dawson and as their marching down to do it, people say wait a minute. he had tooling and violence all his life this is what he would not want us to do. there was a trial in a couple months later and dawson's killer was found not guilty and in fact, live in charleston almost another 20 years. that has to do was all-star a of charleston and the tensions and the trucker last of trust and also the story of the becoming of jim crow where segregation is made legal by plessey vs. ferguson with the supreme court decision coming down 1896. and the jury that eclipse eclipse -- acquits is mixed-race but whites around here and around the country says that is what happens when you let the blacks on the jury we have to get them off and they make a move to strip away the rights and opportunities the blacks in south carolina have received >> it took you 11 years to write this book. how did you come up with the story to begin with? >> one of my students many years ago wrote about the earthquake. i had just moved to the area and i never knew there was an earthquake. a ve

larry dawson says a lack of qualified workers is hurting his ability to expand. >> you can buy all the equipment in the world, but you still have to have the trained employees to operate that equipment. >> reporter: what's the answer? experts say more math and science at all levels of education. and the right training to match workers with the jobs that are out there now. a mismatch that hurts both employers and workers hungry to find jobs. lisa myers, nbc news, charlotte, north carolina. >>> frustrating prospect there. all right, well coming up, a pitcher takes a line drive to the head while new england's chad ochocinco gets a leveling of his own. plus a goodwill game between georgetown and china is marred by bad sportsmanship. your "first look" at sports is straight ahead, you're watching "first look" on msnbc. [ male announcer ] this...is the network -- a network of possibilities. in here, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a ne

larry dawson says a lack of qualified workers is hurting his ability to expand. >> you can buy all the equipment in the world, but you still have to have the trained employees to operate that equipment. >> what's the answer? experts say more math and science at all levels of education. and the right training to match workers with the jobs that are out there now. a mismatch that hurts both employers and workers hungry to find jobs. lisa myers, nbc news, charlotte, north carolina. >>> overseas now there is late breaking news tonight about the civil war in libya, specifically word that moammar gadhafi may be preparing to flee as the rebels close in on his territory. we have two reports on this tonight. first to nbc's jim miklaszewski at the pentagon where he has learned some exclusive information on this. jim, good evening. >> reporter: goong, brian. u.s. officials tell nbc news and intelligence reports indicate that libyan leader moammar gadhafi is in the process of making plans to evacuate both himself and his family from libya and one official suggested that could happen within a matte

cameron claims appeared powerless in the face of disturbances during the first tonight's of looting in dawson senior politicians a world away on holiday when last riots began north london after the fatal police shooting of a suspect protesters began stashing shop windows and setting fire to cars and buildings leading to widespread copycat of violence and over two thousand a rest have been made so far and pools have worked around the clock to clear the cases but while police and the government over who deserve the credit for wanting their rights groups and local communities took it into their own hands to protect their native trees on his lot and that's. a good result could jury a warning to looters around five hundred mainly young men chased down the road after police ready to drive troublemakers out of town. despite the mob atmosphere a large crowd of young men are out for justice there's been no trouble so far most are ordinary people out to protect their communities a lot of people are here to help there obviously are some people that are going to do the opposite effect but you're going to

high that the emmas twenty one will continue generation of russian airliners up in the clouds tom dawson. l r t is at the max two thousand and eleven throughout the week to bring you the best of moscow's jet powered airshow. hands. closer. approach. future flights. large tanks to the max airshow. meanwhile china is taking its military might to a new level a round of trials of its first stepper aircraft carrier although building the future carrier suite will take time beijing is already heralding a new chapter for the country's neighbor fleet gordon chang forbes business magazine says that its neighbors need to keep a close eye on what's happening and he said that its new aircraft carrier is for scientific research and training well of course it's not it's meant to try to intimidate countries in the region especially in the south china sea where china is claims the entire body of water as an internal chinese lake and of course china wants to project power not only southwards northwards towards mongolia and russia they talk about the last territories clearly wants to get used territories y

into one puts a new generation of russian airliners up in the clouds tom dawson party. party will continue to bring the best of marx try to lead and throughout the week so stay tuned for more highlights from moscow cat power airship. well still ahead for you this hour of the worst oil spill in decades in british waters we'll update you on the disaster that green groups say will have grave consequences for the environment. but first human rights groups are boycotting a british inquiry into allegations of torture saying the government is taking an irresponsible approach to the case and activists insist the probe is a waste of time and public money because downing street will have the final say over whether or not to disclose the results or she's more and that no one torture victim who also doubts the inquiry will bring justice. walking a tightrope of pain versus gain it's emerged that's how britain security agencies were encouraged to decide when to talk terrorist suspects. held ground in afghanistan and in guantanamo bay between two thousand and two and two thousand and

august of two thousand and two to ask me if i'd be used to stab and i was working for a master richard dawson on the polls and trying to stay off and i was enjoying it and he said remember if you come in here if you say take few hours and think about this that if you come in here and join me as chief of staff you're leaving you're leaving when i leave so you're absolutely leaving at the end of two thousand and four because that's what i've told the president you may leave earlier if i decide to leave or if the president decides to remove me because you're my man when you come in to be chief of staff and therefore you can't stay any longer than my departure so he was very honest with me and he had told the president the same thing as early as december of the transition process december two thousand i'm only going to be a one term secretary so whatever vice president cheney thinks he did was absolutely ineffectual in that respect because palin already said he was going to do it i guess if he thinks that he did it it makes and. now i want to contrast and hear what there was in typically powell g

elana dawson joins us with her new son wilson.morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> how are the two of you doing? >> so far so good. not a lot of sleep going on on our part. >> you'll get to sleep in about 14 years, but let me start and talk to you about the day of the test. you're taking the test. you begin to feel some discomfort. had you put two and two together that this is labor i'm going into? >> not in those terms, no. it was on the second day of the test, what i was experiencing didn't make me think i was necessarily in labor given what i knew at that point. >> at what point did it start to become quite uncomfortable and what were you going through. >> in the afternoon i realized i was experiencing contracts and based on what i was told anything i was experiencing was early because they weren't close together, and there was never a point they thought i'll have a child soon after the exam was older. >> you start doing your breathing exercises while you were doing the test. did anyone catch on around you. >> not they c

caller: the national debt is not been paid dawson's and jackson in the 1830's.hat is been ignored that during president bush's administration, the budget deficit was never more than $500 billion a year. under obama we have had no budget. congress and he had not sent a budget. we've had three consecutive budget deficits of over $1 trillion. and if we do not start cutting, there is no end in sight. that number will keep climbing. host: in the "new york post," this morning. this is more what the president had to say yesterday. >> the unemployment rate went down, not out. but while this marks the 17th month in a row of job growth in the private sector, nearly 2.5 million new jobs in all, we have to create more jobs than that each month to make go for the more than 8 million jobs that the recession claimed. we need to create a self sustaining cycle where people are spending and companies are hiring and our economy is growing. that will no doubt take some time. host: back to the phones and our discussion of the downgrading from aaa to aa-plus. our next call comes from

dawson. the director of inconvenient truth directed this film.ability to take issues that are important but maybe not mainstream and making them relevant and a mainstream audience gets up and that happen with al gore in an inconvenience truth. he took education and took a complicated issue and brought it mainstream. it was in theaters for three months and it is fully distributed on dvd so anyone can get it. it is out and one of the things both of us are encouraging folks to do is have a viewing party at your home. invite people to your house and watch this movie and discuss it. the power of this movie will outrage you and you will be ready to join her organization immediately. because this is what it is about. all of us collectively fighting for our children or somebody else's children even if we don't know who they are. is a tragedy what is happening in our country. that film is being distributed across the country. >> we are not competing with at the display to our education system versus another. one statistic if you haven't seen waiting for s