[applause] good afternoon. the telling of history is consequential and recognition is consequential also. i am deeply honored and appreciated to receive the american book award today. i am also very honored to share it with the other recipients today who have presented such rot and real engagements for social life. not the least it is also quite an honor to share the award with previous recipients, some of the people who shaped my intellectual development. kerry snyder, edwards i eat, and very baraka. i want to thank first of all waldo martin column aye author. we spent many years together working on this vote. i want to thank my friends and family in the audience in my many comrades and colleagues who helped make this poker reality along the way. there are too many to thank individually. you know who you are and i never could have dreamed of getting here without you. thank you. the recognition is nice, or writing the history of the black interparty let alone the 12 ye
havana for the first time in half a century, and sweeping aside the last vestiges of the cold war. the surprise announcement came ofthe end of 18 months secret talks that culminated in a prisoner exchange negotiated in canada. republicans dial in. and democrats. an independents. also, waiting on twitter. eigh in on twitter. and on facebook. we will get your thoughts in a moment. but first, alan gomez from the usa today from miami. what is the reaction from the cuban population there? mixed bag, as you can imagine. on one hand, you have that older generation of humans take a shortly after fidel castro came over in cuba who are just enraged. they feel betrayed. they feel this is a fight they have been fighting for over 50 years and the government down there was on its last legs. i doing this, by doing this, they feel that the president gave them a lifeline and allow them to maintain a little bit of power with all of the money that will be headed to cuba now. but there is a yo
middle 20 s. with the ground cold, everything will stick plus will coincide with the thursday morning rush hour. by the time it tapers off and ends, we expect a one to three inch total in general across the metro area. lesser amounts to the north but more progressively the farther south and east you go. southern maryland and southern calvert county, get bay area six inches or more and some sweet spots when you get farther south towards hampton roads area, williamsburg area in virginia. we ll have more of what to expect and what kind of weather pattern we ll follow in tomorrow s snow when we join you in a few minutes, maureen. thank you so much. the good morning washington team will be on the roads early to give you information you need for your commute. our coverage begins in the morning at 4:00. now to the developing story on the legalization of marijuana in the district. in just six hours, it will be legal to smoke and possess small amounts of marijuana. but the battle
who is basically dragged to the brush. all told family members came to visit. the boy was then transferred to a local medical facility where he is that right now. the injuries are to his back and neck. and they re not life- threatening. i was asked how about my and when and locate it. he never specified. he did said that he most likely will not relocate the animal. as the number of local hikers if they d ever seen of mine here. never heard such a thing. never seen about mine. i ve been hiking here for years and years and never seen and not mine. basically the entire santa cruz and the surrounding area is a very safe area. with thousands of joggers and hackers. confrontations clients are extremely rare. last fall may have was several years ago. you can expect the general public to be safe. we expect them to run from new and not attack. growing while far myriad some park is threatening hundred campers some of which had to be helicoptered out. and this is the huge plumes
symptoms maybe the president himself has been experiencing, so we ll be talking to him a little bit later this hour first i want to go to leland at walter reed on what he s seeing and hearing. leland: neil good morning the president has been here about 15 hours its been about 12 hours, 10 or 12 hours since we have got an update on the president s condition. it came in about midnight last night, dr. shawn connley saying i m happy to report the president is doing very well he s not requiring any supplemental oxygen but in consultation with specialists we ve elected to initiate remdesivir therapy, he s completed his first doseage and resting comfortably in addition to the regeneron antibodies that the president got yesterday morning while still at the white house. so, regeneron, remdesivir are the two experimental drugs the president is getting, and then zinc, vitamin d, pepcid, melatonin and aspirin is part of his regimen, at least that s what we know so far. walked out to mari