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there s plenty to choose from here. the folks from huffington post have this headline about one of the top stories of the year. international women s day was the most talked about moment on facebook this year. 2017 was quite a year for women. it kicked off with the inauguration of president trump, who was elected despite being accused of more than a dozen women of sexual assault. millions of people took to the streets for the women s march in cities worldwide. as the year unfolded large numbers of women indicated interest in running for office. the final months have been marked by dozens of women courageously coming forward to call out sexual abuse by powerful men. as the year unfolded large numbers of women indicated interest in running for office. earlier this year as we saw live on c-span. part of the story takes us to capitol hill as well. a series of sexual harassment charges on the hill. the household hearing earlier this year. one of the people who testified at t ....
esthetic, maybe amendment he sic, maybe a better word would be snobbery. you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. welcome to lynchburg, virginia, on booktv. located in the foothills of the blue ridge mountains along the james river, it has a population of about 80,000 people. founded in 1757, lynchburg was named more its founder for its founder, john lynch. the city is home to poplar forest, thomas jefferson s private retreat. and with the help of our comcast cable partners, for the next 90 minutes we ll feature the city s literary history beginning with poet ann spencer. ann spencer was a poet, an american poet mostly associated with the harlem renaissance period in 1924-1945. how she becomes part of the harlem renaissance is how harlem comes to lynchburg. unfortunately, there s a whole group of people who are associated with that period of time like ann spencer that people don t know about. ann spencer was born in 1882 in henry county, vir ....
which no one in either party, establishment of neither party responded to. and donald trump reached out to them. whether they were wise to look to him as their trip and that s another can we can debate that. i have debated my relatives and friends in west virginia, but he noticed that those people were forgotten, or left behind, or look down on, were held in contempt, war was waged on their economy and he benefited. you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. welcome to lynchburg, virginia, on booktv. located in the foothills of the blue ridge mountains along the james river and has a population of about 80,000 people. founded in 1757 lynchburg was named for its founder john lynch. the city itself to poplar forest, thomas jefferson and private retreat, and jerry falwell s liberty university. with the help of our comcast cable partners come for the next and humans will feature the cities local authors and its literary history beginning with poet anne ....
if either of these reservoirs were to breach their berms, look what is out there? 3,000 homes and residences out there, all in jeopardy. that is what is threatened at this hour. already water is going out the spillway, crossing what is route 6 out there. that road out there is route 6. already water overbreaching that. and headed into those homes. they re hoping though, that is as bad as it gets. it is pretty bad. we ll show you next hour what that looks like. for now, it holding. they hope it continues to hold. neil: jeff, thank you, very, very much. by the way to jeff s point, it rice it is really not just houston but hillary vaughn is here. hi, hillary. reporter: they got off one of people just rescued. they were waiting since 4:00 a.m. for a response. what did you feel waiting for the rescue crew? obviously keeping the girls safe. luckily we re in a second story home. we hunkered down there. we wanted older neighbors to get out first. we re able-bodied, so. report ....
[applause] nancy russo, principal of little rock s central high school. [applause] michael poore, superintendent of the little rock schools. dr. henry louis gates, the alfonse fletcher university professor and direector at the center of african and african-american and research at harvard university. [applause] the honorable mark stodola, mayor of the city of little rock. cameron sholly, midwest regional director, national park service. [applause] the honorable asa hutchinson, governor of arkansas. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 42nd president of the united states, william jefferson clinton. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please give a second welcome to the a special welcome to the little rock nine. [applause] elizabeth eckford, ernest green, minnijean brown, gloria ray karlmark, carlotta walls lanier, dr. terrence roberts, thelma mothershed wair. join us in remembering the late jefferson thomas. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, th ....