associate professor benny was at the university of hong kong.e's laumpnched a polling site r a civil referendum. he's calling on citizens to consider other ongs for choosing who they feel should be the chief executive of hong kong. currently only those approved by the mainland government can run for office. there's been several new election methods. their suggestions all have one thing in common. they focus on the desires of hong kong residents rather than the chinese in other words, each proposal is calling for a democratic election process. benny wants to see how many people who support democratization and approves proposals. he believes more people voting will increase the pressure on . a week after polling began, results were disclosed to the media. according to the organizers more than 780,000 people voted. the number far surpassed expectations. benny decided to present the referendum results to the government. in the meantime telling all relevant organizations to postpone the occupation central in wait of their response. >> i think hong ko

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montgomery county firefighters say the home on benny road did not have working smoke detectors. but stephanie ramirez tells us thankfully, one person was able to save the entire family. >> it's very sad because i was the first one born in this home, in 1949. my folks bought the home. my dad came back from world war ii and these homes were built for world war ii vets to help them out. >> reporter: looking at the home after, joseph roberts became lost for words. from the front of the home, you can't see it as well, but walk around the back and you'll understand. the entire home and most of its belongings are gone, after a fire swept through the family's benny road home. inside were five adults and one child, but fire officials say some of the home's smoke detectors had no batteries to warn the family in time. who saved them all, roberts' future son-in-law, who told me he woke to the smoke and jumped into action. >> he literally carried my mom out of the house across the street. >> reporter: an 86-year-old woman, very sick, on hospice. roberts tells me he can't thank his son-in-law

we will go to iraq for the latest and speak to phyllis bennis. gaza ise cease-fire in over and fighting resumes after talks between israel and palestinian officials and without a long-term deal. of refusingd israel to accept its key a man of missing the blockade. we will go to tel aviv to speak to reaffirming -- uri averny. all that and more coming up. ,"lcome to "democracy now!, democracy now dot org, the war and peace report. i am amy goodman. has authorized airstrikes in iraq to halt the sweeping advance of militants now known as the islamic state. the group has captured large swathes of northern iraq, including the country's largest dam near mosul, and its largest christian town. the militants have advanced to a half hour drive from the kurdish regional capital, air vo, where the united states has a consulate and military personnel. -- united states military the united states has also begun rubbing really supplies to iraqis forced to flee their homes. about 40,000 numbers of the yazidi religious minority remain on mount sinjar near the border

he got a call after the flag went up outside bennie's bar and grill.we have his story new at 11:00. >> reporter: on the streets of the nation's capitol, fervent debate and protests, but not so much in the suburbs. >> this is america. >> reporter: and this is potomac. and this is bennie. this flag someone has a problem with. >> i put the flag out monday. monday night i received a phone call. >> reporter: and you can probably guess that 3:00 ringup wasn't just to say hello. >> the caller was telling me he was going to kill me if i didn't take the flag down. >> very disappointed in the fact that we still have people in the 21st century who could take exception to someone exercising their freedom of speech, religion, et cetera. >> to threaten people with their lives just on religious basis is ridiculous to me. >> reporter: another patron who conditions want to go on camera said wheel they didn't agree with the israeli actions in gaza they respected his right to display the flag and his opinion. >> i think it's a cowardly act. >> reporter: you see his grand

and as the news of that comes out over the airwaves, bennie jack hays, the local leader of the united klans of america, says in conversation with his son, henry, and some of henry's friends that if a black man can get away with killing a white man in mobile, it should be the other way around, so henry hayes, who is really a teenager, internalizes this, and a few days later, he and another klansmen who is 17 years old named james knowles they go out and they make good on this and they drive down to the black section of town and they find michael donald, and michael donald gets caught up in all of this through really no fault of his own, and donald, being born in 1961, he really rose up in a city that is on the absolute verge of social revolution. some of his older siblings probably participated in some of the movement activities in the late 1960's and early 1970's, but it is michael, the 19-year-old youngest son of the donald family, that regrettably gets caught up in all of this in march of 1981. the klan did not have a large presence in mobile, but it had a consistent presence in mob

benny fisher says he received death threats after hanging an israeli flag outside his restaurant. police are now going through his phone records. the suspect could be charged with a hate crime. police in prince george's county had to cut a man from his car after a bad wreck in bowie. earlier tonight along route 50 and 301. a man was taken to the hospital with serious injuries also right now in prince george's county, a man fights for his life after being hit by a car. police tell us the man was trying to cross university boulevard at new hampshire avenue at 6:00 this evening. this was in langley park. the driver of the vehicle remained on the scene. police are not sure whether the man was in the crosswalk at the time. d.c. police are investigating why a driver crashed into the side of a building in southeast. this is near marlboro pike. you see the lincoln town car ended up almost entirely inside the building. no word on the driver's condition. new developments on breaking news we brought to you at 6:00. turns out there were no injuries following a three alarm fire at fort belvoir

benny fisher hung an israeli flag on his restaurant along side an american flag. the first night it was up he got a call at 3:30 in the morning threatening his life if he didn't remove the israeli flag. police are trying to track down the caller. he or she could be charged with a hate crime. police are investigating whether a woman in silver spring was sexually assaulted. police responded 4:00 this afternoon. paramedics took a woman to the hospital. no word on her condition or possible injuries. a man died last night after officers found him shot in the middle of the d.c. street. t happened around 11:00 in northwest. officers were responding to a eport of gunshots. he was pronounced dead at the hospital. police have not made any arrests. fairfax county welcoming new arrivals now. two newly trained search and rescue units landed. the dogs made their way from southern california. they finished a year of training and have been partner ed up with two firefighters. presidential a motorcade minus the president. the scene all for tv. the man fans lined up to see was nowh

at one point -- because bennie's a gun. i'm like, bennie's a gun?mmy: aha! >> uh-oh. this doesn't look good. >> jimmy: it looks easy, yeah. [ laughter and applause ] [ clears throat ] >> steve: ready? >> both: yes. >> halle: song? okay. >> steve: general idea. >> jimmy: wait. what? [ laughter and applause ] [ cheers ] >> halle: swing low. two words. second word. >> jimmy: no! don't do it. >> halle: butt? swing your-- swing your butt? [ laughter ] basketball, bounce. basketball? ball. >> steve: mm-hmm. >> halle: swing ball? one -- first word. second word's ball. first word. [ laughter ] fight -- fight ball? beat ball? smash ball. smashing ball? [ buzzer ] no! [ audience moans ] >> jimmy: that was really close. wrecking ball. >> halle: what is it? >> steve: ♪ wrecking ball [ applause ] >> jimmy: that was great. that was good. [ cheers ] you got to see the video. >> halle: oh! my fault. >> jimmy: all right. we're in the lead. >> halle: a losing team. it's okay. [ indistinct shouting ] >> oh, no. okay, okay. [ laughter and applause ] okay. okay, wait. [

. >> hi my name is benny come here to speak in support of cafe senate file 70 if he applications i've been attended the cafe for years years and years i used to work there. i am you know, i think that the neighborhood needs a lot more of the establishments that cafe senate fiophi sophie. customers park in my derivative from ike's two and three times a day i'm incentive to this i promise you people don't drive do cafe sophie i walk there arena around the castro i live across the street people walk there it's a neighborhood cafe it's the kind of place we need i mean, i'll just leave it at that >> is there any additional public comment and hello my name is shawn simon i'm an employee with cafe sophie the manager i'd like to say today we've been growing our business over the last 3 years this has been a good edition to our neighborhood. we've made a lot of friends we've made a lot of built a lot of unity there this is about growing a neighborhoods character in bringing people together per we serve a respectable client tell r with a diversifies background of prospect we've become known as

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city but the private investments for the foundations that are putting their money together like the benny harassing foundation with their contributions to the middle school initiative but it climates all the foundations that are working with us they believe that early education and sustained support at the school system will help all the families improve and give the skills we need for the 21st century. this children and families first initiative brings together the children's fund and the public enrichment fund those are incredible fund and need to be renewed but we have not only renewed them in this initiative we've adding for conflict of interests and creating accountability we've heard parents throughout the city they've never heard a lot of our programs they don't know where to enroll we want them to be provided with all the contributions that our city has been given but all the great programs and want to make sure that all the families that deserve our support get it in a way in which to in fact, and here heard from parent to have a more efficient system and let's not have me find o

ok i get you benny preemptively i think it's a great goal but does your complain include semi autonomy missions like drones no it's not that there there are members of our campaign that work on drones but the legal rationale for drones and for killer robots is different and we wanted to be very clear that we were preemptively dealing with a future system that is under research and development let's not imagine that there's somewhere in the far distant future they are on our immediate horizon unless we stop them dealing with drones is a is as i said a very different legal approach to try to blend the two would make it a very difficult campaign to be quite honest and we don't believe the killer robots are inevitable nothing is inevitable except death and we intend to stop them ok well if you take apart from the killer robots i just want to know your personal take on them can the use of drones to carry out attacks be morally justified is it ok. i am personally morally and ethically offended by the use of drones in fact i was doing research for an article i was writing on the cia the us mi

swanson, investigative project editor at the "dallas morning news", recounts how the late casino owner, benny binion, helped shape current day las vegas. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> starting now on booktv, peter finn talks about the publishing history of boris pasternak's dr. zhivago. the manuscript of the book -- which was banned in the soviet union because of its critical depiction of the 1917 revolution -- was smuggled out of the country in 1956 and published widely around the world. the cia, recognizing the ideological value of the book, published a russian-language version and smuggled it back into the soviet union where it was sold on the black market and became an underground hit. this is about half an hour. >> hi. it's a great pleasure today to introduce a distinguished writer. as you have, no doubt, read from his biography, he's from ireland, but he does speak good english. [laughter] i'm not going to tell you what's on his biography, because you can read that. but, you know, what we

so anyone coming back from the shore this morning be ready for little bit of slow down here on the benny coming into downtown, once in center city, good to go, no problems at all on the vine st. expressway between i95 and the schuylkill, we do have accident on the roosevelt boulevard, southbound roosevelt boulevard right at seventh street. it is an overturned vehicle that's blocking the outer drive so south down toward broad, your best bet stay to the inner drive be ready to hit the brakes as you slow on down. coming in toward philadelphia on the 42 freeway always going to see a lot of extra volume on monday in the summertime, a lot of folks like to stay down the shore an extra evening, and come right from the beach right into the city, but so far so good this morning. and if you are leaving the shore right now good shape along the atlantic city expressway parkway and no problems up and down 295. erika, back to you. >> thank you developing right now, public outrage on the streets of a st. louis suburb after unarmed teen is shot and killed by police. some new video into "eyewitness news"

. >> reporter: 64-year-old benny cung immediately tried going downstairs to escape, but the heat and smoke made it impossible. >> the smoke getting more. my baby say come back, we turn. >> reporter: she had a plan of her own. remembering fire prevention tips she learned at school, she closed the door, used a towel to block the smoke and crawled to the second story window instructing her dad to break his way through. >> i saw the window open, so i told my dad to rip the thing off. >> she was able to convince her dad they need to go out of the window and not make a run for the front door. >> reporter: a nearby construction crew threw up their ladder so the two could climb down. the family couldn't be more grateful and proud of their little girl. >> if i lost my baby, i don't want to live if i lost my baby. >> reporter: and we're back here live here at the window where the father and little girl made that last-minute escape. now, the family is going to be staying at a hotel for the time being. but they say that's okay, because they're still together. i'm jodi hernandez, nbc bay area new

on the pennsy turnpike, eastbound right here near downingtown interchange and bridges commodore, bennie and walt whitman looking g we will >>> look at a some of the strange sea creatures if we can. we cannot see them at all let me describe them to you. they washed up on a california beach outside of oxnard and they are called by the wind sailors. they have a clear thin sticking up and they fit in the palm of your hand. experts say they are not a threat to humans. >> i'm visualizing it as we speak. >> now is there viral video of the jet skiers facing one of the largest animals on earth. >> there is in stopping that jet skier either. we have video from ice land where a jet skier saw pack of whales and headed out towards them. they didn't expect the whale to surface but check this out right as he is cruz ago long it pops in front have of them. animal activist called it irresponsible it looks like he gets on the whale. jet skier insist it was not injured but how did he know that. >> right overtop. >> that is scary. >> leave them

new but keep in mind as we get in the height of the rush hour the right lane is block here on the benniecoming into philadelphia. we have three lanes for the morning rush hour. we are getting ready for big concert this weekend. here's a live look at the art museum circle where the staging is set up in front of the steps. now everything is open. inbound and out bound parkway drives, the the circumstance circle but when sunrise i'll she you tenth and staging and things will get and get into some shut down modes as we get close inner to tomorrow and of course throughout the the weekend. just be ready for delays heading in and out of the center city using ben franklin parkway. north on 295 watch for construction working your way north of the 42 freeway, south on the new jersey turnpike they are working near burlington mount holly and vice-president joe biden is coming to town today that will leave us a met or cade and secret service action here in center city around that lunchtime hour. >>> our time 5:36. in business news how you can get free tacos for the rest of your life. >> sign me up. >

oh my god, that is elaine bennis.y with us. ♪ >> a bitter night for ad dollars , the numbers only climbed higher for academy awards and grammys. paul sweeney, bloomberg intelligence produces real-time influence. -- yeah go on your terminal. did everybody get it? good. they all do. what left me a little bit , elaine bennis, julia louis joyce's, kissing the dude, bryan cranston, recently on this important show, breaking bad. he did play the dentist in seinfeld where he accused jerry of being an anti-dentite. in 2013.on 2014, is that an improvement? >> when all is said and done, the television businesses have really figured out over the last five or 10 years is that audiences fragment all over the television and screen. big live events like the super bowl, the oscars, the emmys, are places where big audiences aggregate and advertisers love them because they tend to watch the program live and advertisers will pay. these are becoming bigger and bigger for the networks. on monday matter night? am i the only one? >> people w

lot of extra volume up and down the atlantic city expressway, parkway, eventually coming over the benny. but, right now look good. four lanes for your driving pleasure coming into downtown. we'll check the rest of the roads, and mass transit, coming up next. ukee, erika, good morning. >> thank you, bob. now new this morning, fire damages three row homes in strawberry mansion, now philadelphia fire investigators are trying to determine how it all started. the call came in just after 2:00 this morning, on the 2700 block of north 24th street. firefighters head it under control we're told in about a half hour. one person suffered minor injury, the red cross is helping to displace residents. >>> a funeral scheduled it morning, for connie mcclane murray, week after her murder. meantime, philadelphia police have booked the suspect, her husband. "eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry joins us now at police headquarters with the latest on the investigation. same, a good morning. >> reporter: good morning, police say the man who confessed to killing connie mcclane murray is someone that has bee

bennie looking good the at the moment but there is only three lanes opened coming into philadelphia during morning rush hour. usually 7:30, 7:45 is when we start to see the the grid lock coming into downtown. is there still work on the roosevelt boulevard northbound between third and tyson avenue. they are working on the inner drive until 6:00 o'clock this morning. they are working south on the northeast extension, right here near lansdale interchange. hoist ready for a parade. >> yes. >> let's do it. >> we've got parade day, kicks off at 2:00 at 20th and market. we will rope around city hall and then come right down broad street to fdr park. of course, that is as a parade is underway, it will be a moving closures and moving detours, all of the september bus routes that would cross broad street or use broad street will have somewhat of a minor detour as this par raid of the team rolls around city hall all the way down broad street to ftr park. mass transit looking good at the the moment. ukee, back to you. >>> philadelphia police are looking for gunman who shot a teenager to death on a bas

so, as we get into the crunch time, be ready for delays in the benny.en caught yesterday. think about it today using betsy or whitman as your alternate. no problems up and down 95, mass transit, looking good. here's ukee now with a look at sports. >> eagles have one pre-season game left, thursday night against the new york jets mike vick is expected to start for the new yorkers. meanwhile eagles back up quarterback mark sanchez is discounting recent trade rumors, cough after the rams lost sam bradford for the season with a knee. but sanchez insists he's very happy right here. >> i'm not even worried about it, i have plenty of things to correct. you know? studying, mastering the system, i got a long way to go. we'll just keep plugging away, get ready for to help these guys better playing thursday for the jets. i won't deal with hypothetical. aim eagle, i love ac eagle, that's all i have to say about it. >> enough said. codey ninth homerun of the season gave the phils a lead on the first place nationals last night, and the phils hung onto win. carlos ruiz

. >> reporter: chief deputy benny martinez carries the body in a pickup. this was the 45th body he recovered this year. >> she's breathing. that's a good thing. the woman deputy cabos helped survived. he'll be back on patrol tonight. >> they come over here and this is the closest they'll get to america before they just pass out, take their last breath. that doesn't sound like an american dream. >> reporter: the woman who appeared to be pushed from the s.u.v. is still in the hospital. her only form of identification was a mexican passport. the other people in the s.u.v., including the smuggler got away. >> pelley: manuel bojorquez on the border for us this evening. manuel, thank you. our next story has a lot of people wondering how could this happen. in an age of pat-downs and high-tech screening, a woman apparently got on to a jetliner monday and flew from san jose to los angeles with no ticket and no boarding pass. tonight she's being charged as a stowaway. >> reporter: at the airport in san jose, california, 62-year-old marilyn hartman got through a t.s.

but that uneven service will impact us during the day, benny, whitt map, commodore barry, all lookingood this morning. >> afternoon business meeting. >> afternoon. >> south filly? >> 1:00 o'clock, we got to go to south philly. >> tee it up, hey. it is afternoon baseball, yes indeed, at citizens bank park, phils wrapping up the mets series with former phil aaron rowan in town to toss out the first pitch. how about that? phils in early hole yesterday. down six to one. but they chipped away and tied the game in the ninth on the single by pinch hitter marilyn bird. ryan howard then won the game in walk-off style. that's a fair ball, my friends. seven-six, the phils can earn a split with the mets this afternoon. well the new england patriots host the eagles friday night. first both teams will practice in foxboro, that's starting tomorrow. birds welcome to franklin field for the last of their open practices. chuck my man, among the former eagles stars, who won the eagles last nfl championship on that very fieldment the birds worked out for a sell-out crowd, the work out at nova care today,

. >> it was actually a 13-year-old orphan named benny benson who submitted the winning design.s a territory-wide flag contest -- alaska wasn't even a state yet -- and they got all sorts of wonderful entries with polar bears and everything else you'd relate to alaska -- eskimo images, those sorts of things. but he simply went with the big dipper, which is a part of ursa, the great bear, because he saw strength in the people in alaska. and then he also included the north star because whether it was his foresight, his hope, whatever it might be, he saw that someday, alaska would be, or he hoped it would be, the northernmost of the united states. >> his hope became a reality in 1959, when alaska became our 49th state. today, alaska remains our nation's largest state, geographically, but our smallest in terms of population. with "flag facts," i'm brandon. >> is your radio collecting dust in a corner? does your mp3 player recycle the same boring songs over and over? then you'll definitely want to listen to this week's "click this." pandora.com is an online radio station that takes yo

army command sergeant major benny adkins, and specialist ford donald sloat. medal will also be award to alonzo curbing, killed at the battle of gettysburg during the civil war. when robin williams died, billy crystal tweeted simply, "no words." in just a moment, the very touching words crystal found to honor his friend. >> well, as genius as he was on stage, he was the greatest friend you could ever imagine. vo is going to the dog park together. sometimes my copd makes it hard to breathe. so my doctor prescribed symbicort. it helps significantly improve my lung function starting within five minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. with symbicort, today i'm breathing better. come on, boy! [ female announcer ] symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be taken more than twice a day. symbicort contains formoterol. medicines like formoterol increase the risk of death from asthma problems. symbicort may increase your risk of lung infections, osteoporosis, and some eye problems. tell your doctor

. >> reporter: raven told detective benny bradley, the first homicide investigator to work the case,hat his soccer game started at 9:00 p.m. the field is a half-hour drive from his house. >> raven indicate he got to the game location with just enough time to warm up before the game started. he indicated the game lasted an hour. after the game he left the sports arena and only made one stop before he arriving home, and the purpose of the stop was to buy gatorade. >> reporter: detective bradley interviewed several players who said raven was at the game. he also pulled surveillance video from the convenience store that proves raven did stop to buy a drink. but detective sole thinks that video is more proof of raven's planning. remember those phone conversations he had with raven? >> he tells me in a phone conversation, "well, you knew where i was at, you know, afterward because i went to the gas station, and it was video'd." and i am saying to myself, "well, where would you have known that?" again, i go back to the staging. he's a smart enough to know he has got to document where he is

. >> this is becoming the benny and maria show. >> hinojosa: ( laughing ) >> donnie and marie. >> hinojosa: well, which one do you... >> elvis was my first musical hero, that's for sure. and then i spent the year in texas with my father, who had a restaurant in ventura... in amarillo, so i had a lot of free time, and so i was able to do what a lot of young american boys and maybe some girls, too, did-- standing in front of a mirror trying to do elvis from watching him on tv. >> hinojosa: oh, how cute! >> yeah, me-- a little chinese kid with a ukulele from the discount store! >> hinojosa: oh, my god! >> so i learned a song, and... yeah. and so i would do elvis-- "i beg of you," or "treat me nice," or "teddy bear," "don't be cruel." nowadays, i perform it... perform elvis in person in front of a live band every month in san francisco. >> hinojosa: you are just working like crazy. i mean, you could be, essentially, retired, taking it easy, putting your feet up... >> i wish, i wish. yeah, right. nope, instead i work, yeah. >> hinojosa: okay, will you sing dean martin for me, then? >> dan marti

be the swing era of the big bands was music it was music i think for my next i was going to like a benny goodman parody and also i would do a frank sinatra parody why don't you. if you promise to buy a copy though after a break we delve deep into the creative process of the one and only. one. technology innovation called the least i'm elements from around rush we've got the future covered. it was a very very hard to take. that back with that hurt their feelings. applause. all the. people. are happy with us here on t.v. today i'm researcher. back with weird al yankovic mandatory fun is the last album on that thirty two years with the company is the last of a probably the last album for me yeah i think that from now on i'm going to be releasing singles because it's a new thing that's a new thing i mean you know because now with digital distribution if i have an idea for a song i can just get it out i don't to wait for you know it to be pressed up i don't have put out an album i think that's a way for me to be timely you know from now on the album as a format is served me well but it just f