if the institutional slavelry would be attacked an would be, you know, tried to be apoll. why did mississippi su sfreed the union? in that point -- that is a different question than why did soldiers night the civil war. i think that's a different issue entirely. this young man who does not own any slaves is probably fighting and enduring the hardships of r due to other issues beside slavery. he's probably not doing anything to protect slavery and institution. so i think it's a very fine line that we today in mississippi and across the country struggle with trying to determine the causes of war, the reasons people fight. >> the this room has witnessed many important statemen who have been near this building. one of the most famous builts i have begin, was yarks. and when was asked to speak here in his name sake's city. jackson was named after her seventh hth of the united states. he wud to take part of the 25th anniversary of his victory at the battle of new orleans and the british during the war of 1812. when city leaders learned he was going to be there. they asked him to

. >> i apoll jiesms. >> jon: how could you, sir? >> it is a fascinating story of these...ean, the two brothers are sort of famous. there's four of them. >> right. so the interesting thing about this family is you really hear just about charles and david koch. of course there are four koch brothers. when i was researching this book, the political part of their story is almost the least interesting part of it. these brothers duked it out over control of the family company. one of them, what's got to be one of the most bare-knuckled brawl, legal brawls in history, and the interesting part about it is that when their dad died in 1967, bequeathing the family fortune to his son, charles koch finds a letter after his death and it says, you know, be kind and generous to each other, and this money can be a blessing or a curse. it ends up being both because their inheritance ends up fueling this nasty, nasty legal war between the brothers. >> jon: but it's almost... you read about their childhood and the way the father... it's a different era, but there was almost like a darwinian e

buzz will be at uss hornt along with scott mcgrew, he will be there marking the anniversary of the apoll le 11 splashdown in the pacific. >> when i really to want show off, i show my contacts and i have buzz's number. >> i do, i'm showing off. >> and me. >>> 6:21, still ahead "today in the bay," morning landing for an oscar winner and olympian. we'll tell you why their plane made an unexpected stop in russia. >>> five people on board as a hot air balloon burst into flames and it's all caught on camera. >>> new this morning, virgin atlantic flight from shank thigh london was forced to make an emergency landing in siberia. spokesperson says the plane had a technical issue and the landing was a precaution. now one of the 300 passengers on board was american screen writer dustin lance black. he posted this video on facebook. here you see the plane dumping fuel, getting rid of the extra fuel before an emergency landing is very normal. his boyfriend is british olympic diver tom daley, also on the flight, right now the plane on a runway, being examined, it's in siberia. virgin atlantic says the

well, the -- i do apoll dpiez. i stutter.ically, the advertising has gotten a lot more expensive maybely because there's more players. there's more competitions where there's more of our people siding for real estate but people aren't necessarily spending more and more time as more advertisers and more pages and more businesses get involved. so that's the big factor is that more and more companies are siding for real estate and that has been going on recently. >> so one of the options here is video ads. the fact that they've acquired live rail shows, they're serious about this. he said we're going to go slow. what are your thoughts there? >> yeah. definitely when facebook is trying to get users used to a new model of advertising, which comparatively video is still fairley new in terms of facebook. basically, the way that facebook operates is they will -- kind of a slowly start testing in certain markets of certain users. then they'll see because how these users interact with these video ads, kind of the look of usage patterns

. >> wouldn't that have been better than a tapeed apoll gee from stephen a. smith? done, and oftentimes we take the easy way out, right? i almost think there's an opportunity here. i think stephen's a reasonable man. what if they is it sit down and use this as a learning opportunity, a teaching moment and they took your, in fact, why don't we just tell espn right now, as you're on cam camera, that's a really good suggestion because obviously this is something that also speaks to the nature of what's going on and the nfl, which started this whole thing off. people are so upset about the fact that this guy got a two-game suspension. you get more for testing for p.e.d.s or getting busted for marijuana, carol. >> the most disturbing thing about this whole thing to me is the victim blaming, right? because while that terrible thing happened to me back in college, i thought my friends would stand by me, but many of them blamed me. they said things like "well he's such a nice guy. he really loves you. maybe this was just a one-time thing." right? and it seems like, you know

being told, and this is all over facebook and twitter here in the netherlands, have come out with an apolln't it? >> that's from the independent newspaper, not the russian government funded media there. thank you so much for joining us this morning. the coverage continues of our breaking story overnight. that cease-fire in gaza and how long it will last. the hope is for at least 12 hours. we'll go live to jerusalem and the gaza border for the very latest developments there. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america. ganncr: we took care of your back pain. you make him the mvp. tylenol is clinically proven to provide strong, fast pain reli

they think about neil armstrong, "apol"apollo 13", the challenge >> most people on earth weren't evenold, like yourself, willie, weren't here when neil made the step on the moon. neil felt we should continue to explore. meaning, get out of earth orbit, the cradle. the earth is our cradle. it's a spacecraft 8,000 miles in diameter. we can't live here forever. we have to get off. if the human race is going to survive we have got to learn how to live farther and farther away in the solar system. that's what neil has led us to do. >> the back is "kneel armstrong, a life of flight." jay, one of the great treasures of this country. good to see you. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> we're back in a moment. this is "today" on nbc. k in a m. this is "today" on nbc. ♪ 737. 737. right there? you guessed it. how do we save on operational costs? with the world's largest fleet of boeing 737's. one of the many ways we bring you $69 airfares. limited time sale fares starting as low as $69 one-way. if it matters to you, it matters to us. book now at southwest.com. ♪ >>> all right. we're back at 8:54. pa