mayor of birmingham. here's what's at the top of the -- later on you'll see the rest of it. here's the a.g. governmenton motel. look like a thriving business? it's closed. it's closed. i couldn't get over it. so i took a lot of pictures. the whole street basically is desolate. but -- see, it's all locked up, but if you look in the courtyard, if you look in the courtyard, i think the room where martin luther king gathered with his people and where he prayed is in the corner up there on the second floor. sad, isn't it? that's from the back. so this building which is across the street from the motel, not far from the motel, rather, is called the a.g. gaston building. so he really was quite a successful business man in town. these are all over town describing the marches. but here, look at this. the march route, you can walk the same march. you can walk in the footsteps of martin luther king on that day, good friday, in 1963. you are here, and you can go to the place where he was arrested. anyone been to the

he doesn't live in birmingham. he's going home to atlanta. >> i believe your question was would he be considered just a troublemaker if he had failed at birmingham? yeah, he would. if he had failed at birmingham, he would be irrelevant because he can't lead a movement anymore. yeah, montgomery was a success, but after that he would have flopped. so if he hadn't pulled the trigger on the march he would have been done. >> tori? >> like today, we were talking about the civil society. and how like to have the society, people have to give like the executive like laws and their own personal gains for others so that the equality can happen. >> right. >> so even though the upper middle class blacks aren't necessarily feeling like the sting of segregation as much as other people who had to go through it, it's still there. even if you don't see it, it's still there. and so they had to go through trouble with them so that equality could happen. >> right. but what happens if martin luther king fails in birmingham? i mean, the

birmingham turns out to be really important. how did they approach birmingham? >> there were a lot more organized. >> they were a lot mo what did fred shuttlesworth, the guy on the ground call it? project c, lena. that was c for what? completely to happen in birmingham here we have the reputation of martin luther king who is supposed to be the christian love guy. the apostle who ended up being a martyr and really talked about loving your enemies all of the time. so here he is, specifically going after a civil rights tactic that is called project c for confrontation. what does that do to how you think about king? >> it changes my perspective. >> did you have a different perspective before you got into this course? >> i thought you didn't want to make trouble. >> you thought he didn't want to make trouble? really? >> he expected an uproar to force the president of the united states to intervene. that's an amazing thing, right? here he is, an african american preacher in the deep south in the united states in the segregated south in the early 1960s. and he is ambit

and then we come to birmingham. birmingham turns out to be really important. how did they approach birmingham? >> they were a lot more organized. >> they were a lot more organized. what did they call it? what did fred shuttlesworth, the guy on the ground in birmingham call it? project c, lena. that was c for what? c for confrontation. so what maris said about what was not happening in albany was designed specifically to happen in birmingham, right? now, this is weird. here we have the reputation of mart martin luther king who's supposed to be the nonviolence guy, right? he's supposed to be the apostle of christian love who ended up being a martyr and really talked about how you had to love your enemies all the time. so here he is, specifically going after a civil rights tactic that is called project c for confrontation. what does that do to how you think about king? what do you think about that? >> it kind of changes my perspective. >> did you have a different perspective on martin luther king before you got into this course and got into this section of it? >>

then we come to birmingham. birmingham turns out to be really important. how did they approach birmingham? >> they were more organized. >> they were a lot more organized. what did they call it? what did the guy on the ground in birmingham call it? project c. that was c for what? c for confrontation. so, what marris said about what was not happening in albany was birmingham, right? this is weird. re martin luther king who is supposed to be the non-violence guy. he's supposed to be the he ended up being a martyr. and talked about how to love your enemies t so, here he is, specifically going after a civil rights tactic that is called project c for confrontation. what does that do about how you think about king? what do you think? >> it changes my perspective. >> did you have a different perspective on martin luther king before you got into the course and this section of it? you thought he didn't want to make trouble. really? >> i realized he expected -- >> he expected an uproar to force the president of the united states to intervene. that's an amazing thing,

i bet you didn't know there was a jewish temple in birmingham, alabama. but there are enough jews to have a temple, and the one rabbi in town, you can bet it was the only rabbi in town, signs on to exactly the same letter. one of these fellows, because king even mentions it in the letter, it's -- i don't know whether it's -- i think it must be bishop carpenter, has already desegregated a catholic college in town. or very nearby. so these are the racial moderates. these are people they'll have actually in some ways taken brave stances with their own denominations with their own people in favor of some movement on civil rights. and yet, let's look at their attitude. we don't have a long time to do this. but it's not a long letter. and this, by the way, was in the sunday paper. so this may help us understand some of what's in the letter. we are confronted by a series of demonstrations directed and led in part by outsiders. so that's one of the reasons why king is so stung by this idea that he's an outsider when we get to his letter. we are convinced that the

why am i in birmingham? and then he explains. he doesn't really allow the argument of outsiderness, and yet people do it over and over again. they always do it. they say our knee grows are just fine. our people are just fine. >> we don't need any outside agitators. they came on campus. people would say, our students are just fine. it's all the outsiders that come in and try to stir them up. everybody always blames the waves that get made on folks thatom really think that people that they're living alongside would ever have these sorts ccerns. and yet, they do. they have a hard time saying them. that's what the white folks in montgomery learned. what else do you see in this letter that you want to talk about? >> i have something. what about when king talks about the two opposing forces in the negro community? >> oh, that's great, casey. where are we in that? where is that in the letter there? >> somewhere -- we saw in this video, we talked about it a little in the beginning. there's almost a slight divide going on in the community

first up, "the barber of birmingham: foot soldier of the civil rights movement," the story of a barber and his journey through history. then, in conversation with lucy walker on her latest "the tsunami and the cherry blossom," a film which chronicles the japanese efforts to heal from last year's devastating earthquake and nuclear crisis. a look at to of this year's oscar-nominated documentaries, coming up right now. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: robyn fryday is a first- time filmmaker who has been nominated for the first time, i am laughing, the first time for an academy award for her short subject documentary, "the barber of birmingham," telling the story of a world war two veteran and barbara, james armstrong, so here is a scene from "the barber of birmingham: foot soldier of the civil rights movement." >> i always grew

in 1963, june 8, 1963, so that would have been happening in the midst of the whole birmingham campaign and very close, i think, very approximate to the time of medgar evers' assassination. odetta sings bob dylan. highly recommend this record. sings bob dylan, and this recording was done in 1965, a real endorsement of dylan as a voice of protest, a voice of conscience and then over there kind of a little bit off stage peter, paul and mary. in jazz you had protests coming from folks who had been on the scene like duke ellington. i don't know if any of these faces are duke ellington. there are lots of african-american historical luminaries but not duke. we insist, freedom now suite. you can see the album covers are re-enacting the sit-ins, and this album was inspired by the sit-ins, the sort of mass uprising, spontaneous uprising of college, black youth. white youth took part in the sit-ins throughout the south and then charles mingus who was a very distinctive and strong voice of protest. spirituals in gospel music, of course, paul roveson identified with the spirituals and also identifi

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here we have someone who is a pastor of birmingham. we'll see a slide of it in a little bit. also, we have a rabbi, right? bet you didn't know there was a jewish temple. there were enough jews to have a temple. one rabbi in town signs onto exactly the same letter. one of these fellows, because king mentioned it in the letter, it's i don't know whether it's -- i think it must be bishop carpenter desegregated a catholic college nearby. these are the racial moderates. these are people that actually took brave stances with their own denominations and their own people in favor of some movement on civil rights. let's look at their attitude. we don't have a long time to do this but it's not a long letter. this was in the sunday paper. so this may help us understand some of what's in the letter. we are confronted bay series of demonstrations directed and led in part by outsiders. it's a reason king is so stung by the idea he's an outsider when we get to his letter. we are convinced that these demonstrations are unwise and what's the other word? untimely. absolutely. unwise and untime

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see your lexus dealer. >> welcome back to birmingham, michigan. wonderful town here about 20 miles north of detroit. one day before the big primary election here. i spent part of the past two days watching some of the candidates hustle for votes. i caught up with former pennsylvania senator rick santorum last night. >> i feel great. you know, the fact that we're in a tough and competitive race here in the state of michigan, i would have never thought that. the fact that we're in this game and clearly a running, two person race, is exactly what i was hoping for, this race would eventually get down to and a lot sooner than we thought. >> bret: so you were up 15 in some polls, up 10. >> yeah, yeah. >> bret: and it's tight now. >> yeah. >> bret: so now are you the underdog? >> of course, look, when you get outspent as much as we have been by the super pacs, you're the underdog whether you're ahead in the poll or not. once you pop your head up they're going to come up and try to cut it off. they've been hammering, hammering away at us and the last ten

he moved to birmingham and became a part of the wonderful society of their and played a role in that kind of formation of the industrial revolution conference with people like james watt, became ill but more politicized and was one of the major supporters of the american cause, probably one of the three or four most in the american cause in the revolutionary war and was a supporter of the french revolution which also made a number of folks in england at that time and co-founded the unitarian church in england just as a kind of slide thing and he had a number of radical religious views that were very controversial with the time. he had a kind of interest approach to the history and this is a fascinating combination was a christian to the end of his life but believed that his vision of christianity was about the original words of jesus and the original message of jesus that had been come to the kind of compromise by scholars overtime who introduced all these supernatural distortions as he said to the christian tradition and he wrote a number of books about this including an influential

birmingham in the f.a. cup fifth round fixture the game at stamford bridge finished one all the visitors representing the english championship the blues fans twenty minutes in. the. chances midfield. missed a golden chance to equalise just two minutes later they sped failed to a penalty kick the rest of the game so under the laws bush's men in constant attack mode they managed to level that. generous herridge save the day for his team with a precise header one hundred ten and the two sides will play each other in birmingham. same with football where paul maritz have defeated and nine men go on to get a three two in the brazilian polish that keeps them at the top of the table after eight rounds go on to tell who had lost all but one championship thinks a prior to this game opened the scoring ten minutes then the visitors restored parity just seven minutes later seminal but both managed to find the back of the net despite crowded place inside the box. went in front just before half time and made no mistake fr

from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not on the third emergency department beds and not enough nurses to man those that is to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture as a firefighter i didn't want to do your house and i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the far the problem is medical but they had a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for a bit i waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a same francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. the official publication. from the. video. feed. welcome back to what you want to live from moscow these are

but birmingham was tough. there was a lot to do. so, as soon as the baby was born, i went south again. and i probably stayed in the south several weeks or maybe more. i can't remember. so, when i came back to washington and was having a meeting of my colleagues in the civil rights division, burke marshall walked in. he had a cap, hat in his hand, and he came up to my desk and he said, pick a card. and so i reached into the hat and pulled out a name and it was ross barnett doar. the baby had not yet been named. and the other one was james meredith doar, and george wallace doar, and by then have been had a good laugh at that. and when the meeting was over, i walked into his office and i said, we've got the names, burke doar. >> after burke marshall. >> after burke marshall. >> and you named him john burke doar. >> right. >> where is he today? >> i had breakfast with him, he drove back to his job in hartford, connecticut, he came down for that event last night. >> i want to run some audiotape, a conversation with j. edgar hoover, head

and get some more thoughts on all this and talk to middle east consultant peter read for someone birmingham england peter very good evening from moscow the u.n. nuclear agency says iran stepped up in richmond there how does that sit with the other leaked report we've been hearing the los angeles times where intelligence agencies say they don't think a bomb is being built. i personally don't think there is any intention by around to go down that particular road what you have to understand is this standoff with syria iran and all the rest of the middle eastern concerns is basically a geo political plan for regime change we saw it in libya we're now seeing it in syria and the same exercise in the round there's clearly an east overtone in the israeli overtone on the way politics is run in the west because they dictate the ground rules they provide the finances and so the politicians do what they ask for the other issue areas there's definitely a muslim standoff between shiite and sunni and sunni of course saudi and all the other countries are definitely against the shiite we see this in bahrain

you know i'm a good one i think you know in social in a place like alabama which probably remain birmingham to obama's the city of obama or not. so i think there are way too many serious issues to discuss like operation fast and furious and by the way this network should be ashamed of itself for hiring drilling the signage absolutely disgusting shame on you look at what he has he hasn't started yet. and my suggestion is that ditching the name america and calling it as the firesign theater says. are you trying to get the italian view on the clip you know. we had we had a. little audio clip there it was too patriotic they had all you know america was named after america because they got the read the map wrong it should invest peachy when any of this takes. place thanks a lot for me to have thanks. did you know that thomas jefferson's tombstone of monticello makes no mention of visit him ever being president of the united states instead it reads here was buried thomas jefferson author of the declaration of american independence of the state of virginia for religious freedom and father of the u

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in birmingham, alabama, a marathon station. you see a driver crashing his car through the front window of this gas station. we found out about this from our friends down at wbrc in alabama. and you see extensive damage to the front of this marathon gas station. street signs are also down. police say that the driver was speeding, lost control of the car and, of course, smashed it right through the window. >> that was completely out of control down the block. you can see it bucking and bouncing over things, sparks flying. >> do you think that car is completely totalled? i'm thinking yes. >> i think you're right, gail. i don't think there's going to be any repairings going on with this particular vehicle. luckily, nobody was inside the gas station at this time. the driver was taken to the hospital and right now it's kind of unclear what injuries the driver sustained. >> something tells me the car fax of this is not going to look so hot. >> look very, very closely in the fireplace. >> is it santa? >> is it a duck? >> it's a duck. >

. >>> we watch areas late tonight and more towards the overnight hours around birmingham, alabama, memphis and little rock. the always best chance of seeing strong storms and maybe an isolated tornado or two. interesting. we haven't had many big winter storms. >> no. >> this is in the northern half of the country but high impact. >> affecting some folks voting in michigan? >> michigan probably okay in the daylight hours. >> get out there and vote if you're in michigan. appreciate. >>> home sale surge and new study giving rich folks bad wrap. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> angelina jolie used to turning heads but this time it's one of her high profile whims has everybody buzzing. >>> coming up, the sacramento kings get a new home and, without a doubt, the strangest crash you will ever see in the daytona 500. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. welcome back. i'm richard lui. here are some of your top headlines this morning. >>> in syria, more than 130 people killed on monday and many in homs. the syrian government says a draft constitution was appr

bill cosby joins me live from birmingham. thanks for being with us, bill cosby.st, i want to ask you about these reports that you were invited to attend the funeral of whitney houston. are you going to attend? >> i may have been invited. nothing came to me. from any of the offices. i don't know, but i think somebody told me a picture showed -- and whatever. but i have to be in lancaster, pennsylvania. i have two shows tomorrow, 3:00 and 7:00. and i will not be at the funeral. but these rumor things just sort of get out there. the answer is, no. >> well, and the rumors and of course speculation surrounds her death still, i mean, and until we have an absolute final cause of death, what were your first thoughts when you heard of her passing last week? >> well, i wasn't surprised because of the gossip surrounding her trying to -- to get to sobriety, fighting health problems related to sedation, or whatever it is. and it's been loaded. and we all rooted for her. and so when it's -- the news came out that at age 48 she passed, it wasn't -- it wasn't really a shock. not

response to the murder of civil rights workers, the bombing of the 16th street baptist church in birminghamey try to say it's a communist block ♪ ♪ but all i want is equality for my sister, my brother, my people and me ♪ ♪ my people and me ♪ you lied to me all these years ♪ ♪ you told me to wash and clean my ears and talk real fine just like a lady ♪ ♪ and you stopped calling me sister sadie ♪ ♪ my country is full of lies ♪ we're all gonna die ♪ i don't trust nobody anymore ♪ they keep on saying go slow ♪ yeah, that's what they say, go slow ♪ ♪ well, that's just the trouble ♪ ♪ desegregation, go slow ♪ matched with anticipation, unification ♪ ♪ go slow ♪ i don't see it ♪ i don't feel it ♪ i don't know i don't know ♪ you don't have to live next to me ♪ ♪ just give me my equality ♪ everybody knows about mississippi ♪ ♪ everybody knows about alabama ♪ ♪ everybody knows about mississippi god damn ♪ >> okay. well, nina simone can come on a little strong, but i want you to think about the difference between the anger that she's expressing and the anger that someone like malcolm x is expressing. t

a frightening scene is caught on tape in birmingham. a speeding car going towards a gas station and not stopping. police say the driver was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. >>> video of an attack on a mexican newspaper headquarters has gone viral. they posted the video in order to bring attention to the crime. no arrest made. >> the fort lauderdale airport has got a lot of attention. a woman left something blind in one of the bins and moments later a man reaches in and takes the object. police say it's a rolex watch worth $6500. they advise passengers never place jewelry in the bins. >> controverse rei growing over a cell phone video of police officers threatening the man recording the video. wjz has been following the case for days. tonight we talk to those on both sides of the debate. >> reporter: as six officers stood over a suspect this weekend, scott grabs his cell phone and starts recording. >> i have a camera and i'm supposed to be able to take video. >> reporter: the officers quickly became unhappy. the o

the barber of birmingham. food soldier of the civil rights movement.lways going out, the worst thing a man can do is nothing. i got a lot of pictures of everybody here. we started to struggle by joining the struggle. i remember some terrible days. i thought about what don king said. i've been to the mountaintop and i look over and saw the promised land. i may not get there with you. but you will get the promised land. just keep on keeping on. yes, indeed. things are changing. a black man, the president of the united states. you say that to yourself. black man, president of the united states. >> mr. armstrong was something special. he was one of the nameless soldiers of the civil rights movement who deserves recognition and the academy of motion pictures arts and sciences agrees. the barber of birmingham is nominated for an academy award for best documentary short. we'll know tonight if it wins. joining me are the film's producer and director, robin fryday and her grandson and joining me are anita hill and michael steele. it's so nice to have you robin

all is too close to home for jane thomas, from birmingham, england.er son was on the "costa concordia." part of a human chain. and her daughter is working on "the costa allegra." jane just wants to get her daughter safely home. two children, working on two ill-fated ships, too much. >> all of the ships that are sailing in the ocean, and the two that my two have been on. >> reporter: as for james, he's thinking of another line of work. >> it's shame because i do love cruising. and i did want to go on another one. then, looked on youtube at a picture of the ship. and went no. no chance. >> i think a lot of people are getting nervous about cruising. we know after the "costa concordia" disaster, bookings dropped in the double-digits. i would think twice about taking a costa cruise because two incidents so close to one another give me pause. >> reporter: cruising sells itself as a worry-free, hassle-free, dream vacation. but that's not always what it delivers. this was the scene in san diego harbor in 2010, when the crippled carnival "splendor," had to be