play, not in our past, but in our future. i'm ray suarez, and that's the "inside story". >> this is aljazeera america, live from new york city, i'm tony harris. rum resigned, and protesters fill the streets as people demand their mayor step down. the san bernardino shooters, when they were radicalized and started talking about the attack. and overwhelmingly passes an education bill. and racial discrimination in schools, the supreme court takes on affirmativing action.

we begin with thousands of people marchingthrough the streets of chicago today, people protesting police shooting and thousand they have handled them. and it demonstrators demanding that rahm emanuel resigns. >> reporter: in the past days, the mayor has fired people around him and completely changed his course on decisions and trying to save his own sinking ship. but today he apologized. while protesters flooded the streets again in downtown chicago, the mayor was explaining what he did wrong. >> i should have given voice to the public's growing suspicions, distrust and anger.

>> reporter: rahm emanuel said that he should have done more to change policy that's tied his hands on how he was responding to police shootings, saying that the videos cannot be released while the investigation is ongoing. >> i own it. i take responsibility for what happened. because it happened on my watch. >> reporter: earlier in the address to city council, emanuel gave a slow burn to the speech, say that corrective action, they will get both and restoring trust will take a long time. at times, everyone in the room could hear the protests happening right outside of the council chambers. but emanuel was tough on the police department too, promising to end the code of silence. >> police are not protecting the people of chicago when they

see something and say nothing. >> how the residents are not often getting the respect from the police that they deserve. >> and that has to change in this city. that has to come to an end and end now. no citizen is a second class citizen in the city of chicago. >> reporter: still protesters were not impressed. >> that sounds like he had a great speech. that's what that sounds like. i don't believe a word that he says. >> he should have done that years and years ago. you have to get the apple off the tree. you can't get them out of the barrel. >> reporter: the controversy blew up weeks ago with the release of a dash cam video showing the police officer shooting laquan mcdonald dead. it took a year and a half for the officer to be charged with

murder. and contradicting what was on the video. with the release of more police videos looming, there are likely more protests ahead. well, looking ahead, the mayor says that the aclu is working with the police department on how they deal with people out in the field. and the task force has been formed to deal with how so many officers that face complaints never get disciplined. and looking into the overall practices of the police department. >> andy rose again for us, and at the bottom of the hour, ramsey and what he had to say about rebuilding the trust in the community and the police force. new details have emerged about the california couple who killed 14 in san bernardino last week. investigators talking about how syed farook and tashfeen malik became radicalized. and it appears to have happened

years ago. paul is here with more on this. >> how a pharmacist and a county health inspector game radicalized. a different dimension of threat. homegrown extremists, inspired by organizations, and otherwise did everything on their own. >> san bernardino involved two killers, who were radical island quite a long time before their attack. >> er they were radicalized before they started courting, and at the end of 2013, they were talking about jihad and martyrdom before they game

engaged and lived in the united states. >> reporter: testifying before capitol hill, he said that the couple's radicalization began before the emergence of isil. farook led for a trip to saudi arabia in july of 2014, where the couple met for the first time, and they got engaged and traveled to the u.s. and were married in august of 2014. he can't say if it was arranged by a group as part of a plot to carry out attacks in the u.s., but such a scenario would be a game chair >> it would be a very important thing to know. >> last week, it was learned that malick had pledged al allegiance to isil on facebook before the shootings, but so far, they have found no direct link between is spill any other terror group. >> we are trying to understand if there was anybody else involved, with assisting them and equipping them.

>> that includes farook's relative by marriage, 2012, he checked himself into a mental facility after the shooting, has not been charged with any crime, and he's not a suspect in the last week terror attack, but the investigators have conducted extensive interviews with being marquez, trying to figure out 23 he sold or helped the couple in the shootings. there are reports that authorities may bring gun charges against be marquez, and farook may have asked them to buy the guns in the shootings so his name wouldn't be connected to the weapons. suspicious transactions, the fbi is looking into a cash loan that farook took out from an online bank after the shootings.

they don't believe that it came from a person or a group backing the plot, but it could be a sign of the couple making preparations. >> it could. paul, thank you. defense secretary, ashe carter returned to capitol hill to answer questions about the shooting. he told the armed services committee that isis has not been contained, which contributes what president obama said a couple of weeks ago. jamie, explain when you boil this down, is this a case where the republicans believe that the way to go forward here is to put more ground troops into the situation? into iraq to take on isil and the administration just thinks that that's counter-productive? >> it's not just the republicans, it's more than that. if you boiled down today, it's frustration on the partly of the committee members. here you have one senate committee in one hearing room. and he says isil is the biggest

threat facing the united states, and what the senators want to hear, how isil is going to ramp up their strategy, and what you heard from secretary carter is another recitation of how the u.s. is looking for other forces to do the fighting. >> just this past week, i personally reached out to my counterparts in 40 countries around want world in the coalition and asked them to contribute more. in many cases, contribute much more to enhancing the fight against isil. the types of things that i requested from them include special on regs forces, strike and reason dance aircraft, weapons and munitions, training assistance and other items. >> but ashe carter admitted that that hasn't really materialized. and the reason said senator john mccain, the chairman of the committee, who is one of the harshest critics of the

administration, the failure of american leadership. >> john mccain, if he thinks that the pentagon is being overall caution, he said they're not giants, but he also said that we're not winning this war. >> to say that he was overcautious would be an understatement. mccain was outraged. and he said where's the morality? in bosnia, 240,000 are being killed by bashar al-assad, in syria, and isil. and i heard more explanations on why the u.s. can not have a fly zone. he said when the commander in chiefs explained that it would be too much of a risk to american lives, mccain threw up his hands and said that's the most disgraceful thing that i've heard from a person in uniform. and shortly after that, he gaveled the hearing to close. >> wow, we might have to check

cspan for that. and what about the rest of the isil coalition? did we get any update on that today? >> carter said that he reached out to all of these countries, and you may recall that they brought to camp david in the spring and told them they need to have a sunni arab be force, and that's the policing component to the strategy, but carter had to admit that it has not materialized. >> authorities in paris have identified the third man who took part in the attack at the bataclan music hall. today, the police named him as the gunman that's part of the group that killed 143 people. in 2013 and 2014, he was i.d. after his mother received a text in syria that said that he had died as a martyr. dozens are dead after

taliban fighters attacked in kandahar. they attacked overnight, and they attacked the perimeter of the complex tuesday evening and took up positions at a nearby school before targeting an aircraft. 30 people were killed. negotiators at the paris climate conference have released a new draft of an international agreement to night global warming, and now they have until friday to get everybody onboard. nick clarke is in paris for us. >> this is the main be negotiating chamber. hopefully at the end of the week, there will be agreements on climate change. if he has his way, the gavel will go down at approximately 6:00 on friday. thingsin' these things have a habit of going on. this is the slimmed down text.

and it has been reduced from 700 to 300. so they're on the right track, but it's going to take awhile yet. let's tell you the kind of verbal hlese that they're dealig with. this text is one of three options, one, below 2°, industrial levels, and and choice of words. other, or it designed to implement or achieve or carry out. all of these individual words have to be fixed up. the president of the climate conference, he said that at 6:00 on friday night. and looking at this, you have to wonder whether or not that was going to happen. >> these events have a way of going on and on and on, and last year, we ended up sleeping

outroar for a night, but the french have very kindly suggested sleeping arrangements, so this one very much has our name on it. >> nick clarke in paris. volkswagen says that the number of cars with understated emissions is less than believed. only 36,000 vehicles were affected, as opposed to the 800,000 that were previously reported. this applies only to european vehicles, and it's unrelated to the larger diesel scandal affecting 11 millionle worldwide. up next on the program, an over haul for america, congress votes to end the era of no child left behind. and why one author said that hilliary clinton would make a better president for blacks than obama. sure, tv has evolved over the years.

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schools back to the states. >> the yeas are 95, and the nays 12, and it's adopted. >> reporter: it's an education law that everyone loves to hate democrats joined hands with republicans to make it happen. >> this is the biggest rewrite of our education laws in 25 years. >> reporter: championed by president george w. bush, no child left behind was a federal watermark in education. >> it's ate federal piece of legislation which believes in using high standards, and accountability to make sure that every single child gets a good education. >> reporter: but from the start, the law was a magnent of complaints from both teachers and parents, and federal overreach and policies that many believe are best set by the states. but congress struggled for years on a rewrite until now. >> we have the opportunity to reverse the trend of the last several years toward a national school. we have an opportunity to make clear in the future the path of

higher standards and better teaching and accountability will be through states and communities and classrooms, and not through washington d.c. >> reporter: the new law requires testing in grades three to eight. and once in high school. but now more say from the schools and the teachers. other measures, not just test scores could be considered, such as graduation rates and conditions. >> the law overemphasizes testing, and how often the tests are redundant or unnecessary. >> states, not the federal government, will come up with their own plans to fund underperforming schools. and there will be more money to send to the states to low low-income families to preschool. and common core, it's all obsolete. it's welcomed by teacher's groups. >> i am worried that there will be some states that think that the testing sanction was a good

thing to do. and that would be dead wrong for kids. we need to stop that, and we need to start focusing on how we get to children. >> 13 years after no child left behind was passed, now a greater role for states. >> now virtually all sides are claiming victory for the passage of the reform bill. and on thursday, at the white house, president obama holds a signing ceremony. the first officer on trial for the death of freddie gray testified in his own defense today. officer william porter said that he never called a medic because he thought that gray may have been faking his injury. and he deemed that he failed to protect gray's life. porter is one of the six officers charged in gray's death. he faces manslaughter and other charges. gray had a spinal injury following his arrest and died a week later. bernie sanders visited grayes neighborhood yesterday and met with community leaders

and black pastors, and he wanted to see firsthand the area. sanders said that the area looked like a third world country. that visit was part of sander's campaign effort to woo african-american voters, and he has a lot of catching up to do. he trails frontrunner, hilliary clinton, by 60%. a prefer at georgetown university, he wrote an article called yes, she can. why hilliary clinton will do more for black people than obama, and he joins me now from washington d.c. michael, why do you feel the way you feel about hilliary clinton and her candidacy? >> well, i think simply, what i'm aiming at here, it has been extremely difficult for president obama to address the issue of race. first of all, because he's a

black man, people were suspicious and sceptical of him in the broader mainstream. and felt that if he did anything that looked like he was addressing a black issue, he was somehow prejudiced or biased, so his hands were tied behind his back so to speak, and he could afford to play the sax on a late night show, but there were things that he might have done, and i don't think that hilliary clinton has the same restrictions imposed on her as barack obama as president, and she may be able to direct more explicitly the policies in and for african-american people. >> you're right, she can offer strict attendance to policy that unapologetically plays to black needs, to for observe to disown the black advance.

what policy or structures do you see her putting forward that you believe she will have a better chance of being successful with? >> well, first of all, to name the policy in regard to african-american people is an exclusive advance. for example, when we think about the high grades of performance. should put forth ideas, arguments, that addresses it specifically. to have that ability itself is an enormous form of progress. >> i would only push back to suggest and offer this up. haven't we seen enough in our time on the planet to suggest if you're a white person strongly advocating positions that are seen as being beneficial to black people, you will be attacked? >> there's no question that she'll be attacked.

i'm not suggesting that it's going to be a walk-through the park, but i'm saying that obama that attacked as a president thinking of doing that, and plus being a black man who generated conscience and unconscious resentment of bias toward him. so it's extraordinarily duplicated and complicated for him in ray way that might be the case with hilliary clinton. i'm not making any other argument than that. >> . >> i grew disillusioned with responses to racial crisis, you write. and howing will was he to disclaim his racial affiliation, and more grievously, his shirking of his political duty. in quotes, i am not the president of black america, and how would you grade the obama presidency? >> obama is going to go down as one of the great presidents in this nation's history. he bailed out the automobile industry, saved the economy and

gave us healthcare. in the first couple of years, which is extraordinary, and he has existed in a situation where the opposition has been remarkable. but it's a chip that he can't put on the table to gamble for his reputation. recently, he has caught up to speed so to speak in the last year. after trayvon martin's death. and after the michael brown situation in ferguson, and after the emanuel nine, he has been hardened in the issue of race, but it took him five or six years to get to that point. as a result of that, he lost time and capital. and on top of that, at the same time that he was being attacked individually as the symbolic representation of america, and especially black politics, he turned against those african-american people when he gave condescending lectures, and pointed his finger at the moral fails of black america,

and that was a convergence that left us more vulnerable. >> let me -- two words, one name, and take it where you want. okay? donald trump. >> wow. an unfortunate deference to the worst politics o of bigotry and bias in this country's history. xenophobia, and even as paul ryan said, the constitution of america and the values of the republican party. this is not america at its best. this is not the nation at its best. >> michael dyson, good to talk to you. >> always good to talk to you, my brother. >> and lessons learned. how things have changed from the seattle police department after an over haul from the justice department. and i'll speak to police commissioner, karls ramsey about the police departments across the country.

>> back to our top story now, the chicago protests that marked the city's business director today, calling for mayor rahm emanuel to resign. resulting in the death of a black teenager, today he apologized. >> i take responsibility for

what happened. because it happened on my watch. if we're going to fix it, i want you to understand that it's my responsibility with you. but if we're also going to begin the healing process, the first step in that journey is my step. and i'm sorry. >> while the protests began november 24th, when the officials released video of the shooting death of laquan mcdonald, that led to the officer being charged with first-degree murder. and the police chief was forced to then resign. multiple investigations are underway, including a civil rights inquiry by the justice department. chicago joins several other cities where the department of justice is investigating police departments. the seattle pd has been working on justice oversight for the past three years, allen schauffler is investigating that, and how have things worked out there? >> reporter: tony, that inside on who you ask. the city and the police

department and the department of justice say that they're all seeing signs of progress in the way that the seattle police do their jobs. not all activists are willing to go that far. but what we have learned is when the feds come to town for problems, don't expect quick, and don't expect easy. >> hey, hey, put the knife down. >> reporter: august 2010 was the last straw. >> put the knife down. [ gunshots ] >> native american wood carver, john williams, with a knife in his hands, shot and killed by an officer. people in the community reached out for help. >> it was out of control. and the john t. williams and the prosecutor filed charges. we knew that it was out of control. >> they asked the justice department to investigate, and the feds found a pattern of

biased policing and improper use of force. two years later, threatened with a lawsuit, the city agreed to federal oversight. and a federally appointed monitor introduced changes to policies. she spoke to us after her hiring in mid 2014. >> the more we can work collaboratively, the better. we all have the same goals in mind at the end of the day. and that's to make this a much more effective police organization. >> it's about a culture shift. both within the police departments and the cities that have very often supported police departments that have been dysfunctional. >> shay lopez has been selected to work with the committee during the reform process. the years have hardly been peaches and cream as she puts it. filing a lawsuit from the officers that put their lives at risk. it was thrown out of court.

there have been controversial high-profile arrests, and repeated protests. lopez has seen slow progress, but progress. >> it's not just about the seattle police department or any police department. it's about the community impacted. and trust both ways. i think that that's the best way to have the significant meaningful reform. >> so is meaningful reform taking place? >> it depends on who you ask. >> dave croppen has been following the process for seattle. >> seattle has had its bumps, but it's still on a national level being celebrated as an example for other cities. >> that appropriate? >> i think that it might be a little bit too early to stay. the department of justice is here, and the thing is not over. >> many give him credit forker pushing reform. and connecting in ways that

they never did before. more is available to the public. and the federal monitor has been generally positive about the progress. the naacp has a different take. >> my recommendation to the people of chicago, don't get your hopes up. whatever they do what they have to do, it could be five years later. and you still don't see the results. >> and full assessment about how the seattle police are operating now could take another year. the monitor is going to assess the police in 15 different categories. when they meet the levels of the categories and do it for two more years, the city will be able to petition the process and have the consent decree lifted and get the doj out of town. and we're looking at three more years. >> you say that these have been difficult years for the seattle police, and remind us

of some of the problems. >> well, some of the problems, for one thing, that lawsuit, a lot of officers feeling that the new requirements for the way they behave when they make contact with suspects, and the level of force that they can use, that kind of thing, puts their lives at risk. they sued, saying that they felt their lives were in danger when they were on the job, and that suit of course thrown out. and we're also seeing the number of arrests drop, the number of contacts with suspects drop. nobody is sure at this point whether that's a good thing or bad thing that the police are stepping back from what they do. also, the community and policing commission made a lot of suggestions for new legislation to address some of these problems, and the federal judge in charge smut it down. said not yet, we need to go through the whole process, and that was a rude awakening for the groups in the if you were. >> allen schauffler, thank you. charles ramsey is the

police commissioner for the city of philadelphia, and he joins me now. it's great to have you on the program. and let me start with this. help us learn from your experience. in washington d.c. and in philadelphia and working on the president's commission after ferguson. you're in washington d.c. crime rates fall, about 40% during your tenure there, and you get to philadelphia and ultimately, you get to a place where you feel you need to ask for a year-long investigation of your force by the justice department to look at philly's police department. why is that? and what were you seeing that you wanted to get to the bottom of? >> well, first of all, i did the same thing when i was police chief in washington d.c. the washington post ran a week-long series about the shootings by metropolitan police officers in washington. i asked the justice department to come in and give us a hand with our training policies and so forth. they did, and we had remarkable

results. in 2013, we had an uptick in officer-involved shootings in philadelphia. and i was concerned about that. and so i reached out again through this new effort that the justice department has, called collaborative reform, and again, they came in and took a comprehensive look at the department. and we're in the process of implementing 91 good recommendation that's they provided to us. >> what comes back from the justice department, findings that there are deficiencies in the use of force policies, overall training with regard to use of force, and no field program and inconsistent officer involved investigations, and the man at the top of the food chain, did you know that you had some of these problems, or were you surprised by the findings? >> well, i knew that we had issues, and that's why i asked them to come in. i came from the outside so i didn't have history in the

department like some chiefs do when they come through the organization to know where all of the deficiencies are. if you want to really strengthen a department, you have to first understand the nature and want extent of the problems. >> how do you go about strengthening the community relations in those communities, where the use of deadly force is more frequent? >> well, i mean you have to build the relationships, and it's not just communities where support is more frequent the. but it's about building the relationships, and that happens with one person at a time. you have to have open communications. listen, there's going to be tensions in communities because you have crime issues, and people that are part of the problem. but we have to work with the community. a decent law-abiding be community. we have to be fair and impartial toward those committing crimes, and if we can do that, and we can build the trust and legitimacy that we need in order to have good

relationships with the communities across the board. >> body cameras, and bicycle patrols in some of the tougher communities, and expanding the surveillance video and the social media, things that you've implemented. does it all need to be part of the standard operating practices for urban policing today in departments across the country? >> i would think that the vast majority, if not all of those things are part of what the police departments are in process of implementing or have already implemented across the country for an organization called the chiefs, and major executive research forum. we talk about these things all the time. and this is the direction that the policing is going to in the united states. >> you're from chicago. and commissioner mccarthy as you know was forced out of his job last week, and as you also know, there are increasing tensions in chicago between the police and the african-american

community, and there's a pretty significant march going on now, all of this in light of the laquan mcdonald video. what's your reaction to the situation in chicago, and if you got a call from rahm emanuel saying that you can't retire, we need you, what would you do? >> i'm not interested in taking over as superintendent. and i want to consult and be involved. but i think that i could do more nationally without the day-to-day responsibility of running a police department. but chicago is my hometown. i was born and raised there, and i spent 30 years in the chicago police department. and i love the city and the department. and i hate to see them going through what they're going through right now. i know gary mccarthy very well, he's a good friend. and i thought that he was a good superintendent. but there are obviously things in chicago that have to change. there are serious issues in that city, and they have to be met head on, and it's going to require not only action on behalf of the community. but discussion on what the

problems are, and how to go about resolving. >> the suspect in last month's shooting at a colorado planned parenthood clinic declared himself guilty and warrior for the babies. robert lewis deere made several outburst in court. three were killed and nine wounded on the shooting on november 7th. the supreme court takes upper affirmative action. and the tobacco field. the hazards that they deal with and when the government is partly to blame.

>> well, the supreme court justices appear to be divided over the issue of race and college admissions. today they heard arguments for and against affirmative action for the second time. and lisa stark has more on this legal battle. >> race still matters! >> reporter: demonstrators it gathered outside of the high court, worried that the justices will talk out of affirmative action programs and college admissions. how the university of texas selects its freshman class. the case involves abigail fisher, who applied to ut in 2008 and did not get in, blaming the policy that's favor

minorities. she claims that the school violated her equal rights to protection. >> i don't believe that students should be treated differently based on their race, and hopefully this will end racial preferences and admissions at the university of texas. >> reporter: and ut's core is made up of top students, the list based on a long list of citeeria race being one of them. more than a decade ago, the supreme court ruled that colleges can use race as one of the factors to create a more diverse student body. so a lower court has twice upheld the ut program. and this is the second that it has come before the supreme court. an attorney for the college said, "now is not the time, and this is not the case to roll back student body diversity in america. on the other side, fisher's lawyer called race "this odious classification," and said to

use it at all" you have to be able to explain what your concrete objective is," the liberal justices pushed back, and wondered if it was not, what would it be? justice stephen breyer said, race, what are the things that they could do in your view would be okay? on the conservative side, justice scalia questioned if it's a good thing for ut to admit as many blocks as possible. possible. that screw an incredulous reaction from civil rights activist, reverend al sharpton. >> when i heard judge scalia suggest that maybe blacks do better at schools that are not as fast as ut, i didn't know if

i was in the courtroom at the united states supreme court or at a donald trump rally. >> reporter: this case is likely to come down to one justice, andy kennedy, who seemed troubled by the fact that the case was backed with no new evidence with which to base a decision. "we're just arguing the same case. it's as if nothing had happened. this comes at a time of heightened concern over racial discrimination on college campus. the president of the university of texas says that if the court eliminates it's affirmative action program, this will be a step backward for the country. >> i'm confident that after hearing this morning, the students will continue to recognize the incredible value of diversity in the education al environment and our policy helps that.

>> she had to recuse herself because of earlier sovment in the case when she was the u.s. solicitor general. the case could declare it unconstitutional or throw it back to the lower court again for a third review. tony? >> lisa stark for us, and now to a troubling report about child labor on tobacco farms in america. human watch says that working on the farms is making many teenagers sick. the group is calling on the tobacco companies to do something about the situation. roxanne is here with that. >> reporter: tony, human rights watch interviewed several teenagers working on tobacco farms in north carolina. they are not sure how many of them are in the u.s., but the figure could be in the thousands. >> the first time in the tobacco farm, i was 12 years old. >> reporter: this 16-year-old girl says that she keeps working in the fields to

support her family, though she often gets sick. >> sometimes when i get home, i feel handshakes, and my feet are sore, and my whole body is sore, as a matter of fact, and i feel nauseous. >> reporter: human rights watch interviewed more than 2 dozen 16 and 17-year-olds like her, and nearly all reported symptoms like nausea, vomiting, handshakes and dizziness. >> my heart was pounding really really fast. and it was just terrible. i thought that i was going to throw up and i had a headache, and i wanted to go home. >> reporter: these are symptoms of green tobacco sickness, or tobacco poisoning. it can go through the skin and make people ill. and the risk risings when tobacco mix was rain or sweat. children in adolescence may suffer more from green pobako

sickness, and may suffer more health problems than adults. >> we may not know how it goes through the skin, but we know that it makes children sick in the long-term. >> many were exposed to pesticides, and most never got training to protect themselves. >> the tractor spraying, and in the fields where they worked, and many of them felt suddenly ill. >> the work is so hazardous, the group says, that the federal government and tobacco companies should ban kids under 18 from jobs that put them in direct contact with tobaccoo. >> what would you say to the family who rise on the child's income to help them get by? >> we think that the tobacco companies and the u.s. government have the responsibility to keep kids out of tobacco and find appropriate alternatives. >> they have found progress. last year, the two largest

tobacco companies in the u.s. announced that they would ban the hiring of kids under 16 on tobacco farms. >> 16, they're still vulnerable? >> 16 and 17, their brains are still developing, and they're too young to legally walk into a store and buy a pack of cigarettes, but yet they're working long hours, on the farm, and it has to change. >> the spokesman says that it's the largest tobacco company in the u.s., and it plans to allow children 16 and older toker work on the farms that supply tobacco, but they have to receive consent from a parent or guardian and get special training. >> what's the law? >> the department says that children 16 and older can work in any farm job, and children 14 and older can work after school hours, anything that's not hazardous, but the human

rights watch says that these rules are not tough enough. >> roxanna, thank you, and for a look at the top of the hour, adam may is here. >> coming up tonight at 8:00, planning attacks. fbi director, james kobe said that the couple who killed 14 in california last week wanted to carry out other attacks three years ago, and how did they develop a thought and pass through screening checks to enter the u.s.? donald trump's plan to ban muslims from entering the u.s. is hitting one community particularlier hard, the neighborhood where the presidential candidate grew up. what they're saying, and thing situation that exists where the republican was raised. in chicago, on edge tonight. filling the streets for most of the day, and they're demanding that mayor rahm emanuel step down. this comes after he apologized for a deadly shooting, but they

say that that's not enough. the reaction that the other politicians are calling for. and tonight, the mayer-elect of salt lake city, jackie, is attracting attention before she takes office. she's asking for dozens of resignations and has made her private life part of the political life, by becoming the city's first gay mayor. >> there were elected officials who i served with who wouldn't look me in the eye when i got there, or shake my hand. and it was a really different time. a lot of people were still in the closet. we have a lot of work to do. >> these stories and a lot more coming up in a few minutes. german chancellor, angela merkel, has been named time's person of the year. they call her chancellor of the free world. she's the fourth woman to be chosen. they praised her for how she

managed the refugee crisis. and in response to vladimir putin's annexation of ukraine. up next, it has been 150 years since the end of slavery. and we'll take you to the museum dedicated tow the legacy of slaves.

>> went to check in on beijing. live pictures now, and it's just after 9 a.m. on thursday. the sky there taking in a

little bluish hue for the first time in several days. the city has been under a red alert for smog all week, and the forecasters expected the smog to lift today. president obama joined 100 lawmakers for the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. >> we betray the efforts of the past if we fail to push back against big tree i bigotry in as forms, but we betray if we deny the possibility of movement and the possibility of progress.

>> tony, thanks. we began with a couple behind the mass shooting in san bernardino about on, one the prt has called an act of terrorism. both were interested in staging attacks before they were even engaged. this is a very significant development that is playing out in the u.s. and overseas. paul beban