when john brown comes along even though she created the gentle and uncle tom she calls john brown the greatest american that has ever lived. she was like four former pacifist. henry david sorrow who wrote his essay called civil disobedience which influenced martin luther king and gondi but he says john brown is greater than any of the founding fathers and harriet beecher stowe says no man ever lived who has done more for the honor of the american man that john brown. she knew about his violence in kansas and harpers ferry but she knew the sad truth that holy violence was going to end slavery. it took the death of 620,000 americans to end slavery. that is how deeply entrenched slavery had become in america. sadly she came to realize that. she realized the a uncle tom approach as attractive as it was and effective as it became for martin luther king and rosa parks she could not predict that. but at that moment violence was needed to get rid of slavery and she came to admit that. >> a little while before you said "uncle tom's cabin" was suffering humanity and human and the novel dread wh

>> well, thank you for letting me cite some of the good things about my good friend john brown. he was 6'2", and 230 pounds and great athlete, and mentally sharp, great sense of humor, and in high school we would watch "saturday night live" every saturday night before we would go out with our friends at night. he was a big chris farley fan and adam sandler fan, and he was physically one of the top soldiers. in high school after football practice or basketball practice or track, he would go home and eat dinner and put on his shoes and run for a few more hours. that is how fizz scli pphysical was. he was the ideal soldier. >> i know that a lot of the hearts there in silum springs is heavy, and let me play what john's mother had to say today in her pain. >> if there is a come fourth in the situation, i'm so proud of my son, so very proud of him. >> and john, you said the same thing, you will miss him temendous, and he died a hero. in that attack in afghanistan. >> yes. and it is unfortunate. it has been a long weekend. i have been contacted by a lot of friends that i have not heard

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she does describe john brown's widow and daughter who actually came with the alcott after john brown she talks about sitting between i think mr. and mrs. frederick douglass at a funeral for one of the great abolitionist in boston. she talks about theodore parker, who was a very well-known clergyman or actually had lost his congregation because of his radical views. she talks about charles sumner. she just worship the ground sumner walked on and you know she will go to a littles for a. theater of parker had won every afternoon and she describes oliver wendell holmes sr. looked up at her and said, i hear you have how many sisters are there? she said for and he said and all his tall as you? a very short man, so she does have a lot of antic notes and descriptions of people. she uses thoreau as a character a number of times and in one of her later books long after thoreau was dead, she brings him out as the favorite writer of the young man and kind of boost him. thoreau had been forgotten and really emerson and louisa alcott tried to keep him in public view. throughout their lifetimes and

one john brown from arkansas. ve john woods says his friend john brown was not only a local -- but an american hero. >> everybody liked john in high school. he was easy to get along with. great athlete. great sense of humor. very finance any. physically fit. men -- very funny. physically fit, mentally sharp, great sense of humor. when i think of the perfect soldier that was john brown. >> reporter: another victim aaron carson vaughn. pdÑ had asked the military to return into combat. he shipped out six weeks before he was kill. his grandmother of tennessee says her grandson wanted to be a seal since he was a child. he left for afghanistan two weeks after his two-month-old daughter was born this summer. >> i'm very proud of him. he was such a good boy. and he loved his country. enough to put his life on the line. >> reporter: as to the recovery of that chinook helicopter, very key they will be doing a forensic examination. in addition to the propect of it being a rocket propelled grenade that brought it down. there's

. >> reporter: and friends of john brown remember him as a hero. >> i'm very proud of him. i'm proud to say that i'm a friend of his and i'm going to miss him. >> reporter: the soldier's bodies will be flown to delaware later this week where they will be met by their families, military and possibly the president. >>> hopefully the release of the two uc berkeley graduates behind bars has been dashed tonight. this after iran's embarrass door rejected reports that he would be freed. the trial ended sunday. iran judges have not released a verdict. a third person was released last year. >>> the guessing game is almost over. he'll announce whether he'll run for major after weeks of urging by his supporters. he's been dropping hints lately that he will be a candidate. >> mayor's weekend of reflection on a decision on whether or not to run for mayor. >> let it be. >> reporter: he may have been enjoying the moment but wasn't about to spoil the suspense. some were at least open to candidacy. >> it would be nice to have him as an option. >> he's going -- i think he's washing his hands

but former prime minister john brown said the government can't shut down the root causes and that is lack of leadership. what is going on here? what is the bigger picture? well, of course, first of all they are not riots, there is no political motivation and no feeling of subjectation. it is just legal rampage and looting . what is at stake and caused it is politicians who 20 years of liberal socialism . of course, the politician are blaming parents. they don't stand a chance when the schools are degrade dumbed down and they are school for lawless profranity and idolness. parents don't stand a chance. a lot of those politicians took more off of the state and stole the public money than the looters and so they are looked on by the public as crooks. even the prime minister was using public funds to decorate his garden. it is really awful and we have had a lot of problems. open borders and huge immigration and enforced multiculturism against the public will. dummying down of the schools and subidies for single familis and leniency toward drugs and disarming of the public so that the onl

air force tech sergeant john brown, the mother of the special forces medic never knew anyone more patriotic, she said. >> if there is a comfort in it, i am so proud of my son. >> reporter: in afghanistan they had just completed a rescue mission that helped a ranger unit that came under fire. u.s. troops are working to remove the debris from the crash site. even as fighting continues in the area. while back home military communities across the country continue to deal with the overwhelming loss of 30 american heroes. franc franciscoe, nbc news. >>> to london where extra police were on the streets sunday after clashes saturday sdpashged by the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old by a police officer. over the weekend a total of 160 were arrested. jillian kelly from itn has more. >> reporter: flames leap into the night from a double decker bus. more than 300 rioters through petrol bombs and fireworks. several homes and shops were also set on fire. police cars were attacked and three were set alight. more than 100 riot police battled for hours to control the situation. 36 police officers were injure

service members died in the crash, among them, john brown, a native of northwest arkansas. his mother called the special forces medic a humble healer. >> if there is a comfort in this situation, i'm so proud of my son. so very proud of him. >> reporter: 30-year-old patrick hamburger was a sergeant in the nebraska air national guard. he is survived by his fiancee and 2-year-old daughter. and army reserve specialist spencer duncan, just 21, served as door gunner on the chinook. and the next difficult step for the families of the fallen is to wait for the bodies of their loved ones to be flown back here to american soil. carl? >> and, thanh, as the nation tries to get over the shock of the attack, is there any indication at all as to when the remains might be coming back stateside? >> reporter: well, it will be most likely in the next few day, probably within this week. but so far, military officials haven't even released the names or the full list of the names of the fallen yet. carl? >> thank you, thanh. >>> tensions are high tonight in london one day after the streets there

people could think we could have a lot more cutting. >> john, brown has said they wouldn't go to voters additional revenue until november 2012. now with the budget gap widening is there a chance they'll reverse course and decide to go for a special election? >> i think it's always possible but i think it's unlikely. first of all, the governor was not able to get a special election this past year because they needed republicans to help put those measures on a special election ballot. the republicans didn't want to put those revenues then. i don't know why they'd want to do them now. i think if the governor wanted to do something early, he pretty much sealed his fate that he couldn't do that a few weeks ago. you may remember he signed the law that canceled the february 2012 statewide election which was a presidential primary. if he really wanted to go to the voters early, he would have tried to put something on the february ballot. we don't have a february election now. so the earliest election there is is june. the governor still thinks a revenue issue would happen in november. really, h

. >> reporter: john browne, a special forces medic, also grew up in the south.mbered him as a hero. >> i'm very proud of him, i'm proud to say that i'm a friend of his, and i'm gonna miss him tremendously. >> reporter: u.s. military sources say the seals were called in to help a team already under fire on the ground. though the taliban claims responsibility, u.s. officials have yet to confirm that. only saying the helicopter was shot down. drew levinson, cbs news. >> and the bodies of the u.s. military members will be flown to dover air force base later this week. they will be met by their families, military brass and possibly the president. >>> hope for the imminent release of the 2uc berkeley graduates behind bars for two years have been dashed tonight. this is after the ambassador rejected reports that they would soon be freed. the two men faces peonage charges for allegedly crossing into iran illegally in 2009. iranian judges have not yet announced a verdict. a third hiker was released last year. >>> and new unrest has erupted in london after saturday's riot

she describes john brown's widow and daughter who came to board with the alcotts after john brown wascuted. she talked about sitting between mr. and mrs. frederick douglass at a funeral for one of the great abolitionist of boston. shea talked-about theodore parker who was a well-known clergymen who lost his congregation because of his radical views. she talked about charles sumner. she worshipped the ground he walked on. and would go to a little soiree. they had won every sunday afternoon. oliver wendell holmes sr. looked at her and said you have how many sisters? she said four. and all as tall as you? he was a very short man. a lot of anecdotes and descriptions of people. she knew henry david thoreau's character several times. after his death she brings him up as the favorite writer of a young man and boosts him because henry david thoreau had been forgotten. emerson and louisa may alcott tried to keep him in public view throughout their lifetime and eventually he was appreciated but he died with 700 copies of merrimack river in his room because he hadn't sold them. he was quite negl

right now you have the companies that are are being judged paying the bill and they could like john browning a big bill of berkshire the mr buffett also pointed out the market requires it because these ratings agencies has been around forever so they're in shrine by government regulations which oh yeah they have a stake in test for objectivity don frank legislation the financial reform has restrictions on rating agencies and the rules that are yet to be written and they carry huge deal about what those rules and up looking like saw it wouldn't surprise me if they were trying to curry favor with politicians in fact they spent a combined total of one point seven six million dollars this year lobbying washington over the regulations which brings us full circle to the downgrade of u.s. credit the u.s. was downgraded by s. and p. because of government debt berman where the government ran up that debt in part because it bailed out the big banks and a.i.g. back in two thousand and eight remember the one saddled with all of those bad mortgage bonds which the ratings agencies graded triple a when in

among them, john brown and daniel zerbe. and five were army. alexander bennett. spencer duncan.. patrick hamburger. and bryan nicholol 30 american troops were killed in this incident. they leave behind at least 13 widows and 21 children who lost their fathers on the deadliest day for the u.s. in this, the tenth year of the war in afghanistan. jake tapper, abc news, the white house. >>>>nd we are thinking of them and praying for their families tonight. >>> thanks for watching. diane will be back tomorrow. don't forget to check out "nightline" later and i'll see you in the morning on "gma." have a good night. >>> breaking news from oakland on the murder of a 3-year-old boy. police deliver on a promise to solve the crime quickly. >> tonight how a down turn in the stock market could be a homeowner wind fall if you qualify. >>> a local man crashes in on the price of goltd. wisdom of selling family jewel autos the san francisco mayor gets put to the test for the first time on the campaign trail. >> good evening, everyone. i'm carolyn johnson. >> a big break in the east i bay tonight.

the mother of john browne said her son was the team's medic. >> his specific job was to be with them and see to their medical needs and they are rescued in a situation, if they had been taken hostage or something like that. >> reporter: most of the seals were member of the now famous seal team six which killed osama bin laden. none of them had been on that raid, but with their deaths, seal team six becomes a symbol of both the triumph and the tragedy of war. it was a night raid into the tanji valley west of kabul. one team had already hit the target, the compound of the local taliban leader, and called for help from seal team six. their chinook helicopter was apparently hit by a rocket- propelled grenade, although that has yet to be verified by examination of the wreckage. there were no survivors. later this week, the bodies will be flown to dover air force base in delaware, where they will be met by their families, along with the secretary of defense, the chairman of the joint chiefs, and possibly the president. anthony? >> mason: david, this is a devastating loss. what does it mean

john brown, also a connecticut, and stowe is a connecticutian. you are seeing overlaps here. author of walt whitman's america, a cultural biography, a book with the straightforward title, "walt whitman," and he's the author of beneath the american renaissance, imagination in the age of emerson and melville, and i certainly found that "s" word submersive came up quite a bit in uncle tom's cabin. the faith friction, when you see these lists of books, you begin to understand how much he -- how much he may have run into stowe and uncle tom's cabin in other other books. his latest book is mightier than the sward, uncle tom's cabin and the battle for america which i mentioned is released by norton on june 14th, stowe's 200th birthday. also released that day is a new modern version of the splendid edition of uncle tom's cabin, and absolutely gorgeous document that you have to wait until then to get, so please join me in welcoming david to the harriet beecher stowe center. [applause] david? >> thanks very much, katharine. i'll comment for 15-20 minutes introducing my book, and then w

john brown alaska from connecticut as stowe is from connecticut. there's overlaps here. a cultural biography, a book with the straightforward title, walt whitman, the author of beneat the america renne sops, the imagination in the age of the emerson and melville and that "s" word submersive came up in oping l tom's cabin and its impact. there's the issue of faith and fiction. when you see the list of books, you begin to understand how much he -- how often he may have run into stowe and uncle tom's cabin in the others. this book tonight is mightier than the sword, uncle tom's cabin, and the battle for america which will be released by norton on june 14 #th, stowe's 200th birthday. also released by oxford press will be a new modern version, a splendid edition of uncle tom's cabin, a gorgeous document that you have to wait until then to get. please join me in welcoming david reynolds. david? [applause] >> thank you very much, katharine. what i'm going to do is comment for 15-20 minutes introducing my book, and then katharine and i will have a friendly dialogue and open it u

air force technical sergeant john brown of alaska was in his mother's words, a gentle giant.rson vaughn, of union city, tennessee, was a 30-year-old member of s.e.a.l. team 6. aaron vaughn leaves his wife kimberly, his 2-year-old son reagan and his 2-month-old daughter chamberlain. 32-year-old chief petty officer robert james reeves, served on s.e.a.l. team 6 and had earned four bronze stars. robert grew up in shreveport, louisiana with jonas kelsall, lieutenant commander kelsall was a member of s.e.a.l. team 7. craig vickers was on the maui high school football team in hawaii and was a member of the navy bomb disposal team. kraig lived in virginia beach with his wife who is pregnant and their three children. he would have turned 37 later this week. 35-year-old john tumilson always wanted to be a navy s.e.a.l. he was a wrestler in high school and a neighbor told the associated press, he was going to be a navy s.e.a.l. since i can't remember when. brian bill graduated from vermont's norwitch university in 2001 and then joined the s.e.a.l.s. a high school teacher of brian bills

we'll give you a few examples of the victims included john brown of salome springs, arkansas, his mother called him a gentle giant who just loved anything athletic, she says if she wanted to have a serious conversation with her son she would have to shoot baskets with him. a long time friend had this to say. >> physically fit, mentally sharp, great sense of humor, and he was the perfect -- when i think of the perfect soldier, that was john brown. >> reporter: there was michael strange of philadelphia who loved snowboarding, surfing, scuba diving, and running and his father says he loved his country and loved protecting his country. so just a few examples, very tragic loss for this country and for the military. alisyn: all of them such heroes and role models for us. bill: when that news trickled across the country saturday morning, how devastating that was. alisyn: i got that alert on my blackberries, everybody gasped, and we feel like we know the seal teams so well after the bin laden raid. bill: we're going to get to a bit more on this in a moment, some of the stories we're watches. >>>

air force technical sergeant john brown of arkansas was, in his mother's words, a gentle giant.n vaughn of union city, tennessee, was a 30-year-old member of s.e.a.l. team six. aaron leaves his wife, 2-year-old son reagan, and 2-month-old daughter. 32-year-old robert james reeves served on s.e.a.l. team six and had earned four bronze stars. robert reeves grew up in shreveport, louisiana. joe than kelsall, a member of s.e.a.l. team seven. kraig vickers was a member of the navy bomb disposal team. he lived in virginia beach, virginia with his wife, who's now pregnant and their three children. kraig would have turned 37 later this week. 35-year-old jon tumilson was a wrestler in high school and was going to be a navy s.e.a.l. since i can't remember when. brian bill graduated from vermont's norwich university in 2001. a high school teacher of brian bill's said, "brian just wanted to do his best to protect other people, challenge did not deter him. ever." most of the names of the people lost in the helicopter crash are not yet known to us, but we do know none of the families and frie

air force technical sergeant john brown, pararescue man from fort bragg, north carolina, the army reserve specialist spencer duncan, gunner. alexander bennett, 24 years old of tacoma, washington. pilot ryan nichols, reservist from kansas city, missouri. the pentagon has not decided whether to release the full list of names of those who were killed in the helicopter crash. >> bret: jennifer, live at the pentagon tonight. thank you. >>> it is just that, 11:00 p.m. in great britain where they have been unable to head off another night of violence. senior foreign affairs correspondent amy kellogg has the latest from london. >> it started again on tuesday. before dusk in parts of northern england. on the move and the nervous shopkeepers boarding up businesses, fearing the worst in third night of rioting across the u.k. monday night led to scenes some liken to world war ii. the south london borough in flames, where this woman was forced to jump from her life from a burning home. there was widespread looting in several suburb of london monday night. individuals were looted. this man was beaten.

he was the perfect -- you know, when i think of the perfect soldier that was john brown. >> john brown was the rambo without the attitude. he was a humble healer in service to his country, a special forces medic on a mission in afghanistan. >> he was intense. he was funny. he had that dry humor. he loved his family, his sister. he just became an uncle. >> i saw the men in uniform and i just fell to my knees. it was -- there's no preparing for it, you know. it's something that you see in the movies, not something you're supposed to live through. >> i want to tell the world that he was an amazing man. he was a wonderful husband, and a fabulous father to two wonderful children. he was a warrior for christ, and he was a warrior for our country, and he wouldn't want to leave this earth any other way than how he did.in ere, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of new cell sites...

now. >> brown: john taylor, what about -- >> it's just the opposite. government has spent a lot more. the facts are very clear. you just look at the numbers and even with this budget deal they're going to spend a lot more so it's so important at this point to change the environment. businesses are sitting on lots of cash. they're concerned about the future. they're not investing and they're not hiring people. that's why the unemployment rate is so distressingly high and why this recovery for the last two years has really been one of the worst, especially given the weak economy during the recession that we've had, so this is -- approach that we have go towards. it worked in the past. i hope it works this time. >> brown: does the deal start to turn things around? you said it doesn't happen overnight. >> it doesn't. >> brown: you say this is a positive, but what has to happen next? >> it doesn't because there is a lot more to do in terms of spending. this brings spending down to maybe 22% of g.d.p. from the increase so there is still more to go on the spe

three were from the air force, among them john brown and daniel swrishy. and five were army.lexander bennett, penser duncan, dave carter, patrick hamburger and brian nichols. 30 american troops were killed in this insz dent. they leave behind at least 13 widows and 21 children who lost their fathers on the deadliest day for the u.s. in this, the 10th year of the war in afghanistan. jake tapper, abcninetynews, thee house. house. >> we'll be right back in just a [ man ] i got this new citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. you got a weather balloon with points? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. ♪ ♪ there it is. [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. ♪ [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. what's your story? citi can help you write it. >> bottled water is out. tap water is back in. the small texas town of kemp has been without water for days. heavy demand during a month of triple-digit heat taxed the city's aging pipes and drained the supply. water towers have been r

william garrison who burned the constitution as a pact with the devil because it accepted slavery or john brown whose raid on harpers ferry went so disastrously wrong. they had no sense of compromise and work heedless of the consequences of their actions. lincoln was different. he was always concerned with what the outcome could be and there could be unintended consequences. would you really need is both of these things. you don't go from a society like the one lincoln grew up in. he was indiana and illinois as a kid or a young man. all those states that one point or another banned free blacks from their borders. you don't go from that to the abolishment of slavery without outsiders agitating all the time and have that in the form of abolitionists and radical republican who headed lincoln, beating about the head and shoulders calling him a sellout and an ignoramus and you had lincoln who agreed with where they wanted to go and his method was to carefully put one foot in front of the other and to see if he could stand on that foot or not and when he could to take the next step. he called the abo

air force tech sergeant john brown played basketball and ran track.ng saturday night live. family described him as a model soldier. and army reserve specialist spencer duncan, just 21 years old. served as door gunner on the chopper. these are just some of the true american heros that gave their lives to protect this country. they will not be forgotten. ♪ yes! ha ha! [ clicking ] ♪ what happened? power went out, want a hot dog? [ female announcer ] oscar mayer selects are made with 100% beef and have no artificial preservatives. from body and bath shops? with olay get what you love at half the price with new olay body collections, tantalizing fragrances and olay moisturizing ingredients that transform lathering into lavishing. olay body collections. s.e.a.l.s. >>> welcome back to the show. for today's hot political topics, plet me bring on our panel. dr. eric michael dyson is georgetown university professor and msnbc political analyst. bob franken, is a former political correspondent and king feature syndicated columnist and matt lauerens a senior cont

. >> john brown was a rambeau without the attitude. >> he loves all you guys and all his friends -- [crying] >> tonight, we are learning more about the 30 american heros who will never come home. >> and cops call these three siblings violent fugitives. >> extremely armed and extremely dangerous and do not approach them. >> tonight, a message from their mother. >> only mom knows what good people you are inside. >> can she convince her kids to do the right thing? but first from fox this monday night, a major stock market plunge happened again today taking the biggest chunk out of your 401(k) since the financial collapse of 2008. all of the major indices fell about 6%. the dow with its worst one-day point loss or sixth worse in history off more than 600 points. the nasdaq off 175. s&p 500 off 80. the markets are trapped in a vicious cycle of fear and now panic. fear after the credit ratings agency s&p downgraded its assessment of u.s. debt. today, followed up downgrading the ratings of america's large mortgage holders and panic because no one seems to know the exact implications of what

john brown, a pararescue man. army reserve specialist spencer duncan the door gunner. alexander bennett and pilot brian nicoles based in kansas city, missouri. the pentagon still not releasing the full list of the name and they may change their minds at some point but the media has gotten ahold the names through independent means, shep. >> shepard: jen, it's my understanding there is an update on the investigation into that crash now. >> that's right a brigadier general has been put in charge by central command, questions about the crash of the chinook ch 47. why so many members of one unit were on board one helicopter was the root into the valley preprogrammed and predictable to enemy fire? why were seals flying army chinooks with less fire power than usual? should seal team 6 have been used as the imprecede i can't tell reaction force? was there another helicopter deployed? will the unmanned aerial surveillance footage reveal it was a rocket propelled grenade that brought down the helicopter. tonight there remained more questions than answers. >> shepard: jennifer gr

sense of humor and he was the perfect, you know, when i think of the perfect soldierer that was john brown. >> 22 navy seals were among those that were killed and many of them belonged to seal team 6, the team responsible for the killing of osama bin laden. >>> news of the helicopter shot down came on the same day as men came home from supporting the mission in afghanistan. the response wing arrived yesterday at travis air force base. they spent a month preparing equipment for an army brigade that was going to afghanistan. >> it was hard to hear. heart breaking. our sympathies go out to their families and friends. >> the 615th has deployed multiple times to afghanistan. >>> standard and poors decision to down grade the triple-a credit rating to double a plus has effected the stock market worldwide. the main stock index is down 5%. the leading economic financial advisers are meeting to discuss the markets. and wall street investors will get their first chance to react tomorrow morning at 6:30. >>> pg&e officials were warned of possible risk months before the san bruno explosion. they were b

william garrison who burned the constitution as a pact with the devil because it accepted slavery or john brownraid on harper's ferry went so disastrously wrong. these are people with no sense of compromise and were utterly heedless of the consequences of their actions. lincoln was different. he was always concerned with what the outcome would be and always realized there could be unintended consequences. what you really need and we see this in our movement right now, you need both of these things. if you don't go from a society like the one lincoln grew up in, he lived in kentucky, indiana, n, all those states at one point banned free blacks from coming into their borders. you don't go from that to the abolishment of slavery without outsiders agitating all the time and you had that in the form of abolitionists and radical republicans who hated lincoln, who were calling him a sellout and wimp and ignoramus, and then you had lincoln who agreed with where they wanted to go but his message was to carefully put one foot in front of the other and see whether he was going to be able to stand on that

craig vickers, a bomb disposal expert, was from the hawaiian islands, john brown, a medic with the s.e.a.l.s, from arkansas. his wife and mother were among the 30 families who heard the worst possible news. >> the office of -- called my daughter-in-law, tabitha, and informed her that my son, john, had been killed this morning in afghanistan. >> reporter: today there is a ceremony scheduled at the operation command in florida, the headquarters for the navy s.e.a.l.s. what had been planned as a celebration will now be a very somber event. chris? >> cbs' david martin at the pentagon for us. david, thank you. >>> first check of our weather this morning. >> we start on the west coast. the area that's only seen below normal temperatures. take a look at seattle, 76. 63 in frsan francisco. even los angeles is below average. due in part to the water temperatures, it's cooling down >> that's your latest weather. now over to chris and nancy. >> thanks. erica hill is in east africa, reporting from a refugee camp that is now home for hundreds of thousands of victims of a growing famine. >>> latest on the

among them, john brown. and daniel zerbe. and five were army. alexander bennett. spencer duncan. hamburger. and bryan nichols. 30 american troops were killed in this incident. they leave behind at least 13 widows and 21 children who lost their fathers on the deadliest day for the u.s. in this the tenth year of the war in afghanistan. jake tapper, abc news, the white house. not only for the country but for the families. it's just heartbreaking. >> your heart goes out. especially you see those pictures and they're all young guys, young folks just starting out in their life. 30 killed, 22 were navy s.e.a.l.s who were part of the same special forces team that killed bin laden. none of the folks who were part of the bin laden raid were killed in that incident but folks who came from that elite group. it's devastating. the country needs those reminders. >> and seeing the president at dover is very symbolic and very important. >> absolutely, and the second time he's done it during his presidency. somber news. we'll be back with more news right after this. medicare. it doesn't cover ever

john brown.eople with no sense of compromise and were heedless of the consequences of their actions. lincoln was different. he was always concerned with what the outcome would be an always realized that there could be unintended consequences. you need both of these things. going from a society, like the one that lincoln grew up in, all of those states at one point or another had banned free blacks from coming with -- within their borders. you do not do that, then go to the abolishment of slavery, without abolitionists and radical republicans. they hated lincoln. they were calling him a sellout and an ignoramus all the time. lincoln ultimately agreed with where they wanted to go, but he is method was to see whether or not he could stand on that foot or not. he called the abolitionists' the devils that he had ever encountered. i think that that is the very stuff of statesmanship. if you take this method, that vision, you get what he called the new birth of freedom. there are a couple of myths about

. >> reporter: another of those killed has been identified as john brown of arkansas. he was a highly trained air force tech sergeant, a paramedic attached to the seal team. he was not a seal. he wanted to be a doctor his parents said but joined when he saw a video of a special air force tactical unit. here is what his friend john woods had to say about him. >> he was just an all american gi joe, just a great guy that just loved his country. >> reporter: there are 37 other stories like this one. we are told that the bodies will return to dover most likely starting tomorrow. jon: just so much sadness in that terrible event. jennifer griffin at the pentagon for us. thank you. jenna: heartbreaking is the word. and we know so many you have feel probably helpless when you hear some of this news. i know i feel that way absolutely. and one of the questions we want to answer today is what you can do to help the navy seals community. for that we are joined by michael balmer, a board member of the navy seals foundation and a former navy seals. he's here to talk about about what

aaron carson vaughn, matt mills, john brown, kevin houston, michael strange. just five of the 30 u.s. troops killed in the taliban shootdown of the chinook helicopter. >> their loss is a reminder of the risks these men and women take every day on behalf of our country. day after day, night after night, they carry out missions like this in the midst of enemy driver and fallen danger. >> 22 were navy s.e.a.l.s, the same team that took out osama bin laden. mccraven spoke as he began a new job on monday as head of all special operation forces. >> our thoughts and praiseyers with you. we will never forget the sacrifice nor the ultimate price your loved ones paid. >> it happened in eastern afghanistan in the wardak province. the s.e.a.l.s had been called in to help military caught in fire. the rangers saw a rocket-propelled grenade hit the chopper according to a senior military official. military sources tell cnn investigators will look at several key questions, including, is there reason to believe the taliban have any advanced shoulder-fired weapons now. was the h

matt mills, john brown, kevin houston, michael strange, patrick hamburger, craig vickers.t seven the 22 navy s.e.a.l.s. killed in saturday's chopper crash in afghanistan. total of 30 u.s. service members were killed in the attack, which is the single largest loss of life for the u.s. military since the afghan war began nearly ten years ago. afghan officials say the ch 47 chinook helicopter went down after it came under heavy fire and a rocket propelled grenade attack from the taliban. the s.e.a.l.s. were going to help troops on the ground fighting insurgents. the crash site has been cordoned off. seven afghan troops were aboard the helicopter as well and they died. barbara starr is joining us from the pentagon now. i understand, barbara, the pentagon has released information about coverage at dover air force base in delaware where the bodies will return to the united states. what have they told us. >> reporter: that's right wolf. this is the most unsettling news we are going to tell people very precisely what the pentagon has said. it will be unsettling, perhaps, to the fa

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kent masterson brown on ninth kentucky cavalry soldier john porter and american history tv a visit to buffalo trace distillery. one of only four distilleries in operation during prohibition for medicinal purposes. .. ♪ >> send us a tweet at booktv using hash tag summer reading to let us know what you plan on reading this summer. you can also e-mail us, booktv at c-span.org. >> we continue with more from frankfurt, kentucky. up next, booktv interviews lindsay apple. she explores the life and legacy of former secretary of state and speaker of the u.s. house of representatives, henry clay. [background sounds] >> henry clay was an early 19th century politician, statesman. he ran for president three times, tried to get the nomination two others, failed on all occasions. but he's probably the best known non-president of that period. >> why is that? >> well, daniel walker howell argues that clay had the most expansive vision for the country of any politician of that period. he's speaking, basically, of the american system which was an attempt to unify the country. we were a big country, in f

air force tech sergeant john brown's mother calls him a gentle giant who wanted to go into medicine. elizabeth newland says her son instead became a medic for special operations forces. >> if there is a comfort in this situation, i'm so proud of my son, so very proud of him. >> reporter: for sergeant patrick hanburger with the nebraska air national guard, it was simply bad timing. he had been in afghanistan only two weeks. as president obama returned to the white house sunday, this tragedy is sure to renew the political debate over the entire afghanistan war and the withdrawal of american forces. but at coronado, former navy s.e.a.l. ryan mccomebie says the nation must first grieve. >> these men are national treasures, irreplaceable. you don't find them everywhere. so this was a tragedy for the entire country. >> reporter: the u.s. military aircraft that will carry all 30 of the service members remains are expected to arrive at dover air force base in delaware tomorrow for that dignified ceremony that will bring these service members home for the last time. matt? >> jim miklaszewski

. >>> and check out senators john kerry and scott brown, both were in bike shorts yesterday with lancend thousands of others in the annual pan-mass challenge cancer fund-raiser. >>> well, it's all about iowa this week for the republican presidential candidates. nine of their names will be on the ballot for the straw poll in ames. and the results could make or break campaign for 2012. michael is nbc's national investigative correspondent, and mike murray is nbc's deputy director. good morning. all technically skipping this competition, although their names are on the ballot. what's at stake here? who needs to make the strongest showing? >> first on that list is tim pawlenty, former governor of minnesota. he's had a bad string over the last several weeks, whether a tough fund-raising report or poor performance at a new hampshire debate in june. he need a good showing in the ames straw poll just to have good news going into the fall. >> michele bachmann, too in. >> as well. she's the republican front-runner in iowa in a strong performance there, she'll be able to maintain that title. but

brown recounts the military career of john m. porter who served in the ninth kentucky cavalry during the war and penned the events of his services following the end of the war. it's about 30 minutes. >> john porter was a, um, young fellow from butler county, kentucky, which is a county down in south central part of the state. who, um, joined the confederate army in october of 1861 when the confederate armies occupied southern kentucky. and he ultimately became a lieutenant in the ninth kentucky cavalry that rode with john hunt morgan. and, um, he was probably prouder of having ridden through the war with john hunt morgan than he was almost anything he ever did in life. and he penned this memoir for his daughter whose name was minnie belle. he married shortly after the war was over, and his wife died after giving birth to minnie belle. and so he raised this child along with his two sisters and a brother in bowling green, kentucky, a county, warren county, it's a neighboring county to butler, and bowling green is the county seat, s

senators john kerry and scott brown traded in their suits and ties for biking shorts yesterday. armstrong and thousands of others in a cancer fund-raiser. they trek more than 100 miles from stur bridge to massachusetts. they were raising some $34 million. great event. >> a couple governors passed away. >> yeah. >> from new york. governor back in the '70s that helped stave off bankruptcy and a governor before becoming senator in oregon. 1965 spoke out against the vietnam war. one of the first major politicians to do that. a remarkable man and remarkable career. let's move on to sports and what everybody is talking about in america, everybody. you know what it is. the english premier league kicked off yesterday. >> i heard that. >> manchester, 2-0, comes back and wins, 3-2. you call it kick ball. >> let's do a real sport. sunday night baseball. >> he's trying to help you here. >> first place in the american league east. patriots leader, chad ochocinco. brett gardner, not known for his own power. a shot to right center field. it gives the yankees a lead. bottom of the ninth. a fly

luck it's the twenty eighth the dutch cup winners and lee brown is up by hosting portuguese giants and feet. now meanwhile chelsea midfielder john obi mikel is still awaiting news about his father who's been abducted in nigeria michael obi has been missing since he left work on friday off today in the city of jobs where he runs a transport company police have appealed to help but have yet to be contacted by the kidnappers twenty four year old make out learned about the it went from sunday morning still turned out to chelsea in their will will draw at stoke and the blue star has given an emotional interview on british television asking for anyone who had any information to come forward. i'm from. you know i've always tried to help the quandary we been everywhere playing for the country solving the country it never would have came out laughing this is the time for the contras we're all to help me in this situation. so i just i just i'm just going to stay wherever it is got my. emotional police contact me and hopefully will be released. the international olympic committee has said russia is making substantial progress in preparatio