they use between atlanta and albany, georgia. got down to albany, picked up my suitcase, put it in the car, and drove back. i was convinced that bell jar had broken and it would be a million pieces of glass i would throw out everything in the suitcase. but i got home. opened the suitcase. very carefully unwrapped the bell jar. the glass bell jar was fine, but somewhere in the jarring around the little figure of joe johnston had gone -- that seems very symbolic. thank you people. i hope i've given you something to think about. [ applause ]

in albany several thousand people have gathered in new york to protest against police violence in the u.s. . i think. they also joined calls for justice over the killing of unarmed teenager michael brown in the town of ferguson demonstrators accuse the police of being criminals after a heavy handed response to peaceful protests alters more important reports of how brown's killing has called public uproar in america. unrest driven by anger over michael brown's death carried on for a second week demonstrators on the streets of ferguson once again met with tear gas rubber bullets and flash grenades freedom of the press was also under threat as our own correspondent was engulfed in a cloud of tear gas right now you can see behind me look they're firing this is either tear gassed all our small cannons that have also been used throughout these nights oh our wait let's go let's go is the. sound guys here gets right to the

. >> just up the hudson river in albany, new york, a fire investigator was startled to hear the news.s son vanished in december '9 7 and then was found floating in the hudson. >> one of the tv stations was there for the recovery and documented it. >> bill never believed the conclusion that the death was an accident. he thought maybe it was tied to the theory of gilbertson and gannon. >> they did come out and investigate. >> josh's case has a number of mysterious clues and unanswered questions. >> this is the bar he was at on december 23nd, 2007. this used to be the bayou cafe. >> he exited and waited for a friend and then his friend went back into the bar and my son josh walked over here, was on the phone for a few seconds and then dropped to his knees, got the dry heaves. he had hot flashes. and started to take his outer wear off. and then walked down the street. >> josh was caught on another surveillance camera and then disappeared. his cell phone was found the next day more than three miles away in an industrial area at the port of albany. >> my son's cell phone was found here in t

expect heavy traffic on 280 the alternate at 101 the eastbound 580 and albany, overturned by can an, lanes now cleared and you can see residual slow traffic remaining. >>> it has happened again. the battle over seat space midair was so bad the air marshals had to break it up. >> preparing malaysian airlines damaged brand and a dramatic step they are taking confirmed a few hours ago. >> sfo does not have fights over seat space here but pictures of the bay bridge toll plaza and golden gate bridge and san mateo bridge. we have more of everything we have more of everything coming >> google is taking the wraps >> google is taking the wraps off a secret plan the project has been in the workings if two years and they say drones are faster, cheaper, less wasteful and more environmentally sensitive. early this year amazon announced they are working on a drone delivery system. >>> apple is building a three story tall structure in cupertino in prepare for the expected unveiling of the iphone 6. you can see the structure here apple sent out invitations to the september 9 event with widespread re

, because the friends in albany did not want the commission investigating. is a very big opportunity here once people get to know astorino and he is a guy who knows how to communicate, and he can seize the opportunity. so, again, it is way too early to decide, we are not putting money there. >> and you are thinking that he is basically missing an opportunity for his own political self-interest? am i putting that too harshly, i mean with christie, i'm talking about. >> yes, he is making a bad decision based on the facts on the ground, and as jason said the memories are still fairly fresh of the embrace that helped obama in the closing weeks against romney. >> this race is going to be closer than polls show right now. and probably low turnout, and astorino is going to get support up state where the economy is horrib horrible, and cuomo opposes fracking, and so it has legs, and it is not going away any time soon. but as or t s or the -- astorin money, and as long as christie is out there i sag we don't support a landslide, he is going to have a difficult time.

in albany, new york, there was flash flooding. >> in four states, in an appeals court in cincinnati, a three judge panel will consider arguments in the cases from kentucky, michigan, ohio and tennessee and the cases center around state rights and conservative values against what plaintiffs' attorney call as fundamental right to marry under the constitution. advocates have won 20 cases sin since the supreme court struck down part of the act last year. >> a move by the defending nba champion, the san antonio spurs, hired the nba's first full time female coach. the spurs as assistant coach under head coach. the 37-year-old spent last year hang out around the spurs organization after suffering a torn acl that kept her from playing. she was an all-star and named one one of the 15 best players in league history the. >> across the bay area and the country people took a stand last night for "national night out." this is a chance for neighbors to come together and send a message against crime. one community learned some tough news of the fate of their first responders. >> thanks for coming ou

he just shut down a corruption commission investigating albany because his friends in albany didn't wants commission investigated. there is a very big opportunity here once people get to know astorino. he is a guy who knows how to communicate who can seize the opportunity. so i think again it's way too early to decide we're not putting money into that race. >> you think he's basically missing an opportunity for his own political self-interest? am i putting that too harshly? >> i think it's almost -- >> christie i'm talking about. >> i think he's making a bad decision based on the facts on the ground and, as jason says, memories are still fairly fresh of tt embrace that helped obama in the closing weeks against romney. >> this race is going to be closer than the polls show right now. it's probably low turnout. astorino will get a lot of support upstate where the economy is horrible. cuomo opposes fracking upstate. there are issues. the corruption issue has legs. this is not something that will go away anytime soon. this is a race -- but astorino needs money. so long as christie is say we

seven families from across the state are the official plaintiffs in the suit filed in albany by the partnershipernational justice. campbell brown is a founder of that group and ians me now. what are you hope tog accomplish? >> it was inspirerd by what happened in california, where we saw there was success there and i think parents are feeling frustrated by inaction in albany at the legislative level. it makes it almost impossible to remove an incompetent and in some cases, an abusive teacher from the classroom. on average, it takes about 830 days to remove a teacher who has been found to be incompetent and this is about shifting our priorities overall. to the idea that when we make laws and policies around education, it's supposed to be around about children. >> these inquality suits are usually brought because of unequal funding levels. what's the evidence that tenure and seniority -- >> in california, what the judge found was that having these laws were having disproportionate negative impact on disadvantaged, poor neighborhoods. >> bad teachers end up in those schools? >> right. if you're a

status quo for this accident still in albany eastbound five at buchanan.the freeway from berkeley into emoryville. tow crews are on scene one lane is blocked. here's a live look at our sensors. that northbound 280 extension is closed for the long holiday weekend between 101 and king streets. so far, so good on the sensors coming up 101 your best alternate obviously and it looks clear from the peninsula into san francisco. mass transit is on time. livermore valley commute lighter than normal. so fewer drivers out there on the roads to start off your long holiday weekend. the drive time is about 17 minutes right now between the altamont pass and 680. golden gate bridge also looks great out of marin county into san francisco. they cleared the overnight roadwork on 880 in oakland. and we'll show you one more look at the sensors through the livermore valley where you can see a few slowdowns coming out of the altamont pass but again the drive time still in the green. it's friday and so we want to know what drives you crazy during your commute. on a short s t awa

you thought about writing a letter when he was in jail in albany, georgia, and chose not to. this is something that was already in his mind. the apostle paul writes his letters to other christians and other leaders in the church. he thought that was a very important parallel that he wanted to draw. he's really admonishing, rebuking the white religious leaders for not taking a bolder stand. he had hoped that the white church would have stepped forward and really supported the movement and supported the marches in the streets. he felt very disappointed and he talks about that in his letter from birmingham jail. disappointed in the white church. he had hoped they would have in the fights side against injustices. theas heavily critical of moderate approach to civil rights or the gradualist approach. what we are talking about here is dr. king is marching in the streets. ofs going to shed the light truth on the injustice of segregation. he wants to see segregation ended. he wants to see african-americans get their voting rights and have all right as american citizens. powerfule mos

of few minutes ago we did have a backup that began to the canning street but the drive time from albanyces cause about 12 minutes. this dutch fire is not cleaned up quickly can add tier drive time measure heading into the city from the east bay this morning. : >>:. happening right now marked. fishing boat just offshore kron 4 as well tram is on live on the scene. >>: wwill: we got here a couple of minutes ago and i heard a helicopter right above me he was shining is light right onto the beach. this boat was somewhere in this facility and it's still dark right now but there is some lights off in the distance. they're focusing right on this area in this area for some reason it's just right down the hill from the clubhouse. as you can see there's a couple of the emergency vehicles as well. i hear sirens in the background i see more people rushing to this scene. l looks like they're focusing on this place as far as the boat no injuries as far as we know but the spokeswoman from the fire department should be arriving on the scene. i'm going to try to get more information but there is a lot g

got down to albany, picked up my suitcase, put it in the car, and drove back. i was convinced that bell jar had broken and it would be a million pieces of glass i would throw out everything in the suitcase. but i got home. opened the suitcase. very carefully unwrapped the bell jar. the glass bell jar was fine, but somewhere in the jarring around the little figure of joe johnston had gone -- that seems very symbolic. thank you people. i hope i've given you something to think about. [ applause ] >>> thank you very much paul. and thank you all very much for coming. merchant of terror, demon, a killer. if you type was sherman a into google the auto complete includes war criminal, hero or villain. and if you add a couple more letters you get terrorist. the urban dictionary, a popular website, describes generally william t. sherman as having employed the vicious tactic of targeting civilians. continuing, such tactics had previously been deemed morally unacceptable. the deliberate targeting of the civilians for attack was taken up in world war ii ending in the deaths

. >> headlights are pushing to the macarthur maze and it will take original four minutes from albanyhe macarthur maze is when you get to the bay bridge that is where the trouble starts looking heavy today. as we take you to the south bay, traveling through sap martin, you will have top conditions with the exception of san jose and 280 has in delays and highway 85, we have one stalled vehicle and that is at the dumbarton toll plaza. >>> we continue our come of the death of actor robin williams. >> his body was found yesterday in the tiburon him. the suspected cause of death is suicide. the sheriff will update us on this, this morning, at 11 o'clock a.m. and an autopsy will be performed today. >> we have coverage open death with matt and katie marzullo reaction from the hollywood co-stars and fans. we start with amy hollyfield outside his home in tiburon. >>> it was a family member who called the sheriff yesterday morning saying that robin williams was unresponsive and pronounced dead. neighbors and fans have last flowers and notes here at his front gate and one note was written by a c

. >> now, henry johnson's story, that story i'd heard when i was in albany because he was from albany, the state capital. and i remember a gentleman by the name of john howe organizing the elected officials to secure resolutions that were sent to the congress on his behalf to have them recognized and then eventually bill clinton gave him an award, a recognition. >> bill clinton, he got the purple heart in the clinton administration. it was in the bush administration he was given the dsc, distinguished service cross. and many felt that was a way of undermightmining his ability to receive a medal of honor, that that would take the wind out of the sails of the movement to do it. but go ahead. >> but, so again want to go to the difference in treatment that the soldiers experienced in france as compared to the united states. >> well, first of all, let me say this, this is something that gets lost. and dr. green said it very well, that this was rather than exile going to the french, it was a liberation. >> uh-huh. >> and one of the things that gets lost in, you know, the benefits of going t

but the two left lanes are still blocked at albany.up into richmond. it's a special traffic advisory they have no indication of when they will get these plants clear. for those fans to have watched breaking bad they have the spinoff with the debuts next year. the video shows they're played by it perspective vines. >>:the "breaking bad" spinoff doesn't debut until next year but fans got a little taste of what's to come. the video shows a younger- looking saul goodman, played by bob odenkirk, talking to a "better call saul" debuts on a- she just can't get enough of kim kardashian is releasing a new hardcover book of pictures of what else, herself. or rather a collection of selfies. the book is titled, "selfish" and is a lengthy 352 pages! it will cost 20 dollars to buy. and it looks like nothing will be off limits in the photos. call it turtle power!!! bay area animal shelters say they're bracing for an influx of unwanted turtles, thanks to the new ninja turtles movie. don't forget you can stay connected all day with our mobile at. have

the old hotel in albany, new york, razed to make room for a convention center. building to be imploded in albany's 400-year history. >> i'm fascinated with implosions. i could watch -- >> i could watch it over and over. >> you know what else i could watch? people dumping ice water over their heads. by now, you're probably well acquainted with the ice bucket challenge. >> it combines raising money, raising awareness for a.l.s. and lowering your body temperature dramatically. lots of abcers have done this. but, you have to see this one. >> is that a word? >> i just made that word up. you have to see this one from diane sawyer. it goes hilariously awry. [ laughter ] >> so jan, i just -- wait, wait. [ laughter ] very good job. thank you. i was going to say it -- i understand how exciting that is. i accept your challenge and i have my check. and in the bipartisan spirit of the campaign, i challenge my pals, donna brazile and mary matalin. are you on? >> i love that. >> the kids jumped the gun. she had a whole lot to say. they just dumped the bucket. she managed to ke

marcus congratulations go he's from albany he's our senior who graduate from chapter high school and going off to tech college in susan vail on a scholarship i know that his mom and family are especially proud of you today and everyday for your accomplishments >> thank you (clapping). >> and now i'd like to call up angela martinez from plaza east (clapping) she's one of our seniors that graduated tb june jordan on her way to ucla in the fall (clapping). >> your mom and family are especially proud of your accomplishments and your radio debut on sunday night with the mayor. congratulations and willing to you (clapping) yes. jacqueline from west brook i think she's not here yet; is that right? we have another person from pa terror annex (clapping) she's one of the our seniors that graduated from the academy and is going off to i'm sorry that's jackie barns she graduated fromgalactia low high school living in the dorms at the cal state hayward in the fall (clapping) your mom and family are very proud of user you and congratulations and guideline to you (clapping) esmeralda rodriguez from

having spent eight years in albany, new york, i can promise you the fixers from albany dropped the money the floor. >> well, i'll yield to paul finkelman as the expert on corruption. you know, there's so many details like that that are hard to convey, but all of those lobbying scenes, every single one of them, that's all fiction. none of that comes from the record. there are accounts of bribery. none of those accounts are in the movie. every single one of those scenes is pure invention from tony horowitz. i think that's legitimate artistic license to a degree, but people need to realize what it is. >> hey, matt. as a teacher, i mean, we have an important duty to our students. and it's movies like lincoln and gettysburg that draw that desire to learn more. and for us the teachers, we have to give them the tools. >> right. >> to help them depict what is fact and what is not fact. but i think lincoln will have a better -- i think it's more of a positive in that it will hopefully draw people to want to learn more about lincoln. >> sure, but you agree with me, right? at the heart of the movie

drive time traffic westbound 80 between albany and the maze is only four minutes. southbound 880 from fremont to san jose is 14 minutes and northbound 280 from ohio to northbound 280 from ohio to cupertino is 11 minutes. >>> 4:41. >> some call it a miracle. the church spared the wrath of the earthquake. >> the power of the earthquake caught on video with the damage that was suffered. >> we have weather and more traffic all morning and gorgeous shot of downtown with ferry building and the bay bridge. >> in the abc7 you can see we are keeping shots from downtown napa with the earthquake dam and weather and traffic. all the screens will be up all the screens will be up during >> covering santa clara, san francisco, east and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. bay news ahead. >> look what the shaking did to the kitchen at the restaurant on main street if napa, pots, pans and dishes all fell on the moore the moment the earthquake struck^. the bistro did not open for business yesterday. the chef said the workers are okay spending the entire day cleaning up the mention.

. >> it's january 10th, 2009, and state trooper ian henry is patrolling interstate 90 outside albany, new york. in the westbound lane he spots a speeding taxi and takes off after it. eventually the trooper catches up and pulls over the cab. >> first thing he noticed was out of state cab which is unusual to have somebody come all the way from connecticut. pretty expensive cab ride. >> the trooper talks to the cab driver and then focuses his attention on the passenger in the backseat who has two duffel bags with him. one has clothing in it. >> the passenger was somewhat hesitant to show him the second duffel bag but trooper henry was able to see an assault rifle amongst the clothing there. >> the passenger grabs the rifle before henry can get at it. the trooper quickly backs off leaving the taxi driver in the car. >> the trooper made that choice to retreat because really that was all he could do at that time to save his life in case the passenger started immediately firing. better to have one person than two people die. you know, you just can't stay there and spend a minute trying to ge

a car slammed into her patrol car on north albany avenue before 1:00 p.m. the person was taken into custody for dui. >>> the philadelphia police department is mourning the death of an officer today. seth stelfox crashed his motorcycle on the pennsylvania turnpike yesterday on the turnpike. police say the officer was off duty at the time and the crash remains under investigation by state police. >>> rescuers were called to this block in burlington, ocean county, the first floor collapsed into the basement. they heard a noise during storm but couldn't figure out what it was, when they looked this morning, they saw the foundation in the front of their home gave way, and they are shoring up the home to prevent further collapse. >>> a woman crashed her car into a business in newcastle county, and it shows the damage to the music and art store in mill vehicle. police are trying to figure out why the driver lost control, she was rescued from her vehicle and taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. >>> police are investigating the home of connie mur

this could be a problem out of richmond in towards albany and berkeley. we'll track that for the east shore freeway. bay bridge is not a problem getting into san francisco, but san francisco is an issue northbound 280 is closed. let me show you the video from the chopper from yesterday. it closed yesterday at 2 pvm. they're busting through this roadway. they're taking out two large sections of roadway and replacing the equipment there. the hinges inside the area, and also adding padding for comfort note. look at that, all that work has to continue all weekend. that's why the northbound side of 280 is completely closed. back to the map, all weekend there, that's scheduled to reopen at 5:00 a.m. on tuesday or a little before. let's get back to the maps. overwhelm section, if you're heading to the giant's game tonight, take northbound 1011, get off at cesar chavez and over towards the ball park. or mass transit, we'll end with a live look at palo alto, smooth drive on 101, 101 in san francisco going to be crowded, back to you. >> thank you. >>> it's 5:11, co

driving at the hoffman split we had a construction project causing a bought old neck in and out of the albany and as we take a look at san jose, travels there is clear along 101 and 280 and at 64 miles per hour across the san jose airport and 75 miles per hour from 17 and highway 85 with no delays or citizens to report. >>> google and yahoo are joining forces to keep e-mails secret. >> here are the tech bytes. >>> google and yahoo are joining forces. the "wall street journal" reports they are working on a new kind of tool so secure not even the e-mail provideers could read they. >> and a new patented filed by an pole shows voice activated assistance similar to the iphone and ipad that runs on a mac. >> where are you for internet speed? virginia comes in first place with massachusetts and delaware tying for second place in speed. >> google is not waiting for the self driving cars to get on the market but is working on a self driving motorcycle. google is seek permission to test the motorcycle on public roads. >>> super heroes appear in the bay area this morning. how they hope to bring smiles t

if you're heading along west bound 80 coming away from albany out of richmond, 4 minutes very short driveouthbound from freemont to cooper teen oe, ten minutes. >> 4:54 now. four north bay counties are joining forces to offer affordable internet service to under served neighborhoods. they are working together to bring more residents in rural areas online. the public utilities commission is providing $250,000 in seed money to make it happen. each county will spent the next two years developing region maps to push for future state and federal funding to build a network of underground fiber optic cables. >> consider yourself lucky if you had a grocery card to use. the manager says someone has been stealing carts over the last week or so. an estimated 70 courts were stolen from the store in april. the manager said they are being stolen in other stores across the city as well. >> a major explosion at station. surveillance shows a mini van parked moments before the blast. a thief was targeting the underground storage tank when something went wrong. police say thieves are now opening hidden door

the "albany times union" says a top aide to the governor got in touch urgie i touch.l somebody and say if you do disagree with what's in the "times" story, feel free to put something out. that may be okay. if he's trying to influence them and saying, pressuring them to put out those statements, that might be something altogether different and a top aide might be in the cross hairs of a u.s. attorney. making matters worse for the governor, they could talk to the top aide and say potentially if they're really going to gun for the governor, they could say to the top aide, tell us everything you have on the governor. did the governor put you up to it? is this something he's trying to get you to do? we may give you a reduced sentence or immunity in return for that. that's premature. i don't mean to suggest that's happening any time soon. that's a nightmare scenario that could be cooked up as a result of this letter that was put out today. >> you follow new york politics, follow politics in general. we see stories like this emerge a lot. sometimes they go somewhere, a lot o

we'll talk about in albany, coming up next. >>> and a live look outside this morning, it is hazy indeed, but it is also friday. it's august 29th, and this is "today in the bay."

who cares if they're just kids taney dragons beat suburban albany new york this morning in regional semiinal in bristol connecticut. i watched the game with fans back home. it was a white knuckle affair. >> it feels so great. >> reporter: the calf calf photograph wasn't officia officy open yet when the first pitch was thrown. the owner has been sponsoring taney youth baseball for the avenue four years. making this the unofficial watch party headquarters. >> i'm not usually watching sports at noon on a friday. but here we are. >> reporter: we included education activist helen gim. not a big sports fan per se but supporter of city kids black and white, mail and female working together for a common goal. >> we need to remind ourselves why we celebrate when people are having the time of they are lives. >> reporter: the game started poor with taney down three to nothing and looking over matched heading to the bottom of the fourth inning. came the kind of unscripted magic that makes sports even kids sports the ultimate reality show. >> whoo! >> spear man's three hun homerun changed everything.

and just because you go to albany, georgia, and chief laurie pritchett doesn't go beating on people, and we saw that in the film, doesn't mean that you don't have a movement anymore, because what you do is you go to a place where the white power structure isn't as deliberative as all of that, where they're going to go beating on people, and that's exactly what the movement did. they picked birmingham because birmingham had a history of violence against black people. dozens of homes and buildings have been burned up over the years. bill kiner was in charge of public safety there, a little bit complicated what the political situation was, but he was the long-term head of public safety there. he said you go to birmingham, you're going to get a confrontation. what i'm saying, you might not -- look at the freedom ride. it started where? washington, d.c. the first big city they got to was guess what? richmond. nobody got beat up. nothing much happened. they wanted to charlottesville and north carolina. eventually, they got to anniston, alabama. and you saw what happened there. so your coun

having spent eight years in albany, new york, i can promise you the fixers from albany dropped the money the floor. >> well, i'll yield to paul finkelman as the expert on corruption. you know, there's so many details like that that are hard to convey, but all of those lobbying scenes, every single one of them, that's all fiction. none of that comes from the record. there are accounts of bribery. none of those accounts are in the movie. every single one of those scenes is pure invention from tony horowitz. i think that's legitimate artistic license to a degree, but people need to realize what it is. >> hey, matt. as a teacher, i mean, we have an important duty to our students. and it's movies like lincoln and gettysburg that draw that desire to learn more. and for us the teachers, we have to give them the tools. >> right. >> to help them depict what is fact and what is not fact. but i think lincoln will have a better -- i think it's more of a positive in that it will hopefully draw people to want to learn more about lincoln. >> sure, but you agree with me, right? at the heart of the movie

that's colony little league from albany new york., if the dragons win they go to williamsport for the little league world series tournament. toms river ocean county place newark, delaware this morning in their regional semifinal. that's it, 3:00 p.m., let's go dragons. >> come on, everybody ... taney, taney! >> eagles take the fields tonight at sold err field. that's in pre-season game number one against the chicago bears. coach chip kelly's second season starts with tonight's match up in the midwestment last time the birds played the bears was the next to last game of last onhe your eagles won 54 to 11. the birds will play the starters at the beginning of the game. but figure you'll see a lot of the players fighting for jobs throughout, kick off time once again 8:00. baseball now, phillies and astros last night at the ball yard. sean o'sullivan serves up two homeruns,downhree runs, two outs, in the bottom of the eighth. ryan howard connect for grand-slam. it is the 13th grand-slam of howard's career. made bin ers of the phillies, fi

don't go anywhere. [ explosion ] >>> that's a building demolition in albany new york, and it looked and sounded like a 4th of july celebration, crews spent three weeks planting explosions in the old hotel. they set you have fire works and created red, white and blue spoke. 1,000 watched. >>> two earthquakes yours over 5 magnitude have shake ice land's bardabunga volcano, strong tremors have officials worried that it's about to blow above ground. kim vinnell is live for us. good morning to you. how significant are these earthquakes today? >> they are significant. i can give you breaking news. the office lowered the aviation alert from red to orange. this means that they don't thing that an eruption is imminent or currently in progress. as you mentioned the earthquakes are significant. measuring 1.15 and 1.3. they are some of the biggest iceland has seen in 20 years. it indicates that there's a lot of movement under ground. even though the aviation alert level has been lowered siz meteorologists are saying they can't rule out. it could be a major eruption. one seismologists, they asked hi

we're in the 60s for highs today from albany. it'll be kind of warm and steamier around d.c.vernight we got drench z in chicago. it was torrential rains. it's still flooding out there. it's starting to improve. midway airport picked up almost 4 inches of rain overnight. that's a lot of water in a short period of time. we're still under flash flood warnings. not to mention it's slowly getting better. we're still watching the tropics and about monday to tuesday next week this will be near the bahamas. the question is what will the intensity be? it looks like over the weekend we should have a tropical storm by sunday. again, there's no significant impacts on any land areas through the weekend. by the time we get to friday afternoon, though, the heat wave is in full effect. it doesn't go anywhere, thomas. we're looking at 110 heat indexes from texas all the way through the carolinas through the weekend. but the people in new england are like, is it over? is fall here? >> probably. >> i know. >> lewis' engagement party is on saturday, is the weather going to be good? >> looks perf

international a giant take exploration project russia and the us oil giant the sun drilling at the malls in albany all well in a russia plus. they have to decide where their funds are going to go so some of it's going to textbooks into tuition that leaves less money for people to put food on their tables and a growing number of us students a struggle to put food on the table as education prices skyrocket along that up to the. ira. in december two thousand and ten. more likely to be raped in college and in the real world. i don't think people did that to each other when they knew each other i thought rape was a stranger in the bushes. girl complaining about the son of an alumni who gives millions of dollars to the school why listen to somebody who's going to lose money at the school of schools that make money based decisions are much more common than they would ever admit publicly. when the european union promised to met ukraine become part of it it clearly contributed to the south abrasion of tensions within ukraine ukraine will most become part of the european union who won't tell tales ukraine a

. >> caller: will is on the phone from albany, oregon, independents line. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. my question is whether or not the technologies are adding to the human being and helping the human mind or heart or whether it helps us to be more compassi compassionate beings. they may not be technological. but they may not be what we need. easier isn't necessarily better and too much automation is dangerous. dangerous to our economy and our sense of who we are in our labor. so we need -- i think of myself as somewhat unsure about this. not all breakthroughs are necessarily good. so on our list we are saying the breakthroughs are important and we are trying to separate the value of them being good. we are unsure but we are o optomist. so if you name the world's problem, clean energy, even though technology is a cause of the problems but one way or another technology will have to be a solution. we are going to live in a world of 9 billion people by 2050. if we are going to feed them and give them the standard of living they want technology is going to have to be part of the

that will enhance the thunderstorm activity, especially in the afternoon across boston, hartford and albanynderstorms there could produce some gusty winds and also small-sized hail. thunderstorms also in the forecast in kansas city. best chance for those thunderstorms will be early in the day. a pretty nice day in chicago. you guys are looking at drier conditions with high temperatures in the upper 70s. l.a. warming up, highs in the low 80s. san francisco getting into the 70s. meanwhile, it is cooling down in seattle with high temperatures in the middle 70s. a much different story in seattle compared to what we saw there earlier in the week. on friday, to round out the workweek, beautiful once again in the northeast, drier conditions in boston. and thomas, we will continue to monitor that situation in iyt hawaii. >> we will certainly will, jeanette. thanks so much. >>> coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," president obama talks tough about corporations, so will we see more executive actions from the white house? >>> then when we come back, we'll huddle around the water cooler,

having spent eight years in albany, new york, i can promise you the fixers from albany dropped the money the floor. >> well, i'll yield to paul finkelman as the expert on corruption. you know, there's so many details like that that are hard to convey, but all of those lobbying scenes, every single one of them, that's all fiction. none of that comes from the record. there are accounts of bribery. none of those accounts are in the movie. every single one of those scenes is pure invention from tony horowitz. i think that's legitimate artistic license to a degree, but people need to realize what it is. >> hey, matt. as a teacher, i mean, we have an important duty to our students. and it's movies like lincoln and gettysburg that draw that desire to learn more. and for us the teachers, we have to give them the tools. >> right. >> to help them depict what is fact and what is not fact. but i think lincoln will have a better -- i think it's more of a positive in that it will hopefully draw people to want to learn more about lincoln. >> sure, but you agree with me, right? at the heart of the movie

. >> he now closes his bookstore in albany, new york, for the first week of every month. and he has no regrets. >> i was working 50 or 60 hours a week for 21 years. not only minding the store and people expect me to be here a lot of the time, it's hard not to be here when you have a store. but also, out buying books. so almost every weekend i'd be out for at least one day, sometimes two days. buying books. and when i had other time off, i would chance. >> at first, customers were a little worried about the future of wedge's store. >> the first response tended on the -- tended to be, oh, no, we need you. i took that as a great compliment. >> wedge understands his decision to spend less time on his business could affect his revenue, but that's why he's cutting back and not calling it quits. >> i'm a natural retailer. it's what my background is. i like doing it. i like running a store and having a place to go every day. >> wedge says he knows his plan might not work for other entrepreneurs. but he says it's an idea worth examining if you're looking to make a change. >> if th

there's a reason, as you know, why the southern christian leadership conference after the steal mate in albany, georgia decided to go to birmingham. they went there because they were pretty sure the reverend shuttlesworth told them they would get a confrontation there that would dramaticize to the world what was at stake and that's what happened. so fewer whites in the '60s who were taking up arms. 1860s it was millions in the confederate army. fewer in the 1960s by far to less effect. in both reconstructions northern blacks played an active role but southern blacks played the decisive role why is that? give me one good reason why southern blacks are crucial both times? [ inaudible ] they are invested in the outcome but even more simple. [ inaudible ] okay. so the blacks in the south knew the way things worked on the ground. they knew what they were up against. [ inaudible ] yes, because the south is where black people lived. in the 1860s, almost all african-americans lived in the south. probably 95% of the population of blacks lived in the south and even in the 1960s a majority of blacks stil

albany getting 2 to 3 inches an hour. straight to your local forecast in 30 seconds.irst the rainy cities brought to you by kohl's. >> good morning. e are going to see wet weather headed our way this afternoon and right now a little hazy with 71 degrees and the fog is north andhe city around frederick hagerstown so use caution in those areas. improve withinto the hour. scattered showers and mainly in ms afternoon and highs in the upper 80's to around 90 degrees. >> and next week for shark week i'm going in with the sharks. the guys with me said the cameras are attractive because of the magnetic -- the elect electromagnetic something so we'll learn more. >>> coming up on gwyneth paltrow, the emmy winning tv anchor who reported on shoplifting now charged with shoplifting. >>> also, the former pastor turned banker who faked his own death and lived a life on the run is now speaking out for the first time. >>> also newly released surveillance of the largest closet in america being robbed. how the criminals got away with nearly a million dollars of high-end items. i wanted

the roots of the duel ready dinner party in albany, new york. hamilton was there was another federalist named charles cooper described the party in a letter. i will give you a bad paraphrase of the letter. cooper said you should have heard hamilton talk about burr over dinner. he said burr was a dangerous man who ought not to hold the reins of government. i could detail a still more despicable opinion which general hamilton has expressed of mr. burr, but i won't because letters these days tend to get stolen from the mail and printed in newspapers by political enemies. the letter is stolen by political enemies and published in a newspaper. that happened. it is public. burr loses the gubernatorial election. he was humiliated by the loss. he had been first ousted from the vice presidency and now publicly voted not good enough to be governor. he began to feel desperate to prove he was still a deserving political leader, especially to his supporters who were beginning to doubt him. why cling to burr as a leader if he could not offer you patronage or

it happened in albany. first colorful fireworks were set off on the top of the building. then red, blue, yellow smoke forming the letters j and j, name of the construction company, were out. then the whole building came down. >>> we have a preview of what do expect for the week ahead from wall street. >> is the housing economy better or not? we'll get a better idea this week when we get a slew of housing numbers including new home sales, home prices and pending home sales, a measure of contracts signed but not yet closed. we'll also get new figures on how much you made and spent last month as well as a revised look at first quarter economic growth and weekly report on jobless claims. who's been shopping where? we'll find out quite a bit on that topic this week as a number of well known retailers this week, best reported by tiffany, dollar general, abercrombie and fich. if you're into video games, this is a big event. popular nfl madden game comes out tuesday. if you don't think that's a big deal, consider this. game maker put up a video promo on youtube, facebook and hit

they changed it to little world war i plane they use between atlanta and albany, georgia.t down to albany, drove back, i was convince that had bell jar had broken and there would be a million pieces of glass, i would have to throw out everything in the suitcase. i got home, very carefully unwrapped the glass bell jar was fine, but somewhere in the jars around, the little figure of joe johnston had gone -- that seems very symbolic form thank you, people. i hope i've given you something to think about form. >>> tonight on american history tv, a focus on slavery and cinema beginning at 8:00 eastern with a look at the depiction of slavery in film in the 1930 are, and then the movie lincoln. . and a discussion about the 1939 movie "gone with the wind" and its depiction of southern society. that's all tube starting at 8:00 eastern here on c pan 3. >>> here are some of the highlights for this weekend. tonight in primetime, we'll visit important sites in the history of the civil rights movement. saturday night at 8:00, highlights from this year's new york ideas forum, including ca

an independent commission and can look at anybody and go after the bad actors and politicians in albany i've going to be the one to reform albany and turns out they have this new e-mail deletion policy. it's a little bit of a pattern here that we have seen. >> is it connected directly to him, this decision? >> he is known for micromanaging every little aspect of his operation and that could be a good thing and bad thing but in this case it's hard to major major policies are not happening without his permission. >> mark halpern? >> what is your sense of where the moreland investigation is going in terms of the end of the ferguson prosecutor? >> yeah. so for people who are watching this on the national level, they are basically two faces to this investigation. first what you might call the underlying allegation as we discussed sort of meddling into the commission when they had subpoenas that got too close to the governor's associates the allegations his top aides said pull it back. . the ipso facto comments, after the investigation was announced by the federal prosecutor, there were state