palestinian teen is recovered. a possible revenge attack for the kidnapping and murder of three israeli teens. we'll have a live report from nbc's ayman mohyeldin, who was caught in one of those cro crossfires. then -- >> the surge of children and families illegally entering the united states led to a heated stand-off. >> they're not born here. >> i'll talk to a councilmember from california where that tense immigration stand-off took place. and a turning point for civil rights in america when 50 years ago today president lyndon b. johnson signed the civil rights act. we start in jerusalem where two separate kidnaps risks plunging palestinians and israelis into a worse conflict. protesters have fought israeli police throughout the day after the body of a palestinian teen was discovered hours after he was reportedly kidnapped in east jerusalem. many suspect the motive for the kidnapping and murder was revenge for three israeli

teenagers whose bodies were found monday on the west bank and suffered the same fate. israel has named two men with ties to hamas as suspects in the kidnapping of the three israelis. so far, there are no reported suspects in the case of the dead palestinian boy. nbc's ayman mohyeldin has reported from the side of the jerusalem protest all day long and was caught in the middle of some of those protests. >> reporter: it's a scene similar to this one we got caught up in earlier today. we were on the other side with the palestinian side -- [ gunfire ] >> ayman, stay safe there. we're going stay with these pictures, but you stay safe. >> ayman mohyeldin is now joining us live on the phone from jerusalem. ayman, really harrowing scenes that we're seeing that you were even in the middle of earlier today. first of all, i want to make sure you're safe. >> we are. we managed to get out of the area where some of the clashes have been.

right now the sun has set here. it's the holy month of ramadan. a lot of the palestinians in that arab neighborhood were fasting. and now with the sunset, they're breaking their fast. the streets have quieted down a little bit, but the israeli police still maintain a very strong presence in and around the neighborhood where the clashes were taking place really for the better part of the day. >> is there a sense that these clashes are dying down, or do you have a feeling of escalation where you are? >> unfortunately, i would say that there is the fear that there will be more escalations, especially probably in the next 24 to 48 hours for a few reasons. one is, as we've been saying, it is the month of ramadan. we expect the protesters to return to the streets later on in the evening houring. the police are still maintaining their presence. more importantly, the body of the palestinian boy has not been returned to his family. the funeral has not yet taken place. and we expect that once his body is returned, once the family is allowed to bury him, emotions will then once again flare up. and keep in mind friday will be the first friday during the holy

month of ramadan. there's going to be definitely a lot of anxiety and tension running high in the old city of jerusalem as muslims try to go and pray in the mosque, which has now been closed and shut down for the israeli military for the time being to try to ease attention ftensions follow kidnappings. >> i want to first ask about investigation. are there any updates, is there any progress on trying to find out who killed the palestinian teenager? >> the israeli police say there's an ongoing investigation right now. they have not yet determined the motive between whether it was a nationalistic attack or a criminal attack. now, they use the term nationalistic to refer to attacks carried out by israeli jews against palestinians. these are often called price tag killings or revenge attacks. right now they haven't determined the cause of that or whether it was just something criminal. we've spoken to the palestinian

family who lost a teenage boy. they showed us closed circuit television footage of the moment the boy was kidnapped. they also say the two men were clearly not arabs. they could see they were, according to eyewitnesses, israelis from outside of the neighborhood. so that has led them to bloef this is a revenge killing carried out by israelis against palestinians. >> and lastly, ayman, let's talk for a moment about mahmoud ab s abbas, the palestinian president. he's under a lot of pressure from within this country, the council of foreign relations calling for him to break ties between his party and hamas. that pressure mainly coming from the united states. has he made any statements so far? >> he has also condemned the kill can go of the palestinian boy. he's certainly urging restraint. we are expecting the palestinian leadership to hold an emergency meeting as well to discuss the ongoing tensions. he's a man who is very much being challenged within his own constituency. his popularity is definitely

very low among palestinians. there was even a talk about the fact of whether or not he would be able to attend the funeral of this palestinian boy to express solidarity with the palestinian people. he's the president of all palestinian people, but there is concern whether or not he would even be allowed to come and attend the funeral and whether or not his alliance with hamas has weakened the palestinian effort for independence. and there's a lot of criticism directed towards all of the palestinian leadership among palestinians on the street level. they don't feel any of the current political factions are representing them or fighting on their behalf in a legitimate way. >> all right. thanks very much. stay safe. so let's talk first about mahmoud abbas. he's under a lot of pressure. you have people within israel calling for him to cut ties from hamas, to sever that government. what are you hearing from your

sources in that region of the world in is that something he would consider? >> there is no fact established independently that hamas is directly involved with the condemnable acts of killing the israeli teenagers. if there is an investigation to conclude that hamas wants it both ways to be in the government and to commit such terrible acts, then there has to be accountability within the palestinian ranks. mahmoud abbas wanted to have more people, if you will, in order to lead. he didn't want to divide it all the way. he can't continue to be only the security arm of israel in the west bank. that is a problem. he has not been emboldened by the israelis to take confrontational steps with hamas and the likes. the more he gave, the more weak he got because he was not given anything back. he's under a lot of pressure. at one point, he threatened he may even dissolve the

palestinian authority in the west bank, leaving the whole complicated and dangerous situation, security included, to the israelis to manager. that would not be very good for the israelis, either, if i may say. >> pointedly, the death of this palestinian teenager took place in east jerusalem, which palestinians envision as the capital of a palestinian state, very pointedly that israeli still considers to be part of israel. so it was already a tinderbox. there is some sort of rumbling that this could be the spark, this killing of this teenager, to a third uprising. do you see that on the horizon? >> the spark is the right word. anything could spark a big range and sort of uncontrollable crowd that would demand enough for the pretense of negotiations, enough for the pretense of the peace process, enough for peace processes going on while settlements continue. also, remember that mahmoud

abbas did condemn the intolerable act of killing the three israeli teenagers. but i'm not so sure there was a clear condemnation by the israeli prime minister for the killing of the teenager palestinian, which is, again, something that people will look at. i don't know if things will go farther now. it's a rather difficult situation for all, but i am very worried about the future of the peace process, the future of the two-state solution because there has been no clarity that the israeli authorities are intent on delivering. in fact, what they're trying to do right now is use this unfortunate development to score political points and say, we demand the split of the government that has been chosen by mahmoud abbas. they want to destroy this government. otherwise, they'll say we have no partner. >> right. you are already now seeing american politics creep in. senator rand paul of kentucky saying that the united states should defund the palestinian

authority if mahmoud abbas won't cut ties between his government and hamas. what would actually happen? the palestinians -- you know, this is obviously a very impoverished state. what would happen? >> you throw them in the lap of the likes of iran and extremists. this is how you really throw more palestinians into extremism, by threatening if you don't do this, we'll cut off the aid. and if you don't listen to us, our demands -- what demands have been listened to insofar as as stopping the settlement activities? nothing. but there's no punishment of the israelis. as soon as the palestinians choose otherwise, there's that language of we'll punish you, we'll deprive you. i think this is wrong. this is a way to grow extremism rather than be a fair person, to be an absolute broker of peace and say to both parties, you need to get back to the actual negotiations on the two-state solution. the contours are there that are clear to all.

it's just so far the political will has not been there. it's not going to be good for the israelis to lose this opportunity. if it's not mahmoud abbas, you'll have the likes of hamas probably taking over the decision. that's not good news. >> yeah. a hopeless situation that doesn't ever seem to get better. certainly tragic developments. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you again for hosting me. okay. now an update on tropical storm arthur. people are already evacuating parts of coastal north carolina as the storm strengthens. weather channel meteorologist julie martin is tracking the storm. julie? >> that's right, joy. the center of circulation with this storm still remains well offshore, about 110 miles east-northeast of cape canaveral. all the tropical storm watches along the coast have been dropped. we are seeing some of those very outer rain bands, light rain bands work their way into florida as we speak. winds are still at 60 miles per hour. so that hasn't changed in about 12 hours. we are expecting arthur to

strengthen. as it does near the carolinas over the next 24 hours. so here's a look at timeline. thursday morning, tomorrow morning, basically off the coast of charleston, up through wilmington. now, thursday beginning at around 8:00 in the evening through friday morning, that's when we're expecting to see the greatest impacts from arthur, and that will likely be along the outer banks of north carolina. beyond that, though, friday, fourth of july and beyond, the weekend looking pretty good because this storm heads out to sea. here's a look at those watches and warnings right now. we have tropical storm warnings up from elizabeth city, north carolina, all the way down through myrtle beach. beyond that, farther north -- south, rather, we have tropical storm watches. what this mean is winds in excess of 39 miles per hour or greater, sustained. that's what we can expect. but we do have an area that's under a hurricane watch. here it is. this once again extending from elizabeth city all along the outer banks, including cape hatteras down through beaufort, north carolina.

certainly could see hurricane-force winds likely, at least hurricane-force gusts. by the way, if arthur does become a hurricane, as it's expected, it would be the first to make a u.s. landfall in two years. so right now a lot of preparations under way here in north carolina. the govern has already declared states of emergency for 25 counties. we'll keep you updated, joy. >> all right, julie. thanks so much. appreciate it. and coming up, the immigration debate boils over when angry protesters try to block families from being moved into their town. then, on the 50th anniversary of president johnson signing the landmark civil rights bill, we'll look at how far we've come but also show how far we need to go. you're driving along, having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pick-up truck

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border. government officials are not releasing any information on the immigrants, citing safety issues. but tensions could rise again on friday, the fourth of july. that's when a second wave of undocumented immigrants is expected to pull in. joining me now on the phone is former mayor and current city councilman rick gibbs. so councilman gibbs, when you see the pictures of those people from your town just screaming at that bus, knowing there are children on that bus, that scene, what is your reaction to just seeing that? >> well, my reaction would be that the people of murietta and the surrounding area are exercising their constitutional right of protest. however, i would also say that there is a humanitarian crisis taking place, and the people that are coming to murietta, we didn't ask them to come here, but they will be processed in

murita sooner or later. >> do you feel like people are directing that anger at the right people? there was definitely palpable anger you saw in that crowd, but it was really directed at that bus. do you think that's the place to direct it? >> the place to direct the anger of the people of murieta and the surrounding areas, and i highlight that many of the people in that crowd were not from murieta, but the place to direct their anger is in washington, d.c. over our lack of a clear, consistent, coherent immigration policy. >> i think a lot of people would agree with you. you've already had a senate immigration bill pass. it passed pretty overwhelmingly, 68-32, in june, including 14 republicans. it was a bipartisan bill. one of the things it required was 20,000 border agents, 700,000 miles of new fencing and technology upgrades. it also was a deficit reducer,

et cetera. but that bill has not gone anywhere because of the house of representatives. they just refuse to move on it. would you like to see that bill pass? >> what i would like to see is a bill that addresses the immigration policy. it is clear that we can say republicans and democrats, but both partying have been remiss going back a period of decades. the biggest issue murieta has faced in recent days has been caused by a lack of information coming from the federal government. >> and can i tell you -- i mean, can i ask you, what would you think a sound, a good immigration policy that would help murieta, what would that look like to you? >> well, a policy that would help murieta is one in which we realize that there are a number of people from around the world with job skills we would dearly

love to see emigrate to the united states of america. the clear, consistent policy would address everybody in central america, latin america, from mexicans to peruvians and make sure that the quotas that we have for each nation are correct on an individual basis based on population. >> friday there's another bus load of undocumented immigrants expected to come through your town. do you expect to see a repeat of those protests on friday? >> well, i do expect to see a repeat of the protests on friday. what i would hope is that while the u.s. government is acting in absence of the law, that's no

excuse for any of our citizens or folks visiting our community to break the law either. so what i would hope is that the protest is peaceful and that when the buses arrive, when border patrol agents ask people if they will vacate the way, right-of-way to a public street that they'll comply with the law. >> all right. murieta, california, city councilman rick gibbs. thank you very much. appreciate you being here. >> you're quite welcome. a reid alert now. the libyan militant accused of super vising the 2012 attack on the u.s. consulate attack in benghazi made a court appearance today. the junl ordered him to await bail. prosecutors presented new evidence, including statements from witnesses. a trial date has not yet been set. we'll be right back. sfx: car unlock beep.

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according to plan. >> howard is a humble man and american hero. now to an anti-hero. pretty convict jeremy meeks. his mug shot went viral not long ago, receiving 200,000 swooning likes on facebook from fans bewitched by his good looks. now signed by a hollywood manager, meeks is still in jail with a $1 million bail. many of you are tweeting meeks also has a $30,000 modeling contract. those reports are allegedly wrong. today tina rodriguez, who reportedly represents meeks, tweeted this correction. quote, jeremy meeks has not signed with any modeling agencies. i also don't rep octomom, tan mom, or teen mom. she's confirmed meeks is seeking a modeling contract and makes for other avenues in tinsel town after he gets out of lockup. now to one of your favorite bad boys. "house of cards" character president frank underwood and his bottle with moscow.

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activists who in june launched a bold and risky push into the heart of the deep south, the state of mississippi, where three civil rights workers would lose their lives less than a month before lbj signed that landmark bill. today we kick off our generation to generation series with a look at leaders of freedom summer and those carrying on that legacy by fighting for voting rights today. ♪ we got something to say >> reverend dr. william j. barbbarb er ii. i was born two days after the march on washington, august 30 of 1963.

>> we hope to send into mississippi this summer upwards of 1,000 teachers, ministers, lawyers, and students from all around the country who will engage in what we're calling freedom schools. >> i'm bob moses. in the summer of '64, i was sort of overseeing the summer project. we didn't call it freedom summer. the historians labelled it freedom summer. when i first hit mississippi in 1960, when i came back in '61, i had an identity. i'm a stranger walking down the street, but the little kid points, there goes a freedom rider. so the freedom rides had expanded the consciousness of the black community. so you could use that as your opening. >> william barber was a freedom fighter and he taught us how to fight. >> people are standing up because what's in their soul,

what's in their heart and trust in a movement. a coalition movement is the most important thing. as a matter of principle, we say that we always try to stand together. >> mississippi really focused on one state and how to change it. if the moral monday campaign can actually shift north carolina, that will also have a multiplier effect. >> this past february we had upwards of 80,000 people to show up saying forward together, not one step back, challenging directly what these extremists are doing. >> what we have is a negative right to vote. what we need is an affirmative right that says because voting is core constitutional issue and because it's really part of what it means to be a substantive citizen, therefore people have the right to vote. >> if you want to change

america, you got to think states. you also have to think beyond liberal versus conservative, left versus right. it's also like the sit-in movements of 1960s. when it happened, it spread. we're not trying to be a national leader, but people are understanding that to change america, you got to think states, in particular all the southern states. i've been to georgia. they have a framework of moral monday. florida. south carolina has something. alabama is starting. been invited to indiana, missouri. we've stood with fast food workers in a number of places, including when they went into the mcdonald's headquarters recently and shut it down. >> james cheney, andrew goodman, and michael went to mississippi to help register negros as voters. it had been stressed that the training school they had just completed that their purpose was not to stage sit-ins, marches,

or demonstrations. it had also been stressed that the federal government could offer them little protection. >> that was my responsibility, really. to tell them in as sober words as i could, you know, bring forth that the kids were dead. and they had now to rethink what they were getting into. it has to be done in a way that they understand that it's okay not to go. they all decided, 99.9%, that they were up to this. >> forward together! >> not one step back! >> forward together! >> not one step back!

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work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. >> that was president lyndon johnson 50 years ago today. he was speaking to a national television audience as he prepared to sign the civil rights act of 1964. a law he called a turning point in american history. congressional lawmakers in both parties had overwhelmingly passed the bill just hours before. it outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin and sought to fulfill the brown v. board ruling's call to end segregation in public schools. as americans mark the anniversary, some wonder if the same law could pass congress today. joining me now from austin, texas, is a presidential historian and director of the lbj presidential library. mark, thanks for being here. an auspicious day to have someone from the lbj library,

let alone the head of it. let's talk about the summer of 1964. president johnson obviously seeing what's going on in mississippi, the horror of those three civil rights workers who disappeared, freedom summer happening. what was going on in the white house at that time? how did the president react to that? >> well, he was deeply concerned. and he saw that in america there was this great moral indignity about what was happening in the south. i think lbj believed in the basic fairness of most americans. and he believed that if most americans could see the oppression that people of color faced, particularly in the south, that they would demand change. i think that's essentially what was happening in the summer of 1964. >> and johnson obviously a southerner himself, somebody who grew up in the south, from texas, was seeing this play out really in his own region and knowing he was taking a lot of big risks on behalf of what had been john f. kennedy's legacy in terms of the civil rights bill

that was supposed to go through in '63. how did johnson square his sort of own upbringing? how did he come to the place where he saw civil rights as such an important issue for him? >> he'd been a schoolteacher in 1947. he had to teach in order to finish college. he saw through the eyes of mexican-american school children bigotry and injustice first hand. and he resolved at that time to do as much for those kids as he could. he had the power of the presidency, he invoked that memory. he said, i want to do something for those kids and people like them throughout this country. and he used the power of the presidency to do just that. >> and talk a little bit about the sort of pressure groups around the johnson white house that were also weighing in. you had the naacp. you had the southern christian leadership conference, one of the fun facts being dr. martin

luther king and malcolm x only met in person once and that was in march of '64 when they were both in washington pushing for the civil rights bill. what other groups outside of the white house were most influential onn johnson? >> if you look at lawmakers, southern democrats were pressuring him against any civil rights action. there's a great conversation that occurs between richard russell, who was a friend and mentor to johnson throughout his house and senate years, a great giant from the state of georgia. he encourages johnson not to pass civil rights. he says, look, you can lose the democratic -- democrats in the south. they'll turn to the republican party. and you may risk losing the presidency in your own right when you run later this year. and johnson listens to him and says, dick, if that's the price for this bill, i will gladly pay it. so he resisted pressure from his own party to resist that

legislation and chose at that opportune moment to make real change happen for america and to allow us to fulfill our promise as a nation. >> and there was a significant republican legislator that johnson worked closely with, dirkson of illinois. talk about that relationship. >> johnson knows in order to get the senate to pass the civil rights act, he's going to need the support of everett dirkson, senator from illinois and the minority leader at the time. if you look at those pictures of johnson signing the civil rights act, there are many pens he uses. the first pen he awards to everett dirkson, knowing that it was a bipartisan effort and knowing that without the support of everett dirkson, it simply wouldn't have happened. >> and a lot of people have been batting around this question, mark, about whether or not the ingredients that were in place in washington that allowed the civil rights act of '64 to

passing possibly be there in washington now. do you think that was a unique congress and a unique time in history where as something like that couldn't pass today? not least of which because johnson did have a super majority in the senate. >> it's very difficult to know what might happen today, but i think that the -- there was a great moral crisis in this country, and there was consciousness that was being raised during the summer of 1964 and ensuing years that allowed us to pressure congress into making change. also, you had a president who understood the legislative process so well and could almost manipulate congress to his will. i think bipartisanship was far more common in those days as well, making an act like this more easily passable than it might be today. >> and just finally, very briefly, do you think that johnson was then disappointed

that they had to go back then and push for a voting rights bill separately after this landmark act had passed? >> well, johnson knew that he couldn't get voting rights in the civil rights act, that it would be just too much. he wanted to break the back of jim crow with the civil rights act. then he waited to pass voting rights the next year. there was fwraet pressure for him to keep it in the bill, but johnson knew enough to know that, that would have been too much to pass at that time. that we need a little bit more time before voting rights could be passed. indeed, he uses the crisis of selma the following year to implore reluctant lawmakers to pass voting rights at that time. he exploits that crisis in order to get the ak passed. >> all right. presidential historian, thanks for talking with us about this heroic age in american history. really appreciate you being here. >> thank you, joy. all right. coming up, why you have to elect a more democratic senate if you want a less conservative supreme

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call her the notorious rbg. ruth bader ginsburg is the talk of the interwebs after issuing a blistering dissent in the hobby lobby case. jonathan mann even put ginsburg's dissent to music. ♪ any decision to use

contraceptives ♪ ♪ is not propelled by the government ♪ ♪ it's the woman's autonomous choice informed by her doctor ♪ >> but the dark side is also rearing its head in the form of unsubtle suggestings. the 81-year-old liberal justice should ride off into the sunset. the rapturous ginsburged a ration on the left ignores an uncomfortable reality in this current moment. namely, the celebrations of her brilliance failed to recognize that the best thing ruth bader ginsburg could do for the liberal movement right now is arguably to call an end to a sterling and trail blazing legal career and step down from the court. he points out ginsburg is 81 years old and has survived cancer twice. some court watchers argue that

given the risk her health fight falter again, she should step down now and give the democratic president a chance to name her successor. at bloomberg view, jonathan bernstein at least puts one of the court's old men in the mix saying, ginsburg and fellow liberal steven breyer, who's 76, should not take the chance that a democrat will not win the white house in 2016. that and between the dem's wobbly senate chances in november, there's a possibility ginsburg would be replaced by someone who could undermine her life's work if she retires any time after this spring. same goes for breyer. if ginsburg were to retire now, it's not clear she would be replaced by a justice as liberal as she is. quite the opposite. democrats would still need 60

votes to confirm a successor. and what makes anyone think that red state conservative democrats from west virginia or arkansas or louisiana, alaska, or north carolina would walk the plank for a ginsburg-like nominee, especially for the election? the more likely scenario is that if ginsburg retired now, she would be replaced by someone to her right, or by no one at all for the foreseeable future while mitch mcconnell tries to bolster his re-election bid by tying up any nomination. what would help liberals is it vote in a senate with a bigger democratic majority. and to vote in numbers that would putt even candidates in kentucky or georgia in their debt. in other words f you want a better supreme court, you're going to need to get a better senate. and that wraps things up for "the reid report." i'll see you back here tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. eastern. be sure to visit us online. "the cycle" is up next. hey, cyclists. what do you have going on?

>> hey, joy. you know what they used to call ruth bader ginsburg in law school? notorious rbg. >> that was good, ari. >> we got a bunch of good stuff. we're going world cup. we're going to touch on the civil rights with a great author. what els? seinfeld, a show about nothing and something. we're doing the 25th anniversary. and my closing remarks today will be on why corporate personhood isn't actually the problem. >> don't forget about the weather. >> all right. "the cycle" comes up next. car . vo: david's heart attack didn't come with a warning. today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you've had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen.

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family atmosphere. and travelers are currently under a hurricane watch. mother nature providing the fireworks this fourth. here we go. the storm cycle weather center is up and running as the east coast of the u.s. braces for its first hurricane of the season. good afternoon to you. i'm ari melber. as we come on the air today, residents along north carolina's outer banks are being ordered out under a mandatory evacuation. nearly 200 miles of the coast is under a hurricane watch. the rest of the shoreline is under a tropical storm warning. here's what the storm looks like from space. arthur is expected to strengthen, a category 1 hurricane, by dinner time tomorrow, with winds topping, yes, 80 miles per hour. as we take a live look at the outer banks, what's coming is not the worst people there have endured, but the timing is far from ideal.

>> so especially on the coastal area, we want to make sure people don't try out the great waves right before the storm comes, even though they are good waves. we don't want you to go into the ocean. >> surfers, they live and love these type of conditions when you have great swells. we want them to show up, surf, stay within their limitations, wear a leash. those are that's are new to surfing, please stay out of the water. >> some smart words there. we go right to weather channel meteorologist julie martin, who's at the maps. >> all right, ari. you make a good point there. bad timing. of course, the holiday weekend. the good news is by the weekend itself, saturday and through sunday, we expect much of the impacts from this storm to be well out at sea. right now it is sitting offshore of cape canaveral, florida, about 110 miles east-northeast. the winds have not strengthened. they're sitting at 60. that's been the case for about the last 12 hours. it's starting to move a little to the north-northeast at 7 miles per hour. here's a