Thank you. [applause] good afternoon. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce the presenters for this program. Richard blanco said he was made in cuba, assembled in spain and imported to the u. S. His family fled cuba after the revolution and eventually settled in miami. As a child, he possessed based on creative but also excelled in math and the sciences. In fact, before obtaining a masters in fine art from Florida International university he worked as a consulting engineer. Mr. Blanco released his first book of poetry in 1999 which won agnes lynch portrait prize. In 2005 he published directions to the beach of the day which received the beyond margins award. His 2012 his 2012 collection of coins titled looking for the gold was how touches on his life as a saturday man between domestic and integrated culture. When he was chose as the fifth poet of the United States for barack obama that cannot duration mr. Blanche go follows in the foots
In 2005 he published directions to the beach of the day which received the beyond margins award. His 2012 his 2012 collection of coins titled looking for the gold was how touches on his life as a saturday man between domestic and integrated culture. When he was chose as the fifth poet of the United States for barack obama that cannot duration mr. Blanche go follows in the footsteps of the great alexandra, my angelo and robert frost. He tells the story of that experience for all of us once a day and a nonzero poster name. His latest book the memoir explores his comingofage within two imaginary worlds. His parents nostalgic 1950 cuba and has imagined america, the country he saw on reruns of the brady bunch and leave it to beaver. Richard blancos personal narrative is an account of how he discovered his authentic self and ultimately a deeper understanding of what it means to be an american. Ross chad is a National Book Award Finalist for nonfiction. Her cartoons have been published in man
Its a very useful program. I would like to see it extended to childless dads or dads who are not living with their children so they can have an incentive to work and employers can have an incentive to hire them. We can have more Child Support paid and more families working together. There are some things we can do to try to help this population the middle but its really hard. Its difficult because the factory jobs we saw in baltimore are not coming back. Host labors love lost is the name of the book the rise and fall of the workingclass family in america. Johns hopkins sociologist Andrew Cherlin is the author and here is the cover. Charles blow Richard Blanco discuss their memoirs at the miami book fair. This is about an hour, 15. [applause] good afternoon. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. It is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce the presenters for this program. Richard blanco says he was making cuba, assembled in spain and imported to the usa. His family fled cuba after t
A lifeboat. 31 people died when the transasia plane went down shortly after takeoff. 12 remain missing. Someone in the cockpit made a may day call because of an engine problem. Searchers have found the black boxes in the planes tail. Reporter these are the last seconds of the transasia flight clipping a bridge before crashing into the river. This dash cam video captureing the plane during its deadly decent. Rescue workers used inflatable boats to pull the survivors to safety. Among the 58 passengers were four children. The plane joined airasias fleet in september. It initially gained altitude but not speed, it crashed less than three minutes after liftoff. The pilot quickly radioing he lost an engine. An airliner of any size is a metallic egg shell. You smack a brinldge with it, its going to come apart and do terrible damage to anybody in the back portion of the airplane. This is the second deadly plane crash to airasia in less than a year. As if for pilot. Officials say he had more th
Preparing to get slammed with another storm. Whos in the crosshairs this time as it barrels across america . Canine caper. The cute little dog kidnapped in Beverly Hills all caught on surveillance tape. Celebrities searching to find him. This morning the new doggie developments from the real Beverly Hills cops. Down, boy. Hey, good morning, everybody. Lets get right to our top story. Look at the map. There are now 84 cases of measles reported in 14 states since the start of 2015. Startling and that includes a frightening new case overnight, one that may have exposed hundreds of thousands of commuters. Meanwhile, doctors in arizona are scrambling to monitor 200 potentially infected people just in time for the super bowl which will, of course, be played near phoenix. Abcs Neal Karlinsky is on the story from the site of the big game in glendale. Neal, good morning to you. Reporter dan, good morning. Hard to imagine a worst place for a potential measles outbreak. Officials here at the supe