University North Carolina chapel hill. My parents earnest jones and mom pertis jones. Dad, a farmer born and raised on a farm. That was his life. Thats what he loved to do. Im a member of a family of ten children, 6 boys and 4 girls. And the first five children was born as routen because their dad was routen and he was killed cutting logs in the wood. So that first five were very young when he died, and then my dad, earnest jones married my mama and has five more children. But my dad raised all ten of us because they were very, very young when their dad got killed. And basically what he did was we were very disciplined, had a seventh grade education. Mom had a seventh grade education but very bright, brilliant people. And one of the ambition they had and they gave us as we were little kids he had two goals for us. He wanted all of us educated and he wanted to see all ten of us in heaven. And so he wanted us to be committed to church, hard work and school. So i had the pleasure of going
Do appearances with you to have these conversations again this is not anything we would have imagined toward the end of last year but we are adaptable and we will take some calls that many of you are watching could not have gotten here tonight but you can join us virtually. You should treat this as if you are in the bookstore. You buy books. Please do that it would be great if they were debbies books you dont just buy one but you buy a lot. I imagine that you need no introduction but what is great if you look at her body of work to see very the two strong teams of social justice and defining america and who gets to define america shes done this in picture books and she did it in the intersection of the trilogy and got so much acclaim for that now she has done it again with kent state. It is a Remarkable Book one of the best things i worked on as an editor in 25 years. It is a masterpiece and the book that defies categorization and is with the sixties trilogy traditionally they like to
No at 11 00, the calm before the storm. It more dangerous lighting on the horizon. We tell you what it might move through our area. I never get to hug her. I did not get to see her. A family searching for answers after their loved one goes missing while escape being the lnu lightning complex. New fire evacuations, forcing hundreds in the southeast to pack up and leave their homes behind tonight. If we get out of here we will be safe and hopefully our house does not burn down. Across the bay area, combined, more than 766 thousand acres have burned in three separate fires. That is almost 4 times the size of new york city. Concerns over dangerous weather that could spark more fires. Good evening. We have a team of reporters that has you covered on the new evacuations from the growing wildfires and pending storms. Lets begin with our chief meteorologist. How soon will lightning will move to the bay area . We are seeing lightning outside the bay area already. Youre in the central valley, an
Pence jonins us this morning. Those Deadly Wildfires in the west just keep growing. Hundreds of blazes burning out of control. Were live from the fire zone and the double tropical threat. Two possible hurricanes now on track for the south. Florida and texas already hit hard by the pandemic now bracing for the powerful storms. Arrested. President trumps former campaign chief and top adviser steve bannon charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors to build a border wall. Bannon taken into custody on 150foot, 28 million luxury yacht. College covid crackdown. Health officials warn about parties driving the spread. At least 22 states reporting outbreaks on campuses. North carolina state blames offcampus parties for moving to online classes. Judgment day. Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband just hours away from learning their fate as a judge gets ready to hand down their sentences on zoom. Both about to face prison time, but for how long . And friendly competition. Okay, you wa
Shot three seven times in the back but there were three kids in the car that desperately need help. Charles seeing him shot, you can imagine there are longterm ramifications and something is family is dealing with right now. Harvey we had ben crump on while you were away and ben rightly said were not talking about shortterm, were talking about lifelong issues these kids are going to have. Remember, these bullets were flying inside a car that they were. In beyond terrifying, beyond horrific. These kids need help. Theyre going to need help for a long time. The family is evaluating two different options, either a therapist or a therapy team but they have begun the process of trying to figure it out. One of the things that jacob blakes father talked about at a reanlt press conference is the kids are stuck right now. They keep asking why did the police shoot my dad . Why would they do that . They cant process what happened and why it happen and would the family, they want to later. The kids