>> the only other major southern city he went to work two, charleston and savannah.n charleston the slave auction and the slave trade occupied a very different place, much more public thing. south carolina was certainly one of the los proslavery states and the union, and that was really hit it charleston. many pro seven -- press delivery of the steward from south carolina, there were very public about their slave trade. it took place in one of the largest open squares in the city right in the center of their commercial district. >> host: considered an activity for families. >> guest: it was the daily spectacle. every day of 11:00 a.m. near what we today would call the colonial exchange building in charleston right at the foot of broad street and east pastry of what was then the post office, a major gathering place to every day at 11:00 a.m. although auctions to place. slave traders would bring slaves for auction before taking them back to the buildings in which there were held. there were held outside until 1856 when a city ordinance moved indoors that because they w

it was never involved in any major battle of war except in charleston and 1781a performed miserably. it was engaged for the most part in the reading of commerce and of carrying supplies to the continental navy in carrying important persons from this country to france. it was doing everything except being in involved in the theater of action where the revolutionary was being decided. so, in my mind the reason it was an effective is because it was the wrong kind of lesson. they didn't learn the lesson of that early episode in boston harbor that what you needed to defend the british attacks new york, the lafayette, charleston, savannah, virginia. what you needed is a navy that the british feared we would produce which is a navy have gunboats and small ships in great numbers and that was closely allied with washington and in those major battles lie detailed how in the book how washington could have used this kind of force. he was never permitted to. he was never permitted to have a navy. one of the greatest of the naval heroes in the revolutionary war was john paul jones. john paul jones

and i rejoice, led by the sound of a black smith's hammer, i travel to charleston, south carolina, john shannon, black smith. a large european with red hair, comfortable. they were apprentices to all africans new and old, familiar yet fresh. i have sold another of your beautiful gape with the rice design, how did you learn to craft so well? a young man stepped into the light. i learned by reaching back with one hand and stretching forward with the other he said. people said you are a genius. my father dinka was the genius replied the apprentice. he taught me what 7 generations have learned, i am the 8th. i had bound [inaudible] who answers to moses shannon. both mean safe water. he seems more confident now, wiser. playful mostafa. i had so much to tell him, he could not see me. he could not see me or hear me in this strange land. he touched the spotting smiles. [inaudible] with birds, flowers and animals inspired. i turned to someone tell moses, shannon is going to free you one day. they can find joy, [inaudible] in my mind, i have always been free. free as the wind, thank you so much.

the elements go out and look for him and they do find him in, win finds him in south carolina in charleston, earth went looking for him. after earth fire, she could not get passed the fire. water follow it had ship and wind was able to go across and follow and find him. it was after many years that wind was able to find him. i'll read that last part. [inaudible] all living in the americas, i saw the taken shackled to the land from sun up to sun down working tobacco, sugar cane and rice. i listen to them tell stories different but strangely familiar. now prayer rabbit. i stopped by kitchens and watched our women with cook yams, rice, oh kra and beans. our children had not forgotten. and i rejoice, led by the sound of a black smith's hammer, i travel to charleston, south carolina, john shannon, black smith. a large european with red hair, comfortable. they were apprentices to all africans new and old, familiar yet fresh. i have sold another of your beautiful gape with the rice design, how did you learn to craft so well? a young man stepped into the light. i learned by reaching back with one h

other cities that we know, like charleston, this is fun to do.going back to my slides of my favorite cities. amsterdam, berlin, how was this different than other districts in san francisco? second, i think about this -- how easy is the city to be used, to be navigated? we look at new york city, and the blocks are very narrow and long, and if you stand in the intersection, you can immediately tell if you are moving to the north or south, or east and west in the city. how does -- how do the plan marks and districts, the orientation -- when you move through, you are moving on top of the rich with the topography, and you also look to the towers of the next plaza, so you find your way through the city. these qualities are built with urban fabrics. for me, urban fabrics talk about how individual parts fit together. this is not just continuity of public spaces, but the interweaving of public and private, together. seeing these cities as fabrics -- allows them to design this within a project but within the district and within the city. in my research, th

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it was found in front of a home in the charleston gardens area.eople have been told to stay inside and shelter if place. we are continuing to follow the story. we will keep you informed. >>> in the past 45 minutes we obtained a new photograph of a high risk sex offender on the loose tonight on the peninsula. john is live where he spoke to the sheriff's department about the suspect's escape from custody. >> reporter: we received that new more updated mug shot of the 34-year-old derek sanders in the newsroom just about 45 minutes ago. it show this is man who police say is a high risk sex offender, clean shave ken how he may look today. he escaped today from a mental health facility by going through a elevator shaft. we stopped there where officials denied knowing anything about it. they denied it multiple times and then side laws so we went next door where staff said they were warned about that escape. since the last live shot we talked to the sheriff and concerned resideab

you're looking at video from north charleston south carolina, where this video caught fire and spreade building it crashed into. >> the back of the car looks cool. >> not for long, these car fires are so hard to put out because there is so much flammable stuff, the fire department can't get there asap. >> i'm sorry for restaurant owner. it was a car fire that informs the parking lot. >> is it a bbq restaurant? >> today's special, flame boiled, whatever. >> saul of our vegetabled are roasted tonight, half off. with a nice taste of windshield watcher fluid. >> students at the university of southern california put together a short documentary for a pretty remarkable cause. in the year 2012, 38.4% students did not graduate in the los angeles unified school district. there is a woman who created the los angeles community high school that would help the students that were kicked out or dropped out of the schools in the los angeles school district. the students who came to los angeles community high school, 93 got a diploma. they would have any number of problems, and for whatever reason, th

we are talking about a risk of strong storms stretching from new england all the way down to charleston. could see isolated tornadoes, heavy downpours, damaging winds and hail. on the radar already seeing activity firing up, stretching from chicago all the way up into new england and down as far south as washington, d.c. rainfall amounts over the next 24 hours anywhere from one to three inches but locally from lansing, michigan all the way down to charlotte and charleston. we could see anywhere from two to five. >> team usa. >> that's what's going on around the country -- >> good morning. showers and thunderstorms will be likely to start the day today. and that's your latest weather. savannah. >> al, thanks. i'm not sure who has had a better time at these games, us or the british royal family. the world is seeing them in a whole new light. ben fogle has more on that. good morning to you. >> good morning, savannah. even when she and without her prince, the duchess of cambridge is a star in her own right. in the last few days the crowds and the athletes have been appreciating her enthusia

needless to say i cut quite a swath through charleston after that.ecame quite adept at sort of dropping this enormous chunk of self-esteem in any passing conversation. it is as good as some folks north of here are so good at saying things like yes, i lived in cambridge for a while. [laughter] and you know, history matters to all of us. we are all amateur geologist. our personal history matters. when bill was elevated to the majority leader of the senate in 2003, he just self published a book. its title cries out as much with this anxiety as it does with pride. this is the book title. good people they get good people, genealogy of the first family. [laughter] the truth is this anxiety can never be quelled. almost three years after, i was in a college calculus class when the teacher made a point that factor in large numbers. he decided to dramatize it by giving an example from the real world explaining how redundancy affected genealogy in a process called pedigree collapse. he noted if you run your line back to 1800 the number of ancestors that he woul

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with 89 degrees when it is drive. 89 degrees in high humidity is not so comfortable. 92 in charlestonnd that is the of warm air that is moving in here tomorrow. the pressure of making itself evident on the satellite imagery. the cloud is being pushed temporarily to the south. the moisture will be coming from and we will have to close eye on the remnants the remnants of now tropical depression isaac. it is more the nature of .ropical rainstorm monday, monday night and tuesday ofning, the remnants circulation could interact in area and call showers and thunderstorms. watching that closely buthe next few days, t tonight it will be beautiful. tomorrow is the final day of august. breezy, hot, but still not humid. looking ahead for the next seven days, here is what we have. 94 and 90, and then it sunday number ofa probably aggravated by isaac, couldof bring showers as things settle down to more typical september weather. >> the toyota sports desk, you by your local dealers, moving forward. >> everybody wants to know if keepburg is going to throwing the baseball. >> it did not go well last n

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so when he mentioned the front porches of charleston i was at that meeting. is a recipient of pell grants. he's a recipient of student aid. there's no stronger contrast between our party and the party who will try to run in november on an issue such as this. president obama knows the importance of student aid. it enabled him to get where he is today. governor romney does not. i i think there is -- i think this is such a stark contrast between the two parties and i want to thank you for your amendment. >> thank you for those comments. [applause] >> now we are going to ask you to make the motion that you want to make on amendment 32. yes. madam chair, i move for a motion to reconsider amendment number 32 and to amend the language of my amendment to read "we invested more than $2.5 billion in savings from reforming our student loan system to strengthen our nation's historically black colleges and universiti universities. institutions, g tribal colleges and universit s universitie alaska, hawaiian native institutions, asian american and pacific islander instituti

a disturbance is keeping the weather active down toward atlanta, charlotte charleston.treme humidity siments. although it's muggy we're not quite as steamy as parts of the southeast. the trend is showing more of the same tom. storms staying south frontal boundary stays south partly cloudy at times. it shifts back north on wednesday. we think pop-up showers and storms by wednesday but tomorrow does look dry. all right. let's check the tropical satellite. tropical storm ernesto a large system that encompasses the middle two thirds of the caribbean sea. we have honduras and belize south of mexico. that's where we think ernesto will head next, landing between belize and coastal mexico south of cancun and crossing the bay of cam peach which i over into -- campeche. it will be 88, sun and clouds, muggy, a stray shower, the better chance will be wednesday evening. the 70s r--- seven-day forecast bearing that out. we're looking good. the weekend mid-80s, partly cloudy. >> not bad. keep it that way. don't touch a thing. >>> we had 20,000 at m&t bank stadium and a sun drenched sa

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yesterday with the horrible storms in charleston, south carolina, should be better today, isolated storms the middle of the country, still very hot andery dry. one thing we will watch, eventually some of this rain heading for the drought zone that desperately needs it. >> small sliver of good news for this. bill, thank you so much. >>> coming up, home prices rise, consumer confidence falls. >>> and too good to be true, teaching your baby to read? your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, a new woman in russell brand's life and she's another singer. >>> a pair of all-stars get knocked out. nascar's bad boy trades in his wheels for a tank. >>> and the strangest catch you'll ever see. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry, and here's some of your top headlines this morning. >>> syrian troops are being aided by commanders and soldiers from iran, this according to a "wall street journal" report quoting members of the revolutionary guard. that is the first confirmation of iran's role in the war. >>> clashes be

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most of the active stuff has been into charleston and atlanta. the area of low pressure causing that. there is some sleetly drier -- slightly drier air to the north. you can see the boundary. it is a surface boundary separating the drier air north of us and the more humid conditions. north of the pattern we have hotter numbers because the air is drier and the sun's out. you get hot are conditions north of the boundary. the trend is showing not a lot of action until we get into perhaps tomorrow afternoon where we could see a few pop-up showers and storms. some could ling per into the day on friday. by the way right now ernesto down to a tropical storm and is expected to restrengthen. overnight 0 -- 70. a bit hotter tomorrow night down to 73. could see showers tomorrow night. i think the better chance will be friday night into early saturday. that's sort of our ski rain window if -- key rain window. there could be dusty storms. then into the early part of next week temperatures back in the upper 80s. august like but not severe. >> okay. all right.

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altoona, pittsburgh, charleston.ues to push the dry line further south, virginia beach and points further south. that will shut off our rain chances. quite a bit of rain with the accountal system over the carolinas. the main concern is with our tropical storm, our hurricane. over the next few hours winds will continue to increase across -- continue to increase across new orleans. rain will pour into southern alabama, already; and southern mississippi so. flooding rains have already begun. the center of circulation offshore but not by much. it's seven miles an hour. it looks close this make a landfall. well, at seven miles an hour, you imagine driving your car at seven miles an hour, you get the idea and it takes awhile. 63, nice and dry with a nice breeze, comfortable tomorrow. we'll say 84 but that humidity will be low, low, low. tomorrow 58. gorgeous weather thursday into friday as we let up to near 90. that will feel like summer. the seven-day forecast trending good. in case the remnants of isaac make an eastward

rain from the cape back through charleston. that system will continue to develop here through the overnight hours in to early morning. it'll be a dry friday around here with high pressure controlling things, as that low comes up the coast we get spiraling. could impact the beach areas and maybe the entire eastern shore, areas the chesapeake east. most likely see showers through the day on friday. high pressure just west of us, we will keep it dry from baltimore westward through most of the weekend. especially into sunday. let's talk about isaac. isaac looked strong this morning, weaker through the eastern central caribbean. now south of haiti. very warm water. a lower shear environment. just what we need to see. getting better organized here. we will see what kind of storm we have in the morning but the power house storm and the track of this will bring it over cuba as a result the storm will weaken and high mountains will probably be flooding rains. the trakas we look toward florida has been adjusted westward more and more so,

florida's finally cleared out and you can sort of see a little twist right there near charleston, south carolina. that's a little area of low pressure and yeah. it may be a little area of low pressure but it's tracking right toward the metro. suffolk, virginia as well going to see the showers developing later tonight into tomorrow morning. see the clouds with this most of the afternoon. could be a few showers down around norfolk especially this afternoon. maybe up toward richmond. overnight though the moisture comes northward. by tomorrow morning 6:00 a.m. richmond seeing the rain, the northern neck. watch what happens during the day as the rain continues to slowly creep up towards us towards lunchtime. northern sections with some luck you have a dry morning. if you have to mow your lawn do it early. starting to lift north here by saturday night and even sunday you're going to be some scattered showers and thunderstorms around as well. so yellow alerts both days. here's isaac getting stronger in the caribbean, joyce by the way downgraded to a tropical depression but isaac is the storm.

stormy in buffalo, pittsburgh and charleston, west virginia. thunderstorms from the ohio valley, well into detroit. scattered showers in the southeast. rainy at times in the southwest and sierra nevada. >> 80s in the northwest and northeast. scorcher from dallas to the rockies. 70s across the midwest. >>> and coming up, those rising gas prices we mentioned yesterday morning. hate to tell you. but worse than we expected. >> yep. >>> and uncle sam coming to the aid of drought-stricken farmers and ranchers. that's in your business news. >>> the first ladies of the u.s. and gymnastics. one wasn't doing the other any favors on late night tñ!ñcús >>> welcome back, everyone. americans are charging more. new numbers show that credit card debt is up about 6% from just a year ago, to an average of almost $5,000 for each borrower. more cards are being used. but transunion says the rate of seriously delinquent accounts, more than 90 days late, is at an 18-year low. >>> the government's reporting another big spike in gas prices. the energy department says t

williams will rejoin the washington tackles september 14th-16th on a world- team tennis final in charleston, south carolina, and they try to defend their crown. that will help. >> when is straussberg's talking about his shutdown day? >> our shutdown day? never. never. you and i are never shutting it down. we're here to return it. >> and can't take a couple of months off in. >> no, he will be -- straussberg will be gone department before we do. >> can you take it easy? >> no. >> we're talking play-offs, baby. here at fox 5 every day. >> apparently doesn't matter, right? y that going to shut him down for the play-off -- they're going to shut him down for the play-offs. >> people are perturbed by that and you have to think of the long tom career. >> which is more fowl to the fire, shutting us down -- fuel to the fire. shutting us down. >> us? >> yeah. >> i'm taking next week off. >> figures. [ laughter ] >> thank you for that. >> thanks, brian. >>> now you have the news edge. of course, the news is always on www.myfoxdc.com. there is a football game on our air tonight. starts at 8:00 this even

notice the humidity value is down hat ras and charleston, 68 and 70 degrees. advances towards the north and humidity combineed with cold front out in the west little bit of upper energy associateed with this. that's going to allow some storms to build in. but by saturday, by sunday cooler air comes on in the backside of this front. that's going to knock our daytime temperatures to around 80, 82 degrees with low humidity. we'll start around 7:00, 8:00. start around lee 70s. here's the storm starting. bellaire, frederick, start to see them first around 1:00, 2:00 then everyone will get into the mix a lot of the portion of the afternoon going into this evening. now, the fronlt moves through but here's the deal by saturday afternoon notice some moisture trying to be picked up on future trend. i do think it could be a spot shower south of east of town with your dates of highs. going to the beaches 87 around 90 for tomorrow for the ocean water temperature around 76. keep an eye, though, to your western sky for day shower and thunderstorm. stars and cloud 67 overnigh

we see quite a bit of rain coming down over the atlanta area and back up through charleston and some of the showers starting to abate through the daytime heating. disturbance south of this, same frontal boundary that's been shifting north and south through the last several days, will shift more tomorrow. we think it could drift north, it's drifted a little further north this evening. you can make it out on the dew point moisture map, that humidity, reached further north. up into new york. earlier this it afternoon. the dry air had made a further move to the south but now look at muggy condition s up and down the east coast. the humidity along with a new boundary could fuel a more robust round of showers and storms, not tomorrow but into friday evening. this line we will watch as it pushes into the state. it could trigger strong to severe storms late evening friday. tropical satellite view, here is ernesto, getting close to hurricane strength. may go to a category one again and then making its second of two landfalls into the main land of mexico. 70 over night. tomorrow your two degre

severe storms drenching highways from buffalo, pittsburgh, to charleston, west virginia. they move further east later on, to boston, to atlanta. roads will, at times be wet along the gulf coast and the four corners region. >> if you're flying, airport delays are possible on the east coast, in boston, new york, philly and d.c. >>> now, to an amazing view of a small plane crash from inside the cockpit. the camera was rolling as the disaster unfolded in the skies over idaho. >> the plane carrying three passengers and the pilot clips tree tops in the buiwilderness, turns upside-down and crashes to the ground. >> it sounded like rapid gunfire until we were on the ground. it was just mayhem. >> i think my aha moment was, hanging upside down in the plane awake, knowing i was going to be there for my family. it was amazing. >> the pilot suffered the worst of it. but he's going to be okay. we'll talk to the passengers, coming up on "good morning america." >>> well, there's our olympic music. and we can't start anywhere else but with the u.s. women's soccer team. >> how great is th

on the scene and a shelter in place is under way for sis punish shus article found between east charleston and middle field road. residents have been dealing with this situation since just before 3:00 this afternoon. the nbc bay area news desk confirms a bomb squad robot is making its way to this device.

we feel a need to bolt from something, our state, our past, charleston, what it is and find another version of yourself. all day with a sense that your feet are in that police station. franklin did go back to boston. not really. he was always a philadelphia man after that. so. anybody else. one last question? >> [inaudible] hang on. an anxious nation awaits your question. >> did you find any parallels between amateurs? you know, time idea different regions or something? >> um, i don't know. probably. certainly they what about first riddled with paranoia about somebody else having that idea. actually, you know, most of the ones i tended to be hanging out weren't driven toward making money immediately. if things work out, sure. then like all of us. we like to eventually make money. but the fact is that what defines their amateur im. the day-to-day motivation for going in to that place. the kitchen lab or the garage, or the dorm room or the cellar or whatever is not money. just inability not to go there. that's what almost all of them said to me. was that no place else they would rather be. th

yesterday we had that horrendous flooding in charleston, south carolina.e's going to be still a chance of storms today in the southeast but not like what you saw yesterday. but from atlanta to orlando, a chance of storms. and hot in the drought zone. this will be one of the stories that will develop in the days ahead. the rain from isaac. we want that up in arkansas, missouri and illinois and indiana. and it looks like they're going to get it, lynn. probably the heaviest rainfall those areas have seen maybe since spring or winter. >> the one good nugget coming out of hurricane isaac. bill, thanks so much. >>> coming up, lindsay's off the hook. and the biebs comes to the ratings rescue. your first look at entertainment is straight ahead. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. why not use all your vacation days this year? get points you can easily redeem for your vacations, with chase sapphire preferred. it's time to live wider awake. only the beautyrest recharge sleep system combines the comfort of aircool memory foam layered on top of beautyrest pocketed c