i was still in brownsville at the time. i was young. but essentially, students were my campus from that campus participated in protests. students at the university participated in protests. and then much to the surprise of a lot of folks, students from duke university joined in the protest. now all of a sudden there are integrated groups who are sitting in. and they are breaking down this wall of segregation in the cities across north carolina. the protest spread across almost every town, every city in north carolina. they had colleges, they had black colleges, at least, and by the end of february -- remember, the first demonstration was february 1st. by the end of february -- february 28th -- that was a leap year. february 29th. by february 29th, every major city in north carolina had seen its public facilities desegregated. this was a major victory. an un -- a surprising victory. an unexpected victory. now, that's not to mean that racial discrimination ended in north carolina. i'm not suggesting that at all. what i am suggesting is th

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i grew up in brownsville. and memphis was the big city. sort of like olympia and seattle. so you go to the big city for various recreation. so i would say every three months, the kids from my school would be put on a bus, and we would go to memphis to the zoo. that's a great experience for kids. you know, you go to see the animals. but the zoo was segregated. thursday -- every thursday at the overton park zoo, this sign was put out. no whites were allowed in the overton park zoo, because this was negro day. this was negro day. in other words, this was the day -- this was the only day, but this was the day that african-americans were allowed to go to the zoo. negro day carried in a whole host of ways. there was a negro day for swimming pools, there was a negro day for department stores. in other words, we can only go to department stores and try on clothes on thursday, which was negro day. negro shopping day. sometimes it's called negro shopping day. that was the way of the world at that time. that was the nature of segregation. and that's the situation that those african-a

he joins me live on the phone from brownsville, texas. jaimhappen? that's incredible. we've been dealing with these cases for the last three years. this is not the first case. it is, to me, frustrating because it shows that there seems to be no care about these kind of cases. they don't understand what they're doing to people. we have several other cases. some of them already got their documents back. two papers were take away from two ladies 25 to 30 years old -- >> what am i missing? what did they see in her that they thought, something's fishy, i'm going to take her birth certificate and her driver's license, i'm going to detain her for seven hours -- they wouldn't just grab anybody? what was it that they saw that they weren't so sure about? >> what is happening here is they're seeing people that were born with midwives in south texas and because south texas in the past had add problems with midwives that were registering people illegally, there's the presumption that people born with midwives were not born in the united states. they use it as a r

brownsville, brooklyn, is a particular target of critics now because it has a high stop rate. what you never hear is the per capita shooting rate in brownsville is 81 times higher than baybridge. what does that mean? last october a woman was shot to death picking up her child from elementary school by a thug shooting from the roof at groups of people. >> all right. let's let miss lieberman respond. all right? >> you know, how on earth does it make us safer to subject innocent young people to be stopped by the police, detained by the police, patted down by the police, subjected to a full-blown search up against the wall? that doesn't prevent crime. that simply terrorizes honest, innocent people. >> heather, what about that argument, in this sense, that the concentration on black and latino people as a result of racial profiling could be a circular argument. that is to say, duke university study just proved many many white people do drugs than black people yet they're not racially profiled. had they been racially profiled the number of arrests would be up. what about the conside

anywhere from brownsville to tampa making news. >> you're also following the weather headline on the fire, and newest sparked by a gunshot? >> that's right. one gunshot enough to spark a wildfire. >> just won't quit. utah, colorado, nevada. the summer scrapbook nobody wants to remember. look at this map. seven states with 15 large fires, in northern utah, flames are creeping closer to the 2,000 evacuated homes. >> it's getting a little too close for comfort. >> reporter: guess what started it? a single bullet. a target shooter hit a rock, sparks went flying into a landfa landfill, and boom, wildfire. >> i wish people would be more careful. >> reporter: extreme heat, high winds and low humidity. >> tough day for firefighters. >> reporter: especially for colorado evacuees who were let back into their homes only to be forced out again. >> i have complete peace, if anything can be done to save our house, they'll do it. >> and the fire weather forecast is not great. >> you're following that and watching debby and the entire gulf watching? >> the entire gulf watching. the next few days thi

had a brain fart capone's topic this week and take a look there were chewed up to this church in brownsville on sunday to defend it because it was the close to the old it was higher but this is really the stuff that's in the street it's a lot of. what is say. well i just love that he did right before going to a parade that was celebrating a minority group in new york like oh i'm just going to talk about how great it is for us to stop and frisk you and then come party in your parade place yeah those those stops are finding guns and he said that he's not going to stop doing them until they find no guns whatsoever which i find this absolutely mind blowing we're just going to carry through this policy until it does absolutely nothing that we expected to do but you know this is this is bloomberg sort of being like bored in old and white and rich and sort of arguing that the slaves on his plantation are really well fed you know so i mean he is protecting black people from themselves by taking away their guns when you really believe that you don't you know you're not finding god is not your standar

. >> brownsville, texas. >> i love brownsville, texas. let's get to the boards.y. heat index levels may be more important to you than the actual temperature. in washington, d.c., 105. in new york, 101. and in camden, new jersey, outside of philadelphia, another place the heat is roaring, our ginger zee is there with some of the things to keep cool in places that don't normally see heat like this. good morning, ginger. >> good morning, sam. a lot of my buddies, the african penguins are considering taking a dip in the pool. we encourage you to find water or a cooling center. you will be able to. a dozen cooling centers will be open across philadelphia. and new york city has 455 cooling centers and mobile water stations open. boston asking folks not to play with the fire hydrants. take advantage of their cooling centers. >> the other thing to do, when you have unusual heat like this, check on folks around you that may not have air conditioners. the elderly. the folks with health problems. this is not an easy situation to handle when it's hot like this. look at the s

a few into brownsville.no matter what it gets named, no matter what type of storm it becomes, it's going to bring a lot of rain, even for places like miami. i'll have more on this and a look at the national weather coming up. but for now, back to ben and bianna. >> love your spaghetti plot, ginger. thank you. >>> let's get to ron claiborne and other stories develop right now. >> good morning, everyone. violent thunderstorms in the northeast and a fire at a faa ground control center in new jersey snarled air traffic all across the country. hundreds of flights were canceled because of the bad weather and incomed out systems that gets airplanes in and out of airports. >>> and lightning strikes and strong winds are causing wildfires to spread in seven states this morning. already more than 69,000 acres have been scorched in colorado alone. many homeowners who just returned to their houses had to evacuate all over again. in utah, thousands of homes were threatened by wildfires. there's also blazes in california,

what he had seen with these policies, especially in brownsville, 9300 people are stopped and frisked? your name? >> antonio melendez. i have been stopped plenty of times. i live and morris park. >> in the bronx? >> yes, ma'am. >> near ramarley graham? >> yes, nw. >> how many times have you been stopped? >> plenty of times. >> have ever been arrested? >> no. >> what do they tell you? >> they stopped and frisked me, tell me to take everything out of my pockets. the fear of their control over me, over the united states that we can walk free and every time i am walking, i am scared. i am scared what can happen if i question why they're stopping me. they do get offended. sometimes they get harsh. they say sometimes, you're in a neighborhood you should not be. i was 11 the first time they stopped me. i thought we were free. it is humiliating. i cried the first time of wondering why they stopped me for no apparent reason. >> they were stopped and frisked him many times i spoke to dick gregory. i asked him if he was ever stopped and frisked. >> many times. i was dealing in the civil- rights m

track with the cone of uncertainty that encompasses some bigger cities like houston down through brownsville. with that said the tropical storm force conditions will be felt within the next 36 hours. where? we have warnings issued. we'll zoom in here and you'll see that we have a tropical storm warning that is in effect from the coast of louisiana from the mouth of the pearl river westward to morgan city. this does not include the city of new orleans. that's important to note. it does mean you'll see winds as strong as 39 miles per hour or greater even in the next 36 hours so if you haven't already made your plans to maybe take in what's outside that's loose or anything that can blow about i would recommend do you that because the winds are going to get strong and the threat for flooding exists in this region as well. we're monitoring that and keeping a close watch on this system in the gulf of mexico, don. now tropical storm debby taking a track westward and we'll be monitoring it as it goes through the very warm waters of the gulf of mexico. this is a strong thunderstorm. >> if you want to

we do a lot of case work out of my brownsville, texas, office for folks with exactly this problem. >> are coming across the border has a say in whether or not they are going to stay behind in their kcountry? >> they're certainly in a position to have a conversation with their parents about it. >> a 16-year-old is in a position to have a conversation with their parents about coming across the border, do you think? >> believe me, my 16-year-old daughter has given me input on everything -- pretty much everything the family wants to do. >> some people would say, li listen, congress hasn't done the job they have you had have been doing. if they look into the dream act, there was a fill pus er, it was kill. they introduced it again in 2011 when it was reintroduce d. those who supported it in the past decided not to this time around. it sounds like congress has had a lot of time with this bill. >> soledad, one of the things congress can do is say no. our decisions are not necessarily always a yes. sometimes when we look at the overall policy and law and everything associated with it, no is t

and certainly they are memos that are written by lawyers in washington, not by border agents in brownsville who are trying to enforce our immigration law. bill: what does that mean, david? >> if you read one of the memos -- >> it gives them more discretion. >> it doesn't. it makes them not border agents trying to secure the border, it makes them judges, because they get to determine what is a low-priority illegal immigrant. or they are being asked to determine what is a low-priority illegal immigrant. >> i want to get margie to jump in too. and weigh in on what you've heard about it so far, margie. >> this would allow young people who have been law abiding. they are undocumented young folks, it allows them to have work permits. and this really gives, now, law abiding kids who are right with the law, they graduated from high school, or they went into the military, a work permit so they can come out of the shadows. it doesn't give them automatic citizen shep citizenship, it's not sit than seven ship. it's a path to legal work. it's a path a lot of people i talk to support. if you came here as

here is one your colleagues from brownsville, pennsylvania hi, sister. >> good morning.s that would like to do what she is doing. i want her to know that we support her. i work with the marginalized with mental health consumers and these people -- good morning. >> yeah. turn your t.v. down, sister. okay? ? >> okay. you are on. just keep talking. >> all right. these people used to be shouldn'ted behind closed doors. >> we got it sister. we tell our listeners and viewers, right, turn the t.v. down because there is a little delay but she is making a point. she is out there working on the margins just like you are? >> exactly. >> with the mentally ill? >> it's a tough constituency. the hard part is that this republican-passed budget would decimate services to all of those folks and that's what we are trying to lift up the reason they are decimating social services is so they can give tax cuts to the top 1% and $8,000,000,000 to the military than the military is asking for. >> that's wrong choice. aren't you afraid by stare youing this up, taking on somebody as powerful as pa

. >> if you go into community in new york city like brownsville, brooklyn, south bronx, east harlem, heavily black and latino neighborhoods, they feel like they live in a different world. it's like a tale of two cities for these people. i spoke to several young men throughout the city. if you are in the age range between 14 and 24, this there is a huge likelihood you will get stopped. about 40% -- more than 40% of stop and frisks were of black and latino men between 14 and 24. they only represent 5% of the entire city population. a staggering statistic that gets cited often. the number of stops of young black men between 14 and 24 last year exceeded the entire population of black men. >> they stopped all of them and their friends from jersey apparently. as we look at these sorts of numbers, it's very easy to go to a position of either vilifying the mayor, police chief or front-line officers. from your asersment as a retired new york city police officer, is it your assessment that stop and frisk is a good policy, one protective of these community? >> well, there are several problems w

in brownsville, texas and checked the cars there, private cars, my car, your car and did it over at a port not with the people going into a port. they did it when the cars were leaving the port. and again, there was no identifiable risk at that time. we need the t.s.a. let americans know you can still travel in this country and get in your own car and not be worried that there is going to be a t.s.a. agent out there and what is security theater. ms. lofgren: would the gentleman yield mr. aderholt: yes. ms. lofgren: i would like to make a brief comment because i actually share the concerns expressed about t.s.a. agents randomly going out -- i had an incident as that in the city of san jose and i find it highly objectionable. the concern i have with this amendment as mr. price has said, you could not utilize this work force and say ok, we are having the republican convention. we needs all hands on deck to do security. if this amendment passes, that would be off limits. if you had an actual threat where you needed expertise, you couldn't use them. i think that's a mistake, even though i

the furthest south part of texas, way down by brownsville. it's cameron county airport. it's papa india lima is the identifier for it. with several passengers with me, i was going by the controllers and this is what you don't have to do but i always do for safety purposes. and i went through the corpus christi approach control and he handed me off to the valley approach control. i was going into a field that was uncontrolled. so the only control is the valley approach control. and they're watching on a screen and they have all the information they need to direct you and authorize you to do things. and they are looking for traffic and you're squawking so they know exactly where we are, how high we are and all these things were happening. again, you don't have to do that. and and on this day in october, a year ago october, i didn't have to do it but i did it anymore. well, as i approached the windows always out -- the wind is always out of the south down there and the runway is 1-3, that coordinates with 130 degrees. and i'd have to go back and listen again to the voice re