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Temperatures up there will stay in the 30s all day. Theres more act particular air next week. Thanks so much, chuck. This is why a hypothermia s alert is in effect in d. C. The district issued it overnight. It happens when the windchill factor drops to 32 degrees or below. Right now, special emergency shelters are open. Advocates for the homeless say the district is better prepared. When its this cold, its dangerous for people to be staying outside. The district, they tell us, is in a much better place than this time last year when homeless shelters were at capacity. Right now, there are 124 available rooms and 49 families are being put up in holdintels. This morning in fairfax county, family and and friends will remember the life of a young woman who had her whole life ahead of her. Hannah graham was in her second s shamari stern joins us live now from sanas former high school where todays memorial is being held. Good morning. Good morning. A somber morning out here in alexandria, vir ....
Think you. Thank you for your support of american phoenix. Thank you for coming out tonight and also cspan and booktv. Is an honor. I am thrilled to share with you american phoenix the remarkable story of William Skinner, a man who turned disaster into destiny one question every writer gets when people find out if youre writing a book. Cocktail party or supermarket or on the street, what is your book about . That is a fair question. It is a good one and extremely challenging to answer. You have spent thousands of hours writing thousands of words with a ton of information in your head and the right to one story that includes many others that do have to figure out how to condense the information into a 152nd sound bite of the 10 words or less. I have it down to seven words if you include american phoenix is about. People ask if your book was made into a movie house would you give it . The titanic meets rocky. American phoenix is ab ....
And id like to begin by asking you what comes to mind when you think of that word . College. Fraternities. Initiation. Okay. All right. So it didnt take long for some images to pop into your head. And, thank you. And youre like many others who think about some common images as they relate to hazing. And one is young men in college fraternities, beating each other, passing out or even dying tragically from alcohol poisoning because of hazing. Also people think about professional athletes like last years headlines of the rookie Jonathan Martin of the Miami Dolphins and more recently people think sometimes about marching bands with the tragic death of drum major robert champion down at florida a m university. And now more recently over the past month weve heard news of a sexually harassing culture and hazing in the ohio state universitys marching band prompting them to fire the ....