>> a giant piece of the old bethlehem steel mill came crashing down this week. crews imploded this glass furnace. it is nearly 100 explosives to knock the structure onto its side. the site will be redeveloped into an industrial campus specializing in transportation and manufacturing. justice at last. coming up, the bravery in the determination that inspired a generation of civil >> for the first time in 54 years, a group of protesters have clean records. the remarkable story of the friendship 9. >> it's in 54 years since nine black men chose to be sentenced to a south carolina chain gang when they could have just paid the $100 fine. their crime? sitting at an all-white lunch counter. >> the possibility of being killed. after a while, you didn't let it cross your mind. >> they prepared for the nonviolent sit in for months, hitting each other and yelling the un-word at each other so they were ready for whatever happened in the restaurant on that january day. they were the first to use the jail-no-bail strategy. they knew that the punishment would be one month hard

. >> in the late '60s, baltimore had industries like bethlehem steel, a huge ship-building industry, a very active port. >> neill franklin is a retired police major who spent 34 years in law enforcement. he's seen the decay first hand. >> late '60s, early '70s mainly, jobs started leaving baltimore. industries started leaving going overseas, wherever it ended up. it just wasn't here in baltimore anymore. but it was also around that time that richard nixon decided that he was going to start a war against public enemy number one: drugs. >> but it was president ronald reagan who turned that rhetorical war into a literal one. >> you have to show that you have a drug criminal problem. so how do you do that? through arrests. >> at a time when drug crime was actually on the decline, not on the rise. >> we went crazy arresting people for crack cocaine because of this so-called epidemic that we were having. >> incarceration rates began to just soar off the charts. >> and we just put tons of black people in prison from our inner-cities. ungodly numbers. >>more arrests meant more federal money.

the 20,000-person bethlehem steel plant which was 20 minutes from where i grew up in buffalo, new yorkes of jobs that are being created today. it's smaller numbers. but higher skill level is required. and we need to make sure we scale those jobs up so we can indeed help ensure a middle class existence for everybody. >> thank you, mr. secretary, for joining us on those breaking jobs numbers openings. again, highest labor since 2002. that is labor secretary of the united states, thomas perez. >>>ic whiching the smoking hakt.e inging habit. we'll find out with that stock today. the dow is up. ted. visit legalzoom today for the legal help you need to start and run your business. legalzoom. legal help is here. ♪ >>> shares of cvs climbing, cvas health climbing. before it ditched tobacco sales reporting revenues of $37 billion in the quarter. that's $1 billion more than the street expected. meredith adler is the food and retail analyst of barclays capital. good morning. >> good morning. >> how important is this top-line beat? 1 billion extra, up 13% on last year, in telling us what's working

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