soon enough, abernathy's supermodel walks the runway again.ome love. i reach out my hand. and scratch as emma glide slowly away back towards abernathy. her favorite human pal. matt gutman, abc news, bahamas. >> i'm actually starting to like emma. thanks to a very brave matt gutman. this question, do you agree that sharks really want affection. you can tweet us@nightline. she has come all the way from bollywood to take on hollywood. can this former miss world make it in america? >> and the shocking image today from the mayor of toronto -- did he really smoke crack. >> announcer: abc news "nightline" brought to you by nissan. now if kevin can just seize the opportunity. he's seen it. it's all over. nothing but daylight. yes i'd love a cookie. [ male announcer ] make a powerful first impression. the nissan sentra. now get one fifty nine per month lease on a two-thousand thirteen nissan sentra. ♪ on a two-thousand thirteen nissan sentra. if yand you're talking toevere rheuyour rheumatologistike me, about trying or adding a biologic. this is humira

. >> reporter: but we went to the bahamas to meet this man, shark conservationist jim abernathie whose predators are simply misunderstood. >> you think sharks like affection? >> no, i know sharks like affection because they come back for it like a dog or a cat. >> reporter: abernathie calls them his pets, especially a 14 foot wild tiger shark he's named emma. he says he's known her for nine years. wishful thinking? we dive in. 40 feet down it's a blizzard of sharks. >> is that your pet dog? what is that? they keep nibbling at the cameras. another one gobbling the camera i'm holding and then all of a sudden we're surrounded by giant tiger sharks. >> turn around, matt, turn around! three tiger sharks right in the area. >> there is actually four. >> reporter: coasting in, almost docile. and then there she is, emma. watch how slowly she approaches abernathie. >> hello, emma. >> reporter: experts tell us these predators can indeed about dangerous but these seem to become used to having humans around, being conditioned like a circus. abernathie hopes that by showing humans can swim with sh

. >> reporter: abernathy has been diving with shark with 30 years.rst to escape the steel cages and interact with the animals directly. interaction that has turned in to affection. abernathy gained international note right, and a host of critics with this kiss with a tiger shark. eventually, he would develop an unusual theory about sharks. that they are docile and can even be trained. abernathy calls them his pets but in particular, there is a 14-foot wild tiger shark he named emma. we suit up. abernathy and i wearing special dive masks that able us to communicate under water but wearing nothing thicker than a wet suit as protection. 40 feet down, it's a whirlwind of sharks. our very own sharknado. >> he swims with me in tow. >> turn around. turn around. >> reporter: wow. suddenly, we are surrounded by giant tiger sharks. >> wow. >> they see your camera. >> there if on cue, emma the big one there spots an old friend. >> i don't know if you saw that, but she just came right up to my lap, incredible. >> the others are also curious. >> they keep nibblin

abernathie hopes that by showing humans can swim with sharks, they'll do a better job of protecting themhowing them some love. matt gutman, abc news, the baham bahamas. >> thank you for watching. we're always here at abcnews.com. "nightline" later and i'll see you again tomorrow night. good night. >>> on "the list," you can have your fast food and eat it, too. we've got the healthy detail. it's hash tag transformation tuesday. the day we post our own before and after picks. plus, how cool would it be if your dog can talk? well, he can. and he's trying to tell you something. >>> when they weren't out voting, our producers were out skouerring the earth for the top stories. >> in the time it takes me to read this intro, a reporter will have already blown off your resume. >> i think you get a little something extra. >> a research web site find that recruits spend on six seconds before they decide whether you're worthy of the job. six seconds. in that time, they look at your name, current job title, company and when you started and ended your previous gigs. so if you want to steer clear of th

abernathy gained international notoriety and critics with a kiss with a tiger shark.an unusual theory about sharks. that they are do sill and can even be trained. about ber that think calls them his pets but there is a 14 foot tiger shark he named emma. we suit up. abernathy an i wearing special dive masks that able us to communicate under water but wearing nothing thicker than a wet suit under protection. 40 feet down it is a whirl wind of sharks. our very own sharknado. >> he swims with me in tow. >> turn around. turn around. >> suddenly we are surrounded by giant tiger sharks. >> wow. >> they see your camera. >> there if on cue, emma the big one there spots an old friend. >> i don't know if you saw that, but she just came right up to my lap, incredible. >> the others are also curious. >> they keep looking at the camera. >> in one case gobbling the camera i'm holding. the white camera reminds them of fish so they try to taste. >> see how you don't realize there are a bunch of other sharks here now. >> actually i have because they keep trying to eat the camera. now i

i'm bob abernathy. it's good to have you with us.igious leaders are among those criticizing new cuts to the u.s. food stamp program that took effect november 1st. for months faith-based groups have warned this would hurt struggling americans and strain the resources of charities that help the poor. the new cuts, which total $5 billion over the next year, affect nearly 48 million americans who receive benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, or s.n.a.p. experts estimate those on food stamps will receive between 5% and 8% less. next week congress will debate making even larger cuts over the next decade. >>> this week marked the one-year anniversary of hurricane sandy, the deadly storm that devastated parts of the mid-atlantic coast, leaving thousands homeless and causing many billions of dollars in damage. a year later faith-based relief efforts are still under way in new york and new jersey, where much of the damage occurred. denominational groups such as southern baptist disaster relief have pledged to continue e

i'm bob abernathy. it's good to have you with us. leaders are among those criticizing new cuts to the u.s. food stamp program that took effect november 1st. for months faith-based groups have warned this would hurt struggling americans and strain the resources of charities that help the poor. the new cuts, which total $5 billion over the next year, affect nearly 48 million americans who receive benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, or s.n.a.p. experts estimate those on food stamps will receive between 5% and 8% less. next week congress will debate making even larger cuts over the next decade. >>> this week marked the one-year anniversary of hurricane sandy, the deadly storm that devastated parts of the mid-atlantic coast, leaving thousands homeless and causing many billions of dollars in damage. a year later faith-based relief efforts are still under way in new york and new jersey, where much of the damage occurred. denominational groups such as southern baptist disaster relief have pledged to continue efforts

. >> here is an additional report on what you heard bob abernathy described a few minutes ago. the building in which the sniper had hidden is the texas school depository at the intersection of elm and houston street in dallas. lieutenant jc day went to the building a short time after the shooting took place and walked out with a british 303 rifle. it has a telescopic sight. it was found on the sixth floor near a corner window. police searching that area found three empty .303 cases and scraps of chicken as though someone had been there for a period of time. we also have another eyewitness account, a man of dallas who was probably the last man to view the president, here is his report. >> where's your witness? >> unfortunately, i was probably 15 to 20 feet away from the president when it happened. >> tell us what you saw. >> he was coming down the street and my 5-year-old boy and myself were on the grass there and i asked joe to wave to him and then i waved to him. he was waving back, shots rang out and he slumped down in his seat. his wife reached up toward him and the second s

abernathy march 1 evening in february and the confrontation occurred. a young man by the name of jimmy lee jackson was a veteran that attempted to protect his mother and was shot in his stomach and a few days later he died of a local hospital and selma. and because of what happened to him, we decided to march from selma to montgomery to do so next afternoon, 600 of us we had a prayer, we started walking in to his and i will never forget that day. i was wearing a backpack before it became fashionable to wear a backpack, and in a backpack i had two books, an an apple, an orange, i wanted to have something to read and something to need and i also had a toothpaste and toothbrush. so if i thought i was good to be arrested or go to jail and wanted to be able to brush my teeth. we get to the highest point on the bridge crossing the alabama river and down below we saw the sea of blue alabama state troopers. behind the state troopers there were sheriff clott who is a very big man, he tried to dress like him and he wore a gun on one side and a nightstick on the o

here with me imogen lloyd webber, steve olsher, and tyler abernathy.ounds barbaric, apparently 30% of companies do this. i was not aware the number was that high. 30% of fortune 500 companies do this. it makes sense, have to lay off 5% of your workforce during any period of time, don't you want to know who are the least effective workers? you're horrified! >> i can see you in finance, i sort of get that, any industry with little creativity, how? ge came up with the idea, they stopped using it now. microsoft stopped using it. expedia, stopped using it because they want to rehumanize relationship between management and workers. melissa: if you have a creative business, you know who the strong players are, who the average guys are and weak guys are. >> really what is the problem here? because the reality all you're going to do, you will cause more pier resentment than less. you're throwing everybody in teams, right? our team, what are you going to do? you're going to be a slacker. you will end up slacker. everybody is slacking, why should he get the same

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abernathy. in louisiana in 1953, he organized the nation's first boycott of segregated buses.he blueprint for the montgomery busboy c boycott led rosa parks and dr. martin luther king. >> dr. martin luther king came to me because he knew two years prior we had had a bus boycott. we gave the know how. >> he commanded respect from politicians on both sides of the aisle later becoming the president of the national baptist convention. he passed away in baton rouge earlier this month at the age of 95. lying in repose at the louisiana state capitol, something that would have been unthinkable in that state before he came along to do what he did. reverend w. franklin richardson who eulogized him and one of my mentors said you don't judge a giant by how tall he stands. you judge him by the footprint he leaves in history. we will miss reverend jemison because when it was time for justice and fairness and courage, he never missed showing up for us. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> fear itself. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matt

dressed in blue denim of the working man king, shuttles worth and the reverend abernathy led 50 people past hundreds of black onlookers april 12th. law enforcement officials ushered the integrationists into paddy wagons. king's arrest focused attention on birmingham. when asked in washington, president kennedy claimed via federalism he had no legal authority to intervene. while national interests grew during king's eight-day incarceration, local support waned. the two weeks had tapped the human and financial resources of the alabama christian movement. once bailed out, king found the birmingham campaign on the brink of collapse as only a handful of adults volunteered to demonstrate. yet, since the beginning of the mass meetings young people had gathered in the fellowship halls for youth activities led by cotton and bubble and reynolds who suggested that students march. king acquiesced out of desperation to generate creative tension and keep the media focused on birmingham. the children's crusade began on may 2nd, as hundreds of black students skipped school, gathered at movement center

now, to robert abernathy.ow.e the rotunda senatorss of congress, and their staff and families are going past the casket. the deathwatch changed every 30 minutes. 30 minutes from now, the casket will be taken out the doors that you see on the far end of the rotunda. taken down the steps. deathwatch is changing now. against the wall in the back of the rotunda, a woman has been seated. painting the scene that she saw. during the early hours of the morning, the number of people coming through at any given time was increased -- doubled. this permitted all but about 10,000 of those who wanted to come by the casket to do so. capital officials and members of congress, their families now -- the only ones permitted into the rotunda. of the 180,000 people who waited in line must night, yesterday afternoon, and the 10,000 more who did not get in -- very few left because of the cold. through the doors at the far and, the flowers -- flowers sent from foreign governments. other heads of state. now, to meryl mueller at the wh

nbc's robert abernathy reports from andrews air force base that the base commander says the president's body will arrive at 5:30. he also says that senator edward kennedy and his sister, mrs. shriver, who was eunice kennedy, have just taken off by jet for otis air force base in massachusetts. we psalm then they are going to their home state to join their mother and father and other members of the kennedy family. we also are told that military officers who have the job of arranging state funerals are at the white house now and presumably making the plans. mrs. kennedy is the first president to die in office since the defense department was set up and these arrangements were made. and i think there is no -- there is no set standard ritual to be followed, so to some extent it will have to be made up, presumably the army will be in charge of the arrangements as it always has been, and it has, of course, casons and remonies at fort myer, virginia, which is nearby. that is about all we have here at the moment. richard of nbc news is at the white house, as is our mobile unit with live pictures