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>> why is this not being done already, why aren't we allowed to go through with it? why haven't you got the go ahead. >> but emphasis fear a future of babies by design. >> we know when to start for some reason, like mite cardiale disease, but when do we stop. >> at indepth look at the science of making babies. thank you for joining us. southern california is at this hour a hot zone, a blaze in a very early and very dangerous start to the wild fire season. sparked by the severe drought that has already

engulfed 100% of the state. right now firefighters are still battling at least nine wild fires north of san diego. more than 20,000 acres already devoured tens of thousands of residents forced to three, and experts worrying that we should expect more of this as our climate changes. here is america tonight's adam may. >> only crackles sound of a wild fire. it's the sound that has been all too familiar for californians. a little smaller in the state of connecticut, jerry brown has declare add state of emergency putting up much needed resources. with crews stretched thin, firefighters have more air support on thursday. the wild fires are fueled by crisp brittle project.

and notorious santa anna winds. i have been in this fire service, i haven't seen think dry this hot for this long, and may. >> the biggest concern is the san marcus fire, it's fire behavior is still eradek spotting out in front of itself. >> to keep people safe out there. >> hundreds of weary firefighters are on the ground braving the intense heat from the flames and glaring sun. in the air, aircraft and helicopters. the air tanker which can drop 12,000 gallons of err tar dent taking center stage. it's already been a

frightening week for residents. >> oh my god. >> the wild fires are moving at an alarming rate, this drama unfolded wednesday, in carlsbad. >> it is jumping the road right here. >> you can see the flames probably 3040 feet in the air right now. >> some residents are not heeding the warning to leave, opting instead to stay and fight. >> they have been asking to evacuate, and just trying to prepare perhaps embers or something might carry over into god know's what, but definitely trying to prevent a nightmare. >> the san diego county sheriff said on thursday, investigators try to find a cause of the blazes are also considering arceson. >> temperatures are expected to drop as we approach the end of the week, but firefighters are not taking any chances. the conditions we are seeing right now are normally what we would see in sent or october, so yes we are prepared for the worse, and we have to expect that's

what we have to look for, we will have a large wild fire. >> the state's fire fighting agent i, there may 10th there have been more than 1300 fires. in comparison, last year during the same time period, there were just over 1,000 fires. with more than 15,000 acres blackened. with each year, the wild fire season seemed to be started earlier and ending later. the u.s. forest season says fire season is now two months longer than it was back in the early 1970's. scientists blame climate change. and spreading suburbs. the combination of a longer fire season, and a long hot summer of water shortages, and officials in california hoping for an el nino event. that's when warmer than normal temperatures in the pacific ocean effected jet stream, and that can lead to wetter winters. >> it often results in a mild winter.

a lot of rainfall for california. >> and the blackened baron foot hits of california a strong el nino event would most likely equate to devastating mudslides. >> adam may, al jazeera. >> correspondent jennifer is standing by now. the scene, you are showing us here, really devastated. >> it is. this is a home that burned down this time yesterday. it's in the carlsbad fire area, the homeowner who lived here stayed behind besides the mandatory evacuation odderrer and tried to save his home, and it was a losing battle. a little further away the san marcus fire is burning and that has been picking up in the last hour or so. we are being told some structures are burning they are on fire. and even though overnighty did get a little bit of head way made on that fire, they were authorized to do night drops at the helicopter, they did about 45 of those, which they have to get special

permission to fly at night, but they managed to do it. two big fire area, but that's the one that is really blowing up right now, and of main concern, to fire officials here in san diego county. we have heard from the weather experts in all of this, part of the factor here is about the heat, and the dry conditions and the wind that we see picking up around you. >> it is eerratic. it is unpredictable, and that makes it really difficult. the humidity has been incredible. last night we checked it it was 3%, you walk outside, you can feel it on your skin, your nails are cracking it is a difficult environment for firefighters, that are dealing with anything, that can throw a spark. the sparks are flying on this wind, landing miles away and ignites new fires. so that's been a concern. the good news is they are expecting a change in the wind, a shift, the onshore ocean breeze which will bring more moisture and hopefully

some relief. when we return protests haven't stopped them.

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that will injection. nowhere are executions more popular than in texas, which is home to more executions than any other state, and even there we find there are growing doubts. a close ceremony look at crime and the it mat punishment. >> this scene, outside the old downtown huntsville, has become a familiar ritual. far too familiar for the small group gathering. this evening the life of yet another texas prisoner is scheduled to end. it seems like the state of texas thinks this is blessed by god. executing people is blessed by god. >> reverend jeffery hood has been coming to executions in huntsville for nearly two years. on this day, he and a friend drove more than four hours to bear witness.

it is a long drive, almost four hours. and today i just remember praying over and over again, that god might intervene. he was convicted in the abduction and murder of a houston woman. he shot her in a field and left her to die. 515 executions since 1976, when capitol punishment was reinstated. jason clark is is with the texas department of criminal justice. the jury saw the photos they heard the testimony from the individuals weighed all of the evidence, and ultimately convicted this individual, and sentenced them to death. so at the end othe day i remember there are victims involved. that someone was killed and so that often times puts it back into perspective.

this is a company town, so are seven prison. the biggest tourest attraction, a museum dedicated to the texas penal system. here alongside mock jail cells about bonnie and collide, sits the state's old electric chair. the museum's director is jim willett. >> i know we passed the 500 number of doing he that will injections here in the state of texas just a few months ago. way have never had a problem, we will keep operating the same way. >> he used to be the warden he supervised 89 executions. >> i didn't like having to deal with the executions at all, but i saw it as my job, and try to do my part in it the

best i could. it is the unusualness of it all. you have a fellow lying on a gurney in front of you, that is perfectly healthy, and a little bit that fella will be dead. >> willett isn't the only former texas official who is now reflecting ban on his daying enforcing the death penalty. >> would you say that now you are softer on the death penalty than you were when you were governor? >> i think i am wider. >> for that he served five years as attorney general. >> are you now convinced that innocent people have been put to death? >> yes. >> no question. >> no question. >> if you are going to keep doing it you out to abolish it. >> white once strongly supported the death penalty, as governor he oversaw 19 executions. but now he believes the legal process, that the innocent are too easily condemned. in a erecent article he

called it a crisis. >> in your article, you sited a study from the national academy of sciences, that study says one in 25 people may be executed incorrectly. is that number tolerable? >> no. one in any number that you put in the nominator it doesn't matter what it is, one is one too many. nationwide about 3,000 inmates are sitting on death row that study by the national academy of sciences suggests about 120 of them are likely to be innocent. >> how long were you on death row? >> i was on death row 12 1/2 years. >> few know more about that than anthony. falsely accused of killing six people by the man who committed the murders. a texas jury sentenced him to death, in 1994. what was daily like life?

>> hell. whatever you think hell is for you, i lived that 365 day as year. >> how difficult is it for you to spend 18 years there, knowing that you had not committed this crime? >> it was really difficult. every day i had a threat of being executed hanging over my head. so there was no walk in the park, it was very very hard. so many times i wanted to give up. >> instead of giving up, he insisted that he was innocent, after a judge ordered a new trial, a new team of prosecutors didn't even botched execution tore go forward. they dismissed the charges. in 2010, 18 and one half years after his arrest, he walked out of prison a freeman. >> what does the story after on thanny graves say? >> the story of anthony graves says we should point practicing the death penalty. you took a man from his home. who was with his family,

who had alibi witnesses, who was in another town, who didn't even know the people that you were accusing him of murdering. and you put him on death row. >> a man who didn't know anything act me. >> like former governor white, graves believes inadequate legal representation, and racial bias are often to blame. >> we are going to continue to make mistakes as long as we are practicing the death penalty. the question should be, and we live with it. recent executions in oklahoma and ohio are also fueling concerns. including the error tracted death of oklahoma inmate clayton locket, a convicted killer. he died of an apparent heart attack, 43 minutes after oklahoma's he that will injection drugs failed to kill him. prison officials fry add new drug combination, that they had never used before, because pharmaceutical companies are increasingly

reluctant to supply drugs for executions. some people call it a botched execution. that wasn't a botched execution, that was cruel and inhumane treatment. the spca does a better jonathan we are doing in oklahoma and some other states. >> in putting animals to death. >> that's right. >> oklahoma has a three drug protocol. texas, uses a single drug. our protocol calls for a he that will dose of pinto bash toll. we have used that protocol since 2012, and if carried out 33 executions without incident. >> campbell's lawyers use the oklahoma controversial to seek a temporary halt. that did not work. but another argument that campbell is mentally incompetent did. with little more than two hours to go, campbell's life was spared. at least for now. meanwhile, the grim work

inside these walls is schedule today go on, next in line, man wealth vazquez, convicted of killing a low level drug dealer on levels from a corymbose. in august, he is planning to make the four hour drive back to huntsville. when that execution takes place,ly be standing on that corner praying that will be the last time i stand on that corner, but until the executions stop, i will stand on that corner. why does the federal government take a stronger hand. richer joins froes the death penalty information center. i guess that is the heart of it, there's so many circumstances in which the state seems to be having trouble coming one uniform guidance, protocols, even the specific drugs that are involved. why does didn't federal government take a hand in saying this is how lit be done?

traditionally it has been left to the states and farce the federal government is concerned a state could not have a death penalty at all, and once it gets involved it leans the states one way or the other, this is what the federal system would do. so you should have it. and they don't want any part of that. and it clear, though, with respect to the he that will injection drugs who would be responsible for making any kind of decision about what drugs can be used or how they should be administers? >> they have been told they have to monitor any imported drugs. but they have said they don't want to approve any drugs or not approve, it's not their role. they would have to be new legislation, i think to get the food and drug administration involved and with congress, that's just not likely to happen. seven. >> the federal death penalty does apply as

well, though, but it is not used very often. >> that's right. so there is a federal death penalty that covers all states and they have their own execution chamber, and have used their own drugs. but that's a small percentage. there's 3,000 people on the states death row. there's only been three federal executions in the past 40 years. >> what other -- is there other federal oversite? >> well, there is a food and drug administration, has some control over what are called compounding pharmacies. when they act as manufacturers producing thousands of drugs, but not the individual things that texas or oklahoma needs. it's licensed in the statement but not on a federal level. >> is there an indication

that anybody should be, whether there could be or not, but should be more federal oversight. how things are administers in what the process is? >> well, when all of this started some of the states wrote a letter, a joint letter to eric holder and washington to try to get help. because they couldn't find the drugs and they felt that maybe there were some help in getting them imforted or something. the justice department said no, we don't our own drugs and we won't get involved. i do think there's some basic rights here. constitutional rights. we wouldn't experiment on prisoners for example. with some new degrees that have never been tried against they will, but that's essentially what is being done with the execution drugs. so i think there are some civil rights matters and that could involve federal authorities or the courts. >> and the courts cutting into it as well, the death penalty information center, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> the criminal justice

system is the focus of a new original documentary system here. directed by the academy award winning joe bernard smith linger. first episode premiers this sunday may 18th at 9:00 p.m. eastern, here on al jazeera america. fading hope turns to raging anger. turkey's disaster and why the death threatening the government's future. in this country, poison water in west virginia, and how it could impact the future. a critical industry in that state, fault lines investigates, next. >> r

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>> charges against four crew members including the captain for failing to protect hundreds of school children in last month's south korean ferry disaster. they could face the death penalty if they are convicted. where mourners have gathered near the town to bury their dead, anguish has turned to anger, and the rising death stoll is testing the government of prime minister. he has two children, the family is devastated. so are we. they will be buries today. we are waiting. >> with so many dead, mass burial is the only solution.

which disabled the escape list. the death poll is over 280, already the mine disaster is the worst tragedy in history, and more than 100 remain missing. >> they are trying to ventilate the air, after that the rescue work will resume. >> high levels continue to burn underground, rescuers were held back for their own safety. >> . >> i asked my friend to go there and find him. just a small hope, a tiny sparkle that's all i wish. >> the country known for it's heavy industry and poor worker protection. compared to 19 century england. and said such tragedies should be expected.

they do not happen only in turkey, it also happened in many countries such as united states, china, france, and belgium. i give for example figures for death tolls. many people died in such accidents. a country is in a much better position. >> his government rocked by scandal already, he faced angry mobs calling him a murderer, and thief. and while the prime minister warned extremist, a top advisor ignited more anger when he was shown kicking a restrained protestor, and questions are already being asked to the ruling party. >> after each sad incident that happens in this society, we see such undecibel and degraceful people that represent us.

and unformingly we can't be surprised about inhuman people, you cannot expect crisis management from a government that didn't take precautions in the first place. >> that is now bracing for more, as is the mining company, which seeing the anger already hired riot police to guard it's headquarters. there are echos where two workers died at the number one mine in west virginia earlier this week. west virginia leads the nation, and this particular mining company had a history of safely violations. >> a contaminate used to clean coal spilled into the river, which provides to 300,000 people. dominated by one single industry, communities are both at the mercy of coal. fault lines josh exams

the industry's hold on west virginia. >> a lot of people want the tanks to remain there, because they say it is the best evidence of what some are calling a crime scene. officials say the wattser now safe to drink, but some don't believe them. they come to meet a group of volunteer whose have been distributing clean water to people who still don't trust the tap water.

300,000 people plus, have poison water now, and are test subjects. to see what happens when you are drinking water. the task of giving everyone good water is too large. too large for a hand full of volunteers. >> yeah. >> the hometown, is served be i the water supply that was contaminated. like a lot of his neighbors he still refusing to drink the city water or wash in it. i joined up with the clean water hub, because i believed in what they were doing, and i felt that they were sincere. from the kindness of their heart, to see people fight for something they believe

in, and not just watch it happen. >> at the distribution site, people are lining up. >> talking one day, and he didn't have much. it burned you up, what do you mean? >> burned up my skin, put spots on it. >> wow. >> how have you been getting by? >> i have been getting by by getting water whereverky get water. >> t.j. claimed he was six for two weeks from the contaminated city water, because he drank it for several days before he heard about the spill. >> i didn't know there was a problem, i didn't have cable. so i didn't know what was going on, i went to my friend's house, and they freaked out on me. and they are like what are you doing drinking the water, and that's when i found out that the water was bad. >> one spill would have been bad enough for someone like d.j. y'all be careful. >> several years ago, many residents in the town of printer, said they began to notice that

their water smelled strange. >> it started out as they didn't know what it was exactly. couldn't explain it, so they started doing tests and found multiple chemicals. and pretty much all the wells. >> were they able to clean up the water? is. >> no. they kind of ran city water up through here. >> wait. so they ran city water? is. >> they ran city water and gave it to everybody. >> okay. four or five years ago, you realize wattser contaminated you get on city water, from charleston, and then that gets contaminated. >> yes. >> we are choosing from two evils here. it is either water that we drink all our lives that we are used to by now. that's contaminated or water that we just got that is also contaminated. >> d.j. told me that for years mining companies have pumped coal waste into the ground near

printer. contaminating the well water. communities surveys have found elevated rates here of kidney and gallbladder disease. the people settled with the company's out of court. here, if you didn't work for the coal mine, what would you do. >> what other jobs are there here? >> gas stations. >> can't be too many jobs a t the gas stations. >> none. the mining reported that they were violating the permits disposing of the waste. they never issued any fines. >> the first thing you

think of that's gorgeous, the second thing you think is are those mining chemicals, and you really don't know. there's been so much contamination, it makes you question the beauty of everything, and wonder where is poison and is what is not. >> josh, do you have sort of a sense that there are two west virginias in a way? that there's the communities that really depend on these energy, and then the urban centers. >> absolutely. charleston most of office, what was different about the spill, is that it effected charleston. and just a few hours before the spill, you had the governor giving a state of the state address, in which he said he promised to fight the epa and their wrong policies about coal. the next morning the same city wakes up to the smell of licorice in the air. but the fact is if you get away from charleston, if you go into the rest

of west virginia, these kind of spills happen with alarming regularity. >> and the additional tension, does that change at all what will happen for the industries in the state? >> only slightly. west virginia has passed a law that is supposed to help with this issue, so there is slightly more regulation, but the truth is even though west virginia is going through a major cultural shift, from being a long held democrat state, to the republican state, the democrats have been hard to discern from republicans. in fact, one of their senators joe mention, who was a governor before he became a u.s. senator has a recent campaign add where he fires a shot flu the cap and trade bill with the rifle, campaign ad sponsored be i the nra, he as ran a procoal anti-oboom ma care, so that's your democrat coming from west virginia. so it isn't that much difference between the republicans and the republicans there. so electorally it doesn't matter. what happens. >> did you come away with a certain sense of your

own surprise? did it change your expectations at all? is how people would see this? >> it did. you know what i heard a lot, is they are a corporate colony, i had never heard the term before. >> i don't know that i have heard that what do you mean. he said it is all about resource distraction, and they are not located in west virginia, all the major coal companies are no longer located in west virginia. so you have i think one county, wyoming county, it is a major coal county, over three-fourths owned by three companies all three are out of state. so the people that live there, if they need permits want to do anything in their county, they have to deal with out of state companies. all those who are profiting they don't have to live there. and live with the repercussions of it. this is something -- i know that we have leck missty thatle cos from the cole, we all benefit from west virginia, but

the people who have to live with those every day. they are very aware of how they profit from that. >> but they arele cooing to that balance of concern about their own futures. >> they have a sense of the coal industry is not doing well right now, and the coal industry is kind of framing that as it's obama's war on coal. when, in fact, you can look at eight switch from coal to natural gas. it's also that so much of the coal has been taken out, and that so much cheaper coal is coming from some of the person states. it is market forces that are happening they say we need the jobs for coal, that coal is the economy. but if you look at the three poorest counties in the state, they are all coal counties. if you look at the three wealthiest, they never had coal. so you have to ask, how much has it really helps you and your county.

these monkey has dna from four different parents. where scientists say the research they have done on animals here may lead to gene therapy in human beings. ahead on america tonight, how the science is creating both hope and controversy.

would be parenting facing infertility and other challenges would often do just about anything to have a healthy baby to love. scientists giving more of them the opportunity to do so, but with some caution. some fear that parents may aim to have only designer babies. in our special report making babies, correspondent with an indepth look at one significant option. it may be hard to believe, but a monkey is giving desperate families hope. this is krista when she was a baby, she is one of five healthy monkeys born with the help of donated dna. she is the result of years of research, conducted by doctor shoe credit. knowing that it works in a monkey, we knew this procedure would be pretty easy to translate to humans.

and we started to immediately working towards getting 24 at the early stage with human eggs. >> the cutting work could literally change the future for families like this one. how will you doing. >> do you need a hair cut. >> you co need a hair cut. >> every minute is precious, for daniel. every smile, a treasure. the louisville kentucky family isn't sure how much time 11-year-old aury has left to live. what is it like for you to see him smile. >> it makes me feel good, but sad at the same time, that's the only thing that he can i guess do. that makes me even feel like he is somewhat still there, like that he is him. inside of there and not a vegetable.

completely. the fineny structures in her cells that take in nutrients and provide energy. prevent his body from functioning normally. although both of daniel's sons have the genes only aury is severely effected he has an enlarged heart, low muscle tone and poor lung capacity. next time he gets six, daniel says she will likely tell the doctors no t to revive him. she is preparing to say goodbye. it is not going to be easy, and something that messes with me for a long time. so -- you know, i mean -- it is what it is, but -- i don't feel like it is fair to keep him with this kind of quality of life. >> at 36, daniel says she

would love to have another child, but she is scared. i would not ever want to get pregnant again, knowingky have a child like that, because i think it is very unfair to the child. no one would want to bring a baby into the world like that, so it is a very scary thought for me. >> his monkeys may give daniel a way out of her genetic trap. he has showed us his rec. lab, where his groundbreaking research happens under a specialized micro scope. first, removes the nuclear, leaving behind the mite doe con drea, then he trance plated it into a different egg, which contains mitochondria from another mother. >> how many chance dozen you get to take the nucleus out, one chance. >> it is a very sensitive

cell, and if you do something rough to it, the cell dies. >> ultimately, thing is fertilized and the resulting embryo has dna from three parents. two mothers, and the father. >> this is the first time we demonstrated that gene can be manipulated and so that you can completely replace mite to con drea genes in eggs and then have an offspring in this case. and inserting into a healthy egg, he says he believes the process would eliminate diseases like the one that debilitates her son. >> i am like why is this not being done already. why haven't you got the go ahead now, why is it taking so long. but if the science spells hope for some, others it

is troubles. buy oweth sis worry about the unknown. >> we can do this with animals and we can throw out the ones we don't like. especially if they are mice. but if you are producing human beings with this process, what do you do when you get an abnormal result? you can't just throw out the abnormal human being. >> dr. shell con primsy is a professor at tough university, and chair of he says the engineering of cells could open the door to an array of ethical dilemmas when one line is crossed, there's no turning back. what we are dealing with when we start to modify babies is how do we know when to stop. we know when to start, let's say for some reason, like mitochondrial disease, but when do we stop. and in this country we

don't have a regulatory system that tells us, when to stop or what kinds of regulations we need. next thing someone will want, is i think i can make my child more intelligent, and i think there are these dna sequences that can do it. so let me put that into the fertilized egg. that's not what it is about at all, it is about making a baby disease free. i am not saying okay i want a star athlete, and i want him to have blue eyes and this have color hair, that's not the genes we are talking about. how badly do you want another child? >> pretty badly. it might be a little bit of a understatement.

>> how far will you go. if you had to go to another country would you do it. >> i like flying on airplanes so far, europe, i am sure is an amazing place. >> i know there's some fear, because it is so new, never been tried or tests. >> as they wait for approval to move ahead, daniel's biological clock continuing to tick, she is waiting for the miracle science that could let a child of hers escape it's genetic fate. you know, this is a very particular disease, but could this apply to other kinds of health conditions. >> i was asking the doctor about that, and one of his goals is this would be helpful to women over 40, who are having trouble having kids because at a certain age

the quality starts to decline. so the idea is he would use the same principle, take the nucleus and be able to implant it. and be able to build a child that thrives. so if there's any kind of disorder this could effect anybody that has that kind of disease as well. >> this almost opens up the question. it is a totally legitimate question, where do you stop, and you heard the doctor explain that. he is very certain this won't open the door. it has taken years for him to develop, it's not overnight it will start going to this trait type thing. he is looking at highly complicated issues remitted to a particular disease. it is fine for one to wonder what door this will open and how far

should we go, and that's one reason why the pga is reviewing this. and whether or not he could implant embryos and human and see how the process works. >> coming up tonight, it sounds like a miracle. >> i saw people who were at the end of the road, completely detox look like new human beings. no signs of withdrawal. can a plant cure drug addition. >> how long have you been using drugs? is. >> 12 years. i was able to see the damage. two last time they saw me high, -- sorry. they kept tabs on the 300 patients they report that 50% of the patients were still clean and sober. one year out. >> how many years have you been clean now. >> november will be 11. >> how do you feel fight row? >> amazing.

amazing. it's incredible. just incredible. >> this is too big a problem to leave this stone unturned. >> friday, on america tonight. >> and ahead in our final thoughts delivering on the promise, to never forget. ide story

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dedicate the national memorial and museum. home to thousands of objects from that fateful day, each with in's own story. president obama spoke, highlighted one object in particular that's become a symbol of both hope and heroism. >> in those awful moments, after the south tour was hit, some of the injured huddled in the wreckage of the 78th floor. the fires were spreading. the air was filled with smoke. it was dark. and they could barely see. it seemed as if there was no way out. and then there came a voice. clear, calm, saying he had found the stairs. a young man in his 20's,

strong. emerged from the smoke and over his nose and his mouth, he wore a red handkerchief. he called for fire exiting wishers to fight back the flames. he tended to the wounded. he led those survivors down the stairs to safety. and carry as woman on his shoulders down 17 flights. then he went back. back up all those flighteds then back down again. bringing more wounded to safety. until that moment, when the tower fell. they didn't know his name. they didn't know where he came from. but they knew their lives had been save ised by the man in the red bandanna.

on that sent morning, alison kruther lost her son wells. months later, she was reading the newspaper an article about those final minutes in the towers, survive recounterred how a young man wearing a red handkerchief had led them to safe picture. and in that moment, alison knew, ever since he was a boy her son had always carried a red handkerchief. her son wells was the man in the red bandanna. wells, was just 24 years old. with a broad smile and a bright future. he worked in the south tower on the 104th floor.

he had a big laugh, a joy of life, and dreams of seeing the world. he worked in finance, but he had also been a volunteer firefighter, and after the planes hit, he put on that bandanna and spent his final moments saving others. and today as we saw on our tour, one of his red handkerchiefs is on display in this museum. from this day forward, all those who come here, will have a chance to know the sacrifice of a young man who like so many gave his life so others might leave. a great memory, the museum opened to the public next wednesday, and we will have more of america tonight, tomorrow.

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