.>>> a holocaust survivor has died.we take a look back at his life and how he thought bush fought for world peace. >> a forecast that looks tranquil now but what about monday nine?Ã what about monday? ,, offering the most powerful turbo 4-cylinder engine in its class and performance brembo brakes. the cadillac ats... every moment accelerated. during summer's best, get this low-mileage lease on this cadillac ats from around $279 per month, or purchase with 0% apr financing. hall gives us a look back os extraordinary life. (pkg) elie w was to shed light >>> nobel laureate and survivor -- holocaust survivor elie wiesel has died at 86. his goal was to shed light on the abuse of the jewish prayed he was in a concentration camp and branded. he wrote a not -- he wrote a account of the holocaust, 19 and would write other books over the years. >> as a jew i can say words that have meaning to non-jew as well. >> he made in new york city is home and taught at several prestigious institutions including yield university. he got a co

today we think that everybody knows about the holocaust and everybody is familiar with the holocaust.ak about it in the '60s, he would go from campus to campus, community center and give talks and there would be a handful of people there. he was a very gifted lecturer, and the crowds grew and his name grew and his reputation grew. one of the things that remained with him throughout his years and as you put it so properly, his legacy, was that he couldn't abide evil, whether it was in bangladesh, whether it was in the former yugoslavia, and bosnia, whether it was -- wherever it was, if there was something awful, cam both bodyia, he would g he would try to be a voice for justice, a voice for peace. and i would say that in the last 20, 25 years, he became an international voice for peace. then for justice. he was one of those people who when he spoke the world listened. and it is a terrible, terrible loss. >> and he spoke and the world listened. but you also had a closer relationship -- >> i had a personal -- he was a friend. >> that's right. you met him on several occasions you consider

. >>> a holocaust survivor and beloved author has passed away. still ahead, a look at the life and legacy of ellie weissle. >>> plus, we'll tell you how to find legal fireworks in the bay area. >>> and the closed door meeting between hillary clinton and the fbi today that could shape the race for the white house, wh >>> this is "abc7 news." >>> holocaust survivor and nobel laureate elie wiesel has died. he was once called a messenger to man kind. cecilia vega looks back on his life and legacy. >> reporter: he was born in romania in 1928. when he was just 15, he and his family were sent to auschwitz. his father, mother and younger sister perished. his life's mission was to make sure the holocaust would always be remembered. his memoir of the camp "night" sold millions of copies and considered one of the most important pieces of holocaust literature. he was also a champion of also victims of injustice and genocide. and elie wiesel died at his home here in new york. he was 87 years old. >> his family says he passed away peacefully today after a long

but there was nothing like what we have today with special holidays and holocaust study programs. and it was shunned by the american jewish community as well. the culture wasn't there. there was a war. a lot of people got killed. there was particularly nasty stuff going on in this sector, in that sector, and we're moving on. holocaust as a cultural category really doesn't emerge, in my opinion, until the mid to late 1960s. that's one of the things that makes celler special. he was sensitive to the plight of the refugee, of the survivor. and without the context of holocaust as a cultural category, nevertheless was a soldier on behalf of the distressed. we're bringing mikes, so, and if you'll let me know what my time frame is. >> this may be too narrow a question, but i'll ask it anyway. so, i saw on c-span a while back interviews with bernard ferrenz, who was with the army and worked with holocaust survivors getting restitution. i wondered if you were familiar with his work and if that was connected at all with the congressman? >> no, i didn't see that. >> it's fascinating. fascina

to go through that, come through the holocaust, to to have survived, to have lost his father in the holocaust shortly before the liberation, and to still believe this the goodness of humanity, the inherent goodness of people part of what made his message so important not only to israelis and jews. we got a statement from the president of israel. he says tonight we bid farewell to a hero of the jewish people and a giant of all humanity, elie wiesel a blessed body and determined spirit to overcome the darkest of evils and survive against all odds. his life was dedicated to the fight against all hatred. he was a guide for us all. condolences just beginning to come in. there are certain to come in more on the and throughout tomorrow. >> such a legacy. such a long and meaningful life that he led. orrin, thank you so much. we'll be right back. ♪ [tires screeching] ♪ [tires screeching] ♪ experience the thrill of the lexus performance line. because the ultimate expression of power, is control. this is the pursuit of perfection. >>> we're following breaking news here on cnn. hillary clinton sitting do

it is "the last laugh" about the humor and the holocaust, and directed by a stanford graduate from the documentary program. it has mel brooks, carl reiner, sarah silverman, and we talk about the limits of humor. and there's a holocaust survivor in the film that help to structure the film, and she weighs in on whether something can or cannot be said. is it funny, and she is pretty open to humor. it is an extremely provocative film. >> she will be with us. >>> wonderful, let's take a look. [ video playing ] >>> we will take a quick break and come back in just a moment here on mosaic. >>> good morning, and welcome back to mosaic, and we are in the middle of a great conversation about the 36th annual jewish film festival, and welcome back to lexi leban, the executive director and we have jay, the program director. >>> and we have a theme around the people in the book.>> we feel like the writers are the unsung heroes, and where shining a spotlight on the writers this year. we have a terrific debut, and we have the film center screening of "indignation" and the direct oriel debut. and he was

elie wiesel, holocaust survivor and human rights about visit died saturday following a long illness.he was 87 years old. wiesel was 15 when he was sent to auschwitz camp in 1934 and freed in 1945 from another camp. he wrote about his painful experience in "night." in '78, president carter appointed wiesel chairman of the commission on the holocaust, leading to the establishment to have the united states holocaust memorial museum in washington in. 1986 wiesel was awarded the nobel peas prize with wiesel called an important spiritual leader. wiesel was a guest of charlie over a dozen times over the years. here's a look back at some of those conversations. >> first of all, i would like to show the tragedy of a person who is not only a victim of his own sickness but of injustice. there are things that we remember and, therefore, others also remember. what about the things we don't remember? for every face that i see before me, there must have been hundreds that have vanished. for every word i want to say, there must have been ten i don't say. for every episode i lived through or imagined

. >> perhaps the most solemn spot is the holocaust museum. the game december designates the memorial for the victims of the nazis as a poke spot where players can get free stuff of the needless to say the museum is not pleased and they are trying to get the landmark removed from the game. vaughn, did you think this is -- john, did you think we were making this up? >> i don't play pokemon go. my kids are not old enough to do it. i thought we were talking about a game, and i thought the problem was people were playing a game while they were supposed to be acknowledging the gravity at the museum. >> it is augmented reality. you go and you find things -- >> people have chosen to do this? >> yes. >> oh jeez. frankly many people are bored by things beyond their own naval and this is what this indicates. >> it is sad that somebody was that tone deaf and yes this needs to be stopped. >> it is not going to be stopped. it is going to be -- it is only growing. there are millions of people playing the game. have you seen them? they have taken over centra

worry that the memory of the holocaust is being lost?the same time that we have and i were together at the inauguration in washington. kepthese memories must be somewhere. therefore, the archives are very important. , i am noteep down sure whether we are not losing the war of memory. centuries decades and . i am not sure we want people to remember. charlie: how do you preserve the memory other than in ways, measures that have been taken? >> i wish i knew. usually, pictures, art. it's not all there. for the first time, we are trying to remember something that defies memory because we are using tools that were butuate for other tragedies not for this one. i have written books and i can tell you each time i finished a book, i felt the taste in my mouth. not it.ll what i wanted to say, i didn't say. charlie: do you think because it's an comprehensible? >> the diaries written by the diaries arerdinary found in the ashes. maybe they do convey a certain fragment of the truth about we cannot. there are no words. all we can do is try. i hope it w

and plus, the world mourning the death of an extraordinary author and activist whose act of the holocaustade a mark around the world. >> how could >> ezilwas a teenager where his mother and sister died in auswhitz. he wrote it in his memor. it was widely read. james rosen has the look at his life and the words that live on forever. >> never shall i forget the life in camp that turned my night in one long night. never will i forget the faces of the little children that turned to smoke and flames that consumed my face further and murdered my god and my soul. never shall i forget these things even if i am condemned to live as long as god humz. >> the author's words would live for decades. the memors, the nobel peace lauret cemented his. and an endowering literary voice of the centuries. >> it was from refugee to a simbofl witness and moral conscious. and his major influence in subsequent years was less as a writer and more as a public moral voice in a world berefof voices. >> he departed in 1943 when he was 15. two older sisters survived but his younger are sister and mother died. and his fa

the holocaust survivor, nobel peace prize laureate called a messenger to mankind. >>> encouraging young people not to be violent. >>> and the upset. meet the american who brought down the world's top tennis player, a stunning victory and defeat today at wimbledon. "nightly news" begins >>> this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight from washington, peter alexander. >>> good evening. it may be one of the most critical moments of the 2016 campaign. fbi agents today interviewing hillary clinton behind closed doors for more than three hours. all of it part of that investigation into clinton's use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state. this news comes just weeks before clinton is set to officially become the democratic party's nominee. nbc news just wrapped up our own exclusive interview with clinton, and while her campaign says today's fbi meeting was voluntary and that clinton has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, the e-mail issue gets to the heart of one of clinton's biggest liabilities, that many people don't trust her. nbc's kelly o'donnell now with the latest. >> repor

the holocaust museum stands today largely because of his efforts. >> thank you, chuck. this afternoon, the president released a statement on wiesel's passing leading, quote, he was a great moral voice of our time and a conscious for our whole. he was also a dear friend. we will miss him deeply. wiesel was attacked at a san francisco hotel in 2007, an alleged hollow cast denier assaulted and dragged him out of an elevator. a jury found the attacker guilty of false imprisonment with a hate crime charge. the judge sentenced wie esel's attacker to two years in prison. >>> the jewish center was shut down today. by 9:00 this morning, police got a call saying a bomb was at the jewish center at the san may te'o bridge. a canine unit searched the area ask found nothing suspicious. >>> fire crews are having a tough time with a blaze near tahoe. the good news, evacuations for people in plaster county were lifted last night. the bad news? the local fourth of july parade and other celebrations were canceled because of that fire. >>> santa clara county fire tweeted this picture to he

whih led to the opening 16 years of the us holocaust memorial in washington. bee sell received the nobel in 1986. i remember this young boy asked his father, can this be true? re this is the 20th century after all.all. this is not the middle ages. who would allow such crimes be committed? and how could thehe world remain silent? since 1976 bee del the author of almost 60 box has taught at boston university. his support for i expectancy my life, my adult life denouncing war because warw however, this time it'st' different. we cannot allow saddam hussain who is a criminal against humanity to possess weapons of mass destruction we know he will use them.us your life at work inspires and gives meaning to the words never again. bee del also spoke out against iran and leaders who deniedenie against the holocaust. i have to take an energy terror seriously. the cas trover i of the final solution always discouraged succeeding generations to compare to add off hit letter. or the darker recure in the next century. do you think we could have another holocaust again.r >> no

he was a holocaust survivor and educator.hts advocate who spoke not only for his people but for those who are oppressed and the world. he spoke honestly, plainly, courteously. at the end he would say he would resonate with them. >> i'm curious to understand his legacy how he is remembered in israel. >> reporter: well, here we've already seen messages from the president from former president shimon and in the darkness of the holocaust in which our brothers and sisters, 6 million were murdered, elie wiesel was a ray of light. let me go back to 1986 when he won the nobel peace prize. it's a message they took to heart as well. they say he was one of the most important spiritual leaders and aides when resuppression was a message of human kind. his commitment which originated in the sufferings of jewish people has been widened to address all powerful people. >> warren lieberman. just a few moments ago we saw a video of elie wiesel. we saw a video of him walking with president obama. this is april of 2012. again, elie wiesel with u.

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some sad news, holocaust survivor and nobel peace survivor has died. he wrote about his time at self-concentration camps, most notably in the book "night." weisel was the allen melon professor of humanities at boston university. he won the nobel prize in 1986. today, israel's holocaust memorial is saying that it mourns the passing of elie weisel. he was 87 years old. clinton's meeting with the fbi, what about her husband? former president bill clinton kicking up a controversy after his president meeting with attorney general loretta lynch while her department leads his wife's e-mail investigation. mr. clinton remains a potent force within the democratic party, but this is the latest in a series of controversies that he's stirred up on the campaign trail. so is he helping or hurting her white house bid? thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> great to have you guys with us. this has been really stirring things up. an interesting week in politics, certainly when it comes with the former president and his meeting with the attorney general. how big of a

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today family and friends said good-bye to holocaust survivor, elie wiesel. they held a memorial service, and during the service his son said his father was always interested in others and had a quiet voice that moved everyone to better themselves.

he spoke at the holocaust memorial in washington.joined president obama german chancellor angela merkel at the buchenwald concentration camp where they placed white flowers to honor those killed there. president obama tweeted elie wiesel was a great moral voice of our time and a conscience for the world. he was also a dear friend. we will miss him deeply. elie wiesel was 87. marlie hall for cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> the white house says that a u.s. citizen was among the 20 hostages kill in the attack on a restaurant in bangladesh. amateur video captured the gunfire and the explosions when commandos moved in to end the 10-hour hostage crisis in the capitol city of dhaka. two police officers and six gunmen were also killed. some of the hostages who escaped say the attackers asked them to recite versus from the koran. if they could not they were tortured then killed. [speaking foreign language] >> the interpreter: we don't want these terrorists in bangladesh. this type of situation is a first in bangladesh. until now they were committi

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and remembering elie wiesel, the holocaust survivor and nobel laureate who's laid to rest in new yor this is the "cbs weekend news." >> quijano: good evening, i'm elaine quijano. as americans prepare to celebrate independence day, new terror attacks, this time in iraq, have killed at least 120 people. two bombs went off sunday in the capitol city of baghdad. just as people were breaking their religious fast. the bombings followed a bombing in lang la desh on friday in which three u.s. college students were among the dead. and an attack at the airport in is tan-- istanbul turkey last tuesday as jn than vigliotti report, the terror group isis appears to have a hand in all of this. >> reporter: the first explosion rocked baghdad's central business district engulfing an entire shopping mall in flames. against an orange sky, dazed shoppers and first responders sifted through twitted and charred wreckage for any survivors. the attack happened shortly after midnight sunday morning as families were eating dinner after fasting during the day for the holy month of ramadan. baghdad police blame

but if we can avoid hate, then maybe there will be no more holocaust.k a jewish tragedy, a very specific jewish tragedy, and put it on the universal plane. he took the lesson i think directed against the jews and anti-semitism and raised his voice and his consciousness against all people being singled out because who they were. and so he went to cambodia and he went to yugoslavia and he went to rwanda. and his voice against hatred, genocide and prejudice was universal. so the world lost a great moral voice. >> we are losing so many of our world war ii veterans in their twilight years and also our holocaust survivors. have you had a chance to speak with him in recent years as he reflects back on his life? any. final conversations and thoughts in what was he thinking about? >> molly, i had the privilege not only to know him but in the last several months to spend an hour almost every week. we talked about everything. he was concerned about the world, about our insensitivity towards a lack of memory. but many have asked recently what happens when the survi

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holocaust memorial in washington. in 2009, he joined president obama, german chancellor angel merkel at the buchenwald concentration camp where they placed white flowers to honor those killed there. president obama tweeted he was a great moral voice of our time and a conscience for the world and we will miss him deeply. elie wiesel was 87. marlie hall, cbs news, new york. >>> coming up on the "morning news." new details in the deadly alligator attack at disney. a shocking revelation revealed from the father of the child. a lottery jackpot is up for grabs. this is the "cbs morning news." the fastest food truck min brooklyn. meet mylanta® tonight. it's also fast, but unlike godawgs, it makes heartburn after dinner, history. new mylanta® tonight. faster than heartburn. oudairy or artificial flavors., so we invented a word that means that. shmorange! and it rhymes with the color of our bottle. to help spread the word, we made t-shirts! reach for the orange, it's 100% shmorange! i don't want to lie down. i refuse to lie do

holocaust memorial in washington. in 2009 he joined president obama, german chancellor angela merkel at the concentration camp where they placed white flowers to honor those killed there. president obama tweeted he was a great moral voice of our time and a conscience for our world who was also a dear friend. we'll miss him deeply. he was 87. >> funeral plans are still being finalized. >>> the family of katelin aken hopes she's out there someone and will come hom december as she was headed from northern virginia to cosmetology school. friends and family passed out fliers near the spot where her belongings were found. >> there's a lot of people missing, they just found a girl that was missing yesterday. she was pregnant. and i think she was 14. it just gives me hope. i'm waiting one day for it to be her. >> katelin's stepfather dropped the teen off at springfield maul on the 5th. she was supposed to take the metro to the airport but two days later her luggage, which included cash and a credit card, was found in a ditch

there's also a holocaust survivor in the film that helped structure the film. she kind of weighs in on whether something can be or can not be said, is it funny. she's open to a lot of humor. it's an extremely provocative film. >> she'll be with us. >> wonderful. let's take a look. >> when i was kid -- [ speaking foreign language ] >> and i would get a lot of laughs with humor. people after would say that's not in such good taste. i'd say, i don't care. i really don't give a sleep -- give a [ bleep ] what's in good taste. >> we're going to take a quick break and come back here on "mosaic ." [hip hop music] >>> good morning. welcome back to "mosaic ." we welcome the 36th annual jewish film festival, first in the entire world. welcome back lexi who's the executive director of the institute and jay, the program director. welcome back. >> thank you. >> the theme you have is around people in the book. >> we feel the writers are often unsung heroes of the cinematic experience. we have a terrific debut. it's christopher b smith film screening of james' directorial debu

holocaust survivor and nobel laureate elie wiesel. the nobel committee once called him a messenger to man kind. he was born in romania in 1928. he was 15 and sent to the auschwitz concentration camps. his father, mother, younger sister perished. wiesel's life mission to make sure the horrors of the holocaust would always be remembered. saying to forget the victims meant killing them a second time. his memoir of the camps, "night," is considered one of the most important pieces of holocaust literature. he was also a champion of all victims of injustice and homicide. he died at his home here in new york. he was 87 years old. >>> and there is still much more ahead here on "world news tonight." the images just coming in from a deadly crash between a bus and a truck. investigators on the scene tonight. >>> and the real life home alone. the quick thinking kids who called for help. the plan in place that may have saved them. >>> and red, white and blue. wimbledon win, an american blasting the champion right off that court. think yotry nexium