she wrote i am a lela and her new book, "farewell kabul: from afghanistan to a more dangerous world," highlight the errors and miscalculations made by the united states and its allies in the war of afghanistan. and argues the world has been left more, not less dangerous since 9/11. our third author is kim barker whose book "whiskey tango foxtrot (the taliban shuffle mti): strange days in afghanistan and pakistan" about her reporting in afghanistan and pakistan served as the basis for the recent movie whiskey tango foxtrot starring tina fay. her first reporting job with papers in indiana and washington state, after joining the chicago tribune in 2000 when she went abroad and spent 5 years from 2004-2009 as south asia bureau chief based in new jersey and islam about. she writes for the new york times. a times review of her book called at both hilarious and harrowing, two contrasting adjectives that sum up the frequently mixed experience of war reporting. moderating discussion by this impressive group of panelists will be mary jordan, pulitzer prize-winning journalist with washington pos

that flash flood warning includes wilmington, murraysville, lela, north carolina, the flash flooding from the rain, not that onshore push of water. it's just simply from the rain. >> right and that's the thing. i keep asking for updated numbers on rain totals because i really think we'll end up seeing some significant rain totals out of all of this and it's going to be that combo. i was saying last night when talking on "nightline," sam, i never covered a hurricane away from a beach and it was very -- it was unsettling as a meteorologist and a storm chaser because i thought, well, now how is this going to work out? how will we have something? they said mandatory evacuation. you cannot be at wrightsville beach. you cannot be at topsail beach because we need people out of there. i am so pleased that they made those mandatory evacuations because i would not want to be there. this is the only place and this is bad enough and so many people live in this town. so many people came from the islands. i spoke to a woman, arlene from oak island and she was so hesitant to leave but she said, my

. >> princess lela in star wars, 60 years old, dying days after going into cardiac arrest on a flight from london. >> child of hollywood royalty who struggled with drugs and bipolar disorder, wrote about her experiences, and fought to remove the stigma from mental illness. david wright has more about her life on and off the screen. >> this is our most desperate hour. help me, obi wan kenobi. you're my only hope. >> a long time ago in a galaxy far away, it was the cry for help that beamed carrie fisher to her place among the stars. >> i love you. >> i know. >> reporter: fresh faced and full of the force, she stole hans solo's heart. she was unbelievably young as she told amy robach. >> i've been princess for over 40 years and never got out again. >> reporter: even before she was princess leia, carrie fisher was already hollywood royalty. the daughter of america's sweet heart, debbie reynolds, her father was eddie fisher who famously ended up dumping debbie reynolds to marry her best friend, elizabeth taylor. not an easy family to grow up in. >> somebody had to save our skins. >> report

then there's lela who resides in my home state of new jersey. her nephew who once lived with her in caracas is a pilot in the venezuelan armed forces. he was wrongly arrested for plotting to overthrow maduro. in the absence of evidence he was released from jail but on his way home received a call warning him that military counter intelligence agents were waiting for him. when he tried to hide, security forces arbitrarily arrested his mother, his girlfriend, and his father-in-law. the following day he was detained and charged once more, again with no evidence. he remains in prison today. even lela who has publicly advocated for his release, has been labeled as a terrorist on national television by the regime thug. finally let me share the story of acosta. his brother raphael was detained on june 1, 2019 by members of the venezuelan military counter intelligence. after being forcibly imprisoned for a week on june 28 of 2019, captain acosta was rolled into an arraignment hearing in a wheelchair, visibly affected by torture. he died the following da

, including senator leahy, senator markey, have been advocating for the release of filipino senator lela delima. senator delimo was the former head of the national human rights commission of the philippines and an internationally recognized human rights champion critical of president dutarte's extra judicialjudicial killings. what do that lead to? her arrest and being sentenced and imprisoned for three years in jail for speaking out against the current president of the philippines. here is a photo of her being taken to court after she was arrested. a little over three years ago. who is behind her release? not just the senators, but also amnesty international, a human rights commission, the raul wallenberg center. let me read an excerpt from a letter she sent me. as you can imagine, i may be the one currently in detention but i'm not the only victim suffering in incarceration. so are all defenders of human rights. ultimately, so are all of us all over the world who defend democracy and the rule of law. senator markey has a resolution calling for senator delima's relief and the end of hara

ford's best friends at the time, lela leland kaiser who says she doesn't remember ever meeting brett kavanaugh and certainly she wasn't present at an event such as dr. forward described. well, this brings us back to the hearing last week. we watched judge kavanaugh defend his personal integrity and his good name in front of the nation. true, he did demonstrate some righteous indignation the way our colleagues across the aisle have handled this confirmation. he became very emotional as he choked back tears, but i must say he wasn't the only one choking back tears during his defense of his good name and reputation. there were many eyes around the room and across the country that were not dry. and he didn't aim his fury at dr. ford, but rather at the atrocious way the claims were sprung on him at the 11th hour, using an unfair process that violated the rules of the judiciary committee. they were not handled in the normal way, which would have respected the privacy and the desire for confidentiality of dr. ford but at the same time made sure that a good man was not smeared in public by a

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wonderful people to work with even though sometimes this place becomes very partisan, the worked on lela davis is never partisan. finally, mr. president, i want to say a word about the people who work in the cloak rooms. they are the people who are unseen and instrumental to the operation of the senate. i have to say, mr. president, with a lot of pride, having been one of them, how much i appreciate and acknowledge the attention and the protection of the capitol police. host:the vote is about 10 minutes away. you could watch the entire thing on c-span 2. here, we want to get your reaction on the senate voting on health care reform. oklahoma, you support the bill, go ahead caller: yes, very much i have run a family business for 39 years and one of the hardest years in that time is to have health insurance for my family. the pre-existing conditions and everything like that, i am glad they are getting this taken care of. i know there is a lot of people that oppose this bill but i have never seen anything start at the top. you always start at the bottom and work up. there has been so many ne

we saw there was owing to be a meeting featuring lela. we made a determination that she has been a member of an organization that was designated under u.s. laws as a terrorist organization and we tried to work with the university to deal with that. ultimately we made the judgment that this would not be an appropriate use of our platform. doesn't that be consistent with the terms of service, and disallowed the meeting. >> host: josh kallmer, does that lead to a slippery slope in the sense? i mean, edward snowden, should he be allowed under platform? should president trump be allowed to give his views on your platform? where do you draw the line? >> guest: i don't know that you can draw the line, peter, in the abstract, in a hypothetical way. what we are committed to doing is to have a set of principles to make sure the reflect your values and to articulate them as clearly as you can in a week and actually administer. that's one of the reasons not only with our terms of service and with our community guidelines but also with the document we

. >> lela moran. >> up to the 1824 vagrancy act cheating is illegal. 2000 times last year to drag people before the courts. scotland and northern ireland have artie repealed it. will the prime minister support my bill that consigned this to the history books across the whole of the united kingdom. >> we are putting more money into projects, put into place in a number of places in the company to ensure we can't provide those who are -- none of us want to see this on our streets, the government is taking action. >> thank you, mister speaker. today is the anniversary of the signing of the master treaty, we have come a very long way. the customs union -- may i also mention last december i warned her about the eu and only last week, would she be good enough to be very robust when discussing these matters as i am sure she will be to ensure we repudiate any of these eu threats. >> i can assure my honorable friend that the legislation is going through in this house. my honorable friend will be standing up recognizing the anniversary of the treaty. and we are coming out of the european union. we

just to personalize it, for the past five years, we have had children like this for 5-year old girl lela peterson, who was sitting on her grandfather's lap in milwaukee, wisconsin, and if she was shot through the head. we have had 25 lakh children under the age of five killed, not by marauding police officers, but by other blacks. the black community suffers a 911 every six months. there are 3000 blacks killed by other blacks every six months, so we have a 911 every six months. most of the people in those neighborhoods suffer as a consequence of the vilification of the police. thirteen years ago in cincinnati, ohio, when a white police officer shot a young black man who turned-- he thought he had a gun and so civil rights leaders came in an organized a boycott of cincinnati. they also vilified the police, so what the police said after that is since we are going to be accused of racism, we will not be as aggressive in those high crime black neighborhoods and with a result, the murder rate went up 800% in the black community. the low-income black community. it did not affect the neighborho

this is a video lela lopes recorded. she recorded a message explaining to the universe what the miss universe pageant is. >> hello, space creatures. i'm miss universe 2011. here on earth, we have a beauty pageant called miss universe, that is watched by 1 billion people. this year, i represented my country of angolaen and i beat other countries. being miss universe means that i am the most beautiful girl in the universe that we know of. >> jimmy: i like that, by the way. i like that they had her speak english. the woman is from angola. are we assuming that the aliens only understand english? and they are going to have a hard enough time translafting without having to go, miss univar? what the hell is a univar? national geographic was very different when i was a young pervert. [ laughter ] going through the magazine to find the topless pygmy women in the back. never would i imagine one day they'd beam tweets into space. [ applause ] it is exciting. this is probably one of those moments that we will look back on and rememb

lela rosenthal knocked. she was hoping we might join her tomorrow for lunch, there were people she thought we should meet. we would be unable to join or invite her, for we owed a friend a thank you -- [inaudible] i remember not naming his name. [laughter] part of this was inverse snobbery -- [laughter] a distaste for admitter by association. and part a suspicion had lela known baldwin was coming, we should have had to invite her also. they would have been water and oil. at any rate, she told us, she hoped we would take in our wash. it hung on the clothesline outside. [laughter] she wanted to walk by the house and let her friends take photographs. they were passionate photographers. her friends were distinguished, she said. they were the last of the habsburgs and the last of the -- [inaudible] or perhaps they were the last of the holsteins or collateral branches instead. in any case, they were old and distinguished and wouldn't appreciate the laundry on our line. she hoped we would ready the house. we promise

[applause] >> lela, thank you very much. shouldn't have done. that thank you to everybody at university press for doing this. it's funny, when i thought about writing this book, i have a casual friendship with john meacham, and random house, and i married a girl from trivett, and i saw him and said itch i write a book about trinity i asked if he would be interested in publishing if called me back two weeks later and said i've been thinking about this, you ought to get university press in mississippi to do this. we're going to publish god knows how many books this year. they'll think that this is special because you have been governor and all that. i tried them. you think we can get it done in six months? and john was right. he gave me the right advice, and fortunately smart enough to take and it we appreciate y'all. i'd never wherein a book before. when i was chairman of the republican national committee, i edit a book on public sol policy that was wasn't by 13 committees we hat appointed on different subject matters and jurisdiction, as far as

$7 million in merchandise during a decade-long robbery spree. 58-year-old branka bogdanov, his wife lela and daughter julia arrested tuesday outside their $1.3 million home in the posh chicago suburb northbrook, illinois. >> there were cars lined up all down the street. >> reporter: the family charged with interstate transportation of stolen property after allegedly stealing a variety of items from multiple states over the last several years. including american girl dolls, cosmetics, legos steak knife, even baby supplies from stores like barnes & noble and toys "r" us. authorities say the family would then sell the items on ebay. >> we identified transactions on ebay that were similar in amounts of merchandise and types of merchandise that were stolen from these stores. >> reporter: this federal complaint even accusing lela of wearing a long skirt with hidden compartments sewn inside to allegedly hide lifted merchandise. if convicted each family member faces up to ten years behind bars. for "good morning america," alex perez, abc news, chicago. >> thank you, alex. >>> meanwhile, dramatic

. >> with lela james and raheem divine. all the shows are selling out fast. a great tour. i'm having a blast and great things are happening. it's awesome. it's awesome. >> you are well deserving of it. are you ready to hear some new music? [ cheers and applause ] >> from her current album truth truth here again ledisi "rock with you ♪ >> yeah. are you ready? ♪ ♪ yeah ooh yeah ♪ ♪ come on ♪ ♪ hey i'm on it i want it so hot and gimme a mike and i rock it ♪ ♪ 'cause my love for you goes nonstop and you you're the only one i really need ♪ ♪ any place i feel you need to go is the only place that i want to be let me tell you ♪ ♪ you no one makes me feel like this the lovin' when we kiss this love this love is real ♪ ♪ i tell you that i'm yours would you keep on loving me ♪ ♪ would you do all that you can to see me smile 'cause i don't want the future to say we're not meant to be ♪ ♪ just wanna be with you that's why that's why i rock rock rock with you hey and all i got i give to you ♪ ♪ to keep your love for me feels so right you're lik

turning 10 today, we have -- ian, lela, jasmine and gia. they said when they were smaller when it gets hot in illinois, they would fill up the kiddie pool. but when it's too hot, some kids just can't take it. our "gma" moment, check out hudson out of college point, texas. >> why are you crying? >> i'm hot. too hot. no, no, no. >> why are you crying? it's too hot outside. >> too hot. >> are you sad because it's too hot? >> it's too hot. even for a kid. even for the kiddie pool. you guys are tougher than that. >>> you can't see it but they're all barefoot out here. they are barefoot nation excited for kenny chesney live coming up on "gma." on "gma." >>> good morning, north bay. let's get up and get going. >> this is abc 7 mornings. >> and good morning. i'm reggie aqui from abc 7 mornings. an update on the ranch and river fires that have now combined. they're being called the me-- mendocino complex fires. cal fire releasing new numbers this morning. the fires have burned more than 74,000 acres. lake county officials are going to hold an emerge

for eight heartbreaking years lela totter wondered what happened to her beloved boxer chance. she was 10 years old when chance was snatched from her backyard. on saturday, yesterday, san diego police found chance by chance wandering the streets. i made that up. through a microchip in the dog. >> that's clever. very clever. >> they were able to reunite him with lela who is now 18 years of age. how is that? >> she's a little gray in the snout but looking pretty good. >> we're talking about the dog. >> yes, the dog. >> thank you for clarifying. it just goes to show -- >> a little gray in the snout. >> not the snout. not the snout. >> that's why we've installed a microchip in dan. we'll be able to find him. >> if we want to find him. >> i don't like the way this chat is going. >>> moving on now, now to chris christie, the colorful governor of new jersey doubling down on a football controversy. last week you may remember this. this was the hug heard around the world. christie in a rather awkward embrace with the owner of the dallas cowboys after a victory and then came the question

i want to try it on. >> reporter: at lela's led quarters they create fashion magic. >> cutting, doing pattern work, sketching. figuring out fabrics and you're with the whole doing all that work. >> we cleaned up for you. >> reporter: her showroom a jewel box filled with inspiration for the new year. >> new year's eve we all try to look our best. sometimes we don't know what will entire us. >> it depends on what your event is. if you have a dressier event, i love going with a little metallic, sparkle. >> if you walked into the room wearing this you'll be the belle of the ball. >> a showstopper. >> i love showshopper. you should definitely be one. if you walk into the room, stop the show. >> all right, deal. i love her. [ applause ] you can find more information on pearl events if you want to show up at one online. she wants to have fun which is what all of us want to grow up and do as we work and enjoy our lives. all the designs and fabrics are her original designs. phenomenal. >> she's brought femininity into full force. i love all of her dresses and looks. franchising trunk shows, sm

. >> reporter: one of the characters with a fabulous name, lela, loves to ask people where do you see yourselves a year from now? i would say someplace warm. where do you see yourself this time next year? >> somewhere warm. i agree with you on that, deb. thank you so very, very much. manifesting it putting it out there to the universe, you never know. it could happen. >>> all right, as always be sure to follow us on instagram @gmabookclub. >>> coming up, oh my goodness. it's the "deck the hallmark" guys. they're going to join us with their holiday favorite. you have been warned, people. >> before we even get started. ♪ ♪ little saint nick >>> how is that hot chocolate? >> so good. >> wash down that cookie from earlier. >> yes, i got to enjoy mine in a minute. we're back with some of our favorite holiday guests helping us to count down to christmas. guys from deck the hallmark podcast here with what to watch and what to eat and how to keep the season merry and bright with your family this season from near and far. let's say good morning to our favorite guy, dan, bran and panda, goo

today, from the drama "mindhunter," jonathan groff, and one of the stars of "power," lela loren, plus fun in the sun with the hottest toys of summer, all next on "live." and now here are kelly ripa and ryan seacrest. [cheers and applause] [upbeat music] [indistinct singing] >> ryan: hey! good morning. what's happening? hey. hey, hey, hey, hey. ♪ hello. hi. good morning. all right. good morning, guys. thank you.

let's talk with lela with big problems. >>> sky 7 hd over sunnyvale, the intersection of fremont and mary avenue is shut down because of a fatal bicycle crash. a car hit a bicyclist as it was crossing through the center section. you can see, we do have p.d. on scene and traffic is being diverted. there is no traffic moving through the intersection right now. there are going to be some major traffic delays and impacts in the coming hours. we also have this sig alert. northbound travel. sig alert due to cement bags that fell into the lanes. >> thank you very much. good morning. let's open the weather window. you can see a whole lot of sunshine, a few high clouds. 63, half moon bay. 70 today, 76 in oakland and 80s announcer: it's "live! with kelly & michael." today, from "avengers: age of ultron," ultron himself, james spader. and "real housewives of atlanta" star nene leakes. plus, we want to hear from you as we open up "live"'s "inbox." and robin roberts joins michael at the co-host desk. all next on "live." [captioning made possible by isney-abc domestic television] now, here are mic

i'm lela kite, i'm your room host for the day. wearing a little weary by time but glad to be here. i'm also chair of the brickle avenue literary society. turn your cell phones off, please. thank you all for coming. let's thank our sponsors. we need to do that in every session, because they are so important to the success of the fair. so big thanks to knight foundation, ohl, the bachelor foundation, the deging ro to ot -- degroot foundation. as always, thank you to all of the friends of the book fair. we hope everybody in this room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all the activities that are available for friends during the year. we thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miami-dade college. [applause] okay, thanks to all. [applause] we have a big crowd for a mighty important, prize-winning author, so let me start by introducing his introducer. marsha dunn is a longtime miami resident, and she has been, talk about good examples, a friend of the miami book fair since the very first year. how many of you are founding book fair fr

it is of very exciting time to be interested in lela biology, but all of the new study, new discoveries are showing that the case is stronger, each of these patterns is a feature for which there is one known cause in the universe, and tt causes is intligent design. i want to make -- a common objection to intelligent design iss an argument for ignorance, we are arguing from what we don't know rather an what we do know. by debating partner, michael share has made thisrepeatedly, intelligence side argues that life is too specifically complex to have elved by natural rcesthere for life must have been created by an intelligent designer. he is accusing us of arguing in a fallacious manner like this, the argunt for design is basically simply ignorance of what natur processes can do, we are arguing, natural processes cannot produce the effect in question, therefore since we can't think of anything else we invoke the mysterious notion o intelligent design. e notion is not mysterious, it is sething we know about from our repeated experience and the argument is not a argument from ignorance, it is

abiliha ionfor lela o hn about 300 million new people live like us. so standards that we have grown accustomed to hear. sort of good news if you patwie ri f. vetewllha r k population of a billion and for people who by the way are trying to live better and better life in demanding increasin net ss eos. whis gng in china is someing that will continue. wealthmany do in this room 18 hiniaehe thatbc in esunso e thad feike ta st hree hunches of economic development. we are eing economic growth. we are seeing alth improvements, significant in the couny. nostnaas emngld atl pure edutisle lkabwe, yo n hoin atcular with the improvements in life that is going to demand increased amounts of resources. just abo a finr pont wiilmwthppl orsf oen a ftdin china. the worst estimates i'm seeing our staff in the 7.5% gdp growth. as cee h ors utme,t 3rfmu wr. inir hse economy continues to powerhouse along you can expect that economic growth will translate into more weal and, therefore, greater resource demnd. ainomreicn hagoon here. consumption is a very interesting piece

let me conclude with one final point, and then get to some questions, and let lela have her piece. as i mentioned at the outset, lela has been and is opposed, and it's worth mentioning, there's much poetry in the book. the narrow meaning of poetry, poems, some jewish, ancient and modern, some non-jewish, including her own, but more generally, i want to say there's much poetry in the book, and the people that she describes, and i have a number of personal favorites which i think poetry of the book we'll talk about as we go along. let me -- you can tell me what i said wrong about the book, or answer questions i should ask, but let me start in the following way. in a way, the first question, the most natural question to ask you about this book, and especially a personal book is why did you go to israel, and why did you stay? i'm not going to let you answer that yet because i want to come back to that after we talk about a few things, and i think the first thing to focus on is, in a way, one part of the substance of the book is you say after, you know, coming to israel for whatever rep

. >> thank you very much, lela. is there anything -- any final thing you want to say about -- >> no. >> go out and buy it. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. [applause] >> booktv as on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> from the 12 and a national book festival in washington, d.c., and interview a national viewer phone calls with "washington post" senior correspondent an associate editor rajiv chandrasekeran who discusses his book "little america: the war within the war for afghanistan." it's about 20 minutes. >> we are back live at the national book festival here in washington, d.c. this is day one of two days of coverage. the book festival has now expanded to two days, and booktv will be live both days. if you want to see our full schedule go to booktv.org. we are pleased now to be joined here on our booktv set with rajiv chandrasekeran, an associate editor at the "washington post," and most recently the author o

. >> host: day que very much , lela. anything else you want to say? >> guest: no. [laughter] i have said the net. >> host: go out and buy the book "saturday people, sunday people". [applause] >> host: is queen elisabeth rollback to a republican or democrat? >> we will never know. sheathe is scrupulous about maintaining neutrality. it is a great guessing game. the better question would be whether she is a laborer or tory party but in the course of the 60 years she will get along with every -- her 12th prime ministers from winston churchill who was born in the 19th century and served in her great great-grandmother's army to david cameron who was born after her youngest child prince edward. she has opinions which she will express and private, but extremely careful to not make political statements in public. i was told about one that was amusing that robert title one of the american ambassador's during george of the bush came for the presentation of his credentials and then there was the congestion tax that was a political hot potato and being imposed to keep them from

lela puts it this way. life for israel's jews is not focused on death and destruction but on life and construction. they have built a wonderful country and are still building it. there is one final audience that i might mention and that would be israelis. they might be curious how they look or rather all the things they take for ranted about life, so perhaps some israelis will pick this up as well. let me conclude with one final point and then get to some questions and let lela have her piece. as i mentioned at the outset, and i thought it worth mentioning, there is much poetry in this book. some poems, some jewish, some non-jewish including our own. more generally want to say there is much collection in the book as a whole and the people and the events she describes and i have a number of personal favorites which i think ought to exemplify the poetry in the book but we will perhaps talk about that as we go along. so, you can now tell me what i got wrong about the book. either in answer to my questions or a

>> co-authors paul marsha, lela gilbert, and nina shea look at the's accusation of christians around the world, next on book tv. >> welcome. on behalf of our chair, i'd like to thank everybody for attending. and thank our authors and panelists for making this program possible. my job is to be brief. i'll try to meet that. and secondly, my only task is to introduce eric metexas who is going to chair the program. he doesn't need much introduction because he has done many important things nobody to you and others that will be joining us via television. perhaps some of you have already read his book, pastor, martyr, prophet, spy, "new york times" best seller and an important book about an important man. in addition, metexas was the keynote speaker at the national prayer breakfast here washington, dc and i believe there are copies of that presentation available outside. we're also grateful for him being a participant in this book, persecuted, which we're releasing today and this panel is about. he helped to write the forward and has been an important contributor to the work of the office

. >> thank you, lela. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] >> we would like to from you. tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> here's where the story starts to get interesting. i'm condensing a lot of things but i'm giving you the basics. he was sent off to fort leavenworth. a lot of people in the army didn't really like the trees. and elect officers who are too bookish or who stood up too much, at the trace was very much guilty on both accounts. so he comes to fort leavenworth and a lot of people are thinking that's great. we are sending him out to past year, literally. but he gets to fort leavenworth and he realizes something. he realizes that this is actually the intellectual center of the army. they write documents. they form the curriculum of the command and general staff college. they organize a national training center. and the loop all these together. and he says to himself as learning all this, what kind of power see potentially has and says, holy cow, and he talks like that, he says things like holy cow and jeepers, super. he says, holy cow, they have p

nina wrote a book 16 years ago, so did lela at eye on the persecution of christians. and both of those books if you asked us what's the worst place now, the answer is clear, we are stuck. made a particular focus. there is tremendous lobbying in the united states. by a whole range of groups, but in terms of the number of bodies, most of them were dealing with christians because there are 350,000 congregations in this country, so you can mobilize far more people than say amnesty international can. but particular focus on this event. the bush administration and colin powell said will get rid of this whole idea of special envoy. it messes up the lines of authority in the state department. but against that pressure that was strong lobbying by coalition in the united states to have a special envoy for sudan, which was granted. john did a very good job. there were many other countries involved and i don't just -- those were the central players, those were the largest players. that led to a cease-fire in sudan that laid onto a a referendum and accretion of in this country in

lela gilbert, paul marshall and nina shea. they prefer true or false questions. if you can't come up with feature or false question, multiple-choice does. thank you very much. so anyway, i really mean to facilitate the conversation. there's no right or wrong answers. we really want to facilitate a conversation. my first question before i sit down and it will is why did you write this book? if that's not enough of a softball at good others. but how come i get this wonderful product will be my follow up question. for any of you, you won't have to answer this, but that is the main question. i've got some thoughts on that, but we are interested in yours. anyone who wants to lead off and will just have a conversation. >> first of all, really appreciate your taking the time to be here and really draw public attention to this important story. all of us, and i'll let my colleagues speak for themselves, have been working on this issue documenting religious freedom violations in christian persecution for many years. we have other books from 60 years ago on the same subject

lela explores american citizenship through her own journey as a moroccan immigrant. technology reporter anat weiner accounts her experience working for tech startups. in memorial drive natasha recalls her mother's murder and how she dealt with it. also in the los angeles times list is intimation, a collection of essays by zadie smith on the early days of the covid-19 pandemic. former president barack obama were flex on his career and presidency in the first volume of his presidential memoir. >> it's because i could see both sides or all sides to a problem or an issue that i would then feel as if i was making a good decision. because i had seen it from different angles and this idea that overthinking problems was or is a weakness in politics, i think, is indicative of a culture in which we want to simplify and eliminates all the gray areas and just how powerfully and beat the other team as opposed to solving problems and figuring out how, in fact, we come together. .. please welcome to norwich university 20/20 military

it comes just days after reports that his fiancee lela fineberg called off their wedding, which was set for next month. >>> two airport security officers have been fired for dragging a passenger off a plane in chicago. david dao was removed from the united flight in april after refusing to give up his seat. one officer was fired for using excessive force and another for tampering with the report. two other officers were suspended. >>> and automated cars could soon be cruising down the streets of new york city. >> apparently. general motors and cruise automation are planning to test autonomous cars in the big apple next year. they would be the first fully self-driving vehicles in the state, and here's a crucial detail. there will be an engineer behind the wheel and an observer in the passenger seat. i'm sure that's good news based on some of the driving that we already have in new york city. >>> all right. well, there is a new development in the national anthem protest controversy. coming up, hear what the nfl commissioner is now saying. >>> but first the hotel security guard shot during

lela thompson, the lay-up and foul. led all scorers with 17 before the half. erica mccall with the runner. went 14-10. afterwards a hug. stanford rolls 85-68. they will play south dakota state, who upset miami, for a sweet 16 berth on monday >> only one major upset on the men's side in the tournament. 11th seed gonzaga rolled over utah. past eric with the finish. a game-high 22. 82-59, with the biggest margin of victory for an 11 seed or lower since 1985. a double-digit seed is guaranteed. they say on syracuse versus middle tennesee state winner next weekend. that's a wrap on sports. enjoy your sunday, everybody. i'm larry beil. >> in 9:47 is the time. and weather-wise, lisa, you are trucking sunshine on the way later in the week but we have to get through some rain first? >> yeah. actually right now there's sun and rain outs there. it's pretty interesting as we look as live doppler hd and the storm impact scale. we have two systems today and tomorrow. they are both a run. we rate them 1 to 5. meaning they are week. we will see light showers anywhere from trac

. >> among the last to leave the flight, 77-year-old lela. her daughter is furious at the airline. >> to have them waiting, especially if they are seniors traveling, they have to pull them. >> the airways have apologized for the day. they said the fog caused them to cancel 20 flights in abu dhabi. one couple said they were glad it wasn't cancelled. >> we had already had another flight cancelled earlier on our trip and it was a nightmare. >> her boyfriend proposed on the trip so she has reason to be happy. at sfo sergio quintana, abc7 news. >> the u.s. department of transportation prohibits lengthy tarmac delays. the maximum allowed for international flights is 4 hours and carriers must make sure carriers provide adequate rules and water. however, those rules only apply to u.s. airports, not to foreign carriers overseas. 1111 rest bay, crews are scrambling to finish relocating eight classrooms destroyed at a high school over the christmas break. a pipe broke back on december 23rd. water up to three feet deep caused millions of dollars in damag

here's lela gulen in for lisa argen. >> good morning. at the start off with a picture of lake tahoe. under partly cloudy skies. no snow to speak up. 47 degrees is the high there. a look at live doppler 7hd, though. we need the written in the bay area but we are not going to get it. in fact for the rest of the year it looks like we are done with rain. a look from the roof camera. 47 degrees in san francisco, 48 oakland, 43 in san jose and los gatos at 46 degrees. again, lake tahoe camera there, a gorgeous sight, indeed. for the next few days in the bay area, sunny and breezy tomorrow. days are getting longer, as well. tuesday it looks like temperatures will be at 66 degrees around the bay inland. along the coast 62 degrees, and wednesday for christmas, 674 degrees. still mild and dry. i'll have the full accuweather seven-day forecast ahead. >> thank you, lela. turning now to space and the wardrobe malfunction that's jeopardizing the mission to make crucial repairs to the international space station. yesterday's spacewalk went well but tom

you see ab7 news reporter traffic reporter lela there. it featured a guest speaker, silent auction and plus dinner and dancing. >>> new york city mayor michael bloomberg will be the commencement speaker at the at graduation ceremonies at stanford. stanford's president said bloomberg's accomplishments in the business and being a mayor fall in line with the university's entrepreneurial spirit. right there you see video of bloomberg meeting with san francisco mayor ed lee last week. they plan to co-host a technology summit this year in new york. >>> some of our best creativity happens when we are young and a group at stanford thinks we need to do something about that. they want to give teenagers the tools they need to become inventors. johnathan bloom spent some time with some bright young minds and the professor that hopes to inspire them. >> hello, hello. you're not working anymore. [laughter] >> it's no laughing matter. trial and error is a great way to learn. >> thank you very much. >> that's why these high-schoolers are learning not in

lela was a ballerina, a professional dancer. >> she knows what's going on. >> she can hold her own with those cheerleaders out there. >> definitely. >> her holding had a in livermore and livermore is going to be hot today. >> up to 100 degrees for the next several days. it's been a sunny start, we have had a few clouds around, some haze over the ocean and live doppler 7 hd this morning, well, we are not going to pick up anything in the way of low clouds and fog except maybe late tomorrow. we will get that sea breeze kicking in, but the fog is not going to reform until perhaps into monday, had then it's just going to be limited the ocean influence. really the winds will be offshore today and that aids in our warm up. 63 san francisco, good morning oakland, 65, mountain view 66, it's 68 in morgan hill already, some of the numbers in the south bay, the p further south will be approaching near 100 degrees, a few records are in jeopardy, half-moon bay 62 degree, the golden gate bridge nice and clear but our coast only a few locations in the 70s. many areas will be up into the 80s, up to the

. >>> i'm traffic reporter lela ghoul inwith the b.a.r.t. closure update. bus, bridge and extra ferries are available to shuttle commuters between east bay and san francisco. delays are expected on bay area bridges throughout the weekend. get the latest updates on looks like you left these two west coast birds behind! foster farm's chicken's california grown. you guys aren't from here. wrong! we love yoga and sunshine and stuff. well foster farm's chicken has no added hormones. well i wish you didn't have any added negativity! ha! high five! yeah! he's not going far. they're local. introducing fresh and natural chicken. california grown with no added hormones. from foster farms. simply better. >>> the professional wrestling world lost an icon. rowdy roddy piper lost his battle -- he was one of the original villains of pro wrestling and the archenemy of hulk hogan in the 1980s. he was an actor and starred in a number of movies. to honor the late wrestler, a's outfielder josh reddick played bagpipe music. you can hear it. >>> a new skydiving record set yester

it took lela madison over an hour on the freeway to get here from richmond this morning. her niece had to take mad scisoo her son's arraignment. the oakland courthouse is more convenient. >> a.c. transit bus and tgo int oakland, it would be easier for me to do. >> reporter: starting this week all in custody arraignments in alameda county will be held at this new courthouse in dublin, it's about 30 miles from the oakland courthouse that's always handled arraignments for crimes occurring in oakland and berkeley. the majority of the county's criminal incidents. the court says it will save time and money. the county's main jail is right next to the new facility. no more busing prisoners to oakland for arraignments but defense attorneys say it's a burden for families of defendants. >> a lot of my clients obviously are indigent and their families are indigent and that's a tremendous hardship. >> reporter: there are also opening day blues. yesterday with a public defender calls total confusion. >> clients just aren't being seen. their case could be in contention next day. they'r

. >> lela, lela, come here -- no, wait, wait, wait. stop! gosh. >> too close. the bus had the stop sign activated, but guess what? the driver of the toyota just blew right past. the mother said it was the first day her daughter rode the bus home from school. it was just her second day of kindergarten. she's thankful she was there to tell her daughter to stop. she hopes it serves as a reminder for drivers to just be very slow and stop whether they see a school bus dropping off children. >> makes you queasy just to watch. a largest study of its kind found genetics plays a role in sexual preference, but there is no single gene that makes people gay. the study was published today in the journal science. researchers examined dna from nearly half a million u.s. and u.k. participants. they identified five genetic variants, not previously linked with gay or lesbian sexuality. researchers say thousands more genetic variants are likely involved here and interact with factors that are notay have hea hot yoga, hip-hop yoga, even yoga with goats, right? what about something

lela thompson, the lay-up and foul. led all scorers with 17 before the half. erica mccall with the runner. went 14-10. afterwards a hug. stanford rolls 85-68. they will play south dakota state, who upset miami, for a sweet 16 berth on monday >> on the men's side, 11th seed gonzaga rolled over utah. past eric with the finish. a game-high 22. 82-59, with the biggest margin of victory for an 11 seed or lower since 1985. a double-digit lead is guaranteed. they say on syracuse versus middle tennesee state winner next weekend. that's a wrap on sports. enjoy your sunday, everybody. i'm larry beil. >> is temperatures in the i am it he were 50s right now in san francisco. when do you predict the rain to fall? >> maybe by noontime a. there's already mist and drizzle. it would be better sunday if we could get together a stronger system one we have two and the second one is stronger. today is the first full day of spring. today and tomorrow chance of light showers. most spots getting less than a third of an inch but southerly winds ahead of the system allows for high dewp

. >> among the last to leave the flight, 77-year-old lela. her daughter is furious at the airline. >> to have them waiting, especially if they are seniors traveling, they have to pull them. >> the airways have apologized for the day. they said the fog caused them to cancel 20 flights in abu dhabi. one couple said they were glad it wasn't cancelled. >> we already had one flight cancelled so that was nightmare. >> her boyfriend proposed on the trip so she was happy. >> the u.s. department of transportation prohibits lengthy tarmac delays. the maximum aloud for international flights is 4 hours and carriers must make sure carriers provide adequate rules -- food and water. however, the rules only apply to u.s. airports not to foreign carriers overseas. >> this morning police are investigating a police shooting in vallejo. it started last night by redwood street and sonoma boulevard. it end the a restaurant about a block away. police reportedly shot at the suspect after he tried to run down officers. this morning muni service is back to normal in s

carolyn. >> thank you, lela. on tuesday two cast astronauts are stowed install an ammonia pump during a second space walk outside the international space station. yesterday they removed an old pump to remove a crippled cooling line. abc news reporter mike betcher has the story. >> american astronauts, rick and michael, zipped through time and space, removing the day ahead of schedule the ailing cooling pump that jeopardized operations aboard the international space station. >> don't let that go. that's a stocking stuffer. >> the walk was a complicated procedure that required the two astronauts to gingerly remove the refrigerator-size unit during a five and a half hour spacewalk. a replacement pump will be installed. but there was a glitch. one astronaut complained about his feet being cold and had to readjust the temperatures. the space suits came under scrutiny when another astronaut almost drown when water droplets collected in his helmet last july in a spacewalk. they came up with new fixes, absorbent pads to

on the left is nine-year-old lela designed as 4 feet, six inches tall and just 60 pounds. in the middle is 14-year-old so lay and she is 5 foot five and 130 pounds, investigators believe they were abducted by a 33-year-old white woman. they were taken from greenville in north of sacramento. she was driving a black prius. license plate 7uhhoo 6:02 is our time. safety violations were uncovered at a building. four people died monday morning. one fire fighter says it was dangerous. sky 7 captured the the terrifying scene. we spoke with oakland's mayor and have details. >> reporter: carlos weatherby and cynthia green lost their father monday. >> he saved this country. he stayed in oakland. he loved >> reporter: v 64-year-old ed anderson wanted the building shut down months ago. >> reporter: in an e-mail dated january th, a fire captain noted a fire escape was padlocked. he recommended the fire marshals office close the building immediately, due to the danger to life safety. an e-mail sent in february said the building is dangerous! and noted unmaintained smoke detectors. the oa

. >> an abc7 traffic reporter lela, and we've already picked two big winners of the shell gas card give way. if you haven't entered yet you have a chance to win $700 in free gas cards electric shell. all you have to do is click the like button on our facebook page. if you are already a fan you still have to fill out form. we will >> coming up at 7:00 after our newscast is good morning america. joining us now live from new york, dan hairston, to tell us what you are working on. haven't seen any a while. hi, dan. >> hi, carolyn. great to zoo see you. coming up on the broadcast we are covering the plane square a threatening note found by a passenger in the toilet area of an airplane. and forced the egypt airplane carrying around 300 people to make an emergency landing, in scotland. finally the plane is back in the u.s. we will hear from some of the passengers. also pitcher down. take a look at this video. tampa bay pitcher knocked off his feet after he was nailed in the head by a line drive over 100 miles an hour. players all over the league now are asking what kind of protection they have

>> that was mohamed lela reporting. >>> facebook has a big announcement to make next week but it's not yet clear what exactly it is. yesterday postcard invitations arrived to journalists throughout the bay area. they say a small team has been working on a big idea. join us for coffee and learn about a new product. facebook often holds media events but this snail mail invitation and coffee thing has led to speculation online. tech analysts believe it to be a new rss feed that would allow them to include web and news feeds in their facebook pages. google reader offered a similar service, but the company is closing it down sadly. >>> at the san mateo county fair this weekend, it's not only the future farmers of america, but the future builders and programmers all showing off their work. as jonathan bloom found out, the fair takes on a whole new meaning when you put it at the edge of silicon valley. [rooster crowing] >>> rise and shine. >> it's final for the san mateo county fair. [cowan mooing] don't forget to bring a sweater. and try not to eat too much. [pig snorting] kids and up is and

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