douglas: we also speak about american can-doism. fdr right now, the grand cooley dm, or the moon shot of -- kennedy and the moon. starting in the 1960's -- let's not just blame this on the bush administration -- we built a lot of really bad levees. the corps of engineers did dee ply shoddy work. there were three major breaches for all sorts of breaches going on. like ponchatrain -- lake , see water coming in. it is a tale of two cities. new orleans is doing well on the 10th anniversary in the french quarter and the garden district, but some of these other neighborhoods, benign neglect. many people who want to come home 10 years later still can't come back from atlanta, and it is a huge tragedy. let's talk about the mississippi river. minneapolis-st. paul has about 23 fortune 500 companies. one.rleans has not a lot of money in new orleans. it is often broke. it relies on port business and tourism. port andu feel, marc, businesses doing -- marc: it is important to understand my the character of the port and the job creator is not in 2

stephen douglas was outraged by the lecompton constitution. when the lecompton constitution arrived in washington, douglas got on the floor of the senate and called the lecompton constitution a swindle and a fraud. it did not represent popular sovereignty, did not represent the will of the people. this constitution was ferociously debated in the halls of congress. the u.s. senate which was didrolled by southerners, pass it, the ratified it. it got to the u.s. house, was more the northern influence. when it got to the u.s. house, the debate was so rancorous that in february of 1858, late one night while this constitution was being debated in the u.s. house of representatives, april broke out. brawl50 congressman -- a broke out. over 50 congressman were involved, and the only thing that wrote them up was a rather humorous event. two u.s. congressman from wisconsin grabbed the hair piece of a congressman from tore it off his head, held it high above h is head, and said, we scout the men. the congressman stop the brawl. that was what was going on

douglas: i think we just do our jobs. to the first part of your question, there was always a certain degree of hype, a certain degree of miracle whip to cover something that is unique and unprecedented. obviously, the pope visiting the u.s. is not unique. , thatngressional speech is a little different. in terms of the critical part, you just write stories. you just write -- what he says will not go unchallenged. you will have a situation where if you talked about climate change -- if he talks about climate change, we will call the bush campaign, we are going to call rick santorum, we going to call all of them ask what they think. -- and they might not like that, the message that the pope delivers. same thing with poverty, same thing with cuba. you know, to this degree, criticism is all built in. built in. hilto you are respectful because it is a world leader and religious leader. at the same time, you don't just let him state his case and go unchallenged. you just write. ms. leinwand-leger: i mean, the insurance policy fo

douglas macarthur had promised them, i shall return. and return he did. miles fromnly 450 japan. the full power of the american pacific piece -- fleet, of land, sea, and air forces. they struck a semifinal low. -- blow. japanese death ran into the hundreds of thousands, and once again, the flag of liberty was run up. under general buckner, who gave his life there, combined american forces fought the long and costly campaign for rocky at the- for okinawa very doorstep of japan. it was japan's final hour, and an incredibly furious combat. enemy soldiers had to be destroyed cave by cave and one by one. moraleally, their cracked open by american power, the first battalions of japanese soldiers began to give up voluntarily. a suicide car inflicted heavy damage on american naval forces off of okinawa. then one, kathy. kamikaze.county -- it was sensational but it could never stop the allied advance. ♪ the b-29s, scored just japan, mighty engines of destruction bringing home the lesson of pearl harbor. from okinawa, from the carrier base, japan came under the inevitable rain of ruin. the

douglas macarthur, leader of pacific armies now named supreme allied commander in japan. leader of fighting china. chester nimitz, leader of the mighty pacific fleet. truman, four months after taking office, leases country finally to victory and peace. mr. truman meet with his cabinet. is on hand as he breaks the news of japanese surrender. truman: i have received this afternoon a message from the japanese government and replied to the message forwarded to that government by the secretary of state on august 11. acceptance offull the pots dam declaration which specify the unconditional surrender of japan. -- reply thereed is no qualification. arrangements are being made for the formal signing of the surrender of terms at the earliest possible moment. general douglas macarthur has been appointed to supreme allied commander to receive the japanese surrender. great britain, great britain, russia, and china will be represented by high-ranking officers. meantime, the allied armed forces have been ordered to suspend offensive actions. the proclamation of vj day must await the fo

this front together douglas macarthur and chester nimitz.plan, two rows back to philippines. hawaii.along the this was a job for label and army forces under general nimitz. the other was for the soldier that had made a promise to return. ♪ first, the air arm reached a head. second, amphibious assault. from australia, and across double clad new guinea, we learned amphibious warfare and used the sea lanes for surprise, until we had cut them off and stood on the admiralty's. by now, they were dug in and ready to so we surprised them. strategy, surprise, up the stairway of islands. ♪ more anti-, they were ready for the main event. to get here, they had left a lot of japanese behind them. dead, 160,000 bypassed. japanese has 312 cost us $13,000 tags mailed to white crosses. meantime the forces commanded by admiral nimitz faced a different kind of war. island we invaded would have to be taken. ♪ westward, through the central pacific, new names in american his drape. taipan, guam in the marianas. palau and maritime. we had breached the pacific. ♪ i

douglas macarthur, leader of pacific armors, now named supreme allied commander. changai-shek -- kai-shek. truman, four months after taking the oath of president, leads his country to peace. president breaks the momentous news of japan's surrender. >> i have received this afternoon a message from the japanese government in reply to the message forwarded to that government by the secretary on august 11. i deem this reply a full acceptance of the potsdam declaration, which emphasized the unconditional surrender of japan. is no qualification. arrangements are being made for the formal signing of the at the earliest possible moment. general douglas macarthur has been appointed the supreme allied commander two receive the japanese surrender. great britain, russia, and china will be represented by high-ranking officers. meantime, the allied armed forces have been ordered to suspend offensive actions. the proclamation of vj day must await the formal signing of the surrender terms by japan. rush the newsman a waitings report to world. in new york city and throughout the r

and do us douglas was well known to constituents. she represented a district that encompassed a part of los angeles, california, but she was known nationally. she was the start of the stage, married to melvin douglas, the actor. and she became involved in california politics and was a progressive and began to speak a lot on behalf of democratic candidates. and she won election to the house for a couple of terms in the 1940s. she wasn't really a legislator, per se. she wasn't introducing a lot of bills. she wasn't what we would call a legislative entrepreneur, but she was a spokesperson for progressive issues. so she would often come on to the floor and talk about improving housing, african-american civil rights, so she was known as a great speakmaker. so here is a campaign bill or poster which advertises speaking engagements that douglas made in 1948. it happens in oakland, which is far from her district, so you get the sense that she was on the speaking circuit a lot, speaking for democratic candidates and democratic issues. she ser

douglas macarthur named supreme allied commander in japan. china,der of fighting the commander of the mighty pacific fleet. harry truman, four months after taking over as president, leads his country to victory and peace. mr. truman and his cabinet meet in emergency session. secretary was on hand as the president breaks the momentous news of japan's surrender. >> i have received this afternoon a message from the japanese government in reply to the message forwarded to the government by the secretary of state on august 11. em this reply a full acceptance of the potsdam declaration which specifies the unconditional surrender of japan. in the reply, there is no qualification. arrangements are now being made for the formal signing of the surrender terms at the earliest possible moment. general douglas macarthur has been appointed the supreme allied commander to receive the japanese surrender. great britain, russia, and china will be represented by high-ranking officers. meantime, the allied armed forces have been ordered to suspend offense of act

elizabeth came four months after douglas's death. no other living person cared as much about my work as she did. as for me, i care too much about people and places. it made me as a writer but what will break me in the end. i feel as if i cannot go another step. people say have a classic style. a few of them know it is the simple words that come. i really learned if you love your theme enough you can be as mild as a main morning and make people care. the one thing, that simple caring for an old cat, an old anything, and margie was a woman they loved dearly, i never cultivated it. from the age of 20 on, i did all i could to repress it. that effort did give me a fairly good style. the person himself, would he was born with and what he has done for himself o." there are also different tones in her letters. and this one is a different ti me of her life, when she is feeling the first rush of success as a writer, as an artist. right after the novel "my tonia" came out in 1918. she loved to tell a family about all the things going well for h

douglas is up next. douglas is up next and we will take his call in just a moment. this is part of a program that we are going to have throughout the day. if you join us throughout the program we will talk about a couple of things, later on the program the police chief of richmond, virginia will join us to talk about what it is like to be in a major metropolitan city, a large african-american presence and talk about the idea of policing and building trust in communities. we will learn about training, specifically what happens when police have to train and the conditions they trained cadets. have the mayor of richmond, virginia, and he will talk about not only be policing aspect, but dealing with his relations with the police department and community and what he does to help and fund police in that effort. that is coming up, we had a chance to visit with the richmond police department and talk with captain angela green with the community youth and intervention services, and she talked about the role of community care and development. we get some of her perspective. >

speech on foreign policy, just like douglas macarthur didn't realize that they would have stay for seven years in japan. he even played air guitar in front of a camera while the gulf was being stricken and then famously did the flyover looking out, seeming not to care. even the white house said it was a disaster not to have gone down after the storm and exuded some kind of leadership. fema, a jimmy carter formed organization, after 9/11, it got ghettoized. if you had to give them a great, they were an f. minus during the storm.

tom: douglas holds aiken, -- douglas holtz eakin, thank you so much.g up, a conversation with the vice chairman of the federal reserve. stanley fischer, then alan greenspan. a very blunt and direct alan greenspan. "bloomberg surveillance" from new york city and are nearly -- and our news bureau in washington. good morning. ♪ tom: good morning, everyone. we welcome you all worldwide to washington, d.c., for a special "bloomberg surveillance" this morning. brennan and vonnie are in new york. i am in washington. we look at domestic and international economics. really looking forward. many good questions, particularly to stanley fischer. i will sit one of those in at the top of the hour. let's look at our single best chart. here's brendan greeley. brendan: the dow jones reaches down gently as if the moving away.es .13% that was the friday close. this is the subject of our single best chart. this is something technical analysts look at that shows the breakdown in momentum, a sign that an asset's best days are behind them. joseph writes about equities for "b

douglas herbert has attended the ceremony and tells us how emotional it was at the palace.ouglas: the three americans and one briton who subdued and assailant on a train last friday may not call themselves heroes, but the president, francois hollande, definitely does. he awarded them today with france's highest honor, the legion of honor. it is something that fewer than 1000 have received since napoleon bonaparte created it in 1882, specifically for services rendered to france. francois hollande saluting those services today, saluting what he said was their courage in the face of potential deadly disaster and crisis. and also appealing to other french to take an example from these men when if faced with a similar situation to act as they did and not just survive. there were some other heroes not present today who wanted to perhaps be a little more asked --you are also who are also expected to receive the honor in the coming days, one who was badly wounded in the attack and the other was the first to try to prevent the assailant when he was emerging from the restroom in the

this is a very very significant effort on the part of this president to make sure as douglas said he'sate change. he wants to be able to tell his daughters and their daughters i did the most i possibly could. >> you think those extra points or rewards would be incentives particularly if you had certain states that are very red and traditionally not in favor of what the president has in mind? >> we hope so. there's going to be a lot of litigation. the president certainly does have authority. they shaped this thing to make it max mali flexible. >> douglas, there are likely to be legal challenges. how much of a difference does it make that the president while he's acting on his own, he may not necessarily have a whole lot of support in congress. does it thatter for this president at this point? he said he's going to get things done whether he's got the support of congress or not. >> no it doesn't matter about congress now. he's again flexing his executive muscle in doing this. and this is a big part of what he hopes will be his legacy. the problem is for somebody like hillary clinton righ

. >> let's bring in douglas olivant. how significant is this, if i.s.i.l. has indeed gotten its hands on mustard gas and is using it as a weapon? >> it could make some minor tactical gains, i think in the big picture, just as the assad regime has found out that while you can have a minor tactical effect the larger scale use of chemical weapons really doesn't buy you much. i think the islamic state will find out the same thing. this is truly a heinous weapon that the civilized world has rejected, that i.s.i.l. has reportedly picked up or we have reports they picked up. but it isn't changing the calculus because it took erbil. >> out old iraqi stock piles perhaps even making it themselves how significant is that detail? >> i don't think too terribly significant. the likelihood is exactly in the order you gave them. the preponderance of likelihood would be that they are from syria, from assad's stock piles. there is a smaller chance these could be really old left over iraqi weapons from the saddam baath era. almost certainly they are from syria if they have th

signalman first-class serviceman douglas monroe. the coast guard had landing craft they would move from transport to show and put the other members of the armed forces into the jaws of death against the japanese and the germans. very dangerous duty. marines were placed on shore at guadalcanal and that flotilla got back to the transport and the coast guard captain said they are being surrounded by japanese and they are in a bad place and we should have known it. so the flotilla went back. the marines got to the coast guard landing craft and douglas monroe put his craft onshore with a machine gun to hold back the japanese and he was killed in action. he got the medal of honor. i give a speech one time at the admiral nimitz pacific war museum, and it was headed a by general mike hagey, former commandant of the marine corps who came up to me and said the marines know all about monroe. this brilliant woman ran the coast guard reserve. she had the responsibility of training the commissioned and enlisted women to learn all of the specialti

claimer stephen douglas' that settlers in the territory should be free to to slavery based on what he called popular sovereignty. to qualify' position as popular sovereignty, lincoln said, you have to use -- assume that black people can be treated as property. but if the negro is a man, lincoln argued, then my old faith tells me that all men are created equal. he decried attempts by douglas and his fellow democrats, north and south, restrict the principles of jefferson's declaration to what repairs by 1860, lincoln haddix added his racial -- lincoln had expanded also to the-- broader privileges and immunities of citizenship by the time he be came president, lincoln was on record in support of most of the major policies associated with the abolitionist movement. nor was he a johnny-come-lately to the cause. he endorsed abolition in washington dc, banned slavery from the territories, he would impede the slaveholders in their efforts, and he openly endorse the proposition that blacks were citizens of the united states and that blacks and whites were equally entitled to the same special m

today, the fears of another global economic slowdown may naik -- make some political waves where douglas zaider has details this morning. >> indications we could see a rebound but fears we may be looking at a fundamental realignment for u.s. markets. from the moment the opening bell sounded it was a blur of number s s yesterday. the dow began its biggest free fall ever, down more than 1,000 points than a partial recovery before the closing bell, among the fears, a slowdown in china that could stall the economy, will we see a repeat today, over overnight china's market fell again but other asian markets showed signs of life. >> the market is dirt cheap and it's a good time to buy. >> will bargain hunters ride to the rescue today on wall street? the big slide was underway yesterday, president obama quickly huddled with treasury secret jack liu but the official line is is that the economy is in good shape. >> what i would encourage people to evaluate the ongoing strength and resilience of the u.s. economy. >> but this did open the door for the republican presidential candidates who focus on

today douglas macarthur, they could not serve in the military [indiscernible] all of their glory accrue to them. we need to have a system that remits a different personnel approach, more flexibility, more shaping, and people can stay longer in position. if we do that, we will be able to maximize the great t talent n the american workforce and bring it into the military. the other questions is whether there will be more and different ways to serve to attract talent into the military. 1% of the population sers in the military. that is expectcted to go down or time. there is even more budgetary uncertainty. there is a concern that 1% will separate from the 99% and the 99% will not care about that 1% anymore. what are some of the things you are considering to make military service more attractive to people than in the past? >> we have to broaden our recruiting pool. we he an increasingly difficult time finding good recruits. it looks like it's going to be a harder and harder task going forward. petty criminal records, lack of a high school degree mean less than a quarter of the american pop

setoguchi for monday or south sudan could face international sanctions joining us now from oxford is douglashnson a former advice advio south sudan's government. you have been involved in past peace talks going on now for a year and a half. how difficult is it to bring these two sides together? >> it's extremely difficult because there are a number of issues that contribute to the current crisis. one is the competition between the president and piss former vice president. the other is divisions within the army and then there are other issues within the ruling party of the spla. the peace talks had really addressed all of those issues. they can only address a few. and currently we seem to have two drafts of a compromised peace agreement that might be presented to the two sides to the two men to agree and sign today. we are not exactly sure which one will be presented. >> okay, i suppose the difference today perhaps from the last 18 months is that this pressure of international sanctions is looming over the country. is that likely -- or how likely is that to spur these two leaders to reach som

>> douglas brinkley immediately, i thought of that.e believed this incident is what helped take him to the white house. what will this do for donald trump? >> i immediately thought of that too. i heard you mention it too. it ran that reagan bell. i think it helps trump. he is beating up on the liberal media, beating up on univision. trump has a lawsuit with them. this may not be the ronald reagan we have that one moment there in new hampshire in 1980. this may be the first of many more for donald trump. he seems to be able to manipulate the age of twitter, cable television, the age of the media moment like nobody else's business. i can only tell you the good news for cnn on, september 16, the ratings will be very high. jeb bush and the others will have to go after trump he is and a master of the putdown. >>> when we come back, donald trump's feud with jorge ramos is not the only one. wait until you hear what he says now about a certain fox news anchor. want to go down... nooo... but, then if i want to come back again... yes. it's perfe

i want to bring in douglas brinkley, a history professor at rice university and fareed zakaria, the host of "cnn's fareed zakaria gps." talk about this, looking at politicians they have to have a healthy ego at least to get into the spotlight. how dangerous can it be for politicians and do you agree it could be narcissism? >> well, certainly it's narcissism, but a lot of politicians have narcissistic tendencies. you're -- basically when you're running for president you're saying i'm the best person to run the united states of america. the difference is about strategy of narcissism. in other words, is donald trump's narcissism so off the line, so off kilter, so huge that he thinks he can get away with saying anything and people are just going to roll over? that becomes fascistic in a way. you see the republican party right now determined to not allow mount trump to grow anymore they're trying to keep him down a size and that's the tension you're playing that occurs over the week wednesday the megyn kelly event. the republican party doesn't want to see this guy gain more momentum. >> faree

i'm a huge fan of general patton and douglas macarthur. he has the highest marks. i believe in marks and students and education. i think it is great. general douglas macarthur to this day has the highest numbers at west point. that means something. and we have to do something and we have to do it fast. we have to get the generals. i won't use his name. but he's leaving. they said to us about isis, what do you think about isis? can we beat them? oh, i don't know. i don't know. it's going to be very hard to beat isis. i said can you imagine george patton saying, oh, it would be hard? he would have them knocked out in three days and say where do i go from here? where? where? general douglas mac arthur getting out with his corn cob park looking out over the land that he just took. can you imagine? they wouldn't go on television. they're too busy fighting. we don't have winners in this country. we're going to turn it around. speaking of winners, this is so important. we know about trade. we've covered it. it is hourndous. we're going to make great trades, we're going to

i want to ask you, douglas. put this in historical context for me. listen to the sound bite. -- byte. he is talking about jeb bush, jeb bush talking about anchor babies. the first time he really took on trump. listen to this. >> do you regret using the term anchor babies yesterday on the radio? >> no, i didn't. i don't. i don't regrit. >> you don't regret it? >> do you have a better term? >> i'm asking you. >> you give me a better term. i will use it. i'm serious. don't yell at me behind my ear though. jeez. >> sorry about that. >> language anchor baby is -- -- is that not bombastic? >> no, it isn't. >> i think the last time any term that really set people off, i think it was welfare queens. probably more. what do you make of this whole incident in the historical context? >> or donald trump playing the birthright card on barack obama. there is a 19th century party. >> you think about george wallace with segregation now and segregation forever. plays well with a certain audience. is that the brand the gop wants to have respected? trump did well tonigh

so bill douglas and his wife, bill douglas, a wonderful reporter, he opened up his beautiful home to allow us to have dinner with mike mccurry. so we talked about that. at the time the president wanted to talk about race as well. he wanted to get a little bit more information about our thought because there was a recent issue he had on the table at the time and it was kind of floundering. he wanted to get our thoughts, apparently the president liked us. he wanted to hear what we had to say so we initially started the process with mike mccurry. he liked it so much that he brought his own pepper slaw. he's from from south carolina. we had cornbread, chitlins, biscuits and gravy. it was a real southern dinner. he came from the south and really welcomed it. in the black community, food brings you together. the sunday. the sunday dinners after church, the anniversaries. food is a very common item to perpetuate free flowing conversation. we had a beautiful time. it was all the black reporters and producers at the white house at the time. he said look, you want to talk about race? and not o

. -- andde the argument with paul douglas, stood up to him. he was unmoved. he was on threatened. that was the wonderful thing about him. that was the wonderful characteristic, how liberating it is to know what you believe, terrified be moved or -- or inhibited. , he was a a saint public man, he was a wonderful boss. longong the best are two interviews with his wife. she is very candid, very sharp minded, clearheaded and honest about his successes and feelings. -- failings. there for everything, he rejuvenated the democratic party in wisconsin. there had been no democratic party to speak of until the early 1950's. until people brought it back to life. party did nottic exist in wisconsin. there was a small group of when began who murmurs of a political unit that would be different from the progressive movement in the republican party. he ran three times and lost. we thought his career was over. we had no plans to run again for anything. then mccarthy died in the spring of 1957, people started calling bill and telling him to run. in the second interview about how she found, and his

. >> we hope john and mary douglas were doi a lot of playing after this head-to-toe makeover because love, well, it was in the air. john and mary douglas are originally from des moines, grown children. ey moved to new york last july to care for her 15-month-old granddaughter. >> they are r ired but with their only grandchild, they realized they had a litt bit time for themselves. >> thank you for being our buloin couple today, and you love. married almost 35 years. so why do you want this makeover? >> probably time for a change after 35 years. can't pick somebody new so we'll just change what we look like. >> i love that in a crazy sort of way. and what do you think? i know you sort of got roped into this. >> i didn't get completely roped into it but i thought it would be a good experience. i could be transformed. >> they lookeso cute. >> show off what their hot new looks look like. louis licari and "today" contributor and author jill martin. okay, kids. >> so we should go -- we're ing to get the couple, me and you, because they're lindfolded and they can't walk out here. >> they hav

host: douglas holtz-eakin is the former director of the congressional budget office.e is also the president of the american action forum. he joins us this week to discuss a report that finds health care spending has jumped up from the historic lows of recent years. is that jump something americans at should be concerned about right now? guest: absolutely. if you look at the foundation of our federal budget problems, if you look at the concerns about wages and not rising in the united hates, all of those are linked to health care spending. the big federal spending programs are the affordable care act. the biggest compensation costs employers have are there health programs. if premiums go up they can't pay as much. to see the spending jump back up and the way that it has is really concerning. host: was this jump expected as a result of millions of people joining the ranks of the insured through the affordable care act? is this something that was budgeted for, or unexpected? guest: it is the classic horserace. the affordable care act is something that unquestionably was

douglas hughes recently rejected a plea deal that would have required him to spend ten months in jail for landing near the u.s. capitol this year. he faces as much as 9 1/2 years in prince on six felony and misdemeanor charges. >>> also today, we expect a colorado judge to formally sentence convicted movie theater shooter james holmes. by law, that sentence will be life without the possibility of parole. that's because a jury could not agree on a death penalty. those same jurors found holmes guilty of 12 people and wounding dozens more back in july 2012. >>> firefighters in montgomery county say a massive barn fire was an accident. the fire department tweeted that the cause was likely spontaneous combustion. take a look at the flames here from chopper 4 out to damascus road when a hay barn was on hire. there were was little firefighter could do because there were no hydrants in the area. crews kept a close eye on the fire to make sure it didn't spread. no one was hurt. >>> today arglington leaders an troopers will dedicate south glebe road to cajacqueline vern. she was the first woman

douglas macarthur saw things to family, when he left the philippines he promised, eyes shall return. he. he intended to keep that promise. he proposed to come up from the south, through new guinea and into the philippines ending at the big philippine island. macarthur needed the navy to get him there and he was afraid that as admiral king got to go through the central pacific all the way to the china coast then macarthur wouldn't have enough air or ship support to redeem his pledge to come back to the philippines. by the summer of 1944, neither side would budge. king captured and he wanted to bypass luzon and go straight to formosa, the joint chief of staff agreed with him and normally that would in the matter. remember this is macarthur, he was the exception and he wouldn't budge. because you so politically connected and because of the year this strategy question came up was 1944, an election year, pres. roosevelt had an election year, president roosevelt had to weigh in on the specific strategy. what would any good politician do? they look for great ways to make publicity out of it

death to the ceremony aboard the uss missouri on september 2, 1945 which was presided over general douglas smith on or. -- macarthur. features-long film many graphic scenes of combat which may be disturbing to some viewers as many racial slurs on japanese. ♪

it was this unjust law that agitated frederick douglas who was a resident of the state of new york in the period. black men in places such as pennsylvania and new york had complained of the disadvantage for decades and continue to agitate against the injustice throughout the war. they tied the right to vote to the service like men were rendering to the union cause on the battlefield. frederick douglas's argument that the black man could not be denied a political voice was he had donned the union blue and have risked his all for the cause resonated with black men across the country. southern black men freeborn and free did not wait for their right to vote. indicative of their efforts is a petition signed by 1000 black men delivered to lincoln in 1864 requesting they be allowed to register. they were residents of new orleans and many members of the relatively prosperous free black community. their wealth and education, the product of generations of freedom and privilege as a consequence of their intimate collection with a long-established european families and i mean these were the sons

fernando: su hijo douglas dice estar contento pero que la adaptaciÓn no ha sido fÁcil. >> no ha sidornando: sus padres se da cuenta que sus hijos tienen problemas de integraciÓn. >> las agresiones que sufren, incluso las maestras son groseras con ellos, son racistas, entonces... ellos se sienten un poco mal. fernando: el programa busca que los padres y niÑos superen el trauma del abandono. >> hemos visto casos que les toma mucho tiempo adaptarse, hay mucha rebeldÍa, culpa, ira y resentimiento pero hemos visto casos muy buenos y positivos que se han transformado. familias enteras que se han unificado. fernando: en california ya existÍan programas de apoyo a los padres pero en virginia dice ser pioneros en el apoyo y quieren imitarlo en nueva orleans y en texas, donde llegan los niÑos de la frontera. ilia: muchas gracias ya volvemos, con mÁs informaciÓn. ♪ ♪ ilia: puerto rico enfrenta un Éxodo masivo. tenemos un reportaje. ♪ ♪ ilia: un grupo de niÑos recibiÓ libros para regresar a clases en un evento especial en filadelfia. estamos en vivo con el siguiente informe. reportera: nos encon

one on florida avenue in southeast d.c., a man was shot on frederick douglas place. molette green has more on the violent night. she is at police headquarters. molette? >> reporter: yeah, aaron, two shootings as you mentioned coming just hours after the police chief's latest appeal to the public to help put an end to this wave of violence in the city. d.c. police telling us the man shot in southeast was hit in the stomach, was conscious and was breathing when he went to the hospital. no word on suspects. police scoured that scene there in southeast d.c., frederick douglas place where all of this happened. then around the same time, another shooting in northeast on florida avenue. that victim was conscious and breathing when they found him. we had a chance to look over the numbers that d.c. police put out about the numbers of murders this year alone. 94 in the capital city compared to 72 last year around the same time. d.c. police say they have made some progress in arresting suspects. >> well, we'll check in with molette throughout the hour. >>> police in northwest d

we need general douglas macarthur. i thought he was great. the highest academic.ent to a really good school, you had to be smart to get in. that was before i was trump. but you have to be really smart. that is the hardest one. even then, by the way. general douglas macarthur to this day was the greatest students in the history of west point plus he had the look, he had the whole deal. he was a general. i don't see it now so much. i don't want to knock the generals but i see some of these guys. can we defeat isis? i don't think so. i don't want to use names. [laughter] then you have general george patton. [applause] do you think general patton, when president obama said we were going to attack a certain city and he said in two weeks we are going to attack this city, and we're going to attack from the front, and we want to use drones. the enemy is saying -- it is brutal. it turned out to be a brutal situation. i said that is great. that is camouflage. what a smart thing he is doing. he is probably going to do the opposite. it was the craziest thing i've ever seen. s

joining us now is douglas ol olivant, who served in iraq and afghanistan, was the architect of the iraqi. as i mentioned you were one of the searkts of th architects of the surge, one of the reasons given for the need of iraq and syria, colin powell said you broke it you own it. so be part of the solution in iraq and syria. it is a police. united states is the superpower, help. >> it is a mess and the united states needs to help where it can but it needs to help with a hippocratic oath. first do no harm. as we've learned -- >> too late for that. >> more harm can always be done. as we've learned the hard way, in syria in iraq in libya all over the world things can always get worse and for the united states to intervene with the heavy hand can have all kinds of political consequences. the outcome of which we can't foresee. we certainly didn't think al qaeda of iraq was going to be an outcome of our 2003 invasion. we didn't see that. we didn't see the original al qaeda coming from you're support of the afghan rebels against russia. we need to be cautious and supportive of the aid we give. b

douglas questions continue to swirl over what exactly caused massive explosions in the chinese port city of tianjin. firefighters initially poured water on the blaze at the chemical warehouse. experts say that move could have made the situation worse. the blast killed 56 people, including several firefighters, and injured hundreds of others. reporter: smoke continues to billow from the site of wednesday's port explosion in tianjin. on friday, another explosion, but nothing compared to the original blast. and analysis continue, officials say they are still not sure which chemicals were stored at the warehouse at the center of this incident. they defended the actions of first responders who deployed foam onther than the flames. a 19 or old firefighter was pulled from the rubble. was9-year-old firefighter pulled from the rubble. >> the search continues for those missing. firefighters have recovered another 12 people from the site. a total of 44 people have been saved. authorities say well over 6000 residents have been forced into temporary shelters. others have arrived in the city to trace

we are jioined by general honor, spearheaded military reliefs here, also historian douglas brinkley, living and teaching here, and has written perhaps the book, "the great deluge, hurricane katrina, new orleans and mississippi gulf coast." a pleasure to have you beth back. general honore, you hear those talking about another storm. do you believe city, coast is vulnerable? >> oh, absolutely. on any given day, mother nature can break anything built by man. we have 100 year levee here. we just need to face that. if conditions come from a storm. >> you say 100 year levee. a levee built for a 100 year storm. >> correct. >> people say katrina was a storm that maybe had happened before. >> we had different conditions. times changed from 50 years ago and 30 years age our wetlands are no longer there. deterioration of wetlands, absorb the strength of the storm. that is having impact on how strong storms get to new orleans and coast of mississippi. >> louisiana is losing 17 miles of wetlands every single year. stung. >> an environmental disaster zone. it needs federal attention. there is good

general douglas macarthur, commander-in-chief of the u.s. army forces in the pacific, supremeed allied commander to accept a surrender of the japanese. he was met by lieutenant

after darlie rue yea was sent to death row their family ran out of money to pay her attorney douglasad to sign a paper even after she was convicted for two years if we did any movies or books or whatever we owed him the balance. >> the courts appointed j. steven cooper to lead darlie's appeals. >> as an appellate lawyer you get the transcript of the trial and work from the transcript. it is strictly from what is on the page. in this case what was on the page was erroneous in large parts and we had a lot of issues on reconstructing the trial transcript. >> darlie's trial transcript had over 30,000 mistakes. >> it was serious. the difference between, you know, up and down. i had never seen that before in 25 years of practicing law. >> when sandra, the court reporter for darlie's trial was questioned she pled the fifth amendment. cooper felt confident the flawed transcript could earn a new trial for darlie, preferably in a droom away from kerrville, this drew concern from prosecutors. >> when this came to light, the state offered her a life sentence and all she had to do is say she kill