african-american history and culture hosts this event. it s an hour and a half. it is such a pleasure to be here. i want to thank you so much for joining us in this celebration. we re here tonight to celebrate two important cornerstones of our democracy. one, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act and as mr. ellis said, also the 75th anniversary of the legal defense fund, and i positioned them as two cornerstones of our democracy. one is obviously a law that helped to transform this country and provide the legal protections that allowed this democracy to evolve into what it is today. still in progress, but it s certainly better than it was, but with any law you need enforcers. with any law you need those who will protect that law who will enforce it, who will allow it to live out its fullness and i know that the legal defense fund has spent all of its days since the passable of the voting rights act working towards that goal and then many, many
african-american history and culture hosts this event. it s an hour and a half. it is such a pleasure to be here. i want to thank you so much for joining us in this celebration. we re here tonight to celebrate two important cornerstones of our democracy. one, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act and as mr. ellis said, also the 75th anniversary of the legal defense fund, and i positioned them as two cornerstones of our democracy. one is obviously a law that helped to transform this country and provide the legal protections that allowed this democracy to evolve into what it is today. still in progress, but it s certainly better than it was, but with any law you need enforcers. with any law you need those who will protect that law who will enforce it, who will allow it to live out its fullness and i know that the legal defense fund has spent all of its days since the passable of the voting rights act working towards that goal and then many
african-american history and culture hosts this event. it s an hour and a half. it is such a pleasure to be here. i want to thank you so much for joining us in this celebration. we re here tonight to celebrate two important cornerstones of our democracy. one, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act and as mr. ellis said, also the 75th anniversary of the legal defense fund, and i positioned them as two cornerstones of our democracy. one is obviously a law that helped to transform this country and provide the legal protections that allowed this democracy to evolve into what it is today. still in progress, but it s certainly better than it was, but with any law you need enforcers. with any law you need those who will protect that law who will enforce it, who will allow it to live out its fullness and i know that the legal defense fund has spent all of its days since the passable of the voting rights act working towards that goal and then
discipline up to and including termination. agents are also investigating myers other son, a san francisco police officer to see if he had anything to do with the burglary. it took fire crews several hours to contain a smokey two alarm fire this afternoon. the building is a mix of small businesses and apartments. we re told the fire started in the basement which was packed with produce and refrigerators. crews say heavy smoke and flammable material mugged it tough to fight because the made it tough to fight because the fire kept flaring up. it s been running the floor and the walls, because of these small businesses, everything is subdivided and compartment lied, a lot of plywood and hard wood floor. it s difficult. fire fighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to other businesses. crews say one man suffered smoke inhalation but walked a i way before an ambulance arrived. the red cross is helping about 20 people who have been displaced. now to the wet weat
over the next few days. steve jerve has the very latest and joins us live. we re still a little ways away from this but man we ve had to watch this every day for days now. invest 99l we speculated about it. it was a difficult storm to forecast, still is. it s now a tropical depression and could become a tropical storm in the next day or so. there s enough negative influences so hopefully it would stay that way below hurric tropical depression 9, 8, and of course gaston out to sea. 8 would effect north carolina we re most concerned with 9. you can see the forecast track does strengthen it into a tropical storm tonight or sometime tomorrow. the forecast we don t move it to the northwest and northeast which most computer models do. that would be close to a landfall in cedar keys. in this scenario the advancing counterclockwise rotation would be on the southern part of that center of rotation. we d have to watch high tides at that time thursday afternoon. that time will likely