Good evening and welcome. My names emily and im the adult programs librarian. Tonights event is the last of the author talks. For anyone who is not been in our library since our renovation, welcome back. Before we begin have a few housekeeping things to mention. I would ask everyone to silence her cell phones. If youre looking for the rest of their three upstairs and down the hall. Across lobby. Although we do not allow food and drink, if you like to continue your conversation after the event the cafe is often a 10 discount on food and nonalcoholic beverages. Without further do ill give the podium. [applause] thank you for being here for this essential, sadly sensual event. Limited be very brief, theres a lot to come tonight. I want to begin personal if thats okay tied it with the subject. Like all of you, we all are poor violence. I know violence fairly intimately. I had a violent youth, a lot of violence. I was a victim of a lot of it and i victimized victimizers and it was all ugly.
In the years leading up to world war ii. Fortyeight hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Television for serious readers. Now here is a look at gun violence in america. Good evening and welcome to the public library. I am it was the last of the author talks for the season. I hope you will take some time and look around and see our beautiful renovated library. Before we begin i do have a few housekeeping things to mention. First, i would like everyone to pre to please silence yourself on. And lastly, although we do not allow food or drink if you like to continue your conversation after our event the cafe is offering a 10 discount on food and non alcoholic beverages tonight. [applause]. Thank you all for being here for this essential sadly essential event i will be very brief there is a lot to come tonight. I will begin partially if thats okay its just how i tend to do especially with the subject like all of you im sure we all detest violence. And im sure im not alone when
Declaration of independence will come within days but the king of spain condemns the recent referendum as unlawful. Translation catalan authorities have broken the law of the state, and they wanted to break the unity of spain. At the conservative conference, borisjohnson declares that theresa may will make a success of brexit. Scotland marks a difference from the rest of the uk, and announces a ban on the controversial business of fracking. Well, i started out down a dirty road. And the american singer tom petty has died at the age of 66. The tributes praise a poet and a music master. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news. After testing positive for cocaine in april, britains number four, dan evans, has been banned for one year. Good evening. After the worst mass shooting in modern us history, there is still no explanation for the motives of the gunman. The attack in las vegas left 59 people dead and more than 500 injured. President trump described the attacker 64 year old Stephen Pad
Las vegas police say the gunman set up cameras in and outside his hotel room, brought more than twenty guns to the scene where he carried out his attack, may have modified rifles to increase their capacity to fire quickly and had stored more weapons at other locations. President trump described the shooter as a very sick individual. From las vegas, heres clive myrie. Stephen paddock checked in to the Mandalay Bay Hotel behind me here three days before he committed mass murder. He got his room key, calmly entered the lift, took his luggage up entered the lift, took his luggage up to the 32nd floor. What no one understood was that inside his bags we re understood was that inside his bags were 23 weapons. Some of them automatic, designed to kill as many people as possible as fast as possible. We now know tonight from the sheriffs offers that the shooting lasted for nine minutes. You may be able to make out in the building there, three lakh halls where he punched holes through the windows
And miasms there is still some toward santa marina. Once we get we are getting a few clouds coming in. It they are favoring the north bay. These are week system its. There is huge differences. 30s and 40s. Little west wind. East southeast. We dont expect much out of that. Partly cloudy and mostly sunny. One more system has to drag across but its running in to resistance and thats the fair weather friend. Cold morning. Sun and then some clouds. 50s. We are getting so close to a few near 60. Back to you. Thank you. This Morning Police are searching for a bank robber in the santa cruz mountains. They believe he is getting more dangerous. Overnight they searched the area. The Santa Clara County sheriff said just isnt ten they got a call from a woman who said a man broke into her home. He stole her van before dumping it. Investigators believe that intruder is the same man who robbed a bank at 10 00 yesterday morning. He then sped off in a White Chrysler on highway 17 after robbing that bank