enterprise goes, a company in atlanta.he was a bookkeeper but soon caught the eye of her employer. >> there were people working there that weren't doing their jobs and she told him she could do her job and their job. >> and what hanned? >> i think he fired them and she did their job. >> it was back in the '80s when dani jo and diane first teamed up. best friends and confidantes. dani jo was a cosmetologist with a front row seat to her brilliant career. >> she loved crunching numbers and along with billie corey i think she learned how to wheel and deal. >> she rose through the ranks and with her boss's blessing became president of the company, hiring, firing and calling the shots. >> she would say, i don't want to hear about the labor pains, just show me the baby. >> jay grover was a vice president at diane's company. >> when she started in business here in atlanta, there were not a ton of female executives. >> no, absolutely. and i think that was what one of the things that really set diane apart. she was a woman in a man'

most of atlanta's 1973, a young upstart lawyer, decides to run for mayor of the city of atlanta, and his name was maynard holbert jr., and he does so without kissing the rings of the black elite. this is creating a problem, but one of the things that jackson understood is that he understood the american south's changing demographics and this is constant with the changing trend throughout the south. the constant migration of the blacks from urban north and west and midwest was leaning inxexor bentley to the south. and this industrial migration attracted works, and including the blacks from the south to the north occurred in the 1960s. however, by the 1970, atlanta and other cities were increasingly regarded as the land of opportunity for blacks where entrepreneurship and the political ambition flourished. according to 1971 census, 180 blacks who had left other parts of the country to settle in the south. and in 1971, it was up from 97,000, and it was up from 97,000 the previous year. you also have studies that show that between the years of 1970, and 1973, you have 247 blacks that mov

most of atlanta's -- 1973, a young up-start lawyer decides to run for mayor of the city of atlanta. his name was main order in jackson jr. and he does so without necessarily kissing the rings of the black elite. this creates somewhat of a problem. but one of the things that jackson understood is he understood the american south's changing demographics. this was constant with the nationwide trend that affected the whole south. the reverse migration of blacks from the urban north, midwest, and west was leading to a black new south. black migration from the south to the north started after the civil war and heightened during world war i as floods as the bowl weevil devastated southern farming and industrialization in the north attracted black workers. the greatest migration of blacks from the south to the north occurred in the 1960s. by the 1970s, atlanta and other cities were increasingly regarded as a land of opportunity for blacks where entrepreneurship and political ambition flourished. according to the 1971 u.s. census, 108 blacks that had left other parts of the country to settle

>> shannon: ellison barber live in atlanta. thank you.orrespondent peter doocy is working the spin room in atlanta as well to talk with one of the top contenders. good evening, peter. >> good evening, and i just spoke to senator kamala harris on her way off the debate stage. we'll have that tape for you in a little bit. about a mixup, a dust up, whatever you want to call it, with tulsi gabbard. this is the one. >> our democratic party, unfortunately, is not the party that is up, buy, and for the people. it is a party that has been and continues to be influenced by the foreign policy establishment in washington, represented by hillary clinton and others' foreign policy, by the military-industrial complex. >> we have someone on the stage who during the obama administration spent four years full-time o on fox news criticizing president obama. >> senator harris is doing unfortunately continuing to traffic and lies. she will come as president, continue the status quo. >> and i asked senator harris to make her case to me who came out on top the

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is atlanta supposed to be this cold? >> how cold is it? i'm not sure of the temperature but i can see my breath. but it's keeping my awake. >> did you accomplish what you wanted to last night? >> no, we still have a little bit to go. the first hour after the debate was indeed beat our best day of fund raising. we're not on the september debate stage yet and i want people's help. please go to corybooker.com and help. >> you said that in your closing argument and it seems to have worked in that your campaign manager tweeted this out one hour after you made that plea. she said we just cleared $200,000 in the 30 minutes since cory gave that closing. team cory. let's keep the #good trouble going. do you know how much you've raised in these ten hours? >> i asked for those numbers. i haven't got them yet. but the momentum is extraordinary. i think people are responding where we needed the help to stay in this. this is the thing. these are new rules in the democratic party. if the old ones applied, we'd be in great shape. because nobody has ever g

the top ten democrats running for president square off in atlanta. what's at stake. >>> breaking overnight from overseas. two u.s. service members have been killed in afghanistan after a helicopter crash. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. >>> we begin with a new day of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into president trump. today a top diplomat central to the democrats' investigation will testify. in just a few hours, lawmakers will hear from u.s. ambassador to the eu gordon sondland. he will likely face questions about a phone call with president trump a day after mr. trump's july 25th call with ukraine's president. later in the day, laura cooper and david hale will testify. all three witnesses were recently questioned behind closed doors. >>> meanwhile, key testimony involving the republicans' star witnesses went into the night. yesterday lawmakers questioned former envoy to ukraine kurt volleyer vol

let's start with tyler in atlanta. we watched the debate, was it a debate or a series of presentations from candidates? say that this definitely did not have as many fireworks as we have seen in the or the -- the impeachment drama to the front row seats. the democrats on stage disagreed on certain things, but held their fire for president trump. david: the goal, should be, i assume, to get someone to vote for a candidate other than president trump. what was the argument they were making that it would get done? alls.ems to be more small b >> it did not feature the biggest faultlines in the democratic primary, we have seen the debates over health care and taxes. last time -- last night it was more of a united front on issues like climate change, where they have a lot of disagreement with president trump, but agreed to gather on how to deal with that issue. david: thank you for reporting from atlanta. now to washington which has eclipsed the debate, the impeachment hearing. the last day today? >> lastly of public hearings

vaughn hillyard is joining us from atlanta. steve, let's start with you and these numbers. >> first of all, iowa, of course the race all starts there. the question for buttigieg getting the lead in in des moines register poll, it's two fold. it's number one, can he sustain the lead? he's going to get a lot of scrutiny now from his rivals. i think the media is going to take him a little more seriously now. look at some folks who have led in iowa at this point. has their lead held up? hilary clinton was the national front-runner at this point as well. 2008, barack obama led narrowly in iowa. barack obama ended up winning iowa, of course. it does not always go that way for the leader of iowa at this point. richard gephardt, was the leader in iowa. there was a race where there was a lot in flux. there was a lot of candidates. it was kind of a jumble. it really did take shape in the closing weeks, closing days of that campaign. a lot of similarities to the dynamics. so buttigieg has the lead right now but is it going to be another j

at times last night's debate in atlanta got heated.te buttigieg had several sharp exchanges. buttigieg also had a fiery back and forth with chelsea gabbard who mocked him for saying that he would send u.s. troops to mexico. end mys rrett protestingnsive his suspension. thi seen on a professional sports field. >> reporter: at issue isn't whether myles garrett hit jason rudolph with his own video last thursday rudolph, who was fined $35,000 for his role in the brawl, apologized. >> the bottom line is i should have done a better job keeping my composure in that situation. >> reporter: garrett who was highly regarded before the fight has expressed regret. "i know i have to be accountable for what happened, learn from my mistake, and i fully intend to do so." the nfl quickly penalized him, suspending the browns' number one overall draft pick for the remainder of the season and requiring a meeting with the commissioner before he's reinstated in the future. he argued that an indefinite suspension is excessive. he points to a 2013 incident inv

it is tyler perry atlanta. estate that was electrified and transformed by the campaign of c abrams that did the preshow rally. it was envery clear we heard from the mayor of atlanta, stacey abrams and congressman lewis as well as tom perez that battleground states. of the 1.4 points from being a atblue they recognize that not only do they have to al with ter suppression and we didn't hear enough about that on stag the need to invest now in order to elevate turnout, even more than we saw in record numbers for 2018. there was a sense of people in the audience, really looking for signals from the candates. who was ableto speak the language of a multiracial coalition. it can be man or women of any race. are they gointo appeal to people like in georgia. some did a very good job and others fl on their face. that was a good measure of who will be positioned to reassemble the obama coalition into 2020. >> one of the most striking things was this was the first debate where all four moderators re women. and me and joe, y

jordan moore, you're from atlanta georgia. mm-hmm.re here today because you tried out for the program. but i know your mom would love to be a contestant on our program, but she's afraid of what? my mom, jackie, would be such a good contestant, but she's afraid she would get something wrong toetleed, and she doesn't want to disappoint you. [ laughter ] she would say a bad word. [ laughs ] i know why we bleep things. they do it to me a lot. jonathan lau from jersey city, new jersey. an actuarial consultant who in college worked as a part of a radio sports team. on the bulletin board in my dorm my freshman year. it was for the sports radio staff for the basketball team of the university of pennsylvania. i thought it would be a very easy way to get to go to games for free, but as it turned out, most of the staff had graduated last year, so they needed everyone on air, so within a couple of weeks, i was doing halftime interviews and eventually got to do anchoring and things like that. - did you do play-by-play? - one game. all right, good

>>atlanta area there.ned was due to do a practice today, this hour even, in atlanta at the atlanta falcons training facility. about a dozen or so teams were expected to watch him try out. there was an unusual request by the nfl during the mid-season on a saturday before football sunday to have him do a tryout. he said, sure. i'll be game, but they say according to his team, the nfl asked for some unusual liability waiver and also wanted to be closed to press. colin kaepernick and his team balked at that and moved it to another facility in the atlanta area. teams and media are welcome. what that facility is, they still haven't said, even though they said it will start at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. so never a dull moment in this soap opera that has taken place just when we thought it could be whanging f ing changing for kaepernick. we'll see. we'll be right back. we'll see. we'll be right back. oh! oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozemp

dune to atlanta to investigate. >> atlanta, the capitol of georgia and blacksk democrats are leer toblack voters but what do black voters want? i'm here to find out. the first wafer el house. as the democrats prepare for the debate at tyler perry's gated community, i assembled a panel of voters all with one thing in common. all right, who voted for obama in 2012? >> i was too young. >> so which candidate do you think best understands the needs of the black voter. >> i think elizabeth warren. >> bernie. >> i want to go bernie. >> chris, without do you think best understands the needs of black voter. >> donald trump. >> huh? >> explain. >> some of the stuff i have heard, he's already doing it like prison reform, he has been hanging around black people as long as i can remember they love him until he ran for president as a republican. trump was the man. >> raise your land if i remember when done all trump was the man. >> the man as in the man but not the man. >> he wouldn't let black people into his apartment. >> roy know what i am talking about. >> i don't know what he is talking about

abc's deputy political director mary alice parks in atlanta. marriry alice?arted the night giving their full support to the house impeachment inquiry, but they did not linger on the historic hearings of this week. senator elizabeth warren used the testimony of ambassador gordon sondland, that trump mega donor turned diplomat, to pivot to her own ideas and policy platform. >> i want to add one more part based on today's testimony. and that is, how did ambassador sondland get there? anyone who wants to give me a big donation? don't ask to be an ambassador because i'm not going to have that happen. >> reporter: others argue the there was a larger culture of corruption in washington. >> under normal circumstances a president would leave office after something that was revealed recently that barely got any attention at all, which was the president had to confess in writing, in court, to illegally diverting charitable contributions that were supposed to go to veterans. >> reporter: impeachment has underscored a real challenge for democrats in this race, to talk abo

>> right now i can comment on really what we're doing in atlanta with delta airlines. airlinesa, the delta kiosk uses biometric identification when the checks in, should they choose to do so, to make sure that that person is actually the ticketed on that particular flight. t.s.a. has oversight of the bag ensure that passengers are positively matched to bags in the international travel. and so delta airlines has a security program amendment that to useranted them biometric technology to do that matching at the bag drop. it at our checkpoint in atlanta. then it's, of course, used at exit point, at the gate. >> ok. and so that's the only specific airport orith an airline that t.s.a. has to govern the use of biometrics? >> right now the security program amendment that we've granted delta for the limited use only in atlanta is the only formal agreement we've entered airlines.the >> and so does t.s.a. have any airport andoving airline uses of biometric technology? >> we have roles in approving the use of biometric technology where t.s.a. has equities. back to sayld go that w

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atlanta, only one better at 16. nashville into the single digits.roits, subzero at this hour with the windchill and chicago with icy air across the region. autumn temperatures feeling more like the middle of winter. yesterday afternoon in washington, new york, 43 and 33 respect actively, temps you'd expect in the afternoon on january 15th and 27th respect actively. atlanta and dallas at 36. are 20 degrees colder than what you would expect. about 70% of the population dealing with these temperatures. here's the trend. new york city from a 58 down to the middle 30s. even around washington going from 60 to the middle 30s. notice in atlanta the cool air has arrived as well. highs there, only 46 degrees today. guys? >> pedram, thanks. details kept secret are now in the open at the trial of roger stone, the self-described dirty trix ter, charging against the trump confidante include lying to key witnesses and congress. in a specific phone call the president told mueller he couldn't remember. cnn's sara murray outside district court in washington. >> repor

that's a 5% increase, hallie. >> nbc's vaughn hillyard live in an atlanta.dnesday big night obviously, msnbc, the washington post hosting the next democratic debate live from the studios in atlanta. we'll be asking the top ten candidates what voters need to know about less than three months until iowa heads to the caucus rooms. that is wednesday at 9:00 eastern only on msnbc. we're also looking at what's happening in washington with democrats' strategy for week two of this public inquiry. joining me next, congressman ben rahan live. ... this medicare thing is complicated. planning for medicare shouldn't be this hard. that's why unitedhealthcare offers one-on-one guidance. our medicare advisors are here to guide you and explain your medicare options, including a range of aarp medicare plans from unitedhealthcare- the only ones to carry the aarp name. at unitedhealthcare, we know everyone's needs are different... it's the reason we give you lots of plan options: plans with a nationwide network... plans that let you see any doctor who accepts medicare- even pla

we continue last ninight's s dee in atlanta.ators elizabeth warren and corybooker clashed on her proposal to impose a 2% annual tax on wealth above $50 million. >> let me tell you what we can do with that two cent wealth tax. two cents on the top 1/1/10 of % in his country and we can provide universal child care for every baby in this country zero to five. that is transformative. we can provide universrsal pre-k for every three-year-old and four-year-old in this country. we can stop exploiting the women, largely black and blount women, who do this work and we could rage the wages of every childcare worker increase will teacher in america. we can put 800 billion new federal dollars into all of our public schools. we can make college tuition free for every kid. we can put $50 billion into historically black colleges and universities. and we can cancel student loan debt for 95% of the folks who've got it. two cent wealth tax and we can invest in an entire generation's future. cook's let me let senator booker respond. >> you know, a

atlanta is the black mecca in this country.reception do you think the president is going to get today in the atl? >> well, we already know that georgia democrats have held a press conference in the state capitol denouncing president trump, his rhetoric and also his policies that they believe is setting the black community back. also notice, craig, this is an invite-only event. he's choosing his audience very carefully because he knows fully well because he would be facing a fairly hostile part of the country. going back to president trump's outreach to african-americans, interestingly enough, one of his pollsters told me they founded focus groups, he did have particular appeal to single self-employed black males over the age of 40, that they liked his message of entrepreneurship and self reliance and so forth. unfortunately president trump's rhetoric gets in his own main. >> kirsten, you mentioned else and brrnsment you did not mention kamala harris, the senator from california. any idea based on the survey why she has not reso

cross talking the deep state i'm joined by my guest ben swann in atlanta he is an investigative journalist and founder of the truth and media project in fort lauderdale we have christopher metzler he is a legal scholar and in budapest we cross it george said newly he is author of bombs for peace nato is humanitarian war on yugoslavia right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to george 1st in the beautiful city of budapest you know george you and i have a great sense of relief now because we've been using the term deep state for quite a while here and we were demonized and called conspiracy theorists and up puppets of putin and paid off are just plain stupid ok now it is way it's in the mainstream the mainstream is the term and even the deep state it's come out of the cold and compliments itself on the liberal media where it has the backing and support and cover so tell me about your deep sea deep seated sense of relief george. now there is no question there is a great sense of relief. but also as you said in your

but the time has come to go down to that stage in atlanta."the washington post" democratic debate from atlanta starts now. >>> we're in a battle for the soul of america. >> we're ready to build this majority. >> we need big ideas. >> we are in this together. >> it's time for us to remember who we are. >> this is a fight that is borne out of optimism. >> it's also about how we govern because we are one america. >> i'm talking about changing washington. >> to restore the principles of integrity. >> let's show them what we got. let's show them what humanity can do. >>

listen in atlanta -- >> that's true.t 20% of folks have 1.7% of the income where the top 20% have 60% of the income. there is no mobility. you have got 14 s&p 500 companies that are headquartered in atlanta. you would think it would be booming for everyone? >> these big companies, they pay well. that is the wealthy people at the top. but the poor people at the bottom, who are reliant on welfare, they have to stay there to get their welfare. if they move, they will lose some of it. they stay. the wealthy people stay. the middle class is driven out. charles: yeah. >> you wind up with this really striking amount of income and inequality, lifestyle inequality. charles: real quick, president trump, president obama was in atlanta this week, addressing global economic inequality. he talked about climate change, some other things. he said they're connected though. he says what's happened, we're seeing it around the globe. as the wealth gets more and more concentrated, more and more energy used up by the few the many become resen

. >> president trump spokes to reported -- spoke to reporters before departing to atlanta. he answers questions on releasing the transcripts with his phone calls with ukraine's president earlier this year. >> it's my understanding that the white house council isn't deemed to release that. >> they don't want to give all this information on a scam. it's a witch hunt. i'm ok with releasing it. it doesn't bother me. i know what i said. it was fine. a no, they do want to have second call. i make a lot of calls. but i have no problem about releasing it. i'm very transparent. nobody is more transparent than i am. and if i wasn't -- and if i didn't release it, it would have been a problem. because the fake whistleblower said something about the call many things that were wrong. when the whistleblower came forward, he talked about this horrible call. it turned out to be a perfect call. as i said mark eleven said this was a -- mark levin said this was a perfect call. they lie. they lie. this whole thing is a scam. this is a scam by the democrats to try to win an election. now they wa

allison barber is in atlanta tonight.ood morning. >> reporter: you can see behind me amy klobuchar speaking to a large group of reporters, more and more candidates coming out making their way to the spin room and speaking with various media who are gathered here. wealth inequality and healthcare are top issues for democrats in 2020 and so is beating donald trump, despite being 600 miles from washington dc it was impossible for this debate to move out of the shadow of the impeachment inquiry after all, his name kept coming up in the hearings. here is former vice president joe biden. >> i've learned something about these impeachment trials, newborn, donald trump doesn't want me to be the nominee. that is pretty clear. he caught up and to make sure at the same time innocent people are getting killed by russian soldiers. >> reporter: the rest of democratic candidates consistently said impeachment is bigger than politics and all of them support the impeachment inquiry. other big moments, discussions on healthcare, the top 3 ca

with american solutions pack, a company dedicated to issues in american politics, jackie lives in atlanta with her husband jimmy, and her children, let's give a welcome to jackie gringrich cusman. >> thank you. [cheers and applause] >> we believe that god has given us rights of individuals and we loaned them to the government and then if the government doesn't behave properly we have to pull them back, i'm a big believe in limited government which really informs what i am talking about today, i believe where we are today not only requires political response which is what president trump is doing but also quite frankly a cultural response and that's what i want to talk to you about. that can only be done on the ground in communities with people like you and i know that you can lead this effort. so let me back up a little bit and tell you about myself and if you read the ajc that came out today talking about nancy pelosi being here and congressman and how important it is to her, you notice that they talk about the current district and that's been in republican hands beginning in '78. i want

we have fox news live team coverage starting with griff jenkins who is live for us from atlanta this. good morning. >> outside the tyler perry studios, i am not sure there was a memorable moment, if you were looking for bloodsport you didn't get it but when issue dominated and that was impeachment of donald trump. >> donald trump doesn't want me to be the nominee that is pretty clear. i found out vladimir putin doesn't want me to be president. >> no one is above the law. we have a constitutional responsibility and need to meet it. >> we cannot simply be consumed by donald trump. >> we didn't get much contrast and there wasn't a clear frontrunner. last time, elizabeth warren was clear frontrunner everyone was attacking, pete buttigieg is leading the battleground polls like in iowa. he held his own pretty strong last night. >> the most recent example of your inexperience in national security and foreign policy came your recent careless statement about how you would be willing to send troops to mexico to fight the cartels. >> that is outlandish even by the standards of today's politics.

we can't afford atlanta tv it's way too expensive. we go to radios and small-town newspapers. if you can imagine how embarrassing that was for a teenager. but i have to say the third time was a charm and he won. persistence matters and you have to keep working. but we also learned the ground game matters. to have to make sure people are registered to vote and they can get to vote. that so we talk about winning the argument. growing up in georgia i raise both my children in georgia. and then i grew up in a little smaller town. but then we are such a great state to understand what government can and cannot do. that there is mill in georgia that quite frankly of republicans from the news media. i know your wonderful people. so then we go to the places. and i grew up with the republican party i know we are loving people by the fact we constantly get aligned. and then how we combat that. so now which will transition from the seventies to hear and my father elected in 78 was murphy and lived in my dad's district. and he was not very happy to have newt gingrich as his congressman. yo

and also alabama, atlanta, late day rain, and i don't think the airport delays will be too bad.e deal with today. then on saturday, the storm gets a little bit stronger and that means the winds are a little bit more. the rain shield will expand, not a lot of snow with us on the north side. maybe a tiny bit in indiana and northern ohio. mostly just a rain event. and washington, d.c., rain moves in saturday afternoon, generating hard saturday night and the worst airport travel and on the roads through the mid atlantic region as we go through saturday evening and atlanta, it looks like through the day. and for philadelphia, new york city and boston, the rain moves in late saturday night. rain hard overnight. and then when you wake up sunday morning, it will be a cold rain. there is a little bit of snow showing up, the blue on here, maybe the catskills can get a little bit, berkshires and southern adirondack, pocono, but not a big snow event. the air mass is not cold enough. this will be clearing out sunday afternoon. so it will be a big football game, the patriots have a big home g

johnson is not well enough to travel home to atlanta, adding their policy is the same as all private institutions in mexico, that all bills are paid at the time of discharge but then hope from a ow georgian >> called from my personal cell phone, asking me to leave and come home. >> reporter: yes, tyler perry has offered to pay the couple's bill in full. how did you feel when you got that call? >> ecstatic. >> reporter: tonight, steven awaiting discharge. sharing some advice for other travelers -- >> make sure you get supplemental international travelers insurance. it is not expensive. >> what else can travelers do to protect themselves and avoid situations like that >> reporter: the state department says be sure to check your policy before you go because while they can help you find a doctor or a hospital abroad, they do not pay medical bills. jose >> thank you very much >>> christmas is right around the corner, and one of the hallmarks of the season, the christmas tree, is in short supply, and it may cost you more to get one. kendis gibson has the details. >> reporter: across the co

. >> the other one is here. [ laughter ] >> reporter natalie brand has more highlights from atlanta. >> reporter: this is one of the final debates before primary season begins. the candidates tonight recognize what could be one of their last chances to make a case on a national stage. 10 democrats running for president crowded the debate stage in atlanta on wednesday night. the candidates first addressed the topic that's consuming washington. the impeachment inquiry into president trump. >> we have a criminal living in the white house. >> we have a president who's not only a pathological liar. he's is likely the most corrupt president in the modern history of america. >> reporter: healthcare remains a prime topic of discussion with massachusetts senator elizabeth warren defending her medicare for all plan. >> let's bring as many people in and as much help to the american people we can as fast as we can. >> the fact is that right now the vast majority of democrats do not support medicare for all. >> reporter: a recent poll showed south bend, indiana mayor pete buttigieg leading in iow

i want to thank the city of atlanta. and from all of us here, thank you so much for watching. >>> our thanks as well and a job well done to our friends and colleagues in atlanta. good evening from new york once again from our nbc news headquarters here. another democratic debate is now history. this seemingly endless run-up to the 2020 presidential election continues on day 1,035 of the this trump administration, which was a withering and relentless day of american politics. starting with what started out as a blowtorch of a witness in the house impeachment inquiry, ending just now as we all saw on the stage in atlanta. ten candidates appearing after for the true believers what was an 11-hour day for television viewers. the trump presidency was an early issue on that stage tonight. >> we have a criminal living in the white house. ambassador sondland, by his own words, told us that everyone was in the loop. that means it is a criminal enterprise engaged in by the president, from what we heard today, the vice president, th

>>> 10 democratic candidates faced off in atlanta this because use democrats trto bolster their case to imes prident trump. >>> another month and another round of blackouts. pg&e cuts off power to customers in 11 counes amid drying gusty weather conditions. >>> the 50th anniversary of the occupation of alcatraz by amer indian activists. will will hear about how the fight for indigenous rights reverberates today. we begin tonight with the democratic presidential debate. >> on wednesday, 10 candidates faced off for a democratic presidential debate. no one candidate broke out of the pack. reinecting the surge the polls, pete buttigieg came under fire for his inpolitical perience while kamala harris try to regain momentum. on capitol hill, hohee democratd from nine witnesses this week in the impeachment investigation of resident trauma. former white house advisor fiona hill and ambassador -- were among those that test testified. there was a quid o quo for the release of military aid to ukraine while fiona hill characterized the campaign as ae ic political errand. with us now is go chroni

i was born in atlanta in 1965, but my parents were yankee jews who had just moved to atlanta before i was born. so if you can imagine, we weren't really considered southerners, and to make it worse -- better -- my mother got very involved in the campaign to desegregate the public schools in atlanta. so i spent a lot of my childhood dreaming of leaving atlanta for europe, which i knew about from the maaed line books -- maaed line books. -- madeleine books. [laughter] or greenwich village, which i thought was kind of a leafy but talkative town. [laughter] but looking back on it e, you know, your life starts to have a shape when you get to be a certain age, and i'm glad i grew up in the south at a time where there were very clear ideas of right and wrong and a sense of progress. and that's probably what led me to study philosophy, though i wouldn't have admitted it at the time, and to study moral philosophy. so i was working on dissertation on emmanuel conte, for which it was pretty easy to get a fellowship to spend a year berlin in 1982. it was a time when very few americans and even fe

it's north of atlanta so they can he focus more north of that.ry, healthcare industry, education and tourism are all strong, strong industries. cheryl: the georgia wine industry, we've been talking about it. sam mcduffie, thank you for getting up early and telling us about your town. >> thank you so much, cheryl. have a great one. cheryl: well, if you want us here on "fbn: a.m." to feature your town, why don't you message us on social media. we are on an facebook and twittr and instagram. send us pictures as well. love that. lauren: me too. motorola bringing back the razr, as in the phone. remember that? cheryl: i barely th remember tt phone. tracee: the razr is back. the flip phone has returned, this tile as a foldable smartphone. it will go for $1,500 when it launches with verizon next month. americans are still hard at work, even in retirement. a new survey shows the majority of americans intend to have a job in their later years. about 66% of respondents in their 60s and roughly half in their 70s expect to work about 10 hours a week in retire

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democratic presidential hopefuls have criticized donald trump during their debate in atlanta senator bernie sanders called him the most corrupt president in u.s. history but he also won democrats not to get too obsessed with mr trump. staying in the states the u.s. house of representatives has approved a bill to support human rights in hong kong 24 hours after the senate passed it in hong kong itself around a 100 student protesters remain surrounded by the police and the university campus for a 5th day. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is main rival benny gantz has been unable to form a new coalition government he had until 22 hours g.m.t. on weapons day israel's been through 2 inconclusive elections in april and september neither mr ganns nor mr netanyahu got a majority earlier the israeli prime minister tried to put together a coalition himself but he too failed another election now looking likely or a force it is in west jerusalem. well for hours before the expiration of the deadline for benny gantz to make a coalition government he came to the microphones to admit wh

this is supposed to be held at the atlanta falcons facility.losed to the media. scouts, members of the falcons facility had already arrived. they were waiting for this to begin. 45 minutes before it was supposed to start, colin kaepernick's representatives decided to cancel it and move it 60 miles south of the atlanta falcons's practice facility. one of the reasons they canceled the nfl's workout because of the liability the way they requested him sign. it had employment language in there that colin kaepernick's representatives were not happy with. i spoke with his agent jeff mally and asked what that was about. >> he works out yesterday at the university. they asked for an injury waiver as well. so the four receivers all signed it, no problem. we allowed them to sign it. we sent that form to the nfl league office, and they denied it. the one they sent over was five or six pages. his lawyers had problems with it. . >> what was the biggest problem with it? >> i'll let the lawyers talk about that. but there were -- they wanted him to waive his ri