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. ♪

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. ♪ february 1942, the japanese objective. a president's order to leave. a soldier's promise to return. appointmentope, and in tokyo. ♪ >> may 5, 1942. the enemy lands. general jonathan wainwright, defender of the rock. the death march. ♪ they moved on. ♪ until australia itself lay open to invasion. at his milburn headquarters, general macarthur faced grim facts. 500 planes against .he thousands of japanese ofinst him more thousands miles of japanese invested islands and controlled cds. against him was time, space, power to preparation. a new area that seemed huge against the united states. american industry and laborers were converted from the nonessentials of peace to the necessities of war. conversion was slow, than the european theater at first call. there was little to spare for the pacific. little to travel 10,000 miles from factory to fox

joining us is the author, douglas smith. douglas, thank you so much for being on the show.talk a little bit about this upcoming supreme court case because it really could turn what we have known in the united states for the last few decades on its head in terms of proportional representation. what is the issue at the forefront of the supreme court case and why do you think the roberts court decided to take it up when previously they had not taken up the cases? >> thank you very much for having me today. the case that's now before the court coming out of texas involves a challenge by a group of vote earls in a fairly rural area who claim that their -- the weight of their vote is dilluted by the fact that texas counts total population and not just voters so urban areas such as houston which have large numbers of primarily latinos not citizens and not voters, those parts of the state therefore have disproportionate power and ironic about this is that 50 years ago when the supreme court finally stepped in, the warren court in the 1960s and established the principle, it was rura

douglas: yes, sir? >> with the exception of perhaps mr. smith's organization, most people in the country in the world relies climate change -- shepard: i report daily on fox news channel that climate change is real and we are responsible for it. if there are people who wish to have other opinions, they are entitled to those but i am positive they are wrong. [applause] >> but realistically, climate change says that water levels are rising. from a purely economic standpoint, wouldn't it have made sense to pay to move people elsewhere? marc: let me just say, you could argue that you should shut down fort lauderdale, miami, tampa -- shepard: new york city. marc: every single coastal city. i mean them in new orleans, right, is a coastal city, and i hear people say "why don't you just move people to high ground in new orleans? ain't no such thing. [laughter] marc: all of southeastern louisiana's pretty much at or below sea level. we have got to understand that we build cities near water for practical reasons, and there are a handful of landlord big citi

smith stabbed to death monday. in the case of motley, they charged darrell cruz already in jail for the alleged involvement of the recent shoot out on douglas road. in the stapping monday a -- stabbing monday, they arrested 57-year-old hector felix in that case. the family member of the victim eric smith held a vigil for him last night in the case. according to the information today, victim and the suspect did not know each other. there was an incident on the bus and then a tragic stabbing. >> recent report of uptick in violence in the district of columbia and across the country is widespread. we think it's important to let folks know when we have closure in the homicide cases. >> we grow up in the same house together. [inaudible] jonathan: that was sam ford reporting. now a developing story out of montgomery county where parents of a 2-year-old boy face charges for killing him. jennifer donelan joining us after the couple appeared in court today. this is a heart-breaker, jennifer. jennifer: this is a heart-breaker. when this 2-year-old boy came in world the prosecutors say he had meth in his system. saying his mother used crystal meth whil

american flight 191, a mcdonnell-douglas dc-10, is on its way to los angeles from chicago's o'hare airport, with 258 passengers and 13 crew members on board. melody smith kim jockal's parents are on the first leg of a trip to hawaii. >> my mom and dad always had a big kickoff for summer. and so, we normally would have been with them. however, they had decided about six months before that they were going to hawaii. >> a few minutes before 3:00 p.m., the plane is cleared to taxi to runway 32 right. at 3:02 p.m., it's cleared for takeoff. our investigative animations are about to turn you into an eyewitness to a horrific accident. >> the flight crew, flight 191 starts their normal takeoff. as the airplane departs the runway on their normal climbout, they get an indication that they've got an engine failure. >> one of the dc-10's wing-mounted engines has ripped away from the plane, flying up and over the left wing. gone with it are hydraulics and pneumatics, systems critical to controlling the airplane. >> the pilots knew they had a very serious problem. they knew the engine had failed, but they didn't know that it had actually come off the airplane. there