The January 6th Insurrection. This is American Voices. We begin in the southwest, where people are frantically preparing for Hurricane Hilary. The latest update from the National Hurricane center hilary has been downgraded to a category two storm. It is making its way north alongside mack mexicos baja coastline. Heavy rain is expected to impact california in arizona starting sunday. The National Weather service is calling the storm rare and dangerous. And here is why. Parts of the California Desert are forecasted to get three years worth of rain in just 48 hours. Lets get an update from Priscilla Thompson in palm springs, california. Priscilla, how are people where you are preparing right now . Yeah, alicia menendez, folks here are frantically filling those sandbags, hoping to protect their homes and businesses as that rainfall is expected to move in here in the coming hours, really. And this operation has been going since about 6 am local time. Thats 9 am eastern time. And its expecte
We began the southwest where people are frantically preparing for Hurricane Hilary. Latest update from the National Hurricane center, hillary has been downgraded to category two storm. Its making its way north alongside mexico spa coastline. Heavy rain is expected to impact california in arizona starting sunday. The National Weather service is calling the storm rare and dangerous. And here is why. Parts of the California Desert are forecasted to get three years worth of rain in just 48 hours. Lets get an update from Priscilla Thompson in palm springs, california. Priscilla, how are people where you are preparing right now . Yeah, alicia menendez, folks here are frantically filling those sandbags, hoping to protect their homes and businesses as that rainfall is expected to move in here in the coming hours, really. And this operation has been going since about 6 am local time. Thats 9 am eastern time. And its expected to continue for about the next four hours. You can see there are folks
We begin in the southwest, where people are frantically preparing for Hurricane Hilary. The latest update from the National Hurricane center hilary has been downgraded to a category two storm. It is making its way north alongside mack mexicos baja coastline. Heavy rain is expected to impact california in arizona starting sunday. The National Weather service is calling the storm rare and dangerous. And here is why. Parts of the California Desert are forecasted to get three years worth of rain in just 48 hours. Lets get an update from Priscilla Thompson in palm springs, california. Priscilla, how are people where you are preparing right now . Yeah, alicia menendez, folks here are frantically filling those sandbags, hoping to protect their homes and businesses as that rainfall is expected to move in here in the coming hours, really. And this operation has been going since about 6 am local time. Thats 9 am eastern time. And its expected to continue for about the next four hours. You can se
libraries are the front lines in the fight over banning books. in missouri, lawmakers threatened to cut state funding for local libraries that did not impose strict standards on what kids should be reading. texas well, they tried to do the same for libraries that allow drag story hours. all this is happening while americans are relying on their libraries more than ever. according to the institute of museum and library services, more than 1.3 billion americans visited libraries in 2015. that was more than zoos, museums, or theme parks combined. that is because libraries can be a great resource, not just for books, but for access to the internet. and they can be a fantastic source of community. i want you to check out the this story from librarian michael freitz outside sacramento. there is this kid looking for books in the spanish section. he finally finds a book, runs over to a grown-up who is working on their laptop and says, dad, i found a book! can you please help me read it
libraries are the front lines in the fight over banning books. in missouri, lawmakers threatened to cut state funding for local libraries that did not impose strict standards on what kids should be reading. texas well, they tried to do the same for libraries that allow drag story hours. all this is happening while americans are relying on their libraries more than ever. according to the institute of museum and library services, more than 1. 3 million americans visited libraries in 2015. that was more than that is because libraries can be a great resource, not just for books, but for access to the internet. and they can be a fantastic source of community. i want you to check out the story from librarian michael freitz outside sacramento. there is this kid looking