whether emmett tried to flirt with bryant. and simeon would heart and whistle at the young woman. >> scared to death. whistling at a white woman in mississippi. snake. >> what did you tell him? >> we didn't have time to tell him anything. our reaction told him everything. we ran to the car and got out of town as fast as we could. >> did you figure there would be disaster. >> i thought if they caught us they'd whip us, but murder never crossed my mind. never thought he would be kill. >> the boys ran into the fields to hide. trouble didn't follow that day or three days after. by saturday the boys all but forgot their fear. until late in the night, pounding at the door woke them from a sound sleep. when i opened my eyes, i saw two white men. i recognised one. the guy with the gun. he ordered me to lay back down. and made emmett get up and put his clothes on. and his mother came in he begged and pleaded. offering money. >> she offered money. >> yes, to leave them alone. >> he hesitated. but he didn't. >> he wasn't going to. him. >

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. >> you have to understand with emmett till, our whole plan of operation, what bedid of that, and howd those things were to point out that black lives matter. emmett till mattered to us. >> reporter: he said the message that black lives matter faces are exactly the same. >> it's always that you don't know what you are doing. we didn't know what we were doing or talking about. we didn't know anything. >> reporter: but they knew something had to be done, and that is something they share with today's activists. >> as long as people are willing to answer the call to justice, we're all good. i believe in people, though, man. >> reporter: michael shure, al jazeera, charleston, south carolina. >>> a controversial picture big about george washington is being pulled after a slew of criticism. it tells the story of a slave and his daughter baking a cake for the first american president. the publisher said it is removing the book because it may give a false impression to children of the brutal reality of slavery. >>> in tonight's first person report, a writer's life can be a solitary one, but re

for now take a look at this sunset that emmett shot. the sun is setting and now it gets cold. you lose the heat from the sun on nights like this. radiational cooling once the sun drops. as a result, they've ex expanded the cooling area from -- the freezing area. in palm harbor at 41 degrees. new port richie odessa 46. and northern spots the cooler spots. we're looking at temperatures in the mid-30s in some of these not expecting to go below freezing but could be very close to that with lighter winds and clear skies. we'll talk more about this forecast including rain chances coming up. >>> still ahead at 8:00 at 7:00. >> a hernando county man makes guitars out of guitar boxes and donates them to his daughter's school. the excitement in these kids after playing their first musical instrument. >>> and a u.s. veteran takes his sister's ring into a pawnshop for a lounge. - - for a loan. but two years later and the >>> some old cigar boxes are bringing music to bay area schools and it's all thanks to those boxes to build guitars. tonight anthony aldrige tells us how this is striking

troopers found a pedestrian, 52-year-old emmett myers jr. lie in the roadway. he died a short time later. if you have information on the car involved, please call police. >>> nine protesters pleaded not guilty to blocking the construction of the gas pipeline in westchester county. news4 was there when they were arrested in november after rallying against the expansion the activists say they're worried that it can harm the environment and their health. >>> folks in free port today got a gift from the new year, free smoke detect ter ordetectors. it's part of an initiative to remind people of the common mistake that they make for their own safety. gerg cergol has more. >> andrea knows that smoke detectors are important. she put one in her kitchen once but -- >> it kept going off. >> and? we took the battery out. >> toads workers installed seven new detectors in her home and all for free under the american red cross's home fire campaign. >> across the country we have a goal here to reduce fire deaths by 25%. >> reporter: in the new york detectors have already been

emmett jaffers has been following the story from washington. what were some of the details in the senator's report? >> good evening. here's the report here, "rigged justice," eight pages released this morning. elizabeth warren says it's going to be the first of an annual series of reports she's going to put out highlighting what she sees as the failures of american law enforcement and securities regulators to prosecute big business and particularly individual executives for wrongdoing in corporate frauds. what's upsetting to elizabeth warren here is the department of justice, she says, is not going after enough actual individuals. she also called the s.e.c. especially feeble. and she cites 20 different cases here where she thinks that the u.s. government could have been a lot tougher on those people who allegedly committed the fraud here. so a really scathing report here from elizabeth war len. >> it points the finger at justice and at s.e.c. so what did they have to say about it? >> well, we asked them both. you might not be surprised to hear.

. >> you have to understand with emmett till, our whole plans of operation what we did after that, was out that black lives mattered. >> reporter: he says the criticisms over message and disorganization that black lives matter faces are exactly the same as when the civil rights movement was dealing with its own growing pains. >> it's always that you don't know what you are doing. we have got that until the end of the organization. we didn't know what we were doing. we didn't know anything. >> reporter: but they knew something had to be done, and that is something that they share with today's activists. >> as long as there's people willing to answer the call to justice, we're all good. i believe in people, though, man. >> reporter: michael shure, al jazeera, charl son, south carolina. >>> the university of south carolina has reached a settlement over a young man that was shot and killed in july. they have agreed to pay the family $4.8 million. and provide education for his 12 children. >>> british lawmakers debated today whether donald trump should be banned from entering the u.k. more

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emmett o'dell tells us it kept a busy highway out of sight and helped block out some of the noise asked i can hear it inside the house. >> reporter: fdot refuses to add a sound barrier and we learned only about 10 miles on both sides of the 21 mile stretch of the i-4 expansion actually qualifies for a noise barrier. we took o'dell's concerns to the state agency for answers sound wall? >> it is more complicated than just going in and saying let's put up a sound wall. studies are done and you look at the environment >> reporter: fdot says the noise has to reach 66 db than the state must determine how many homes would benefit from a wall. the cost is a factor. that is because there has to be enough homes that a sound wall would benefit to keep the cost of the wall to about $42,000 per mole -- home. qualifies but officials say conservatively speaking, even a 14 foot wall would cost nearly $1 million. >> i-4 will be up high in the sound will travel on top of them. >> reporter: you can see the state is already preparing to add what is called a dry retention pond which will include some trees.

if you could have given emmett january 2009 memo, what memo, what would it have said? >> guest: in some ways i wish -- let me try to answer because there's a lot in there. let me tackle what did i expect. i did not expect much but i also was hopeful. does that make sense? there's something about the i was speech, there is something about seeing him in hyde park that maybe we have an opening here. at the same time i understood the forces that were afoot. i knew we green screened him and what i mean we made him everything we wanted him to be. the antiwar folks made him the antiwar candidate. the progressives who wanted a progressive a progressive savior made him up aggressive. the african-americans who just wanted an african-american president, that's all we wanted. we didn't we didn't really look at what his policies were. when you see what he says, president obama is it center democrat. he is not a lefty, he is he is not one, from the greek, he's not on the left he is the center democrat in the vein of the clinton. part of what i have been wanting if i were to write so

she thinks of emmett till m the 14 year-old and her grandfather.socialists the man dead by her then goes -- slides over to the window. the bus driver says i will have you arrested. she says you may do that. the bus driver calls the police.si you can think about what isn happening in a moment. if somebody makes us seem me know as people are getting off the bus. i think many things of rosa parks to be quiet. but not in the heated the moment. when the police officers why day you, i do think shehe challenges in her body of a system of inequality in the country. >> host: as a teaching of history we learned she said us in the white section. >> as a turn-of-the-century reconstruction history calling black people happyqu so is a celebration of parks and. not angry? >> when we learn about her on the one hand she is incredibly celebrated and honored but on either hand we hear about one day be shem had a lifetime of activismd but she will spend the second half of her life as an activist in detroit of the jim crow number fighting racism and will continue to do

militia leader emmett buddies urging them to go home. emma desires the occupation to end. for the citizen protesters to go home or turn themselves in. there are still four holdouts involved in the standoff. nine people have left the site since they set up roadblocks more person thursday. negotiators continue to work around the clock with these individuals to try to help them to leave that area peacefully. fbi is now released a new video showing exactly what happened during the traffic stop involving the fbi state police and the ranchers. one of the ranchers died. 55-year-old the voice finicum. to see the video he makes a movement towards the inside right panel of his jacket where there were is located a loaded semi automatic pistol. body was taken into custody along with seven other ranchers after the shoot out. three others were arrested wednesday night while leaving the wildlife refuge. they appeared in court yesterday with our raiment. the 11 arrested face charges possible prison time. no indication standoff will end anytime soon another cause of social media for more m

equivalent for syrians of saying in the emmett till case, just get over it. tot: our topic is strategy fight isis. isis were created by the bush family. literally. george bush senior and george bush junior. reality is the jewish state. the jewish state and our involvement in the middle east goes back. you have currency wars. we have the military industrial, books printed we have given trillions of dollars to the jewish state in the past. is oil and more. you go back to 1961, the united states has an agreement in saudi arabia. the back israel in 1965. the ship that oil. host: let's get a response. what is the influence of the israeli-palestinian conflict. caller: let's put aside the inaccuracy and the hate. i get paid to predict the past. 1946, they were charged with determining with the greatest right in the united states security would be now that world war ii was over. one was communism, that was a if me. the other was the threat of terrorism. evidence citing as some of the terrorism in egypt by the muslim brotherhood. before theear partition of palestine a

united states is by far the most on emmett layer -- dynamic player. the strength of us in this economy or the threat to us in this economy are kind of like the threats to us in national security group that is to say, not our weakness in economically or otherwise, but the weakness of other states, players, and actors. right now, the weakness of china is a big drop on us. notwithstanding very strong recovery from the depth of the recession. notwithstanding all those trends, or maybe perhaps because of those trends, people feel on the outside. institutions are not keeping pace with the change, whether those institutions are congress, collegesistration, or which are getting more expensive even as they get to be more and more baseline requirements. so people are feeling cut out of the dream in a way they have not in a long time. i think the challenge for us as effort, asn this people running the government, is that we have to figure out how to make the government responsive to people's concerns again. we are answering questions people are not asking, i thi

we will now view a brief videotaped message by member of that legal team, emmett constitutional scholar and distinguished perspex-- professor at the chapman university school of law and a meagerly falling those are marks we will be pleased to hear from mr. roberts-- part of me, mr. mr. george wentz, a partner in a law group and the leader of the legal team commissioned by the utah legislature. we will now view the videotape. in account to think the good people at heritage for inviting me and i am sorry i cannot be in there in, but i cannot be two places at once. i have been in constitutional law since i graduated from law school in 1970. this is one of the most exciting cases i have worked on. it relates to a basic principle of states rights and in a way that to give rights to the state, it's to give rights to us, the people. when the 13 states can't together they understood that some states had a lot of land, virginia and some states had very little land, rhode island. regina claimed only from the eastern shore all the way to the west coast. in fact, part of california was originally p

so it's not just emmett till, montgomery, freedom rides and when you get in the second hour you hear dr. king in speeches and there is a fourth hour of the second series where it's all devoted to him and where he's talking against the vietnam war and you see the riverside speech. you see -- as a matter of fact, when he's talking about the fact that it didn't cost the nation one penny to integrate lunch counters, but now what we need is a radical redistribution of economic power. you see where he is now which is incredible, but then you see he's going into chicago in the second series of eyes on the prize. you see it in footage and you see it with the people who are interviewed and you see him trying to take that nonviolent action north to chicago and butt it right up against daly and when you get into racism and the entrenched stuff. >> how did -- and feel free to jump in. how did the media, the press respond to this? because one of the things that carol mentioned in simeon's book is that dr. king, most people don't realize this, we now have eyes on the prize thanks to you. >> and ot