charleston, new orleans. it is a place where many thousands of people were sold. big slave trading markets. there's been quite a bit of research done on new orleans. the charleston was another place where slave trading took away his right on the street. washington d.c. slave trading took place on the street. ec abolitionists writing back, saying what a disgrace that in the shadow of the nation's capitol, you see people being sold. in places like new orleans and charleston, they started to move to trading inside to take it off the street. you can still see some of these places in charleston, for instance, there is a museum now in the grounds they used to be one of days options. >> host: of the 5 million population 1863, what percentage try to escape? >> guest: again, terrible with numbers. during slavery, lots of men, particularly some women escaped or attempted to escape. we know this through these ads. so black people showed up in ads in the 19th century in a few ways. they showed up as property being offered for sale or somebody saying i want to purchase people.

he's a slick ster. >> gore's time at the charleston jail has not been without benefit. he met his girlfriend here. >> i want to see him because he's a good man when he's not doing drugs and in stores, he's a sweetheart but if he doesn't, i have to let him go because i have to be there for my kid. >> can you let him go? >> i don't know. i don't know. >> the couple met when both were serving time in the jail about a year earlier. samantha agee and then gore for check fraud. in a glass enclosed entry way, the various housing units. >> i see her come to bring laundry so i was like, basically saying, i'd like to write you. it's funny, it grew from there. >> he knew the girl i was working with at the time. he was like, i need a pen pal and she grabbed my shirt and was like, hey, she can be your pen pal. >> the two began to secretly pass notes to each other through the laundry or food trays to agee's housing unit as part of the kitchen. >> he'll put it in the basket and then when i pull it out, i'll get it. >> soon after agee and gore released from jail, they moved in together

i know he knows that. [ laughter ] ♪ >>> overlooking charleston harbor is ft. sumter.t's here that the first shots of the civil war were fired in april, 1861. the fort is but one part of history that has been preserved in charleston, south carolina, a city that several travel publications describe as the most hospitable in the nation. outside downtown sits a modern day fortress. where strife and conflict often overshadow southern hospitality. >> it's crazy here. you get a little bit of everything. you have suicidal inmates. you have females. you get alcoholics from the street that come in, combative. >> i'm telling you! >> you've got segregation inmates. you've got a whole bunch that you've got the to deal with at one time. >> there are about 1,300 men and women incarcerated at the sheriff al cannon detention center's known as the charleston county jail. while some have been convicted, most are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. >> communication is the biggest thing, i feel, when you're dealing with a whole different variety

at this assembly plant in charleston, south carolina.d to a meeting with a man who works inside the plant. he's taking a huge risk even talking to me. >> it's been eating me alive to know what i know, and have no anything. >> at his request we used a different voice. >> 300 souls on the plane - their lives are bigger than me. >> we had seen reports of bad workmanship in the plant. the man claimed the problems go far deeper. >> with all the problems reported on the 787, 90% is swept away, hushed up - it's an iceberg. the people that actually work on it are the biggest problem. there is an uneducated, underskilled and uncaring staff that are building the plans. i'm not the only one that feels this way. >> he was prepared to build it wearing a camera in the plant to record what some workers said about the dreamliner. >> you can't have someone from mcdonald's do heart surgery, that's trusting someone with your life. that is what we are doing here. . >> i've seen a lot of things that should not go on at an airplane plant. people talking about

. ♪ >>> dating back to colonial times, charleston, south carolina, is one of the nation's top touristraws. ten miles outside the heart of charleston, the sheriff al cannon detention center draws only those who are in trouble with the law. >> dammit! >> this is a nasty jail, man. >> most of the 1,300 men and women incarcerated here are only charged with crimes. they're awaiting trial of the resolution of their cases. josh gore is on his third stay here. >> i done a bunch of terrible things in my life that i'm so not proud of. but they're all character-building. and end of the day, i'll walk out of this room and i'll sit on that bunk and i'm not really upset with who i am. >> i had a really good lawyer. my father bankrupted his company behind that one. i got two years for it which is like a blessing from heaven. >> this is right here, constant struggles, right? then it got the angel, then it got the devil. >> gohr was arrested a few months earlier for allegedly shoplifting shirts from a department store. he pled not guilty and is awaiting trial. if convicted he could face a longer than

charleston has not forgotten that. they didn't want charleston to -- memphis was the doom. they protested in memphis. they kept on. we marched in charlson -- charleston. they got a wage increase, but it wasn't what it should have been. memphis, i don't think they ever got what they were protesting for. i don't think they ever got that. we had hard-core people. you all have no idea. people just were not going to do right. even downplayed the fact -- [indiscernible] she shouldn't have been down there anyway. can you imagine? she was a woman of conscience who came to make the witness known. we had racist people saying, she had no business coming down here, meddling. she had every right to be there. we've taken a beating, some people have. >> you describe chicago as being worse than birmingham or some -- selma. >> cicero in chicago -- i thought i was going to die, more so than the merit of march in mississippi. that was the first time in my life that i had ever marched. people have rifles. men were on the trunks of their cars with rifles pointed at us. the police did not open t

today, the charleston county jail is the sheriff al cannon detention center.houses about 1300 men and women. >> selling some cookies for some noodles, man. got to keep their stomachs full because they don't get [ bleep ] in here. >> most are awaiting resolution of their cases. tilghman kronsberg is only a few days away from his one year anniversary here and his stay isn't likely to end soon. >> it's been horrible. i'm not used to this. you know, there's a lot of guys who come in here and it's no big deal to them. they're content with it and i just can't seem to find that mentality. this is my cheese dip, consists of different kind of potato chips audiotape crushed up. add pickle juice and water. mmm, so good. i grew up actually pretty privileged until i was about 12 years old. my parents had a lot of money, but my father, he had a drug problem and so i went from living in a mansion to living in a room in the back of someone's house that had a bathroom connected to it. i didn't have very many friends growing up at all because i think i threw people off. i was a

. >>> from its seawall to historic downtown landmarks, charleston, south carolina, is a picture of southern charm. but not everyone displays southern hospitality. and for some, that could mean time at the county jail better known as the sheriff al cannon detention center. most of the 1,300 men and women incarcerated here are only accused of crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. and each one entered the jail through the intake department. >> take shoes off. >> it's a steady flow from body search to fingerprints. >> all right. you're all done. >> and a booking photo. and for those who will be here for a while, the important step of determining where to house them. >> i'm officer teagarten, i'm doing classification interview. >> william jarrett began his stay here in a unit largely considered the most desirable -- minimum security, general population. there are no cells. so inmates feel less confined and have more privileges. but 16 days in, jarrett requested a transfer to protective custody or p.c. >> there's some older guys in there that really were creeping me out

the sheriff al cannon detention center in charleston, south carolina, is no exception.here are about 1,300 men and women incarcerated here. most are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial at the ruling of their cases. keeping them all fed requires an inmate kitchen staff to work nearly around the clock preparing 3,900 meals per day. mum abdallah works the afternoon shift. >> seven days a week, eight hours a day. we go in at 1:00, get out at :9:00. the benefit, you don't have to lay around all day, your bone aren't achy. working in the kitchen keeps you alert and aware of things going on around you. you get to eat good, you know. make sure the food is hot and warm. that's the rice right there. gourmet. professional, i cooked it. that the patties there. i cooked those, too. they're going to want seconds of those, i guarantee you that. >> although abdallah takes pride in his work, he may be overestimating its appeal. >> the food sucks. >> i can't wait to get pizza when i get out of here. >> it's all disgusting county food. >> there is an alternative to the complim

toward the northeast, there's plenty more to come, the area of low pressure is pushing through charleston, west virginia, all this out through here will start to fill in over the next 6 to 10 hours it will push through delaware valley. today is looking dreary and soggy. reduced visibility, around lunchtime we see the heavier moisture move on in. certainly by 3:00 p.m. we'll see periods of rain it will be heavy. expect visibility issues, 54 degrees is the high. expect ponding on roads and milder temperatures. i'll time it out with future tracker 6 and have a chilly seven-day forecast. >> new this morning, a man is dead after being hit by a car on the roosevelt boulevard. police spent the night talking to the driver that hit him. the 40-year-old man was hit around 12:30 while crossing the outer lanes of the northbound boulevard. the man was killed instantly. the driver stopped immediately. police have tested the driver for driving under the influence, so far no arrests or charges in that accident. >>> a deadly hit-and-run is unsolved this morning in bridgeport, montgomery county, police say

his attorney said: in charleston it took weeks for many to trust the water. something most will never again take for granted. >> you don't think about where your water comes from. >> gary southern could face 68 years in prison. his former company reached a plea deal. part of that is that the government will not seek money for the victims because the company is bankrupt. >> all right. thank you. michael shank is a professor at george mason university, working on environmental policy on capitol hill. he's in the studio. what got the executives into trouble? >> well, they allowed essentially a chemical. m.c.h.m. - is it hazardous, toxic - they allowed 10,000 gallons worth of that to get into the drinking water of 300,000 residents from west virginia, and the okay river. that's what they are in trouble for. >> this is a bit unusual compared to other accidents. >> yes. >> did they intend to put it into the water? >> it was in a world war ii, and it had looks and the federal government was not doing oversights. there are acts, the clean water act or toxic substance

. >>> behind the walls of the detense center in charleston, south carolina one of the loudest housing units is a1a also known as disciplinary segregation. >> a lot of noise. beating on the door. flooding, busted sprinkler heads. hanging arms out the flaps. just anything to disrupt the unit and stop the flow of the unit. you have to be prepared for those things. >> the unit houses 48 inmates and is always at full capacity. >> they're a danger to themselves and or others. they have violated one of our regulations within the jail and they have been sentenced for a period of time in segregation. >> they're confined to single person cells all but one hour per day which they can either spend in the day room or in an adjacent recreation area with little to do but walk around. >> they're handcuffed and they have leg irons on so it's a lot differ from general population and a lot of them that come in here don't ever want to come back in here so they learn their lesson. however we do have a lot of individuals that it's like a revolving door. they're in here every other week. >> along with the o

crash in charleston, chester county route 29 right at hallow road.ing an overturn vehicle. and then out here in chester county 926 a crash right at schoolhouse road. bridges look fine. the mass transit is looking good. chris and alex, back over to you. >> thanks, bob. >>> 8:03. lets get to the top stories of morning. fire fighters say an early morning fire in germantown, may have been caused by a firebomb. crews responded to 79 east colter street shortly before 4:00 o'clock this morning. there were no injuries. investigators say they are looking into whether several teenage girls involved in ab ongoing dispute are connect, to this fire. >>> police are searching for a missing west chester university student, shane montgomery. >> he was last seen leaving a bar in manayunk early thanksgiving morning. fox 29's jennifer joyce live outside that bar with the latest on that search for him, good morning, jen. >> reporter: good morning, chris and alex. well, the family is feeling a little bit frustrated at this point. they say it is not in his nature to leave

so scott lives in charleston south carolina with his two children and his wife. so what we will do it is mr. scott will read a portion of his book and then we will move over to mr. mccall and have him discuss a brief section of this book. and we will open up to questions and discussion between the authors. if you do have a question, please step up to the microphone. we are recording it and it is for television so we want to make sure your questions are audible and can be heard. so, james. >> good afternoon. how's everybody doing today? good. i'd like to start off and it's a pleasure and honor to be here with nick, a fellow writer whose work i admire greatly, and with our moderator, nathan, who we went to college together many years ago, he left out of his introduction. >> not that many really. >> more than we want to admit i would also like to say a special thanks to everyone for coming out today and also to the humanities tennessee council for hosting the southern festival of books which is a wonderful event. i'm going to reading and talk to the about my book, s

there's the low out of the west virginia in between pittsburgh and charleston as i speak.e shield of heavier moist arriving after lunchtime. until noon, cloudy, occasional showers, areas of drizzle. after the evening hours expect a steady soaking of rain. 3/4 to an i do is -- to an inch. we had icing issues in the poconos, they were hovering around # 1, 32 degrees, now they are above that freezing mark, they are at 36. 46 in philadelphia, sea isle and will also 50 degrees. forecast for today, shades of gray, going to be rain out here later this afternoon, 54 degrees by 3:00 p.m. and then by 6:00 p.m. 50 degrees, again, shooting for awe high of 54. the normal is 47. not a good looking day, but when i come back we'll talk built coastline system on the way for tuesday, as miserable as it maybe this afternoon, tuesday looks worse, i'll have the details in the seven day in just a few minutes, eva? >> arsonist torched the phoenix fire bird festival. the festival will go on today as the police look for the person or people who set the fire. the fire started at 3:30. the fire is s

and 57 in philadelphia, 64 charleston, 6 lexington and 64 nashville and we're talking to a piece of that milder air as early as tomorrow. so talk about what's ahead. milder for us on monday. colder on tuesday. little bit up and down week on the way with bouts of wintry precipitation in between. we'll talk about those details in the full and exclusive accuweather forecast, walter. >> melissa. before you head out the door get the latest from accuweather, matt, tam, david, karen will have a look at weather and traffic conditions starting 4:30 tomorrow morning on 6abc. >> as we mentioned a lot of people are heading home tonight and experts say 2.6 million americans traveled by nraen weekend. 41 million hit the road. "action news" reporter kenneth moton is live at 30th street station with a look at how the big pilgrimage home. >> walter, the good news is we're moving tonight. people were expecting big travel headaches. but thanks to the weather on time schedules and decent amount of volume on roadways returning home has been a lot easier. busy on the roads, air and rails. but that travel flow

the area of low pressure is sitting north of charleston that's the storm.eriods of rain, it will come down heavy at times. it's a quick mover, this is auto so sea at 9:00, 10:00. high pressure takes 0 over for sunday, sunday is a much better looking day, the only issue is the strong gusty winds, thanks to the pressure differences between the two, you get the driving wind out of the north, northwest. the fact that it's a canadian high it's going to be cooler to begin with. and you factor in a 30, 40-mile an hour windchills will be in the 30s. the this afternoon, the rain gets heavier and heavier. we're looking at anywhere from 3/4 of an inch to an inch. sometime around 9:00, 10:00 p.m. that's when this shut off and pulls out to sea. sunday morning, skies of blue, lots of sunshine, just a strong biting winds. 29 miles per hour if you're tailgating tomorrow afternoon in philadelphia. that translates into windchills hanging out into the low to mid 30s, this is what it will feel like all day, nice and mild today, chilly as we head into sunday. 54 degrees, rain d

develop the line of hand-crafted bath and body care products has become known as the charleston soaping american made bath and beauty products for christmastime. we salute you, janine, you are a true american success. go to our website, foxbusiness.com/charles payne. you were fantastic. enjoyed it. jonathan, come back any time. >> thank you. >> we had a fantastic week, don't worry about the market crash. in the meantime, lou dobbs is going to take you into the weekend. keep it on fox business. lou: good evening, everybody. breaking news. the federal government now 29 hours from shutting down. the fate of the obama-boehner trillion dollar plus fiscal year long government funding bill in the hand of harry reid in his final days as majority leader of the u.s. senate. congress definitely divided on the legislation, house speaker john boehner needed more than 50 democratic votes in order to pass the massive spending bill. the president himself lobbying democratic congressman for those votes, exposing a deep divide among house democrats. minority leader

develop the line of hand-crafted bath and body care products has become known as the charleston soaplling american made bath and beauty products for christmastime. we salute you, janine, you are a true american success. go to our website, foxbusiness.com/charles payne. you were fantastic. enjoyed it. jonathan, come back any time. >> thank you. >> we had a fantastic week, don't worry about the >>> good evening, everybody. it was a week ago that attorney general eric holder traveled to atlanta to the historic ebenezer baptist church and there, promised to end racial profiling as he put it once and for all. holder's declaration after the michael brown and eric garner grand jury decisions was, it turns out, not only grand eloquent but tardy by a decade. president george w. bush had already ended racial profiling and today, the outgoing attorney general, eric holder, unable to completely rewrite history or further ignore it, decided if he couldn't end racial profiling, he would instead end other

people in charleston, vest virginia had never seen anything like it. >> i will never use the tap watere again, ever. >> reporter: now months later, indictments against the executives in charge. >> we have to make crystal clear that those who would commit violations like this are held accountable. >> reporter: this week six employees with freedom industries were charged with violating the federal clean water act. for a leak in january that sent a chemical used to clean coal into a creek, and the water supply for 300,000 people in west virginia's largest city. >> can't cook. can't bathe. can't clean dishes. you can't mop the floors. because you can't get your hands in there. >> reporter: the indictment accuses the company of a range of violations. they say it was more concerned about profits: and to comply with environmental laws was ignored. >> we remain committed to protecting public health through the appropriate investigation of significant violations, which this clearly was. >> reporter: the charged executives plan to plead not guilty, calling the charges baseless, since they do not

charleston, south carolina. >> who is motley? >> ron motley was a lawyer in charleston, who had won one of the biggest legal settlements in the united states. he was one of the lead lawyers in the tobacco industry settlement with all of the states in which the tobacco industry had to pay like $240 billion to a lot of different states. he got, he and his partners, got large fees from that, billions of dollars. the movie "the insider" was based partly on his life. the tobacco settlement, after a huge victory, wondering what he should do next. 9/11 happened and he began to get calls from some of the families of victims of 9/11. he decided to eventually to represent them in a class action lawsuit against saudi arabia. $1 trillion lawsuit which would be the biggest lawsuit in history. he was going to sue the saudis and entities and individuals for financing al qaeda and terrorism and 9/11. after he did this, he realized he needed to hire investigators to help him. he went through other investigators and finally, one of them that he hi

we'll tell you why experts believe north korea may have some >>> police in charleston, west virginia are looking for the gunman who opened fire on a television reporter and the women he was interviewing at the time. the reporter was doing a story on slots fired in that neighborhood the night before. neither the reporter nor the woman were hurt. >>> a georgia boy who had been missing for years was discovered inside a fake wall inside a closet. the 13-year-old was held against his will in suburban atlanta by his biological father. the boy went missing on a visit with his father in florida four years ago. he was able to get to a phone recently and contact his mother. they were reason reunited this weekend. the boy's father and stepmother were charged and got no bond. >>> a drive to work takes an unfort >>> talk about awkward. a commutener china found himself in a rough spot after a sinkhole swallowed his car. he first thought he hit something in the road, then his car started sinking. he was able to scramble out before the sinkhole got any bigger. >>> north korea is one of the main susp

the center of the storm system is sitting to the west of charleston. we have to get this guy through before that rain shut off. periods of drizzle transitioning over to a steady, soaking rain later this afternoon. we're mild, but it will be miserable. lunchtime, 52, 3:00 p.m., the high of 54. when i come back in a few minutes we'll take a closer look at future tracker 6. i'll time it out for you. we have a coastal system tuesday. >> you can stay on top of the weather conditions anytime with our new 6abc.com the smart design changes the lawout to fit -- layout to fit stab -- tablets. check it out anytime anywhere. >>> a fire broke out in a row home and there was a close call for a fire chief before he got to the flames. 3 adults and two teens made it out unharmed, the fire is under control. the red cross is helping the five people displaced. no word on what sparked the fire. >>> on the way to the call, a fire chief was involved in a crash, the car ran a stop sign and hit the chief on atlantic avenue. the laptop hit the chief in the chest. a woman faces

colder in the upper elevations like pittsburgh and charleston west virginia. cooler air is moving in our direction for the next couple of days. today, we have a high of 47. 45 degrees by 4:00. 6:00 p.m. we'll be in the low 40s, looks like we're falling closer to the 30s by 10:00 p.m. the wide view on sat light and radar, those earlier source showers in the southeastern portion of the county are pushing close to the coast so atlanta is drying out. basically dry sunny conditions in the southwest with just a shower up in the northwest. if you're traveling and a lot of people are this week you will not run into any major delays at the airport. in fact twhen philadelphia and our -- between philadelphia and our most commonly traveled destinations, bogs ton atlanta newark and jfk all green on the board no major delays. my son is heading to atlanta with his fiance after spending the holidays with him. it's clear sailing for him. when i step back inside we'll have cold air coming on for now, a little breezy and above average temperatures, coat weather not bad. >>> the

and i won't have to -- >> that's what sony's saying. >> i won't have to go to charleston or austin to see it. i hear it's not "citizen cane," by the way. >> well, this is the position. having talked about it day in and day out, you know, might make someone like me or someone else, you know, this is the kind of buzz you can't really pay for. >> much more of a must must h-s it was a couple of weeks ago. >> that's the sequel. >> michael, thank you so much, columnist for out.com. appreciate you coming in here. . >>> another story here. who is trying to take down north korea's internet? the u.s. had hinted it would retaliate. the president specifically saying it would be a proportional response. wouldn't say more than that. now north korea is offline at some point for nine hours at a time. who is behind this? we will hear what u.s. officials have to say about that. and fears in france after a driver yelling about palestinian children. now, heightened concerns over lone wolf attacks this holiday week, we'll bring you the latest there. stay with me, you're watching cnn. dad,thank you mom for

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last friday's rock you like a herman cain south-cain-olina at the college of charleston. to see so many students so willing to skip class on such short notice. (laughter) though the campaign is over, don't let it be forgot that once there was a spot for one brief shining moment that was known as cainelot. jimmy? >> stephen colbert is having a rally today in south carolina. >> stephen colbert roll mood south carolina. >> herman cain an stephen colbert are taking south carolina by storm. >> the rock me like a herman cain south cain-olina primary rally. >> give it up tore the man, mr. herman cain! >> stephen: whooo. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: i'm going to let it shine, let it shrine shine ♪ ♪ let it shine ♪ this little light of mine ♪ ♪ what's up buddy ♪ i'm going to let it shine ♪ ♪ let it shine ♪ let it shine ♪ what a beautiful day the lord has given us. what a beautiful state. what a beautiful town what a beautiful low country. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: but folks, i am not here to pander. because i know i don't need to pander to the most beautiful people in