Industry, americas Cable Television company, as a public and brought to you today i your television provider. Good evening. My name is leslie kavasch and im here to introduce our guest, clyde ford. Client is former assistant engineer with ibm. He graduated from university of Western State here in portland as a doctor of chiropractic, and he is a trained psychotherapist. He the awardwinning author of 12 works of fiction and nonfiction. Clive is recipient of the rate award, in African American literature as well as numerous other awards for his books. Hes been a guest on the oprah show, npr, and radio and tv programs across the nation. Clyde is here tonight to speak about his latest book think black which was just released shortlisted for the 2019 book prize in social justice. Wed you please join me in welcoming to the planetarium at the Oregon Museum of science and industry clyde ford. [applause] thank you leslie and thank you all for being here. I cant tell you how special it is to bee
The seventh ward. In new orleans. It is behind tremaine, behind the Historic District. Itis not historically district itself. Even though there are Historic Homes here. This is where we are at a year after the storm. The houses, 56 feet. These houses were built in the traditional style. Maybe not raised enough. This style of home is double shotgun. What is great about these homes as far as being built for this environment is they are raised. They cant be ventilated. They have windows and doors and all sides. Good for air circulation. Construction is what is the best thing about it. They have cyprus framing, and its the old river cyprus that grows in water. It doesnt get flood damaged. Many of these people have hard pine floors, which straighten out just fine. You see there is a big mix of homes, old and new. Is this a predominantly africanamerican neighborhood . Predominantly. For the most part. It reflects the citys balance, i would say. This might be the street. But, you see, you don
President s use of his twitter account. 71 believe his tweets hurt his agenda and by the way, this poll was taken before yesterdays tweet. All right, now what . Donald trump is not well, Mika Brzezinski and joe wrote that as well and thats as a result of the president ial tweet. They canceled their vacations and no tweets yet about morning joe from the president. Lets get to the markets, big selloff yesterday. As Interest Rates were rising and concentrated in big tech stocks. Weve got a modest bounce for the overall market first thing this morning. Reality check, investors want the growth agenda. So do voters. But the president s tweets get in the way. Varney company is about to begin. I made a bold prediction, by the end of this month, the price of gas in a half dozen states will be below 2 a gallon. As of now, there are five states averaging below 2 a gallon. That would be South Carolina, oake, alabama, mississippi and missouri. Ashley one more, stu. Stuart one more to go, im saying
Mourn investigators say the gunman wveho killed can theca t officers had planned to killnnek even more people. P bomb making material wasial found at Micah Johnsons house and he taunted police while they tried to negotiate withti him. This morning weve alsonieve ao learned of a 13th officer hit ht by gunfire in thursday nights ambush. Corporal brian shaw is a Police Officer at el centroentro college near where johnson first started firing. F shaw was hit under his vest hisv and listen to this he was ts he treated on the scene by paramedics, then went back to, work helping to protect the area. Shaw will need surgery to remove bullet fragments thatfrag are still in his stomach. Wow. We are beginning to learnnngo more about the Dallas Policeall officers who were killed inkill the shootings on thursday. 43yearold Brent Thompson was the first officer killeder l thursday night. Th the former marinure was a sevens year veteran of the rapidid transit authority. Ty. Lorne ahrens was sixfive, sx
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