apparently he put the columbia -- west columbia the source is not sure where -- information in there. the person at the gun shop called richland or lexington and was told that they did not have any warrants. the gun shop also called the solicitor's office and the source says the gun shop did not call the right place and was not informed of the drug charge. the source says -- this is a source very close to the investigation says if the gun shop particularly the big vendors do not hear back within 72 hours that there is a problem with an application they will sell the weapon. the source says the deputy assistant ga told him that the law had been followed and as far as the sale of the gun went. he also says he was told by the agency that the agency is going to own all of this. again, this information coming from the fbi and also coming from a source close to the investigation and from family members who are getting phone calls from the fbi explaining to them what's going on on the same day as this flag comes down here in south carolina. brianna? >> i want to bring pamela brown back in. p

it's covered by most health plans. >>> we are live here in columbia columbia south carolina on the leftat i would estimate at well over 1,500 or so. considerably larger than the crowd we saw 15 years ago when the flag was taken from atop the state house dome to its current location here on the state house grounds. we expect that the crowd will continue to grow here over the next 15 or 20 minutes. that's on the left side of the screen. on the right side of the screen that's an honor guard with the department of public safety. those are the individuals who will at 10:00 or shortly thereafter, march to the flag pole and take down a confederate battle flag that has flown here for more than 50 years. perhaps you can also hear in the background behind me some chanting folks here chanting "take it down take it down." it is a gathering that has been up until this point, at least, fairly quiet. so again, the department of public safety honor guard that you see on the right side of your screen we should note it is the same honor guard that was there as they laid state senator clementa pinckney to

and in the process at columbia he didn't have a lawyer.graduate student. and the text messages cast really strong doubt about her story. he was claiming this was a violent assault, that was rape by any definition of the term. and what the text messages showed is that for several months after this alleged assault there were these flirtatious invitations from her wanting to get together once again with him. which really cast pretty severe doubt on her credibility. >> so you look at the text message ors the facebook mgs messages. two days she wrote, a shin dig in our room tonight, she writes back lol yes. two days after that she alleges a contact asking him if he wants to hang out. then after the allege rape he sends her a greeting and she responds the next morning with i love you, paul. where are you. so the university says you didn't meet the standard no sexual assault took place. and yet after that it allows her to walk around campus even at graduation with this mattress on her back. >> the one protection that columbia provided to an accus

bonds when you consider the transformation in the district of columbia and you look around at all the booming development, has it become so profitable to build and sell here, that there is very little incentive set aside to set aside affordable units? >> that's true. but you know we are trying very hard to make sure that we have, you know, a bucket of money that is available and also we're looking at how we manage our land. for instance we did a bill recently that stipulates if you're going to build and you're going to build on government owned land if it's near a subway 30% of the units must be affordable. otherwise, 20% of the units must be affordable. since this is such a desirable community we feel that the development community will want to build. we also have resources if you want to renovate your property. in fact, through the housing finance agency, there's a process called tax credits that are frequently used in the development world as it relates to housing and it gives affordability to a property for about 15 years so that a person who is of low income can actually find a u

there was west columbia but the actual information said it's columbia -- our columbia police department has the information on this guy. there was only a number for west columbia. the examiner called west columbia. this is a state capital, not some obscure city in south carolina. is it a matter of that examiner being overwlaumd? they're getting a lot of requests? what do you think? >> i think she worked on about 14 cases that day. >> really? wow. >> so she did have quite a few requests to deal with. so part of this is going back through the database to make sure we have -- who need to access this information on a daily basis, to make certain that mistake are not made in the future. and more resources, frankly for the system. >> there's a 72-hour window for the fbi once a gun applications goes through for them to respond. do you know what point this examiner was calling? >> i do not know but you and i now know the totality of this and that had everything gone right, there is no question that he could not have gotten the ability to buy that .45-caliber. that is what's so terrible about th

amy: we were at the jail where bree newsome was taken in columbia. we will speak with the supporters who gathered there before her release. then we remember the legendary folk musician and activist pete seeger. >> realize that little things lead to bigger things. that is what it is all about in this wonderful parable in the new testament, the sower scattered seeds, some get stamped on and don't grow. some fall and the rocks and they don't grow. but some seeds fall on hallowed ground and they grow and multiply thousandfold. who knows where some good little thing that you have done may bring results years later that you never dreamed up. amy: all of that and more, coming up. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in this holiday special, we begin with the words of frederick douglass. born into slavery around 1818, douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. on july 5, 1852, in rochester, new york, he gave one of his most famous speeches, "the meaning of july fourth for the negro." he was addre

that is not in the magna carta but apparently a crime in the district of columbia.il then i had no idea michael mann was a nobel prize winner and as it turns out later to the nobel institute. [laughter] [cheers and applause] a couple of reporters called them up and the then director of the institute said'' mcmichael man has never been awarded the nobel feet -- peace prize that is what he can -- claims to have one that defamation of the nobel prize recipient not just the peace prize winner where you stand is not all of fame between yasser arafat and al gore. [laughter] but a bonafide nobel prize winner with einstein and all the rest he claims to be a nobel laureate because in 2007 as an institution it received the nobel peace prize in she was one of thousands upon thousands of people who were associated with it since 1990. a couple of years later the european union won the nobel peace prize so with that criteria of the e.u. has 500 million nobel laureates you cannot swing a cat over there without hitting a nobel laureate. [laughter] you can go to a nude beach in the

our diane eastabrook is live in columbia this morning. diane, tell us what is happening there right now, and what the mood is. >> reporter: well stephanie there are several thousand people here right now, we estimate maybe between 5 and 7,000 people. everyone is waiting for the honor guard and the governor to come out of the state house and begin the ceremony. we were supposed to start at 10:00, these things sometimes run a little bit behind. we don't know a whole lot about the ceremony. we know the flag is going to be taken down. there will be no music, and then the flag will be transported by an armored vehicle to the south carolina confederate relics room and military museum. many different people here in the crowd. there are people from out of state, people we ran into from north carolina, people from atlanta. this is an historic event, so everyone here to witness that today. >> we know how contentious the debate was within the south carolina legislature, even there a sense of divide among the 7,000 people you said are around there? a

but it's apparently a crime in the district of columbia.ntil then i had no idea michael mann was a nobel prize winner. and as it turns out neither did the nobel institute. [applause] a couple of reporters called them up, and the director, the then-director of the nobel institute said, quote michael mann has never been awarded the nobel peace prize unquote. that's what he claims to have won, the nobel peace prize. but notice the subtle illusion of his legal pleadings quote defamation of a nobel prize resivent. so not just a louse you old nobel peace prize winner, where you are standing in the hall of fame between al gore and yassar arafat. but a bona fide nobel prize winner where you are right in the same pantheon as einstein and the rest of them. mann claims to be a nobel laureate because in 207. the i' cc as an i constitution received the nobel peace prize and man was one of thousands of upon thousands of people who had been associatinged with the ipcc since 1990. a couple of years later you may recall the european union won the nobel peac

roof was arrested february 28th at a shopping mall in columbia, south carolina. a police report said he admitted illegally carrying a drug called suboxone. the fbi says if it had known that it would have blocked roof as an illegal drug user from buying a gun. he applied for a handgun in mid-april at this south carolina gun store which submitted his information to the fbi for a background check. roof's criminal history rap sheet showed he was arrested in lexington county where the sheriff's office told the fbi to contact the columbia police. but the fbi's databases showed no such department in lexington county, only a different one, the west columbia police department, which had no record of any arrest. the fbi says the examiner called the lexington county prosecutor but never heard back. so the background check was still under way after the three-day waiting period expired. roof got his gun because federal law allows a gun sale to go ahead if the fbi hasn't blocked it. we are all sick this happened, fbi director james comey said today, "we wish we could turn back

>> i am from columbia. i would like to think if you went there, they would welcome you with open arms. just recently, in the last six months, they have discovered a huge cache of military materials in a river. it has provoked renewed debate about sherman and what took place. my question is related to what i read about the first alabama cavalry that accompanied sherman to savannah. it was an all southern cavalry. i am curious as to how that particular unit plays a role in your story. something you learned? jeff shaara: really interesting. when you first read it, you are consumed. the first alabama cavalry in the union army. i was talking to someone in alabama, told me the county they were from, the northwestern corner. they were fiercely unionist. for whatever reason, that area, they were not real fans of the confederacy. a bunch of volunteers got together and volunteered for service with the union army. they served and are in the book. i mention them because they play a role in the march to sea. the cavalry

but it is apparently a crime in the district of columbia.il then i had then i had no idea michael man was a nobel prize winner. as it as it turns out neither did the nobel institute. [laughter] there were a couple of reporters that called them up and the director of the institute said michael man has never been awarded the nobel peace prize. that is what he claims to have one the nobel peace prize. notice the subtle elision. defamation of a nobel prize recipient. not just a lousy old nobel peace prize winner where you're standing in the hall of fame between al gore and yasser arafat, but a side nobel prize winner where what you write in the same pantheon as einstein and series and all the rest of the. he he claims to be a nobel laureate because in 2,007 the ipc see as an institution receive the nobel peace prize. he was one of thousands upon thousands of people who had been associated with the ipc see since 1990. a couple of years later the european union won the nobel peace prize. on his criteria on his criteria the eu has 500 million nobel

because the columbia police department's jurisdiction only includes a little tiny bit of -- columbia police department's jurisdiction is a little tiny bit of lexington county. and the fbi's database just failed to capture this. that is where the breakdown is the fbi feels its problem is. >> i feel people are going to to go in two directions here. . so will say we absolutely need to tighten up the background check, perhaps expand them. and other folks are going to say this is evidence of a bureaucracy run amok a non functioning bureaucracy. we should make it more transparent, easier for people to purchase guns or take away the layers of the bureaucracy that confuse things. >> it couldn't possibly be more easier to buy a gun. the only place to get a --. that is precisely thanks to people like --. the problem here is investigators only have three days to complete tough investigations and what happens as a result of that in the past five years, 15,000 people who were prohibited purchasers that the fbi couldn't figure that out in only three days were allowed to buy guns. if they had a big

west columbia was. and west columbia actually was where the gun was purchased. so the examiner checked with west columbia. they said we don't have any record. that was because it was in columbia in the adjoining county. so it sounds kind of complicated. and with more time it was eventually sorted out. but again as mentioned, you've got three days. especially this one i think the purchase attempt was on a saturday. so they're talk about over a weekend trying to get information that's in a police report from a local police jurisdiction that wasn't readily furnished up front. >> and so it seems like trying to fix or correct this is going to be very difficult. it's not just one simple answer. because you're talking you've already just laid it out. there's so many different branches that are involved here. so then in a case like this where that local gun shop owner didn't necessarily receive any information by that third day, and it's legally at the discretion of the seller to then say okay let me assess this. i'm going to go ahead and sell to this individual. does t

and west columbia and which part of the city is in which county.xaminer isn't furnished the complete rap sheet which happened in this case, i should say it's not hard but easier for a mistake to be made if exactly which jurisdiction has the record that they need. >> well, you're the former fbi assistant director. i'm going to put out the spot here. it sounds as if the three-day waiting period would not have, at the end of it, allow the seller to sell the gun if not heard back from the fbi that this could have been avoided. should that be extended or should there be some change in protocol there? >> there could be a change. in this case, i think the purchase was attempted on a saturday, so you're trying to contact records departments to get rap sheets and other information, that if it's not automated by that county or that city to be accessible by the federal government, by the fbi in this case, it makes it more difficult. maybe you need to say three business days or five business days for a record check like this to go through. >> some changes poss

columbia burned. way worse than atlanta. it is a mess. columbia burned because of cotton. i am going to get grief from this, i know. actually on this tour, i am not going to columbia south carolina. that was not a conscious decision. it's just that the publisher arranges my tours, i wanted to go to columbia but -- [laughter] in colombia there are people who are still angry because sherman burned columbia. no, he really didn't. the fire was actually started by confederate cavalry under wade hampton because they did not want the cosan to fall into the hand -- the coffin to -- the cotton to fall into the hands of the union soldiers. as sherman rising, there is a storm brewing. the winds are whipping like crazy. it's almost like there is snow in the air. it's not snow. there -- it's flex of cotton. that is where the fire begins. that wind whips up the fire. sherman's own people, his own staff, are out in the middle of the night trying to put fires out. it's a hopeless task. a whole division of union soldiers is brought into town to try to put the fires out. they can't. it's to

gnc. >>> we're back now live in columbia.n to donald trump who made dozens of people famous as contestants on "the apprentice." but how do they feel about his comments on immigrants? good evening to both of you. thanks for joining us. catrina, you, first. are you concerned donald trump being donald trump will actually hurt him and his bottom line in the long run. >> well, you know, i've known donald trump for over a decade now. and the one thing that i admire about the man is he speaks truth and he spantands behind his tru. regardless of whether or not you agree with the delivery of the message. i think we boast about having freedom of speech yet most americans are afraid to use i. that's because of our innate ablt or i should say insecurity within most human beings. not to mention as a small business owner, i've spoken to so many small business owners who are afraid to voice their opinion for fear that their customers will leave them and they'll basically not have the ability to provide for their family. their livelihood wil

. >> this running gun battle happened in the gerard street park in columbia heights where mola lenghi is now. >> reporter: a shoot out went down at the scariest of places, the last place you want it to happen a playground full of dozens and dozens of children playing today. witnesses describe what they thought were fireworks going off with it so close to the 4th of july. 2-3 men were running through the park shooting at one another. it was packed today 60 children as well as their parents. a mother says when the shots rang out parents were grabbing any child running for cover behind trees bushes, sheds anywhere. we spoke with a mother who didn't want to be identified but was with her children. >> we don't live in a war zone, running, collecting children is not something you expect to be doing on a day at the park because you are running from gonetiates. i never-- gun shots. i never want to run away from gun shots with kids. there were babies all over the place. >> reporter: somehow no one was injured. police are looking for 2 possibly 3 young men. no ares have been made. -- arrests ha

you saw some of the images from columbia. what was your view of that? because earlier in the week you said that the flag had to come down thank god it has. >> well it is a historic moving day. i was born in 1955. the flag has been up most of my life. if we had not taken the flag down we could not have movedded forward as the state. congratulations to the governor and statehouse. after the shooting in charleston we could have done one of two things, become more divisive or reconcile with each other. we chose the path of reconciliation. i'm sorry it took the murder of nine people in a church to bring about this moment but i'm very proud of my state and let's move forward. bill: what do you think it accomplishes, senator? >> i think it is a takes down a roadblock to the future of south carolina. people at ame church in charleston, heard your plea. we acknowledge that the symbol is divisive. tears us apart rather than brings us together. gives us a chance to move forward. a act of reconciliation in very meaningful way. bill: talk about a roadblock of very d

contact columbia. she contacts them. by the time this goes back and forth it did go past the three-day period so there is a little bit of confusion as to what was in the records that she had at the time she had them. she did not have the record at that point that he admitted using drugs in his arrest for drug possession. >> tom, you bring up that three-day period i think is important. we heard from the activist that these calls are now being extended to extend the three-day waiting period. do you think that should be longer? >> well, i think, you know, the mechanism now is that at the end of three days, if the gun dealer has not heard back from the fbi or if it's within their state, they have not heard back from the state that does this, because 30 states use the fbi toed it their own. if they have not heard back from the authorities, they can go ahead and sell the gun. later, if it turns out it was a mistake, they contact atf to go to that person to get the gun back which is a difficult situation. part of the problem al

there wasn't a columbia police department. there was a west columbia police department. she called the west columbia police department and they said not our case either. so she never contacted the columbia police department which had made the arrest because she didn't know about it. and three days later the case was still open and under federal law a gun sale can go through if the fbi hasn't blocked it within three days so what he said today is it's heartbreak sing. he said we're sick about this. that's what happened. so there were several missed unts here. the fbi database not listing the right police department. the law enforcement in that police department not getting back to the examiner to say, here's what happened. and we don't know why the wrap sheet didn't list columbia police in the first place instead of sending the examiner off to lexington county instead. but for all these missteps the sale was not prevented and fbi director says he never should have been able to legally buy the gun that authorities say he used in the church shooting last month. >> all right.

diane eastabrook is at the capitol in columbia. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: a cheer eruptedm a crowd of about 7,000 when the confederate flag was finally removed from the south carolina state house grounds today. the state patrol honor guard lowered the flag folded it up and it was transported to an area museum. this has really been a whirlwind week for the people of south carolina. less than two days ago the legislature voted to take town the flag and the governor signed it into law less than a day ago. this has been a very divisive issue here in south carolina, but a lot of people are here relishing the moment. >> diane eastabrook in columbia south carolina. >>> immediately after the flag came down president obama tweeted this: we're joined by a professor of african american history at queens college, and she said the flag will now be in its rightful place. >> as a professional historian, i don't want to do away with the historic legacy and importance of the civil war and its icons. i think they have a place, but i don't think outside of a national park or battlefield or m

major johnson is with the 55th squadron based in columbia, south carolina. flight wing commander, steven joe said that the pilot was on a solo training mission on his way to charleston to practice instrument approaches. >> our pilots are well trained to fly the approaches in and out of there. and all of the facts at this point indicate that the pilot was talking to air traffic control as they normally do when the accident occurred. and unfortunately, everything beyond that is subject to speculation and will soon be under investigation. >> the two onboard the cessna had taken off from the nearby berkeley county airport and had been in touch with air traffic controllers, and they may have been headed to myrtle beach. the weather was good, and it was not cloudy. and visibility is good. it's highly unusual to have a midair collision between a civilian and military airplane. but there are times this when he do share the same air spice. the national transportation safety board will be investigating this accident, and the military said that it's thoughts and prayer

friday and taken to a museum in columbia where it will be displayed with other civil war relics. that is from the post-in-corrier. at a conformation hearing to be the next joint chief chair it was said worship poses the greatest national security threat to the united states. that is next. and then a look at the supreme

>> nick valencia reporting in columbia south carolina. our thanks to you. here is what carolina state senator marlon kimpson told us last year in regards to his fellow lawmakers receiving death threats. >> i have not received any death threats. most of the e-mails and the calls i have gotten are in support of the removal of the battle flag from in front of the state house, but i have been involved that they are credible physical violent threats and death threats and our appropriate law enforcement authorities are investigating them. >> bakari sellers is joining me a cnn contributor and former state representative. thank for being with us. first, your reaction to the alleged death threats. are you hearing from other lawmakers on this? >> well i am. i have been hearing from fellow lawmakers, but we're in good hands with chief mark hill. they're investigating each and every one of those threats

joining us from columbia south carolina we have cnn's don lemon. don, you had the first interview with nikki haley a short time ago after the flag came down. what did she say? >> she said a lot in that interview and it was probably the most personal interview that i have seen of her where, you know you interview governors and lawmakers and, you know they come off as politicians. she did not come off as a politician. she came off as someone who is very very human and very very touched by this. and i think the one word that she said was -- that i can say about this interview, i think, that she learned from this was empathy, empathy. how to walk in someone else's shoes. and she thinks that's what this is a lesson in. take a look. >> it's important for people to know what it's like to be in another person's shoes and if you watch the legislative debate, that's what happened. people put themselves in each other's shoes. so they understood what the respect of tradition and heritage was and that it wasn't about hate. but the other side also learned

near old columbia pike. briggs chaner road is the alternate. this is west of columbia pike. we did have a tweet that we can show you picture of this overturned vehicle. we did have that. but it is pretty bad situation in the area. of course poles and wires are down. keep in mind it will be a while. briggs chaney road is the best option. back to you. jonathan: thank you. kimberly: i know you are in disbelief there is a heat advisory. >> i'm shocked. brian: i have to do more research. i could just be for the city. we usually get alerts and my phone didn't beep. if my phone doesn't beep there are no problems out there. jonathan: i'm a barometer. if i get to worse and i'm a sweaty mess it's hot. it's not that bad today. brian: we will look into that. this is the one day we don't have showers and storms. the rest of the week we have them. the best chance is tomorrow. be prepared for tomorrow for scattered showers and storms. for the remainder of the week it's hot. for the most part dry. a call for good pool weather. we like that. look at the weather bug camera from the friends in

these are live pictures from columbia, south carolina. this move will come hours after the state house passed this legislation. the governor's office says the flag will come down in a ceremony tomorrow morning at 10:00. we are closely following this breaking news. a live report from columbia a little bit later in the newscast. at the live deck i'm wendy rieger. back to you. >>> previous question, all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, no. according to the chair the ayes have it. >> there you can hear the emotion on the u.s. house floor and the shouting shows how passionate people are about the confederate flag. lawmakers were debating whether they should remove -- consider removing confederate symbols from federal parks, veterans cemeteries, even the capitol itself. >> they should be at federal cemeteries, confederate flags? >> no. >> how speaker john boehner says it's time for what he called some adults here in congress to sit down and have a conversation about the battle flag. >>> a local man just learned he is going to spend mo

clarke school of law, university of the district of columbia and also the president and ceo of the leadership conference on civil and human rights. the nations leading civil and human rights coalition with over 200 national organizations working to build an america as good as its ideals. on behalf of john and myself i'd like to welcome you to our seminar on civil and human rights in the 21st century. without question the supreme court decision last friday in the case of obergefell versus hodges which recognize marriage equality for gay and lesbian americans as a fundamental constitutional right, as well as the important decisions of the century and one of the most important supreme court decisions in american civil and human rights jurisprudence. the court acknowledged the full dignity of lgbt americans to

don champion, cbs news, columbia, south carolina. >>> now to new york city. a great day for a parade and -- also here in the capital. this is video of the parade of the u.s. women's soccer team. here now is meteorologist erica grow with your first alert weather. erica? >>> yeah mike it's a beautiful day out there. i just got out off of the weather terrace lots of sunshine. and low humidity. that is so key this time of year and it's really a welcomed treat and a rare one at that. on 9 futurecast you can see the rain starting to move toward us as we head into the evening. but this is not even going to reach the ground. even in the lower shenandoah valley. you're not going is see any of this -- to see any of that but into the overnight hours that's a different story. here comes the rain on 9 futurecast and you can see it moving in before dawn in some spots. on saturday morning. and it could be heavy at times. as we get toward the noontime hour things are going to start to push away. but 9:00 a.m. it's still raining in southern maryland and that all will descend

they were told to contact the columbia police. there's no such department only a west columbia police department, which has no record of arrests. they called the prosecutor but no one called back. it was still under way after the three-day waiting period. we are all sick this happened fbi director james comby said today. we wish we could turn back time. they met with family members of the shooting victims including the husband of myra thompson. >> it made me angry. i wasn't angry at dylann, i was angry at the system. >> reporter: some states have longer waiting periods and a former atf official says that would help nationwide. >> you can't determine a person's absolute legal status to purchase a gun. >>> in the day ahead the redskins will salute members of the military and their families at fedex field. today is military day. there will be all sorts of performances and free give aways. it happens from 10:00 until 2:00 today. go to nbc washington's app and search redskins military day for everything you need to know. >> melissa is

nick valencia, reporting for us live in columbia. thank you. want to bring in bakari sellers, a cnn contributor and former south carolina state representative. bakari, you watched the flag come down, you watched as it was rolled up by those honor guard members and taken away and you heard nick just say now it's in storage, it's not even where you can see it at this point. i want to get your reaction. >> well, it's been an emotional day. i shed tears as the flag was coming down. as the flag came down, tears came down and it was tears for those people whose shoulders i stand upon. it was tears of joy. it was teared of relief. but it was also an acknowledgement that this is the beginning of a long journey, not just in south carolina but the rest of the country having this healthy discussion and dialogue about race, one that can bring us together. >> bakari, there was one moment, i'm not sure if you can answer this for me or not because i don't know the protocol of the honor guardsmen. i have not seen this happen before in your state, but it looked

jay gray is live outside the capitol building in columbia. hear from him. but he is going to tell us now where the debate on removing the flag is. >> reporter: confederate flag waves in the breeze outside the south carolina state house. [ honking ] while those on both sides of the fight over whether it should be there refuse to waiver. >> it almost feels like we are fighting the civil war again down here. i mean, friends are against friends family are against family, it is a pretty dividing issue. >> i think it's important for us to have this debate. >> reporter: battlefield now is the house floor of the jeep assembly, where today lawmakers took up the debate over taking down the confederate flag. >> i think there are some serious problems with the senate's bill as a whole. >> reporter: republican might pitts gant challenge to a measure that passed quick labor day overwhelmingly in the upper chamber. >> this amendment simply says what we do if we take that flag down, we put it in a case, a bronze case outside. >> reporter: introducing a strin

take a look at this video we just got in at the robbery on columbia road in northwest d.c. a man walked in last week pretending to be a customer. when an employee pulled out a tray of jewelry he grabbed it and ran. if you recognize the man, d.c. police want to hear from you. >>> maryland may be playing too much for a critical drug that could save the life of a person overdosing on heroin. congressman elijah cummings is asking the state to negotiate a lower price for naloxone. the price has skyrocketed as overdose deaths have increased. the centers for disease control said today the number of heroin users in the u.s. jumped by 300,000 in the last decade. most users switch to heroin for more expensive prescription opioid medication. >>> tonight at 11:00 tonight, a virginia boy recovering at a local hospital after a rare fight from botulism. his mother talks to news4 about some scary moments in the last few weeks. >>> a week of celebration includes an invitation to the white house for the women's national soccer team. see part of their phone call with the president. >>> air co

keegan and his dad went to british columbia to catch this prehistoric fish the sturgeon.f all, welcome. why don't you why don't you tell me a little bit about what it was like to real efficient. >> at first i was really excited. toward the end i get really tired. >> no kidding. and that's a big fish. 600 pounds. >> a lot of fish sticks. clicks tell us a little bit about why you an upturn in the first place. >> my oldest daughter samantha often he is certainly we will take her here for out to dinner. subsequently he was able to get straight a's. he said i want to catch a living dinosaur. >> crocodiles. bill: can be keep the fish? clicks. >> bushes head out into the river. clicks what kind of using? >> lamprey eels and nightcrawlers clicks of been fishing a few times. even really something in for a few minutes you get tired. how long do how long do take to real this you sturgeon in? >> two hours. >> initially the fish jumped when i came up could see the underside. >> taking -- cranking away. >> it runs something on the bottom. now were panicking. no one is going to believe

you need to call the columbia police department.ules the list of law enforcement organizations and lexington county south carolina, and saw there wasn't a columbia police department but was a west columbia police department. she called there and she said it is not our case. she called the lexington county prosecutor. didn't hear back so she put the case into -- she also checked the court records and saw no disposition, no end, no conviction on this drug charge. so she put it into delayed status and under federal law the fbi has three days to block a sale and if the end of those three days they can't find a reason to block it the gun sale can go through. that's what happened here. roof went back to the gun store on the following thursday and then bought the gun because the fbi hadn't stopped it. but what the fbi director says is there were a number of missteps here that the sale should not have gone through and directed fbi agents in south carolina to meet with family members of those who were killed in the church in mid-june and exp

taking silver ensures that javier gomez's stays on top of columbia threadneedle rankings. vincent luis goes from third-place the fourth. now it was time for the grand finale in hamburg. for the third season running, the city hosted the itu championships. two men and two women from each nation competed in a popular event among elite athletes, many of whom hope that it will be integrated into the program. >> i would love it if the triathlon had another medal in the olympics. i really think that the fans enjoy watching the relay. it is a very quick pace and it is good to see the men and women together and it is really exciting. vincent: we are fighting each other to be in the team and we will have to see what happens. very specific course, just one lap to swim, 300 meters, and then to collapse on the bike, so very flat but lots of changes in direction and tight turns for the writers to negotiate. it is fast and furious, the world team relay. and of course, the owner -- the order that they go out will be critical. a 180 degree turn on each lap. key,ntration is absolutely espec

people have gathered in front of the state house in columbia. >> the kkk has always captured plenty ofdlines but how influential are they these days? >> when you go back to 1825 the membership across the united states was around about 4 million. if you go to the time of the 1960s when the civil rights movement was very prominent and the argument that blacks should have more rights there were 400,000 across the united states. but now there count be more than 4,000 across the whole united states and how much are we expect hearing? no more than a handful. normally when you come to the state grounds you are not allowed to wear a mask, but the klu klux klan are known for their white masks. they may have to enforceed to en force no wearing of masks on the grounds. >> in israel protests continue against alleged discrimination. many black israelis believe little will change. >> an anti-racism protest in the heart of israel's most liberal city. black israelis and their supporters gathered in tel aviv to call for an end of discrimination, something that they say is institutionalized. >> we've be

they all stayed at the same hospital in columbia. stay with me.t home with jorge and, in turn that meant their twins, william and wilbur then grew up together. they thought they were fraternal and not identical. this is a double case of switched at birth. a friend recorded the moment when one pair of identical twins met one another for the very first time. [ speaking in foreign language ] ure versus nurture. with me now is the magazine's editor-in-chief jake silverstein. jake thank you for joining me and thank you for bringing fruit because we need visuals in this kind of story. this is a situation of two sets of twins separated and switched. >> that is right. it's very hard to follow. this story is confusing so i have found in explaining the story that a visual aid of some kind helps. and so you explained it pretty well with the photographs at the outset. you have two sets of identical twins, jorge and william, and they are born -- one thing you didn't get into is how different the environments were that they were born in. they were born where th

i want to thank columbia university under the leadership of -- the dean of the school of art at columbia university for her leadership and effort in helping to build a program today that i think will inspire all of you. and, finally, i want to thank rich, he is a professor of english and has been a lead organizer in this event. rich will come forward in just a moment to introduce our panel. and one final word. the staff of the schomburg center has been incredibly gracious and generous in their effort to make today a successful event and i'm incredibly grateful for all other sacrifice and continued commitment to the success of this event. thank you so much for being here today, and i hope that you enjoy it as much as i well. thank you. [applause] >> good morning, good morning. before i get started want to introduce max would reduce, the founder of the harlem book fair. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you and welcome once again to the harlem book fair, our 17th annual where we call because of the best of a ryder cup the best of our speakers to talk about we as a community how we see

the flag pole will come down as well as the flag is moved to the military museum in columbia.s the honor guard marches off, let's take one more look at that moment when the flag the confederate flag was lowered from statehouse grounds in columbia south carolina. that is it for the flag no doubt those emotions will linger in south carolina, so much of the country for some time. and as the honor guard marches off to hand that flag to the kerrater of the north carolina museum we want to return now to our regular programming, for so much of the country, that is "good morning america".." >> a >> announcer: this has been a special report from abc news. >>> you've been watching those moments at the columbia south carolina statehouse where the flags has come down. i want to go to steve osunsami who was there on the scene as it happened. steve are you there? >> reporter: the honor guard removing the confederate flag. you can hear people cheering now as they walk away with it. they handed it to the curator of the relic museum who will now keep this flag for safe-keeping. >> steve, talk

all of that has culminated in the removal of the confederate flag in columbia today.t interview is coming up in a few minutes. >>> the decision to take down the flag could lead to here jobs in south carolina. about 15 years ago that the naacp began an economic boycott of that state when lawmakers decided to keep the flag on capitol grounds. the united autoworkers union joined that boycott and the same goes for the ncaa. it banned south carolina from hosting any championship events. all three say they'll lift their bans. >>> there will be a legal challenge to virginia's decision to remove the confederate flag from state license plates. the group sons of confederate veterans says it will go to court to keep the state from banning the plates. last month, terry mcauliffe called it unnecessarily divisive and hurtful and he asked the attorney general to work on phasing out that plate. we'll keep you up to date as the contract flag is taken down in south carolina. we'll be sending push alerts throughout the coverage. >>> today we'll learn more information about the hunt for

representative jerry govan, thank you, in columbia. joining me now on the phone, one of the country's most leading and renowned documentary leaders, his film premiered in 1990 and it's a symbol of racism and white supremacy. ken burns, an honor and pleasure sir. thank you for calling in. >> thank you, brooke. >> i want to get to your doc in a second but, first, can you react to the news today of the removal? when you were doing your doc, 25 years ago now, did you think that the removal of this flag would ever happen in a state like south carolina? >> no i didn't brooke. this is a really good day. but it's only a first step. i think the president said that. i think that governor haley also implied this. we have a lot of work to do to heal what is -- symbols and symbolic gestures are hugely important and this is clearly a powerful symbol and gesture is powerful and we now have to work to change the hearts and minds of people who obviously have inherited a legacy of racism and it's a more recent one. remember as you talked a great deal th

leon: first, gunshots during children's playtime at a rec center in columbia heights. now the search for whom the trigger as nervous parents hope for an arrest. this happened on 15th and gerard streets northwest at 11:30 in the morning. fortunately, nobody was hit by the bullets. richard reeve has a look at the investigation happening now. rich, what is the latest? richard: normally this playground is locked at night, but this time it is locked after the gunfire. this is a story also about the rec center, closed after the gunfire. then down here, it says very plainly, "no guns." apparently, some at it was not listening. >> it was quick. richard: inside this columbia heights playground, dozens of children, a handful of parents, and moments of terror. >> i saw three young men in a gun. richard: it happened tuesday morning. a witness saw a man run across the playground, then turn and fire towards the rear entrance. two bursts of several shots each. this mother of a two-year old daughter and one-year-old son said people ran for their lives. >> running and clutching childre