, the first thing we do is try to find it on our camera. so far, we don t have a camera right at so i ve been checking cameras in the area. traffic seems to be flowing good on i-75 around fowler. i ll keep checking and let you know on twitter if i see anything. here is a live look at i-275 in pinellas county right at gandy. dan? 5:31. happening today, st. petersburg city leaders are helping call city hall this morning. what s happening there today? reporter: well, dan, today they will be talking about tougher gun laws. the mayor will be meeting with the group that was founded by gabby gifford. she was the congresswoman who was shot in a m
the demographic changes for the 1980s. this is about 20 minutes. the book is called barack obama s america have new conceptions of race, family and religion end of the reagan era. catholic university professor john kenneth white is the author. professor, let s begin. tell us about the cover of the book. i had not been to do with the cover, but it works so well for the book because it is the photographs of people who attended obama rallies in 2008 and you have a mixture of coming in now, white, black, hispanic, you name it. there s even a couple of pictures and their of al gore and you have to really search for that. but it describes i think visually the changes in the democracy of the united states that led to barack obama s election. .. and sho forth. and i think americans understand the changes taking place in the country are here to stay. but for some americans can creates discomfort because there is a sense of loss. a loss of a 1950 s america. a loss of a time when ru
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aver mears in a, vermeer in a museum it says i may be a photograph, and so i got interested. rose: that is good. it is. it is too good, it is inhumanely good and i realize as a video guy what vermeer was painting there is really not possible because the eye doesn t see what he painted. it is the way a camera sees but not the way a human sees, and so i knew that there had to be a trick, a technique that he could have traced the colors, not only the shapes but traced the colors and the that s what got me going on it and one day it occurred to me. we went into this all fascinated with the vermeer technology, we thought, we originally called the movie vermeer s edge and thought this was going to be a movie about vermeer but the more we looked at it the more we went into it the more we realized it is really a story about tim, you know, it is about this, a person who has such determination and such intelligence he can stick with it beyond any, what any ordinary person would do.
aver mears in a, vermeer in a museum it says i may be a photograph, and so i got interested. rose: that is good. it is. it is too good, it is inhumanely good and i realize as a video guy what vermeer was painting there is really not possible because the eye doesn t see what he painted. it is the way a camera sees but not the way a human sees, and so i knew that there had to be a trick, a technique that he could have traced the colors, not only the shapes but traced the colors and the that s what got me going on it and one day it occurred to me. we went into this all fascinated with the vermeer technology, we thought, we originally called the movie vermeer s edge and thought this was going to be a movie about vermeer but the more we looked at it the more we went into it the more we realized it is really a story about tim, you know, it is about this, a person who has such determination and such intelligence he can stick with it beyond any, what any ordinary person would do.