i'm gathering more of those details about clarence, a bit about his background. we'll bring you those new elements when i see you again at 6:00 tonight. live in culpeper, dave culver, news 4. >>> our team coverage continues with chris gordon who has more on how this community is dealing with this massive tragedy. >> good evening. the culpeper community is in a state of shock and sadness. i'm talking about neighborhoods, schools, and local girl scout troops. and these young sisters,and 13-year-old were innocent victims of this terrible tragedy. >> reporter: the killings leave the community heart broken. neighbor reggie massey says his 6-year-old daughter savannah played with 6-year-old onya all the time. >> it's sad. >> did you ever have indication there was trouble inside the famryfa family. >> i never had indication. >> the pastor at their church today announced a prayer vigil saying come let us join together, lift our voices together and intercede on behalf of the minor/washington families and the culpeper community. shauna washington was a leader of the two gi

host: clarence page joins us. we want to get your take specifically on how this white house is handled the ferguson crisis. he wrote this week that even president obama seems trapped by the racial divide over what is happening in ferguson and around the country. guest: is remarkable will that they would be able to handle it. this president had a mandate during his candidacy of helping american resolve this racial turmoil. this is unwritten subtext to his election. every now and then we get and are up show him like this. this time compared to previous , he seemed a bit more somber and cautious and reserved at this time. agents.in 40 fbi that doubled the population almost. it was interesting to watch. histter what he does, critics are going to say he has done too much. his supporters say he is not doing enough. host: if you look at this in the context of the history of civil , cant in the united states you talk about was happening then and any similarities to this situation? the few am one of people around who remem

you've seen this happen with clarence thomas. justice scalia is wrong on a number of issues if you are a liberal, but clarence thomas isn't just wrong. he is a sellout. he has got psychological problems. that is what the reaction typically has been. that's usually coming from black elite. independent tree of journalism or politics i get a different reaction. there is a naacp rank-and-file and i think they are wide differences. and it is unfortunate to me that many of the media, many in the media continue to run to the house sharpton speak on behalf of blacks and over the past decade the interest of the jesse jackson and al sharpton is diverged wisely from what the black underclass in particular needs in terms of the public policy. >> host: before we go to break and after we come back we are going to talk about more of these issues that you dare to touch in this book. does it bother you when you hear the community rise up against you for what you say? >> guest: that would be a little melodramatic. no one likes to be called names.

piece together what they believe was a murder suicide. 35-year-old shauna washington and her husband clarence and their three daughters were found dead last night on their small home here on rixeyville road in culpeper. mrs. washington's mother had come here when she couldn't make contact with her daughter. she went in through the window. >> she called our office asking for a welfare check of the residence, although nothing was found suspicious. the residence was secure, no need to force entry. >> reporter: the sheriff scott jenkins says it appears the couple had some kind of an argument on saturday. >> everything at this point from physical evidence to field interviews and so forth points to a murder suicide most likely the result of the father doing. so. >> reporter: the house is grouped with four others and neighbor richard massey says clarence washington was a quiet guy who worked as a janitor at the nearby sycamore elementary school. his daughter was best friends with 6-year-old onya. >> my daughter is not understanding right now because her friends are gone. >> reporter: two doors away

the police believe they were killed by the family patriarch, clarence washington. roz plater spoke with family and friends of the washington family and is live in culpeper. roz? >> some of the folks who came to the vigil did not know the washingtons, and this is a community of families and children. they are upset about the loss of the three innocent girls. a neighbor say they never saw it coming. broken, hundreds came together in song and prayer and tears. >> i got kids. i got six. i don't know, it's just -- it's hard. >> sunday night come after the family did not show up for church, shawna washington's mother stopped by the home and medium thinkable discovery, all five family members shot and killed, including the three daughters. >> you just feel like life is more precious. you just hug your kids closer. >> culpeper investigators believe it was a murder/suicide. clarence washington killed himself after shooting his wife and children. >> i came out to pay my respects for the family and to show that they meant a lot to a lot of people. and overe heard over that fr

host: clarence page joins us.we want to get your take specifically on how this white house is handled the ferguson crisis. he wrote this week that even president obama seems trapped by the racial divide over what is happening in ferguson and around the country. guest: is remarkable will that they would be able to handle it. this president had a mandate during his candidacy of helping american resolve this racial turmoil. this is unwritten subtext to his election. every now and then we get and are up show him like this. this time compared to previous , he seemed a bit more somber and cautious and reserved at this time. agents.in 40 fbi that doubled the population almost. it was interesting to watch. histter what he does, critics are going to say he has done too much. his supporters say he is not doing enough. host: if you look at this in the context of the history of civil , cant in the united states you talk about was happening then and any similarities to this situation? the few am one of people around who rememb

joining me is huffington post's howard fineman and clarence page. it's a tough situation for the president to be in. the unfortunate reality is there is a crowd out there that's just waiting for him when situations like this oh occur. just waiting for him and they want the to stoke the worse impulses out there. we have seen it before. >> i was wondering how long it would take before the first right winger comes along to accuse president obama of dividing america by race. his statement was neutral and even handed. he said both sides are responsible. he didn't address race as much as justice and the proper use of force need for a proper investigation, et cetera, which is fine. look at the contrast with statements about zimmerman, trayvon, henry lewis gates. in my mind he was reassuring black americans they will get a measure of justice. it was immediately interpreted by newt gingrich and other people on the right as dividing americans by race. it's already divided. look at the footage from ferguson. >> what clarence is talking about there jumped out a

clarence is right. we saw something like this as a result of the student riots and urban riots of the 1960s, but not with this kind of equipment. you have a long story here that involves people moving out of the city. white people moving out of cities. the police force stays white. then the police force moves out of the city and polices a city or neighborhoods they don't live in. that's already a bad situation. that in itself causes friction and distance. then you impose this unbelievable weaponry. both the artillery, mraps, vehicles, armored vehicles and teargas. you have a police force perceived as an occupying army that begins to criminalize daily lives of the people they are supposed to be serving so we see scandalous number hs in ferguson of people stopped for routine traffic arrests. they don't pay the fines they are supposed to pay and they build up. so you have the criminalzation of the population. policed and enforced by terrifying vehicles. journalists saw it up close for the fist time. the pr

jones -- cotton to clarence jones, so many people around him. but it was a matter of taking so much of the scholarship and the facts that are there are will that are kind of -- there are already there and coalescing them to tell the story of just the last year. that's what this book is only about, this one year, the last year of his life on april 4, '67, when he gives that speech, "beyond vietnam," and nation turns against him to, literally, april 4, '68, 12 months later when he's killed. now, conspiracy theorists have had, you know, years to toy with and to try to unpack what april 4, '67, as compared to april 4, '6 8, what does that really mean? i really just wanted to delve into why this speech was so controversial and what price he had to pay for standing up so courageously in coming out against the war and what the white house did to him, the media, the liberal media -- when you read this book and you see what "the new york times" and the washington post had to say about king, and then white hurricane turns against him, black america turns

honor to formerly introduce my chief of financial and administration officer and d deputy director clarence maddisn and she will present you regarding the finance report today. i believe to further introduce her, she was with dbi before in various departments in my an announcement i u, you know, put forward before >> you pt want to koucome up. >> good morning, commissioners torrance maddiison two to thre f for the directlhe department of inspection i'm glad to be back i look forward to working with everyone there's a lot of chooift things happening in the department with that, why don't i jump into the report before i you have the june #114 financitl report i'll take a few minutes to go over some highlights on s the roeport. . so i will just go over the sum for june 2014 before you have a a assembly of june 2014 which is the final most of the fiscal year the year to date budget and a projected budget the reason for the project ed it's take longer to close out to the first year to date is in the system as of the printing of the report but we're still collecting revenues and clook closings ou

we're told clarence washington was a janitor in the culpeper school district and as you can see from the pictures from sky 9, the family lived in a small house in a rural portion of culpeper county. hank silverberg is at the scene. you can see his report starting tonight at 5:00 p.m. >>> this is day six in the political corruption trial of former governor bob mcdonnell. this week started with star witness jonnie williams on the stand. peggy fox has been covering the trial since day one. she joins us live outside the courthouse in richmond. hi, peggy. >> reporter: hey, andre ya. yes, star witness -- andrea. yes, star witness jonnie williams is still on the stand this morning under cross- examination by bob mcdonnell's attorney. they walked into court this morning. you see video of them going inside. every time we chat with the governor as he walked in and out of court, he commented on his capable attorney team, his legal defense and how he's looking forward to taking the witness stand. that will come up during the defense. but today under cross- examination, the defense attorney did p

host: we will let clarence page comment. guest: there is a lot there. for one thing, she sounds like the kerner commission report, talking about a marshall plan. whitney young for decades called for a marshall plan for america's cities to redevelop these communities that have been devastated. for the last couple decades the urban league stopped calling for it. they were getting nowhere, and i certainly expect barack obama to get nowhere proposing it with this congress. washington is not in the mood to help inner cities in that way. but there is no question that we have to deal with the underlying causes of these racial interruption -- racial eruptions. and it is not just the black community. there have been other communities as well. and stories talking about why property -- white poverty. in appalachia, where i was a war on poverty volunteer as a college student. i watched poverty take on a black face in the media, but still white poor outnumber the black poor. we should not forget that. host: michael is waiting on our line for republicans. caller: goo

. >> with terry's future possibly hanging in the balance, terry and clarence will have to wait to find out if their request to live together is granted. >>> coming up on "lockup: extended stay" will these potential cellmates become soul mates? >> when you see somebody acting just like a woman, there's always going to be some type of temptation. >> plus, officers give these inmates a surprise wake-up call. >>> i'm francis rivera. it is quiet in ferguson, missouri, now, after police say they fired smoke canisters and tear gas in the street earlier while responding to an incident at a restaurant. they say it was not directly related to the midnight curfew. >>> police say they also encountered a man with a handgun in the street who ran off. a police car was also shot at. meantime, authorities are investigating a shooting that left a man in critical condition. seven people were arrested for violating the curfew. >>> now back to "lockup." >> got to have some kind of husbandle when you're in here. like this here, i -- we still want to look as presentable as possible. >> yeah, you know what i

. >> host: we're talking with clarence page from the "chicago tribune."er to take your questions and comments as we talk about ferguson and try to put in the context of civil unrest in the history of this country. our phone lines are open if you want to call him. before get to the collars and one of the question we've seen of the commissions, the commissioner -- christopher commission after 1992 in los angeles. >> guest: either what almost every city has had a commission after riots. >> host: do these commissions ever get the attention of the president? does congress ever act on the recommendations of the commission's? you talked about the history of the kerner commission? >> guest: stepping back everybody comes to these commissions with their own agendas. if you're liberal you have one agenda because conservatives have another one. all those ideas get mixed together. what gets implemented depends on who the leadership is in the city or the state that leads the commission report. that makes sense because we talk about a very complex problem as far as rang

connie, clarence, real fast. >> use your brain not your immediate reaction.ain and think about what you want to say. >> clarence? >> absolutely. provide that lens that helps the public understand all this information bubbling up around us every day. >> and also just stop worrying about what people are going to think. stop anticipating the sort of e-mail and twitter responses you're going to get. just go out and say it. >> clarence page from the "chicago tribune," connie schultz from the creator syndicate, thank you both for joining me this morning. so what do we know this morning that we didn't know last week? our answers after this. for over 19 million people. [ alex ] transamerica helped provide a lifetime of retirement income. so i can focus on what matters most. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. wherever morning takes you, take along nature valley soft-baked oatmeal squares. oatmeal. cinnamon. softly-baked. nature valley soft-baked oat

kids on every porch toys in every yard a lot of parents are pretty up is the this man 58 year old clarence hairston got the bright idea according to police to let his eight and nine year old nephews drive his car while he pedaled and drank beer. >> the officer gets out of his car and goes up on to the passenger side and sees a small child with his hands on the steering wheel steering the car, and a guy laid back all the way back the seat is all the way back in his hand is a 25-ounce can of beer report roar police say hairston was so drunk he couldn't even get out of the car. they found more empties in the impala. police say the car was jerking all over the road with the eight year old driving and the nine year old bouncing around in the back. neighbors are live individual. >> there's a lot of kids out here. >> he was pretty drunk. must have been. that's for sure. you're not thinking right if you do something like that. >> i'm real surprised that he even would have them driving like that. that's really shocking. >> reporter: hairston home nobody wanted that tuck about the incident. >> don't

. >> fifty-eight year old clarence hairston is behind bars. officer noticed his car swerving saturday afternoon and it turned out he saw the man holding a beer with his feet on the pedals and that boy was sitting on his lap doing his best to steer. there was another child riding unrestrained in the back seat. police say hairston was babysitting. >> i would have rather seen the kid take the car than drive away than have the 58 year old uncle pushing the gas and hitting the brake while the kids eight years old steering the car. the owner of the car was so drunk he couldn't get out of the car without assistance. >> hairston is charged with dui and related offenses. he remains in jail unable to post bail. >>> also this morning, philadelphia police have charged brian boar with murder and related offenses, the frankford homeowner who told police he shot and killed a man he thought was trying to break into his pick up. the shooting happened late thursday night on the 4500 block of torresdale avenue. he claims he shot the man in self-defense. >>> a de

joining me now are ryan grimm and clarence page.k you for being here. >> thank you, reverend. >> the american people don't want another war. the president feels he needs to act. are these air strikes -- is this how he can reach the balance? >> let's say the air strikes are a limited response and they are necessary for a humanitarian mission. the president has used the g-word here, genocide. >> right. >> he see it is possibility of another massacre, something akin to the rwanda scenario or what we were afraid might happen in libya. he feels justified here. he's got the advisers. he has a tradition of having advisers around him like susan rice, hillary clinton, samantha power who believe that our military power ought to be used in rescue missions like this. beyond that, what to do? he doesn't want boots on the ground. we don't want to get involved again. the american people on the whole don't want to get dragged into another war. a lot of voices say no mission creep. on the republican side he hears we need a more robust response. he h

for a body in motion. >>> on corcoran's "a" yard, after weeks of waiting, inmates clarence and terryval to be cellies. >> you've got to have a good cellie. you're doing time. from the places i have been, hot spots, for the past 15 years, all violence. every day, lockdown. fighting. so i was very tense. and i was really ready -- say anything wrong -- violence. violence, i knew was violence. violence was my answer to everything. 18 months when i turned 7 1/2. >> that's all you knew? >> that's all i knew. i start getting a hold of myself, checking myself out inside. now that i'm here with terry, i feel like a whole lot of tension eased. >> as their relationship evolves within the cell, clarence and terry discuss their future outside the prison walls. >> if you have a problem, are you going to say, okay, i'm going to deal with this problem? i'm not going to use this as an excuse to prostitute. society is against people like you. straight up, society is against you. those are the programs. the programs will get you a job. the program will put you into a bind to where it's a working enviro

clarence thomas, samuel alito, stephen breyer, and sonya sotomayor. that wasn't difficult in the divisive cases you get to these in the usual alignments. there was a decision the book deals with in some detail where kennedy led a 5-3 majority and elena kagen was refused. striking down most of the arizona show me your papers immigration law school he wrote a dissent that called the decision mind boggling. he went out of his way to attack obama for something unrelated to the case. his use to pay for the children as dreamers. the "washington post" which usually selects the president or senator or cabinet member for the honor bestowed upon scalia the worst week in washington price partly because he was also outfitted in the obamacare decision that came down three days later. those are just some examples and the book deals with them and explains them and gives you a way to understand them. it's not just the usual alignments in the cases decided by the majority that exposed the fallacy of the increasingly common description of the roberts court of the gang

thank you, clarence page. thank you robert of the washington post. >>> hillary clinton's surprise appearance on steve colbert show last night. hi kitty. [ male announcer ] you know that guy whose bad breath could make a kitten cry? don't let it be you. one swish of scope kills millions of bad breath germs freshening your breath. so you can be the guy whose breath doesn't make kittens cry. [ meows ] scope. the freshest fresh, guaranteed. >>> here's my review. this book is 656 pages of shameless name-dropping. jim? >> tanzanian prime minister and i do some planting at a woman's cooperative in landizi. >> did you catch that? did you catch that, tmz? she just happened to be hanging out with mizengo in landizi. not impressed. there is no way on earth one woman can be in so many places at once. >> as can you see, former secretary of state hillary clinton did make a surprise appearance on the steve colbert report. she couldn't let him accuse of name-dropping without responding to the charge. it wasn't long until the

clarence thomas, samuel paulino, steven briar and sonia sotomayor. that was not that a typical in lots of difficult and divisive cases we get these unusual alignments. there was a decision the book deals with in some detail where kennedy led a 5-3 majority, and elena kagan was recused, striking down most of arizona's show me your papers anti-immigrant law. scalia wrote a dissent fat called the court's decision mind-boggling. he went out of his way and outside the record of the case to attack obama for something unrelated to the case. is use of executive power to favor the immigrant children known as dreamers. the washington post, which usually selects the president or a senator or cabinet member for the honor bestowed on scully at its worst week in washington prize, partly because he was outvoted in the obamacare decision that came down three days later. those are some examples, the book deals with them, explains them, gives you a way to understand them. not just the unusual alignment in cases decided by a bare majority that expose the fallacy of the

clarence thomas, samuel alito and sonia sotomayor. that was not that atypical in lots of difficult and divisive cases you get these in usual un alignments. there was a decision that the ea books deals with in some detai where kennedy led a 5-3 majority. kagan was recused. striking down most of arizona's show me your papers, anti-immigrant law. way scalia called the court's decision mind-boggling. he went outtack of his way to ak obama for something unrelated te the case, his use of executive power to favor the immigrant kn children known as dreamers. the washington post, which post" usually selects the president or a senator or a cabinet member for the honor, bestowed on scalia its worst week.beca partly because he was also outvoted in the obama care decision that came down three days later, those are just somem examples in the inbook.s and deals with tthem, explains the gives you a way to understand pt them. it's not just the unusual alignments in cases decided by e mayor -- sort of a bear majority that exposed the fallacy of the inc

investigators believe clarence washington shot his wife and his three daughters before taking his own life in an apparent murder-suicide. the family members say clarence recently made violent threats but none of them expected anything like this. >> everything was fine, everything was okay. a loving family. that was my sister. that was my heart. my best friend and my world. >> tomorrow's vigil will be held at st. stevens baptist where the family attended church. >>> tributes continue to pour in for former press secretary james brady who died yesterday at the age of 73. a joint statement from ten of the men and women who followed him as white house press secretary said brady set a standard for them. brady was also known for a champion for gun control ever since he walked in front of the bullet left for ronald reagan in the '80s leaving him paralyzed. >>> just in from the white house. president barack obama will announce today that u.s. businesses are committed to investigating $14 billion in construction, clean energy, banking and information technology projects across africa. this anno

. >> culpeper investigators believe it was a murder suicide and clarence washington killed himself afterooting his wife and children. >> i came out to pay respects to her and the family, and to show that they meant a lot to a lot of people. >> what we have heard over and over is that from the outside the family seemed happy. i community events. the parents were hard-working and the daughters popular at school. some say this is a wake-up call. >> it is important to engage in one another's lives. to be a real community is to be in each other's lives. closed for 96ub hours after a stabbing has now lost its liquor license. an actor was stabbed during a fight there a week ago. d.c. police chief cathy lanier said club security had interfered with the police after the attack. the alcoholic beverage control board voted to suspend their liquor license. d.c. police need your help findingtwo man tied to another nightclub stabbing on 14th street northwest. officers say a man was stabbed after five people got into a fight outside the club last weekend. if you recognize any of the men in the video, pl

clarence ditlow heads up the center for auto safety, the nonprofit that alerted the government to problem in the gas tanks in certain older model jeeps positioned behind the rear axle with virtually no protection in the event of a crash. chrysler maintains its vehicles are safe, but more than a year after they agreed to recall 1993 to 1998 jeep grand cherokees and 2002 to 2007 jeep liberty models none of the vehicles have been fixed. >> how come it's taking so long? >> tonight at 11:00 we'll tell you about a rarely used legal action nhtsa took to challenge chrysler on the delayed repairs and what it means if you have one of these vehicles. >>> next racy e-mails, talks of financial desperation, just some of the juicy details laid out in court today in the corruption trial of former virginia governor bob mc >>> back to our top story, the corruption trial of former virginia governor bob mcdonnell and his wife maureen, a racy e- mail and more than 1,000 text mails between the former first lady and businessman jonnie williams were admitted into court today. >> peggy fox has been in the courtro

it was 10:00 last night when family members, they hasn't heard from shawna or clarence washington since saturday evening. last night they began to get concerned. there was an ongoing domestic dispute between the couple. apparently that dispute got pretty heated on saturday. when family members couldn't get ahold of them, they got concerned. they came to the house and that's when they made the grim discovery. the family of five dead inside their home here in culpeper, virginia. now, they have been identified as shawna and clarence washington, both 35 years old, a married couple, and their three children. their three girls, aged 13, 6 and 4. the sheriff's department says that this is now being investigated as a domestic murder-suicide. a little while ago i spoke to the cousin of shawna washington and she said that she never imagined that something like this would happen. >> my prayers, that was my sister, that was my heart, my best friend, my world. >> reporter: investigators did find a gun inside the house. they won't elaborate on what kind of a gun it was. as for the ongoing marital pro

. >> at the culpeper school where clarence washington was a custodian and one of the girls attended classes, the shocking news spread quickly during this morning's football practice. >> the mayor of culpeper saying that it is seldom for them to have even one murder in this area, much less this situation that played out behind me. reporting from culpeper, kendis gibson, abc~7 news. >> thank you. sheriffs deputies in loudoun county are investigating an assault on a running trail. investigators said it happened around 7:00 this morning. it was on the washington and old dominion trail near sterling. a woman said an attacker knocked her to the ground and tacked her. >> ronald reagan's press secretary james brady died today at the age of 73. he was probably best known for the gun control group, the brady campaign that was named at him. scott thuman is in the newsroom with a look at his life and legacy. >> james brady was is a driving force and had become the face of the gun control movement. so in those respects, especially a tremendous loss. so much was formulated by what happened in 1981 when h

family members say clarence had recently made violent threats but none of them expected anything like this. >> everything was fine. things were okay. loving family. that was my sister. that's my heart. my best friend. >> tomorrow's vigil will be held at st. stevens baptist church where the family attended church. >>> prosecutors will question new faces today in the corruption trial against former virginia bob mcdonnell. she'll face questions about the potential romance between businessman johnny williams and his wife, maureen. mcdonnell will testify at some point in the trial. this morning julie carey asked him whether he's ready to take the stand. >> how eager are you to testify, governor? how eager are you to get on the stand? >> very. >> virginia's former first couple is accused of trading political influence for $165,000 in gifts and loans. and julie is in court tweeting the latest developments. you can find out what's happening by following her on twitter @julie carey nbc. >>> two people died from a drug overdose at a concert hall. both victims attended a music festival over the

i have known clarence and never noticed he is white. the point was it was a charktization that allowed reid to dismiss the sub -- substantive legal arguments. >> he paid a heavy political price for saying that. >> the north times lead editorial. he paid the price. >> going back i believe there is a new ideology. i guess i would call it racialism where everything goes through the prism of race and you see five white people. you actually dispute facts in front of you because it is through the prism of political faith you can't let go. >> that's why it is so dangerous. i haven't moved in about 50 years. i still think martin luther king when he was right he was right. he said we need a society where you are judged by the content of your character and not the color of your skin. why is that hard to understand? why is that hard to understand? >> yes. i am agreeing. >> excellent. let's agree to move on. their secret mission raises suspicion. oh this story is complicated. a new report says the u.s. government sent young latin americans to cuba

investigators believer clarence washington shot his wife and their three daughters before taking his own life. today's vigil will be held at saint stevens ban it teptist wh family attended church. >>> and you are fed up with washington. take a look at the results of a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll. president obama's approval rating is at a new low of 40% this morning. the approval rating of congress just 14%. tracie potts live on capitol hill now with more on this latest survey. >> reporter: good morning. the dissatisfaction we saw in the poll pretty even among democrats and republicans, independents, men and women. people just fed up with washington. almost two-thirds say they are dissatisfied with the economy, 7 out of 10 say this country is headed in the wrong direction. almost 8 in 10 are dissatisfied with the political system. and a lotof this seems to be coming from personal situations. two thirds say they are still feeling the pinch of the recess. almost half think we're still in the recession officially. the government says we're out. but 40% say someone in their ho

brenda green, and by clarence reynolds, who have been a great help to me. identity also like to thank roger green, who has actually completed the monumental task of reading this book. and lost a lot of sleep last night as a result. let me move on to a brief introduction to harlem's rattlers and the great war. i'd like to begin first by reading from something that william pickens wrote. william pickens was a scholar, an activist, with an naacp and the early 1900s, and this it was william pickens says about blacks and the first world war. we to end overlook the first world war as an important event in the african-american experience. we think about civil rights movements, we sort of tie it to brown v. board of education as if 1954 is the start of the civil rights movement, or rosa parks' refusal to leave her seat on the bus, or maybe even tie it to world war ii, but we don't think about world war i as an important event in the history of african-americans. here's what pickens had to say about that. what the war made clear to all, especially blacks, was that c

the sheriff says it is likely the father, clarence washington, pulled the trigger each time killing his wife and then their three small daughters. we obtained these pictures from a relative. residence say they seemed like a normal family. they had neighbors over for a fourth of july cookout. the sheriff says the couple was having marital problems. they had been married for over 10 years and lived here almost two. we spoke with the cousin of the wife and mother of three. >> loving family. my cousin was like a sister to me. she lost her sister almost four years ago. come on on has to prepare again for another funeral, for her daughter and three granddaughters. [indiscernible] the father was a custodian with culpeper public schools. that is where the girls attended school. police will be out here for some time collecting evidence from inside the home and going through the family vehicles parked in the front yard. the sheriff telling us they have a long list of relatives and friends they still need to talk to. reporting live in virginia, john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> thank you. the interim

police believe clarence washington shot them all before killing hillself. he was a custodian at a school. >> howard county officials are considering a ban on electronic music festivals after two people died from drug overdoses. it happened at meriweather post pavilion friday night. police say the electronic music festivals are known for attracting the use of hallucnugetic drugs -- as the drug known as ecstasy. users can take it as a pill making it tough to spot at the front gates of venues. the other 18 young teens and adults taken to the hospital are recovering. >> new developments in the ebola outbreak in the news. doctors in new york city say they are treating a patient with potential ebola symptoms who recently returned from west africa. those symptoms, high fever and gastrointestinal pain are similar to many other diseases but doctors are taking every precaution. the world health organization says 887 people have died from ebola since march. but an experimental serum to treat two american doctors is proving to improve dr. kent brantly. nancy writebol i

clarence hairston is charged with dui after police spotted his car driving erratically on saturday. officers followed him back to his home and that's when they noticed his eight year old nephew in his lap steering the wheel. police say hairston had a beer can in his hand. another nine-year-old child was unbuckled in the back seat. >> the guy's a total moron is the best way to describe him. puts them in harm's way but then who else in the neighborhood? i mean, he almost hit a parked car. it's a highly residential area. >> hairston remains behind bars. neither of the boys were hurt. >> 5:36 now and new on "action news," we are learning more about a flight from newark, new jersey, to denver that had to be diverted because of a ruckus over leg room. the midair meltdown happened on sunday. a passenger had hooked up a knee defender device to his tray table that prevented the woman in front of him from reclining. in response witnesses say the woman tossed a cup of water in his face. the united pilot decide d to make an unscheduled stop at slick's o'hare international because of this. t.s.a

shauna washington, her husband clarence and their three daughters, onesha, onya and olivia were found dead late sunday night in their house on rixeyville road. the girls range in age from 4 to 13. the sheriff says all evidence points to the couple having a fight on saturday that ended with mr. washington pulling the trigger. >>> the defense has wrapped up its cross-examination of the prosecution's star witness in the trial of former virginia governor bob mcdonnell. mcdonnell's lawyers got their chance to question jonnie williams and the testimony revealed the former governor may not have known that the rolex watch his wife, maureen, gave him had been given to her by williams. >>> former white house press secretary james brady has died. he was 73. brady was severely wounded during an assassination attempt on president ronald reagan. >> the injury made him one of the country's best known gun control advocates. >> reporter: it is one of the most enduring images in american history. president ronald reagan shot outside a washington, d.c. hotel. gunman john linkly said out -- hinckley said

fifty-eight year old clarence hairston is behind bars. an officer noticed his car swerving saturday afternoon and was shocked to see the man holding a beer with his feet on the pedals then the boy on his lap doing his best to steer. there was another child also riding in the back seated without a seatbelt. >> i would rather see the eight year old driving rather than the 58 year old uncle pushing the gas the brake. the owner of the car so drunk he couldn't get out of the car without assistance. >> charged with dui and related off earns cents, remains in jail unable to post bail. ntsb wants to know what caused a moss kilo helicopter to crash. made hard landing yesterday in cape may courthouse. doing weekly observations in the salt march when that chopper went down, it narrowly missed the house and soccer field. >> all the sudden heard the rotors hitting the trees sounded like somebody was cutting brush with big brush cutter them all the sudden it went down, the noise stopped. >> the pilot and the passenger suffered minor injuries. >> here i

. >> clarence culverson is one of those inmates.ho has been through cuyahoga's county revolving door. over the past 14 years, culverson, who identifies as a transgender name ceecee, has done time for convictions, including forgery and theft and felonious assault. >> this right here is a safety zone for me because out there i'm self-destructive. i think i'm above the law. i like to steal cars and i like to rob old men, i like to sell drugs. and i'm at the point where i would do anything to maintain gucci. you know. i like the best. >> currently awaiting trial on drug trafficking and burglary charges to which he has pled not guilty. culverson said he's been planning for a sex change operation. >> i'm a woman. i always play the female part. you know, a got a 34-b. all right. and i'm still taking hormone pills. it's going to help me make the process exchange a little bit easier, because it's painful. and i got to make sure that it's something that i want to do. so they give me extra time to make sure that's what i want to do. once you g

. >> host: in the book you cite the justice clarence thomas. >> guest: i think they will say let's lookt the track record of what is working and what isn't working when it comes to something like affirmative action with the evidence shows is that affirmative action is mismatching kids with schools and what i mean by that is that it often sets up kids for failure and takes smart kids that might do well to a less selective schools and then that's more selective school they are more likely to drop out altogether or switch to an easier major. a quick example of this is a study done at mit. blacblack students at mit some s ago. the students enrolled at mit scored in the top 10% on their math sat scores. of all of the kids in the country regardless of color that they were in the bottom 10% at mit. so, you take these very bright kids who would just be hitting it out of the park at a less selective schools. they are at mit struggling. and as a result many don't graduate of mit doesn't care about that. they care about how the freshman class works. whether it looks like there is enough diversity

he had a beer still in his hasn'ts. >> the cops call him uncle drunk. 58 year old clarence hairston wasupposed to be babysittin bg eight and nine year old nephews on saturday. when cops spotted his impala it was parked in the middle of the pretty busy intersection bloc blocking traffic at guilford and copley in upper darby. they knew something was wrong. seconds later it started awkwa awkwardly jerking in fits and starts. >> it looks like the guy was hitting the gas, hitting the brake, hitting the gas, hitting the brake. an eight year old was working the car. >> hairston was drunk and had a beer in his hand and a few more on the floor. and the seat reclined. >> when we went to his home today, nobody wanted that talk but his neighbors did. this is a block crowded with families, and lots of young children. >> anybody could have got hurt, kids, children. i think that was like really crazy. i don't think an eight year old should have been driving no car especially with grown man. should have been -- it's just crazy to me. >> certainly not thinking. that's for sure. >> i would never think he

thank you, clarence page. thank you robert of the washington post. >>> hillary clinton's surprise appearance on steve colbert show last night. [ kevin ] this is connolly, cameron, zach, and clementine. we have a serious hairball issue. we clean it up, turn around, and there it is again. it's scary. little bit in my eye. [ michelle ] underneath the kitchen table, underneath my work desk, we've got enough to knit a sweater. [ doorbell rings ] zach, what is that? the swiffer sweeper. the swiffer dusters. it's some sort of magic cloth that sucks in all the dog hair. it's quick and easy. pretty amazing that it picked it all up. i would totally take on another dog. [ kevin ] really? ♪ [ kevin ] really? weit's not justt we'd be fabuilding jobs here,. it's helping our community. siemens location here has just received a major order of wind turbines. it puts a huge smile on my face. cause i'm like, 'this is what we do.' the fact that iowa is leading the way in wind energy, i'm so proud, like, it's just amazing. for ove

clarence ditlow is asking the national highway traffic safety administration to investigate.do you know of any fatalities tied to this issue? >> chrysler submitted at least 20 death claims on components related to this totally integrated paramodule. and we're seeking the underlying documents to see if it was the module that caused the fatality. >> reporter: chrysler says it's unaware of fatalities and the vehicles meet or exceed all applicable safety standards.hows it is actively investigating customer complaints and retrieving components from the field for closer analysis. the automaker also conducted smaller related recalls in 2007 and 2012. the part failed in julie lumbert's 2011 jeep grand cherokee and cost her more than $2,600 to repair. >> it burned out the fuel pump and also ruined the starter, so i had to have all three things replaced before the car would start again. >> reporter: nhtsa says it's reviewing allegations and will take appropriate action as necessary. maurice, earlier this year, some members of congress accused the agency of not moving fast enough to for

coming up next on "washington journal," clarence page talks about the recent events in ferguson, missouri, and how they compare to recommendations from past government reports on civil unrest. after that, we conclude our weeklong discussion on president lyndon johnson's great society with a look at what led to the creation of the consumer product safety commission. the current commissioner, robert adler, joins us for that discussion. mark hamrickd, and >> good morning. we begin with the military efforts against the islamic militant group known as the islamic state. airstrikes began two weeks ago. the white house is insisting that we will not do mission creep. military officials said a larger action may be needed to defeat the group. it this could involve strikes across the border at isis bases in syria. we are asking for your response.

when the game stands tall, highlights, what led up to the game including the death of a teammate clarencely. also focuses on former head coach bob lacer who led the team during the 12 year winning streak. he's played by jim. zblnl you know, you can play jesus, but there's no footage on him. and people will remember judge pretty hard. >> we had a really tough time getting that team started, overcame a lot of adversity, and that's basically what the film is about, it's overcoming obs kms too. >> he retired as the team's head coach last year but helps out as an assistant coach. current plays say it's featured in this new movie. got to the check it out. >> very neat. >>> 4:52 on your friday morning, amazing nut video to show you, police get slammed into by a wrong way driver. what we're learning about the man behind the wheel, next. >>> i'm faming a head on crash over there between livermore and sunol. here we're getting ready for the morning commute, they have the cones con figured for last night, we'll track this as well coming up. >>> you're watching "today in the bay." >>> police in brita