sonya thomas known as the black widow in the competitive eating contest. she has built a career for competitive eating holding many world records and titles. thank you very much for being with me. let's start off by talking about competitive eating. how did you ever get involved in the whole world of eating as us sport? everybody eat, but i have a special skill. i have a big appetite. i can eat a lot of food. and then competitive eating, i did not know they had competitive eating since before 2003. i was watching tv. i was watching an eating competition. i thought it interesting. maybe i going to try out. >> when you say try out, did that mean you had to go into some kind of training or this, or was it unnatural ability? >> natural ability to need a lot of food. then the hot dog eating competition is they have a qualified round. you have to win to be at coney island. i had to go to a place to a qualified round. i ate 18 hotdogs that time back in 2003. >> 18? 12 minutes? >> yes. 12 years ago. >> you have obviously been able to improve on that? >> improve a

from philadelphia, pennsylvania, y'all give it up for sonya arney. what up? >> hello.cheers and applause] >> sonya, now, you usually do this as a job, but you needed a little pep talk from your young son. tell me about this talk. >> i did. i got great advice from my 8-year-old son. he's really into basketball, so his advice-- he sat me down, and he said,

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from philadelphia, pennsylvania, y'all give it up for sonya kearney. what up? >> hello. and applause] >> sonya, now, you usually do this as a job, but you needed a little pep talk from your young son. tell me about this talk. >> i did. i got great advice from my 8-year-old son. he's really into basketball, so his advice--

from philadelphia, pennsylvania, y'all give it up for sonya kearney. what up? >> hello.use] >> sonya, now, you usually do this as a job, but you needed a little pep talk from your young son. tell me about this talk. >> i did. i got great advice from my 8-year-old son. he's really into basketball, so his advice--

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thank you for being with us, sonya. >> thank you, jose, for having me. >> what was your message to the. did you feel it was more about politics which is what we've been seeing a lot from washington? >> we have many crises going on around the world. we have one on our southern border with the children coming here alone. what i really stress was these children, you know, i wrote about a boy who came from honduras 13 years ago. he was coming alone in search of his mother. ten years ago they were largely coming for economic reasons and to reunite with a parent who left them behind. i went back to honduras, i saw an enormous change in the drivers for the children. what i told the senate yesterday is these children are primarily leaving, fleeing for their lives because the violence that has been spawned by these cartels that control much of honduras now, we recruited -- we cracked down on the movement of cocaine from klcolumbiklu columbia but went inland and landing in honduras. they're recruiting the children as the foot soldiers to gain turf, to sell and distribute drugs and extort people

. >> item 60 to authorize the supplement of a lawsuit filed by sonya on april 19, 2012, in the united states northern district of california. >> same house, same call? this ordinance is passed on the first reading. and madam clerk item 61 to 64. >> those were not forwarded to the board and are not before the board today. >> why don't we go to roll call. >> mr. president, you are the first supervisor to introduce new business. >> thank you madam clerk and colleagues it is with heavy heart i ask we adjourn today's meeting whom i worked with. shell thomas that was a community leader and a former staffer and passed away this weekend. shell was an north beach resident for over 15 years more than him he worked tieflsly to improve the northeast neighborhoods he got things done and in particular telephones a huge advocate for the north beach and broadway neighborhoods as a stave for our office of economic workforce development. i can spend a long time but i'll highlight he organized our lower porlg a polk street and the farmer's market and spearheaded efforts on the alley. he organized the ru

. >> next speaker >> hello, i'm sonya i'm a community advocate with todd could my concerned are regarding pedestrian safety. and the capitalization of the moscone without a complete analysis of the impact on the walkways around moscone and two blocks each way is not good. there are a lot of seniors that live around moscone center and a lot of disabled people so there 0 needs to be a safety development plan provided by the developer we know that pedestrians are effected by construction and new development thank you very much >> thank you. >> hi commissioners, thank you i'm alice light the director of the community at todd could it was great to see the greatest design it's come far i thank you for that. and i don't know if it was stated clearly we understand the improvements to the top lot and the gardens area that are the community amenities have been committed to be funded with the project so we're very happy to hear that i want to confirm that's the case and the one item of concern that i'd like to bring up. is the green wall. we would like to see it's the highest quality green materials

in this sense michael's character and sonya's character, my character and diane's character, they wouldaend many in ways. there are very much like the u.s. and mexico. we couldn't be more different. and still we respect each other. we appreciate the differences. and then we work together and we cover each other's back. >> nicely done. the show is "the bridge" on fx. starring demian bichir. good to shave you on the progra. coming up jonathan butler. stay with us. xwlamy nominated jonathan butler bringing lifetime experience to his latest cd "living my dream." celebrating his faith in god and love for family and ties to his native south africa. single from the album originally written for the hit movie "jewel of the nile." he had an impressive number eight and also close our show tonight with the performance of "heart and soul." he will be joined by his daughter jodie. i am always better when i'm in your press sense likewise. always. >> thank you. >> last time i was being honored with the star of the walk of five. you and dave koz, larry king. everybody was there. you all perfect formed p

joining me now is sonya west, law professor at university of georgia.i think throw away some of this court language, like accommodation, when what they're talking about is a form you fill out to get the exemption. here was wheaten college saying, if we fill out that form and send it to health and human services department, we are facilitating the provision of this kind of birth control because health and human services will then find a way to get the birth control to the people who have the insurance policies that we don't want to provide birth control for. and so that's where the court just said, okay, you can just write a letter saying you're not going to do it and don't bother with the form. and this is what sonia sotomayor found to be even though it sounds simpler, much more complicated. why in her view is this a much more complicated outcome? >> well, it's more complicated because it throws some administrative roadblocks into the government's ability to make good on its promise to provide contraception to all female employees via their employer hea

upset in the women's division when [ non- english language ] of las vegas beat defending champion sonya black widow thomas. and today was very significant for would joey chestnut for another. shortly before the competition he proposed on stage to his girlfriend who of course said yes and she is a fellow competitive eater. >>> a drenched east coast is just now coming out of the clear after a hurricane slammed the area overnight. an update on hurricane arthur and where it's headed next. >>> a secret psychological experiment. the claims brought against facebook and why one group says the social media giant was breaking the law. >> hi, i'm meteorologist lawrence karnow in the kpix 5 weather center. we are going to take a closer look at arthur and will that fog ruin your fireworks displays? we'll talk about that coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the first hurricane of the >>> hurricane arthur has put a damper on 4th of july celebrations on the east coast. the first hurricane of the season made landfall late last night in north carolina. as cbs' susan mcginnis reports, the storm is now headed north

two-time female champion sonya thomas weighed in at only 100 pounds. >>> coming up after your local newshis morning" we'll have live reports on hurricane arthur up the coast. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." have live reports on hurricane arthur up the coast. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." you think you take off all your make-up before bed. but do you really? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover erases 99% of your most stubborn makeup with one towelette. can your makeup remover do that? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover. >>> the results of a new audit to show wait times to get an appointment at the veteran health affairs facility has improved. meantime there's outrage over managers getting bonuses during the coverup of the secret waiting list. wyatt andrews reports. >> reporter: this list we obtained from the house veterans affairs committees shows $2.8 million going to senior executives with more going to those in charge while care was delayed for veterans. more than $9,000 went to sharon helman while parents died. whe

on the women's side, sonya thomas, known as the black widow, trying to beat her record of 45 hot dogsalways disturbingly interestingly when watching those things. >>> nbc 10 news today at 5:00 starts right now with the latest on arthur. >>> nbc 10 news starts now. >>> hurricane arthur made landfall in north carolina late last night. the storm bringing rain to our area later this morning. actually some rain in ourç are right now. this is a look where hurricane arthur is currently positioned as it continues to rake the outer banks of north carolina, tracking up the east coast. a live look at cape may where some rain is falling. you can see the dampened streets there. you can expect rough seas up and down the jersey coast, also the delaware beaches for the most part of the weekend. rough seas out there. welcome to nbc 10 news today. i'm chris cato. of course everyone wants to know, it's fourth of july, everyone wants to know how the rain will affect their plans, barbecues, fireworks. let's get to meteorologist brittney shipp. >> people want to know when we can get the party started. thi

. >> poor sonya. >> a little bit of drizzle, possibly for some of the morning commute. but then the trend after tomorrow, big warm-up coming. even san jose into the low 90s friday and saturday and upper 90s around the tri-valley for tekd week. >> thanks for joining us. have a great day tomorrow. >> bye-bye. >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- dwayne johnson, mel b, musical guest, chronixx, and featuring the legendary

. >> on the women's side, two-time defending champ, sonya "the black widow" thomas, weighed in at 100o top 45 hot dogs in 10 minutes. >> good luck to her. >> wow. joey chestnut's going for 70 dogs in the same amount of time. remember, they have to eat the hot dog and the bun. i wonder, what do you eat first? the hot dog? or do you eat the bun first? what's the strategy here? >> you eat the hot dog in the bun. >> together at the same time? >> together at the same time. she's smaller than him. >> she's much smaller. >> i'm rooting for her. >> but she's pretty tough. she gets the dogs down. >> the hot dog eating contest is just one fourth of july tradition. but a video that's gone viral has questioned just how american our celebrations are. >> for example, nearly all of the fireworks set up today by individuals, were made in china. much of the professional displays, as well, too. >> and the video calls into question the nationality of the foods americans love to eat. and keep in mind that the abc "made in america" team works at all hours of the day. >> that's funny. and speaking of beer

. >> on the women side, two-time defending champion sonya thomas weighed in at just under 100 pounds.g for 70 hot dogs in that time. i'm getting heartburn just looking at that. >> yeah, you know, to qualify for the competition, you have to eat both the dog and the bun. that is a lot of calories. >> that is a lot of calories. >> that is a lot of stuff to down. >> and there are going to be -- [ burping ] oh, here it comes, tahman. >> excuse you. >> there will be 17 men competing in today's event. that little tiny woman, she's like 100 pounds! look at her. >> look at that. >> the stare of death between the two of them there. >> good for her. good luck to her. >>> coming up in "the skinny," a new legal battle for lindsay lohan, but this time, she's taking someone to court. >>> first, the online romance that turned a colorado teen into an enemy of the state. the serious terror allegations when "world news now" continues. >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by finish power and free. saffect over 1 million homes a year and can cost thousands of dollars to repair. thankfully

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you will also meet sonya thomas. better known as the black widow. she is a competitive teaching -- competitive eating champion. her rise to the food clean and the business of competitive eating. all that and more open the next hour. first, headlines with carol massar. >> constellation brands out with earnings today. the company beat estimates and raised the forecast for the year. the stock higher on the day, gaining more than two percent. in the meantime, it is official. tyson foods acquiring phil scheier or $7.8 billion. -- acquiring hillshire. mark fields will be paid salary nd bonuses as much as 5.25 this year. look at the top headlines this hour. back over to you. >> u.s. employment climbing by the most since november 2012. this according to data from the adp research institute. tomorrow morning we will get job numbers on the u.s. labor department. and how the us more federal reserve might react to tomorrow's scores is josh wright. a former strategist at the federal reserve bank of new york where he advised policymakers in the wake of the financ

gentlem joey chestnut and sonya the black widow thomas going for her third consecutive win.e of the top stories on this independence day, friday, july 4th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> we want to get right to arthur which is taking aim at north carolina and the outer banks and several states up and down the eastern seaboard. it made landfall, and as a category 2 hurricane. battering the area. >> arthur came ashore in the outer banks and just after 11:00 p.m. when it struck. fourth of july plans are being scrapped, as it moved up the coast. abc's kirk harkins begins coverage live from nags head. good morning, kirk. >> reporter: good morning, reena, tahman. i have to tell you conditions have deteriorated out here. the wind is really a major factor. so we have a wind gauge. i will give you an idea of just what the wind are like by using this right now. and taking a look, it says it is about 33, 34. i have to tell you the wind gusts are much more powerful than that. it's very difficult to stand here and speak with you now. now because of those condi

there's sonya. she's going to look to win it for the women. go joey. it happened in co any island.arry it. so be sure to tune in. we're watching the wild fire that continues to burn. we're going to look at the exact numbers here. we're going to see how close they are to containing it. >> we'll tell you why they made the decision to keep every one of these jets on the ground. >> take a look at this. a sand storm in arizona, we're going to look at this video coming up in our 7:00 hour. >> arthur is going to be nothing. >>> it wasn't as bad as feared but look at the wind and the surge as thousands of people are without power. we're going to have an update on the storm preparations, warnings and where it's headed now. back here in the bay area, a disaster of a different kind. a dangerous fire at north bay, we'll have the containment numbers. >> they're hoping to avoid fires in many areas, only a handful of cities are selling fireworks. i'll tell you which ones coming up in a live report. kron 4 news at 7:00 starts now. >> 7:00 a.m., i'm darya folsom and our top story is hurricane arthu

two-time hot dog eating champ sonya is the favorite to win the women's competition. >>> and quite a displaya's celebrated the forty of july a day early. the a's beat the blue jays last night. the same two teams play this afternoon at 1:05. >> oakland a's fans may be breathing easier this morning. it looks like the team will be staying at the oakland coliseum at least for the next few years. yesterday city leaders in oakland abruptly dropped their opposition to a inositide yum lease for the athletic. and the decision came hours after a bomb shell. the a's informed city and county leaders that major league baseball commissioner had given the team permission to immediately seek a new home outside of oakland. >> i feel a lot of muscle from major league baseball. because it is them that makes the decision. >> it only guarantees the a's will stay there until 2017. >>> an overpass bridge under construction in one of the brazilian cities hosting the world cup collapsed. killing two people and injuring 19 others. the bridge collapse crushed a commuter bus, two construction trucks, and a car. it was

. >> and sonya, brilliant, and cookie and fabulous and real. >> that is what we love about this show. >> it is cookie, real, fun great to watch and we appreciate you guys coming here to our city to celebrate the fourth of july. nice meeting you. >> thank you. >> thanks for coming in. >> thanks for keeping it real. kids, listen, tell her later that you guys were really g you need like a new barbie or something. >> yes. >> you were showing it off before and it is so cute. >> what is it. >> a nike fuel bandy love how it lights up. >> all right. >> it was his seventh birthday gift. >> happy birthday. >> you guys can come back too, okay. >> okay. >> yes. >> independent day. >> a bald eagle, thanks, guys. >> thank you. >> still ahead, if you are single, and you're looking for love, listen up, there is a new map, that list pros and cons of men according to the city they live n we will show you good and bad things you need to know for philly guy what they are known for, that is coming up next. >>> oh, my goodness this hoist you bridget is spend helping her fourth of july. a brand new baby. th

. >> poor sonya. >> a little bit of drizzle, possibly for some of the morning commute. but then the trend after tomorrow, big warm-up coming. even san jose into the low 90s friday and saturday and upper 90s around the tri-valley for tekd week. >> thanks for joining us. have a great day tomorrow. >> bye-bye. >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- dwayne johnson, mel b, musical guest, chronixx, and featuring the legendary roots crew. >> questlove: nine-one! >> steve: and now, here he is, jimmy fallon! ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's what i'm talking about right there. hot crowd. excited. welcome, everyone. welcome to "the tonight show." thank you for being here. [ cheers and applause ] oh. how fun. well, welcome to the show. here's what people are talking about. my man kanye west just did this big interview with "gq." and he's just great in interviews. [ laughter ] he's like the best dude to interview. he just says whatever. just says it

know it's -- now joining me, steve schmidt, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst, and sonyalitzer prize winning journalist and out thor author bestseller, "enrique's journey." good evening to you both. sonia, let's start on this point, legally and morally, the idea as you've written this is a refugee crisis as much as it is an immigration crisis. what does that mean to you? >> i think many of us are strongly against unlawful imgrace, but there's a difference between people who come here as economic migrants to better their lives and these children. i just went back to honduras a few weeks ago to this neighborhood that i hadn't been in in a decade, and what i saw was appalling level of violence because of these narco carcarte all this cocaine that used to come up the caribbean corridor, we disrupted that by spending $8 billion to disrupt this movement, but it just simply went inland. a lot of these flights from colombia are landing in places like honduras and it's created a real battle amongst cartels to control this turf. and children in these countries like honduras have be

. >> sonya the black widow, a female, she's won this.t is just astou astounding. fourth of july revelers are bound to do a lot of partying this weekend, maybe hit a few clubs. a new study says head banging can hurt you? >> yes, we mean the real head banging. we mean like yeah, exactly, whipping around and, you know, almost putting your head in a figure eight. it's, you know, most of the time i'm sure it's perfectly fine but there is this study that showed there was this one guy, he's a head banger, he was at a concert, he went to the hospital and he had terrible headaches and they said, suir, you have a hematoma, bleeding in the brain. when you whip your head back and forth -- >> you're jostling your brain. >> you're right, your brain is banging up against your skull. so in many ways, it's not so surprising. it's not just bleeding that can happen during head banging. believe it or not, there's a whole list of things that can happen during head banging. for coratid artery, the artery in your neck, can tear. or neck fractures. i'm not sayi

she took down sonya "the black widow" thomas. a big deal in the world of competitive eating. she devoured 34 dogs and buns in ten minutes. we do not know at this point whether she threw up right after but she looks like she's holding her own there. we've got our eye on that. >>> the outer banks of north carolina hit by a category 2 hurricane this morning. a major storm with sustained winds of 100 miles per hour. the early assessment is things could have been far, far worse. this is some video that we just got in from the ton of nags head, north carolina. there are some trees down as you just saw there. some roof damage as well. the effects of flooding from a storm surge. but again at this point, no major injuries to speak of. no deaths. just minor damage at this point. the outer banks appears to have escaped the very worst of a major storm. first major storm this hurricane season. it has disrupted a lot of holiday plans, though. threatens to disrupt even more of them as it continues to churn its way up the eastern seaboard. that

a couple of months ago before i left guatemala, i saw a woman named sonya who sold food door to door in the neighborhood got shot in the chest by -- [inaudible] i heard three gunshots and saw the blood from her wound. i ran inside of my house. i learned later that no one was arrested from the attempted murder of the woman. i do not want to go back to guatemala because i'm afraid. there is no one to protect me in my cup. i'm scared that -- in my country. i'm scared that i will be attacked again by that man or someone else. i'm also afraid of gangs in my country. when i arrived at the united states, my mom told me that i was undocumented. i was scared that i could be sent back and be separated from my mom and be put in a dangerous place again. when i received my green card, i felt happy because i knew i would not be deported, and i could then go to any college that i wanted. i want to go to stanford university to become a doctor, because it is a good school for sciences. i want to be a pediatrician because i love kids, and i like to take care of them. i would like to tell the governmen

and "the black widow," sonya thomas is back. and i think amy knows. >> 45. >> that's right.eading copy. >> it's all right here, ryan. all right here. >> calling you out. >> you look at these people, a lot of them are tiny. >> i can eat like six. eight. >> that's six more than i can eat. >>> "pop news" is coming up. and weather, as well. first, gio has "the morning menu." >> in "pop news," a real-life meet the parents for george clooney and his fiancee. >>> and how to give your kids tech timeout. the app promising to give you more family time. >>> and our blowout party in the park, with red-hot superstar jason derulo. it's coming up from times square and central park, on this fourth of july. introducing nexium 24hr. finally, the purple pill, the #1 prescribed acid blocking brand. comes without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protection. hey, i heard you guys can help me with frog protection? sure, we help with fraud protection. if there are unauthorized purchases on your discover card, you're never held responsible. you are saying

. >> and sonya is such an interesting character.e on the show and they introduced me to a man who has asperger's. he's very high functioning. and so, you know, i could ask him all these more uncomfortable questions. why are you getting nervous? or why are you stressed out right now? what is it that you're feeling? >> you talked about some of the dark issues on the show. human trafficking, drug cartels. it seems like this season the character's personal life is the thing getting dark. right? >> i feel like in the first season we had to introduce the character and show to everybody that she has asperger's and she has limitations. i think the writers are trying to show a complete character. there is a miss con semgs conception that people with asperger's have those issues. so this season for me really focuses on showing a different side to sonya. showing more of a personal life so i can show emotion. >> excellent. so before we let you go, we do know at least you're good for a good swear. you know how to play this game? two truths and a

and "live" summer fun week continues with hot dog eating champions sonya thomas and joey chestnut.

she's within weeks of finishing a new book, breaking in the rise of sonya otamorio.robert bond next to joan joined the "washington post" in 1987 covering politics. he's in charge of domestic issues. national political. and the paper's metropolitan editor. he began to cover the supreme court in 2006. he had been planning to go to law school and changed his mind after he took a course at the university of florida. his buy og biography says that d not occur to him that he could do both. a better explanation is he realized he didn't need three years of law school to not practice law. kimberly is the washington bureau chief. a nationwide group of special and legal journals including the massachusetts lawyer's weekly, the wisconsin law journal and a dozen others. previously worked at daily newspapers including "the boston globe." before launching her career, she was a litigator in boston. a graduate of wayne state university. boston university of law and the colombia journalism school. i learned from the internet, she's also a fashion designer and the owner of kim's design

i'm sonya nozario, board member of kids in need of defense, nonprofit found by microsoft, and angelina jolie that recruits pro bone know attorneys to represent unaccompanied children. i first went to central america to write about civil wars in the early '80s and focused on unaccompanied children 15 years ago, writing the modern-day story of a boy whose mother left him in honduras when he was just five years old. 11 years later he went in search of hear in the u.s. by riding up the length of mexico on top of fraying train -- freight trains. last month i return for the fit time in in a decade to his home. i lived there for one week. i saw a huge change in why children are migrating to the u.s. a level of violence directed at them that astounded me. i have lived through argentina's dirty war and ridden on top of seven freight trains controlled by gangs through most of mexico. i'm not easily spooked. but after a week, i thanked god i got out of enrique's neighborhood alive. gangs have long ruled parts of the area, but recent control by narcocartels has brought a new reach and viciousness

written by a woman by the name of sonya nazario, july 11, a new article. here's just a few of the things she said. "christian reyes, 11-year-old sict grader in the neighborhood of nueva suapa on the outskirts of the capital tells me he wants to get out of honduras soon, no matter what." a little 11-year-old boy. in march, his father was robbed and murdered by gangs while working as security guard protecting a pastry truck. his mother used the life insurance payout to hire a smuggler to take her to florida. she promised to send for him quickly. she hasn't. three people he knows were murdered this year. four others were gunned down on a nearby corner in the span of two weeks at the beginning of this year. a girl his age resisted being robbed of $5. she was clubbed over the head, dragged off by two men who cut a hole in her throat, stuffed her panties in it and left her body in a rea convenient across the street from christian's house. i'm going, i'm going this year, he said. mr. president, think about what this woman just wrote. think about what this boy sai

. >> every time i look at sonya i think tiny and mighty. minutes. i don't know why matt is laughing. but there's going to be stiff competition. >> yeah. last year at second place was 51. this year matt stoney has done 66 in practice. i can't be lazy. he'll be pushing me through to the record. >> we're not going to make you eat any dogs right now. i'm surprised how big they are. what's the pre-game routine. do you do in the 24 hours? >> i drink lots of liquid. but no solid food. pretty much a cleanse beforehand making sure i can take in a massive amount of food. >> does this freak you out right now here? >> no. it kind of excites me. >> exciting, yeah. >> i'm in the mood for one. >> do you put mustard on them? >> no. no time. >> dipping in the water thing, right? >> it's competitive eating, not pretty eating. we're dipping them in water, whatever it takes. >> good luck. thank you very much. we should mention the winners -- are you really winners if you eat 69 hot dogs? -- will be here saturday on "today." >> you win, you get a big belt. mean

sonya rosario should know. she made the trek for research for her book "enrique's journey." how treacherous is it? >> the journey is incredibly dangerous. there are bandit who is will rob you and rape you and sometimes kill you. >> reporter: how to handle the influx of immigrants and families like these dividing the nation and congress. jeh johnson is the homeland security secretary. >> our message to those who come here illegally, our border is not open to illegal migration. >> reporter: today the honduran government confirms families being held inside facilities like this one will eventually be deported back to that country. they're expecting up to ten flights a week starting in the next two weeks. savannah. >> miguel almaguer for us this morning, thank you. >>> changing gears a bit, we have tennis fans at this table. >> my gosh. wimbledon. >> incredible match. tamron is in for carson today. >> it was unbelievable. good morning, everyone. i actually saw your tweet while you were on vacation. savannah showed her television set with wimbled >> i thought you meant i believe t

is interesting about this panel, any number of people even in this room as i sit here and look at sonya to can describe what the black arts movement was about who were there in the room what makes this panel unique is none of us were in the room. and so it becomes an interesting vantage point to talk about with the legacy of the black arts movement is for people who may not necessarily be engaged in the black arts movement the way that we understand it historic we but have taken examples from the black arts movement in their own work both in terms of content but also in terms of context and also in terms of form. and of the things i want to start with this task all the panelists about what your sense is of the impact and the legacy of the black arts movement on the work you do has riders mon-khmer illustrators, creative artists in general. >> well, good afternoon. back in the day i love someone who was doing a show, maybe some of you have seen or heard of it. the main character in the show -- been doing her research to tell me, anthony, your writing hip-hop literature, which is great. s

thank you -- sonya. thank you for coming. >> mayor. [applause] >> we want to leave -- >> whose son jake is here as a volunteer working for the library in the back of the room. >> there he is. [applause] now, we want to leave time for book signing which we will do right outside the museum store in the lobby. m the books, of course, are now available in the museum store, so if you'd like "rough edges" or the if you'd like any one of his trilogy, the current one, go into the store and get it, and he'll sign it. we have a tradition, those of you who come frequently know that we always give a lavish gift -- [laughter] we used to give honorariums, they'd rather not have that big a cache to take out of here, so we replaced the honorariums with these one of a kind, limited edition -- [laughter] mugs. this

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