was a wonderful organization which also at that point with my very good luck was being run by edward r. murrow. for the next few years as long as kennedy lived, i had a huge privilege, graduate school glory, working under edward r. murrow. and working on a particular air project to discover materials for the library of congress and suddenly found myself to write a book. and research and writing and this is what i want to do the rest of my working life. >> host: up next richard in north carolina, you are on booktv with david mccullough. >> i appreciate the many books you have written especially of the right brothers. i am a proud daytonan and my grandmother in new the right brothers and called them the crazy bicycle boyce. i was going to ask you, wright-patterson air force base, a reasonable place for them to learn to fly when they could have done its in dayton. >> guest: your grandmother was among a large crowd that thought they were wackos, crackpots. they would say they're nice young men but a little off their bounds. it is eight miles out of dayton. part of the wright-patterson air force ba

which also happened at that point with my very good luck was being run by edward r murrow, sd for the next three years as lonx as kennedy lived it have a hug privilege and the graduate school glory of working for the us information agency under edward r murrow. it change my life and it was while i was in washington working on a particular project that i happen to discover some material at the library of foundess and i suddenly myself launched with the ambition to write a book. once i got started on it, doing research in the writing i knewsh this is what i wanted to do fori the rest of my w working life ad so it's been. >> host: up next, richard in charlotte, north carolina.ca richard, you're on book tv with david mccullough. >> caller: thank you, david. i appreciate the bookshelftt britain, especially the "the wright brothers". my grandmother knew the wright brothers and she called them the crazy bicycle boys. the but, i was going to ask you, wasn't the wright patterson air force base where it is now, for, wasn't that a reasonable place for them to learn to fly in that would've taken

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randy: a huge honor for our newscenter 5 family taking home the 2015 national edward r. murrow award for "best newscast" in the television category. executive producer chris roach and producer nick terry accepted the award on our behalf in new york city last night. newscenter 5 at 11's coverage of the "revere tornado" was the award-winning entry. emily: congratulations to all. a special honor, cindy. cindy: seems like a long time ago, doesn't it? notice the radar this morning is active. you want to have an umbrella with you as you're heading out the door this morning. we're not seeing much of any activity just yet. a couple spotty showers in the western part of the state. look at this area of embedded downpours even thunder right now east of the tip of long island. this whole area is lifting toward the north so it's kind of a broken line but this whole line is moving at about 30 miles an hour. so within the next half an hour around the vineyard and nantucket, you may start to see a few rain drops. it will take later than that in the next couple of hours to lift into southeaster

we can show everyone, we have the video from edward r murrow awards where eric one for writing. you got to see a lot of famous faces. eric: i put on my tax ego and got his -- tuxedo and got to see david muir. it was really cool. shaina: a well-deserved award. congratulations. elizabeth: this next clip from an omaha tv station is not award-winning but is definitely funny. >> your self-defense mechanism, they spray. if they feel threatened, they will shoot out spray. elizabeth: it is hilarious because it did not happen to us. they thought they got sprayed by the skunk but it turns out it was just a water gun. shaina: first i thought he was just being silly and lifted its tail up. eric: he just sprayed a water gun at them. i love their reaction. shaina: the time is now 5:48 this thursday morning. no skunks on our set. we will give you a live look at i-235 and mlk junior parkway, traffic just starting to inch up. we have one more 70 degrees day >> the weather is never more than five minutes away. only on "kcci 8 news this morning." jason: 5:51, waking up to 49 degrees. we have a gor

. >> edward r. murrow pulled him aside at the end of the morning and basically apologized and said i am sorry this has happened, that you discovered a cure for polio because you have lost your anonymity. another thing that happened in the midst of all this is jonas salk thanks o'connor but he forgets to thank or acknowledge his team is >> the acknowledge them but not by name. the ones who worked on it. and there are only five working on that vaccine. to show how angry they are, one of the -- the son, and nasty things, afterwards jonas salk tried to retract, he felt very bad about it. to mention them but the damage in their minds had been done. their names were not on publication of the final results but neither were jonas salk's. francis and his statistician were on it, but they were all very angry and still the only living relative today. >> talk about someone who is a greek throughout this book, robert sabin. it is interesting because he and jonas salk had similar backgrounds, poor jewish immigrant famil

emily: a huge honor for our newscenter 5 family taking home the 2015 national edward r. murrow award for "best newscast" in the large-market television category. executive producer chris roach and producer nick terry accepted york city last night. pretty exciting moments. randy: we've won the award before. it's always a treat to be honored by those in the field. olessa: good morning, everyone. very foggy conditions behind me on the expressway. there it is. by the gas tank near morrisey boulevard. you can see the northbound side there moving away slowly with lots of brake lights. let's get to the maps. if you're travellalling south 24 still dealing with this crash. it's clearing on northbound by 128 but delays into brockton. also slow on 95 from sharon and those delays on route 3 from weymouth into braintree. once you get there, your ride on the expressway is almost 30 now from braintree to boston. and the pike picking up volume as well. 0-minute ride from 495 out to 128. then more delays as you travel route 3 south. two accidents one by 495, another by treble cove and then some

emily: a huge honor for our newscenter 5 family taking home the 2015 national edward r. murrow award for "best newscast" in the television category. executive producer chris roach and producer nick terry accepted the award on our behalf in new york city last night. really special honor. randy: nick, of course, spent a number of years with us here. emily: a former "eyeopener" producer. randy: there in the glory of new york. emily: absolutely. cindy, umbrella alert. cindy: rain is moving in. also dealing with fog now across a lot of eastern massachusetts. wherever you see the white it's really reducing visibility on the south coast and the cape. you can see around plymouth, visibility down to a half a mile. also notice the radar is active. a few showers here on the western part of the state. but some heavier downpours now closing in on coastal rhode island and here toward buzzards bay. this is all filling in. lighter rains here on martha's vineyard and nantucket with a few sprinkles here and rain drops all the way up toward the plymouth area but there have been embedded thunderst

tamron hall and our producer received the edward r. murrow award last night for a very powerful story they did on domestic violence. congratulations to you. in addition, bob dodge son and ian wenger won awards for their story on a blind kayaker. congratulations. richly deserved. >> very nice job. >> al, a check of the weather. >> let's see what we have starting with today. not bad. things quiet. showers and thunderstorms through new england. windy across the great lakes into the central plains. look for sunny, cooler weather in the pacific northwest. it will be hot as you get into the southwest and interior sections of the pacific northwest. tomorrow, again, sunshine throughout much of the country. showers around the great lakes. hit or miss thunderstorms down through southern florida. >> reporter: good morning. tracking showers and thunderstorms. martha's vineyard and nantucket as well as cape cod, especially mid-cape, not so much toward the this is quickly miewrl northeast. metro boston we had some heavier showers. now just sprinkles and ri

tamron hall and our producer received the edward r. murrowions to you. in addition, bob dodge son and ian wenger won awards for their story on a blind kayaker. congratulations. richly deserved. >> very nice job. >> al, a check of the weather. >> let's see what we have starting with today. not bad. things quiet. showers and thunderstorms through new england. windy across the great lakes into the central plains. look for sunny, cooler weather in the pacific northwest. it will be hot as you get into the southwest and interior sections of the pacific northwest. tomorrow, again, sunshine throughout much of the country. showers around the great lakes. hit or miss thunderstorms down through southern florida. >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist bill henley. clouds, sunshine and a chance of scattered, light showers. 70s this afternoon. but cooler weather is on the way. 67 tomorrow after morning temperatures in the 40s and low 50s. gets chillier thursday morning. chance of showers later friday as another cold front reinforces the cold air for the weeke

as well, edward r murrow was saying, well, we really need to do this.this.eat journalist voice of america is suggesting that this is to be done. finding one was not as easy as it sounded his best the would not bend its requirements for anything. it set requirements. you have got to meet these requirements. nasa was not going to give that up, regardless of whatever influence. what happenedwhat happened is, a gentleman named ed flies, and he is a chapter in the book, and air force captain, and he gets brought into the stream. he has to complete some test pilot program before he can apply to the astronaut corps ed white is in the early 60s, 1961, 1962, 1963 on the cover of every african-american magazine comeau winning and receiving awards and honors from the naacp all over the country. he is the john glenn of the african american press. headlines about him are just as big as they are about any of the actual astronauts. and there is always an issue that curtis lemay claims that bobby kennedy was aa colored in space and so we will have the sky. he was the chief