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Readers. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is john allen, president of the Brookings Institution and it is my sincere pleasure to welcome you to todays event celebrating andre perrys release of his new book know your price, valuing black lives, across brookingss roughly 104 year history brookings has taken powerful positions on issues of race, equality and civil rights. These issues stand at the top of brookings qualities and i have made this president ial priority, certainly for the...

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Friday will yield stronger winds gusting between 30 and 35 mph as we keep to partly cloudy skies and highs between 51 and along with partly cloudy skies have the suspect in a Bank Hostage Situation in custody thats according to a tweet from jacksonville Sheriffs Office. They say 11 people were being held inside the bank, while the man was trying to rob it. No word yet if anyone is hurt. But they did receive a call that someone was shot. The swat team and hostage business in the area were evacuat...

Use the hashtag artist places. Fire up your smart phones if you get a chance. I am mark muro, senior fellow at the metropolitan policy program and my privilege to kick off todays auspicious event. I say our event today is auspicious for several reasons. It is always auspicious to welcome and help launch a book into the world, given it is a red letter day for fred bacher whose excellent book the smartest places on earth is just out and if i do say so, rush to pick up a copy, we have some out beyo...

Two objects believed to be parts of that egyptair plane have believed to have been found. That debris that you just mentioned found near a greek island, something aviation experts anticipated happening rather quickly given the area where the plane vanished. This all started happening around 8 30 our time last night. The planes ms 04 with 66 passengers on board, french president Francois Hollande saying the plane crashed. Heres something interesting. Nbcs tom costello says the Greek Military repo...

Story in district investigation into what caused Early Morning fire me northeast d. C. 31 0 block of bladeensburg road. Melanie alnwick sl followinging this for us and brings us the latest now. Melanie. Hey, good morning, once again steve and allison an before earlier in the show showing you the front of building and now we came down to side of building and better look at how many different businesses are in here. And the efforts that firefighters had to go through to try to get in this building...

[inaudible conversation] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this shakespeare theater bar Associations Annual dinner mock trial. Before we begin the trial takes time to silence all Electronic Devices so as not to disrupt his evenings proceedings. Photography of tonights trial is strictly prohibited. Join me in welcoming trustee andchair of the bard association, Abby David Lowell area. [applause] good evening. Thanks for joining us tonight. At the annual dinner and mock trial event presented by the ...

Attention with a republican candidate. Our team has it covered. First to South Carolina carolina. Reporter Clinton Campaign officials feel confident. They are hoping to match or beat senator sanders win in new hampshire. That would give second clinton big momentum heading into super tuesday. Thank you so much, columbia. Reporter secretary clinton coasting to an expected win in the First Southern primary. For clinton, South Carolina is a key part of her southern firewall. Its a test for whether s...

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