the. >> hello everybody i'm david schuster in new york. we begin tonight with breaking news out of russia. moscow just outside the kremlin one of vladimir putin's prominent critics was assassinated. several russian being news agencies have reported, boris nemsof has been assassinated

near the kremlin found in several opposition parties most recently he has denounced the putin knowledge administration, president putin denounced the safntionsarchtionbeassassination. >> what do you think about it? >> in the 1990s a liberal reformer is sharing a lot of the same values as europe. staunchly against yeltsin government, against corruption. staunchly one of the biggest critics against president putin. he came out recently and accused putin of personally launching and unleashing the violence in

the war in ukraine. that's what he was calling the people out to on the weekend calling for all the opposition parties to finally unite and fight the kremlin and president putin, and l david he told a magazine earlier in the month that he feared for his life, that he might be killed and indeed that is what has happened tonight. he was shot very close to the kremlin walls walk across a bridge in full view of st. basil's cathedral. it is a shocking event but more than that it is potentially a seismic political event this has occurred in russia tonight. this is not just another figure who has been mildly critical of the kremlin would has been gunned down a journalist or a governor or a prosecutor. this is -- i don't think anybody in russia has a higher profile than boris nemsof than all the leaders in russia he has been

gunned down just hours before he is to appear on the streets and call for an end to the ukraine war and condems president putin's snrols. >> david, president putin was notified of the act and putin has said he will personally take charge of the investigation. will the public trust such an investigation? >> well i think most people are pretty cynical of any real course of justice in any of these cases. they are crème marin managed and the media will report -- kremlin managed. will there be a full and complete investigation into this? that will be the first time we've had one of those in russia. quite frankly. people will be deeply cynical for motives. the criemg of that timing of that

statement certainly, members of the opposition members of the intellectual community in russia, liberal community in russia believe that a lot of these roads in this murder may well lead towards creme lil the kremlin. i think they did so considering did it very strategically tonight within hours of that killing. >> dana as we have looked at the scenes where people have set up a makeshift memorial, people have pointed identity because this is so close to the kremlin there is strong likelihood that there mait may may have been surveillance cameras. would it be very difficult for serious voarkts the investigators to try track down car and what their links might be? >> they haven't tracked it down so far david and this has occurred several hours ago. you have a car pull up and some

guys get out and be start firing, certainly there may be a video of a fleeing car but where that is going to lead united us in the other cases of high profile journalists or opposition leaders, even if they find the gunmen they are usually contract killers and the authorities have been absolutely inefficient and perhaps even more than that, some people see tonight a sinister way of finding out who ordered the contract killings. so even if they find out the gunmen are they going to be able to find out who ordered this killings? not likely. >> dana lewis, thank you. now to a clue of, who was the western voice behind the mask in i.s.i.l.'s infamous beheading videos and why would he have left a comfortable life behind to join the group?

jeefd john is identified as mohamed emwazi. might help western powers find him and stop others who want to join his cause. carey bolivan is a spokesman of cage. he joins us from london. carey did you know mr. emwazi? >> i didn't know him personally but a colleague of mine was a caseworker on his case for two years and there was a trove of e-mails which detail his interactions with us during that period. >> and when did the e-mails suggest as to what sort of person he was? >> it's quite shocking. they are very polite, very humbly written. he knows we are working on bigger cases but if we could spare him time to work on his

problem he would be appreciative of that. but to be honest the thing that accommodation through is the shocking abuse bithe security services. every timing he tries get his life in order every time he tries continue with his work or get a new job twice when he's looking to get married the security services are intervening in a multitude of ways. to completely limits his life. not just from any sort of extremist activity but for even having some -- any form of ordinary life. even being able to progress in an ordinary way. >> it certainly hints -- >> from e-mail the question is we don't know for sure the security services have their own take on things but the question a lot of people have a lot of people feel security services are watching them or abusing them or interfering with their lives. a lot of people don't about over the things that mr. emwazi appears to have done with i.s.i.l, how did that happen? >> after two years of going to

his representatives mps here, the governors of going through complaints commissions to try and clear his name, and basically doing all of the things within the system to try and establish his innocence, it seems that he basically just cracked. he had enough of being a par eye here in the eusk u.k. and it looks like he went to syria at least at first he was just doing aid there for a period of time. >> was there anything about his personality or about his background that you think made him more vulnerable to cracking as you suggested? >> from what we've seen, not really. he was a well educated man. he passed a degree. his teachers have described him as very, very studious. so he doesn't have a lot of the hallmarks of some of the cases. i think the issue is here and we've seen it in quite a few cases in the u.k that when

someone's life opportunities are just constantly blocked and i mean for an american audience, like you guys know more about this. it's the american dream to build a life and to progress. and if that is blocked systematically at every angle where you feel that you just literally can't engage in society, i think that's what pushed him to the edges and to the peripheral. and from what we can see when he got to syria he literal divorced the idea of his britishness and his british ideas and he would refer to himself as ale yemeemeni rather than from britain where he grew up. >> acting in strange ways, most people don't engage in the sort of brutality the beheadings that mr. emwazi has engaged in.

were you surprised that he was involved in all this? >> from all accounts from the teachers and family and caseworkers at cage everybody is shocked that he could be doing these things pfn i think. for us, it's not important who he was because that's in the past. who he is is very clear and what needs to happen to him is very clear. the interesting part is the trajectory between the two. if we can analysis that, if we can understand that, what radicalized him and caused these problems that's problem to stop that from hang again to keep us both safer at home and abroad. >> if mr. emwazi was listening to you now as we have seen these videos what would you say to him as he's done and what your message to him be at this point? >> my message to him would be to try and remember what it felt like to be outside here and not to do those same things to the people where he is now.

at the end of the day he -- there have been time and time again, clearly innocent, good people in fronts of him. and he needs treat them with the humanity that he wanted to be treated but -- with here. >> carey bulilivant a spokesperson for cage. thank for being on al jazeera we appreciate it. the be congress has failed to pass a bill to fund the department of homeland security. politically this is a major defeat for republican house speaker john boehner. not only did he fail oget the votes he was counting on but the funding issue and the republican divide how to respond to president obama's immigration reform has all but paralyzed the republican-led congress. morphone, what is the latest tonight -- mike viqueria what is

the latest tonight? >> not only was john boehner be not even close to patch this temporary patch temporary fix to fund department of homeland security for the nest next three weeks to find a way out of this political more morass, he was not even close. technical are democratic cause ofcaucusthree hours and 45 minutes from a shutdown of the department of homeland security. because the republicans and democrats can't agreed on how to move forward. the president and the director jeh johnson shayne being burnts burnett

shaun usual burton, republicans late last year insensed over the president's immigration orders decided to defund entire department of homeland security, only until midnight tonight. they thought that they could force the president's hand, force ethical reverse course. that has not worked out. the senate for their part, under republican control they already caved sending a bill to the house, the house refused to take it up, that's why they put that three week extension on the floor. that was plan b and it collapsed in a spectacular fashion david. >> like the pressure is going to be enormous on republicans moving forward because the poll suggests the republicans will get the lion's share of the blame for the shutdown. how long will this continues?

>> i've just left the the capital. spieker boehner and his colleagues are behind closed doors trying find a way out of this morass. a one week resolution that would fund the department for a week which olikely bring us back to this points one week from tonight. that is something being floated among conservatives trying for three week plan. there is doomsday scenario david, some people are predicting there will be a shutdown of the department of homeland security, there will be a public backlash and then and only then will republicans and democrats get together and pass something. >> mike viqueria, thanks as always. officials from the obama administration and the government of cuba reported progress in their second round of talks about reestablishing diplomatic ties. cuban officials demanded that

being their country be removed from the list of state sponsored terrorism. they be insist that the list be dealt with separately. no new date has been set for further talks. property is now estimated to be worth billions of dollars, and some u.s. lawmakers say the property should be returned before any reconciliation with cuba. jonathan betz is in miami tonight and jonathan you have been talking to the people who lost their land during the revolution. what are they saying about all this? >> reporter: well, david there is still a lot of anger and pain here for what happened 50 years ago. but as these two sides now talk again there's also hope of righting what many people here see is a deep wrong. of tall photos and mems -- of all the photos and memories, among the things ricardo solis

finds dear, being the proof what he says was his is taken and hope that some day he'll get it back. >> can i prove that it was ours. >> -- i can prove that it was ours. >> when he left cuba he left behind a vast estate. its photo to this day hangs on his wall above the ancestors that be builts it. >> what did you have to leave behind? >> well over a million dollars . >> now decades later hope that he may get some of it back. as the u.s. talks with cuba, come changes some see as opportunities. such as returning some of the property seized and nationalized during the cuban revolution. americans alone lost $7 billion

worth of assets. nicholas's family lost a sugar mill. >> you lost your home? >> absolutely. >> now how is its being used? >> according to the sign it is a school for teachers. >> now he is fighting to get it back. >> not done to us, to the whole country, it was a barbaric wrongdoing. that's justice cries out for a reversal of that bawr bearic wrongdoing. >> even he admits the odds are against him to get the property back, or even payment cuba would have to cooperate. something it has shown no science of doing. the u.s. embargo can'ting fully lifted, and the seized properties are among many concerns for negotiators. >> we are trying to get relations so we can talk about all these issues. >> the regime doesn't hide the fact that they stole our stuff. >> he says if cuba woajt won't pay

perhaps tourists are going to. already time has taken its toll. long ago ricardo game up of ever reclaiming his lost bakery in havana. no no no, he says, that's all gone, it is over hoox century what's to find over there? at 80, solis's olds cigar factory still stands can in cuba renamed and under government control. >> i don't think that's something he's ever gotten over. >> and why do you say that? >> because it was such a loss. >> reporter: so much lost, but it's hope. >> why, is it -- whatever will be will be. ha ha ha. >> and cuban government officials tell us they are not

commenting on this property issue for moment. observers say they expect very little to change as long as the castro family remains in control. david. >> jonathan betz reporting live tonight from miami. jonathan, thank you. up next a new type of wood now widely used in american construction projects, appears to be an accelerant in apartment us fires. what could be done to make it safer? attorney general eric holder prepares to leave office. he is concentrating in dramatic fashion the up hill climb in many civil rights cases.

>> a recent fire that destroyed a new jersey apartment complex is generating more attention tonight after revelations about how it was built. the construction materials included a type of wood that apparently accelerated the flames. it is a material that is now used in over 60% of all residential construction and fears are growing that millions of families nationwide could be vulnerable. john henry smith reports. >> fire roared through this apartment complex in edgewater new jersey. >> it did advance very quickly into the hallways and into the ceilings. >> the flames lit up the night sky. >> it just billowed and billowed and the roof blew off the place. >> the fire took over five hours to control and drew more than a

thousand from their homes. including john and be his wife and their dog lexie. >> they put it out. >> they couldn't put it out at all. >> this is what was left of the avalon edgewater. 240 units gobben in a gone in a flash. since that night, a lot of attention pointed at what was inside the walls of the building. >> it's called light weight wood. chips glued together. widely used in homes throughout the country including the avalon at edgewater apartments. >> if it were made out of concrete and cinder block, you wouldn't have this issue.

>> fire department achiever thomas clinton battled this fire. >> how scared are the firefighting communities of a fire in that struck? >> all firefighters are concerned because it's a matter of timing. >> underwater laboratories showed that light weight wood burns three times faster than solid wood beams. >> associate of fire science at john jay college if new york. we talked to him at the scene of the edgewater fire. >> we talked to firefighters they're wary of, what in particular? >> they're wary ever one they are not going to be able to stop the fire, that's one issue. and the floors collapse, i've been to several where the whole entire floor has collapsed onto the floor below. >> cor by the says the advantages are time and money.

>> it's money saved in time terms of material, but time saved in termination of the number of people required to put up a large wood frame building like this. >> we bought some engineered wood and conventional wood at a lumber yard and brought the concerns to justin mahalic. >> this is how we used to build in residential construction and now this light weight material seen more and more today. good old mother earth, this is cut right out of a log and as we can see on the ends, can you see the rings. in this case the web is made up of a material known as oriented strand board osb which is basically compressed wood chips and it is done in oriented fashion, which is what gives it its strength. >> mahalic says light weight

wood is as strong as plywood but when it comes to fire -- >> because it is more solid and dense as this material is and the facts that there's no glue that's present in this, this is still going to burn faster. >> and that's what worries some firefighters. >> wood burns and it burns quick. if it gets going in that light weight construction it's going to keep on moving. >> avalon bay declined an on-camera interview. they said in a statement wood frame construction is a standard common and safe construction for multifamily housing used throughout the united states and that the complex was built in accordance with the fire and safety codes applicable at the time. >> i think a solution going forward perhaps would be to look at noncombustible construction, but that swood with wood is with united states for a long period of time. >> apa in a statement said the

term light weight wood construction has been used and misused in recent coverage. a large percentage of today's home construction uses a mixture of materials including lumber, lumber trusses and engineered wood beams. mahalic makes frequent use of engineered wood. >> i would say 100% of the time with the multifamily residential buildings, anything that is four story and less, you can pretty much believe that they're also built of light weight wood construction. again within the last ten to 15 years. >> is light weight engineered wood safe for public? >> it is safer if it is used in accordance with the code. i utilized engineered wood construction when i renovated my home. >> but not everyone is so confident. >> would you want to live in one of these?

>> after that, no. >> i'd prefer not to answer that question. >> well, i wouldn't. >> when we were looking for another apartment to move into, it was between this place and another place that was light weight wood construction. and we chose this one. >> it gave us pause certainly. >> definitely gave us pause. >> well, the edgewater mayor mcpartland said he would rather have it made with wood and steel rather than light weight wood, as you would expect. a lawmaker has introduced a bill to use a two-year pause before using light weight wood. but the community is calling for

use of sprinklers to keep be fires out of control. >> coming up, the death of boris nemtsov. and the life and work of leonard nimoy.

>> updating breaking news out of russia. prominent russian opposition leader was shot to death on a street inner the kremlin. boris nemtsov was shot, lately has been been a critic of vladimir putin. what is the mood tonight in moscow after this assassination?

>> reporter: well, david, this is shock in russia right now. the fact that such a prominent leader of a political faction would be shot down on the streets of the capital within sight of the kremlin is really, causing this kind of ripple effect within russia. now whether or not anything actually comes of it given status of the political structure, within russia it's clearly too early the say. it has to be said, this individual boris indemnify sofer was anemtsov, was anopposition leader for a very long time. outspoken -- boris nemtsov into the putin era, this is a political figure within russia. his loss will be felt. this is a voice that has been

silenced within russia. it will of course have to be something we'll have to keep an eye on in the coming days but this is a very large political event within russia. >> and given skepticism that russians will have, and those that say this has got to be connected to vladimir putin what does that have to do with putin's standing in russia, request putin has a very high political standing in russia. this was a voice that was listened to, this was a albeit minority voice, a voice that was listened to when people wanted to see reform in russia moving towards perhaps a more western-style democracy. a stronger parliament, less powers to the president these are things that boris nemtsov

stood for for a very long period of time. there were those who advocated that, wanted to see that happen. with the death of boris nemtsov you now have a vacuum within the people who want to see those kind of reforms happening within russia. clearly because he was in strong opposition to putin's kremlin there will be fingers pointed. but at this hour too early to say who may have been behind this but certainly this leaves a vacuum within the russian political system at a time when russia is clearly a major player within the geopolitical system with the crisis in ukraine. david. >> phil ittner reporting. andre dubronsky what do you make ever this? >> it's going back to basics for putin. first initially it reeks of a gang land style murder.

200 yards from the walls of of the kremlin. nothing happens within 200 meters from the white house. >> and 200 meters from the white house, as within the kremlin there are videotape cameras. >> organized crime works hand in hand with the government of vladimir putin that's always been the case. and that's one of the things that ukraine has been fearing with the influx of organized crime into crimea. this is really going back into basics. if you look at the beginning the rise of vladimir putin one of the first murders galalina staboyta, she was a message murder to show the world and to show russia itself that we're going back to basics, push down

ton reformists. >> this is an opposition leader, yitsak rabin was at odds with netanyahu at the time and yet there was somebody who took it into his own hands to silence him. what about if this is a crazy person sympathetic to putin and takes matters into his own hands? >> you still are to take in the entire record. it's not like this is only opposition leader has been killed. it could be others who are investigating as a journalist the bombing of russian apartment buildings as an excuse to go to war in chechnya. alexander litinenko who was poisoned by russian pulo nfersiulonium.

that person was elected to parliament. and thumbing its nose and saying this person has parliamentary immunity and not investigating it further. how could this help putin? what would the answer be? in i'd like the say never look at the person who's acting illogically for a logical answer. just the message of the fact that you have navalny in prison and nemtsov dead. you have to go to outside, you have to go to at this point in russia he is either killing the people off imprisoning them and consolidated being control. >> thank you andre we appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> police in mexico are reporting tonight that their be country's most wanted drug lord is in custody.

local media seas say he was picked up while eating at a hotdog stand. goagomez was head of the knights templar cartel. evaded police for more than a year. attorney general eric holder says he will ask congress to lower the standard of proof in federal civil rights cases. it will allow prosecution where local authorities are unable or unwilling to get a conviction. ash-har quraishi is live. >> good evening david the shootings of michael brown or the ferguson police department, three year investigation into the trayvon martin case, in that case they could not present charges the that case. that is one thing the attorney general has been talking about

how high the burden of proof is and something that needs to be addressed. after the deaths of michael brown in ferguson missouri and trayvon martin in florida the justice department investigated civil rights violations. in the martin case it declined to prosecute. all eyes are pointed in the same direction. be now attorney general hoarlt holder wants toholderwants to change rule. >> a back stop more a partly of the process in an appropriate way. >> the department of justice uses so-called clofer color of law statutes. since holder took office in 2009 the department has charged 415 defendants in 275 color of law cases. the defense is extremely difficult to prove.

david wiseman a former u.s. attorney successfully prosecuted a case against john you best of yourburnlg. burrge. >> from deprivation of voting rights to deprivation of education to excessive force by police. and that's a wide range of conduct to try criminalize in one statute. >> some were skeptical that federal choornlings with have been brought against being officer warren in the michael brown case. >> in order to file charges through the department of justice investigation. >> patricia bines said it would be a step in the right direction, for some people who thought it was a miscarriage of

justice. >> if congress does consider this they might have to pull away the section of statute that results in law enforcement and the use of force. it is so broad difficult task at hand but something the attorney general says he will be discussing before he lives office. >> ash-har quraishi, thank you. during hifs exit interviewers attorney general holder was just asked what book he would recommend to a young person coming to washington. holder responded with the autoboygraphy of malcon comx. it has been 50 years since he wassen assassinated. we recently spoke with one of his daughters. >> he was assassinated martyred at 39. and 12 short years he made a significant impact around the world.

nelson mandela said, when a man has served his country and his people he can then rest in peace. and so i would say my father did a pretty good job about representing his people, and his country. >> your father initially encouraged blacks to overcome race imp by any means necessary. dr. cor cornell west then said your father was demonized. do you think your father and his legacy got a bad rap because of that? >> absolutely got a bad rap. my father was one to address a problem and then solve it. and so i think he put a mirror up and said, this is our problem. we must address it. we must seriously address it and if we did we wouldn't have the same challenges we would have 50 years later. >> you were only with years old at the time he was assassinated for so many people to remember

him now how do you feel? >> i was two and a half years old when he was assassinated. you know studying my father i have profound respect adoration, love, you know, look at what he did. he was only in his 20s. he was killed at 39, and it's just these young years that he was able to do all that he did. he didn't ask for a penny in return for him or his family. >> in the 12 years years of his work, you see the arc of his evolution as a man. >> yes absolutely. you know it's one thing to be raised during the jim crow era during the civil rights movement. one of the significant things is that my father redirected the civil rights movement to include a human rights agenda. and so when he made his hajj,

much like when i made mine, it was just -- it was a time for him to not only be treated like man but to be amongst people of ethnic diversity and you know praise god and relate with one another. and so i think that it was such a difference between the life that he lived growing up here, and having experienced that, that sense of peace and equality that was transformative. >> what about the reaction to perhaps one of the most significant political events that many of us will ever remember and that is the election of the first african american president president barack obama? how do you think your father would have reacted to that? >> oh, i think he would have been elated as we all were. and i think that once we have this man in office then it becomes the spoblghtd of the citizens to have an agenda, and

push that agenda forward. that we can't sit back and think that one person is going to change everything. but that we all have to take responsibilities and do our parts. >> but given that cornell west, for example a big defender of your father has said that barack obama is a disappointment, do you think your father would have considered barack obama somewhat of a disappointment? >> no i don't think so. because i think if there was more change that my father would have wanted that he would have participated in some way to make sure that that agenda you know was put -- was enacted. >> you've written a novel based on so many of the people who knew your father, a fictional novel that showed he was a criminal but showed the black pride that his parents instilled in him. what do you think young people younger readers will get out of the message of your novel? >> i'm not saying that the book will show him as a criminal.

the foundation that malcolm had his mother was very much educated, and filled the value of learning, his father was the value of humanity that we are our brother and sister's keeper, his father was killed by the kkk his mother was put in an institution, they did that to many families at that time. malcolm was in pain. he was separated from his siblings. even at that school he was the president of his seventh grade class and when his teacher said what do you want to be when you grow up? he said i want to be a lawyer. he didn't say i want to be a musician or a football player or whatever,ing but his teachers say now can't be a lawyer you're going to have to do other things. malcolm was in pain. he went to boston, he saw this big city coming from this little

hik town from the midwest and the streets pulled him in. >> the value that malcolm had of education, in so many corners of society today how much of that value do you think is missing from today's world? >> i think that we adults have to accept responsibility for not changing you know, for not instilling specific values and teaching our children about the truth of history but if we are talking about this society i think it's extremely important that true history is incorporated into our educational curriculum so that our children all of them have the opportunity to feel self-love to feel leadership you know abilities to participate in mainstream society. iliasa al shaba she is the daughter of malcolm x.

thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >> the funding expires for department of homeland, later tonight. and we'll look at the passing of leonard nimoy and how his character being mr. spock made an international sensation.

interfollowing developments on capitol hill, where congress is trying to find a work through on

the shutdown on department of homeland security. mike viqueria, what are the latest developments? >> still no white smoke from the inner offersest of john boehner. the senate has gone ahead and passed a one week extension of funding a temporary patch work measure in anticipation of the house doing the same tonight. but again that is by no means decided. basically the senate has gotten sick of waiting around for house to make a decision. there has been talk that the house is going to put something like that on the floor late tonight to try avert that deadline. still nothing decided and it is the unforgiving mass of the house of representatives, can they get enough republicans the go along with it, can they get enough democrats ogo along with it. to that end the president had

been going over contingency plans. with jeh johnson the secretary of homeland security. harry reid in the senate, nancy pelosi. talking about a strategy, going forward here in terms of what the republicans ton house put on the floor. and again -- republicans on the house put on the floor. >> one week extension or dhs does not get funded. the opposition in venezuela is getting more intense. stephanie sy joins us. stephanie. >> a teerch ager teenager shot and killed and the arrest of the elected mayor of caracas. under nicholas maduro, tonight we're going to talk to the daughter of the mayor of

caracas. her father recently arrested for plotting a coup against president maduro, explains why they have stopped the presses on a daily edition of a newspaper in caracas. >> they are asking for total hegemony. they have tried ocreate not only asingle unified message but a single narrative for abroad. >> the crack down ton opposition has been so harsh the an economist editorial saying president nicholas maduro is working to destroy the latest vestiges of democracy in his country. david. >> thank you steph any. leonard nimoy died today in los angeles. the cause was a type of lung disease that mr. nimoy said he

was battling last year. tonight we remember his legacy. >> he played police officers, cowboys and even the king of atlantis. but in a career that spanned 65 years and scores of roles there was one that plummeted leonard nimoy into the annals of history. spock. it was nimoy the boston native that put the vulcan into the star ship enterprise. a slight raise of those eyebrows. his spock personified the eternal human dilemma. to live life based on reason on succumb to the unreasonable irrationality of emotion he. nimoy made the character his own. >> live long and prosper. >> spock one of my best friends

when i become spock that days becomes something special. and nimoy himself was something special. a jack-of-all-trades in hollywood he was a successful director whose films included the hit three men and obaby. he was also an accomplished painter and author. he even made record albums. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> after star trek nimoy appeared in the series mission impossible had many guest rolls and even did some memorable television commercials. there i'll see you inside. >> reaction to his death illustrated his wide ranging appeal. president obama quote long before nerdy was cool, leonard was spock cool, logical big

eared and level headed, the center of star trek's being vision of the future. nasa tweeted rest in pees, paste peace nimoy. and from william shatner knowledge cial his capacity to love. this tweet he sent on monday. life is like a garden, perfect memories can be had but not preserved except in memory. live long and prosper leonard nimoy dead at the age of 83. the international star trek fan club. what was he like in person? >> mr. nimoy was very congenial. he was generous with his time, he cared about his fans.

even in the brief moments that we'd be able to sit with him and talk with him it was very, very clear that he appreciated the fans appreciated the people that enjoyed his performances, and he in turn treated everybody like they were his biggest fan. >> in order to make those sort of performances when he was sort of unemotional in star trek it takes quite an acting talent to pull it off the way he did. did he ever talk about those skims and when he brought to that? >> not as such, no. but i think it was pretty clear in congregation with you it took a lot of talent to be able to play a character that had no emotion. he was the wide angle lens on the human condition. that they used his character essentially to talk about the human condition examine it, comment on it and basically portray it in the way that it was supposed to be portrayed. >> i know you're in touch with a lot of people who are star trek

fans tonight. what is the mood they have over leonard nimoy's passing? >> obviously shock and sadness dismay. it is a great tragedy. we have lost a great pop cultures icon. he had been in and out of the hospital and his most recent release seemed like it was a decent prognosis. we were very shocked and saddened to know he had passed. >> of all the star trek episodes, and clips of leonard nimoy did you have a favorite in the history of mr. spock? >> i would have to say my favorite moment had to come from the wrath of kahn him making his sacrifice for his friend's safety. that was the favorites moment and probably one of the pinnacles of his acting career.

>> how much was the continuation of who he was so few of us were able to meet him away from the cameras. was he the same person as he seemed to come across when he was playing the role of mr. spock? >> i think that he was -- i think that in the role certainly he definitely infield himself in the role when he was playing spock but when he was mr. nimoy when he was leonard nimoy i would say he tended to carry the vulcan infinite diversity wherever he went. he lived it both real and virtual and to that end he was big hearted cared very deemly for others and i believe he was at a world of his own. >> thank you for joining us, our condolences to you'll all of you on his

loss. >> thank you. >> earl lloyd was the first african american to play in an nba game. it was lloyd who stepped on the court first with the then washington capitals, five years later he would be the first african american to cialg wine win a championship. i'm david schuster.

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