of slaves from the bradley plantation in escambia county, alabama. a -- slavery, reconstruction, civil rights movement, this is my family's story of struggling and fighting for humanity and freedom in a context and a culture that was saturated with injustice and dehumanization. now, what's so amazing about this narrative, this story is that not only does my family know where the plantation is in escambia county, we now own it. and there are members of my family currently living on it as free people who have property rights to it codified and protected by the rule of lawment lawment -- law. now, how many countries in the world is it possible to have a group of people who were once slaves on a piece of property, a few generations actually own the property that they were living on? is -- they were being enslaved on. so this makes this place absolutely amazing. yes, of course, we notice the progress in our country by having a black family in the oval office. there are not too many countries around the world where you would see subdominant cultures rise t

a couple of cells right here around escambia county, okaloosa, they have radar-indicated tornadoes athe moment. we're watching that develop. and the flooding situation where we could see 7 inches of rain in the tennessee valley, chattanooga might see that, and heading up north towards knoxville. right along the appalachians and also kind of meet up with a pretty strong front for this time of the year, and that will squeeze moisture out. flood watches up and down the eastern third of the country. for the potential seeing a decent amount of rain on this. already on top of saturated soils. back side of this is not doing well as far as what it's doing for the fires. bringing in drier weather and windier weather as well. the front, though, itself, bringing in cooler behind this thing. much cooler, 65 degrees in chicago. and one other note on what's going on with katia this thing almost a category three storm with winds of 110 miles an hour. at this point, suzanne, katia should remain off theeen seaboard. >> good news. thanks again. >>> his poll numbers are down, and kind of at a standstill

senator oberlin also introduced me and all of the citizens of escambia county who have been supportive of this. mayor bentsen of fairview, dick taylor, brian nelson, people least chief, i want to thank the channel and be grateful to c-span for being here tonight. good of them to be concerned about these policies and make sure they are aware of what we are concerned about. it is a pleasure to be here at peterson dancehall. this was built in 1896. the year we became a state. it was a significant year. in that year we went through a transformation. we left the stage of being a territory of the united states where our laws were subject to congress. everything we did, even our territorial legislature had to act with the permission of congress and always subject to veto by congress at any moment. when we became a state it was different. of a sudden we were our own sovereign entity. we have our own rights as a sovereign let congress had its own right. the difference between state power and federal power was felt then and is filled out today in this 224-year-old document. wasn't quite that old