quite an effort to get this thing off the pedestal. to drag it you've got to go all the way through the national mall and down. right now you're having different calls for different things, asking people to spread out. shannon: are they pouring flammable liquid or gasoline, lighter fluid on this? looks like it is starting up in flames. [crowd cheering] >> as we are watching the protesters attempting to get this going up in flames it is described as a bronze figure by an american artist 100 years ago. i don't know the properties of metal. don't know -- will it continue to burn? there is the effort underway tonight. >> people are now dispersing a little bit and the police have stood back, there has been no presence other than what we saw block and a block and a half away from here, just letting this go on from here as people celebrate the destruction of the statute that stood here more than 100 years, one of the few within city limits that commemorate confederate general, confederate officer. >> if you are just joining us, what you are l

the statue itself weighs 12 tons and it sits atop a large pedestal. a pedestal is a place of honor. we put things on pedestals when we want people to look up. think about the message this s ends to people coming from around the world to visit the capital city of one of the largest states in our country or to young children. what do you say when a six-year-old african-american little girl looks you in the eye and says, " what does this big statue mean? why is it here?" when a young child looks up and sees something that big and prominent, she knows that it must be important. when it is the biggest thing around, it sends a clear message. this is what we value the most. that is just not true anymore. in virginia, we no longer preach a false version of history, one that pretends the civil war was about state rights and not the evils of slavery. no one believes that any longer. in 2020, we can no longer honor a system based on the buying and selling of enslaved people. not in 2020. i want us all to tell that little girl the truth. yes, that statue has been there for a long time. but it w

next, they placed the center rods on top of the pedestals to support the full length of table.ow, they temporarily hung the sections of the distributing table on the crossbar. eventually, these sections would be made up as a strong worktable with stationary pedestal legs. observing safety measures, cappy showed phil how to let down all the racks that would be needed. he particularly cautioned phil against bumping his head on the overhead box hooks. although cappy was completely familiar with the car diagram, he hung it up as a guide for phil. the car diagram showed where sacks and pouches were to be hung in each rack. next, cappy demonstrated how to check for mail which may have been left in the empty sacks. inserting his arm to open the entire sack for inspection. then, as cappy hung the sacks, phil took up the job of inspection, holding each sack open and looking for mail. the post office uses 25 million sacks and pouches. if a letter were lost in one of them, it might be lost a long time. the metal eyes were placed on hooks. so that the sides of each sack became taut, leavin

it was on a pedestal. a little bit after we first spoke, there were about 25 additional protesters who came in the all decided to pull this thing down the same direction. very quickly after that, you ha some movement of the pedestal and it came right down. they settled throughout the square here. there are protesters who are continuing offscreen right now to spray sprague -- spray paint the pedestal with the names george floyd. and i'm standing behind our camera right now so you can see the fire and the crowd that is gathered here. they are celebrating finally getting the statute down. a ticket couple couple of hours. this is right in the middle of government buildings, police station, courthouses. the police, a few dozen of them just watching from across the street right now. other than the violence and the statue, it has been, you know, there's been no fighting, not arguing, no physical violence. but now they are now calling to get the march go in and go throughout the city. but we have been seeing in dc

but they will not pay for the pedestal. they built the statue we have to come up with the money for the pedestal. this takes a long time. one of the projects to raise money is an album of literary productions mark twain write something they may have some poetry and then one writes a sonnet about the statue that she identifies as the mother of exiles it's called the new colossus from the ancient statue that everybody would have thought of at the time. that celebrated a triumph. she said this is different. this is not about that. this is welcoming people here as a refuge and this is what we should be proud of to have a free country of liberty we are willing to welcome people to it. it is put on the statue after she is dead. she tells her sister who is her executor make sure the new colossus is its put on page 404. [laughter] there were some family issues going on. [laughter] but she had a friend another blue stocking who was a descendent of alexander hamilton who lobbied on the pedestal where it is today. i think the problem

but they're not going to pay for the pedestal. they built the statue. they pay for the statue themselves. we have to come up with the money for the pedestal. this takes a long time. one of the projects to raise money is an album of literary productions mark twain writes something and they have some poetry in there. one of the poems is by a new yorker named emma. she come it is she who writes the sonnet about the statue which identifies as the mother of exiles. it's called the new colossus because she's contrasting with the colossus of rhodes which is the ancient statue everyone would have thought of at the time. that celebrate a military triumph. she says this is different. this is not about that. this is welcoming people here as a refuge and this is what we should be proud of that we have a free country from a country of liberty and we willing to welcome people to it. it gets put on the statue after she's dead. i she leaves her poems and she tells her sister with her executor, when you publish my poems make sure the new colossus is at the front. the si

we are not going away. >> reporter: carson began filling the pedestal with a temporary concrete blocknd installed the ceramic sculpture in december, as a tribute to taylor, the 26- year-old african-american woman shot to death by police during her louisville, kentucky, apartment, during a botched raid last month. the artist also wanted to show support for the black lives matter movement. but two weeks later, on the day after christmas, vandals broke off pieces of the sculpture. mayor libby schaaf called it an act of hatred. the gofundme page has nowed to $20,000, to remake the sculpture, which he said he will do in bronze this time to make it stronger. >> we're not going to hide, we retreat. we're calling on everyone to bring flowers and placards of statement of your support so that this can be a memorial of joy. >> reporter: the artist says it will take months to create a new sculpture. the city said tuesday the original sculpture did not undergo the city's tingle approval process for public art. rob roth, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> coming up, taking the very serious topic of the coronavir

. >> a major cleanup and golden gate park today after three statues were ripped from their pedestals and others covered with graffiti after a night of protest. protesters stormed the music concourse last night toppling statues with pes lein behind empty pedestals including the star-spangled mawho did owne slaves and the founder of california missions and also slave owner. some say the crowd went too far when they targeted the figure of ulysses s grant. i don't get grants. he was signing for the abolition not for slavery. i don't understand why that would be taken out. >> when i was here last week i noticed and i thought it was surprising to have him so prominently in the park considering the history. >> the police would not take questions about what happened but issued a statement saying the group started throwing objects at officers but no arrests were made. >> the archdiocese of san francisco issued a statement about the destruction of the father sarah statue saying "just as historical wrongs cannot be righted by keeping them hidden, neither can they be righted by rewriting the his

basically just the pedestals remain here and at another location. now, today people keep coming by to see what happened. city crews removed spray paint from pedestals. >> i think that those should have been taken down a long, long time ago. >> reporter: statues of francis scott key, ulysses s. grant are gone. we obtained video of the monuments being pulled down. last night hundreds of people showed up and bottles were thrown at officers. established missions and accused. scott key composed the "star spangled banner" and was known to have owned slaves. and grant, the 18th president, had a history with both. >> haven't seen any representation of oppression or racism or slavery come down. >> mayor london breed released a statement saying in part there's real pain in the country of slavery and oppression especially against african-americans and indigenous people. i know that pain all too well. but the damage done to our park last night went far beyond just the statues that were tore down and included significant damage to golden gate park. a statue was

nationwide, statues of columbus have been pulled from pedestals. statues of confederate figures have been toppled. in kentucky, crews removed a statue of jefferson davis. the confederate flag was banned by nascar at all events. some say the symbols preserve history. >> to try to hide the history is not a smart move. smart people, wise people use their history in order to improve. >> reporter: history, however, is not always clear-cut. according to irene chang at the college of the arts. >> history is something that happens, it gets reported organically or spontaneously. it is really consciously made and produced. >> reporter: she says most statues were not built after the civil war, but during the jim crow era. >> this was the time when whites were reasserting their power after the period of reconstruction. >> reporter: nancy pelosi called for the removal of confederate statues in the building. some are open to renaming military bases named for confederate leaders. but names are not always clear- cut. in ft. bragg, the mayor says renaming the city

the group sprayed red paint on the statue before then pulling it off of its pedestal yesterday. the catholic saint has been accused of exploiting native americans. today catholics gathered at the site of the broken pedestal to pray for the protesters.>>> still ahead, and just hours santa clara county will loosen its restrictions on a wide range of businesses. the notable exceptions. >>> for the second time in as many days clinical trials for coronavirus are abruptly halted.>>> that pandemic has hammered that commercial air travel industry and private chat service is surging. coming up, we will tell you who is flying. >>> a reminder, kpix 5 has a new app and it gives you 24/7 access to cbsn bay area and >>> tonight costars are remembering the 2 1/2 men actress is a beautiful actress. her 12 season turn as housekeeper roberta earned her two emmy nominees, she died yesterday following cardiac arrest and she was 77 years old. >>> one person has died and another remains in critical condition tonight after an suv plowed into a group of outdoor diners in the san jose. police say the 69

, that a not me who should be on a pedestal. ... pedestal. cyntoia: in very different version of love than what you had experienced as a child. hilary: you talk about the intertwining of love and god printed. >> about how i was told everything about my existence should revolve around pleasing a man and the men i was introduced to come i was supposed to put them and their needs on this pedestal and that was i was taught to do as a woman. and then, i mean, jamie and he's like wait a minute, that's not what this is. you don't live for me, you don't live your life for me, you live your life for christ. and i was like wow. that is completely different and he showed me the difference between being with someone who is led by their own ambition who with how they should treat other people and being someone who is by their love for christ it's completely different and that's what really showed me that cap at this man in my life. god sent me every time i was looking for a man i was looking for my own ideas of what my relationship was when he c

we're able to put it on top of a recyclable pizza pedestal so you can take your food in a contactless or recycle that or we'll recycle it ourselves. >> it's a much better way because i've had some food delivered and i've said, huh-uh, no it was on my porch, on my porch. i don't want my food sitting on my porch okay, so, jeff, you'r cfo, i lov him. he said, we don't know what the new normal is going to be. that makes sense but if you had to kind of look a little bit crystal ball in the future, if this continues, is it the new normal unfortunately a lot of the smaller guys who didn't get the ppp may not be able to stay in business >> you know, jim, i sure hope that we don't end up in a place where we don't have independent restaurant companies serving customers, you know. i know you love independents my wife and i eat at a lot of them ourselves so i sure hope that those folks are able to survive this crisis. but along the way, i think, you know, things are going to be different for quite a while. i think delivery is going to continue to be important, and contactless delivery is going to

owner mark cuban you know but outside of sports i think that it reminds everyone no matter what pedestal you're on that we are all mortal morals not promised to anyone and it's a reminder that we should you know hug our loved ones a little tighter every opportunity we get and you know kobe bryant is a prime example of how to live and he'll always be remembered of living and didn't is his all that's right as they say we're not promised tomorrow just today chris is always appreciate your reporting thank you. well the day is almost done the conversation it continues online you'll find us on twitter either at the news you can follow me of brant goff t.v. don't forget to use the hash tag the day i remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that everybody. kick off. things are getting tight at the top nice things nice and now has just. been dark man's nuts to listen to the top position. before this. great. news such. as this. how did states was built by immigrants. but did the european settlers find the american dream that they were searching for hoping fo

. >> reporter: the spot where columbus gazed is now just a empty pedestal. after years of debate and vandalism as recently as the past week city leaders declared that the statue a threat to public safety and a strike against the city's values. >> i think we have all been waiting for these statues to come down for a long time. it's about time we start teaching kids about the true history of what these mean. >> i'm really happy for the native community but also that people are willing these days to look at history a little more critically. >> i'm not really happy about it but like you said, it's been going on for a long, long time. >> dave pearcy is the board president of the san francisco italian-american social club. >> you know what, columbus, they taught you in grammar school who he was and i think they kind of sensationalized the guy. >> pearcy was not going to stand in defense of the statue and the city's only supervisor of italian heritage actually supported the removal adding that italian heritage is larger than any one man. even in a neighborhood wher

owner mark cuban you know but outside of sports i think that it reminds everyone no matter what pedestal you're on that we are all mortal and to morrow is not promised to anyone and it's a reminder that we should you know hug our loved ones a little. tighter every opportunity we get and you know could be brides a prime example of how to live and he'll always be remembered of living and if this is all that's right as they say we're not promised tomorrow just today christians always appreciate your reporting thank you ok. well the day is almost done the conversation it continues online you find us on twitter either update of the news you can follow me of brant goff t.v. don't confuse hash tag the day and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day will see the never. kick off. things are getting tight at the top night 6 nights in frankfurt and that's just. not the kind of mornings not stuff in sonesta sights on the top position. i'm in. one of the richest countries on earth. but every year around $700.00 women die in childbirth or shortly after most of them are a

harold: is anyone going to raise the money to build a pedestal or will they move the pedestal? wants the burden of putting stonewall jackson statue in the park if it's already on the street? edna: the point you raise, harold, also speaks to this option, potentially on-site contextualization. i think i agree the larger statues, finding a home is unlikely and if it has to be pulverized, so be it if there are no takers. that would be unavoidable. but the same scale of this also makes it difficult to imagine moving them also makes it difficult to imagine contextualizing them on site. it was sized and so on. it's hard to imagine what you can do to balance out that and let's be very clear about the fact that the location of the statues and the size of the statues was meant to send an unmistakable message to african-americans that they would not get justice in the court houses in front of which the confederate soldiers stood. they were not welcome in the public spaces downtown, in this case, the charlottesville neighborhood, where literally, african-americans have been driven out of.

it is missing from its pedestal. >> the races return and remove the remaining bust. this is what is here now. >> reporter: the artist fears that the buses been destroyed as part of a campaign of opposition to the black lives matter movement. >> this proves that this was not a one off event. this was a coordinated effort to underline the movement. we are not going away.>> reporter: he began filling the pedestal with a temporary concrete block on tuesday. install the ceramic sculpture in mid-december as a tribute to breonna taylor, the 26 rolled african american woman shot to death by police inside her louisville, kentucky apartment during a botched raid last march. the artist wanted to show support for the black lives matter movement. two weeks later, on the day after christmas, vandals got pieces of the sculpture. in a tweet, the mayor called a vicious attack in an act of hatred. the artist started a gofundme campaign to try to fix the vandalism. a top $20,000. he says he plans to make a new sculpture out of bronze. any remaining money will go to breonna taylor's fam

or will they move the pedestal. you wants the burden of putting stonewall jackson statue and the part. >> will the point you raise harold also speaks to this option of potential onsite contextual is a shun i agree that particular these larger statues, it is very unlikely, and they have to be pullover pulverize so be it, if there are no takers private or public want them then that would be unavoidable, but the same scale of this statue makes it difficult to imagine moving them also makes it difficult to contextualized them on site and the charlottesville commission that's discuss this said was either taken down or find a way to contextualize. onsite with signs and so on but as you said the scale is such that it's hard to imagine what you could do to balance out and of course let's be very clear about the location of the statues in the size of the statue was meant to sent an unmistakable message that they would not get. they were not welcome in the public spaces downtown in case of the charlottesville literally africa

pedestals were there, but three statues were gone. stephen exercises here and has some experience. >> i also think about if there aren't other statues depicting those who were oppressed -- so i'm not sad. g >> reporter: we obtained video of the monuments being pulled down. last night police say people showed up and at one point bottles were thrown at officers. key composed the star-spangled banner and was known to own slaves. >> the country is not ready to admit to a lot of things that has happened, and i think that people now are saying that if you won't do it we'll do it. i don't necessarily prescribe to that thought pattern, but i'm not mad a at them. >> reporter: a statue of cervantes was spray painted, too. the mayor issued a statement saying in part there's a very real pain in this country rooted in our history of slavery and oppression especially of african-americans and indigenous people. i know that pain all too well, but the damage done to our park went far beyond the statues torn down and included significant damage to gold

if they are on a pedestals because more of us can see them.to me it's this is more of sequential work in my own life to a book i did almost 20 years ago now called "american gospel", which was about the role of religion in public life and a book i did two years ago called "the soul of america" which was how the vision, fear, anxiety, tend to be the rule not the exception in american life. things have tended to move along on a spectrum of progress. where the lewis book fits into that argument, doctor king said, the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. if that arc is going to bed, there has to be people insisting that it swerved. that's part of the dialectic of this and i wanted to shine a light on john lewis, who insisted as effectively as anyone in american memory insisted that that arc swerved toward justice. >> let's hear from our viewers and we will start with barked in baltimore, you are on with jon meacham. >> thank you so much mr. meacham, it's a great pleasure to hear you. i was looking forward to hearing you

matter activists were completely wrong to remove it but some say is that he was putting racism on a pedestal and that it is britain's education system and mendacious history teaching that now needs to be toppled joining me now is someone who has pushed for greater diversity among university students and was the 1st black british muslim president of the national union of students and co-founder of students not suspect when they have out here joins me now via skype from laden in the netherlands thank you so much for coming on malea so as i said here starmer and boris johnson the prime minister condemning those who brought down that monument celebrating a slave trader in bristol what did you make of it i think. you said time at a time when the government as effectively wage war continues to wage war brown and black bodies through its cut at the national health service through systematic rejection oppression exploitation of communities of color have led to the astronomical debt that we have seen amongst those communities and it.

is not me who should be on a pedestal. very different version of love and what you had experience as a child. can you talk about that? that sort of intertwining of loving god? >> i was speaking earlier how i was told everything about my existence should involve around pleasing men. the men i was introduced to i was supposed to put them their needs on this pedestal. zoe's top that's what i'm supposed to do as a woman. and then i meet jamie and he's like whoa, wait a minute that's not what this is. you don't live for meat you don't live your life for me live your life for christ. i was like wow. that's completely different. and he showed me the difference of being with someone who's led by their own ambition, who lived by how they should treat other people and see someone who's led by their love for christ it'sel completely different. that's it really showed me that god put this man in my life. all this time i was looking for a man i was looking for my own ideas about what relationship was he's the one that sent me the perso

we all knew that she was put on a pedestal. trait as the icon democracy and human rights but ever since the n l d has taken on an ever since she was a state chancellor all of her actions and her words statements quite otherwise. saudi arabia's all revenues have fallen 24 percent since the start of the year the world's largest oil exporter suffered a deficit of $9000000000.00 in the 1st quarter or for a 2nd night of violent protests the governor of lebanon central bank has defended his organizations role during the economic crisis he says it only finances the government and is not responsible for how any of the money is actually spent. child protection agencies are worried millions of children under lockdown in asia risk of domestic violence 7 charities are asking governments to prioritize the safety of children who may be in danger many asian nations including india and singapore have reported sharp rises in the mastic violence during the pandemic it's the stream now the kid news continues though with adrian at the top of the h

become the latest to be torn down by protesters demonstrators used ropes to drag the effigy off its pedestal before setting it on fire and throwing it into a lake the monument was toppled less than 2 hours after the demonstrators had gathered chanting for it to go activists then vandalized the foundation that once held the statue. the mayor of london has called for an investigation after a british musician shared a video of his father being tasered by police. the rapper known as wretch $32.00 posted this clip on twitter it shows a 62 year old father tumbling down stairs at his north london home after an officer warns he has a taser the rapper whose real name is germane scott says there has been no progress in the fight against police brutality. watch them fight against police brutality my whole life of 35 no one was through here again today and i now have to have the same conversations that my dad and my home who are my grandparents and my peers had with me when i was a child. i mean there's no progression. a senior british health expert says the u.k.'s coronavirus to 3 to could have been hi

usually we have to have some interaction with the local guys, but you've got the pedestal. you come up with that? >> jim, our team came up with it because we're just crazy about pizza and pizza delivery, and when we got into this contactless world, we said how can we make sure that we provide a great experience to the customer if we can't physically hand them that pizza what if their porch is wet you know, how do we make sure we get a great product to them? and our team came up with the pizza pedestal so here we go. >> the gps, obviously i didn't think it would be so important in terms of knowing where the driver is and being able to cut that speed from 30 to 25 to 20 minutes. that technology is working. >> it is and the thing that you see as a -- as a customer is, you know, it's great because you know where your food is as it's on its way to your door but for me the biggest breakthrough in gps is really that it makes our stores easier and more efficient to run because the store manager or the team member that's workering that dispatch station understands where the drivers

ahead with as an exception in time from july the 1st so so be dramatic statements coming on the pedestal in president we're expecting him to respond and i think some people will be quite taken aback just how forceful and how strong those comments are. wow pollard this is absolutely shocking news after the so-called like you said deal of the century is there anything else we should be watching is there any movement still happening that you'll be paying attention to. well the israeli government is going to be in a hurry to try and get as an exchange deal passed there's a lot of discussion was some cultist saying and want to not do it immediately at the the comes to a government which is a right wing government the american president donald trump not with. joe biden i mean it was really stated that he would be opposed to any kind of unilateral shutting station on the israeli side so why the kind of stimulus will continue. on the government's orange pull should. at least while just just stunning i am at a loss for words so the whole world is hindering on what will happen then in the november

in the hallway, an open pedestal with the word silence. the feeling here is one of reverence. route of it is a document head deer to us. the american constitution. article three. the judicial power of the united states shall be vested in one supreme court. the ju dish power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under this constitution. the laws of the united states and treaties made under their authority. the first article of the constitution has to do with congress. the second deals with the office of president, article three with the supreme court. one, two, three. that is the way our founding fathers planned it. a government made up of three equal independent parts put together in a system of checks and balances that keeps any one of them from becoming too powerful. a president can veto them. or the court declare them unconstitutional. congress can overrule the president with a two-thirds majority or initiate the overruling of the court by proposing a constitutional amendment. the president can appoint justices, but he can't remove them. everywhere the checks

now the pedestal stands empty. a different approach was taken in new orleans. under mitch landrieu, the then mayor of new orleans, a vote was taken by the city council and they voted to remove four confederate statues and to address the memory that they represented. so we see in 2017, this is the fourth and last of the confederate generals to be removed. general robert e lee removed from his pedestal and put into a warehouse until a decision could be made what to do with these statues. on one hand, the controversy addressed by rather violent activity. on the other, a recognition by the city council itself that there was symbolic meaning associated with these statues, and in particular associated with the people who have acted -- the people who erected them in the early 1900s who were espousing a lost cause. i recommend in the readings at the bottom, mitch landrieu's book, which i recently bought and read, and it is a powerful story of him growing up in new orleans, facing confederate history, and recognizing that these were not harmless statues, that they were

kpix >> >>> statues were ripped from pedestals and covered with graffiti. that happened friday night. protestersincling frans scott k poet e star-spangled banner. some say, the crowd went too far when they targeted the figure of ulysses grant. >> adam not get ulysses s grant he was fighting for the abolition of slavery, not for slav i don't understand why that would be, taken out. >> i was here last week i noticed it was up i thought it was surprising to have him, prominently in the park considering, the history. >> reporter: the police would not take questions. they said some people to object that officer. no arrests were made. the archdiocese issued a statement about the destruction of the statue saying, quote historical wrong cannot be right did by rewriting the history. some cisco mayor issued a statement that said in part, every dollar we spent cleaning up vandalism takes funding away from supporting the community including our african-american community. across the bay area and country thousands celebrated the juneteenth holiday on friday. the celebra

. >> but in the painting, grant is standing on a pedestal, instead of a sofa. >> it looks like a pedestal for sure. >> so more more images are proliferating of grant, and he as you said, found time to post photographs, and in the field and in the studio, but sometimes we saw him a softer domestic scenes later on. like this one with his family. a rare portrait in the collection. >> there's another one to. >> yes so this makes him look a lot softer, and more like a homebody i guess. >> yes. >> but more typically, we see portraits of him in uniform, like this more typical picture. so after the war, every hospital, union league club, organization, commission a grant portrait painting for its walls. and one of the best, is our first object this evening, which is the james read landon, portrait of the ulysses grant. so it is so special about this painting? >> i hope everyone sees this, you know in some relationship the photograph we just had. up landon, was a veteran portrait painter. he had done jon marshall, and other celebrities and studied under thomas sully. he had done webster, he had don

. >> in the painting grant is standing on a pedestal as opposed to a sofa. >> looks like a pedestal for sure. >> more and more images proliferated of grant in the final year of the war, and he, as you said, found time to pose for photographs and in the field and sometimes in the studio, but sometimes we saw him in softer, domestic scenes later on. like this one, with his family. a collection of new york historical. >> and another one too. >> yes. this makes him look a lot softer and more like a home body, i guess. >> yes. >> but more typically, we see portraits of him in uniform, like this one. so after the war every union hospital, lee club, organization, commissioned grant for a portrait painting for its walls. one of the best, as you say, our first object this evening, the james e lambden portrait of grant. so tell me, what's so special about this painting in. >> i hope everybody sees it bears some relationship to the photo we just had up. lambdin was a confederate portrait painter. he had done john marshall and other celebrities and studied under thomas sully. he had done webster. h