being pushed by a fairfax county mom who unsuccessfully fought to remove the book "beloved," by toni morrison, from her child s school. the mom says the novel depicts scenes of sexual assault and murder. she wanted parents to have the ability to allow their kids to opt out of reading such texts. critics call the bill "backdoor censorship". it seems just about every home has them. modern day gadgets that entertain us and make life easier. but these "smart" devices have hidden risks that could make you and your family marlie hall explains. track it seems like everything is now connected to the internet. like this baby monitoring camera.. and this refrigerator with cameras built right into the door. web. nat )barbie: hey you )re here how they all have processors that transmit and receive data. part of an exploding category of connected devices called the "internet of things." sot - tod beadsley / rapid7 "we )re gonna have something like twenty billion of these devices online by 2020" track tod beardsley is a tech security researcher with rapid-7. he says gadgets that send out information on the

her son was unhappy reading tony morrison's "beloved." canadian prime minister justin trudeau is making his first official visit to discuss trade and climate change. it included a welcoming ceremony this morning and tonight trudeau will attend the first u.s. state dinner for a canadian leader in two decades. reagan will lie again interpose today as thousands of mourners pay respects. her casket was viewed at the ronald reagan presidential library in california. the former first lady will be laid to rest tomorrow and buried next to her husband, the late ronald reagan. be in attendance. coming up on abc7 news at noon, shots fly feet from the school. investigation happening now, and an update on to victims. a dramatic brawl thousands of feet in the air. the strange item they say sparked it all. >> your money, man. everything you got! jummy: wow, cap driver robbed at gunpoint. the amazing coincidence he did not count on that landed him now areight investigating a double shooting in the district, happening feet from the school. as john gonzale

the measure being pushed by a mom who tried unsuccessfully to remove tony morrison's beloved" from the school. if the bill passes, the school would have to provide an alternate. >> john: 40 scientists around the country headed out to study what makes tornadoes in the south unique. the study called vortex southeast is the first to study dixie alley, includes parts of north and south carolina. research runs through march and april, congress granted $5 million for the study inspired by violent tornado outbreak in april of 2011 that left hundreds dead. we often talk about areas here in the carolinas where the tornadoes seem to be prolific, tornado alley in lincoln county. >> al: we have our own little local tornado alley, cleveland and lincoln county, bigger picture, i put a map together, tornadoes, kansas, oklahoma, texas, sure, those are expected. but the deadliest over the last 50 years have occurred in places farther to the east. more like an l-shape, alabama, mississippi, tennessee, georgia. more violent tornadoes, the joplin tornado, not with standing. the tornado outbreak in alabama

toni morrison called her are for -- in our first black president.ngela: she did not exactly say that. what she was referring to wawas the fact that he did acknowledge black culture in ways that other presidents had not. a sense, you can say that there was a conscious appeal to in a way thaties his wife hillary clinton is not capable of developing. but yeah, we find ourselves in a very difficult situation. with bernie sanders being the alternative -- and bernie sanders, declaring himself a socialist and r raising a whole number of absolutely important -- putting pressure on her is good. on one hand, you have a candidate so relet to address -- reluctant to address racism. said inoint, she response to the slogan black lives matter, "all lives matter." if all lives did matter, we would not have to say that black lives matter. on the other hand, you have bernie sanders, who engages in a kind of economic reductionism that prevents him from speaking, from developing a vocabulary in waysows him to speak that enlighten us about the persistence of racism, rac

cornel west, ta hi city coats, eric holder, congressman watt, congressman lewis, jesse jackson, toni morrison. that's only a partial list that i brainstormed for a couple minutes. the reason i'm reading the list is to ask you a question. how come they're not here? [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> well, as a person who arranged and invited all the authors -- i'm just kidding. [laughter] good question. >> [inaudible] because as an author of nine novels and a memoir, i've just written an article for poets and writers which hasn't been published yet, it will be published, saying how exhausted i am, how totally exhausted i am that every time i have to go from the bottom to try to pull myself up. see, i'm a writer. i'm going to write the best book. the publishing industry is totally white. and, i mean, on every aspect of it. the publisher, the editor, the agent, the marketing person, the distributer. i go very often to big literary organizations and see all these people from the publishing industry, and you can count op one hand the people of color. now, if these are the gatekeepers of books