craig anderson was loved and cherished by his family. stylish, he was funny, he was just going about his life in jackson, mississippi. just before dawn on june 26, 2011, a group of white kids from the next town over drove into jackson and they spotted craig anderson in a hotel parking lot. the kids had driven into jackson specifically to look for black people they could harass and beat and terrorize until their victims begged for their lives. they had been doing this kind of thing for months. a group of half dozen kids, sometimes more, they drove from their white county in mississippi into the majority black jackson, the state capitol, and they basically made a sport of it. get a group together, get drunk, drive into jackson specifically to find black people to attack. they threw beer bottles at people, they hit people with their fists, they used slingshots. the first kids to spot craig anderson that night, they kept him in the hotel parking lot until the rest of the kids could arrive they beat him. they screamed at him, called him names

he ran craig anderson over with his truck. ehicle and he laughed and told them he just ran the "n" word over and then drove off and anderson died of his injuries in a local hospital. he was attacked by those high school kids specifically and apparently only because of his race. the attack included running him over with a truck and now he was dead at age 47. that was in june 2011 in a modern day state capital. less than two years before that murder, president obama signed an expanded federal hate crimes law in to effect. matthew shepherd was killed in wyoming in 1998 he was beaten, tortured and left to tie because he was gay. james byrd was killed in texas that year. dragged for a mile and a half down a road by white supremacist. a decade after the deaths it was news partly because the law added sexual minorities to hate crimes but one other important change about prosecuting these crimes. previously for the federal government to get involved to prosecute a case like in the victim would have had to do something or trying to do s

now, former best buy brad anderson and swiss chairman believe the economy itself could be flatlining. craig, that's been a concern with you for a while. more so now? >> yes indeed. you stole my thunder. you cited the numbers. retail sales are down. year over year they're up a bit but not anywhere they should be with a fed fueled recovery. look at job growth, yes we have 250,000 jobs terrific. but real wages dropped. hours worked dropped. consumers are getting more in his pocket because of gas prices, that's not translating into them spending it in the retail sector. i think the forecast will change dramatically for 2015. i'll be curious what brad has to say about it as a retailer. he has to feel the effects straight across-the-board. neil: it doesn't jibe with numbers that otherwise look good. when you look at these polls, there are others that confirm this. malaise or we're not feeling it. when two out of three aren't feeling it, that's quite telling. >> yeah. i think retail sales are very telling. that's consumers acting with their pocketbook. that's close to the ground. it's a strong sig

anderson to sleep. he end the five game skid. the flyers win two-one. >>> there will be four new members have the baseball hall of fame randy johnson, john smoltz craig biggio and pedro martinez. martinez was a three time cy young award winner. he helped phillies reach world series in 2009. five times he led league in era. martinez says he is beyond honored. >> i say i dreamed about it, it is a lie. i never did. but i made sure that every day i lived, i lived like it was a dream because i was so proud to play ball every day. >> local product mike piazza misses out by 5 percent. twenty-eight votes. pea as is one of the top offensive catchers in major league baseball history, .308 life time batting average 427 career home runs, on twitter he congratulated electees and thanked people for their support. >>> ahead next half an hour nova tries to get back on track against saint john's. ♪ ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing really good around ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired ♪ ♪ of living off the taste of the air ♪ ♪ turn around, barry ♪ ♪ finally, i have a manly chocolatey