thurgood marshall jr. the son of thurgood marshall sr., the lawyer whose arguments swayed the supreme court in the brown versus board of education case, and who later became the first african-american justice on the supreme court. thurgood marshall supreme court justice. graduating from the university of virginia and the university of virginia school of law, as a young lawyer he clerked for the u.s. district judge barrington parker and served as counsel to various entities and bill clinton and as the secretary of the cabinet of the clinton administration. currently is he a partner in the international law firm but his interests go beyond a legal field. he has wide ranging interest and public spirited, serving on boards as diverse as the national fish and wildlife foundation, historical society and ethics advisory committee of the u.s. olympic economy, among many others. newsweek magazine named him as the 100 people to watch and we have an opportunity today to hear him share his insights on the legal issues

thurgood marshall jr. the son of thurgood marshall sr., the lawyer whose arguments swayed the supreme court in the brown versus board of education case, and who later became the first african-american justice on the supreme court. thurgood marshall jr. is distinguished in his own right. graduating from the university of virginia. he's public serving on board as the national fish and wildlife foundation and the ford foundation, the supreme court historical society and the ethics advisory committee of the u.s. olympic committee among many others. newsweek magazine named him one of the 100 people to watch in the new century. and we have the opportunity today to hear him share his insights on the legal issues surrounding the eisenhower years and the men who shaped them. following mr. marshall, we have dr. charles sanders, a professor at my al a mater, and he received his undergraduate degree from north georgia college. another master's degree from the united states naval war college, and a ph.d. from can stas

crime and jjstice reporter joy lepola eeplains why aaents are targeting b-w-i thurgood marshall airporthe illicit activity. activity. ((pkg)) a man is charged with human trafficking after a teen's mother makes a desperatt call to police.(file sot) the 19 year od from new jersey wanted out and wasn't being allowed to do so. court ocuments detail how 19 year old johnisha harris was warned by other girls that... "leaving was not that easy". edward perkins used backpage to get the word out. police found harris at a hotel near b-w-i. a textbook example of a growing problem federal agents say is thriving inn maryland. (agent) 11:11:33 maryland is a transit thruway for victims of human trafficking and those who traffic them :38 tucked away in a corner at b-w-i thurgood marshall aarport.... agents hope to educate travelers regarding the illicit activity. that surrounds them. (agent) 11:17:45 we've had cases here in this terminal where this terminal has been used as a ttafficking point general prostitution turns into trafficking when either a juvenile is involved or a victim is being fooced or c

a year later in june of '91, an aging and frail justice thurgood marshall announced his retirement. from the supreme court. obviously african americans saw the marshall seat as the black seat and the long tradition of seats reserved for catholics, jews and geographic constituencies over the court's history. in fact this so-called representative criterion is only one of the quartet of factors presidents have used to place 112 justices on the u.s. supreme court. the other three which henry has developed in his seminal book justices, presidents and senators, the other three factors he has cited are objective merit, ideological combatability and in some instances personal friendship. so now i will turn to the appointment of david sutter, henry will cover the thomas appointment. thought to be a moderate conservative, and road scholar at oxford, sutter received bush's nomination to the u.s. first circuit court of appeals and began serving there in may have 1990.o 199f 1990. when the brennan seat opened up, sutter's dear friend and mentor from new hampshire lobbied hard for judge sutter to

right now they're cooling off. 43 at bwi-thurgood marshall. 50 at washington. 52 in frederick.st no wind. tomorrow things begin to change. 46 by noon. we're still dry by lunchtime. the chances for rain go up and this could get heavy by tomorrow night. we'll talk about when this storm gets out of here and look ahead to the weekend. it's all coming up. >>> while lots of peopleq miym fans, he goes to every game with a groupÑi of fansçóçói tailgates using ravens tools. he had trouble findin"

for example, i think it was thurgood marshall that lost 174 students, which was an incredible impact on the school budget. we were interested in a discussion about that. i would like to let the listening public know that we will have another budget meeting in january. i believe it will be january 26, which is the first tuesday of the month. i will not be president, but commissioner yee will >> thank you, so an update from the curriculum committee, commissioner norton? >> yes, the curriculum committee met on monday, december fifth. we devoted the meeting to an update on the special education redesign and it was a good time to kind of pause and say, ok, it's been a year since we had -- more than a year since we had our review. she gave a very frank presentation on the challenges that we're still facing in special ed and also talked in a fair amount of detail about some of the change efforts they have going on and -- ms. casco, did other board members get a copy of her handouts because the two i want to call to your attention specifically are a very detailed list of change efforts over

maryland is a transit thruway for and those who traffic thhm :38 tucked aaay in a corner at b-w-i thurgood marshallng when either a juvenile is involved or a victim is being forced or coerced. stand up 13:12::6 federal agents any people are unaware that this form of moddrn day lavery eeen exists &pand this neighborhood is a perfect example over the summer federal agents raided a business at the center oo a human trafficking operation had no idea.(girl from file pkg where she says it said massage parlorbutt bite (homeowner no super) 13:13:34 we heard it later onnbut not right at the time. did it surprise you? yes in a way why is that? we don't have trouble like that anywhere in this neighborhood a thriving unnerground business thaa federal agents have targeted in an effort to bring aaoot awareness of a problem some would prefer to ignore. 11:15:15 i would say the problem is idden in maryland joy leeola fox 45 news at ten. 3 thhre are ressurces available for victims of human trafficking. go to fox -slass-newlinks for more information. 3 and he was right t he threshold, and i hit him that one last tim

we visited thurgood marshall high school, lincoln high school, san francisco international high-school. we saw varying levels of support. at least one of the high schools, there were over 100 newcomers, which was great. it was not necessarily the same at all of the schools we observed. what we found was that it was challenging for the staff to have many levels of english proficiency at their sites. and they found that there was not enough support from the district. this came from the parents that we were able to meet. we purposely organize our business so that we would meet with these parents as much as possible. there was also an issue that we saw that the chinese and spanish-speaking populations or not necessarily getting the translation and support they needed so that they would feel totally engaged and the part of the community. we are going to change our of this is for the upcoming school year to. those are, in brief, some of the quick observations we saw last year and. >> the bcc will focus on the students. this year, i am going to tell you about the focus for the 2011-2012 obser

in proclaiming his choice to replace thurgood marshall, bush argued that the fact that thomas is black has nothing to do with the sense that he is the best qualified at this time. "even i had high doubts if i so extravagantly acclaimed thomas recorded years later. and thornburg remembered that i kind did have a double take. i think what the president meant, sort of with a wing in the eye, was that this was the best qualified african-american candidate we could find and i think he's right. fred mcclure recalls that unlike sutter, thomas hasn't been immersed in the intricacy cities of the law and you have to work with him on that because he hasn't spent a whole lot of time how the court had dealt with baker or madison or all those because that has hot been his life.nt been his life. thomas attempted to use the evasion technique that had served justice sutter and other prior nominees so well, also called the ginsburg routine. the senate judiciary committee vote the 7-2 in his vote on the nominee and his name headed to the full at some without the committee's endorsement. before the senate

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. >>> there's an accident headed to thurgood marshall airport. 195 eastbound accident before 295.d to stay true the left to get by. this is interstate 195 eastbound. eastbound 66 is jammed from 7100 to 123. a separate accidents for virginia commuters. back to you. >> thank you. >>> girl scout cookie season is almost here. you have a new choice this year. the scouts are introducing a new cookie to celebrate their 100th anniversary. savannah smiles is what it's called. it is described as cool and crisp with a lemon. the sales help fund girl scouts activities. >> i have ordered my already. >> i am sure. i could be a box of those. >> and another and another. i stick to the originals. >>> 6:42, 37 degrees. >> and we will never preview of the new hampshire primary. >> some of the best movies of the year now playing near you. i'm arch campbell with weekend best bets. >> what is ahead for the morning commute on [ male announcer ] when you're a coach in the nfl... ♪ ♪ ...there are no sick days. ♪ ♪ vicks dayquil. defeats 5 cold & flu symptoms. [ snoring ] [ indistinct talking on tv ] [ sno

thurgood marshall airport will offer charter flights to cuba after president obama announced an efforto expand charter service from the u.s. flights are scheduled to depart at 3:00 each day. the weekly service begins the week before the pope is scheduled to visit the communist island nation. we have heard the warnings about things to keep our kids safe online. but you may not know how easy it is for bad guys to find personal information about kids and their friends and use them to contact children directly. we asked a private detective to do it internet safety test with a family's permission. in no time, he was able to find it astonishing amount information. >> they are pretty typical. they both have facebook and twitter counts. there bob agreed to be with us on a story about internet safety. prior to be yes, i had given their name to the chief assistant d.a.. just turn name. they focused just on kristen and without much trouble, had a lot of information. >> i know her church, residents, when her mom does, her soccer club, our friends names -- >> we had an undercover detective go on li

. >>> a plan headed to dulles is safely going to thurgood marshall airport. an indicator showed there might be a problem with the plane's landing gear. the plane landed without problem. and no one was hurt. >>> violent weather to our south. at least two people are killed in powerful storms in alabama. alexis christoforous reports for wjz. tens of thousands of people are now without power. >> reporter: the violent weather pounded the south, spawning possible tornadoes that ripped apart homes near centerpoint, alabama. trees and power lines littered the streets. firefighters spent the day going house to house, checking for victims. andrew watley ran from his home when it started shaking. >> what did you see when you got down there? >> pretty much all of the houses gone. people out there, trying to dig through stuff. took one guy out. took him out of the house in the door. he's all bloodied up. he went to the hospital. >> reporter: emergency officials say the deadly storms hit overnight and injured at least 100 people in the birmingham area. >> the whole house w

maryland is a transit thruway for and those who traffic thhm :38 tucked aaay in a corner at b-w-i thurgood marshallhen either a juvenile is involved or a victim is being forced or coerced. stand up 13:12::6 federal agents any people are unaware that this form of moddrn day lavery eeen exists &pand this neighborhood is a perfect example over the summer federal agents raided a business at the center oo a human trafficking operation had no idea.(girl from file pkg where she says it said massage parlorbutt bite (homeowner no super) 13:13:34 we heard it later onnbut not right at the time. did it surprise you? yes in a way why is that? we don't have trouble like that anywhere in this neighborhood a thriving unnerground business thaa federal agents have targeted in an effort to bring aaoot awareness of a problem some would prefer to ignore. 11:15:15 i would say the problem is idden in maryland joy leeola fox 45 news at ten. 3 thhre are ressurces available for victims of human trafficking. go to fox -slass-newlinks for more information. 3 and he was right t he threshold, and i hit him that one last time an

temperature right now, 62 degrees at bwi thurgood marshall. 62. our average high is 41. we are 21 degrees above the normal high for this date. 51 in oakland. 53 on the shore. 63 also down in patuxent river. 61 in hagerstown. we are expecting this pater -- pattern to stay on through with us through the eastern seaboard. cold air approaches. but even colder air, when it finally hits us, takes us back down into temperatures, above our average high. we're still going to stay with this mild trend for the foreseeable future. we'll talk about how long it will stay with us and your complete updated first warning forecast just ahead. >>> the leader of the baltimore archdiocese will soon hold one of the most powerful positions inside the catholic church. today, pope benedict named archbishop edwin o'brien a cardinal. >> reporter: baltimore archbishop, edwin o'brien, one of just two american church leaders, named cardinal today at the vatican, with hundreds looking on. we spoke with now cardinal- designate o'brien from rome. >> i knew it was going to happen. but i'm a fatalist, i s

[applause] >> for all of her hard work in the community, faye received the thurgood marshal award intion of her proven leadership and community development. faye hopes her accomplishments can be used to encourage the youth of america to become great leaders of tomorrow. >> i can tell them what of' told my daughters, which is there's no shortcuts. there are just no shortcuts. you've got to do the right thing, you've got to be true to yourself. you've got to have belief and faith in god. you've got to at all times, understand what are the consequences for your action. decide if you want to be a leader or a follower. >> kelly: fay mcclure making los angeles proud and living her life beyond a dream. >> jamie: setting a great example, thanks, kelly. the economy ringing in the new year with a bang and coming up we'll look at financial trends you can look forward to, yes, look forward to, in 2012. plus, how is this for a hit and run. four burglary suspects trying to dodge the police after a wild chase. the dramatic end next. (siren sounding). [ tires squeal ] an accidendoesn't have to sl yo

emergency crews rushed to the aid of a small jet that overshot a runway at bwi thurgood marshall airportplane came to rest soin som grass. two people on board are okay. the plane came from the poconos in pennsylvania. the incident did not affect any air traffic. >>> florida's governor is ordering an sfwhoefgz a deadly 2 -- an investigation into a deadly 20-car pileup. he wants to know why authorities reopened the highway early sunday morning. heavy snoqualmmoke plus fog bli drivers. the chain-reaction crash killed ten people. troopers had reopened the interstate about 15 minutes before the pileup began. the florida highway patrol defended its decision to reopen the highway saying that visibility had improved, and then deteriorated quickly. >>> 6:15 now. the deadly shipwreck in italy is having a financial impact on carnival cruise lines. the company owns the "costa concordia" which hit a reef more than two week ago. carnival says since the crash, it's had a major drop in reservations and estimates a loss of about $175 million in profits. salvage teams say it could be a year before they ca

familiar with life under slavery and jim crow or cared about the legacy of civil rights heroes like thurgood marshall and rosa parks and john lewis and andy young and others that i mentioned earlier, they could tap into the imagination of an heroic generation. formed by the virtue, by the virtues of religion who pursued to public justice by pursuing public virtue. an ailing american culture is responsible for the spectacle. in society that does not value forming young people and the ways of prudence and justice, courage, self control and the like, why would we be surprised that convenience stores are being robbed by youthful mobs? in is a site that does not value private property and fosters the spirit of indie and class class warfare through wealth redistribution, why should we be surprised that young people don't value someone else's property? or choose a more technical term, stuff. radical individualism and moral relativism defined the ethics of our era, and criminal flash mobs expose our progressive failures. as we celebrate king's memorial, we must lament the fact that america's abandonment of v

. >>> emergency crews had to rush to the aid of a small jet that overshot a runway at bwi thurgood marshall. the plane came to rest in some grass and it happened last night around 7:00. two people were onboard and they are okay this morning. the plane comes from the -- came from the poconos in pennsylvania and incident did not affect air traffic. >>> new today, italian emergency officials say that they are ending the search for missing people after that cruise ship disaster. the costa concordia hit a reef and partially submerged near italy more than two weeks ago. divers now say the wreckage and water conditions are just too dangerous to continue search efforts. 16 people were still missing. meanwhile carnival cruise lines which owns the ship says the crash led to major drop in reservations on future trips. it estimates losing nearly $175 million in profits. >>> we are going check again on our weather and find out if any changes are on the way. here's tom kierein. >> warmup under way. good morning. as we are approaching the noon hour, temperatures are approaching. 60 degrees just south of w

this morning two people are safe after their small jet plane overshot the runway at bwi thurgood marshalle plane landed in the grassy area last night around 7:00. the two who were flying were from the -- flying from the poconos in pennsylvania to baltimore. the incident did not affect any commercial air traffic. >>> and this morning, one person is in the hospital after eye stairwell collapsed inside an apartment complex in southwest washington. the collapse trapped some people in their upstairs apartments. it happened in the 4300 block of mlk avenue southwest near bowling air force base. neighbors telling news4 that the stairwell collapsed as a man was delivering a large piece of furniture. he was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. >> i just heard one of the residents fall. i had assumed that maybe he had just fell down the steps. it wasn't until later on that i was on my way to work that i realized that the bottom landing had actually fell through. >> firefighters temporarily shored up the stairwell to allow people to exit the building until more permanent repairs can be made.

headed by thurgood marshall, and he was wedded to their philosophy on fighting for civil rights through the legal system. in those cases, they talked about voter rights, public facilities, and educational opportunities. in a nonsegregated basis. the sheer volume of cases that he fought is so impressive, but of course there are some that were more integralry a personal story in that they involved his son, and those were the cases to desegregate lsu. louisiana state university was not open to african-americans when he started the first case in 1946. and in that case, there was a postman from new orleans that wanted to attend law school at lsu. there will no law schools for african-americans to attend in the state. and the result of that case was the opening of a law school at southern university, an all-black school here, during that time. later, in the 1950s, he fought for -- to help odors open the df lsu law school and undergreat what school. so in 1953 his son was the first african-american to attend the undera graduate school at lsu. basically it was a media circus. they followed him

with the louisiana naacp as well as the national office of the legal defense fund headed by thurgood marshallnd he was wedded to their philosophy on fighting for civil rights through the legal system. in those cases, they fought for voter rights, public facilities and educational opportunities. in a non-segregated aces. the sheer volume of cases that he fought is so impressive. but of course there are some that were more integrally a personal story in that they involve his son a.p. tureaud jr. and those were the cases that would be segregate lsu. louisiana state university was not open to african-americans. when he started the first case in 1946, and in that case, there was a postman from new orleans that wanted to attend law school at lsu. there were no law schools for african-americans in the state, and the result of that case was opening a law school at southern university, an all-black school here, during that time. later, in 1950, he fought for -- to open the doors of lsu law school, medical school, graduate school and undergraduate school. this was before brown so in 1953, his son, ap j

and at bwr, marshall thurgood airport, 48 degrees as well.emperatures still above the seasonal average. we should only be about 43 to 44. look at this, 49-mile-per-hour wind gusts at dulles. unbelievable. 20 at fredericksburg. 21hagerstown. the winds have been a continuing factor into the course of the day. they'll start to diminish heading into tonight. definitely if you're heading out as i always say, hang onto your hat. temperatures, 36 at gaithersburg, 41 manassas. 44hagerstown. 43 here in d.c. 42degrees at baltimore. temperatures not too bad. we are going to really cool down, though, into the overnight hours and be prepared for that. you can see this line of precipitation. it's a fast moving clipper system that left snowfall over the upper midwest. will move through quickly tonight. what's happening is we're seeing a little bit of rainfall now moving into the d.c. area. this is going to quickly change over into snow. we are talking snow showers. accumulation? really not too much to talk about. make it a little coating on your car or on t

howard's motto is leading the fight for social justice, and looking back at thurgood marshall and what he went through to lead the right for civil rights, human law falls 234 that same category. if you think about guantanamo, i mean, from a year ago -- exactly a year ago today until now, what's changed? i mean, there's 171 people at guantanamo, there were 173 last year. in a year's time, we had two people die, one person convicted with the military commission, and we had congress pass the national defense authorization act making guantanamo a permanent fixture. other than that, nothing's really changed in the course of a year. think about it for a minute. think about these words. falsely imprisoning people, holding them for long periods, trying them in inappropriate circumstances, conducting hearings in secret, inadequate legal counsel, confessions obtained by coercion. sound familiar? that was from a press statement yesterday from a state department spokesperson talking about the conviction of the man from iran. it sounds familiar to me. we're hypocrites for holding ourselves up as be

howard's motto is leading the fight for social justice, and looking back at thurgood marshall and whatad the fight for civil rights, i think human rights fall in that category. exactly a year ago today to now what's changed at guantanamo? i mean, there's 171 people at guantanamo, there were 173 last year, and in the year's time, we had two people die, one person convicted in the military commission, and we had congress pass the national defense authorization act making guantanamo a permanent fixture, but other than that, nothing's changed in the course of a year. think about it for a minute. think about these words. falsely imprisoning people, holding them for long periods, trying them in inappropriate circumstances, cuking proceedings in secret, inadequate legal council, confessions obtained by coercion. sound familiar? that was from a press statement yesterday from a state department's spokesperson talking about the conviction of amir in iran, and we condemn iran for using those procedures, and i'm thinking it sounds awful familiar to me. we're hypocrites for holding ourselves up as

finally, our next event begins in 22 minutes here in the thurgood marshall building ballroom at 10:30. please, join us then for a lecture titled "crafting a defense policy for an operational reserve." thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> so a break of about 30 minutes or so in the reserve officers association symposium this morning. we will resume our live coverage when they return here on c sparks 2. a quick remind or to join us tomorrow when the senate select committee on intelligence hears about global threats to the u.s. witnesses include david petraeus, who you just heard from, robert mueller, director of the fbi, among other intelligence chiefs, and we'll have live coverage starting for you at 10 a.m. ian on our -- eastern on our companion network, c-span. again, about a half hour break, here's a recent event looking at cybersecurity challenges and ways to prevent voter fraud in elections. these remarks were part of a daylong summit exploring new technologies and innovative ways of approaching problems in overseas and military voting. pew

looking back at thurgood marshall and what he went through to lead the fight for civil rights, i think171 people at guantÁnamo. there were 173 last year. in a years time with the two people die, one person convicted and we've had congress passed the national defense authorization actinic guantÁnamo a permanent fixture. other than that, nothing has changed in the course of a year. think about these words. falsely imprisoning people, holding for long periods, trying in appropriate circumstances, conducting proceedings are secret. inadequate legal counsel, confessions obtained by coercion. does that sound familiar? does have a pressing it yesterday from the state department spokesperson victoria mewling talking about conviction as a mere 90 in iran. we condemned iran for use in most procedures. i'm thinking this sounds awful familiar to me. there were hypocrites for holding ourselves up for being a standardbearer for the rule of the in humanitarian treatment, yet what we can for us those working on for others. how did we get there? shot and you did an article in "the wall street journal"