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Now actor and producer Wendell Pierce will talk about his family and their new orleans neighborhood followed by hurricane katrina. His book is, the wind and the reefs. He reefs. He speaks of the 27th annual southern festival of books. Hello, welcome. This is the southern festival of books session on the wind and the reefs with the author Wendell Pierce. We will be ready to begin. Just a bit of housekeeping. First of all welcome to the National Public library and thank you for so much for hosting...

Limit the floor procedure process. And you mentioned bill schuster. Heres a tweet that you sent out. Ive been waiting three years for this so here we go he tells the House Rules Committee. Why did it take so long to get to this . One of the major contentions behind the surface transportation reauthorization bill is the difficult funding situation and, again, we have a couple timetables in terms of the deadline on the highway bill. First of all, current authorization runs out november 20, so were...

Maximum number of people participate. Willmay mean some of us not win, but that is ok. I see it from both sides. Ran, you doackson not have a lot of people with the career like me, that was a high turnout. What i make it . It . Ould i make sets out the should look at it. We should look at other places that may be unique to texas to encourage more people to participate who ought to be embarrassed because so few people are participating in the state. We talked about 2016, but i want to talk about ...

Well good monday morning. We begin with pope in cuba. Holding facetoface meetings with the castro brothers. A message of reconciliation, hope, and service, as the pope departs havana this morning for a city in southern cuba. Bazi kanani is in washington where the pope touches down for the first time tomorrow afternoon on u. S. Soil. Reporter the vatican says it was the largest crowd a pope has ever received while visiting cuba. He warned the faithful there against elitism and encouraged lives of...

[ technical difficulty ] and good morning. We begin this half hour with the popes ten day trip that will take him from cuba to the United States attracting a crowd in havana 300,000 strong. It was a huge and massive crowd there. Pope francis told catholics that they must serve others if they want to be great. And in a subtle jab to communism, he said service is not ideology. But he refrained from any direct criticism of the cuban government. The pope met with the president raul castro and also v...

I would like to remind the members of the public that the commission does not tolerate any disruption or outbursts of any kind, please silence the cell phones, if you care to state your name for the record. I would like to take roll. Woning. Here. Wu. Here. Antonini. Here. Hillis. Here. Johnson. Here. Moore. Here. Richards. Here. And for the recreation and Park Commission. Buell. Here. Low. Here. Lef. And mcdonnell have an excused absence. Thank you, commissioners. Under your special calendar, p...

Of this project this project should be voted on today and approved. Commissioner hillis. I want to add ill vote against a continuance im been on the commission for 3 and a half years this is the project weve heard the mothering most about there are issues of Affordable Housing and what the projects looks like but im prepared to vote on this today and vote on any changes weve heard this project a lot we continue a project there are tons of projects that we hear them oh, my god the day to continue...

Here. Hillis. Here. Johnson. Here. Moore. Here. Richards. Here. And for the recreation and Park Commission. Buell. Here. Low. Here. Lef. And mcdonnell have an excused absence. Thank you, commissioners. Under your special calendar, please note that the joint commissions will hold one public hearing for the public to provide testimony on all items listed below, including consideration of whether to certificate the eir. Following the public hearing, the Planning Commission will consider action on c...

The suspect sneaking into one familys home, taking off with their stuff. Did he hack his way inside . And is your home vulnerable . Good evening. Thanks for joining us on this sunday. Im tom llamas. We begin with the popes historic visit to the new world. The United States, beginning on tuesday. First, a visit to cuba. Pope francis, crowds cheering him. Traveling a sea of cuban and vatican flags. And speaking in spanish, his homily, a message to the people of cuba to focus on service, not ideolo...

Right now where the process of doing a lot of great work. Onto our esteemed author. Wendell pierce was born in new orleans and as an actor and Tony Awardwinning producer. He starred in all five seasons of the acclaimed hbo drama, the wire. You may remember [applause]. You may remember him as a humble man with great attributes. Mr. Pierce was nominated for an naacp image award for outstanding supporting actor in drama series for that role. He is also starred as a player Antoine Baptiste [applause...