Pictures coming from rebeccas home town of bukwo. Close to the kenyan border in uganda. Last night, on friday, family members, friends and activists against gender based Violence Viewed Rebeccas coffin at the Funeral Home in the kenyan town before her body was brought back to her hometown. We heard her mother was wearing a Souvenir Bag at the time, that the athlete had received at the Paris Olympics where she competed in the marathon. Patience akumu is a ugandan lawyer she told me what lessons needed to be learned from Rebecca Cheptegeis violent death. We need to reflect about the ways in which women, no matter their social status, ways in which women, no matter theirsocialstatus, no ways in which women, no matter their social status, no matter what they have achieved in life, are still expected to bow to the expectations of society, evenif to the expectations of society, even if it kills them. Domestic violence is still a reality for many women in africa, in euston africa. The statist
people don t have no water. no food. they have been there for more than 24 hours. virginia s department of transportation, closed about 50 miles of i-95 in both directions. near fredericksburg, virginia about an hour south of washington. work crews spent the day trying to dislodge jackknifed trucks blocked stretches of the interstate. i saw nobody from the department of transportation. we didn t want to call 911. that s a true, true emergency line. state officials said preparing warming shelters and fuel trucks without gas. local first responders brought blankets and water to drivers on the frozen highway. one united states senator said he tried to make it to the capitol for a meeting last night, instead senator tim kaine says he spent the night in his car lucky to have a warm coat and a full tank of gas. a family from connecticut who were driving north coming back from a florida vacation, they took their souvenir bag of oranges out of the car and started handing them around to