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I am going to introduce our speaker, warren perry. He is originally from memphis, tennessee. He has a graduate degree in medieval literature and from the catholic university. His oneman play, walt whitman and the civil war. And he cowrote elvis, which received the bronze award from forward magazine in 2010. In his 12 years at the National Portrait gallery, he wrote over 200 articles for print and the web. More than 40 on the American Civil War. He received one of the secretary Research Prizes for 2013 for the Smithsonian Congress of scholars. We are very proud of him. He is founder and directo...

Which received the bronze award from forward magazine in 2010. In his 12 years at the National Portrait gallery, he wrote over 200 articles for print and the web. More than 40 of which were on the American Civil War. He recently received one of 10 secretarys Research Raises the 2013 from the Smithsonian Congress of scholars. We are very proud of him for that. He is founder and director of the Perry Library of theater. That is in knoxville, tennessee. I would also like to introduce amy bracewell, the site manager at the historical park. She will make a few remarks, and then well have warren com...

And dwight. The crowd seems to be growing. At this point the demonstration has been peaceful. Theres concern it could take a violent turn based on what happened in berkeley the past two nights. Protesters attacking businesses, lighting fires, shutting down traffic on highway 24 for a while last night. Nbc bay area, Jodi Hernandez in berkeley with the latest on the protests brought by grand jury decision. Jodi . Terry, as mentioned, marchers are on the move as we speak. Many businesses along telegraph avenue have decided to close up, some decided to board up as a precaution. Business owners do ...

Drought, and hey, even though were in a drought and have this rain coming your way, we urge you to please keep the conservation efforts going, because even the storm system that could dump eight inches or more of rain in the higher elevations, it is not going to bust that drought. This is what you can expect through this afternoon, sunshine, that rain moves in tomorrow evening into the north bay, then were talking about really dangerous conditions by thursday. Torrential downpours. In fact, theres a Flash Flood Watch issued for the entire bay area due to localized flooding on streets and rapid...

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