burned down their camps as they're forced out, turning what was once a rallying cry for activists into ashes. but many say the fight is far from over. we'll have the full story ahead. >> and millions of americans who have been enjoying unseasonable warmth may be feeling the brunt of a winter storm. hope you didn't put those winter coats away. you're going to need them. >>> in california, some regions there are reeling from the effects of tons of rain and snow. accuweather has an update straight ahead. >> and new in half hour, nasa has a major discovery. >> a new solar system right in our own backyard, so to speak. it includes seven earth-like planets. so why are astronomers consider ultimately finding e.t.? >> and the acts that both rocked the house and brought down at least one house at last night's brit awards. the live debut of the chain smokers and coldplay together along with the touching duet with george michael. we're going to have the complete story ahead in "the skinny." it is thursday, february 23rd. ahead >> from abc news, this is abc "world news now." >> big congratulations. are

. >>> what a pain in the ash. i said ash.ops were supposed to find a suspect stuck in a chimney responding to a burglary call responding to a california home. police received the same call from a woman saying her friend was caught in the chimney. firefighters were able to get keith allen schultz out from the chimney. he is charged with first degree burglary. didn't get a chance to wash his face. one or more accomplices are out there. >>> just ahead, the united states about to export more oil than opec. and, it may be the biggest fake story of the year. can you guess what it is? mom, i just saved a lot of money on my car insurance by switching to geico. i should take a closer look at geico... you know, geico can help you save money on your homeowners insurance too? great! geico can help insure our mountain chalet! how long have we been sawing this log? um, one hundred and fourteen years. man i thought my arm would be a lot more jacked by now. i'm not even sure this is real wood. there's no butter in this churn. do my tris look

fat tuesday is the last day of cairn val season as it always falls on the day before ash wednesday. >s camaraderie, neighbor with neighbor sharing free food and drink. it is really one of the great shows on earth. justice, faith and power, unofferingsly they represent ast whole lot of fun. in new orleans, will car, fox news. > what did you do for that, will?ll? >> it's crazy down there.. > it does indeed. thanks for joining us tonight at 6. 5@6:30 is coming up right after the break. > we sort of noticed we're a little patriotic here. >> salute. what's get started on this tuesday morning, an optimistic vision for the nation, that ist the theme of president trump'st speech to a joint session of congress tonight. what he told fox news at an exclusive interview hours befors the speech. you can see it on the run downn it's what we're talking about at 6:30. tweet us what's on your mind. we know what you meant. we also know the speech is going to look like a state of the union address, technically states of the union

. >> i traveled this path before >> reporter: out of the ashes, tells the story of absentee incarcerated parents. >> i cried out to that boy with tears in my eyes and said what am i to do. >> reporter: it tells story of the children left on the outside. >> what are youing to go do if your dad's on the run or is occupation involves cocaine and a gun. >> being in prison for he was a painfully enlightening period. >> reporter: coal harris did four years in the smyrna prison a price he paid for a life on the streets. harris was 21 at the time and his son amar was just two years old. >> it was normal to me. that was my life report report through letters, phone calls and visits, the the two kept in touch but was not until half is came home in 2008 that the true healing began. >> when he finally did come home and we finally met, it was overwhelming but it it was , it was awesome. >> reporter: with patients and hard work the two, rebuilt their bond. >> it was no magic pill. it was just time. >> reporter: it work so well they decided to drama ties their story on stage in the form of family therap

of those year an you learned that u now native american and all americans but learn that there were ash shan americans. african american, hishes all contradicting to a culture that west was diverse in many ways than the -- land some of the places east of the mississippi river. first of all i'm going to talk about books i've pressured on african-americans in the west. and then i'm going to talk about hicks west. and then finally talk about soo. book on native american culture. we forget that african-americans who were in the west therm brought to the west as slaves first in texas in into the indian territory that 2350*eu6 civilized tribe when is they left the southeast and moved to overwhelm took their slaves with them. and so -- african-americans have always been in the west they didn't just show up suddenly. after the civil war, more left to form communities in the west consider g concern as exo dust the wortd from the book in the bible. most roongtly i bought a book from the university of oklahoma press, which was just published on the town of nick dee mous and within of the all black

>> i had her ashes in my purse. >> she went to the auction. >> absolutely.he wanted to be put in a lake in british columbia, and i called mom and said, "would it be okay with you if we kept half of her ashes out and took them with us?" and she said, "sure. why not?" i think it's the best memorial service we could have given her. >> a fitting tribute to the pan am stewardess and her precious keepsakes from a life adventurously lived. on $10 a day... >> $10 per diem. [ laughs ] >> so, if lise brought half of aunt naomi's ashes to the auction, what happened to them afterward? well, once they gave naomi one final day with her precious beads, they decided to scatter the rest in places dear to naomi's heart. some will go in the soil outside her condo, while others will be sprinkled from this balcony over the city san francisco that she loved so much. bon voyage, naomi. thanks so much for watching "strange inheritance." i'm jamie colby. remember -- you can't take it with you. >> muscle-bound heroes... >> my dad said, "if i'm gonna do conan, it's gonna be done my wa

, the defence of the ashes in november.oday that ben stokes will be vice captain. it is a day when the new generation takes over in england. thanks katie, so plenty of congratulatory messages are coming in this afternoon. stuart broad says, "this pic was after he scored a (rare) goal in football but it works — congrats captain root! #england" michael vaughan says, "i bring you the new england cricket captain.... # root" the durham county cricket say, "introducing your new england cricket test vice—captain, @benstokes38" that's all sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport and i'll have more in the next hour. our main story, at least four people have been killed in avalanche in the french alps. reports say the group may have been skiing off piste near the tignes resort. what are the latest reports? there isa what are the latest reports? there is a big search operation underway. as you say, they were skiing off piste and we are hearing that it was a big avalanche th

there are dozens of similar complaints and scathing reviews online about heritage mixup and ashes held for ransom. the better business bureau issued a warning about the company in colorado. unlike most states it does not require a license. >> they are not here. >> reporter: however an unannounced visit revealed no one from the company actually works there. turns out the most trusted cremation services in boulder is also the most trusted in san francisco, san jose berklee palo alto and the list goes on. they serve as a buddy broker collecting upfront fees from grieving families then subcontracting actual services to local funeral homes. >> they are misrepresenting themselves as a local business. >> reporter: the california cemetery and funeral bureau says they receive numerous local complaints about heritage which is operating without a license. they issued a cease and desist but when we called the company, they were still clearly operating. and assured they were licensed here in the state. >> what can you do for a company that is knowing your cease and desist and is still operating? >>

sending columns of ash more than two miles into the air. >>> plus, one woman making tonight extra special for a certain super bowl champ. stay with us. "exercise more." i know that. "try laxatives..." i know. believe me. it's like i've. tried. everything! my chronic constipation keeps coming back. i know that. tell me something i don't know. (vo) linzess works differently from laxatives. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation, or chronic constipation. it can help relieve your belly pain, and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements that are easier to pass. do not give linzess to children under 6 and it should not be given to children 6 to 17. it may harm them. don't take linzess if you have a bowel blockage. get immediate help if you develop unusual or severe stomach pain, especially with bloody or black stools. the most common side effect is diarrhea, sometimes severe. if it's severe stop taking linzess and call your doctor right away. other side effects include gas, stomach-area pain and swelling. talk to your doctor about managing your symptoms proactively wit

root will lead england in the summer's test series against south africa and west indies, with an ashesey reports. a tremendous performance. root has played magnificently. magnificent hundred from root. in really tough circumstances. he is the dynamo of the england team. joe root has got used to being english cricket's great hope. now he faces something newer. great responsibility. the way in which he plays his cricket, he goes about his business, you would imagine it will lend itself to being a great captain. in january he became a father for the first time, he'll approach leading just as he does parenting. it's one of those things that you sort of have to learn on thejob. i suppose being a dad you don't really know what to do until you sort ofjust have to go with it and see how it was, i imagine that would be very similar. you could see baby alfie is already in white, this is after all a family that starts them early. you'll find the root of root amongst fertile yorkshire cricketing soil. here on the outskirts of sheffield is where it began forjoe. root still goes back to sheffield co

they then welcome the west indies, but then the big one, a trip down under, to face australia in the ashestage. the five—stage event is part of the uci women's world tour and will conclude in the capital on sunday the 11th ofjune. it will be the fourth edition of the event, which britain's lizzie deignan won last year. the race will also include stages in northamptonshire, warwickshire, stoke—on—trent, staffordshire and derbyshire. the women's tour ended in london. i am keen to encourage more people to cycle in london, to make it safer and easier. we want to show the world that london is open, and we are the sporting capital of the world. we have the heavyweight boxing between anthonyjoshua and wladimir klitschko. we have the largest number of nfl games taking place in london later this year. and we are in discussions with major league baseball to see if we can get that here in london as well. ronnie o'sullivan has been knocked out of the welsh open snooker. he blew a 3—0 lead to lose 4—3 to mark davis in the second round in cardiff, where it's been a day of shocks. 15—year—old schoolboy j

what struck me was walking into one of these, where the whole cave was covered with black ash. written byk ash was a russian soldier who had fled there during the revolution, basically the equivalent of "kilroy was here." for whatever geography i had learned in the world, all of a sudden my understanding of the relationship between the soviet union and china was forever changed. i completely understood something i had never understood before. those caves were the ticket for me. richard: esq -- let me ask you, when you came out, did you talk to someone about this, write about this? how did you fix the memory of that event? deborah: i did both. i talked to many people that i was with, many were art historians. they were filling me with all sorts of information i didn't have. but then i kept a journal in this remarkable journey i was taking, and still have the journal. writing it down helped to fix that into my mind. richard: that is so important that you externalize your experience in some object or conversation. i think our ability to recover these things, it's so easy for us to

he won two ashes series during his five years as skipper, but had been considering his future in theision, but the correct decision, at the right time". here's the reaction of another, former england skipper. my conversation with him injanuary, it became clear that he felt a huge amount of energy and drive and determination was needed to take the england test team forward over the next 12 months or so heading to the ashes and deep down he was getting drained by the, i suppose, the relentlessness of being england captain. the world of rugby is paying tribute to the former south africa scrum half joost van der westhuizen, who has died at the age of a5, after a long running battle with motor neurone disease. president jacob zuma said the country had "lost a legend." he was a member of the famous springbok side that won the world cup in 1995. people look at him as a hero and an inspiration, the great captain and scrum—half. the man who stopped south africa from winning the 1995 world cup. the man who won 89 caps for his country and the man who fought motor neurone disease. he gave so muc

root inherits a team that lost 4—0 in india last year and faces south africa in the summer before the ashesr. who knows how he'll fare? we can, though, guess his approach. in the words of his grandfather, "mad keen". patrick geary, bbc news, in sheffield. staying with cricket, india beat bangladesh by 208 runs in their one off test in hyderabad. the tourists were chasing an unlikely a59 for victory and despite a battling performance from mohammad mahmudullah, they fell well short. bangladesh were all out for 250 just before tea on the final day, with ashwin and jadeja taking eight wickets between them. i don't think it is because of me. everybody at international level wa nts to everybody at international level wants to do well. it is as simple as that. playing as a team, that has been the difference in this team. you can say 2016, i have scored a lot of runs, but 2015 as well, we wa nt test lot of runs, but 2015 as well, we want test matches where i didn't score many runs but the other guys we re score many runs but the other guys were scoring lots of runs. their confidence was rubbing off

he won the ashes twice, but has been considering his future during the recent tour of india which theynion captain, has died aged 49. he helped them win the world cup back in 1995. and canada were disqualified from their final davis cup match against red britain, after one hit the ball in the face of the umpire, it meant that britain won the tie to reach the quarterfinals. i will have more on those stories. stefano brizzi, who was jailed for the murder of 59—year—old police officer gordon semple in london, has died in prison, the ministry ofjustice has said. an investigation will take place, say the ministry ofjustice. this case, many people will remember very recently he was sent to prison for this crime. the the judge described the terrible features of this case has been particularly memorable, the judge even praising the police officers who had to deal with the aftermath of the scene at his flat. pc gordon semple met him on the gauge dating app grinder. red sea claimed that it was a sex game gone wrong that he had accidentally died at his flat. but the jury found him guilty and then

i cannot imagine that the donald trump adam ashe ocean will try to stick up for the saudis.n india yesterday. a mixed reaction to what he had to say. one of the key things he had to talk about was they acted swiftly without any notice last year with changing the currency. what did you think of the budget? we are talking about corruption. this is a budget to expand the tax base. in other words, make sure more people are paying tax by reducing tax rates for the poorest, 0k, and having a single... if you earn below a certain amount of money, have only one page of a tax form. so make sure more people comply with tax. that will be good for the country. will that be effective? on the website, it says 196 effective? on the website, it says i% of people pay tax. only i%! pretty much anything would be effective if you have such a low base you are starting from. i think that would be a good ..-* be 15 if "ff 7775: move ,.,._- ~ 5 7775: move b 7—7” ~ 7 also an anticorruption move by getting rid of how much you can pay political parties. and getting rid of money laundering and a cutback

in 1996, african-american tennis star and richmond native arthur ash added to the collection. conversations about monument avenue in which statues should be added, changed or removed continued today. next, we speak with kristen green on the fight to desegregate prince edward county virginia. >> i think a lot of people believed that that's what i thought of it as. and i also think that people believed that as soon as the decision was handed to the court in 1954 that it was implemented and also it's not really. so while i am working on the research for the book is that

in 1996 african-american tennis star and richmond native arthur ashe was added to the collection. conversations about monument avenue and which statutes should be added, changed or removed continue today. up next we speak with kristen green on trying to desegregate greene county -- prince edward kennett virginia. >> i think people believe that as soon as the decision was handed down by the supreme court in 1954 that it was immediately implemented and that also is not true. what i learned working on research for the book was that since edward county that are literally affected by the brown v. board of education decision but it was actually one of the five cases that was rolled into an umbrella brown case. the reason that prince edward was part of the brown v. board of education decision was a young woman named barbara, a high school junior, lead and walk out to protest the conditions of her school. that walkout attracted the attention of naacp attorneys in richmond, and they agreed to come meet with the barbara johns and her fellow students and their parents. but that decision led

she wanted her ashes scattered in atlanta. him and there was a city ordinance preventing the distribution of remains, so be ashes stayed in a box for five or six years and then the funeral home was doing inventory. they called alan marcus and said you have to get lucille frank's ashes. they got them and they put them in the trunk of alan corvair. both of his sons are here this evening, and they drove lucille's ashes around that teenagers. that was to joke, driving miss lucille. [laughter] one morning in the mid-60's, allen and his brother got some gardening tools and before light, went down to the jewish section of open cemetery and buried lucille in an anonymous plot between the headstones of her parents. alan tells me this mind-blowing, heart-wrenching story over lunch. i am moved immediately -- at that point, i knew i would finish the book. to me, that represents what happened to atlanta's jewish community because of leo frank. it was a body blow to the psyche of atlanta jews. nearly 50 years later, the family of lucille fr

we have the ashes next year of course.r cook had hit the buffers. it's been a hard time for him as captain, lots of ups and downs, co nsta nt captain, lots of ups and downs, constant noise in the background, particularly going back to the kevin pietersen affair. he's had to put up with a lot from the wings as it were, and moderate success. he was never the most exciting or adventurous of captains, but very solid, determined and gritty, much like his batting. many thanks indeed. five sports today begin their appeals against a decision to axe all their elite level funding. badminton and wheelchair rugby are among the sports making their case to uk sport to challenge their decision to cut funding for the tokyo 2020 olympic games. badminton has said it faces a financial crisis despite winning a bronze medal in rio, exceeding their target. david 0rnstein reports. these sports facing perhaps the biggest battle, representatives from each will begin meeting uk sport today. the outcome could make or break their hopes for the tokyo

in 1996, african-american tennis star and richmond native arthur ash added to the collection. conversations about monument avenue in which statues should be added, changed or removed continued today. next, we speak with kristen green on the fight to desegregate prince edward county virginia. >> i think a lot of people believed that that's what i thought of it as. and i also think that people believed that as soon as the decision was handed to the court in 1954 that it was implemented and also it's not really. so while i am working on the research for the book is that not only it was really affected by the brown versus board of education but it was actually one of five cases that was ruled into an umbrella brown case. the reason that, because it was part of the progress of brown b board of education was the one young woman named robert johns junior led a walkout to protest the conditions of her school in farmville virginia in 1965 and that walkout from the naacp attorney in richmond and they agreed to come meet with barbara johns but that decision led the naacp to take up the c

in 1996, african-american tennis star and richmond native arthur ashe was added to the conversation. -- up next, we speak with kristen green on the right to desegregate prince edward county virginia. >> i think a lot of people believe it is just one court case. that's what i thought of it as. growing up. and i also think that people believe that as soon as the decision was handed down by the supreme court in 1954, that it was immediately implement it. that also is not true. what i learned working on research for the book was that prince edward county that only was affected by the education decision but it was also one of five cases that was rolled into an umbrella case. and the the reason this was part of the decision was a woman, a high school junior and did a walk out. in 1951. that walk out capture the attention of the naacp attorneys in richmond. and they agreed to come meet with barbara john's and fellow students and their parents. but that decision led the naacp to take up the case and file a lawsuit on behalf of those residents and made it to the supreme court. that part of br

team forward over the next 12 months 01’ so team forward over the next 12 months or so heading to the ashesined piety, i suppose, relentlessness of being captain. you are the only one who knows how much gas is left in the tank, you only know the demands as captain, how much that's taking out of you, and alistair was honest about that and he feels it's time for some new blood, some new impetus, some fresh thinking. he's had some difficult to overcome, both personally and collectively, over five years. he stuck with that unbelievably. certainly, at times, you know, a letterman wouldn't be able to deal with those. —— lesser man. the cameroon players were given a heroes‘ welcome on monday after returning home as africa cup of nations champions. thousands of delirious fans lined the streets outside the airport in the capital younde to snatch a glimpse of the team and the trophy. the indomitable lions came from behind to beat egypt 2—1 in the final in gabon. it all began just over three weeks ago. 0ur reporter piers edwards looks back over the tournament's highs and lows. africa's most colourful