MIDDAY WITH DAN RODRICKS
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Thursday, January 8, Noon-1:00 pm EST: One day in November, 28-year-old Veronica Williams, the mother of three small children, was viciously attacked and killed outside a district courthouse in Baltimore. Her husband has been charged with her murder. A charitable fund has been established for her children who, social workers say, will likely spend the rest of their lives mending from this broad-daylight tragedy. Perhaps no event is more tragic or ruinous to a family than one parent murdering another. Children traumatized by parental homicide are often overlooked after the immediate crisis passes, as are the guardians who must care for them. In this hour of Midday -- a look at a new project at the University of Virginia, headed by a nurse from Maryland, that aims to help their guardians better understand the effects of parental violence on the children left behind.

1:00-2:00 pm EST: A conversation about Michelle Obama