Dangers as we head into tomorrow night. Now to the death of maya maya angelou. I was seven teen. My mother said i think youre the greatest woman i ever met i thought about her and thought suppose shes right . So suppose i am going to be someone. She was somebody. Poet activist, and story teller. Maya angelou was many things she died today at age 86. She had strong ties to the bay area. Abc7 News Reporter Carolyn Tyler joins with us the story. Reporter tributes are pouring in tonight. She was one of the mosteloquent voices in america, and many in San Francisco felt the presence. Maya angelou spent her form tiff years here she was only 16 when she became the citys first black female conductor. She told oprah finwin free how she did it i went to my mother and said they wont allow me to asupply. She asked y do you know why . I said yes. Because im a negro. She said do you want the job . Go get it. In her 20s she was singing the blues in purple onion to support her young son. Her writing ha
That will do it for this mornings washington journal. Back tomorrow morning at 7 00 eastern. Lots of politics coverage coming up today. Well see you back tomorrow morning at 7 00. Thanks. [captions Copyright National able satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] coming up in about half an hour, former agriculture dan glickman. Hell be speaking to the Johns Hopkins school of advanced studies and well bring that to you live starting at 10 350er7b. Coming up live at Health Policy specialists take part in the discussion about the u. S. Response to ebola dough domestically. Starting at noon eastern. And tonight our campaign 2014 coverage will continue. Massachusetts governors debate gets under way at 8 00 this evening between democrat Martha Coakley and republican Charlie Baker. We invite you to participate through facebook and twitter as we watch that debate tonight. Here
Hello and welcome to tonights program in the Commonwealth Club of california. My name is kevin omalley, chairman of the business and leadership format the club and host for tonight. Our program tonight, food fights for the 21st century, women voices driving change. Our panelist are dab a coons garcia, director of symphony for the soil. Mrs. Honeycutt, executive director of moms across america. Judy shields, executive director of teams turning green and our moderator is cindy dames, c. E. O. Of text talk studio and moms determined. Now ill turn the program over to christy dames. Thanks to the Commonwealth Club. We appreciate being here tonight and im excited to have these three powerful women, some moms, some not. Powerful women, all the same. Tonight we have a program about food and whats happening with our food. Im asking my first question of Deborah Coons garcia. You have two major awardwinning films and have been a filmmaker since 1970 and are quite the vocal activist and speaker an
Or scary or harder to fix. But in fact, we have reached that point. Thats where we are. Le yesterday, forap example, a man leaped on stage atev a Campaign Event and tried to stab lee o zeldin xeljanz, a sitting member of congress. Hes challenging the unelected incumbent kathy hochul in the governors race in new york. So ordinarily attempting to assassinate a federal officeholder would be considered a big deal. But lee zeldin is a republican , so its not a big anymore. The man who tried to murder leee zeldin was released immediatelys with no bail. Less than twenty four hours y co later by contrast, former trump advisor steve bannon was c convicted of crimes until recently were not crimes at all for which he now faces a prison term of two years. Bannon has been declared guilty of something called contempt of congress that may strike you as an unintentionally hilarious term since most of the Time Congress invites our contempt. But the point is this is a crime the democrats are not convict
State tv, says one gunman went into a shrine and opened fire for they say he was shot and taken into custody. Joseph giovanni has more from to ron. There was one gunman who carried out this attack in sha cheryl at shrine that is known as the king of light shine. Its one of the most well known at monuments in the city of shiraz in farce province. This one gunman, according to the police official, it was shot by at, by Security Forces and he is in police cars city at the moment. A he also said the police chief at that they have a number of casualties and a number of people that are critical condition. Confrontations between iranian Security Forces and demonstrators have taken place in the home town of massa. I mean me. The 22 year old died while in the custody of irans morality police. Thousands of protesters march towards the cemetery where she is buried, remarking 40 days since her death. The you case new leader is she so like, has faced his 1st prime ministers. Questions . Opposition