elissa's hey l orgy bush can do. let's face it the city's exhibition games in such ripoffs.and the stars don't play mutchkin. a place series of two navarro moment all last season rehabing and the injury. so there you go exhibition football. ready go saturday night for the forty- niners. of course you'll want to get the review of that program and tell you how you can get moment. first exhibition game the raiders they enjoyed a preview screening of the new movie straight outta compton. elements of lies to himself a longtime raiders fan dating back there, and loss analysts and jack del rio practice game but sounds like he's ready. meanwhile the sports program sunday night big recap of football and the giants and a's as well the are still in chicago for the owners' meetings and will give you a unique j.r. stone in sight and on his debut last set of this and doing a little thing to see who followed you more on the radio right here on crime and so if you like to join us and away and kron 4 g. rad niche. it's amazing a heartfelt response about patrick and put picture of my mother o

joining me now is elissa simmons, president of the naacp chapter in arlington.his news coming out from the arlington police chief, it's very serious. this man is now fired. you've met with the family. how are they reacting to this news that the officer has been kicked off the force? >> well, i spoke with the family this morning. and they're reacting how you would anticipate. it doesn't bring christian back. right now, that's their position. they're planning a funeral. and that's where they are. >> and that's understandable. the grieving process still obviously ongoing and made only more difficult because of the circumstances of how all this went down and all the questions i'm sure they still have. what are their outstanding questions now? are they hearing anything from the police? are they communicating with the police? or are they helping them out? >> well, of course the police department did communicate with the parents yesterday in advance of his decision. so they're appreciative of that. and the naacp, we are supportive of the chief's decision. we believe it

but the elissa is still a fully functioning vessel. today it's owned by the galveston historical foundation. ♪[music]♪ >> with the explosion in the growing price of cotton and some of these other commodities galveston became an extremely wealthy city. the only way that wealth could leave here was on the decks of sailing ships. so elissa has a key role and a vital role in telling the economic story of galveston. [seagulls crying] >> take it down! >> elissa was built in 1877 in scotland. she is classified as a bark. she has three masts. a square rig and on her mast, she carries a sail. she was a merchant ship, part of that vast british conglomerate of sailing vessels that sailed around the world. she was more of a tramp sailer. in other words, there were ships that were a lot bigger than she was. i like to tell people she was the equivalent about a u.p.s. truck or a fedex truck. she wasn't a big 18-wheeler. there was a lot of ships larger. but her niche was to go into undeveloped ports, ports that didn't have a lot of water depth, so she

galveston historical foundation were made aware of elissa's plight. and the connection to galveston. and the gears were put into motion to purchase the ship. she was purchased and then brought to galveston in 1979, and the complete restoration of the ship began. she is involved with youth crew, sail training, seamanship training. we have our adult seamanship training. once a year, we take the vessel out in into the gulf of mexico for a series of day sails and our volunteers end up learning how to sail the ship on a real one-to-one basis. it's one thing reading about sailing these ships in books. but to actually fist-canvas, to climb the rigging, feel the ship breathe and move while you're sailing is a unique opportunity and one that is available to people that join our volunteer program here at texas seaport museum. >> juneteenth is a celebration of the abolition of slavery in texas on june 19, 1865. in galveston, the end of slavery was announced by union general gordon granger. that story, next here on the span cities tour. ♪[music]♪ >> the emancipat