children in the school district. they simply showed up they say to make their voices heard. that was nbc s dasha burns reporting from williamson county, tennessee. well, it is the top of the hour and good to be with you tonight. hurricane ida is approaching land from the gulf and many coastal residents are leaving the coast. meanwhile the dangerous evacuation effort continues overseas in kabul. it s a race against time to evacuate all american personnel before the deadline to leave afghanistan. plus the pfizer vaccine now has full fda approval, so why are some americans choosing to self-medicate with a drug used on horses? and despite living through so much fur moil and uncertainty a new poll shows today s youth are still optimistic about the future. we ll discuss this and more with our saturday night panel. i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. this has been an emotional somewhat unrelenting week of news. first we were dealing the ongoing tragedy in afghanistan. t
hey, y all come from the west to the delta heritage center and tina turner museum where else can you find five museums collect would tell you all about the tennessee delta, especially music? did you know tina turner is a? we have one room schoolhouse and it is filled with her costumes. sleepy john always here and authentic southern experience just waiting for you right off of i-40 at exit 56 in brownsville tennessee. we can t wait to see you soon. hi, , everybody. thank you for joining us tonight from washington aware vr this evening, thank you for celebrating the southern special books with us. i am jeremy findley, a journalist at a novelist here in nashville and is my great pleasure tonight to introduce you to matthew van meter. matthew is the author of this incredible book, deep delta justice. he will talk that with you in just a moment i give a great presentation and we will have conversation afterwards. bravely want to just introduce matthew. he has worked for so
mild to warm temperatures. partly sunny around the bay. cool temperatures. mid 60s in san francisco and definitely cool and breezy along the coast in the low 60s. we re going to warm things up by the end of the week. details on that coming up. good morning gianna. good morning. if you plan on taking 580 this morning into the altamont pass no breaks there. a couple of hot spots there westbound 580 at grant line. injury crash there over to the shoulder. also on grant line road itself reports of an accident there as well. already busy out of tracy westbound from mountain house over to that grant line area. pockets of slowing through there near the livermore valley. and adding to that we are now getting a 36 minute dry time from 205 to 680 plus a big rig broken down on the 680 connector. anne? reporter: i m anne makovec at the live news desk we have the latest in the aftermath of a huge earthquake 7.8 off the alaskan peninsula. this is a live picture right now of anchorage, a
a bird strike is to blame for this frightening scene in the skies over panama. an engine on an airline caught fire. it happened on a flight to guatemala. the plane managed to return to panama city s airport safely. two pilots survived this crash in peru. they were hurt when the aircraft went down on a busy street in lima. the pair was treated at a local hospital. an air force official says the plane was forced to make an emergency landing, but didn t explain why. a man and his best friend needed a rescue from an icery river. john granthom s dog chased geese. he got the dog out before there were problems, but he fell in. a panicked 911 call by a friend on dry land to police brought help. both the man and the dog are fine. we have heard so many stories like this this winter. be careful on the ice. creepy doesn t begin to describe this story. a college student caught a man in her apartment in her closet in her own clothes. maddie from the university of north carolina i
how political parties have used the memory of lincoln. let me introduce our next speaker. michael kauffman is one of the leading historians of the lincoln assassination. he is author of american brutus: john wilkes booth and lincoln conspiracies, which was named by the new york times and the washington post as one of the best nonfiction books of 2004. there are copies of the paperback version on the registration table that you can purchase after our program is concluded. his other works include in the footsteps of an assassin and a modern edition of memoirs of a lincoln conspirator. his bus tours of the john wilkes booth escape route have been popular for many years. he has lectured throughout the country, appeared on many television documentaries. civil war historian william c. davis, jack davis, once wrote no one has studied booth longer or in more depth than michael w. kauffman, a well-known voice of reason in the field of assassination studies. today, michae