Like ours that witnessed the Police Killing of george floyd. The book is challenging and introspective. Its outraged and quiet and devastating. Early in the book ms. Rankin writes i was always aware that my value in our cultures eyes is determined by my skin color first and foremost. Claudia rankin is a poet, and essayist and playwright. She is a professor of poetry at yale, the new book is titled just us, an american conversation. And we find ms. Rankin at her home in connecticut. I really miss talking to you in person in front of a live audience. Im glad we could make this work. But i just have to say im really going to miss that, so welcome. Host thank you so much kerri for having me. Tell me how, in the before times, before the pandemic you imagined you would be traveling in talking about this book, in front of live audiences. You are right. What we are doing is not what i thought i would be doing. I thought that as close as could come to having conversations with different people
Now a mother struggling with her young son living in a car after mishandled her case. An out pouring of support from news viewers. Happening now. More than 30,000 pg e customers in Northern California without power because of Public Safety power shut offs. Welcome to the special edition of the news. Well begin with breaking news. The lemur stolen from the zoo has been found safe. Were live with exactly where and how he was recovered. He was found safe. He was found by children at a Day Care Center in daily city. About the best news any of us could hope for. Take a look. Hes a 21 yearold ring tailed lemur born at the San Francisco zoo. A San Francisco native. This boy right there 5 yearold james trin. He was the first one to spot him at the area outside his day care. You can see this is the commotion that ensued. Well have the full story coming up. I spoke to jaems and his father. I spoke to zoo officials who are elated to have him back. Heres what happened. He went missing over night s
Palace which is here and. This is al jazeera these are the headlines courts in kenya has convicted 2 men for their role in a Shopping Center attack 7 years ago a 3rd was acquitted the men were charged with helping alshabaab fighters storm Nairobis Westgate mall 67 people were killed during a siege that lasted for days catherine so i was outside the courts and sent us this update. The prosecution had 44 witnesses and the case was really heavily hinged on telephone conversations that the prosecution says the accused with the attackers were killed in that siege that took 4 days in 2318 so the prosecution saying that for example one of the sas one of the accused spoke a 109 times we thought one of the attackers between june 28th and september he said the other 2 accused also interacted with with the attackers leaders of the great far rights Golden Dawn Party have been found guilty of running a criminal gang police fired tear gas at their supporters who began exactly why for protesters and
About to make a little surprise visit so perhaps ill get there before you get to see me a but i just when i look at the enthusiasm and we have a doozy as im like probably nobodys ever had our people that love the job were doing we have more enthusiasm then maybe anybody so its been a very interesting journey i learned a lot about covert i learned it by really going to school this is the real school this is the lets read the book school and i get it and i understand it and its a very interesting thing going to be letting you know about it the doctor at the hospital where trump is being treated has criticized the dr by dr james p. Phillips said on twitter that the risk of infection inside trumps vehicle was high he said every person inside the car would need to be quarantined for 14 days dr phillips said they put their lives at risk for the sake of political theater calling it insanity. Earlier doctors treating trump said theyd given him a texan medicine a steroid the world how foreigner
I also think we are going to pay a little surprise to some of the great patriots we have out on the street and they have been out there for a long time and theyve got trump flags and they love our country, so im not telling anybody but you, but im about to make a little surprise visit, so perhaps ill get there before you get to see me, but i just when i look at the enthusiasm, and we have enthusiasm like probably nobodys ever had. Our people that love the job were doing, we have more enthusiasm than maybe anybody. So, its been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about covid. I learned it by really going to school. This is the real school this isnt the lets read the books school and i get it and i understand it and its a very interesting thing and im going to be letting you know about it. In the meantime, we love the u. S. A. And we love whats happening. Thank you