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This week, we've learned a lot, and last week of course, we've learned about House Intelligence

Committee Chair Devin Nunes.

This guy is running it seems to be his own investigation into the Trump wiretapping Russian

investigations.

But man, this guy is wrong.

I mean, really, really wrong.

He's canceling public meetings, he's meeting in secret at the White House, outside of the

White House in secret rooms and bumbling that up.

This guy's got to go.

He does have to recuse himself from the investigations.

But one thing I found a little puzzling is that the Washington Post had a glaring, blaring

article against Nunes.

They were calling for an investigation, not into just his role in the investigation, but

into the leaks and how the leaks got in Nunes's hands.

There's a lot of irony in that, the Washington Post calling an investigation into leaks.

The Washington Post thrives on leaks.

Matter of fact, if it benefits their narrative, they're going to actively pursue leaks, whether

it's leaks from the Trump White House getting to them first, or even a State Department

memo that was about leaks leaking to the press and it got to the Washington Post first.

They've even got the entire content of Michael Flynn's conversation with a Russian diplomat.

But I don't see the Washington Post calling for a look into how those leaks got out.

But if the Washington Post themselves were involved, man, you'd better back up, because

they don't want you in the way of their cozy relationships with politicians.

For instance, John Podesta.

He was named in the Wikileaks scandal.

So were several of the Washington Post reporters.

But they ignored that, and they instead focused on the validity of the leaks.

So why are we calling into this Nunes looking for a smoking gun?

If you're the Washington Post, you need to do a lot better at being transparent about

how you feel about leaks on any given party.

For more infomation >> CIA Mouthpiece WaPo Calls for Investigation Into Nunes Leaks - Duration: 2:29.

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Rebecca Solnit Reads from "The Mother of All Questions"; Discusses Hope & Resistance - Duration: 14:21.

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman, as we bring you Part 2 of our conversation with Rebecca Solnit, the

writer, historian, the activist, author of more than 20 books, including, most recently,

The Mother of All Questions.

Let's start there.

We ended Part 1 of our conversation with "the mother of all questions," but if you can talk

again about what that means to you?

REBECCA SOLNIT: Yeah, "The Mother of All Questions" was, you know, sort of a joke title for those

questions that try and—that are really not questions.

They're statements that—you know, "Why don't you have children?" is saying, "You

should have children.

I'm going to harass you for not having children."

It happened to me in an interview that was supposed to be about a political book of mine.

The guy spent the first 15 minutes just sort of hounding me about my reproductive choices

and couldn't find any of the answers adequate.

And I know a lot of younger friends of mine are being harassed about those questions.

It's really—it's the kind of questions that attempt to reduce women to breeding units,

to assume that reproductive activity and personal life is public business, as women's bodies

often and even usually are.

It's part of the larger idea that there's a one-size-fits-all recipe for happiness we

should all conform to, despite the fact we know lots of people who have conformed to

it and aren't happy.

And, you know, it's a kind of punitive normalizing force against which I think we can raise subtler

questions about the nature of happiness or maybe question the idea that happiness is

what we're here for.

Maybe we're here for meaning and purpose and, you know, other things.

And somewhere in that essay, I say there are so many other things to love.

And I know the way you love your work, and you're passionate about democracy and social

justice, etc.

There's a lot of other kinds of love that we don't talk nearly enough about, I've

been trying really hard to talk about for 20 years.

AMY GOODMAN: I want to turn to chapter three of your book, "Silence: The Cages."

Talk about the silencing of people, good silence, bad silence, what quiet means.

REBECCA SOLNIT: Yeah, this is a big essay that's the big new part of the book.

Many of the other essays have been published in The Guardian and Harper's.

And I really set out thinking I was going to write about how women are silenced.

And there are innumerable ways, and with silence really standing in for powerlessness, because

to have a voice, which means not just being able to utter words, but to have them respected

when you say "no," which is what the campus consent laws are about, to have a voice in

the fate of your body, which is what reproductive rights mean, to have a voice in a society,

which is what voting rights mean, are all things that we're still struggling for in

different ways.

And, you know, so—but I realized, as I wrote it, that we needed to talk about how men are

silenced, as well, that there's a kind of reciprocity of silences in conventional roles,

which both men and women have revolted against, but, you know, in a revolution still underway.

And I distinguished silence from quiet for the sake of this essay, because we have so

many blurry overlapping words in English.

And quiet is the choice to be in tranquility, to withdraw, to be—maybe to look inward.

Silence, I wanted to use for that lack of voice enforced from outside.

AMY GOODMAN: You also talk about the issue of sexual assault and sexual violence, from

Roger Ailes to Bill Cosby.

Now you have a self-confessed sexual assaulter as the president of the United States.

You have women who have made charges against him, who have described what he—who have

alleged what he did to them.

He said he would sue them right after the election.

He has not.

He, himself, in a videotape so many people heard, talked about not being able to help

himself—

REBECCA SOLNIT: Yeah.

AMY GOODMAN: —as he went after women, just grabbing them.

What does this mean to you?

REBECCA SOLNIT: You know, it's appalling that that didn't stop him, that people were

willing to vote for him anyway, that people were willing to disbelieve the just—you

know, these women, or give their voice no weight, when they talked about somebody who

was committing felonious sexual assaults.

And—but more broadly, we are in this interesting moment where Cosby got away with it for half

a century, Roger Ailes got away with it for decades, we've seen a lot of people who

got away with these things for a long time, not getting away with them now.

I believe passionately that assaults on women, from domestic violence to street harassment

and stranger assault to campus rape and the other kinds of sexual violence we live in,

is an epidemic.

It's a war.

It's a crisis.

And I've tried for decades now, it feels like, to try and get people to see how profoundly

it limits women's ability to participate fully, to be free, to be equal.

And, you know, it's a crisis that's gone on so long that it's just become the norm.

And maybe we should just call it patriarchy.

But things are changing.

And the woman who finally spoke out against Roger Ailes was heard, and a lot of other

women came forward to support her, which is how it's often happened, with Cosby, with

many cases, of real solidarity and support in between women to testify, to reinforce

each other's voices, because women's voices are so often discredited as part of that silencing.

So, I think we're in a transformative time.

I also think we're in the midst of a huge backlash.

I think it could go either way.

When I speak hopefully, it's never like this—it's not optimism: "This will happen.

We can all kick back."

It's "There's room here for us, if we do—if we fight with all our might, to change

things for the better."

And feminism has changed things so profoundly in our lifetimes that I'm still hopeful

about it, despite having the pussy-grabber-in-chief in the White House, despite this sort of new

alt-right misogyny and this administration.

AMY GOODMAN: You helped popularize the word "mansplaining."

What does that mean to you?

REBECCA SOLNIT: Yeah, I wrote an essay in 2008 called "Men Explain Things to Me," and

some anonymous blogger, who I still wish would come forward, coined the word "mansplaining"

the next week, which now is in 34 languages.

It's in The Oxford English Dictionary.

It's a normal part of the vocabulary.

It's about that circumstance, which happened to me this week, in which a man assumes he

knows, and a woman doesn't, and when in fact the reverse is true.

And I met a woman last night who's a financial expert, who has a young man in her department

explaining to her something that he doesn't fully understand, and she's the—you know,

the departmental chair—expert on.

So, it's the assumption that knowledge is somehow inherent in the male condition, ignorance

in the female condition, you know, that kind of patronizing bullying, taking up too much

room in the conversation, you know.

And the example that I used in that essay, which has had quite a life, the first example

I used—there are many—is a man telling me about the very important book I should

know about, that turned out to be a book I wrote, but he wouldn't slow down long enough

to hear my friend Sally keep saying, "That's her book.

That's her book."

So a man told me I should read this book that—

AMY GOODMAN: That you had written.

REBECCA SOLNIT: That I had written, yes.

That's mansplaining at its finest.

AMY GOODMAN: Did you understand your book better once he explained it to you?

REBECCA SOLNIT: No.

AMY GOODMAN: How about reading a section—

REBECCA SOLNIT: OK.

AMY GOODMAN: —from The Mother of All Questions.

Again, we're speaking to Rebecca Solnit, writer, historian, activist.

She's author of 20 books, this her latest.

REBECCA SOLNIT: I'm going to read the last couple paragraphs from the "Short History

of Silence."

[reading] "There is always something unsaid and yet to be said, always someone struggling

to find the words and the will to tell her story.

Every day each of us invents the world and the self who meets that world, opens up or

closes down space for others within that.

Silence is forever being broken, and then like waves lapping over the footprints, the

sandcastles and washed-up shells and seaweed, silence rises again.

"We make ourselves in part out of our stories about ourselves and our world, separately

and together.

The great feminist experiment of remaking the world by remaking our ideas of gender

and challenging who has the right to break the silence has been wildly successful and

remains extremely incomplete.

Undoing the social frameworks of millennia is not the work of a generation or a few decades

but a process of creation and destruction that is epic in scope and often embattled

in execution.

It is work that involves the smallest everyday gestures and exchanges and the changing of

laws, beliefs, politics, and culture at the national and international scale.

"The task of calling things by their true names, of telling the truth to the best of

our abilities, of knowing how we got here, of listening particularly to those who have

been silenced in the past, of seeing how the myriad stories fit together and break apart,

of using any privilege we may have been handed to undo privilege or expand its scope is each

of our tasks.

It's how we make the world."

AMY GOODMAN: Rebecca Solnit, reading from her book The Mother of All Questions.

In this era of Trump, talk about what's gone on for you in your community, inside

yourself, once he was elected and once you see what has transpired since, in this period

which is far less than his first 100 days.

REBECCA SOLNIT: I'm—one of the things I talk about in the book is it's a misnomer

that a reaction to danger is fight or flight.

That was based on studying male rodents and male human beings.

There's a third sort of gather and tend and—tend and befriend, they call it.

And that's what I saw immediately after the election.

People reached out to say, "How are you?

I'm here with you.

We're in this together."

There's been this massive wave of sort of solidarity and people, I think, not being

nitpicky about small differences, because across huge differences—you know, your Catholic

friends, your Muslim friends, your secular friends, your anarchist friends, your Marxist

friends—are all opposed to this administration, in many cases.

And so, there's been this extraordinary expression and action of solidarity, people

standing up for each other, that's been beautiful.

It has been incredibly exciting.

I'm not nostalgic for who we would have been under a Hillary Clinton presidency, which

is who we were under a Barack Obama presidency—namely, insufficiently engaged and deeply divided

within ourselves on the left and—you know, and in the mainstream.

So I see tremendous possibility.

But I also see this can fizzle out.

I wrote a book about disasters, A Paradise Built in Hell, about the extraordinary way

people come together after disasters.

We're not social Darwinist barbarians.

We're not nature, red in tooth and claw.

We're beautifully, anarchistically resourceful, communitarian, full of mutual aid, in the

moments after a disaster.

And this confirms that the Trump administration is a huge disaster, like a war, like an earthquake,

like a hurricane, that people have come together from.

But do they understand their own power?

Can they exercise it, build on it, make something permanent out of it, hang on to it, do the

slow, painstaking work of rebuilding a society?

Because I think we need to do nothing less than that, and recognizing, as the radical

right has, that you need to work on local elections, in school boards.

You need to address, you know, how districts are drawn up.

You need to address who gets to vote in our elections.

Can we do that long, slow work of rebuilding?

I think it's possible, as it never has been before, to really shift radically the level

of participation, the set of ideals, the nature of the parties, and do something extraordinary,

but only if people believe it's possible, if they can stick together to some extent,

which doesn't mean smoothing over racism or sexism or, you know, or limiting what we

do in those ways, but means seeing—understanding what we have in common and articulating in

a way that's energized and inspiring, claiming that power and really doing what's possible

with it.

So that's what I'm hoping for.

And every day we see horrible and disgusting things coming from this administration.

But they're chaotic.

They're weak.

They don't know how to govern.

And the chaos and disarray, I think, is full of possibility for us.

I think that it's not a given, but there's real possibilities of just taking them apart

and watching them collapse.

AMY GOODMAN: Rebecca Solnit, I want to thank you for spending this time with us, writer,

historian, activist, author of 20 books, most recently, The Mother of All Questions.

She is a columnist at Harper's, as well.

Her most recent piece, we'll link to, at The Guardian, titled "Protest and persist:

why giving up hope is not an option."

This is Democracy Now!

To see Part 1 of our interview with Rebecca Solnit, go to democracynow.org.

I'm Amy Goodman.

Thanks for joining us.

For more infomation >> Rebecca Solnit Reads from "The Mother of All Questions"; Discusses Hope & Resistance - Duration: 14:21.

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Awaiting economic impact after Westinghouse bankruptcy news - Duration: 1:30.

BOFTA YIMAM.

BOFTA: THE COMPANY SAID IT IS

PLANNING A STRATEGIC

RESTRUCTURING.

IT HAS 4,500 EMPLOYEES IN THE

PITTSBURGH AREA AND NEWS

TRAVELED FAST.

>> PRETTY SAD TO HEAR BECAUSE

WESTINGHOUSE HAS BEEN SUCH AN

INSTITUTION FOR PITTSBURGH AND

CRANBERRY.

BOFTA: TOSHIBA REPORTED HUGE

LOSSES FROM THE NUCLEAR

BUSINESS.

WESTINGHOUSE HAS BEEN A KEY PART

OF THAT.

TOSHIBA SAID IT FILED THE

CHAPTER 11 IN THE U.S.

BANKRUPTCY COURT OF NEW YORK A

MOVE LARGELY EXPECTED.

>> I HAVE A COUPLE OF GOOD

FRIENDS THAT LEFT WITHIN THE

LAST YEAR BECAUSE THEY SAW THE

WRITING ON THE WALL.

BOFTA: TOSHIBA ACQUIRED

WESTINGHOUSE IN 2006.

WESTINGHOUSE HAS ABOUT 12,000

EMPLOYEES WORLDWIDE.

AFTER THE 2011 NUCLEAR DISASTER

IN FUKUSHIMA COSTS BALLOONED.

THE COMPANY OVERNIGHT SAID WE

ARE FOCUS THE ON DEVELOPING A

PLAN OF REORGANIZATION TO EMERGE

FROM CHAPTER 11 AS A STRONGER

COMPANY WHILE CONTINUING TO BE A

GLOBAL NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY

LEADER.

>> THERE IS A GOOD KHRAPBLGS FOR

WESTINGHOUSE TO -- CHANCE FOR

WESTINGHOUSE TO RESTRUCTURE AND

USE THERE TO COME BACK.

BUT YOU HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE WHAT

For more infomation >> Awaiting economic impact after Westinghouse bankruptcy news - Duration: 1:30.

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Supernatural | Inside Supernatural: Ladies Drink Free | The CW - Duration: 1:16.

For more infomation >> Supernatural | Inside Supernatural: Ladies Drink Free | The CW - Duration: 1:16.

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Cook's Corner: Salmon egg sandwich - Duration: 2:56.

AT NEWS

9 AT 5:00 AND WMUR.COM THROUGH

THE DAY.

LET'S HEAD TO "COOK'S CORNER."

ERIN: WE ARE JOINED BY TOM

PUSKARICH OF RESTORATION CAFE,

AND YOUR GRAND OPENING COMING UP

.

TOM: WE OPENED QUIETLY IN

DECEMBER ANOTHER SPRINGTIME IS

COMING WE ARE READY TO LET THE

WORLD KNOW WE ARE HERE AND READY

TO PLAY.

ERIN: LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE

MAKING TODAY.

TOM: A SALMON AND EGG SANDWICH

WITH GOAT CHEESE ON FRESH

TOASTED BRIOCHE.

IT IS A SOFT SCRAMBLE.

EGGS BUTTER,, SALT AND PEPPER

ALL IN THE PAN.

I WILL DO THIS AND KEEP MOVING.

KEEP MOVING THE EGGS AROUND.

WITH A SOFT SCRAMBLE, WE WANT TO

KEEP SMALLER EGG CURDS AND GET A

CREAMIER CONSISTENCY.

ERIN: AND YOU SERVE THIS ON A

BRIOCHE ROLL.

ERIN: WE GET IT FROM A LOCAL

BAKERY HERE.

ERIN: TELL PEOPLE WHERE YOU ARE

LOCATED.

RESTORATION CAP THEY --

RESTORATION CAP A --

RESTORATION CAFE.

TOM: THE CORNER OF UNION AND

HANOVER STREET.

INTERESTING TAKE ON MODERN

LIVING.

300-SQUARE-FOOT UNITS, BUT THE

IDEAS THAT YOU LIVE IN THE CAFE

-- YOU LIVE IN THE BUILDING, AND

I'M PART OF THE DAILY LIFE, ONE

OF THE TENANTS WHO LIVED THERE.

WE MADE REGULAR CUSTOMERS

THROUGH THEM.

ERIN: YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A

PATIO AND YOU HOPE TO DO BRUNCH

AND YOU BROUGHT IN THESE JUICES,

TOO.

TOM: A BIG FOCUS ON QUALITY

INGREDIENTS -- JUICE, SMOOTHIES,

ORGANIC.

CLEAN FOOD FOR REAL PEOPLE.

YOU JUST KEEP MOVING THESE EGGS

AND THEY START TO COME TOGETHER.

I ADD MY CHIVES, GOAT CHEESE.

ERIN: NEXT UP RIGHT THERE.

TOM: AND WE ARE READY -- BURN

MY

HAIRS OFF MY ARMS.

HE LIKE TO KEEP THIS LICENSE

OFTEN CREMATE THAT SHE --

YOU LIKE TO KEEP THIS NICE AND

SOFT AND CREAMY.

DO THIS RIGHT IN HOUSE.

ERIN: THAT IS GREAT.

YOU OFFER THE JUICES.

TOM: ROASTED RED PEPPER, FRESH

RED PEPPER, APPLE.

CARROT GINGER.

GREEN JUICE, KALE, LEMON

COMMITTEE COMPRISED THE,

CUCUMBER, AND CELERY.

ERIN: RESTORATION CAFE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

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MY JAPAN BOX - MUSIC BOX [Unboxing] (Eng subs) - Duration: 5:55.

Today in line with Music and Japan, let's discover:

My Japan box, Music special

Opening a box standing up is annoying and something might just jump out

Let's get comfy! Like...

here

If you don't know the concept, this is a subscription box, there are various types from different brands

You usually pay around 30-40€ and receive a box full of goodies

Usually there's a monthly theme, this one is a unique box I purchased, not a monthly one

and it's dedicated to Japanese music, so including both J-pop and more traditional music

Not sure what to expect, I reckon there are CDs inside!

That's the only box related to J-pop that I found

Let's go

AH! There's sweets!

First thing I focus on: food...

Very J-pop

What is this?

Cotton wool? Texture is like cotton candy

Yup, cotton candy!

Doesn't it look like a diaper?

Now that my diabete is up, next!

Let's see the first CD: Ayane Ikeda

No idea

We'll give it a listen, Next!

This one looks like a soundtrack for a game, it's written Konami on it

"original soundtrack, New Love Plus"

Never heard of it

As it says Konami, there's a chance it's from an idol game?

It looks cute, Next!

Oh, Bleach! "Bleach, The Best"

Too bad I'm not a big fan but that's a good idea

CD/DVD, let's open it to see

Now that it's here!

You're not helping, Ichigo

It's not opening, that's annoying

HA! Who's laughing now?

HAAA That was my finger!

The box is very pretty, I don't know if you can see but it's shimmery

Inside we have:

Bleach, The best Pinup which illustration cards

Nice, if that was Johnny's I'd have some pretty boys by now!

Well, that's pretty Anime boys

Take what you can, gurl

I like how it says Pin up but that doesn't look very pinup-ish to me

Typically this one: is that pinup or just creepy?

The book!

Lyrics I suppose? Yup, lyrics with illustrations

Bleach, the best CD!

with Orange Range, Beat Crusaders...

and finally: Bleach, the best DVD!

Aah, it's the openings and endings

It's a DVD with all the openings and endings from the series

It's a great idea, too bad I don't care about Bleach

I can make you win it though! If you'd like to get it let me know in the comments!

Soft

Back to the cheeky ladies

Pretty! Reminds me of the Ayumi Hamasaki logo, don't you think?

So I paid this box about 30 Euros? Dollars?

But the value of the CDs is above that

Best of Bleach cost... Wait Ayane, do you mind?

We'll get to you, ok!

Bleach costs 3,800Yens

Ayane Ikeda, 2,500 Yens

New Love Plus, 2,520 Yens

The CDs are almost triple the cost of the box

However I'd have like having stickers in there or random music goods

And idols stuff, like Johnny's, just saying

Even Sexy zone!

That's my desperation: "Even Sexy Zone!"

Anyway!

Ayane

Ballad, boring

"Dear friend", might not be very jolly

I was wrong!

Interesting, I like that

Very pop, the voice is suave-ish, I like it

So far so good!

Next, where's my knife?

Under the laptop

That's so safe!

Cooperate, Konami!

Double wrapping!

Over-wrapping is a Japanese specialty

How many CDs? Ah, 2

It does look like virtual idols, they even have the names

Like Idol Master type of thing? With Schoolgirls!

That's not pervy

I need to check

For the channel, not for me you know...

You're not helping, Konami!

Cute!

Is that instrumentals?

If you know it tell me, I'm a bit lost right now

Come on, drop it!

Yeah, Ok

That... is great for Christmas!

That catches you off-guard!

What's next?

Sounds like depression

That's not a great start

Next? Still no one singing, so it's probably only Instrus

BGM, you know

That's a shame, with that visual I was expecting more!

More of an Ambiance CD then

Let's put this away

before I cut my veins by accident

AAH my mic!

There you go! I hope it was interesting to discover the box together

Let me know if you know the artists or if you want to hear more about them

If there's a box you'd like to recommend to me, I'm still available on social medias: TW, FB, IG

Give this video a thumbs up to let me know you liked it

If you missed last week's video, it's right here!

And as usual, don't forget to subscribe, so you don't miss next week's video!

That's it for me this week, see you soon!

I'll take more diaper

For more infomation >> MY JAPAN BOX - MUSIC BOX [Unboxing] (Eng subs) - Duration: 5:55.

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Video: Some sun breaks through - Duration: 3:26.

THOUGH?

KELLY ANN: THAT IS DOWN THE

ROAD.

ANTOINETTE: SUNSHINE THOUGH.

KELLY ANN: POTENTIALLY.

IT'S BEEN SLOW TO MOV IN.

CLOUDS ARE STUCK IN PLACE

ESPECIALLY FOR 495 EASTWARD.

MOVING WESTWARD, WE HAVE SOME

SUN TRYING TO BREAK OUT.

WHERE THE CLOUDS ARE STUCK IN

PLACE COULD SEE PASSENGERS OF

FOR THIS AFTERNOON ESPECIALLY

ALONG OUR COASTLINE.

MAINLY DRY AS YOU HEAD O

TODAY.

INTO THE LATER AFTERNOON THINGS

STARTING TO BRIGHTEN AS WE ARE

SEEING THAT SUN START TO MOVE

OUT.

MOVING INTO SPRINGFIELD WHERE

TEMPERATURES ARE SPIKING TOWARD

50 DEGREES.

THAT SAME STORM SYSTEM WHICH

BROUGHT SEVERE WEATHER DOWN TO

THE SOUTH IS EVENTUALLY MOVING

AWAY.

YOU CAN SEE THE MOISTURE AND

ENERGY WITH THAT SYSTEM.

THAT'S THE MAIN CONCERN AS WE

MOVE INTO THE LATER PORTION OF

THE WO WEEK.

WITH THIS COOLER AIR WE HAVE

TRAPPED IN PLACE THAT

COMBINATION WILL MAKE FOR THAT

CHANCE OF THAT CHANGE OVER FROM

BRAIN TO T NEXT OF RAIN AND

SNOW.

WE STILL HAVE THOSE CLOUD LOCKED

IN PLACE SO WE ARE IN THE LOW

40'S FOR MOST SPOTS WITH BOSTON

AT 43 DEGREES.

WE HAVE NOT GIVEN UP HOPE FOR A

WARM-UP BECAUSE WE WILL SEE

THESE TEMPERATURES REACH MID TO

UPPER 40'S AS THE SUN BREAKS

OUT.

WE ARE SEEING THAT SIMCOE.

IT IS 49 DEGREES.

AS THAT CONTINUES TO PUSH

EASTWARD YOU'LL SEE TEMPERATURES

WARM FOR LATER TODAY.

IT'S A RELATIVELY MILD AFTERNOON

ESPECIALLY AS THINGS CONTINUE TO

DRIVE OUT.

WINDS GUSTING AT TIMES.

BLOWING BETWEEN 10 TO 20 MILES

PER HOUR IN FROM THE NORTH.

WE MOVE TOWARD THE MIDAFTERNOON,

PUSHING THE COASTLINE AND BY

LATE THIS EVENING YOU WILL SEE

THAT SUNSHINE BREAKTHROUGH RIGHT

BEFORE THE S SETS AND LEADS US

INTO CLEAR SKY TONIG.

THAT'S ALL BEFORE WE TREKKED THE

SYSTEM WHICH WE SAW IS DOWN TO

SOUTH AND WEST.

NOTICE HOW THIS IS ONE OF THE

MODELS.

INDICATING THAT WE COULD SEE

SOME OF THAT SNOW TREKKED INCH

TOWARD THE AREAS AT LEAST FRIDAY

MORNING.

AS THAT SYSTEM CONTINUES TO

TRACK SOUTH OF THE AREA WE

CHANGE TO RAIN FOR THE BO OF

FRIDAY.

THE OVERNIGHT HOURS LEADING INTO

SATURDAY MORNING.

THAT IS THE POTENTIAL OF SEEING

A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW THAT

COULD TRY TO ACCUMULATE FOR

HIGHER ELEVATIONS AND AREAS

NORTH OF ROUTE 2.

SOUTH OF MASS PIKE MAINLY

STAYING AS RAIN.

THAT IS GOING TO BE THE TREND.

IT'S A MESSY MIX WHERE WE SEE

THAT CHANGE OVER AND WE'RE

WATCHING THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME

GUSTY WINDS AS WELL.

BEST CHANCE OF SNOW ACCUMULATION

IN THE WORCESTER HELLS TOWARD

BERKSHIRES, MIX QUICKLY THROUGH

BOSTON GLOBE PIKE.

SOUTH MAINLY STAYING AS RAINFALL

FOR THAT FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE

SATURDAY SYSTEM.

AN IMPACT WHETHER DAY WITH THE

SYSTEM RUSHING THROUGH.

TEMPERATURES PROGRESSIVELY COOL.

30'S AS WE HEAD INTO FRIDAY.

WE ARE TRACKING TH SYSTEM

TREATED HERE'S A CLOSER LOOK AT

THE TIMING.

THAT'S NO PUSHI THROUGH,

CHANGING OVER TO THE MIX AND

RAIN AS WE HAD THE FRIDAY

AFTERNOON.

FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY

MORNING, OUR BEST CANCE FOR ALL

LOCATIONS SEEING ANY SORT OF

SNOWFALL BUT THE PROBLEM IS WITH

THAT CHANGE OVER BACK TO RAIN,

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Video: Dry Thursday, accumulating snow Friday (3-29-17) - Duration: 3:39.

SEVERE DAMAGE IN THE AREA, THERE

IS JUST ONE REPORTED INJURY.

>> NOW FIRST ALERT WEATHER WITH

TYLER JIM KOSKI.

--

TYLE STORM CENTERED OVER

OKLAHOMA, IT'S THE VERY STORM

THAT HAS A NORTHEAST TRAJECTORY

THAT IS GOING TO GO OFF THE MID

ATLANTIC AND BRING SNOW US

READY INTO SATURDAY.

POSTED TO HOME RIGHT NOW, WE

HAVE A OVERCAST SKIES.

THE CLOUDS ARE MOVING FROM NORTH

SOUTH.

WE ALSO HAVE A RAIN AND SNOW

SHOWERS MOVING INTO THE UNITED

STAT FROM CANADA IN

ASSOCIATION WITH AN UPPER-LEVEL

DISTURBANCE.

AND ON RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS IN

NORTHERN PORTS -- PARTS OF THE

AREA.

37 IN SAINT J, 34 AND

MONTPELIER, YOU CAN SEE WHY IT

IS RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS.

IT DEPENDS ON YOUR TEMPERATURE

RIGHT NOW.

IT IS OVERCAST IN BURLINGTON.

AT BURLINGTO INTERNATIONAL IT

IS 38.

THE AFTERNOON SHOWS CLOUDS,

SHOWERS, HIGH INTHE LOWER 40'S

AS WE HEAD INTO THE 3:00 AND

4:00 HOUR TODAY.

WE WILL START FUTURECAST

TOMORROW WITH A LOT OF SUNSHINE.

WE WILL CALL IT MOST LEAGUE --

MOSTLY SUNNY FOR THE DAY

TOMORROW.

NO ISSUES.

WE DON'T WANT TO NEGLECT THAT IT

IS A NICE THURSDAY, BUT BY

TOMORROW MORNING -- I TOMORROW

EVENING THE CLOUDS MOVE IN.

THIS IS NOT :00 A.M. FRIDAY WITH

SNOW BREAKING OUT FROM SOUTH TO

NORTH EAST.

THE SNOW FALLS HARD AT TIMES, IT

IS A WET SNOW, THE TYPE OF SNOW

THAT IS TOUGH TO SNUGGLE -- TO

SHOVEL.

A COASTAL LOW-PRESSURE SYSTEM

GETS CRANKING OFF THE COAST.

INITIALLY IT'S BECOME WARM AIR

MOVES IN A LOFT AND THEN THE

STORM TAKES OVER.

IT RESULTS IN A STORM BASICALLY

FRIDAY MORNING TO SATURDAY

MORNING.

THE CONSISTENCY IS A WETTER SNOW

.

SOME SLEET IS POSSIBLE AT TIMES,

ESPECIALLY IN THE BORDER WITH

MASSACHUSETTS, AND WE COULD ALSO

HAVE SOME RAIN IN THE VALLEYS AT

TIMES.

I THINK THAT PREDOMINA

PRECIPITATION TYPE IS WET SNOW.

THE HIGHEST TAKE YOU MALAYSIANS

IN SOUTHERN VERMONT IN SOUTHERN

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

THIS IS THE FIRST LOOK AT T --

THE HIGHEST ACCUMULATIONS IN

SOUTHERN VERMONT AND IN SOUTHERN

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

LOOKS LIKE MORE THAN .5 FOOT OF

SNOW FROM SOUTHERN VERMONT

POINTS EASED, ALSO THE FAR

SOUTHERN ADIRONDACKS COULD BE

SIX TO 12 INCHES.

THIS IS ACCUMULATED FRIDAY,

FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY

MORNING.

IT IS A LONGDURATION AS WE GO

INTO THE FIRST WEEKEND OF APRIL.

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

THAT'S WHY WE DON'T WANT TO

GLOSS OVER THE FACT THAT

TOMORROW IS A NICE DAY.

THE SNOW MOVES THEN FRIDAY

MORNING AFTER THE MORNING

COMMUTE, BUT THAT NEEDS TIME

TUNING, AND IT LASTS INTO

SATURDAY MORNING.

ONE OF THE REASON IT WILL

ACCUMULATE IS THAT THE BULK OF

THE STORM IS FRIDAY NIGHTS WHEN

THE SUN IS NOT OUT.

THIS TIME OF YEAR, THAT ALWAYS

HELPS ACCUMULATE SNOW.

IT DOESN'T HELP US.

IT I SUNNY ON SUNDAY AND

MONDAY.

IT WILL BE AT A REALLY NICE

FINISH TO THE WEEKEND AND START

TO THE FIRST WEEK OF APRIL, BUT

I DON'T KNOW IF THIS THING

EXISTS.

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Dr. Robert Avossa responds to teacher child porn charges - Duration: 5:45.

O ENSURE SWIFT,

JUDICIAL PROCESS I FOLLOWEDS.

AT THIS POINT, CHIEF LEON AND I

WILL TAKE QUESTIONS.

BECAUSE IT IS AN OPEN

INVESTIGATION, THERE ARE

PROBABLY PARTS OF THOSE

QUESTIONS WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE

ABLE TO RESPOND TO.

>> CAN YOU TALK ABOUT HOW MY

STUDENTS WERE IDENTIFIED?

>> -- HOW MANY?

>> RIGHT NOW WE HAVE BEEN TOLD

THERE ARE NUMEROUS INDIVIDUALS.

WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO IDENTIFY A

HANDFUL OF STUDENTS THAT WE KNOW

ARE ASSOCIATED WITH OUR SCHOOLS.

BUT AGAIN, WITH THE FBI

TYPICALLY WITH TECHNOLOGY, THERE

COULD BE PEOPLE HERE IN THIS

COUNTY AND IN ANOTHER STATE, WE

DON'T KNOW THAT.

[INAUDIBLE]

>> I CAN'T COMMENT ON THAT.

I CAN TELL YOU WE HAVE

IDENTIFIED STUDENTS THAT OUR

CURRENT PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOL

DISTRICT STUDENTS.

I'D PREFER NOT TO COMMENT ON

THAT.

>> WE HAVE AN ACTIVE

INVESTIGATION.

>> CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE AGE

RANGE OF THESE KIDS?

>> RIGHT NOW IT IS AN ACTIVE

INVESTIGATION.

WE KNOW THERE ARE STUDENTS THAT

ARE FROM OUR SCHOOL.

AT THIS POINT, WE ARE STILL

MOVING FORWARD IN THE

INVESTIGATION WITH THE FBI.

IT IS THEIR CASE.

THEY ARE WORKING WITH US TO

IDENTIFY IF THERE ARE OTHER

INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED.

>> YOU CAN MAKE SOME ASSUMPTIONS

GIVEN THE FACT IT IS CHILD

PORNOGRAPHY THAT THERE ARE

INDIVIDUALS UNDER THE AGE OF 18.

>> ANY OF THEM HERE TODAY?

>> CAN'T COMMENT ON THAT.

WE HAVE MADE ALL OF OUR ASSETS

AVAILABLE TO THEIR FAMILIES IN

TERMS OF COUNSELING AS WELL AS

OTHER STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL AND

WILL CONTINUE TO WORK FOR THE

FBI SEE IF THERE ARE OTHERS.

>> YOU DON'T WANT TO VICTIMIZE

THE STUDENTS AGAIN.

WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE

PROTECTION FOR THEM AS WELL AND

NOT PUSH THEM TO ANOTHER

SITUATION.

>> WHAT WAS THE TIMELINE AND

WHEN YOU SPOKE TO THE PARENTS?

>> I CAN'T SPEAK TO THE EXACT

TIMELINE OF THE VICTIMS, BECAUSE

THE FBI HAS BEEN MAKING THOSE

POINTS OF CONTACT.

OUR PARENTS WERE NOTIFIED THIS

MORNING.

THE BROADER GROUP.

MEANING BOTH THE CURRENT

STUDENTS, THE CURRENT STUDENTS

AT THIS SCHOOL, BUT WE ALSO ARE

HAVING INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS WITH

PEOPLE AT THE SCHOOL AT SEVERAL

TIMES DURING THE DAY TODAY.

WE'LL PROVIDE ONGOING SUPPORT IS

NEEDED.

>> WHEN IS THE LAST TIME -- HE

WAS IN THE CLASSROOM?

>> I WILL HAVE TO FIND THAT OUT

FOR YOU.

>> HAVE THERE EVER BEEN ANY

OTHER COMPLAINTS?

>> WE'VE GOT A PERSONNEL FILE WE

ARE HAPPY TO SHARE WITH YOU.

YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THAT.

TO MY KNOWLEDGE, I DO NOT KNOW

OF ANY, BUT WE WILL MAKE

AVAILABLE HIS DISCIPLINE

PERSONNEL FOLDER.

>> MAL FEMALE, BOTHE,?

>> AT THIS POINT, WE ARE SAFE TO

SAY THAT THERE ARE STUDENTS

UNDER THE AGE OF 18.

I PREFER NOT TO COMMENT ON THAT.

SO, HE TAUGHT SEVERAL DIFFERENT

SUBJECTS AT THE SCHOOL OVER THE

LAST SIX OR SEVEN YEARS, AS WELL

AS COACHED AS WAS INVOLVED IN

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES.

>> WHAT KIND OF ACTIVITIES?

>> THE ROBOTICS COMPONENT AS

WELL AS AFTERSCHOOL ATHLETIC

EVENTS.

>> DURING -- DID THAT INVOLVE

TRAVEL WITH STUDENTS?

>> THAT'S ALL PART OF THE ACTIVE

INVESTIGATION.

AS IT UNFOLDS, AND WE ARE ABLE

TO PROVIDEMORE INFORMATION, WE

WILL PROVIDE THAT.

BUT RIGHT NOW IT IS THE FBI'S

INVESTIGATION.

WE DO NOT WANT TO UNDERMINE

THEIR INVESTIGATION AND CAUSE

ANY CONFUSION -- OR ISSUES WITH

THAT.

>> AT THIS POINT, I'D PREFER NOT

TO COMMENT ON THAT.

>> WAS THERE A SPECIFIC SPORT HE

WAS INTO?

>> I PERSONALLY AM AWARE OF ONE,

WHICH IS BASKETBALL.

HOW LONG HAS HE BEEN WORKING

WITH --

>> YEAH, I'LL MAKE THE PERSONNEL

FILE AVAILABLE.

I BELIEVE IT IS SIX OR SEVEN

YEARS.

>> DOES HE HAVE ANY FAMILY

LOCALLY?

HAVE YOU BEEN IN CONTACT WITH

THEM?

>> ANY CONTACT WITH ANY MEMBERS

IS DONE THROUGH THE FBI.

WE WOULD PREFER NOT TO MAKE ANY

COMMENTS BECAUSE IT IS THEIR

INVESTIGATION.

>> I WILL SAY THIS.

THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO

LOCATE THE INDIVIDUAL.

IT IS IMPORTANT WE GET THE WORD

OUT.

AND ANY VIDEO YOU HAVE FOR

PICTURES OF THE INDIVIDUAL, I

WOULD HOPE THE MEDIA WOULD WORK

WITH US SO WE CAN BRING SOME

CLOSURE TO THIS AND MOVE ON TO

THE NEXT LEVEL.

ALL I AM AWARE OF IS THE

COACHING IS BASKETBALL.

AND AN AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM OF

ROBOTICS.

THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO I'M AWARE

OF.

THAT DOES NOT MEAN HE HAS NOT

COACHED OTHER THINGS.

ONE OF THE REASONS WHY IT IS

IMPORTANT WE COMMUNICATE QUICKLY

TO PARENTS IS TO MAKE SURE THAT

PARENTS DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN

WHEN THEY'RE WITH THEIR CHILDREN

TO TALK ABOUT THINGS LIKE

INTERNET SAFETY, LIKE THE USE OF

TECHNOLOGY, AND MAKING SURE THAT

THEY ARE CHECKING THEIR KIDS

TELEPHONES, ASKING THE

QUESTIONS, AND IF THEY HAVE ANY

INFORMATION AT ALL, THAT IN ANY

WAY MAKES THEM FEEL

UNCOMFORTABLE, THEY NEED TO TELL

AN ADULT.

YOU SEE SOMETHING, YOU SAY

SOMETHING.

AND THAT IS IMPORTANT.

>> IF YOU GO ON TO THE SCHOOL

DISTRICT WEBSITE, SCHOOL POLICE,

UNDER RESOURCES, THERE IS A

COMPONENT THERE FOR PARENTS AS

WELL CALLED NET SMARTS.

IT HAS A LOT OF TOOLS THAT

PARENTS CAN UTILIZE TO MAKE SURE

THEIR CHILD IS SAFE ON THE

INTERNET.

>> LAST QUESTION?

>> WHERE WAS PERRY LAST SEEN?

>> THAT IS PART OF THE

INVESTIGATION.

[INAUDIBLE]

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Watch this: Local entrepreneur talks about building your brand - Duration: 2:59.

NEW ORLEANS ENTREPRENEUR WEEK

ENDED LAST WEEK, BUT THIS

MORNING, WE HAVE A LOCAL

ENTREPRENEUR TO TALK ABOUT

BUILDING YOUR BRAND IN THE

DIGITAL AGE.

ROCIA MORA IS WITH TIPS ON HOW

BEST HERE WIT

-- HERE WITH TIPS ON HOW

SHE MADE YOUTUBE VLOGGING A

SUCCESS FOR HERSELF.

FOR SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW,

BLOGGING WHAT IS THAT?

>> IT IS REALLY JUST A VIDEO

BLOGGING.

YOU CAN ESSENTIALLY TALK ABOUT

ANYTHING YOU WANT IN THE WORLD

ON YOU TOO.

AUBRY: THERE ARE SO MANY

PLATFORMS LIKE FACEBOOK,

TWITTER, SNAPCHAT.

IT'S A COOL WAY FOR BUSINESSES

AND BRANDS TO REALLY THRIVE AND

SHOW OFF WHAT YOU'VE GOT.

TALK ABOUT HOW YOUR COMPANY

WORKS TO DO THAT AND ALSO WITH

YOUR OTHER BRAND AS WELL.

IT HAS ALL KIND OF EXPLODED AND

HELP OUT QUITE A BIT.

>> MY BRAND IS TALKING PRIMARILY

ABOUT NATURALLY CURLY HAIR.

MY MAIN PLATFORM IS YOUTUBE, BUT

ALSO AT FACEBOOK AND TWITTER

LIKE YOU MENTIONED.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE

LEARNED THAT I'VE LET OTHER

BRANDS KNOW IS THAT YOU DON'T

NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE ON

EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME.

IT'S REALLY A LOT TO KEEP UP

WITH.

YOU CANNOT ALWAYS BE ON FACEBOOK

AND INSTAGRAM AND SNAPCHAT AND

WHATEVER ELSE IS NEW UNDER THE

SUN.

JUST KIND OF SHINING IN THE

PLATFORM THAT YOU ARE MORE

FAMILIAR WITH IS GOING TO KIND

OF HELP.

AUBRY: FOR SOMEONE NEW TO IT,

YOU TARGET ON YOUTUBE.

TELL ME ABOUT THE VIDEOS AND HOW

YOU CREATE AND PRODUCE THEM.

YOU PRODUCE THEM FOR YOUR BRAND

AND CLIENTS AS WELL.

>> FOR ANYONE STARTING OFF OUT

THERE, YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO

HAVE ALL THE EQUIPMENT IN THE

WORLD.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BUY THE

FANCIEST CAMERAS.

WHEN I STARTED OFF, HEAD OF

FAMILY -- I HAD A FAMILY CAMERA

PLOPPED UP ON TOP OF TEXTBOOKS I

WASN'T READING AND NATURAL

LIGHT.

JUST TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING

YOU'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT, SO FOR

ME, IT WAS HAIR.

JUST ENGAGING IN WITH YOUR

AUDIENCE IS IMPORTANT WHEN

GROWING YOUR BRAND.

THE MONEY YOU NORMALLY

GET FROM YOUTUBE OR SPONSORED

CAMPAIGNS OR BRANDS YOU LOVE

WORKING WITH IS WHAT YOU CAN

INVEST TO MAKE THE QUALITY

BETTER.

AUBRY: THE INTERESTING THING

WITH IT IS THAT I KNOW ON MY

WORK FACEBOOK I WILL DO FACEBOOK

LIVE AND TWEETING AND EVERYTHING

LIKE THAT, BUT YOU CAN REACH A

LOT OF PEOPLE.

TALK ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF HITS

AND VIEWS YOU ARE SEEING.

>> FOR ME, THE VIDEOS MOST

POPULAR ARE THE ONES THAT ARE

TUTORIALS.

EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW HOW TO

STYLE CURLY HAIR AND FIND THE

RIGHT PRODUCTS FOR YOUR HAIR.

ANYTHING THAT IS JUST REALLY

ANSWERING WHAT YOUR COMMUNITY

WANTS.

I'M SURE THAT SOMETHING YOU

NOTICED TWO.

JUST ANSWER THEM.

ANSWER THEM WILL DRIVE

ENGAGEMENT.

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Search warrant sought for home after McDonald's robbery - Duration: 1:40.

LOOKING FOR, THE GUN THEY THINK

WAS USED IN THE ROBBERY.

IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS,

LACONIA POLICE SEALED OFF 19

VARNEY COURT.

AUTHORITIES SAY 4 PEOPLE WERE

BEING DETAINED IN CONNECTION

WITH AN ARMED ROBBERY THAT

HAPPENED AT 11:30 TUESDAY NIGHT.

>> WE DID A CANINE TRACK IN THE

IMMEDIATE AREA, RECOVERED SOME

PHYSICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE

SCENE, WHICH LED US TO DO

SEVERAL OTHER INTERVIEWS WITHIN

THE CITY, WHICH LED US TO THIS

LOCATION HERE.

RAY: THE ROBBERY HAPPENED AT

THIS MCDONALD'S ON UNION AVENUE.

A MAN DRESSED IN DARK CLOTHING,

WITH HIS FACE ENTIRELY COVERED,

OPENING THE DOOR AND GOING

BEHIND THE COUNTER, ORDERING THE

CLERK TO EMPTY THE CASH DRAWERS.

>> DURING THE PROCESS, HE LIFTED

HIS SHIRT DISPLAYING WHAT SEEMED

TO BE A SILVER-HANDLED HANDGUN

.

RAY: POLICE SAY THAT THERE WAS

ONE OTHER PERSON IN THE

RESTAURANT AT THE TIME, AND THE

ROBBER PUSHED THE CLERK SEVERAL

TIMES.

>> THE EMPLOYEES WERE VERY

SHAKEN UP, VERY NERVOUS, BUT NOT

PHYSICALLY HURT.

RAY: AFTER DEVELOPING LEADS THAT

LED THEM TO VARNEY COURT, POLICE

EVACUATED ONE SIDE OF THE

DUPLEX.

THEN BEGAN NEGOTIATING WITH

THOSE INSIDE NUMBER 19.

THEY WORRIED A STAND-OFF MIGHT

BE DEVELOPING, BUT WERE ABLE TO

SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE INSIDE AND

CONVINCE THEM TO COME OUT.

>> HE'S BEING DETAINED FOR

QUESTIONING, ALONG WITH SEVERAL

OTHER OCCUPANTS THAT WERE WITH

HIM.

RAY: POLICE SAY IF AN ARREST IS

MADE, IT'S LIKELY THAT THE

SUSPECTS WILL BE ARRAIGNED THIS

AFTERNOON.

AND WHILE THERE WAS JUST THE ONE

PERSON INSIDE THE MCDONALD'S

AT THE TIME COMMITTING THE

ROBBERY, POLICE DON'T BELIEVE HE

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To till or Not to Till? That is the Question. - Duration: 36:43.

To till or not to till.

That's the tough question that I'm going to be addressing in this presentation.

It was the topic that I was asked to talk about

at the Ecological Farming Conference that was in California this past January

and also at this California Climate and Agriculture Summit

that was a UC Davis in February of this year.

It's important to keep in mind when I'm talking about this

that I actually have a lot of experience not in no- till systems

but in highly tilled systems. So in these two pictures here this is

more typical of what I work in.

This is a vegetable production system

and this system here's another one that I work in

which is strawberry production. And even in these we do a lot of tillage

so just keep that in mind as I go through his presentation that I actually have a lot more experience with highly

tilled systems than I do with no tilled systems.

I like this quote and I think it's an important one to kind of start a presentation like this because one of the reasons we're interested in reducing tillage

is because we want to make sure they were taking good care of our soil.

And I think it's important keep in mind that there really is just a thin layer on our planet that stands between us and starvation.

Now we also have to manage our water resources well.

This is a picture from California showing one of the reservoirs that was filled up with water this

past winter. So that's an important part of sustainability and preventing

major catastrophes in our agricultural systems. But also we need to keep in mind the

the climate. The thicker layer that surrounds our planet

which helps to allow us to farm productively. And we also need to acknowledge that us humans are having a

major effect on our climate. We're causing it to change and we need to carefully think about

that and figure ways so we can reduce our negative impacts on our climate.

I want to take you a little bit of a trip in his presentation, at least in the introduction. And what were going to do

is we're going to get onto this Hawaiian sailing canoe and sail over to Hawai'i.

This is actually a canoe which is on this voyage

and what the voyages is focused on is trying to set a course for a sustainable future.

This is something that I think is important for us to think about both in the water as well as on land.

And let's just assume that our canoe lands on this beach.

This is on the island of O'ahu.

It's a beach that I like quite a lot. It's over and the Kailua area. And you'll see these beautiful

scenes like this. But if you look carefully into the sand you'll see a lot of pieces of plastic

these are called micro plastics.

And they're clear evidence that us humans are having an effect on our environment.

And that's kind of an interesting analogy that I'd like to is draw on for this presentation.

What I'm going to do today is I'm going to show you little pieces of evidence to try to

get at this question of whether or not we should or should not be tilling in our agricultural systems.

So kind of keep that picture in your mind as we go through this.

Now an important thing that I often think of when I'm trying to understand a new area for

myself and I would consider

I wouldn't consider myself an expert and no-till at all. I would actually say that I'm pretty ignorant about it and so I went to the scientific

literature and here's a bunch of different titles that I read

and which I found helpful in understanding this. You might want to check these out as well.

One of the real interesting ones is this one is titled 'The soil carbon dilemma: shall we hoard it or use it?'

And it's kind of a neat idea because what the author Janzen

describes is thinking about soil carbon kind of like water in a dam. We can have that water be stored

or we can let that water out and it can actually generate some electricity, and some energy and do some work for us.

And the dilemma with soil carbon is that it's often most functional as it's being transformed

from solid carbon into...as it's decomposing really going back into CO2. And that's the dilemma we have is

should we hoard it or should we use it?

Well I think you may enjoy this paper where the author talks about that very eloquently.

Now before we talk about what may happen when we move from highly tilled systems like this in Salinas California into a

reduced tillage type system like this,

I think it's important to think about some of the benefits of tillage 'cause there are some benefits obviously.

It can reshape our landscape. These are two pictures one from Indonesia this is Bali Indonesia and this is Nepal.

And what you can notice in both of these is... people have put a lot of work into trying to transform these landscapes

to create these beautiful bench terraces which allowed them to reduce soil erosion and therefore farm those areas much more

sustainable than if it didn't have these structures.

So that's clearly a very intensive form of tillage and one which has allowed people to farm in

areas that they normally would not been able to farm.

Now another real important part of tillage is adding organic matter back to the soil and these three shots here show

some parts of that in Papua New Guinea where I grew up. So this man is making sweet potato mounds which will be filled with organic matter

like previous crop residue or weeds or different types of organic matter in the center of the mound.

And then as that material decomposes it will be releasing nutrients which are

helping subsequent crop like sweet potatoes to grow.

So incorporating organic matter into the soil allows that to decompose and then provide a lot of benefits for us.

Now another real obvious benefit of tillage is to reduce compaction

This picture down here shows a lettuce harvest in Salinas and you can see how we've got these big ruts left in the fields from the harvest operation.

And here's another example of this and a broccoli field. So after harvesting broccoli or lettuce we often have real rutted up fields

and we need to try to get rid of this compaction in these areas so that it doesn't create problems for our next crops.

Another reason that we would incorporate or use tillage in the systems would be.... say you have a crop failure.

For some reason this spinach crop wasn't harvested

It could be several reasons maybe it had disease in it that that wasn't... didn't make the crop marketable. And so they need to quickly

turn this field around and the easiest way to do that is to come in and till out this spinach so they

can get this field ready for the next crop of vegetables.

Now very obvious reason for tillage that I'm sure a lot of people think about is reducing weeds. What we don't to have is we don't want

a situation like this in romaine lettuce where we've got a lot of weeds. The weed here is burning nettle

and this is a real challenging weed to work with because it will actually sting you and your hands

or on any of your sensitive skin. And so we don't want situations like this and therefore we put a

lot of time and effort into tilling those systems with a

special cultivator like this and also using hoes to take out those weeds.

Those are forms of tillage that are very important in these vegetables systems.

Now there are many problems with tillage and these four pictures show some of those problems.

When we till the soil we can create a lot of dust and that

degrades the air quality. Also when we've got bare fields from tillage

we can have a lot of soil erosion, a lot of nutrient loss, and that's not very good. And that can lead to fields like this in Thailand where I

worked where you lost yields because so much of this topsoil had eroded off.

And of course when we till our agricultural soils

it takes a lot of energy and that actually can create problems

because we're actually letting a lot of CO2 backup into the air from the use of the fossil fuels, the excessive use of fossil fuels.

One of the publications that are listed on the reading list has is very nice figure that talks about some milestones in agriculture

and the development of different tillage tools and tillage practices over time. I think you might enjoy checking this out.

I've been interested in tillage tools for quite a long time and here's three that I've collected in

different parts of the world where I've either lived and traveled. The first one here this is a

hoe from Nepal. This would have been what they might have used to make some of those bench terraces. This over here is a

short handled hoe from Zambia. They also make longer handled versions of this. This is in Southern Africa.

And this center one this is a digging stick from Papua New Guinea where I grew up.

And this would have been used for harvesting sweet potatoes.

In general I think that when people were using these types of tillage tools where all the energy to make the tool work

came from food that they had eaten. It's unlikely that they were tilling excessively.

I generally think that when we started sitting on tractors and using fossil fuels

that's probably when the excessive tillage began. Just something to keep in mind as we think about tillage in different parts of the world

and whether or not we should or should not be tilling.

Let's look at a little bit of data here. So this is

a graph taken from a paper that describes changes in soil organic of carbon, on the Y axis

and how the changed over a period of intensive vegetable production. So you can see early on

before that field had been cultivated when it was just naturally

left on its own, the soil organic carbon levels were quite high and that over time they've dropped

especially during say the first 10 to 20 years... big drop there.

And they slowly start to kind of stabilize but

there's a big decline. And that just shows how intense vegetable production can be quite challenging or

have a real negative effect on soil organic carbon levels in these fields.

This is a very dramatic shot that shows that in a different way.

So this picture was taken from this publication here

and this pipe in the center, this white pipe was actually... the soil surface was up here

in about 1923 when this pipe was installed. The pipe goes right down to the bedrock and this soil in this farmed area

had been drained. So it was a very high organic matter soil and it had been drained and then put

into sugar cane cultivation. And you can see that about 1.5 m

several feet of topsoil had subsided here. So a lot of that subsidence has to do with the fact that

in this soil, carbon was being burned up through the drainage of the soil and then the

cultivation of the sugar cane that followed.

Okay so now that we've seen very clearly that intensive tillage as you can see in this graph here has a

major negative effect on soil carbon or soil organic matter,

I want to move on to talk and show you some data on how conventional tillage would compare with say no-till.

So to help to understand what I mean by no-till let me show you this nice graphic. This graphic I think provides a

very clear illustration of the differences between no-till agriculture

conservation tillage and then conventional tillage.

So the data that I'm going to show you is comparing

conventional tillage with no-till. So these are on opposite sides of this spectrum

with conservation tillage being somewhere in the middle. So in a conventional tillage system in this

case this would be an example with corn-soybean crop rotations

in the U.S. you can see there's many many different tillage passes, one with the moldboard plow then with a disc

then a field cultivator and then different harrows and things like that.

Whereas with a no-till system

the only real tillage that occurs, and there is a small amount of tillage that does occur,

and that's when you plant the seeds in just a small slot where the seed is drilled into the soil

that's the only

time that the soil is disturbed. Other than that you just apply an herbicide to kill the weeds, you

you plant the crop with a no-till seeder, you apply an herbicide

in this case this would be in a conventional situation to control weeds again

and then you come in and harvest.

So as you can imagine there's a lot more crop residue on the surface here in this no till system.

Now in a conservation tillage system there's generally about 30% or more surface residue

there still is tillage in it but it's far less than say in the conventionally tilled system.

So if you're interested in understanding these differences I suggest that you have a closer look

at this nice illustration because I think it really

it does a good job of, in a nutshell, showing the differences between these different systems.

Okay so what happens when you move from a convention tilled system like this

into a no-till or a reduced tillage system?

Well there's a lot of things that can change

Let's look a little bit at some more data.

So this shows long-term organic soil carbon level changes

as we go from say

taking an area into cultivation

and then going into some kind of an improved management practice.

So you can see this is the soil organic cabon level at the beginning

its natural level it would not have been changing very much

and then we start doing some kind of cultivation and right away just like I showed you on that previous slide it drops down.

This is because the input of carbon is less than the decomposition rate

so you're getting a quick loss of organic matter in these system.

And then eventually the levels of input of soil carbon and the decomposition rate kind of equal each other so that we get a steady state system.

And then we start some new practice, maybe its cover cropping

and we start to get an increase in soil organic carbon levels.

But notice it never really, kind of gets back up to this level here it stabilizes at some other level.

So keep in mind early on there is a quick decline or relatively quick decline and

before we get to another steady state it takes quite a bit of time

and the steady state that we reach generally does not usually go back to the original state when the system was not in agriculture.

Okay, now I'm going to show you several different graphs that provide some interesting data on what happens

in a conventionally tilled system versus a no-till system.

And all the graphs are going to look somewhat similar to this, so I need to explain a few things here.

So this paper that this comes from they conducted a meta-analysis which is where they've taken the results of many many

different studies and they've combined them to try to get a whole bunch of information that's very robust.

This is the average point right here in this error bar right here represents a 95% confidence interval.

So this means that we can essentially be 95% confident

that the real number falls within this range here.

So it's a good way to estimate where an effect is.

Also I should point out that this 'n' here this indicates the number of observations

that went in to make this mean or this average and it's 95% confidence interval.

Now in these graphs if the average like this falls on this side, then this would mean that conventional tillage is better

And if the average falls on this side than it would mean that no-till is better.

So this first one we're looking at the mean difference in soil organic carbon

in conventional versus no-tilled systems. And you can see that...

oh actually I should point out what the zero is. So the zero would indicate

no change, okay, so no change there. Let's look at what's happening in say the top of top say 5 centimeters of depth of the soil.

So at 5 cm it's very clear that there's an increase in the

mega grams of carbon per hectare. So we've got about 3 Mg of carbon per hectare more in the no-till system.

This makes sense because there's a lot of residue on the soil surface.

Now when you look say 25 centimeters down, the situations not that clear, well actually it's the opposite it is relatively clear here

in this data. So we can see further down actually the the conventionally tilled systems

have got more carbon stocks at that depth.

What I want you to just kind of take away from this graph is that the sampling depth at which you

measure the effects of a conventional tilled system or a no-till system has a huge effect on how you would interpret

the data. When were looking near the soil surface no-till looks better.

But when we go a little bit deeper, conventional till looks better.

And actually when we go really deep say 45 to 55 cm

it doesn't look like there's much of a difference.

So I hope this is helping to you to understand the complexity of this issue of soil carbon sequestration.

So I hope this is helping to you to understand the complexity of this issue of soil carbon sequestration.

If were interested in sequestering carbon in the soil we have to really look carefully at different depths within the soil

and this paper really helped me to understand that complexity.

In that reading this I also listed this paper which is another one that kind of opened up my eyes to a new

way of thinking about stabilizing soil organic carbon in the soil

So let me try to walk you through this a little bit and hopefully I'll be able to explain this kind of new way of thinking about

soil carbon sequestration.

So let's start with this middle section here

as you I'm sure are aware there's many different qualities of soil or of plant litter that one can add to the soil.

You can add say leaves of legumes, things that are very easily decomposed. And then you can also add, on the other end of the spectrum

things like wood chips or more lignified material

And my initial way of thinking about carbon additions to the soil was that this type of material that decomposed slowly

would tend to increase soil organic matter more than

this material that would decompose more quickly.

However, this paper talks about... sort of a different way of thinking about this.

When plant litter that decomposes easily which we call 'labile' organic matter

When that decomposition process is occurring

there's a lot of decomposition products that are being produced

and those decomposition products are actually what's leading then down to more stable forms of soil organic matter in certain situations.

And this is compared to say the more lignified or the more woody materials

those don't have as many decomposition products and therefore their ability to

build up stable forms of soil organic matter

is not as great as say this material here.

The other thing that's intriguing is that these more labile or easily decomposed forms of organic matter or plant litter also tend to cause

less carbon fluxes or releases compared with these materials.

So as you think about soil carbon sequestration

I want you to try to keep this model in mind, or this framework

and I encourage you to go and check out this paper. I found it very intriguing.

I want to now move on and talk a little bit about how

no-till versus conventional till systems affect yield.

Okay let's look at another one of these graphs from another meta-analysis.

So we're looking at the effects of conventional till versus no-till on yield.

And this is taken from a large number of studies .... so 678 studies and about 6000 observations.

within those studies were what's used to make up this first data point.

So overall, over a whole bunch of different crops

generally, you can see this this dot here indicates the average,

generally what the data is showing is that

averaged across many different crops

conventional tilled systems

have about say 5 percent greater yield then no tilled systems.

Now if you look down say for oilseed or cotton type systems

the difference doesn't seem to be very much.

Maybe a slight indication that no-till might be a little bit better but this average this middle point is pretty much right on zero.

With legumes there's pretty much a clear difference or indication that

conventional tilled systems are better than no-tilled systems.

With root crops it's very dramatic say about 20% yield loss or greater yield

in a conventional tilled system versus a no tilled system.

So this really does show that the type of crop that you're talking about responds differently to no-till or tilled systems.

Here's another graph. Now we're going to look at the duration of the effect on yield.

So we've got here some studies that went for 1 to 2 years,

3 to 4 years, 5 to 10 years and then more than 10 years.

Again this is the the number of studies and then the number of studies...

I'm sorry this is the number of studies here, and this is the number of observations.

So studies that happened for say 1 to 2 years only, conventional did better

but over time if a study goes on for a longer period of time

the differences between tilled and no-tilled systems start to become less obvious.

So this data, the fact that the average is relatively close to zero would suggest that over time

averaged over many different crops

no-till and conventionally tilled systems may not have very big differences in their in their yield.

Okay let's look at one more graph from this meta-analysis and how no-till affects yield.

So what were going to look at here is the effect of climate.

In this graph what they've got is they're showing

tropical latitudes in the world, subtropical ones and then temperate latitudes.

And it should be quite clear right away that in tropical latitudes

conventional tillage generally yields quite a bit better than no-till does.

Whereas in temperate latitudes the differences between

conventional till and no-till are closer to zero. They still are generally favoring conventional till

but not near as much as is occurring in tropical latitudes.

So this just shows very clearly that where the tillage practices are done can have a huge effect on how the yields respond.

So just to kind of summarize a little bit, I've talked about two different meta-analyses

this first one where looked at whether or not no-till can stimulate carbon sequestration.

So generally what it showed me was it's a lot more complicated than just saying 'yes no-till is sequestering carbon.'

It really depends on the depth, and we probably ought to be sampling our soils much more deeply

like down to a meter so to see if the overall difference between tilled systems and no-till systems

really is that big of a difference.

Now the other meta-analysis that I talked about was this one where we looked at the effect of yield. We looked it overall a bunch of different

crops and then the effect of duration of the tillage practices and then also climate.

And I also encourage you to go and look at that paper in more detail.

Hopefully what this has shown you is that this question 'To till or not to till?' is a little more complicated

once you really get into the scientific literature and start looking at the data.

Now what I really want to focus on for the rest of this presentation is

some experiences that I've had with trying to reduce tillage in vegetables systems.

It's something that I think is really worthwhile trying to do but it's also pretty challenging.

So I'm going to talk about some of our experience with a roller-crimper and then with a mowed type system.

I want to explain the roller-crimper type system that we've been trying out at the USDA.

On the front 3 point hitch we've got a standard roller-crimper.

We've got that mounted on the front, we can raise and lower this as we need to

and that does a really good job of

crimping cover crops as we drive across the beds, and it crimps the cover crop that falls in the same direction as we're traveling.

Now one challenge that we have had sometimes is that

sometimes the cover crop falls parallel to these crimper blades and therefore

that material is not crimped very well by the front crimper.

So what we've done is we've taken a

tow attachment that can be used for say a grain drill

and we mounted a toolbar on the back of that

and so right now the tow attachment wheels are lifted off the ground and all the pressure is on these

this toolbar, and toolbar's got a series of

coulters, flutted coulters that are attached to that which have dulled blades. So the blades of these coulters have been dulled

and we're just towing this. And this allows us to crimp any material that falls perpendicular to the direction of the tractor's travel.

So between the front crimper

and then this rear tow type crimping system we're able to pretty much crimp material that falls in any direction.

So the idea in the system was that we would grow cover crops on beds like you can see here

and then we'd come in with our roller crimper

and we would crimp that down and then ideally we'd get this beautiful layer of mulch

right over the soil surface which would be suppressing weeds

and doing a bunch of other good things. And then we would be able to transplant say a romaine lettuce crop

into that and have a beautiful system.

So let me describe that in a little bit more detail.

In our systems these beds from center of this furrow to the center of this one would be about 80 inches wide.

And because our crimper works very well on the bed top we actually had to plant

something a little bit different in the furrow. We planted mustard.

And the mustard variety that we use has hollow stems and when we drive our tractors

in these furrows to crimp the bed top, the wheels are very effective at crimping the furrow mustard.

So here's a picture that shows our cover crop with the mustard in the furrows.

This is in January, the cover crop would have been planted in the previous year in the fall.

And you can see the rye has grown up quite nicely and the the mustard is here in the furrows.

Now let me show you what happens when we get in there and we crimp it.

So here's the tractor.

We don't have the rear crimper on there right now but we do use that.

So we've got the front crimper that's pushing down the cover crops on the beds

and then the wheels are crimping in the furrows and crimping off the mustard plants.

So this looked pretty good when we crimped it down.

But this is where we started to get concerned. About 54 days after we crimped this cover crop

we had all this green in the field and that green is essentially regrowth of a cover crop.

So the mustard in the furrows died very nicely

but the rye on the bed top

didn't die very well. Even though it was flowering when we crimped it we still had lots and lots of regrowth of our rye cover crop.

This really kind of got us concerned during the first year of the trial.

Now when we went to the second year

we tried this again and we actually had even worse results.

This time we got not just regrowth of cover crop but a massive amount of weed growth on these bed tops.

So these two experiences, that is the regrowth of the cover crop on the bed top and then massive amounts of weed growth coming up

through the cover crop mulch

really made us realize that the roller crimper

may not be the best tool for us to try to do a reduced tillage system in our vegetable systems.

So what we're trying now is a different system where we're

focusing on killing or controlling a cover crop's growth using a mower and then trying to kill it with another tool.

Let me kind of describe that.

So I've been working with my good friend Jim Leap on this. Jim is very good at understanding how different tillage tools work

and great at trying to innovate different methods.

And what we've been doing is we've been planting the rye on the bed top, these are again those 80 inch wide beds

and this case we're actually cultivating the furrows of the cover crop

and once the rye gets up, you know a certain height

we then start mowing it repeatedly.

And this kind of keeps the biomass under control so that it never kind of gets out of hand.

So here we're mowing the rye cover crop.

And then the idea is after we've mowed it several times as it's been growing

we then come in with this tool which is.. it's got rippers here in the furrow

there's actually a residue manager to clean out some of the furrow area

and there's a large flat coulter which cuts through some of that residue and then there's a large ripper shank which

rips into the furrow bottom and that allows us to take this next tool which is an undercutter and undercut this entire bed so we're basically

cutting off the root systems of this rye cover crop on the bed using his undercutter.

The shanks of these under cutters extend down and then somewhere down into the soil here

about say 3 to 4 to 6 inches or so deep we've got our blade of the undercutter which extends underneath here

and basically cuts off the root systems of the rye.

I'm going to show you a little video clip of this working.

Okay so you can see the undercover is moving along very nicely and is undercutting

that residue or those rye cover crops on the surface

and leaving the rye right in place but undercutting it. So hopefully it we'll kill it.

Now in this situation this is rye planted on 40 inch beds, we had two lines on a 40 inch bed

but the same basic idea could also work potentially with rye planted on an 80 inch bed.

I'd like to conclude by answering the question to till or not to till in high value vegetable systems.

and I'd like to do that by bringing in a few more images. So at the beginning of the presentation

I talked about this need for us to set a course for sustainable future

We looked at some evidence from the scientific literature

and hopefully that's inspired you to go and look at some of that evidence for yourself.

I find this image to be one that I think is helpful to answer the question of whether or not we should or should not be tilling.

So this is a sailboat, I love sailing, and

if we turn the sailboat around what you'll see in the back of the sailboat is this

part of the sailboat right here which I'm holding in my right hand. This part of the boat is called the tiller.

And the tiller is one the most important parts of the sailboat because it controls the rudder.

And when I'm sailing a sailboat if I don't have access to the tiller, the boats completely out of control.

You have to very carefully use that tiller and by doing that you can set a course and get to where you want to efficiently.

Without a tiller the sailboat is pretty worthless.

I tend to think that in high value vegetable systems

we need to still need to be using tillage. I don't think we should be abandoning tillage.

But I think we do need to be careful with how we use it.

Make sure that we're using it in a thoughtful way.

And also move towards reducing tillage where possible.

I do however think that there's some real low hanging fruit in our vegetable systems

that we should focus more on then just completely eliminating tillage.

And probably the most obvious low hanging fruit that I can think of is

the need for us to increase cover cropping.

And that's true in both conventional as well as organic vegetable systems.

So this picture shows two different ways that we can add carbon

into these high-value, high-input vegetable systems.

One way to do it would be by bringing in carbon from an outside source such as using yard waste compost

that's a very convenient way to add carbon to our systems.

But the other way which is one that I think we actually should be focusing much more on

is on-farm carbon production.

The reason that I think we need to do that is that these on-farm sources of carbon

provide so many more benefits to maintain a healthy soil and these vegetables systems.

When we grow cover crops there's a whole bunch of other benefits and that's kind of

well described in this paper that was published in 2010.

And in that paper the authors talk about carbon friendly farming practices.

So when you grow a winter cover crop you are adding large amounts of carbon to the soil

but in addition to that you're also reducing nitrate leaching

You're increasing the infiltration of winter rainfall

and that will hopefully increase our groundwater recharge

and were also providing habitat for beneficial insects

so because of all these co-benefits from cover cropping

I think that cover cropping is such an obvious low hanging fruit, it's one that we really need

to focus more on in our agricultural systems.

And try to help farmers come up with ways that they can incorporate these as often as possible.

I think that will do a lot to improve the sustainability of these systems even if they have a fair bit of tillage in them.

Now if you have any questions or comments to free to send me e-mail.

You also may enjoy checking out some of my publications that are all available for free on this web site.

take care

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Monument debate grows in New Orleans - Duration: 1:55.

JENNIFER: OPPOSING VIEWS REMAIN.

EVEN AFTER THE MONUMENT REMOVAL

COURT CASE WAS DECIDED AND THE

CITY CLEARED, TO TAKE DOWN

CONFEDERATE ERA MONUMENTS.

>> IS FAR FROM OVER.

JENNIFER: THE MONUMENTAL TASK

COMMITTEE RAISING MONEY SUNDAY

TO KEEP THE EVERY NEW ORLEANS

MONUMENT STANDING AFTER SPENDING

THE LAST 30 YEARS PRESERVING

THEM.

>> WE'VE GOT EFFORTS GOING ON IN

THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATIVE

SESSION COMING UP REAL SOON.

WE STILL HAVE TWO ACTIVE

LAWSUITS, ONE IN FEDERAL COURT

AND ONE IN STATE COURT.

AND THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ALL

ABOUT.

JENNIFER: BUT WHERE SOME SEE

HISTORY THAT'S WORTH SAVING,

OTHERS SEE ICONS OF WHITE

SUPREMACY.

>> IF PEOPLE WANTED TO REMEMBER

THAT WE USED TO BE SLAVES AND WE

WERE NOT ALLOWED TO READ, WRITE,

LEARN ARITHMETIC.

WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LOOK AT

WHITE WOMEN OR HAVE THIS KIND OF

CONVERSATION WITH WHITE MEN.

WE WERE CONSIDERED CAPITAL.

REMOVE IT AND PUT IT IN A

MUSEUM.

JENNIFER: THAT IS THE ISSUE

TAKEDOWN NOLA IS PRESSING.

PURSUING THE REMOVAL OF MORE

MONUMENTS AND THE RENAMING OF 24

STREETS, SEVEN SCHOOLS AND TO

HOSPITALS.

ANY ICON IN NEW ORLEANS THAT CAN

BE CONNECTED TO CONFEDERATE

LEADERS, SLAVE OWNERS OR WHITE

SUPRIMACISTS.

>> DO YOU THINK IT'S GOING TOO

FAR, ASKING UNIVERSITIES AND

MEDICAL CENTERS TO CHANGE THEIR

NAMES?

>> NO.

WE THINK THERE SHOULD BE A

HISTORICAL RECORD.

PEOPLE SHOULD GET SQUARE WITH

OUR HISTORY AND WE ARE

VENERATING THINKS WE SHOULD NOT

VENERATE AND WE SHOULD BE

TRUTHFUL ABOUT THE HISTORY AND

WE THINK THE STUDENTS AT TULANE

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Lancaster man charged for delivering large amounts of marijuana - Duration: 0:25.

BACK TO YOU.

SUSAN:

POLICE SAY

THEY WITNESSED

OCTAVIO LOPEZ SELLING POT FIVE

DIFFERENT TIMES.

EACH TIME, HE DELIVERED MORE

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Harmony Mendoza's Wednesday Forecast - Duration: 2:41.

EUNICE: I NEVER KNOW.

HARMONY: TODAY, IF YOU ARE

HEADING OUT, IT IS REALLY HUMID.

YOU WI BE AROUND LAKESHORE,

YOU DEFINITELY WILL WORK UP A

SWEAT BECAUSE OF THE HUMIDITY.

IT IS STILL PRETTY MILD.

NOT STEAMY JUST YET.

ONE THING'S FOR SURE, WE ARE

LOOKING AT A SYSTEM OUT TO THE

WEST THAT IS ALREADY SHOWING A

LITTLE BIT OF SIGNS OF BREAKING

APART.

THERE IS AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE

THAT IS FUELING THE UPPER LEVEL

OF THE ATMOSPHERE THAT IS

DRIVING ACTIVITY.

CLOSER TO HOME, NOT MUCH GOING

ON.

YOU CAN SEE HOW MASSIVE THE

STORM SYSTEM IS.

IT EXTENDS ALL THE WAY FROM

PORTIONS OF THE DAKOTA DOWN INTO

AREAS OF TEXAS.

SO THIS IS A BIG STORM SYSTEM

AND WE WILL DEAL WITH THIS

TOMORROW AS WE HEAD INTO THE

AFTERNOON.

TODAY, 80'S BY 12:00 AND WE

COULD HAVE A BRIEF SHOWER IN

EASTERN ALABAMA.

HERE IS A ZOOMED IN LOOK AT WHAT

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

THE SEVERE RISK ON THURSDAY,

THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK FOR

FAYETTEVILLE.

A MORE LIKELY CHANCE FOR THE

STRONGER STORMS TO START.

WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A STEAMY

DAY TODAY.

THERE WILL BE A FEW SPOTTY

SHOWERS.

LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE FUTURE

CAST.

IT DOES SHOW SPOTTY SHOWERS

TODAY AROUND 3:00-4:00 THIS

AFTERNOON.

PRETTY WARM OUT THERE.

WE DO HAVE MOISTURE OUT THERE

THIS AFTERNOON.

THIS IS 7:00 THIS AFTERNOON.

WE DO HAVE ACTION POPPING UP IN

THE NORTHWEST-ALABAMA COUNTIES

BECOMING MORE SPORADIC BY

MIDDAY.

AND WE SEE MORE THUNDERSTORMS BY

2:00 IN THE AFTERNOON.

STILL COMING UP FROM THE SOUTH.

BY 5:00 IN THE AFTERNOON,

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS BUT I DO

THINK THIS WILL BE A MIX.

WE WILL SEE MORE STORMS AGAIN

LATER IN THE EVENING IN THE

SOUTHERN COUNTIES.

THAT IS A LOOK AT AROUND 11:00

P.M. TOMORROW EVENING.

THE LINE WILL MOVE THROUGH.

I FRIDAY MORNING, EARLY IN THE

MORNING, IT WILL EXIT THE STATE

AND WE CAN DRY OUT IN TIME FOR

THE WEEKEND.

85 DEGREES IS THE FORECAST HIGH

TEMPERATURE TODAY WITH AN

ISOLATED SHOWER BUT WE ARE

MAINLY FEELING STEAMY.

I THINK WE CAN RETIRE THE COAT

BUT KEEP THE UMBRELLA ON

STANDBY.

TOMORROW, STORMS ARE LIKELY.

THEY WILL COOK UP -- THEY WILL

KICK UP.

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Title: Wedding music and wedding music instrumental love songs playlist 2017: Petals in the Wind

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Trash-talking to trash collecting, WWE Superstars help clean up Orlando - Duration: 1:30.

ALEX VILLAREAL REPORTS

IT IS ALSO ABOUT GIVING BACK.

>> YOU ARE PUTTING THE GERMS

INSIDE THE GLOVES.

[LAUGHTER]

ALEX: WWE STARS TURNING FROM

TRASH TALKING TO TRASH

COLLECTING.

>> IF I COULD GIVE ANY ADVICE TO

ANY SINGLE PERSON OUT THERE

LISTENING IS TO KEEP OUR CITIES

CLEAN.

THIS IS OUR HOME.

THIS IS WHERE WE WALK.

THEIR TRASH CANS ALL AROUND.

THROW YOUR TRASH AWAY, KEEP THE

CITY BEAUTIFUL.

>> WRESTLERS DANA BROOKE,

GOLDUST AND R-TRUTH JOINED

VOLUNTEERS FOR THE CLEANUP.

>> LOOK AT THE SURROUNDINGS WE

HAVE HERE.

IT IS SO PRETTY.

EVERYBODY IS COMING OUT TO HELP

US.

ALEX: THIS PARK IS RIGHT BY

CAMPING WORLD STADIUM, WHERE WWE

STARS WILL TAKE TO THE RING FOR

WRESTLEMANIA ON SUNDAY.

YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN THE MACH

CHAMPIONSHIP BELT HANGING AT

LAKE EOLA.

A SOLD-OUT CROWD IS EXPECTED AND

CAMPING WORLD ON SUNDAY.

>> WE HAVE A LOT GOING ON AND

DRIVING HERE AND AROUND, JUST

SEEING IT BEING BUILT BEFORE OUR

EYES.

I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE FINAL

PRODUCT ON SUNDAY.

ALEX: MONDAY AND TUESDAY, RAW

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Mostly sunny and breezy on Wednesday - Duration: 2:25.

HERE ON WBAL TV-11.

ANNOUNCER: NOW YOUR WBAL-TV 11

WEATHER FORECAST WITH TONY PANN.

TONY: A MILD START HERE THE LOW

IN BALTIMORE ONLY 50 DEGREES.

THE NORMAL LOW IS 37.

IT GOT DOWN TO 37 IN OAKLAND.

35, NEW YORK.

ALREADY SIX, BRADFORD,

PENNSYLVANIA.

54, CHARLOTTESVILLE.

YOU WOULD EXPECT A NICE WARM

AFTERNOON, BUT WINDS HAVE

SHIFTED, SO SOME COLDER AREA IS

SHIFTING IN, RELATIVELY

SPEAKING.

NORTH WIND AT EIGHT AT BWI AT

THE TOP OF THE HOUR, AND IT IS

58 DEGREES THERE.

WE SHOULD STICK WITH THE LOW

50'S FOR THE AFTERNOON.

NORTHERN SUBURBS MIGHT STAY IN

THE UPPER 50'S, BUT THERE IS A

LOT OF SUNSHINE.

IF YOU STAY OUT OF THE BREEZE,

IT FEELS A VERY NICE.

HERE IS THE WEATHER MAP.

HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE GREAT

LAKES.

THAT WILL TAKE CONTROL FOR THE

NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.

YOU MAY EXPECT ANOTHER DRY DAY

TOMORROW.

THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY,

THINGS BEGAN TO CHANGE.

PLENTY OF SUNSHINE RIGHT NOW.

WE ARE WATCHING THIS SYSTEM TO

OUR WEST BRING SHOWERS AND

THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF

OKLAHOMA AND IN THE KANSAS, EVEN

SOME SNOW IN COLORADO AND NEW

MEXICO HERE AND WE WILL GET RAIN

OUT OF IT, NO SNOW.

IT WILL COOL OFF A LITTLE BIT ON

FRIDAY.

LET'S LOOK AT FUTURECAST AND THE

NEXT 48 HOURS.

TOMORROW MORNING, ANOTHER QUIET

DAY.

SUNSHINE, BUT CLOUDS THICKEN UP

IN THE AFTERNOON AS THE NEXT

SYSTEM GETS CLOSER.

DRY ON THURSDAY.

BUT FRIDAY, I EXPECT RAIN DURING

THE TAIL IS END OF THE DRIVE

TIME.

OFF AND ON SHOWERS AND MAYBE A

FEW THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE

AFTERNOON ON FRIDAY, 50'S.

LOOKS LIKE THIS, MOSTLY SUNNY,

BREEZY, PLEASANT THIS AFTERNOON,

HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50'S AND LOW

60'S.

TONIGHT, MOSTLY CLEAR AND

TURNING COLDER, DROPPING BACK

INTO THE UPPER 30'S TOMORROW

MORNING.

SEVEN-DAY FORECAST LOOKS LIKE

THIS.

DECENT DAY TOMORROW, CLOUDS IN

THE AFTERNOON BUT DRY THEM A 55.

A GOOD CHANCE FOR RAIN FRIDAY,

MAYBE EVEN A THUNDERSTORM.

SHOULD BE GONE EARLY SATURDAY

MORNING.

MOST OF THE WEEK AND WILL BE

DRY.

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Burglary suspect shot and killed in Center Point - Duration: 0:38.

>> NOW ON WVTM 13 NEWS.

EUNICE: GOOD MORNING.

A CENTER POINT HOMEOWNER SHOT A

BURGLARY SUSPECT TO DEATH

OVERNIGHT.

DETECTIVES SAY THEY FOUND A

79-YEAR-OLD MAN SITTING ON HIS

FRONT PORCH OVERNIGHT.

HE SAID TWO PEOPLE HAD FORCED

THEIR WAY IN AND CONFRONTED HIM

SO HE IS GRABBED HIS GUN AND

FIRED AT THE BURGLARS.

POLICE ARE STILL TRYING TO FIND

THOSE PEOPLE.