not that brown was and. brown was fabulous, wreathing public speaker and well-known. his name was in the newspapers and his memory was a live in the black community. it never died in the black community. what i am talking about is the more general american community. i think the other part of the reason is brown is one of the most slippery, great writers in all of american literature. how do you read a writer who writes history and yet has fictitious sketches of characters named william, place markers for himself as part of the narrative? that is to say brown never obeys the rules. he breaks generic expectations. it seems as though he is writing badly if you are trained to read in a particular way. what is happening now is in our post modern computer-generated time, much more innovative notion of what constitutes interesting storytelling, the breakdown between what is notable as true and authentic and fictional and supposedly in authentic, this is the time for william wells brown to be recognized, and the kinds of performance writer that he was and i do believe that h

tonight is james brown. >> brown: tonight, the mayor says halt the protests. new york's bill deblasio as the city mourns two murdered officers. >> the assassination of the officers was an attack on the city of new york, on every one of us, our values and democracy. >> brown: we'll also speak with yipped commissioner william bratton. eric fisher on the storms that could hit holiday travel. who pulled the plug on the internet? and michelle miller on a transformation of high school dropouts after they got a second chance. >> i think that all of us got so much more out of it than expected. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> brown: scott is off tonight. i'm james brown. the mayor of america's largest city called to a temporary halt to any police protests the as the city mourns two murdered officers. the officers were murdered saturday as they sat in they patrol car. the attack inflamed a growing rift in the city. police union leaders accused the mayor bill deblasio >> reporter: the network crerkd raising speculation --

- mike brown! we are! - mike brown! we are! - mike brown! a phenomenon that extends well outside of st louis. in mid-october, thousands descended on ferguson to bring attention to the number of african americans being killed by police on a national level. in the last 6 months, there has been eric garner, kaijeme powell, john crawford, akai gurley, tamir rice, tanesha anderson, darrien hunt, and ezell ford. that's just this year - many more names fill the mouths of protestors here on the streets: sean bell...oscar grant...rekia boyd...aiyana stanley jones. [crowd chanting] you can't stop the revolution! you can't stop the revolution! you can't stop the revolution! >> this is the new civil rights movement that's happening right now. and ground zero is the policing of black communities. there's no question about it. people are drawing connections that we drew 50 years ago in the civil rights movement that this is a societal problem. this is not just a police department problem. and it's not just a county problem and it's not just a sheriff prob

if michael brown didn't rob the store, if michael brown didn't intimidate the clerk, if michael brownn't shut the door on the officer and struggle for his gun, which put the officer's life in jeopardy, if he didn't as one eyewitness said charge darren wilson like a football player with his head down, none of this would have happened. isn't that the lesson here? isn't that the bigger lesson? there's no evidence of anything racial in the case. >> that's part of the story. when you look at the procedure that happened in this grand jury, right, that led to this gentleman not being indicted, how the evidence was produced. >> the eyewitnesses, they all corroborated the officer's story. >> that is incorrect. >> all right. you have three that did completely and -- it all added up between that, the forensics and the autopsy. it all added up. >> you just said the fact that some of them supported, some didn't is grounds of probable cause. >> no, it's not. >> a public trial -- all we want is a public trial. >> the testimony was overwhelmingly ii incontroverti. the grand jury knew that. >> let a j

ask your doctor about tamiflu and attack the flu virus at its source. >> brown: today, a >> brown: todaya moment of silence was observed in new york for two murdered police officers. fellow officers bowed their heads at 2:47 p.m., the exact time of saturday's attack. mayor bill de blasio marked the moment at city hall. he has asked for a halt in the protests against police conduct until officers wen jian liu and rafael ramos are laid to rest. president obama condemned the killings of the two officers, but there have been calls for the nation's first african- american president to do more to defuse tensions after two grand juries cleared white officers in the deaths of black men. major garrett has more on the president's balancing act. >> reporter: as protests rage throughout the country, the white house debated ways to put president obama at the center of the race and justice debate. mr. obama dismissed many as too showy or distracting. among the ideas floated-- a town hall on racial divisions, an event highlighting black and white churches building racial reconciliation, trips to memori

i'm james brown.n a night when millions are heading out for the holidays, severe thunderstorms are lashing some parts of the country. at least one tornado was reported in southern mississippi. our cbs affiliate in huntsville, alabama, whnt, is reporting at least two deaths. cars, and in this case, a ambulance flipped over in high winds. this system is expected to cause problems through christmas. eric fisher, the chief meteorologist at wbz, our cbs station in boston, is following this. eric. >> jb, a rough night of weather here across the southeast. tornado watches in yellow, and we've already had several tornadoes touch down. you can see some of the video, in particular, around marion county in mississippi. columbia university very hard hit. we saw widespread damage with cars flipped over, trees uprooted, certainly a lot of damage to homes, some roofs that were taken off. and so all of this weather continues to work its way eastward as we head through the overnight. take a look at some of the storm r

jeffrey brown has that. >> brown: this is the second time pope francis has delivered a christmas message to the world's catholics. almost two years ago in march of 2013, averagen tine cardinal jorge mario bergoglio became the first non-european pope since the year 741. he was a surprise choice and has captured the world's attention ever since. francis chose a simpler lifestyle residing in the guest house rather than apostolic palace, having a plain black sedan instead of should ever mercedes. he has taken more active role in diplomacy, visited turkey where thousands fled the forces of the islamic state. while there he reaffirmed the use of military force against i.s. now we've learned of his key part in shepherding negotiations led to an opening between the u.s. and cuba. in september of next year, francis will travel to philadelphia for an international meeting on the family and is expected to stop in new york city. a new biography begins to fill in more of the story of the man, the great reformer, francis in the making of a radical pope. it's author was austin ivory, british journalist

>> it was-- it was seeing mister brown, and mister cook. >> brown: james brown, sam cook?said, "boy, i wish i could do that," and i was like 13, 12, 14, yeah, i was just, you know, i was in grade school. >> brown: did you, in a sense, create your voice, i mean that famous, the falsetto, the sweetness of the voice, but also has the kind of rawness of soul? >> yeah, well some lady asked me the other day, well, do you have to drink hot tea? i said no ma'am. do you have to do a training, something exercise before you sing? and i said no ma'am. so what do you do? i said i don't do anything, i let it alone. >> brown: you let it alone? >> yeah. >> brown: its in there somewhere? >> in there somewhere. >> brown: and so you sort of became al green in some way. >> yeah. >> brown: was it becoming al green, or becoming yourself? >> no, i was in san antonio, texas, and i made a vow, and that's what started all that, that i would work, and when i work i work as hard as i can every time, no matter if i'm sick, i'm well, i don't feel good, whatever, i think the audience deserved to see the

it said, we are all mike brown. when my son go into the street, he is michael brown. we want america so that when he go into the street he's like everybody else until he does something wrong and there's proximate cause to show it. that does not occur in any city, in any small hamlet of the united states today, and so yes, this great tragedy has become a vehicle to express that grievance. there are things that can be done, the president has just come forward with a request for n appropriation for cameras, $260 million. they work. we have found that when police have body cameras, they protect the police as well as protect members of the public. so as we come to grips with the fact that there was no bill new york indictment, i hope we will not lose our focus on the big picture that we are in essence sending a message to police departments all over the united states, even though you think you may not be doing it, what we're talking about is endemic throughout the united states. people are laying down in peaceful protest, yes, they're blocking the streets, when i was a you

michael brown senior is the father of the michael brown junior. the man was unarmed when he was shot and killed by darren wilson, a police officer. the grand jury decision not to indict wilson for his death sparked protests and demonstrations across the country. at the rally, michael brown senior thanked the crowd. >> we love you all. we really do. we love you all so much. >>> back out here live is the third baptist church. this is michael brown senior is going to be speaking to congregants. and people coming to the service at 4:00 today. they just turned the light on. and we will go inside. and they turned the lights on in awhile. they will talk to us more about the event and ask them why michael brown decided to come to san francisco and speak to the crowd here. we will have more later on in the show: there will be quite a few people there in the afternoon. thanks for the report. >> about 70 people gathered for the demonstration. and staged die-ins at the shopping center. . >> you are looking at video that sparked protests with the this. this in

of wrongdoing in brown's death?mous outburst just a raw emotional cry of pain? >>> nba great charles barkley weighing in on the ferguson controversy. what he said to cnn about the looting that kurd during the protests. the nationwide anger toward police and racial tension across the country. >>> conflicting reports this morning about whether the wife of isis leader has been arrested. details on this developing story. and new information we're getting ahead. welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> and i'm john berman. 29 minutes past the hour. was it the outburst of a grief-stricken father or was it a crime? this morning, multiple law enforcement agency, investigating whether michael brown's stepfather louis head incited a riot last week. it happened on a monday after an officer decided not to indict officer wilson. head reached out to console brown's mother, his wife, and then turned to outrage. >> burn this -- [ bleep ] burn this [ bleep ] down burn this [ bleep ] down. >> there are now two federal

and michael brown was the perpetrator here., this country's being turned upside down by this president and attorney general and their surrogates, so the question is why, and i'll tell you why, among other reasons. in the black community under our first black president and first black attorney general, it's miserable, high unemployment. the schools stink. and they oppose school choice. what else is going on? black on black crime is through the roof. nine out of ten blacks are murdered by blacks. you have gang violence in cities like chicago. what are they doing about it? nothing. when they met on monday, did they talk about it? not a word. what about the shop owners burned out in ferguson? overwhelmingly black and hispanic. were they invited to speak on monday? nothing. so now obama and holder and the surrogates are doing what? they're undermining our police officers, all police officers regardless of race pushing what, an agenda to nationalize local police forces. why? why? 0 is obama doing such a great job? he's doing a disast

jeffrey brown has that. >> brown: the abduredties, horrors, comedies, most of all perhaps the anxietieseveryday life. these new yorker covers could only have been drawn by long-time staff cartoonist roz chast. she grew up in brooklyn in flatbush. her dad was an assistant school principal and her mom a high school teacher. author of several books this year chast tackled an uncomfortable subject but one shared by many. can't we talk about something more pleasant, a memoir about the last few years of her parents' lives. it was a finalist for the national book award. the first time a cartoonist nominated in the non-fiction category. i talked with chast recently at the miami book fair and asked how this book came to be. >> i think i have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they're verbal or pictorial or just making a note of things as they're happening and, at some point, i think it started to dawn on me that there was actually a story here that i wanted to put on paper. >> brown: is that the way you work normally? what kind of notes? what would they look like

that was the racial part of the michael brown incident.to have intelligent people, to have lawyers, to have people that are supposed to be leaders, to twist that case around to be something it's not just for the racial incitement of it, that's exactly what came to head on saturday when these two officers were assassinated. somebody was empowered by the rhetoric. they were empowered by the anger. >> let me go to the reverend al sharpton in all of this. because he now has become best friends with the president, best friends with mayor de blasio. and i won't even go through his history right now. but let's just look at him and comments that he's made during these incidents. >> no justice! >> no peace! >> no justice! >> no peace! >> if you're angry, throw your arms up! if you want justice, throw your arms up! if you want answers, throw your arms up! because that's the sign michael was using in order to establish peace you must have fair justice for everyone. we want real peace. we don't want to just be told to shut up and suffer in silence. we

michael brown was "charging like a football player."ne witness described it as charging at officer wilson like a football player with your head down. >> earlier this week the smoking gun website identified witness 40 as sandra mcelroy. the website described her as a quote "bipolar missouri woman with a criminal past who has a history of making racist remarks and once insinuated herself into another high-profile st. louis criminal case with claims that police eventually dismissed as a complete fabrication. >> it now appears mcelroy may have lied about witnessing the shooting which occurred 30 miles from her home. she gave conflicting accounts to prosecutors about why she was near the canfield green apartments in ferguson at the shooting. she first said she wanted to "pop in" on a friend she hadn't seen in 26 years. later she read from a notebook in which she claimed to have been visiting the neighborhood to conduct personal research to help her understand black people. it has also come to light that mcelroy had a history of posting racis

jeffrey brown visited the area for his series, culture at risk. >> brown: it's called "recapture canyon," 28 miles of rocky cliffs, juniper trees and wildlife in southeast utah. and for hundreds of years beginning around 500 a.d., it was home to a large native pueblo population. how many people would have lived in a place like this? >> 10, 12, 15 people, expended family. >> brown: goredy patterson brought us on a mile-long hike into recapture to see the remains of one of its many cliff dwellings. >> it's a little like an apartment complex built into the rocks. >> exactly. we have enough rooms for living, cooking, sleeping and for some activity areas, too, for doing some other things out in front. >> brown: for archeologists and history buffs, recapture canyon is a gold mine, one that requires careful preservation. >> we need to understand the impacts that are going be happening to sites like this throughout the canyon before we open it up and just let everybody come in. >> brown: and seven years ago, the federal bureau of land management agreed. megan crandall is a b.l.m. spokeswoman. >

jeffrey brown has the story and warning, the case contains graphic language. >> brown: in 2010, anthonynis began writing facebook posttest about his ex-wife, angry rants. she filed a restraining order. elonis was charged with threatening to injury another person and sent to four years in prison. the supreme court have to understand whether the rants are protected under the first amendment. marcia, give us more background. >> mr. elonis was having difficulties after he separated from his wife and children. he was unable to do his job at an amusement park outside of allentown, pennsylvania. he was sent home from work several times but employers because he was crying at his desk and accused of sexual harassment by at least one co-worker ultimately, he was fired by his job, and he did a post involving his co-workers at the amusement park that was not a very good one but he wasn't charged under that. it was the postings that hemade involving violent statements against his wife, against law enforcement officials in particular, an f.b.i. agent who visited his home after the phish began monitor

you speak to the brown family all the time. what do they want to immerge out of all of these protests? >> they want to prevent this from happening to anyone else's child. we want to see positive change come from something so negative. and certainly they have been consistent with wanting this proposal for the michael brown law, the police officers wearing body cameras across every city in america to prevent this from happening because it will be transparency. people will see what's happening and you won't have this aftermath of their son's death of what played out in ferguson. >> does the brown family want the president of the united states to come to ferguson? >> well, they want the president of the united states to try to use his platform to make substantive change that will make policing in every community in america be one that people can have faith in and trust in. so if he comes to ferguson, i'm sure they will receive him. but if not, they understand that he has the position where he can help make tremendous change that we

the thing that led to michael brown's death are michael brown's actions and all of the reactions thatme since then, you can try to separate good from bad. do it all you want. the fact is it's the bad that's being highlighted. it's the bad because as a town that's 70% black that is an amazing little town is being depicted as the south side of chicago and it's very much not like that. the idea that it's the cops' fault that somehow he did something wrong when a man only did his job and his job was to stop a thug and everybody wants to make it something different, that's when you get into it. it is simple. you can talk about the constitution and all these other things that the other gentleman is talking about ybut it's simple. there are many black folks all over america and a lot of americans who are embarrassed that a town would be depicted like this over an issue like this and we want to complicate it by bringing in cop elements and race elements that don't need to be brought in. >> okay. i want you all to respond to that. i also want to hear more of what charles said. stay with me. i

michael brown's stepfather, lewis head. it's this outburst right after the grand jury decision not to indict darren wilson that is at the heart of this investigation. >> that is exactly what happened. that night angry protesters burned businesses and police cars. could he be charged with attempting to incite those riots. protests are continuing today. hundreds of students walked out of school this morning their hands in the air accompanied by their teachers. cnn has also learned that off duty officers have been providing round the clock protection to darren wilson since the shooting. the reason according to a police union leader is ferguson police are unwilling or unable to provide that protection. we begin that coverage tonight in ferguson. the focus now is on, we just played it. we kept saying burn this -- down. michael brown's stepfather. >> good evening. important to also point out that police are looking into every angle. any person that could have been responsible for the damage here in ferguson, but yes they are look

brown.> reporter: portland also produced a warm moment from the demonstrations. a photograph of a white police officer hugging a young, black protester. in ferguson volunteers pitch in and the people who made their living in the burned out stores wonder how they'll get by. >> being without a job around thanksgiving, then you don't have a job to buy your kids any christmas presents or even to provide food. that's sad. >> reporter: the state of missouri has already spent $4 million for national guard troops. $3.4 million on state trooper and governor nixon's office says it's not enough. he's calling for a special session of the general assembly to fund all this. >> mike tobin reporting from ferguson, thanks. >>> now, let's bring in members of the legal teams on both sides for a sense of the trial that won't happen. neil bruntrager, who's an attorney for darren wilson. one of the lawyers for michael brown's family, daryl parks. mr. bruntrager, before we get to the shooting i want to talk about

the tears of michael brown and eric garner's family are not shed in racially black or brown, they'reorless. >> here's response. let me start here. because you were in ferguson a number of times covering that issue for this program. that case in particular was not about race, it was made racial by politicians. you heard from the president on down rush to judgment before any evidence was presented, an expectation that a certain verdict from the grand jury would come in, do you think that atmosphere inspired, if you will, i'm not saying they're to blar blame, but affected it? >> yes. i just sent another threat to nypd to check out while i was waiting for this segment. i've been getting these since they were talking about this crime. it was loan gunman who fired the first shot while i was on the air with you in ferguson. it was several who fired the ensuing shots as i was going down the street. so wipe that narrative off the table. it was driven by the left, by the progressives, by al sharpton, who's the chief racist in this country. but he sits that right hand of president obama and of

witness 10 proves darren wilson had a reasonable belief he had to shoot michael brown.t of lazy analysis. this is certainly "the washington post's" worst failure. in order to make the case that michael brown deserved to be shot, that he deserved to die, "the washington post" article had to lie. it wants to pretend is the truth teller of the grand jury. certainly not reveal that the eyewitness cut that distance in half under oath. the article had to tell the lie that witness number 10's story is consistent when he told it two days after the shooting and six weeks after the shooting. it turns out it really is impossible to prove that he's willing to lie. >>> coming up next, a special report from alex wagner who's i've been called a control freak... i like to think of myself as more of a control... enthusiast. mmm, a perfect 177-degrees. and that's why this road warrior rents from national. i can bypass the counter and go straight to my car. and i don't have to talk to any humans, unless i want to. and i don't. and national lets me choose any car in the aisle. control. it'

rivers chucks it at the feet of brown. incomplete.have anything with that screen pass to brown. the 49er linebackers were standing right in front of brown. so, again, another smart play by rivers. to just kill that ball, throw it in the ground. ian: pressure building here on san diego. at 8-6, a game behind pittsburgh and baltimore in the a.f.c. playoff race. they're down by a touchdown with just over 1:00 to play. second and 10. rivers steps up. rivers fires. incomplete. he was looking for eddie royal no the end zone.

jeff brown is back with that story. >> brown: "mark every death. remember every victim.w every case." that's been the mantra of a group called homicide watch started by two journalists in washington d.c. to comb data bases and document under- reported crimes occurring in their city. it's received much praise from law enforcement and families of victims. and the concept has been picked up in other cities, including chicago, boston, and trenton, where sites partner with a local newspaper or university. now, though, the original washington d.c. site is shutting down, unable to find a permanent home. joining us laura amico, a boston globe reporter who created the site with her husband, chris. we should let viewers know that chris used to work here at the newshour. laura amico, what's the idea behind homicide watch? why did you think it was needed? >> hi, jeff, thank you for having me. homicide watch started because i had a need. and i was willing to take a risk. we moved across the country from california so that my husband, chris, could take that job with pbs newshour. and

in them, johnson says officer wilson grabbed michael brown, brown was shot running away from wilson,up when he was shot. brown's father spoke at a church in san francisco. >> i've got to stand up for our rights. we love all y'all. we're going to stand up. got to stand strong together. [ applause ] >> jason carol joining us now to review the importance of this new information that the prosecutor in ferguson released. first, why wasn't johnson's testimony made public before? >> it was supposed to be made public before. when robert made the huge document dump in november when he released 24 volumes of grand jury testimony, he forgot he says is, to include the statements that dorian johnson had given to the fbi which you have shown are consistent with public statements he had made, statements he made to authorities. for his part, robert mccullogh release aid statement saying he apologized, that he clearly made a mistake. saying upon review of files i discovered i add inadvertently discovered other interviews and documents which had been presented to the grand jury. of course, what this i

brown military collection at brown university library.he exhibit consists of 32 drawings, prints, and watercolors from this collection. here we have a map that highlights some of the battles between 1914 and 1916. here is the battle of eeps. the exhibition features artists of different nationalities, so it is a truly a visual representation of the war from multiple perspectives. what's unique about this exhibition is that many of the images you see were drawn from the pens of the soldiers themselves as well as for the illustrated press. so while modernism and abstract art were gaining popularity in the early 20th century, what you will see here is more images representational art that's more similar to those of the 19th century. because of this, a lot of this work has been overshadowed by the official artists who accompanied the troops to the front. because most of these images appeared in the illustrated press, these got the most public exposure during the war, particularly among europeans, but a couple also reached america, and no doubt

the other side, mike brown's, dead.ses of decry went flagrant violations occur in other countries. when we think due process is nontechnology. we are outraged and we think people don't have access to evidence and able to defend themselves or at least people who are concerned about the case defend a particular point of view. we had a full on trial, except we did not have anybody defending mike brown or his memory or his point of view. we had no testimony that was put forth by a defense lawyer that might have repudiated several of the things that officer wilson said. and then we had a prosecutor who was acting as a defense attorney for officer wilson. and there is a sad, tragically debility about what happened because robert mcculloch, the prosecutor, has never brought a case against a police person who has been accused of killing a black person there in the area. when you put all of that stuff together, it was a toxic brew. it was predictably something that would end in an unsatisfying verdict because it was a trial. and

did the stepfather of michael brown intend to start a riot in ferguson after officer darren wilson, washis now you was this outburst just an emotional reaction? looking at the controversy for it. >>> breaking overnight, air bag maker takata refusing to issue a nationwide recall that the air bags are potentially dead. the defense likely set up up a showdown. >>> and she is married to one of the world most dangerous men an now she's in custody. what we're learning about one of the wives of an isis leader. good morning, everyone, welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> nice to have you back. i'm christine romans, it's 4:00 a.m. in the east. nice to see. you was it the out burst of a father or was it a crime? multiple sources are investigating whether louis head started a riot. head reached out to comfort brown's sobbing mother, his wife, and then turned his rage outward. [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] . >> two federal investigations into the ferguson police department, brown's shooting and its aftermath. those investigations are expected to move ahead there and wrap up by the time att

mike brown has been defamed. it is heartbreaking.it is heartbreaking that we did not see justice in this case. it is heartbreaking i had to sit in front of lesley mcspadden and watch her breakdown because she had an expectation the american justice system would work for her family, and it didn't. we continue to do this work so we don't have to see another family go through that. >> ashley yates, thank you for being with us, one of the young activists who met with president obama at the white house yesterday. activist, poet and artist raised in florissant, missouri. she is a member and co-creator of millennial activists united, . when we come back, we will speak with professor james peterson. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. >> as we continue to talk about ferguson, i want to turn back to president obama. on monday he reflected on previous federal efforts to address police brutality. he said this time will be different because he is pe