>> hi everyone, this is al jazeera america i'm john siegenthaler. beyond baltimore. large protests, heavy police presence and an empty stadium. is this a turning point? the urgency in nepal. first the earthquake, now the growing desperation. no indictment. a mentally ill plaque man shot to -- black man shot to death by police the response to the grand jury's decision. plus ruby bridges. as a child she helped end

segregation in the south she speaks out on race in america then and now. >> if we are to get past our racial differences, it's going to come from our kids. we begin tonight with a call for calm and for justice. this is the scene in baltimore tonight. hundreds are in the streets. the protests follow the death of freddy gray, the black man who died in police custody. there are other demonstrators in new york. boston. and several other major cities. by and large they're peaceful with the crowds a powerful message of support and unity. paul beban joins us now from baltimore. paul. >> reporter: well, john, the situation that you characterized there demonstrations, order is

being restored, still at the same time a feeling of the city holding its breath, concerned about the days ahead. the mayor here saying the situation remains very fluid. the police saying the situation in the city is stable and they want to keep it that way. the governor calling last night's relative calm a turning point. hundreds of protesters took to the streets of baltimore again to call for justice for freddy gray. baltimore tried to return to normal after days of unrest. maryland's governor says it's time to get back to business as usual. >> we want to get people out there today and going about their business. we think there's no question in my mind the city is now safe. >> and there are signs on this sunny today that the city is righting civility. open schools open tourist attractions like the national aquarium and a free downtown

concert courtesy of the baltimore symphony. outside, the baltimore orioles and the chicago white sox playing to an empty stadium. on the street, signs of a city still on edge. thousands of police officers and national guard members on patrol heading off any violence and enforcing the curfew. but city leaders who marched to city hall say this situation is a band-aid but it is working. >> it is pressure, it is force but how long can you maintain the force without dealing with the underlying reasons that cause you to have the force? >> 35 people were arrested since the curfew took effect, a stark contrast to monday's 235

arrests. a blowing in the city's jails. >> as of this afternoon we have not had any new arrests. no new demonstrations throughout city and we continue to have officers spread throughout the city able to respond to any incident should that arise. >> reporter: but this city is still holding its breath. a state of emergency remains in place while residents clean up what's left behind after monday's riots. one concern we have here john that the police will be releasing some kind of report, results of their investigation into freddy gray's, that is a missmisunderstanding. the police are going to be handing their information to the is state attorney. going towards friday, going toward the weekend we pay see some more frustration and anger as that widely anticipated

report does not come out. john. >> all right paul thanks. there were protests in new york over the freddy gray death. in fact it's going on right now. in manhattan so far peaceful demonstration, started out near union square, they have been moving around manhattan. that's a live picture you're looking at right now. organizers were careful to encourage protesters to obey the law and avoid blocking traffic. powerful pictures coming you out of baltimore, is the struggling school system at least partly to blame? dwlt isdel walters is in baltimore for the report. >> it came down to a battle between books and bricks. long standing problem in

baltimore. is the educational system broken? >> i think it is, it is broken definitely. >> she should know. before a corruption conviction forced her out. she studied early childhood education. >> when is education going to become the priority in everybody's household where that's first and foremost before anything else? >> according to a recent study from 800 residents from 55 baltimore neighborhoods parents expressed dissatisfaction in the schools and lack of experience and qualification in the teachers. they also said the schools failed to adequately prepare the students for the future. facts not lost on the white house and president obama when he talked about the problems with baltimore school system. >> if we are serious about solving this problem then we

are not only going to have to help the police but we need to think about what the rest of us consider what we can do to provide early education to these kids reforming our criminal justice system so it's not a pipeline from schools to prisons. >> so far in baltimore it's been part of the problem not part of the system. too little in the form of funding. >> there have been presidents that have campaigned on the theme of president has there truly been an education president in a local city? >> no. >> so you're saying it's all talk? >> yes, in most cases it's all talk. >> here is how it plays out in real life in baltimore. far too many schools are still closed and as you can see from this one the chains themselves have rusted. kiana sanders runs a early

childhood learning center, her kids come from the city. >> what are these kids lacking. >> the lack of educational programs, the lack of recreation centers for these children. the lack are of people actually being able to believe in them. >> in the meantime, schools likely this are signs ever bigger problems, a system that has abandoned its kids. and john, the sad part the city has a very sad legacy when it comes to these schools. in 1996, the young black man graduated from this city, his name thurgood marshall. >> give us an idea what is life beyond the protest?

>> life beyond the protest is a tale of two baltimores, the baltimore of the inner harbor, you go and get crab cakes 75° everybody was very happy business going on as usual. this part of west baltimore has turned into really a smaller city under siege. these people here are looking at the media they are wondering when we're going to leave they want to know when we're going to find out more about the police investigation, they want to know a lot of things. >> del walters, thank you. now to nepal. the death toll is ride rising there. over 5,000 dead, 10,000 injured and too many damaged buildings to count. food and water is in short supply. many are leaving for safe space but that too is at a premium. this man regulation cued after

80 hours in a roox with room with three bodies. now just existing is a struggle. >> i'm homeless now. there is no home for anyone, we are managing by ourselves even if this didn't, evening like this place we are staying we are doing by ourselves. >> lines are long for food and clean water and the frustration is building. demonstrators gathered outside the nepalese parliament wednesday, to talk to the parliament that says it's overwhelmed. bodies yet to be buried or cremated. raising the fear of disease fears of aftershocks the situation is forcing many to leave, cramming onto buses hoping to find safer ground.

>> maybe it is very dangerous to protect from earthquake. i'm going to my home town. >> the u.n. is launching an appeal to raise $450 million to help bring relief to survivors. >> the biggest budget items are not surprise to anyone. those are food, water and sanitation hygiene and shelter. a very large part of the country's been affected. we don't have enough. this will be a long, drawn out affair. >> michael delaney is in boston tonight. the head of oxfam. based on what you know how is the situation going? >> the people in nepal are in dire need of food shelter water and medical assistance. in just one day people's lives have been shattered. over 8 million people have been

affected by this cries is. millionscrisis. millions are people are without a home right now. >> what are the people on the ground telling you now? >> they say it's a very difficult situation. there is congestion at the airport to get things in. there have been over 100 tremors since this earthquake on saturday. some of them the size of earthquakes over 5 magnitude. roads have been blocked by landslides. and it's without electricity it's a very difficult situation. that relief workers are finding themselves in. >> most of the pictures we've seen have been from kathmandu. but give us a sense of what it's like outside how difficult it is to get to these rural areas. >> yes certainly. inside kathmandu, there are many people living in the streets prospect and outside of their

homes, afraid that even if their homes are still standing they're afraid they're going to collapse with the continuing tremor. getting around kathmandu is difficult but even more so. we have assessment teams outside the capital moving into the country side and they are reporting both landslides, roads blocked, and finding people that are in need of shelter and clean water. and oxfam is there responding at that time. >> what can people do if they want to help? >> i think the key issue is that what we're trying to do is support people immediately so we have teams there different organizations have been working in nepal for many years. like oxfam. the best way that people can help is by supporting those

organizations that have a presence, already there are already responding. sending cash to those organizations, then we're able to purchase locally. and support local organizations who are best able and know the culture, know the situation best able to respond to this crisis. >> michael delaney, thank you for your work. next how best to kill death row prisoners. plus. >> we've had same sex marriage in this country since 2004 in massachusetts. there was zero negative consequences. >> former legislator barney frank, coming out as a gay man and before the supreme court. ourt.

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punishment. it comes after a series of botched executions in a number of states. lisa stark was inside the courtroom for today's session. lisa. >> reporter: well, john, it was a very contentious session today, a clear split between the liberals and the conservatives whether this new drug used with other two whether this combination of drugs meets constitutional standards. it was one year ago that oklahoma botched the execution of convicted murderer clayton locket who regained consciousness after the procedure, began wrighting in pain after given a three drug combination. >> he was grimacing clenching his jaw his body was shaking. >> in two other instances in ohio and arizona inmates gasped and choked one for two hours before dying.

both had received that same drug combination. at the supreme court lawyers for three condemned oklahoma prisoners argued this new lethal drug cocktail violates the eighth amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment. >> the drug formula is unconstitutional because the first drug will not prevent a prisoner from feeling the severe pain and suffering of the second and third drug. >> inside the court conrad lowe faced harsh criticism from conservative judges who say the only reason the states are using this drug cocktail is because drug companies have been forced to stop showing more reliable drugs. justice sam alito. is it legal to have 2008 but then the first drug used was a

barbiturate, that induced a deep coma like sleep. did not feel the next two drugs one to paralyze breathing the other to stop the heart. but to substitute medazelam does it really work? the oklahoma attorney general argued this will lead them in unconscious, in 60 to 90 seconds. justice soang yah sotomayor says it doesn't mean you can't feel it. >> more so than the use of medazelam in the execution process. >> reporter: whichever way the

court goes, the justices need to give clear direction. >> this is the second lethal injection case we've had in seven years. if the supreme court doesn't give clear guidance no matter where they fall, it doesn't give clear guidance to states, there's going to be continuing litigation. >> reporter: now states are already looking for other alternatives. utah, for example has approved the use of a firing squad which the state had used previously and the state of oklahoma has approved the use of nitrogen gas. and no matter what the court decides, states may actually not have this new drug, medazelam to use much longer because the manufacturer of the drug says it will no longer provide this drug for use in capital cases. john. >> all right lisa thanks very much. jamie floyd is al jazeera's legal contributors in our studio. what is what if this is ruled unconstitutional, would they go to firing squad or other means

is that it? >> yeah, and i think lisa's last point is perhaps most significant. a lot of states anticipating that possible outcome are already moving past lethal injection. all states that have capital punishment including federal government, states plus the federal government that's 34 states plus the feds have lethal injection as their primary means of execution. but looking ahead to what the supreme court is likely to do states are starting to look for an alternative. and as lisa pointed out utah going to the firing squad tennessee moving back to the electric chair which we once thought of as a primitive means of execution oklahoma the state at issue here has moved on to the gas chamber or back to the gas chamber. so -- >> is this the beginning of a legal battle or the end if it's ruled unconstitutional? >> a great way to look at it. it's really important to understand as lisa suggested this is not a case about whether or not the death penalty is

unconstitutional or in and of itself a violation of the 8th amendment. this is just about this particular means of execution and specifically this drug. to that's really an excellent imep is this thequestion. is this the beginning of the end of lethal injection? not so much this drug is inflicting cruel and unusual punishment but because we can't get access to the drugs that we need to execute people in this particular way. the ama is frowning upon it. the pharmaceutical association is frowning upon it and even foreign manufacturers don't want to provide it, if you can't get the drug you can't lethally nf just a secondlethal injust a inject people. >> are you expecting. >> i am, how did you know. there are liberal and conservative justices lining up

in these cases as you would expect they would death penalty and gay marriage but i'm looking for a surprise i think not from the swing voter,. >> kennedy. >> you always see kennedy. but justice roberts. he asked so many interesting questions. if sue loves joe and tom loves joe, sue can marry joe but tom can't. that is prescient. sexual discrimination is not the issue in this case, if we think in terms of constitutional theory. but in terms of common sense that is the issue. and who asked that question? >> justice roberts. >> chief justice roberts who's looking a little more i don't know a moderate than some of those guys sitting on the right-hand side of the bench. >> sometimes it's hard to tell right? >> yes. >> thank you very much. barnieie frank is a strong

supporter of same sex marriage. barnie frank came out publicly in 1987. he says hiding his sexuality took a big toll on his personal life. >> it made me too angry at first. it made me -- people would say oh they would say those are gay people lesbians she has such a great career, she doesn't need a private life. nonsense. everybody has needs fill physically emotional spiritual that don't get satisfied by the best careers in the world. when i came out and was nicer nicer,rer to get along with, it was personal. lifetime problem i've had with my weight, going up and down, probably because i had needs that should have been channeled into a healthy private life, i ate my way through part of this.

>> how closely did you watch yesterday the arguments at the u.s. supreme court? >> i was busy doing all this. i will read the transcript but i wasn't able to watch it. >> how important was the decision in america today? >> very important. it depends on the grounds. if the court decides that it is illegal for a government to deny to people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, anything that is given other people that will be a major break through. that will mean that there is no more legal discrimination possible. it will also be very important in real terms because people in majority of the states in the country cannot now get married or put it this way i know only about 15 states that people will be allowed to marry someone of their own sex if this decision goes against it. so it's important in practical terms for happiness of people and important in establishing, it gets the whole question of

gender identity out of our politics so we can focus on relevant things. >> you married in 2012. >> yes. >> judge not let the states decide? >> i've heard that argument, georgia, nebraska and south carolina we've hear people on free speech, actually, conservatives when we got the court to say that gun registration laws in many states were unconstitutional, the general principle it's an american constitution and the rights are the same for everybody throughout america. if you think it's a right that people should have then it's not a question of one state to say no to it. we don't plow one state to segregate or disallow free speech. >> clearly some courts move faster than you expected. >> faster than i've expected. i've been in this equality since

i filed a bill in 1972. nobody saw it coming this case, nobody. >> what happened? >> reality beat prejudice. here is what happened. first of all we started to identify ourselves and people learned who we were. that's my brother that's my dentist, that's a customer, i played softball with him. she's a good teacher. how valid is prejudice if you don't know when it's supposed to be operational until somebody tells you. you know that woman that is nice and respectful, turns out you're posted to be hating her all these years. it doesn't first. our opponents began to predict that there would be negative consequences for some of these things. they said if we had same sex marriage it would undermine marriage elsewhere one of the stupidest things someone has said from the sprorts better from

the supreme court bench, weaver had same sex marriage since 2004 in massachusetts. gays in the military would undermine the military? not a ghost of a hint of that. secondly, the summary is that our reality dissipated the prejudice because it was based on mis. >> i'llmyth. >> coming up next on this broadcast, a mentally ill man shot and killed by dallas police. his family is speaking out about no charges being filed in the case plus. >> it's going to be small boats versus big oil here on elliot bay. we'lli'm allen schauffler, we'll have more ahead. more ahead.

>> hi everyone, this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. leftie aallethal force. the police killing of a mentally

ill black man. in dallas, a grand jury reduces to indict. plus freedom, peter greste, our al jazeera colleague wrongly imprisoned in egypt tonight his life now. to dallas, where a grand jury has decided not to indict two police officers who shot and killed a mentally ill black man. as he held a crew driver, officers opened fire. his family says he wasn't dangerous. heidi zhou-castro spoke to his brother, she's in dallas flit, heidi. >> hi john. so the harrison family says they are obviously disappointed that the grand jury has not decided to indict these police officers on murder charges. but they say the police

department did violate jason harrison's civil rights and they plan to take that to court. [ knocking ] >> police. >> hi, what's going on. >> dallas police shot jason harrison five times within nine seconds of the mentally ill man coming to his front door. >> james james! oh you killed my child! oh you killed my child! >> reporter: a dallas grand jury watched the video and has decided it will not indict the officers. the family has filed a civil lawsuit. >> it's hard to see someone stand in front of you with a taser and instead of pulling out a taser they pull out a .357. why? because you can. you know.

you do it because you can. >> reporter: the 38-year-old had suffered from schizophrenia since his early 20s. >> we're close me and my brother and my mom. but his medical condition like i said the person that i know, that i grew up with, you know, it was a different -- it was odifferent person. >> reporter: but his brother says harrison was never violent. their mother says she called 911 that day in june to asked for help getting her son to the hospital. >> my son need to be taken to hospital he's bipolar schizophrenia. >> harrison's mother knew to ask for police trained in responding to the mentally ill. she had her purse packed for the hospital when two officers arrived. an officer's body cam captured the encounter. harrison had a small screwdriver in his hand. >> you see the screwdriver very clearly in his hands there.

what is he doing with it? >> he is piddling with it. again dealing with mentally ill people, they stand in space they talk, they do things with their hands. >> the video pans away at the key moment when the officers' voices rise. dallas police has said your brother lunged at these two officers and they felt threatened and that justified their use of force. what do you say to that? >> you saw the tape. you know, it doesn't -- i don't know it just doesn't take a rocket scientists kind to see scientist to see it. >> you don't see him lung, you don't not see him lung either. you don't see him do anything. >> you see him go to his left. there's a guy to his right yelling at him with a gun in his face and you see him at the right on the corner of the porch

is where he's standing literally right on the corner of the porch. he is shot and falls like a towel right there boom. >> and harrison was shot five times by those police officers in the back and to the side. dallas police department has not responded to al jazeera's request for an interview john. >> heidi zhou-castro, thank you. governor brown wants to lower california's emissions to 40% below emissions for a start the governor is ordering state agencies to implement new measures to reduce emissions. now to seattle. a david and gol goliath battle. against shell oil.

allen schauffler in seattle with more. allen. >> john, local ki-activists want to crea a scene for the world create a scene for the world in general. to be frank there's not going to be any oil drilling in elliottt bay. but 2,000 miles north here in the choohookchee sea. there's something big headed for seattle. really big. the polar pioneer shell's steerable oil exploration rig. it sits 80 miles away right now and has been greet it by a small fleet of protestors along its route. the welcome here on elliottt bay should be onelliott bayis much larger.

they are calling themselves kiactivists. port of seattle's terminal 5. so now you have the long edge up. >> they have been holding training sessions for weeks and are organizing a three day eants oilanti-oil festival in mid may. they are calling to make a statement against shell. >> they are not drilling drillings drilling anywhere near seattle. they are drilling in the chookchee sea 2,000 miles from now. >> an arctic-stroigdestroying climate cooking project. >> this brings a lot of jobs and

economic benefit to the city of seattle. >> but shell's arrival will also bring hundreds of waterfront jobs and tax revenue. the port which is a separate political entity from city government has agreed to a two-year $13 million contract with foss, a local company which will do the work for shell. >> does this really fit with seattle in 2015? >> it depends who you talk to. a lot of the people i talk to, it absolutely fits with the values of the city. and i certainly hear from others that you know, they feel that there's a misalignment with where the city's headed. >> environmental groups are challenging that contract in court as inappropriate use of port space with no final ruling yet. >> an oil rig getting maintenance does not sound like an oil terminal. >> those opposed to the deal say this is more than about two years of work at seattle's

docks. it's about stopping drilling 2,000 miles from here. >> the people may get it right this time and the oil companies may change their mind. >> is this your line in the ice or the line in the water of elliott bay? >> it's a line in the water of elliott bay. >> the company's plans for staging and loading in seattle remain unchanged writing for over 35 years alaska's oil has come back to the state of washington in the form of energy and of course the form of hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue directly realized by taxes refineries and workers' wages. addressing environmental concerns he says, we put in place the most environmentally sensitive plan for drilling in offshore alaska.

but assurances like that mean little to ki-activists. clearly spoiling for a fight and hoping for a big turnout. >> can you stop this rig with kayaks? >> we can stop this rig and we are going to stop the rig with kayaks. they come to seattle, they're going to stay in seattle. >> you're going to blockade them in? >> absolutely. >> told of those plans the shell spokesman replied we respect the rights of individuals and organizations to express their opinions related to our arctic drilling aspirations. we only ask that they do so safely and within the boundaries of the law. expect a collision between small boats and big oil sometime soon in elliott bay. now we don't know exactly when the polar pioneer is going to pull in here to terminal 5 just to the south of me.

we haven't been told when that time line is, the best we know is 5 to 10 days. they're definitely not going to be sneaking it in. there's a three day antioil protest festival planned for middle weekend in may. john. >> allen schauffler in seattle tonight, afnl thank allen thank you. tomorrow marks the 40 year anniversary of the fall of saigon. operation baby lift their task, air lift thousands of infants out of the war torn country and take them to safe havens. four decades later those survivors are looking for answers. sarah hoye reports. >> i have directed that money from a $2 million special foreign aid children's fund be made available. >> mr. ford announced an air lift to the united states from vietnam. >> that air lift would become operation baby lift. an operation in which some 3,000

very young children, many of them orphans were air lifted out of south vietnam just weeks before the fall of saigon on april 30th, 1975. many to be adopted by american families. >> i didn't know, that gerald ford himself an orphan by the way had decided to air lift some people out of vietnam. >> authorized to fly the first baby lift flight out of saigon. just after 4:00 p.m. with the barest of necessities and more than 300 people on board. 12 minutes into the flight at in 22,000 feet disaster struck. the locks on the plane failed. >> only a handful of people survived. >> in all wu 38 people were killed in that crash including 78 children.

baby lift adoptee laura price was told she was on that plane. one of the dozen seated in the top portion of the plane who survived. laura was air lifted out of saigon with very few records and almost no information about her birth family. >> i grew up with this belief that i came over on this plane that crashed. and i was a survivor. >> the crash was also traumatic for laura's documentive mother, loretta olmstead. loretta believed her chances of adopting were gone after the plane crash. but two weeks later she received a phone call. her baby girl was waiting in a denver hospital. laura recently ventured back to her home land. a journey bittersweet. >> the first week i was a wreck. laughing and crying, laughing and crying. landing was cheerful.

the first thing on my mind was my mother could be down there somewhere. somewhere. >> reporter: it's reality and a journey of discovery she's determined to continue. one that brought her here. the presidio in san francisco for an excision expedition commemorating the 40th anniversary of baby lift. to those who made the operation a success. for the first time laura and her mother met sister mary nell gauge, a nun who worked at the orphanage in new york. she's an established blues singer in san francisco. >> i feel like you know when i'm singing that to maybe a vietnam vet, i'm hoping that maybe he'll let some of these ghosts go.

♪ ♪ ♪ >> john this is just one of the thousands from that baby lift. the crash was just the beginning of the story. >> all right so what about the volunteers who helped in this air lift. you've heard from them too right? >> absolutely. we were able to meet some of these people including one vietnam vet who was a medic who took care of those infants as they came off the plane. >> this is clearly a very important story to you personally. >> yes my brother happens to be one of those air lifted people. i'm one of the adopted people. >> sarah hoye, thanks so much. you can watch more on "america tonight" 10:00 eastern 7:00

pacific. mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed,'s trial has been postponed again. a third journalist, peter greste, i asked him about his term in prison. >> we've got a lot of talking to do about freedom of the press for some reasons i've become closely identified with these issues freedom of speech, protect of journalists freedom of the press. i've got a platform, people seem to be paying attention i feel a sort of moral authority to be honest with you to take opportunity to talk about these issues that are very close to my heart. it's not just about us and what we went through bus the much larger issues, the freedom of the press elsewhere. >> flash backs to the time often? >> not flash backs.

flash back implies a certain amount of trauma. it was difficult make no mistake but if there are memories then the memories are all strong. it was a tough experience. we -- i wouldn't go through it again in a million years but i don't feel that you ma tied by it. >> describe for us your day in prison. >> prison is never an easy experience. and an egyptian prison is never going to be a cake walk. but at the same time, we did our best to build in a routine. one of the problems that we had in prison is that in the egyptian system there's no kind of prison programs to occupy the prisoner's time. you have this huge amorphous lump of time. particularly after working with a busy correspondent when your whole day is filled with activity and stuff.

all of a sudden you're put in a concrete box with nothing to do, no way of filling it no space in front of you. and so you need to be very disciplined about the way that you organize your time. we knew that to get through this you needed to be physically fit you needed to be mentally or intellectually fit or spiritually fit. we tried very hard very consciously to manage those three things. >> how much information did you get from the outside? >> we had some sense of what was going on. the prison grapevine was fairly active. we were getting regular visit from the consular staff the american embassy and our family could visit once every two weeks. and they would relay when they came from their visits and so on so we had ways of finding out stuff. we knew for example when some of the senior american officials were talking about us.

and john mccain was one of the first to speak about us. eventually the white house was speaking about us. so those pieces of information would come through. >> you don't see angry. >> no, i'm not not angry. >> if i had been held in prison for 400 days i'd be pretty mad. >> anger i think is the wrong kind of emotion and i'm not trying to pretend other wise or suppress it. i'm really not angry. we were caught up in the middle of a very difficult period of transition in egypt. and there are a few individuals who i think contributed to what we went through who i'm quite angry at, i'm quite frustrated with i'm very disappointed with. but at the same time, i never saw this as something personal. this wasn't about me. this wasn't about me as an individual or anything that i had done. it wasn't something that someone

had done aimed at me personally. we -- this was about an attempt to send a very clear message to journalists everywhere they came after us because we were politically convenient. and so i always saw this as a much bigger struggle, as a much bigger fight. >> we're glad you're back. we're glad you're here. and we hope you enjoy the coming days doing whatever you want to do. >> fantastic to be here. >> today shinzo abe became the first japanese prime minister to address a joint meeting of congress in the united states. he told lawmakers about his plans to boost the economy. the prime minister is asking the legislators to support the transpacific trade agreement. what prime minister abe didn't say to congress is also making headlines. antonio mora is here.

antonio. >> specifically to the comfort women, they are women from countries japan occupied and were forced into sexual servitude by japanese soldiers. some of the women were just teenagers when made to work in brothels. he was made to be forced to make apologize to those women. we will speak with mike honda japanese american legislator. >> coming up next on this broadcast, ruby bridges. >> hero which lots of the kids say. i do see myself not as a role model. >> her place in the history of the civil rights movement and what she thinks about race in america, today. america, today.

>> for the second straight night the streets of baltimore are mostly peaceful. there was a demonstration at city hall but no major incidents there were few arrests. civil rights icon ruby bridges has a unique perspective on race and violence. in 1970 she became a symbol of the movement.

one of the first black students to integrate a white school. only six years old she was cursed. as an adult her son was shot and killed. a symbol of the civil rights struggle chose to lead a private life for next 30 years. her story was captured in this iconic painting, the problem we all live with by norman rockwell. >> i did not see that until i was about 17 or 18. but my child psychologist who was dr. robert coals cole, he was friends with norman rockwell. he did this and a few other pieces. but this one was one of the

first. >> racism and violence are very real problems today. in 2010 her eldest son was gunned down in new orleans. he was only 17 years old. >> we are being divided. there is an us and a them. but i think what's dividing us is good and evil. evil stood over my child and shot him. evil comes into our schools and evil looks just like you and me. but then so does good. good looks like you and me. >> so when you look at what's going on in the country today and you think of ferguson missouri and other places in the country where there continue to be cries of racism and concern about how people get along what do you say about that? and how far have we come? >> i get that question a lot. how far have we come? amazing.about i mean we have come such a long way. once obama was elected it was

like taking gasoline and pouring it onto the fire. i think racism just bubbled up once he was elected. so even though we played that progress, it was like two steps forward and three back. and it's like living through the civil rights movement all over again. >> among the top honors she has received over the years bridges says she is most proud of this. >> these are like all my kids. like coming home. >> the ruby bridges elementary school in alameda california. after 40 years for being threatened and cursed for simply going to school, this school bears her name. >> what's it like when you come into a school like this, the school named after you and you see the kids and you think about when you were in school? what's that like for you? >> coming here, it's really amazing for me. i'm in a school almost every day

now because what i do. i travel across the speak to kids. the kids are so excited when they know that i'm coming. >> do you feel that it's important to educate the students today about what happened to you? >> oh, absolutely i do. and i do feel a sense of responsibility to share my story, and explain to them that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of kids. that it's adults that pass it on. i believe, if we are to get past our racial differences it's going to come from our kids. and since my experience is that other child i choose to work with kids. >> guys, i'm going to leave. i'm saying good-bye, okay? >> our thanks to ruby bridges that's our program. the news continues flex with antonio mora and libby casey and i'll see you back tomorrow

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