this box has asheville 's black history, mainly the history of my community south side.e community filed away. in this box. rich history. filed away. closed until i decide to open it and talk about it. ♪ >> i grew up in the 60s, at the time i was growing up larger asheville was seg we the cradle to the grave, black-owned homes and businesses, it gave me a sense of pride. i lived in the apartment where nine other people. ♪ >> just where that pole is is where i lived. so you had all of the homes that were up and down this street. ♪ >> and, hmm, as you can see, it's empty. ♪ >> urban renewal was implemented and so that forced us to have to move out. wwe relocated to we relocated to public housing. >> people were told this was all temporary. looking at four, five, six generations of people have living in it. >> this didn't come out of nowhere. this came out of explicit policy designed to confine the descendents of those who had been enslaved. >> we must make sure that every family in america lives in a home of dignity. >> the intent was meant to improve the living conditions

mike, you know, this is not just an issue that's unique to asheville.philadelphia, seattle and here in atlanta have point today retirements. fewer recruits in increased scrutiny in efforts to defund the police and reasons the numbers are down in the departments. as you mentioned according to doj data decline in ranking file is an issue that predates efforts to defund the police between 2013 and 2016. the number of full-time officers dropped by some 23,000 nationally and now, mike, police departments across the country are trying to get creative to sort of get themselves out of the shortage crunch. some departments are offering bonuses for new recruits and others are offering retention bonuses to keep officers on the force, mike. mike: serious issue and no fun if you call the police and they say they've got nobody to send. charles watson live in atlanta. charles. thank you very much. rolling into the summer and style and how two small businesses are gearing up for tourist season when we come back. ♪ ♪ ♪ no pizza. have that salad. unless there's dressing.

in a facebook post the asheville police department that officers will no longer respond in person toud, scams, or theft under $1000 but instead they're asking folks to report those lines online. the changes were needed to improve response times to emergency 911 calls following the loss of a four officers since january 2021. north carolina fraternal order of police president told abc affiliate w los the shortages were political. telling the station they are following a national mandate using the same terminology to try to lessen law and order in the community and try to lessen safety in your community. it is sad what is happening. i put the whole blame on city councils that cut the asheville police department budget by 3% earlier this year. this is not just eight unique to asheville part offer shortages are growing issue across the nation. officials and union leaders in cities such as philadelphia, seattle and even atlanta have pointed to retirements and increased police scrutiny behind the phone the police efforts as numbers are down in those departments. according to federal data th

this is not a unique situation to asheville. leaders in cities such as fill delve ya, seattle -- philadelphia, and lawsuit, point to increased scrutiny as reasons numbers are down in those departments. according to daj data, decline in rank and file is an issue that predates efforts to defund the police. the number of full-time officers dropped by 23,000 nationally, and eric, these departments across the nation are trying to get creative to get themselves out of the shortage issues. we've got departments that are offer aing bonuses to -- offering bonuses to new cree cruset and they're offering retention bonuses to keep officers around. eric: critics, though, as you know, saying this is accelerated because of the attacks on police and the calls for defunding departments. charles, thank you. arthel. arthel: well, cdc director, dr. rochelle walensky calling for more teenagers to get vaccinated for covid-19. in a statement friday, dr. walensky said, quote, i am deeply concerned by the numbers of hospitalized adolescents and saddened

areas that certainly cities can do is, is you know, try to encourage more green space rather than asheville building material and, and cement. i mean that you can imagine we're talking about temperatures here that are in the shade in a grassy surface. what about in the urban heat highland where it's just absolute in humane to be subject to do these kind of captures. so having more green space, more wetlands, let nature help to protect us from, from itself in a way. i mean, you also in terms of designed of the architecture, many of the homes in british columbia, alberta are not meant or designed, or architecturally designed to, to shed heat. i mean, it's not a hot area along the coast, and in the interior it's more of a winter type of situation. so you want to retain heat. so even the building design, the color of the, the facade is, is, is, you know, be maybe more tropical. and of course you, you can test the air conditioning. that's clearly a way that we can artificially cope with the problem. the fil is air conditioning to create new power and more energy. it's like a vicious circle. i me

and in asheville, the police chief says the department is in crisis after losing more than half of itsff. police will now stop responding to non-emergencies, including theft, graffiti and trespassing because they just don't have enough officers. >>> time now for a look at your friday weather. >> more storms in the forecast for us here in the midatlantic. from the d.c. metro down to the carolinas. your friday afternoon and friday night calls for a marginal risk of damaging winds and large hail. could see some power outages just in time for the drive home from work too. meantime this weekend, the big story in the northeast is going to be a return to summer. widespread 90s, high humidity, as far north as new england, and mostly sunny skies. speaking of the heat, it's going to be hot too in the northern plains. could see triple-digits in the dakotas. that's your accuweather forecast. i'm your >>> coming up, the new pill showing promise in the fight against breast cancer. >>> also ahead, are we alone in the universe? what the government's investigation into ufo sightings >>> a bunch of peop

i kept in asheville, sat space to deliver your vision. oh hello. and barbara, here in london, these are the top stories on al jazeera is really far right. nationalists have held what they call the flagged march through occupied east jerusalem is really police moves, dozens of palestinians from outside the cities, the mask escape before the controversial rally. 27 were injured. the rally was delayed from last month but was given the go ahead by the new government. the palestinian prime minister says it's a publication and factions called for a day of rage against.

mark meadows when he was running for office i was in asheville north carolina doing a romney event and stuck around the next day and did an event for him. he gets to washington a couple of months and later in what is he due? he -- to become speaker. i was elected and i get over it so i'm over it and i don't think much aboutut it but he wants to come and see me. ii had a policy of any member want to seem a democrat or republican come on in. so meadows shows up and looks a little nervous and he sits on the couch across from the chair i was sitting in and he started to talk and if he's talking he slid off of this couch onto his knees onto the floor and put his hands in a prayer position and said mr. speaker will you forgive me and i said for what? i had long forgotten about the fact that he'd voted against me. two years later he gets reelected in 2014 january of 2015 and a guy runs against meja again. but a couple months go by and i get this letter from mark meadows about what a great speaker ind am. the guy must have a bit of schizophrenia. >> thank you for sharing b that. in 2011 you we

we have seen and photos of cops from all over the nation, big cities, small towns, the results in ashevillee third of their force, they issued a report that they can no longer accept a number of calls for service, this is at the beginning. what is heartbreaking about this is my organization deals with injured cops but those injuries, emotional and psychological as well. it is taking a toll, this entire anti-law enforcement attitude. the government turning us back, a severe crisis in terms of mental health, there is a lot happening here. when an officer leaves the department it takes years to replace that officer through training and getting that officer up to the experience level. todd: talking big-city homicides in 2020-2021, always seemed to do this full screen, 2020, not a great year, 2021, new york 12%, atlanta 58%, the portland number mind-boggling at 533%. i want to pin you down to jillian's question. when you talk to law enforcement how much worse are they expecting it to get in light of this? are we talking spreading further into suburbs? numbers with portland's going into thousands

states away from the border and do it as quickly as possible "there have been some drop-offs in ashevilleattanooga, couple in atlanta, the driver said." that is as far as i would go. then the children continue on further. another source familiar with what is going on going on topock 17th of foreign nationals take as far away as new york, chicago, miami. but there is a problem. if you are trying to change the population of a country with people who live there finding out the maid is tough to do with buses because packed with illegal minors from without the proper i.d. or be in this country at all, people tend to notice. so the biden administration came up with a different plan "now they are flying the kids because the buses were easier to videotape going down the highway." ask yourself, by the way, since we are talking about democracy in this country come everything is a threat to democracy. if you change the population of the country without the consent of the people living there with that democracy, doesn't the country belong to the people who live there question work that is what democr

asheville is here roanoke dagsboro, delaware. we've got some international in canada toronto vancouver and indonesia, and of course many from the bobcat nation, so we're very pleased to have to say no bobcats now many many bobcat references for sure before we before we jump in to the questions and let folks have a minute to add their questions. let me ask you one that that's come up when we do a series with the presidential library directors, and i've started this series with our first ladies about legacy and and you know, one of the things were as a nation we're looking at changing legacies, especially around our founders as you think about first ladies and obviously the arc of history and historians like the let some time pass before they can really evaluate but are there first ladies that you think back on that? you've studied that we might have had one kind of belief or sort of image of a first lady and it's really changed over time as different things of have sort of come out or they're one or two or more. well, i i think th

anti-cop sentiments grips the country and it's gotten so bad, for example, asheville, north carolina,sidents have lost over 1/3 of their police force. so, how can we end this troubling trend here now to react is he seattle radio host jason rantz. i will ask you how we find an end to this also, if we do not, where does this take us? compromise? smaller? look, worse police forces who will choose to be a cop at the end of this entire movement? >> i couldn't tell you who would want to be a cop right now in some of these big cities because no one decided to become a cop so they could be villainized in this story that activists are telling. they are supposed to be the heroes woorntion he know that by their actions they are not the villains and yet, despite the data, we get this talking point coming from progressives, coming from the left. and a lot of media outlets are just running with it and so people are wondering i do want to put on this uniform? risk my life, risk not showing up back to my family at the end of a shift just so i can get attacked both havingively and sometimes literally

. >> and jon, this is not just unique to asheville, officer shortages are a growing issue presentation according to the data. number of police officers around the nation on been on it decline. leaders in cities just philadelphia and aaron atlanta, going through this pandemic. an increase police to defund the police has reached an accelerating. the situation is getting worse. the estimate that hud nearly 16 percent donations officers will be up for retirement by 2024. jon: scary numbers there. in new york city more violence erupting overnight. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. jon: nearly two dozen people arrested and was injured after police based on the ground protesting a new 10:00 p.m. curfew in manhattan's washington square park printed the incident coming on the same night at ten -year-old boy in the city was killed in a drive-by shooting as the big apple deals with the grg crime problem. this officially a family four. prince harry and a baby girl prince harry and meghan markle welcome a new baby girl. and the name pays homage to two iconic women in the royal family. this is wealth. ♪ ♪ t

i'm getting read to you in asheville city the council voted to have certain crimes essentially not be were talking about theft under $1000, and a vehicle where there is no suspect information and minimal damage and graffiti to property, that kind of thing and you think of a fraud scam and identity theft you think about what's happened with bill reform, you think about defunding the police and even with aoc saying stop building jails and you ask yourself what is happening is a policy that is encouraging people and crimes. >> they are, we are listening when i say we the politicians in the cities are listening to the loudest voices from the radical movements and by not responding to the crime that you talked about assumes as those criminals don't commit other crimes, we know many studies of lots of experience that will commit larger crimes, the problem that were sending a message that it is okay you don't have to worry about the police and on the other hand we are putting restrictions on police and qualified immunity to protect police and their families, this is a national crisis and it'

cities, asheville, north carolina, and portland, oregon, are in the news as dozens of officers have resigned from those departments since last summer, allegedly over physical threats from demonstrators over the last year of protests and what many of them view as anti-police climates in the wake of george floyd's murder. a study cited in "the new york times" this week found that resignations were up to 20% in the last year. what are your thoughts on that, counsel? >> reverend al, you know, when you put it in perspective, a black person being killed in the manner george floyd was killed in, and people saying that's not right, if you're not a police officer who condones that, who thinks attorney general elson and them said during the trial that does not portray our ethics, why would you be offended by people standing up, exercising their first amendment constitutional rights to say we can do better than this, america. we're better than what we say in the video of george floyd. and i must say, reverend al, all the blue lives matter supporters, aren't you upset about what happened on january 6th

was that of the biltmore estate in asheville, north carolina, but see worked on which was developed between 1889 and 1895. this adopt us on john charles who you see here working in the office along with a group of talented young men pretending to projects all across the country and a natural designer. jc as he's called by syllabus was many of his drawings were even for a time misidentified as those of hh richardson. this is the olmsted family on the upper left most of them and what you see here is freddie's wearing a pith helmet. his wife is in the checkered dress and young frederick long said other junior known as rick is in the foreground with his sister and aunt's the letter you see below that is one that with his notes and sketches was sent so when he sent from the site it biltmore where he spent part of his apprenticeship on the construction site learning to build things in the field after he had already spent time out in the rocky mountains on a survey crew. this is john singer sergeant's portrait a very handsome portrait of olmsted at that point when he was near the very end of his c

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the asheville temperature could be a 125 degrees and obviously it's going to be way past 77 for everybody today. so firmly press. here's i i can check for lee. press your hand on the asphalt for 7 seconds. not a second. >> and if it's too hot for you. that is to have for your pet. >> yeah. and also this dangerous heat can also be a risk for you. health wise could trigger a heat stroke. that's always a very real possibility when temperatures get this hot. so we wanted to talk with a doctor temperatures. good general hospital to find out how to recognize the signs of heat stroke. >> those who can't regulate their own eve area. well or who have chronic conditions or who are older. it can happen even in the weather that we have in san francisco right now. so, you know, it's only 72 degrees outside. it could be 10 degrees hotter inside just because of how a lot of the homes are built here. and because of the lack of air conditioning. and then if you can't regulate your body heat. or take care of yourself very you're even more likely to have those those so it can happen at almost any warm tempe

there's a beautiful shot of asheville, north carolina. brought in with music from motown.k europe inch by inch who saved this world from far schism. lawrence: and many people don't know those stories, which is part of the reason why i think we have a rise in anti-semitism today because people don't know the rhetoric that was said that was anti-semitic. they don't teach that in school. they just skip the history in world history. carley: you're absolutely right. today's a very important day, we see that right there, d-day's 77th anniversary. 4núe&&(çdupw9rs;Ñ=w~!!' remembrance ceremonies throughout the world with an event we are all remembering today. >>> meantime, a big story we're following, vice president harris heads to guatemala to address the root cause of the migrant surge at the southern border. lawrence: with more on the trip, lauren blanchard. >> reporter: good morning. kamala harris was tasked to lead that border situation back in march. since then she has neither held a press conference, nor visited border communities. this afternoon she will travel the guatemal

the article that we just talked about in the "new york times" speaks about asheville, north carolinatheir police department through retirement. this is a department of 280 people. one-third of those officers have retired or resigned. >> bill: that's remarkable. squeeze in one more question. you heard the message from the white house with the strike force teams that will be organized over the next month to go to major american cities and root out illegal guns. is that the solution? >> well, i think these -- they added the word strike but the task forces have been in existence for decades. this isn't something new. >> bill: new york disbanded it and let it go. >> well, the anti-crime units in new york city. these are new york city police officers. they totally eliminated that. it was a major, major mistake. but the task force i believe they still have a task force with atf and the nypd. this is not new news. this is something that has been around for quite a while. >> bill: ray kelly, i hope you come back. a big issue and it isn't going away. thank you for your time today. >> thank you

from asheville, north carolina your view on gun regulations?ler: i don't think we need more regulations. i remember when timothy mcveigh blew up the federal building, he didn't use one gun, he used fertilizer. host: stephen in big creek, mississippi. caller: hello. i'm blind. i had a lot of trouble buying a gun. i had to have a witness, how is that different from somebody that cannot read or somebody that does not speak the queen's english. i think the law needs to be even across the board. host: thank you you for the call. another viewer saying ar-15's are no worse than rocks, knives, baseball bats as weapons. rocks, knives, and baseball bats won't mow down 50 concertgoers in vegas from an upper story hotel window. tom saying to treat firearms the same way we treat them as cars, registers, titles, license, record sales and transfers. thanks to all of you for your calls, comments, and tweets. re: air of the sunday morning program beginning with nbc's meet the press. during washington journal we will have a conversation with reagan biographer an

enforcement of federal gun laws in the state, violators could face hefty fine up to 50,$000 and ashevilleant to say and tell jokes they want to tell. one of those comedians, john levitz was asked about the cancel culture we are in right now by page 6 of the new york post was an interesting take. he said i will just say it. it is no different than mccarthyism. is and is easy to comedian you can't say that the first thing in my head is and now i have 2. if you don't have the ability to laugh at yourself don't go to a comedy club. i'm not changing my act. if you are watching tv and you don't like the show, change the channel. it is very simple. will: he went on to say i've seen friends lose their careers. enough of this cancel culture. truth means understand the nature of comedy that nothing should be off-limits. the ones you would hope and expect to stand up, there are others in celebrity culture, people like seth rogen who don't understand the true nature of comedy and think somehow it should be calling us into a deep sensitivity and offended nature. it is what john levitz said. rachel: i