and immediately to her left is marie barnette, one of those two barnette sisters who were part and parcel of the west virginia versus barnette. so i am just going to sashay over to this chair here. we will have a chance to chat a little bit and get the story from those who lived it. and there is a reason for this order here. gobitas to barnette. we have been seeing that on this wonderful presentation that preceded this. from a practical perspective about jehovah's witness, was that part of your mom's and brother's world, or was that something that their parents were part of? originally, my mom's side of the family was methodist, my grandmother's side of the family, and my grandfather's side was catholic, so this came about from their parents. and when they started reading, my grandfather would sneak in the room and look at the literature and when they came home, he would say, guess what i learned today? he got intrigued with what he felt was the truth. so it got handed down that way. >>at what point did your mother ever mention when she got the word as to how they might react to the pledg

this takes us to west virginia versus barnett. as was demonstrated this morning the mistreatment of jehovah's witnesses hit the conscience of every honest hearted american. the supreme court also had a conscience and realized it had made a big mistake. so much so that when walter barnett brought his case to court the district court ruled in favor of the family. of course, the matter went all the way to the supreme court. this resulted in the famous decision that we are commemorating 75 years later. the supreme court said as has been mentioned those who begin the elimination and decent sin find themselves the exterminating dissenters. compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. ladies and gentlemen, i want you to take a step back for a moment. put this issue on the shelf for a moment. barnett also stands for something very big and different. in this decision justice frankfurter had argued strenuously back government have the right to compel the flag salute and went government obligated people to

and the west virginia state board of education versus barnett case. next on american history tv, a look at both cases, at an event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the 1943 ruling. this is 25 minutes. >>> one of the first cases of note was the case and to present and illustrate presentation is robert vick, program coproducer and spokesman for the world headquarters of jehovah's witness and they will be presenting from colitis to barnett. >> it is a tough act to follow. i will need a screen. >> first of all, this gives me an opportunity, actually, nice opportunity, to mention we are really appreciative, we work with a tremendous staff professional qualified, and release such a pleasure to work with, of course greg peterson who is the flesh and spirit behind activities here at the center, who is helped open up an opportunity that actually speaks to a wider audience, as well as all of the work that carol drake and cheryl included in the program in including all the details and at thomas senior, making sure everything works smoothly and you get a goo

police say hunt and barnette me of the men and were trying to buy marijuana. hunt is charged with two counts of murder and barnett isin f a drug charge. >>> now, to the other top stories. a teacher is on leave for allegedly coaching a student. jarvis massenburg teaches language arts. he was arrested and charged with child cruelty.rv sullance video shows him with the student. he is going to make his first court appearance today. >>> the clock is ticking for a bipartisan group of lawmakers to come up with alan to avoid a government shutdown. the deaine is two weeks from today. president trump insists any plan must include funding to build a wall along t u.s./mexico border. house speaker nancy pelosi says there will be no funding for a wall. coming up, we'll talk to blaine alexander about the meetingn betwntelligence chiefs and president trump. >>> by now, every furloughed federal worker should have received their back pay. a lot of people wked around the clock to process payroll in record time. everyone received pay for the 35 yeys the government was shut down.

errol barnette reports. >> here is mack face in 1921. >> they even do black face with jefferson. >> ie is wearing a grass skirt. >> poring through the university of virginia old year books, history professor kurt van dock is uncovering countless examples of black face and other mockery of minorities. from fraternity parities to demeaning characteristics it's taking various forms. >> one image he can't get out of his mind is the mock lynching from a fraternity page from a year book in 1971. >> you have a white person in black face who has as into around his neck and hanging from his tree. s in a horrifying image. i can't imagine why anyone would ever put in in a year book. >> he cochairs the school's commission on gracious. part of the expanding campus effort to confront and own the school's past. >> one sentiment we hear from those accused of this or attending these types of events is that it's just a joke. >> oh. well. >> what do you say to that. >> to white supremacists it's a joke. >> even the titles of the year book is steeped in racism. corks and curls is a reference to burned co

errol barnett has more. >> here's blackface minstrelsy, 1921.y even do blackface with jefferson. i wouldn't be surprised if he's wearing a grass skirt. >> reporter: pouring through the university of virginia's old yearbooks, history professor kirt von daacke is encountering countless examples of blackface and other mockery of minorities, from fraternity parties to demeaning caricatures, it takes various forms. >> it's just a shocking image. >> reporter: yet one image he cannot get out of his mind is this mock lynching from a fraternity page in a yearbook published in 1971. >> you have a white person who has been done up in blackface who has a noose around his neck and is hanging from a tree. this is a horrifying image. i can't imagine why anyone would ever want to put this in a yearbook. >> reporter: von daacke cochairs the school's commission on segregation, part of an expanding campus effort to confront and own the school's past. one sentiment we hear from those accused of this or attending these types of events is that it's just a joke. >> (

reena. >> ninan: errol barnett, eaveling with the president. fhanks, errol. thd you can see more of margaret brennan's interview with president trump when she hosts "face the nation" from the super bowl tomorrow. venezuela's opposition leader juan guaido is urging demonstrators to stay in the etreets. the self-proclaimed interim president spoke to tens of thousands of supporters today who are demanding nicolas maduro step down from power. elizabeth palmer is there, as the political crisis escalates. >> reporter: it was an upbeat crowd with a common purpose. rich and poor, young and old, all these venezuelans are telling president nicolas maduro the same thing-- he's got to go. tat are they singing? ♪ he's going to fall ♪ he's going to fall ♪ he's going to fall ♪ he's going to fall ♪ this government is going to rnll. ♪ >> this is a very old saying, for many, many years. >> reporter: the anti-maduro opposition feels that today qued be a turning point, and there's no question that a crowd iske this, this many thousands of voices united, will pack a punch. but al

errol barnett, thank you tonight. we're going to move now to virginia where there was a new accusation today and a statement of defiance. governor ralph northam said this afternoon he will not resign. the man who would replace him, lieutenant governor, justin fairfax, was hit with a charge of sexual assault from a second woman. ed o'keefe is in richmond. >> reporter: the new accusation against virginia lieutenant governor justin fairfax comes from a duke university classmate. in a statement issued by her lawyers, meredith watson says fairfax raped her in 2000 in a "premeditated and aggressive" attack. she says the two were friends, but "never had any romantic relationship," and thae "reluctantly coming forward out of a strong sense of civic duty." a friend of watson's told "the washington post" that, in the spring of 2000, watson came to her upset and said she had been raped and named justin. fairfax denied the accusation in a statement, saying "i have never forced myself on anyone ever." he demanded a full investigat

. >> that is jim barnett on the right.and he is making the shot. barnett scored 15 points in 1973 which the warriors one. -- won. >>> this was the longest and most challenging loop in the history of the race. the president says there is more uphill cycling than ever before. the race starts may 12th in sacramento. it will stop in south lake tahoe, stockton and morgan hill before ending on may 18th in pasadena. >>> following breaking news out of washington where a big name on capitol hill has announced he is running for president. the message from cory the nation. we will tell you's link to the bay area. >> an important day in the oakland school district. teachers are voting whether to walk off the job. >>> good morning. we see traffic is busy. we are looking at highway 24 westbound. i am checking out the east bay commute. there are changes and we will let you know what they are. >>> cloudy skies and more rain tonight. that is where the wind and rain pick up. >>> the searches on for a man who the police say attempted toa wom

police say hunt and barnett met one of the men and were trying to buy marijuana. hunt is charged with two counts of murder and barnett is facing a drug crge. >>> if you were hoping for casinos in virginia, you have to wait a little longer. a state committee changed the law. it calls for a casino study and aot on the establishments by 2020. >>> by next year, you could be placing super bowl bets here in the district. if the caps and wizards owner has his way, capital one arena will be open for betting in april. >> reporter: the owner of the wizards and the capitals pointed to april for when sports bet willing be available inside his capital one arena. >> my expectation is that there will be built a very, ve high-end, world-class restaurant called the sports book. there will be televisions showing games from all over the world. and that people will be anle to come iwatch games and dine and bet. in a is something that happens all over the world. >> reporter: leonsis plans to open up the arena to place bets on your lunch break or over di er, not just when there's a gam

barnett, 17th in the national league, the lowest ranked tea m national league, the lowest ranked teamaking on brentford, 17th in the championship but barnet have already knocked out one team from that division. against sheffield united, now taking their place for the first time in their history. it was quite a night at the hive eight days ago when the teams played out a three all draw. since then, barnet have inquired disappointed by the amount of tickets they were offered for this tie. 0riginally 1500, of tickets they were offered for this tie. 0riginally1500, it has crept up a bit. a player said they we re crept up a bit. a player said they were entitled to 1900 but brentford have pointed to health and safety reasons and the fa have confirmed that they have received special dispensation to receive fewer tickets. plenty of excitement for bre ntford tickets. plenty of excitement for brentford fans, could be one of the last great fa cup lights here at gryphon bark which is been home for 150 years. due to move into their new stadium in the summer of 2020. the winners know that a trip to

. >> dallas area agent laura barnett said the renewed interest caught her and her olleagues off guard, in a good way. >> we actually did get a surge of buyers coming in a atter of fact, i've worked with two this weekend, one of which is under contract. another one is about to be. >> she agrees its all about interest rates. >> i think they're taking advantage of it and d to miss that opportunity, so we're trying to get busy with our listings and getting our stings on the market early. >> the popular spring housing market usually doesn't start untilhe edge of february, but buyers this year are clearly seeing a window of opportunity early. the trouble is that while there are more houses coming onto the mark and prices are easing slightly, there still are not enough affordable h es for sale. >> if you are looking in a range which is 5 to 650, it is very competitive. once you go above i750s a little more open. it's not asco mpetitive, close to a million dollars. amt and his family were hoping to move up to a bigger home, taking advantage of the pause in rates. >> i think it's a good market

one of those at the meeting was a local factory owner, tony barnett.aft engines and submarines. he exports a lot, mostly to america, africa and the middle east. there is such a thing as sovereignty, and the sovereignty question, which is why i voted to leave, is a big issue. i take your point on sovereignty, but business—wise, it is not going to be a benefit to you. if anything, you might lose something from it, is that a price worth paying? yes. we can paddle our own canoe, we have had 900 years of paddling our own canoe, and we can do it again. but there will be bumps in the road. fareham's mp, suella braverman, and her erg colleagues, are pushing the pm hard to replace the backstop. but what makes her think the eu will now completely change tack? it seems to me that who is actually in charge is is the eu, they decide what they will let us have in terms of brexit, that is the reality, we are beholden to them, that is the awful truth, isn't it? i disagree. they are saying no, that is that, they are bigger, there are 27 of them, in a fight i wouldn't t

errol barnett is in west palm beach. >> reporter: in mission, texas, where the government cleared spacefor border wall construction, this demonstration against president trump's emergency declaration amplified a single message. >> no border wall! no border wall! >> reporter: it is one aspect of mounting resistance to friday's executive action. texas landowners are among plaintiffs in one lawsuit against president trump's decision, with more lawsuits planned from the a.c.l.u. and the state of california. >> we're in uncharted territory. >> reporter: the only republican house member representing a southern border district is will hurd of texas. >> there's going to be over 1,000 ranchers and farmers potentially impacted. i don't think we needed a national emergency declaration. >> reporter: hurd is also worried about where the money for a wall will come from. with the executive action, $3.6 billion can be redirected from the pentagon's construction projects, which includes funds to build a middle school in kentucky. today, republican senator lindsey graham said it's a worthy exchange. >> i

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have you ever heard of peter barnett is there no arguments as here let me take you from a hospital bed and i say that grand rascal didn't like black folks and that's a school open bayview on this point. name. burnett early childhood school and i said says he didn't change his mind about black folks. and about native americans and chinese we are going to change the name of that school and from my sick bed i made phone calls and own 2011 the board of education voted unanimously to change the name of burnett school to the leila have up early childhood education school. and then one more thing. we have in this town there's a bernard street over there. not far from juvenile hall at mount a map immediate needs to get together and change the name of that street because there has to be understood the person who is a racist. in a person who is the show business should not be on our in our society but we should all see every human being has been of infinite worth and dignity we should make sure everybody's treated fairly. and when we do that well we changed the name of these national us the name

there had only been one case, west virginia versus barnett, that ruled that students could not be forced to play -- to say the pledge of allegiance in public schools. way, theyhe determined that case in 1943 in the middle of a war. they stood up for students right not to say the pledge of allegiance. that was a very strong case. in our case, the judges also split, but it was a 7-2 split and we won. it was a resounding victory for student rights. it was the first time the court said students in public schools are persons under the constitution and are endowed with first amendment rights. been the rule now for almost exactly 50 years, and it has really empowered student voices. in our case, the majority by a justiceritten opinionsed all of the supporting free speech in a democracy. if you have the opportunity, look it up because it's a very strong argument for freedom of speech. , he argues that in schools, it's especially important because students are going to grow up to be global citizens and it's important that we not believe the first amendment is just window dressing, but that we be

errol barnett with details. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news prosecutors in the southern district of york are looking into allegations made by amazon founder jeff bezos that ami chief david pecker is trying to extort and blackmail him. the publisher of the "national enquirer" says it acted lawfully and is launching its own probe to promptly and thoroughly investigate the claims. bezos, who owns the "washington post," detailed his accusations including emails he says are from ami threatening they would publish compromising images like a naked selfie of him in a bathroom while wearing a wedding ring and a below-the-belt selfie if he didn't stop his investigation into how ami acquired personal pictures and texts. the coverage in question is of bezos' affair with tv host lauren sanchez. he is separated from mackenzie, his wife of 25 years. a divorce where tens of billions is not yet finalized. bezos announced the split after the "national enquirer" informed him it was about to publish text messages between him and sanchez. ami, which had ended a non-prosecution deal with federal official

. >>> in court, dante hunt i charged with two counts of murder. 18-year-old noah barnett is charged with conspiracy to distribute marijuana. both are being held without bond. the victims, found dead ithe car, 23-year-old jordan radsway of laurel, and 24-year-old christianoberts of silver spring. >> shots rang out quickly andth e two young men lost their lives trying to sell mariteana. >> rep although legal cannabis is available, bla rket marijuana is considered cheaper and stronger. they say there has been an alarng increase in the number of young people locally who have been killed recently in drug deals involving illegal gorijuana. chrion, news4. >>> destroying a real forest to create a solar farm. that is the controversy that is surrounding ay plan georgetown university. a plan for a massive solar farm located in chaes county. b told this farm, which would have 100,000 solar panels, the university would have to cut down 240 acres of trees in la plata. georgetown said that farm would help t school cut its carbon footprint by half. environmentalis environmentalists, some of them are con

. >> my name is evan barnette. i'd like to submit correspondence on behalf of the president of the street merchant's association. the couldn't attend and tried to e-mail commissioners by close of business yesterday but would like to voice her opposition before the planning commission. i have 10 copies for the secretary to submit for public record as well. i have time to comment as well? >> go ahead. >> i'd like to summarize from tracy's letter, dear s i'd -- commissioners i'd like to oppose the health use at 3378 sacramento street. this is the second attempt to circumvent the zoning laws established to protect the ground story retail goods and services use within the sacramento street neighborhood commercial district. met medical use on the street front has been prohibited within this district. tracy in her letter as you'll see provides a history of the project. the doctor purchased the property and has a retail art gallery in 2014 and early 2015. he received an over-the-counter permit to convert to a dental orthod

errol barnett is traveling with the president. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.ook, while the fight that caused the government shutdown is over, the battle over the president's emergency declaration, that is just getting heated up. even though the president signed the congressional spending bill, his rose garden announcement of the national emergency is likely to be challenged in the courts which could potentially end up all the way at the supreme court. >> didn't need to do this. but i'd rather do it much faster. >> reporter: plump c-- presiden said he needed to call the national emergency to get the funding in response to the immigrants pouring into the u.s. >> we have an invasion of drugs and criminals coming into our country. >> reporter: according to u.s. border protection, apprehensions are down 76% from a record high 19 years ago. and the number of undocumented immigrants in the u.s. is at the lowest point since 2004. >> they say walls don't work. walls work 100%. >> reporter: the administration is planning to spend roughly $8 billion to span 234 miles of

politico says bob barnett an attorneyal legal powerhouse williams and connelly has been shopping the publishers in new york. cohn made comments in the past, he was in the process of writing about his experiences in the trump administration after he left the white house in 2018. >>> let's get a check of the weather with meteorologist bill kierans. i guess spring is nowhere close. >> not even. the first week, first two weeks of march look like a lost cause if you like warm temperatures for much of the country. yeah, bearer of bad news. second half of march looks better, better be. detroit to saginaw, out to grand rand. it will move into areas of western new york. some is not hitting the ground here in pennsylvania. here's the snowfall forecast for today, rochester chest tore syracuse areas. we could see snow you could be plowing and half travel delays there. it looks like it's north of new york city, when you wake up tomorrow morning, you could have two inches on the ground, just enough to make you clear the car off or do light shoveling. so today, frigid high temperatures in the middl

shale business the company also plans to sell or spin off some of its assets in canada and the barnettn the united states the devon into a pure play oil producer it's up 7% premarket >>> diamondback energy is down after the company's earnings miss forecasts by 41 cents a share. that was despite a nearly 60% rise in revenues, which was also shy of estimates diamondback is trimming the high end of its capital spending outlook this year as well. those shares off by about 4% premarket. >>> well, happening now russian president vladimir putin is delivering his annual state of the nation address he is speaking before parliament right now. you're seeing live shots there in moscow. we are going to monitor this for you and bring you all the headlines as we get them here on worldwide exchange >>> well, we are just getting started. coming up next, back to brussels british prime minister theresa may is headed back to belgium as the clock ticks towards next month's brexit deadline. we have a live report from london that's straight ahead. >>> and later on, riding the rally. oil prices hitting new hi

directly -- exactly where nadia, the character from the show sat waiting for allen,he wonderful charlie barnettaienng for my f who was not him, thank goodness. >> seth: yeah. >> and i realized -- like oh, atthis is really -- i've c a bit of a nightmare. >> seth: yes. i'm living within the thing. and, you know, when i get hit by xi, i won't be surprised sufficed to say. [ laughter ] e 's really -- >> seth: one of ings about your character -- you mentioned you get hit by a taxi. that's one of the many ways your character dies in new york city. >> thank you. >> seth: you strike me as someone -- do you see danger th everywhere icity? >> sure, you know. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ]d >> danger t a relief. a sort of a white noise silenceo that would f you know -- >> seth: because you got to watch -- here's a couple of your body doubles. >> yeah. that's tawny. my wonderful stand-in. i and thbecca who has, i guess -- soft bones and a rubber body. [ light laughter ] it's reall creature. a magical i don't know. but, yes. and fome, it was such a joy to see this many doppelgangers. it really speaks to my sor

is the former england footballer and anti—racism campaigner john barnes, who told bbc 5live's emma barnettalfor being ashamed of his past behaviour. he saidi he said i was ashamed and i was horrified. that is what he is actually saying. he is not saying he is ashamed and now, he is saying he was ashamed to back them. we had to have this conversation because there are so many have this conversation because there are so many who have a perception, a wrong perception on black people, chinese people, based on what they have been wrongly told, and he felt why he did because i want the war had wrongly told him. joining me via webcam is kehinde andrews, a professor of black studies at birmingham city university, and in our bristol studio is chris mills, chair of the charity organisation bristol black men. it has created an awful amount of discussion today in that is the key thing that it is important to air these views that are distasteful and very repellent but that somehow by opening the conversation, we have done something positive. this is the very worst way to open a distasteful conversation

joining us as little spoon cofounder, lisa barnett thank you for joining us but congratulations telluse that did not make sense. at the time in a child life and the quality of the attrition matters so much. we came into the door and developed a fresh organic solution that's delivered right to your door. it's easy and design for the modern parent. maria: i love this idea. dagen, you are eating it, how is it? work i haven't had baby food and longtime. [laughter] but it is carrots, lemon juice and a little. >> it can be have a different friday nutrients and when you think about this generation and the parents we are targeting 80% of new parents are now of the millennial generation. this is the steam generation missing create billion-dollar companies in every other consumer category. think of morgan parker and were doing the same thing but for baby food. >> it's amazing that no one has done - [inaudible conversations] >> a woman who goes out and makes fresh - something like that. very cool. >> there are only like ten people doing this right now delivering baby food. does that help you ra

the reason that barnett becomes famous is because she sees these brothers who own a store in tennessee and then the store is doing well in the black community. the white store owner who is treated horribly gets upset and trumps up the charges, go after the black store owners say there is a rape involved and there is not. and the next thing you know, we defend our selfs and there is a slaughter and when these men who own the grocery store is put in jail, the jail attacked them and they are lynched. so this is an ongoing -- we are fighting for economic development. and the last point that i will make is this. the boycott is a tool that we used. economic boycott that we used to say if you're not going to serve us or treat us fairly, if you're not going to hire us, we're not going to buy your merchandise. and unfortunately this case went to the -- these cases went to the u.s. supreme court and the supreme court ruled against the naacp use of a boycott. when we talk about the broader case it ended the case that was represented by fred gray ended that case. so it wasn't the protest that ende

the flag salute, that is clear under barnett, in 1943. that you cannot force, the had to do with forcing students to speak. not allowing free speech, it had to do with allowing students not to speak. and that says that you cannot force students to speak and under that ruling, robert jackson the justice robert jackson, gave one of the most beautiful comments about whether education should be and that is what democracy should be, saying that if there is any six star in his consolation of democracy, it is that no official, petty, or high can say was orthodox in matters of nationalism or politics or religion. that the schools are educating young minds, is a reason why. >> we have in half an hour or half an hour left to go. it came out. and a very generous and opening of the archives for this series, so we will listen as walter cronkite announces the decision on the evening. >> the spring court today endorsed the right of student protest, so long as a protest does not assert order. you go back, and it begins a revolutionary era. to wear armban

nypd detective and director of alliance and mark claxton and chief content officer for deagreo aby barnettessional standpoint and what you know about investigations, with this particular case, given the evidence that we know, not a lot of surveillance footage, two men were arrested and then released and the raid at home. what is happening in this case? >> well first of all, just be clear, there is not a lot of video evidence that has been released or even acknowledged by the professional investigators. so there is a possibility there is additional video evidence that they have in their possession. that is a possibility. but i think what happened in this case is what happens in the hundreds of thousands of investigations that are occurring throughout the country and that is the detectives, the investigators are following the bread crumbs and the evidence and what they are doing is accumulating as much evidence and information and analyzing evidence and collecting forensic evidence when it is available and conducting interviews and then analyzing and evaluating those interviews and hopefully

errol barnett with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.ith a fresh round of bipartisan negotiations having just begun, president trump says he has no confidence that a compromise will be found before the deadline which is now fewer than two weeks away. in which case the president says he is likely to declare a national emergency, something members of both parties oppose. >> the chant now should be "finish the wall" as opposed to "build the wall" because we're building a lot of wall. >> reporter: at a meeting on human trafficking friday, president trump claimed that for the past six months, construction of a border wall has been underway because democrats, he says, will never give him the money to build it. >> we're building the wall. people don't understand that. they're starting to learn. we're spending a lot of money that we have on hand. like in a business, but we have money on hand, and we're building. >> reporter: in reality, no new wall structures have been built at the southern border, but renovations of existing fencing in need of

shale business the company also plans to sell or spin off some of its assets in canada and the barnett shale patch in the united states in a move will turn into an oil producer that was despite a rise in revenue, that was also shy of estimates. diamondback is trimming the high end of its capital spending outlook for the year, and its stock is down by about 3.75% then concho resources under pressure after 9 had cents a share was posted that was 19 cents shy of estimates. revenue also falling short the shale giant is also cutting its capital spending plans by 17% for the year, and that stock is off by 4.5% >>> let's get a check on crude prices joining us now is matt smith, director of commodity research at clifford data i would like them to focus on demand i think that oil can give us a look into like a snap shot of what's going on in europe, what's going on in china, what's going on domestically. we're strong china is maybe not as strong europe we're worried about, you know, maybe zero growth or sub-1% growth. i would like to look at that, but you're an expert on the commodity itself an

city of townsville where two men have been reported missing and crocodiles are adding to the danger barnettith reports. opening the floodgates of the ross river dam in queensland created what australia's weather bureau called dangerous and high velocity flows with the damage three hundred percent capacity engineers said they had no option downstream homes in the coastal city of townsville a flooded more than a thousand people have been moved to safety we've never seen a year's worth of rain in less than seven dies you know and that's not exactly what we've claimed for and it really is new parameters that we're moving into northern australia is tropical and typically experiences heavy monsoon rains but recent downpours are far in excess of the norm in some parts of townsville salt water crocodiles displaced by the flood waters have been spotted and there's more heavy rain on the way this monsoonal trough just doesn't want to seem to move much at all there's going to be heavy rainfall over the next couple of days there will also be damaging wind gaffes and intense rainfall with significant fl