jesse jackson at a campaign event for obama?what does he do for a living and who signs his checks and when we raise our taxes does he get a raise? >> get a raise? >> when our taxes go up? i don't know, what does jesse jackson do for a living? >> he's a minister. >> and so was jerry falwell and pat robertson. >> can i jump in, please, your 4% number, what percent of 4%-- please, probably closer to 40. >> i cited a source. >> name that source. >> let's move on. >> a source-- >> and let me tell you yesterday i saw the story and i was going to bring it to "the five" and maybe i better not because newt's called president obama the food stamp president, and a lot of attack for being racist to say it pt now the reverend jesse jackson says he is the food stamp president so let's have the discussion. what discussion? president obama is the food stamp president, food stamp usage has gone from 40 to 46 million americans to 60 to 85 billion under president obama. not only the food stamp president the redistribution president. >> and proudly

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linton, i understand that you are with the reverend jesse jackson. >> the reverend jesse jackson is withe. were you at the funeral home this morning, reverend? >> earlier today. you know, we feel such awesome pain and yet joy. the pain is for this transition, and yet she lived to be 48. she covered as many price as many people cover in lifetime. we have an awful lot. cissy is doing better. she was so trauma advertised. we must know that her first music teacher was her mother. her first choir director was her mother. her mother never made it to the stage that whitney made it to. she sang with aretha franklin, with elvis presley. singing both with birth and an environment which whit knew rose to greatness. >> reverend, a very good friend of the family's. you mentioned cissy, the mother, krissy, the daughter. it's time now to be respectful to the family as we have been saying in the media and to pay tribute to whitney houston and her mother, her daughter, and the entire family, what they're dealing with. >> nobody can imagine the pain of losing a child unless they've lost a child or losing

and i talked to reverend jakes and jesse jackson and others and maybe we need to sit down as spiritual leaders to sit down to build mechanisms and how many funerals do we have to go to say, wait, what are we going through? etta james, and don cornelius, and whitney houston have all gone through things in life, and we have to make sure that things are in place to help people in the industry. >> well, reverend al sharpton putting it in perspective. >> and jesse jackson right over here. and i will give him my microphone as he has given me his many times. come on, reverend. >> okay. alex, we will get reverend jackson. >> there are certainly a lot of inkred canable moments that we'd like to recall from the 3 1/2 hours at the new hope baptist church. the first thing we'd like to play from what we witnessed here inside of the new hope baptist church and the first thing we'd like to play for you is tyler perry, and this is from the service a short while ago. >> the other thing that i know for sure and this is more important than anything else shes has done in her life. whitney houston loved th

so jesse jackson says -- they started arguing among themselves. half wanted to come to memphis, half didn't, said, no, leave it alone. and he said, i've made my decision. i've been thinking about what i've done. i hope one day i can thank the people who did for me, lake harriet tubman. what am i going to say when she asked me what happened? am i going to say i had a headache. i can't tell harriet i had a headache. let's go ahead and go to memphis. two weeks later, he came to memphis. he was still depressed, though. he was just fatigued. you have to understand that b biographers had researched his life. he had three kids at home in alabama. every dime he made, that money had to go back into the movement to get kids out of jail. people lost jobs, he gave money for food, he was constantly trying to refuel the movement financially. so he had no money. he was not a wealthy man. he also had offers to be presidents of universities. he could have made a lot of money had he stepped away at that particular time. but he came back into memphis and he came to

he does use twist religion to suit his politics and i think that that has hurt him. >> unlike jesse jackson and al sharpton. >> we're not talking about them. they weren't on tv at that moment. >> at that moment. >> what about the issue that graham went on air to talk about, a christian minister in iran who has been sentenced to death, and then-- >> he should have said, i didn't come here to talk about it, changed the dynamic. >> on talk radio, said-- >> if he had tied the stick to the message, and religious perce persecution, and it would have been a brief segment and i guarantee even fox news watch wouldn't be talking about it. >> jon: interesting. liberal media outrage against a pbs program. really? oh! [ baby crying ] ♪ what started as a whisper ♪ every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing. ♪ slowly turned to a scream ♪ there's an insurance company that does that, to liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? ♪ amen, omen >> this week, pbs, the public broadcasting system ran an american experience documentary on former president bill clinton. the four h

. >> executives with a german manufacturing company are meeting today with reverend jesse jackson and with an employees who says he was discriminated against by supervisors at this company's chicago area office. >> reverend jackson brought a group of community leaders with him today all of them demand in that this company make major changes to the work environment. >> the news we have is a disturbing we would like to say this is an acceptable discriminatory or other conduct is unacceptable it has been and always will be. >> this company needs profound change and it is a change needs to take place immediately. . >> reverend jesse jackson and other members of the rainbow push coalition our meeting with company executives in the main topic of discussion is explosive allegations from this a 33 year- old employe eat. he said he encountered a racially hostile environment with his two years of work with the compnay. he said his immediate supervisor used daily racial language and was highly excepted by other employees. at today's press conference at the company executive made a formal apology

he does use twist religion to suit his politics and i think that that has hurt him. >> unlike jesse jackson and al sharpton. >> we're not talking about them. they weren't on tv at that moment. >> at that moment. >> what about the issue that graham went on air to talk about, a christian minister in iran who has been sentenced to death, and then-- >> he should have said, i didn't come here to talk about it, changed the dynamic. >> on talk radio, said-- >> if he had tied the stick to the message, and religious perce persecution, and it would have been a brief segment and i guarantee even fox news watch wouldn't be talking about it. >> jon: interesting. liberal media outrage against a pbs program. really? bored with your one trick lipstick? then lead a double life! with new blast flipstick from covergirl. it's the lipstick with a flip side. you call this a flip side? creamy color on one end, shimmery color on the other. expertly matched so you can flip your look. from demure, to daring. you be demure! day to night, naughty to nice. get gorgeous lips not once, but twice! now your lips can lead a

it changed because of somebody named jesse jackson, jr. it does make a difference. i think the history is suspect. historians browrote the books f years saying slavery has nothing to do with the war. they just passed right over it without being truthful about it because as they say in the civil war sales of the south and the people have different view. if you want to sale something, you have to have write something that's sentimental to their view. we put together an increase that shows the increase in the income in the african-american community. last week the nielsen people say it was over $1.1 billion. bigger than the income of canada and turkey. we are headed in the right direction. we just have to keep going. >> it was an cnn poll last spring. i think it said that about 47 or 48% of americans, i don't know what the poll question was, which matters believe that slavery probably was the principal cause. i had to decide whether that was good news or bad news. i decided it was good news. i bet you if you did that poll 20 years ago, it would be even less. >> i hope

reverend jesse jackson prompted by msnbc host martin bashir, has linked republican rhetoric with potentialiolence against president obama. jackson referred to arizona governor jan brewer's recent finger pointing and south carolina congressman joe wilson's you lied yell during a speech three years ago. jackson asserted the president is being demonized. >> we've seen what demonization can do when somebody feels you must get the demon out of the way. and so i don't disassociate these name calling and labels from an ak 747 shooting in the house and hit a window. someone could have been shot and killed. these are very dangerous times and these tones, fit the climate. >> the obama administration is trying to portray the president as running against a do nothing congress in this election year. however, house speaker john boehner's office notes at least four new proposals from president obama after the state of the union address, to spur job growth and grow small business have already passed the house and await senate approval. president obama wants to expand many stock offering a limits. the hous

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and when shirley chisholm ran and when jesse jackson ran, i just don't think we were quite there. we may actually be there now. whether he wins or not, he's doing really well among segments of the population that we might not have expected, and certainly was not there in the past in terms of supporting a black candidate. so, i think we have made some progress. >> i heard a black friend say barack obama's white. it's the white people who think he's black. >> uh-huh, uh-huh. well, from my perspective i think barack obama is a man who can have a foot in both worlds and understand both, and perhaps we need someone like that, certainly to run as a candidate. i'm certainly not going to suggest to people who they should vote for, but in terms of whether or not he's black enough or whether he's black or whether he's white, i think he has had the kind of experience that makes it possible for him to identify with all types of people, and i think it makes it possible for all types of people to identify with him. and that's a good thing, because we are very multiethnic i country. we have vari

up until a few years ago, park service was part of the problem until jesse jackson got a bill to congress to require the park service to include slavery -- that's how you get the great new exhibit at gettysburg. so what happened, the politics did change, the policies changed as a result of somebody named jesse jackson jr. whose daddy you know standing with martin luther king. and i agree, i think that history is suspect. i mean historians wrote these books for years saying slavery has nothing to do with civil war. they ignored all that we've been talking about, past right over it without being truthful about it because as they say in the civil war field in the south and the people of the south have a different view. if you want to sell stuff down there, you've got to write something sentimental to their point of view. that meant for black people you had to write it out of our -- out of our, you know, we became the -- the butt of those of tho. but over the last several years, this is one of the last exhibits the african civil war museum, we put an exhibit that goes from $18 billion in 1950

we're doing to talk to the reverend jesse jackson about how the service went

a dear reverend jesse jackson says the company needs to change before moving north american headquartersthis year. >> i have offered my apologies to tsa we willmontrelle r \eese we will do everything we need to settle this matter >> company days ago refused to acknowledge wrongdoing batt but the fact there were fighting against this saturday attorney told us they were fighting this taking it to court was not important they sound sincere but would we be there now if the media was not involved i do not know >> second day in narrow reverend jesse jackson met with thyssen krup executives with community leaders and cook county commissioner robert steele the tense meeting at all thyssen krup lombard offices set the stage for on going discussions to boost diversity and sensitivity training company president said he was disciplined those who engage in racially offensive behavior that was documented 2010 est. annoyed report compiled by department of human rights. investigators found substantial evidence of racial harassment a pattern of discrimination bacchant up recent account montrelle reese ac

jesse jackson strongly disagree with their decision this past week, to close or phase out seven schools, lewis and jackson say the city should return to publicly electing them. >> we are still responsible as a community, parents students and teachers to take this to the streets because that's where it needs to go. >> returning to an elected school board would require a change in state law and another option would be to take the issue before federal courts. a new plan for public transportation on the south side one ottomans idea to improve the safety and quality of your next ride in the somber gathering in the northern suburbs or family marked five years since this man was last seen alive. >> strong winds will push milder air over chicago tomorrow, details next. attention! it's the kmart home sale. all furniture on sale. complete bed set starting at $29.99. entire stock of bath towels, sheets and blankets on sale. attention! your dog's a contradiction. he's sticking his butt out the window instead of his head. you're eating starburst [ guy 2 ] it's solid, yet juicy. dude, your dog is wei

we also saw reverend jesse jackson and al sharpton.wick and jennifer hudson and angela bassett. a number of notables. for many people, undoubtedly, it was an inspirational and emotional experience and in many ways, very likely, a comforting one. gary, back to you. >> susan, thank you very much. >>> we all know that whitney houston will be remembered as the voice, a diva, and a superstar. how did she see herself? here's whitney houston in her own words. >> when we started, it was about what would fit with my voice, what song did. when clive heard me sing "the greatest love," which is the song he grasped onto and said, that's where we're going to go. we've finally got someone who can sing great ballads. ♪ the greatest love of all is happening to me ♪ >> so i'm proud to carry that torch, you know what i'm saying? i'm proud of that. you give the best you've got. i worked really hard, and i gave it all i had, and that's all you can expect. i feel humbled. i feel blessed to have received all of this -- these accolades. i don't know, that's t

congratulations, thanks. >>> still ahead, reverend jesse jackson remembers whitney houston.enn. 50 years ago today he became the first american to orbit the earth. he is going to be here. he is joining soledad o'brien on "starting point." you are watching "early start." . we've got to protect the environment. the economists make some good points. we need safer energy. [announcer:] who's right? they all are. visit powerincooperation.com. >>> we are at the end of our program and i never got the world of the day in. it's kind of cheating. >> all right. soledad o'brien, "starting point." >> don't you have to work it into a sentence or something? >> how about you do it for us? >> here, i feel like a little vagabond on my own little island over here as "starting point" gets under way. >> adorable. >> good morning, everybody. we are talking about our "starting point" this morning, person swept down a thousand feet from a mountain.

joining us now the reverend jesse jackson.ir. >> governors can stick their fingers in the president's face in public. congressmen call him a liar in the state of the union address. presidential candidates refer to him as the food stamps president. one congressman can go as far as telling him, and i'm quoting alan west, get the hell out of the united states of america. why do republicans think this is acceptable behavior in public? >> well, they're making money off of it when governor brewer put her finger in his face, her book sales went up. when wilson from south carolina called him liar from the floor of the congress, he went on and raised $2 million that weekend. others get more votes when they do that, but demonizing the president is both morally wrong and dangerous. they make the case he's not an american, he was not born here. that's the donald trump argument. he's not a christian, he's not one of us, he is a food stamp president. well, the packet is food stamps is morally correct and helps people who need food assistanc

that's why i wanted to shoot jesse jackson the most, you know? that's the one i stalked.i might have been a little too obvious because i was driving down that road one day and i looked and saw a car behind me. i thought it looks like that dude is following in that car. i'm going to take the next right and if he takes the right too, i know he's following me. i took the next right and he took a right too, kept on going. i thought, somebody's tailing me. i better get out of town. >> the paranoia really in a way is justified, because he knows that he's shot and killed people all over the united states. it's that personality trait of his that actually led to his identity and to his arrest. >> after his plan to shoot jesse jackson fails, he stumbles upon another high-profile target, civil rights leader vernon jordan. >> i left chicago at that time, headed toward indiana. i stopped in in forth wayne that night. just happened to hear on the news that vernon jordan was speaking at the marriott hotel at such and such time. i thought well, if he's speaking at the hotel, he's probabl

a number of the of the inner circle, particularly jesse jackson and james lawson say dr. king made little secret of one day seceding dr. mays of morehouse college. it seemed that at one point, dr. king thought he could be the president of morehouse college. we know that didn't happen. i'm curious based on your een ds say anything specific about the possibility of a future role for dr. king on the morehouse campus? >> i think mays absolutely saw king as a spiritual son. i think he hoped that someone of king's statue would be able to succeed him. he had a trustee board and we don't know what they thought. he certainly hoped that martin -- say had the montgomery movement stopped right there. martin would have been the perfect candidate to become president of morehouse college.

i loved what jesse jackson had to say about her.same time. and i'm just still in a state of shock because she is somebody for whom i worked and who i knew and who i thought the world of, and she was such a talent, and a good person and fun person to be around. and i'm just still shocked at the fact she passed at such an early age. our heart and prayers go out to her family, to her daughter, brothers and sisters, and her mom. >> as do all our prayers and thoughts are with them tonight. reverend watkins, tell us about the first time you met whitney houston as she was coming to the white house to meet president bush. >> well, i actually met her at a dinner, but i met her at a dinner in new york city for the united negro college fund and i thought she was so elegant and warm, and she just greeted everybody personally before the dinner started, said hi, i'm whitney houston, as if we didn't know who she was. here it is this superstar introducing herself to everybody in this wonderful way, and then of course i was talking with one of her s

democratic primaries and the second congressional district, candidates leveled against her incumbent jesse jackson jr. she claimed jackson give $100 million to the airport project that she said he should of used for other projects. albertson also told reporters that jackson made errors in getting up free plane ticket from a campaign fund-raiser for a woman he had a relationship with, jackson's campaign is not returned a call for comment late tonight. saturday sometimes what is quoted as convicted former governor rob blagojevich's in describing her as " the most on ethical person in government. and " collins is demanding an apology. >> he has the nerve to compare me to a person who was convicted for selling office? those comments are malicious and i demand an apology to me, my family and my friends. collins is threatening to file a libel suit if he does not apologize by tuesday morning in a statement tonight he says: he has no intention of apologizing. >> in light of this wednesday's budget address. >> we have to make cuts in illinois there is no question but we don't want to quaestor spending and/

extended family, several members inside the church, just a little while ago, as was the reverend jesse jackson, who was a friend of the family who spoke to whitney houston's mom cissy houston saying she is completely devastated by this loss. we know there were members of the family over at the home of cissy houston. they're really just grappling with this trying to come to terms with exactly what's happened and why it happened now, especially since she seemed to be on the comeback, really she appeared to have kicked the addiction, at least in part. she had a new movie sparkle which is about musicians who are dealing with drug addiction, so there were a lot of good things in her life having ended by what all intents and purposes was a toxic marriage. we did speak earlier to several parishioners but also to the pastor. here's what he had to say. >> how do you feel? >> i haven't slept. i've been up all night. just gone over, listening to her songs and reminiscing about her life and what's going to happen now to her daughter, her mom, her brothers. she's in a better place. >> lot of the concern on

reverend jesse jackson, thank you very much.attending the funeral service there a difficult day for many but also a celebration of who she was. thank you, reverend. whitney houston's voice, her success, inspiring countless performers on their own journeys to stardom n a few minutes, we are going to talk to grammy winner ashanti. she is going to join us live with her memories of whitney houston. and tomorrow morning beginning at 11 a.m. eastern, cnn beginning live coverage of whitney houston's funeral, joining piers morgan, soledad o'brien, don lemon, whitney houston, her life, her music, start act tomorrow morning, 11 eastern. >>> the u.n. condemns syria's government for the lawering its own people, but the military keeps right on attacking. we are going to have two live reports from the region. >>> it is now 14 relentless days of this. talking about a constant barrage of shelling unleashed by syrian forces in the city of homs. our journalists say the streets there are deserted because people have either fled or they are too sca

the reverend jesse jackson led hundreds of people in a memorial service for the soul train founder.lius started soul train working part-time in chicago for a radio station. he died this week at age 75 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound down in l.a. in new york, meantime, hundreds of people showed up for a flash mob soul train dance in times square. >> got some moves there. busting them out. i'm sure you've got good moves. >> oh, man. i've got platform shoes still in the closet, bell bottoms. don't get me started. serious weather? >> yeah, now the concern is with some of the prescription falling, the snow, temperatures are falling. it means we'll probably see areas of slick conditions. i'm talking along the bridges, the overpasses. we start with our weather camera, cloudy conditions out there. temperature 38 degrees. cloudy. winds out of the northeast at 6 miles per hour. here is a look at the doppler radar where now we've got green, which means some light rain. not a whole lot of snow showing up just yet, but in between win chester and leesburg, purple here. that's a wintery mix th

counties as well if you like to vote early early voting continues through march 15th congressmen jesse jackson jr. is kicking up an endorsement in his tie congressional primary race the ipo and nonpartisan group of voters announced it will support jackson for reelection. am i support government programs that help people that is what americans do, help each other especially those with temporary need. his main challenge in the primaries by former congresswoman debbie kell duerson. the academy awards are taking place right now at the kojak theatre in hollywood and oscar is made right here in chicago but for how long? >> with a glimmer of oscar it's hard to think of hollywood's most coveted award is manufactured right here. but scott segal says it could happen. he is president of our as zero, >> we had over 400 employees at one time and we have 100 now it's a shame to lose that expertise. the art being shipped overseas he says to the lowest bidder. >> a lot of the most well-known high and awards in a united states have gone to china the golden globes are made in china, the mtv video music awards a

we're doing to talk to the reverend jesse jackson about how the service went and the burial which was yesterday. >>> new national poll show that rick santorum is pulling away. up eight points from mitt romney can super tuesday getting closer. >>> and then, saturday night live officially exhausts all the jeremy lin oh did you see this? very funny. "starting point" begins right now. ♪ where is my hairbrush? how do i sing along? thank you. i love this song. what can be better than starting your morning with her. welcome, everybody. let's get right to our panel. we've po tgot the actor and comn joining us. ron brownstein in person. editorial director of the "national journal." and will cain. >> was that familiarity or disappointment? >> with love. will cain who i always like to see sitting next to me. >> good morning. >> we've got a lot to get to this morning. it was a tough week obviously with the death of whitney houston and really at the end of the week an opportunity to remember her and her legacy. she was laid to rest yesterday in westfield, new jersey. the private moment followed a

up until a few years ago, the parks service was part of the problem until jesse jackson got involved. that's how you got that great new exhibit at gettysburg, which is is the pilot for the whole parks system. and it does make a difference. i think history historians wrote these books. said it had nothing to do with the civil war. they came out of the great universities. they ignored all of this. they passed right over them without being truthful about it because as they say in the civil war of the south and the people of the south have a different view. you want to stop it, you have to write something that's sentimental to their point of view. that meant for black people you had to write it out of our -- you know, we became the butt of those things. but over the last several years that's one of the last exhibits that african-american civil war museum. we put together an exhibit that showed you the increase in income for the african-americans. it goes from 18 bld to $900 billion in the year 2008. last week the kneel son people said it was over $1.1 billion. that's the aggregate income

we also saw tyler perry and dionne warwick, angela bassett, jesse jackson and al sharpton that wavedowd across the street. undoubtedly for many an inspirational experience and also a very comforting one. don, back to you. >> thank you very much for that. whitney houston had the good for fun in her career to meet and collaborate with some of the best minds in the business like michael walden. he co-produced this hit for her and so many others. listen. ♪ oh i want to dance with somebody ♪ ♪ i want to feel the heat with somebody ♪ >> i want to welcome narda right now. what a great song. did you sing that for us the other night? you sang for us -- >> i may have when we were on. i think i sang "how will i know" for you. i think i sang "how will i know" for you. >> tell us how that came about, "how will i know"? how did it go. ♪ there's a boy i can ♪ he's the one i dream of >> i'm so struck by her power. she had so much power to be so beautiful at 19 years old, thin and gorgeous. i was like, wow. >> you know what's interesting is one of her voice coaches said it's rarely you can get a sing

. >> demonstration the family met with jesse jackson. >> why did they have to kill this boy? why not using the physical strength to hold them or use a taser? white shoot him point blank range with 2 bullets? wrongful and unnecessary, unacceptable. >> police said it appears the shooting was justified. no on- camera statement from police tonight but they did say in response to the demonstrations people have the right to assemble and express opinions autopsy scheduled for tomorrow morning. >> two teenagers accused of beating a black teenager and putting a noose around his neck charged with eight crimes. the pair along with 18 year-old suspected of war and 17 year-old to the hall of one of the teens once there they attacked him yelling racial slurs also slipping a noose around his neck one boy held a knife to his throat apparently upset about friendship with the 16 year-old white female cousin. still ahead searching for the truth cook county prosecutors launch a program aimed at helping wrongly convicted. 2000 jobs coming to illinois chrysler rolling out a plan to get people back

you see the reverend jesse jackson on his way up. sitting there on the stage. amily, it was uplifting. >> reporter: what i thought was interesting, i was watching on social media. we were on twitter and facebook and people said cissy, and marvin said it, cissy houston took the world to church today by having this service in her church, in her daughter's church. >> having it this way with the media properly positioned. it was with dignity. it was not a media circus. well covered, but with a level of respect. whitney left us about this time a week ago, but her music will last a long time. she had the impact far beyond her appreciation while she was alive. >> reporter: on social media there was controversy. they said bobby came in and left. do you know anything about it? was he asked to leave? >> four or five of them sitting in the front row. they wanted him to move. i think they didn't make accommodation for him to move. so he was asked to leave. that was a difficult moment. i tried to get him to stay. they wouldn't make room for him, that was a painful mar on tod

they offered prayers and condolences and received support from jesse jackson. >> this is where her soul was cultivated. her mother sang sweet inspirations in the church choir sang with aretha franklin and elvis presley and church choirs, so she had very natural gifts. she took these gifts to the world stage and the whole world rejoiced. >> in harlem on 125th street fans began a tribute at the doors of the apollo theater. she filmed "the greatest love of all." ♪ the grates love of all is happening to me ♪ >> apollo historian billy mitchell was there and remembers her voice of course but also her personality. >> very low maintenance. when they were shooting the video. she wasn't demanding i want this, i want that. that's not the vibe that she showed. i didn't see that type of vibe at all. >> whitney houston's ties to new jersey runs deep she grew up in east orange where performing art school is named in her honor the whitney houston academy. church members leading a special service told us they are now focused on supporting her family at this traumatic time. >> we all love one another. pr

we heard from jesse jackson and reverend al sharpton calling for a national prayer for the family tomorrow. we haven't received any word about funeral services, will it be in california or new hampshire. >> gregg: thank you very much. whitney houston, just 48 years old. i'm gregg jarrett. now back to war stores with oliver north. >>> it wasn't the planes they flew or weapons necessity employed. it was the color of their skin. in the 1940s our country was seg grairtd gated. they believed that black men couldn't fly in combat. seasoned airmen would have to prove them wrong. they did. by war's end they claimed thousand aviators. they flew 15,000 combat missions destroyed 250 enemy planes and never lost a bomber to an enemy fighter. join us tonight on war stories. the red tales. saga of the tugs gekee airmen. >>> i have never felt i couldn't do it. >> flying was something i really wanted to do. >> before they could fly the tuskeege airmen would have to overcome a country separated by prejudice. >> you stepped off the sidewalk --. >> theaters, you had to sit in the balcony. >> this was the time

jesse jackson was at the service as well. we will take a quick break yet to be right back. here's a look at what is happening along the golden gate bridge. >>pam: coming up, victims of the unified school district scandal and how their parents are speaking out about the teacher mark berndt, he is one of two former teachers accused of committing lewd acts with children inside of his classroom. we have much more ahead on this friday morning. think for joining us. here is a live look outside at our roof camera in san francisco. have a great date. house coug >>darya: will tran is live with more on the bay bridge closure for the upper deck. >>will: at 8:00 p.m. at this place will be off-limits for the next three days. here are some bullet points the need to keep in mind. the shutdown will begin at 8:00 p.m. and will not reopen until tuesday at 5:00 a.m. to give construction crews fought one day to work on the approached. because of the shutdown, the crews will be able to work of a new eastern span of the bridge. if you are going from san francisco all the way to oakland or anywhe