. >>> the explosions caught on tape, rocking an american city. several blasts, several blocks apart bursting. what caused this? the concern now. >>> a surprise for his mother, a dream come true. what was waiting for her in that doorway. world news starts now. >>> good evening, in for diane, great to have you with us on thursday night. several breaking stories. we begin with simmering tension just outside st. louis, missouri. tonight we have now learned the state police will take control of the streets in ferguson, missouri. after that police shooting of an unarmed teenager, images overnight police firing tear gas into crowds of protestors, anger erupting. so many families demanding answers. one protestor throwing a flaming bottle. front page of the st. louis newspaper saying it all. a city on edge. tonight the president with an urgent plea to both sides. we asked the police chief when he'll reveal the name of the officer. the waiting game angering so many. our team coverage begins with abc's steve osunsami on the ground tonight. steve. >> reporte

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if president barack obama did not immediately take military action to stop them i think of an american city in flames because of the terrorist ability to operate in syria and iraq graham told fox news host chris wallace this is amazing propaganda from fox news assault as lindsey graham is a is a propagandist and the idea that if they don't bomb iraq the american city is will be in flames this season for the propaganda that we need to keep financing the war machine that has its nexus here on wall street and lindsey graham is really a shameless war provoker and the side did that he puts forward that unless there is a continuation of the status quo of free money for warmongers then suddenly we have to worry about all kinds of consequences that we can't deal with and they keep pulling out the same boogie men you know nine eleven bogeyman or this boogie man and they've killed all the boogie men the only boogie man left are lindsey graham these two bogeyman lindsey graham is a terrorist actually i want to look at some of the more mainstream sort of establishment media here and even they are start

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if president barack obama did not immediately take military action to stop them i think of an american city in flames because of the terrorist ability to operate in syria and iraq graham told fox news host chris wallace this is amazing propaganda some fox news as solid as lindsey graham.

the city's population is two-thirds african-american. but ferguson's mayor all but one mayor of the city council, all but one member of the school board and 50 of its 53 police officers are white. that's one of the reasons why an incident like michael brown's death can be so difficult for a city like ferguson to deal with. >> it's really not unusual when there is a shooting of this kind. >> how did we get here? lots of reasons. one thing is clear. over the course of a generation ferguson changed but it's institutions didn't. in 1980 the city was 85% white. it's government stayed that way even as ferguson became mostly african-american. the city's mayor acknowledges that that may be part of the problem. >> we have been listening to the protesters for the lack of african-americans in our police force and others police force, and want a buy in in our community by being residents in the community and serving in the police force. >> reporter: a prominent example of a generational demographic shift, an issue that can be seen around the country.

cincinnati, joe is the second most american city.ndianapolis, and we want to know what you think. is your city perhaps the most american city? would you say that? martha: you sang your way in with the right song and leland vittert is wearing cowboy boots. if bill were here he would be upset. i'm suspect about how they measured this. i think it ought to be based on patriotism, music, nashville would win. best cheeseburger. i think along these lines. i would have voted for something in new jersey which is an awesome town. >> the sister of theee accused boston bombers has been arrested for making bomb threats. if you can believe this. police charged 23-year-old ailiana tsarnaev after she allegedly threatened her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend. >> reporter: she allegedly used her brother's alleged bombing to reportedly skater mother of her boyfriend's child. saying i have people who can go over there and put a bomb on you. tsarnaev was arrested on one count of aggravated harassment after she allegedly made the threat against her ex-boyfriend'

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century were not rubbing their hands together excitedly saying let's build housing units in big american cities. the market police similarly was not supplying housing for working class people who were a big chunk of the population, so the government did it. it has problems with its legacy, but it did it because the private sector which now says yes we can do this wasn't doing it. >> they were doing it because people were asking for it. i kee hate to keep comparing it to fannie and freddie, but the best way to do that is not to subsidize, but to lower tax rates with loopholes and reductions. i go back to the businesses that are hurt by the unseen costs of the foreign competitor. if other countries want to subsidize their experts, that's their business but we should not be doing the same thing. you can't have it both ways. if the bank is privatible in imperpetuity. private sides it. ize it. earn was talking about the theory that it could at some point have it could have just like fannie and freddie and the housing bubble j he keeps talking about subsidizing. nobody is subsidizing. every transacti

a major american city declaring its water contaminated, people rushing to stores, finding shelves emptystaurants shut down. the national guard on its way right now, bringing in supplies. >>> washout. monsoon thunderstorms in the southwest, torrential rains in the east, and this, as tropical storm bertha churns in the caribbean. where it's heading tonight. >>> and,

, a major american city, this is a scare tactic.es, we have to confront it, deal with it but usually words like evil and revving people up is exactly what the terrorists want us to do and it's the reaction we had after 9/11 that didn't surface well. we said we're going to defeat evil, we're going to defeat terror then. how good of a job have we done? >> jim, they did manage to, you know, overrun iraqi military installations, steal american equipment that we left there for the iraqi army. >> you're right. they're quite -- i think they're quite a threat. the idea they might have some of these surface to air missiles, hand held things that shoots in airliners alone gives us a real urgency. listen. if you take alan's point, to say that we need a measured, thoughtful response to isis, you might even look at the "new york times" editorial this morning on isis but it says we need to coordinate with arabs and other muslim allies and so on such as they are. they're right. here is where we have the problem of the current situation which is th

-- rioting in over 100 american cities. so much so that vice president hubert humphrey who is in new york at the time the riots broke out was told by the secret service, we can't take you back to office on the senate side of the u.s. capitol, and we can't take you back to your office in the executive office building adjacent to the white house, because the rioters are so close to the capital and they are so close to the white house that we can't assure the safety of the vice president of the united states. that is april. in june of 1968, the assassination of senator kennedy on the night of his greatest victory in the california primary. the story about that is that kennedy had not appeared on national television to celebrate , decidedn the primary to do something different from what he usually did third usually, when kennedy would make the kind of appearance, he would --t the hall to the craft through the craft. people had begun clearing a path through the crowd. he decided that night that he was going to go talk to the ass

>> of course they want to destroy an american city if they can. i think they are far away from that at present, unless they somehow got a nuclear weapon from afghanistan. that's tough. i would say ugly violence by small groups or individuals. >> what about crossing the border? governor perry of texas says they could be here already. let me show you a brief excerpt from the pentagon who addressed this. roll tape, please. >> i've seen no indication that they are coming across the border with mexico. we have no information that leads us to believe that. that said, we do know they have aspirations to hit western targets, and as secretary hagel said yesterday, it's something we have to take seriously and we have to try to be ready for it. >> ralph, your comment on that? >> even if this terrorist organization had no intention of trying to cross our southern border, although they do, nonetheless, look, you secure your borders. it's a no-brainer. even if the border was totally peaceful, if you secure your borders. so we just need to get back the basics on

the worst overnight violence in ferguson in the american city of st. louis, the national guard is sent in to restore peace and order. >>> ukrainian authorities say a convoy of refugees is hit by fire with morters and rocket launchers from luhansk. >>> his health has suffered over the past two years seeking asylum many london. he announces it's time to go. >> authorities in gaza say the death toll following a month of fighting with the israeli army has climbed above 2,000 as more die of their wounds. >>> hello. welcome to the program. the governor of missouri has ordered the national guards to help restore order. ferguson has endured violent protests after a white police officer shot dead an unarmed black teenager on august 9th. on the latest confrontations sunday night, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at rioters. officers came under fire on several occasions. >> reporter: these were the scenes that prompted missouri's governor to order in the national guard to restore order in ferguson. police use tear gas and smoke canisters in efforts to dis

. >>> the explosions caught on tape, rocking an american city.several blasts, several blocks apart bursting. what caused this? the concern now >>> a surprise for his mother, a dream come true. what was waiting for

a major american city declaring its water contaminated, people rushing to stores, finding shelves empty, restaurants shut down. the national guard on its way right now, bringing in supplies. >>> washout. monsoon thunderstorms in the southwest, torrential rains in the east, and this, as tropical storm bertha churns in the caribbean. where it's heading tonight.

the least american city, mcallen , texas.aded back to school this week, and they are not a bit happy with mrs. obama school lunch and snacks overall, the food program. the administration's effort to fight child of obesity. since the summit of on twitter. here with more is kansas' reform editor-in-chief. welcome back to the show. these kids have a point, don't they? >> they do. unfortunately, she is not pro-choice when it comes to student lunches. gerri: of paper read listen. i want to read some of the streets because people are on fire. kids are having a fit. here is one. why did you take my fries from my high-school launch? that is my time for me to make my own decisions on what to eat to read what you say? >> well, back in my day the school will use to come up and beat you up and school your lunch. today with michelle obama's school lunches they are so bad that the school bully is beating you up and then making you read is launched. it is awful. gerri: that's bad. that is not good. here is another tweet. thanks. and how abo

. >>> plus, an american city that is a fertile recruiting ground for islamic extremists. >>> out of balancen nfl player arrested for domestic violence after the league announced tougher measures to combat the problem. >>> then plastic bags, many towns already do it. now california is poised to become first state to ban plastic bags out of grocery stores. >>> and kids and guns. after a deadly accident, can guns ever be safe in the hands of kids? why some say an

and understand that something is terribly wrong when a young man gets shot in the streets of an american cityis the leader? a lot of these young people, they don't remember, they were not around for the civil rights movement. shouldn't they have someone to help them rise up? >> well, yeah, there's local leadership in ferguson and young and middle age peoples who are having solidarity. what i'm talking about specifically in that piece are the folks who are unconstrained and unrestrained. >> got it. >> these are the folks who are waiting to face tear gas to get their point across and they are also being told by the civil rights movement that progress has been made, barack obama is president and you have all of these options but they live in segregated america, brooke. ferguson might as well be 1950 st. louis or ferguson or any southern city. it's 50 years after the passage of the civil rights act but these are students who are going to schools that have lost accreditation, including michael brown. there's 22% poverty rate. there's a low rate of political activity and that is because these are f

you are flying over new orleans with an american city going through a lot of difficulties. another american city a don't want to say in flames but the violence has been intense, the president is not going there, they're sending in the attorney general. could the attorney general have a positive role? >> i think the attorney general could. i would say don't believe president obama ought to go to each and every one of those areas with the civil unrest, but the president's comments again had this kind of moral equivalency between we have the writers and looters on one hand, both of them ought to behave. there is looting, carrying guns and attacking police only serves to raise tension and stir up chaos. it is wrong and he should draw a line between the peaceful protesters who are upset about the death of michael brown and the agitators season upon this to create violence and act of looting and violence, lost to draw a straight line to say one is the great tradition of america's right to free expression. the other ought to be dealt wi with. the morally: sea of police on the same

it is:this and ferdinand isabella and those native american cities brought back and pineapple's that is the anachronism the europeans fell in love with pineapple but it could not survive the trip so only came back as dried. and they would have trays and it quickly became a symbol of hospitality and a luxury. that with the eagle was the symbol for the americas. what i was trying to do was to answer a question. how is it the west known for its investigative spirit is the essence of western culture? how did they read these curiosity for the prohibitions the church had maintained? through the 16th century the catholics and protestants preached you were not to be curious about guards creation it was adultery and of the soul to talk about the tides are the shapes of the earth. how did they break through this? my hunch it is columbus with what he brought back. the phlegm poignant bird team and weird animals and to the stunning typography of the americas and this was so fascinating people had to do break through that prohibition and then they become curious about the natural world and then w

police armed with military weapons on the streets of an american city.his vehicle is called a mine resistant ambush protected truck. it's the same vehicle used by the u.s. military. the police are using a sonic cannon called an lrad. the long-range acoustic device that emits powerful and painful alarm to control crowds. lrads are use bid the military and can cause permanent hearing loss. today ferguson's police chief defended his officers and their tactics. >> the whole picture is being painted a little bit sideways from what's happening. it's not military. it's tactical operations. it's s.w.a.t. teams. it's police. we are doing this in blue. >> we're seeing officers in camouflage, not blue. armed with automatic rifles, dressed in riot gear, wearing helmets and kevlar vests. why are are police snipers aiming assault rifles at protesters in broad daylight? it's making ferguson look like a war zone. >> this is the police department. you must leave the area. >> joining me now live from ferguson is chris hayes who is hosting his show live from there tonight.

♪ >>> we're back with the political uproar after a major american city takes a drastic step to make streetsafer. but, is a curfew best and fairest way to bring down youth crime? abc's chief national correspondent byron pitts now on the front lines in his hometown of baltimore. >> reporter: it's been years now since hbo's "the wire" was on television. creating a reputation the city of baltimore is still trying to live down. so far, this year, relative good news -- the overall murder rate is down. but no one is celebrating. in part, because the number of young people dieing is up. so, what's a cash-strapped city to do? thus far, the public has not liked the answer. considered one of the most restrictive in the nation, baltimore has upgraded its curfew law. 14 to 16-year-olds by 10:00 weekdays. 11:00 p.m. on weekends. parents or guardians could face fines of up to $500. but it's not the fines or hours that bother civil liberties group, from your perspective, what's wrong with having a curfew? >> i think it's offering a chance to criminalize children. >> reporter: but the baltimore mayor insist

do take offense that i am not someone who is thinking about members of the african american community, all over the city. a couple of weeks ago a friend that i grew up in the western community, who lived in the bay view hunter's point was killed in a tl. and african americans who i grew up with, many of them who grew up in the western edition, sadly have ended up in the tl, and substance abuse, and drug abuse, and homeless and sros and other places. and when i am in that area, and i am driving by or catching a bus down in that area, there is never a time that i don't see, a lot of the folks that are out there, that i don't know. that are not my friends that i don't say hey and wave and so on and so forth and in many instances i interact with those, i need a job, i need support, what can i do? well the job one stop, in the western edition, community is not just for the western edition, community, it is for anyone who is a san franciscan, who is looking for an employment opportunity, and i am out there, on the corners, and pushing people, to show up for these opportunities, and we have through the eoc and

. >> in a world where--you're right, new york and some other american cities are way ahead of others in the world. your book details these without passing judgment on them. you say what has gone wrong, what has gone right. you say if we don't kick our infrastructure up dramatically it's hard to compete with shanghai, seoul and these cities that are all about new infrastructure. their broadband, highways, everything is new. is there a sense that we can get there in new york. >> i think we're getting there. if you look at what is happening in tell come and other areas, i think after 9/11 downtown you're seeing all new infrastructure there. it's a question of money and it's a credit of people. we are such a dense city that we can't rip it up at one time. new cities can do it right from the beginning. we're dealing with these legacy systems that were pretty good. it's just hard to work on them with so many people above them. >> you're hopeful. >> i think it will work. >> kate ascher, author of a new book about sky scrapers, an lent read as well. the heights anatomy of a sky grapier. thes

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trail and to highlight the social, and the psycho, social and impacts of the african americans, community inside of the city. on education, on entertainment, and as well as civic life and so colleagues and also, san francisco and members of the public, we are here because the people in the african american community are missing out on the employment industries and the booming industry, when as in the african american unemployment rate is close to, close to 3 times that of the other racial dem graphics and so we have a major problem here and we have to begin to turn the tides and so the purpose of the hearing is not only to highlight the important work that the working group has done, but also to discuss the obtain able recommendations within the report with an effort to take another step, or to take the other steps toward equity in our city and to increase diversity in these important industries. i have a few presenters lined up today to talk about the work that was done, and i am going to call them up one by one and i would recognize theo miller from the mayor's office to give us a brief summary of the wor

download it now joo more and more american cities are investing in light rail, spending billions in the belief that better systems give their regions competitive advantages, whether it happens is a debate for another day. i want to talk about a side effect of building light rail that definitely does happen, but gets less attention. huge infrastructure projects in metropolitan areas often come at the expense of poor resident who are displaced by construction or eventually priced out of their rental homes when gentrification takes place. minnesota's twin city is making measures to avoid that measure. >> reporter: 10 miles long, 18 stops between downtown minnesota and st. paul. the green line railway connect two neighbourhoods from blocks with upmarket skyscrapers to underdeveloped communities, packed with refugees, people living at the marnal yins. >> when we built the green line we wanted to make shoe it wasn't just a transportation system, to increase equity and open durs. >> it was said by the mayor it was to attract investment and re-election back to the urban core. $2.5 billion in ne

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. >> thousands of people packed into a church and in the american city of st. louis to remember michael brown. >> he was the black teenager shot dead by police earlier this month. the incident sparked nearly two weeks of protests. >> and calls for political change. >> those who attended the funeral celebrated the life of michael brown. the young unarmed man shot in ferguson. they also remembered other black americans who died in similar circumstances. >> we have the family of trayvon martin, tracy martin. [applause] we have the family of jordan davis. [applause] and now we have the family of michael brown. >> round's family appealed for calm on the day of the funeral. they wanted fees as they sfrienr the life of the 18-year-old and tried to find words of farewell. >> i just want to say to mike that i love you and i wish i could hold you and kiss you. but i know you would say we don't do that stuff. >> in memory of michael brown, family -- flowers and personal possessions on his coffin. his loved ones hope the young man's death will not be in vain. >> our corres

city of ferguson. >> according to whom? your perspective, or the african-americans in your community? that is the perspective of all residents in our city. absolutely. >> have you been watching the news? because there are people who, sire, with all due respect, on any network, not just this one, who disagree and live there. i'm asking, are you listening to them? >> absolutely. there's 22,000 residents in our community. this is effected about a half-mile strip of street in our community. the rest of our community, the rest of the african-americans in our community are going about their daily lives, going to the businesses, walking their dog, going to the neighborhood watch meetings -- >> now new jersey governor and possible 2016 candidate chris christie is urging people not to jump to conclusions. the u.s. attorney general's office say don't make decisions on the police based on the situation in ferguson. >> i said all the time when i was the u.s. attorney privately, i hear a politician make a comment about a case they thought they were working on. i hate when they don't know anything,

>> guest: ferdinand, isabella and native american cities brought back. and pineapples, which is anachronism because pineapple could not survive this trip so it only came back astride pineapple and they have great trays full of pineapples. pineapples quickly became hospitality and luxury. that along with the ego came the symbols for the united states -- excuse me, for the americas. what i was trying to do for my own satisfaction was to answer a question. a fascinating question of how is it that the west, which is known for its investigative spirit, in which his scientific inquisitiveness is really the essence of western culture? how did they ever release curiosity from the prohibitions that the church has maintained on a? from augustine through the 16th century, catholics and protestants preached to you or not to be curious about god's creation. there was an adult to re-to ask about tides or shapes of the earth. so this is a question to me. how did they break through this? my hunch was that it was columbus. not the discoveries, but what they brought back.