We have about 45 minutes for this session and then will leave about 15 for q and a. The sponsors for our panel. Are stay with us . [applause] im happy to introduce our moderator for this session. Hes not only an attorney im sorry. I skipped over this. Hes over there. Moderator is an associate professor at the university of mississippi and hes also at the southern journal and positive. Thank you all for coming. We appreciate the presence of our guests on the panel here at the book festival. Its getting big and better every year. I will introduce briefly our guests and will carry on a discussion and i hope you all have some questions for the panel towards the end. Bestselling author of several books. Her newest book is amazons best book. Maybe some of you read this, it captures the bill of that age and its gangsters. They also call her book a well researched and highly engaging work filled with intriguing infidelity, murder and headline catching courtroom drama. Glad to have you with us.
Grandfathers arms. This was a preventible tragedy. Rorter the 1 1 2yearold died sunday afternoon after plummeting 150 feet from deck 11 of the freedom of the seas docked in san juan, puerto rico. Chloes grandfather claiming he walked her to the glass window bank near the childrens water park area, seen in this video from a cruise earlier this year. Theres a wood railing right there. He puts her up on there thinking shes going to bang on the glass and its going to be great. She goes to bang on the glass, the next thing he knows, shes gone. Reporter an attorney for the family saying chloes grandfather had no idea this window was open. According to her family, chloe loved to look through glass, pictured here face against the boards at her big brothers hockey game. The Puerto Rican Police commissioner saying investigators are interviewing her family members. Their lawyer saying the cruise line should have done more to ensure the safety of the ships youngest passengers. Why would you ever i
Were gettg a look at the u. S. Coast guard stopping smugglers on the high seas. Nbeuspect incredible vi drug smugglers hiding 17,000 pounds of cocaine. Heres abcs pierre thomas. Reporter what youre looking at is a coast guard Interdiction Team in hot pursuit of suspected drug smugglers. A crew member screaming in spanish stop the boat. That boat on the run, a submarinelike vessel called a semisubmersible designed to keep a low profile. It had been spotted by a marine patrol aircraft hundreds of miles off the coast of the ecuadoran colombian border in the eastern pacific. Waves crashing, the coast guard finally pulling alongside. A member of the team dressed in Tactical Gear boards the vessel. Then pounding on the hatch demanding that the smugglers surrender. Inside the coast guard discovers five suspects and in excess of 17,000 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated 232 million. The same week that cocaine was confiscated in june, u. S. Authorities discovered this ship in the atlantic car
At Guantanamo Bay in cuba and not in the United States. Host they are about to gavel in on the house floor. Tom cole, thank you for the conversation. We will bring you over to the house now. Live coverage on cspan,. Gaveltogavel [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. It loving god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. In these most important days in debates here in the peoples house, we beg you to send
Check out this video of an 18wheeler in flames on a north texas highway near dallas. Truck burn itsf out cause its loaded with chemicals. As you can see there, part of the interstate was closed down due to the smoke and the flames. No injuries were reported and no evacuations are under way. Authorities are investigating what caused that fire. You can see all the damage on the grass nearby. An investigation is under way in puerto rico after the tragic death of a toddler aboard a cruise ship docked in san juan. The little girl had been playing with her grandfather when she slipped away and fell to her death. Heres abcs erielle reshef. Reporter authorities in puerto rico investigating a grim scene as an indiana family grieves the death of a 1yearold little girl who fell overboard from a Royal Caribbean cruise. Investigators say the toddler and her grandfather were playing on deck 11 of the freedom of the seas cruise ship while it was docked in san juan on sunday afternoon when she plummet