the place for any till, where his body was found —— emmett till.itchell, thank you so much for explaining that and talking about that pic are there. 0bviously very controversial issue. jerry mitchell from jackson, mississippi. thank you very much. some sports news now, and there was confusion at the world's biggest cycling race, the tour de france, when the organisers stopped the racing part of the way through the stage. the reason was a huge hail storm in the alps, which had made the mountain roads too dangerous to ride. 0ur sports correspondent ben croucher has the details. stage 19 taking place on friday, one of the big last couple of days in the alps. crucially for the main contenders, one of the last opportunities to go for the win of the race. about 20 kilometres before the end, at the ski resort of tignes, there was a hailstorm, and a snowstorm, and what that did is that flooded the roads and caused a landslide, blocking it so organisers were forced into the incredible decision of actually abandoning the race. it caused confusion amongst man

well, let me remind you who emmett till really was. as 14-year-old african american human being, the only child of mamie elizabeth till mobley, who sent him from chicago to mississippi to visit her family in the summer of 1955. now she, his mother, was born and raised in rural mississippi, and she warned her son about the racism he would encounter there. later, saying at trial of her son's murderers, quote, living in chicago, he didn't know. just days after emmett arrived in mississippi, he was accused of whistling at a 21-year-old white woman. the woman's husband and his half brother went to the house where he was staying and dragged him out of bed in the middle of the night and ordered him into a pickup truck. they tortured him mercilessly, shot him in the head and threw his body in the tallahatchie river, but not before putting a 75-pound cotton gin fan around his neck. emmett's grieving mother insisted on an open casket at his funeral. why? so the world could not ignore what happened to her baby. the men who killed emmett were ident

this would have been emmett till's 78th birthday. going to tell you what came to light after that photo. that's next. ♪ ♪ >>> so, today would have been the 78th birthday of emmett till, which is why this story is so shocking. the mississippi senator for investigative reporting and propublica bringing to light three ole miss students holding guns and posing in front of an emmett till memorial riddled with bullet holes. remember, in 1955, emmett till was just 14 years old when he was dragged from his bed, tortured, brutally murdered and dumped in a river all because a white woman claimed he whistled at her. a claim she later said was false. if you're wondering why the faces of these students are blurred, it's because we reached out to them. we wanted their response. we haven't heard back at this time. we don't know whether they were the ones who shot up that sign, but the three students have been suspended from their fraternity and a spokesman from ole miss university is calling the photo offensive and hurtful. so let's discuss now wit

the place for emmett till, where his body was found.ut this image, and understandably so. vincent van gogh is remembered as one of the most popular post—impressionist painters —— there's currently a major exhibition of his works here in london. but he wasn't much appreciated during his lifetime. and many may not know he spent some time living here in too. now his former home, in stockwell, is being opened to the public— and the restoration has uncovered some secrets hidden away for decades. victoria cook has the story. there is that? that's mr vincent. the stories of van got‘s life in london, pieced togetherfrom his letters. now the artist's former home has been restored, orfunded by family based in london. during the works, a whole host of unexpected treasures were found hidden away. these are his landlady‘s insurance documents with signatures on them from the date he was living in the palace and indisputable prayer book and all of this was folded up really neatly and he didn't get it upstairs. the discoveries go someway helping us und

the place for emmett till, where his body was found.e wales forward gareth bale is set to leave real madrid for a move to the chinese super league. sources in spain say the 30—year—old is close to leaving them after signing a three—year—deal with jiangsu suning. it‘s reported he will earn more than $1 million a week. there was confusion at the world‘s biggest cycling race, the tour de france, when the organisers stopped the racing part of the way through the stage. the reason was a huge hail storm in the alps, which had made the mountain roads too dangerous to ride. our sports correspondent ben croucher has the details. stage 19 taking place on friday, one of the big last couple of days in the alps. crucially for the main contenders, one of the last opportunities to go for the win of the race. about 20 kilometres before the end, at the ski resort of tignes, there was a hailstorm, and a snowstorm, and what that did is that flooded the roads and caused a landslide, blocking it so organisers were forced into the incredible decision of actu

the three before it vandalized. >>> state senator david jordan was in court for emmett till's murder trial. >> what is your message to people who would deface markers like this? >> stop it. . just stop it we're better than that. >> reporter: from a controversial picture and important blaine alexander, nbc news, mississippi. >>> there has been friction for weeks between nancy pelo and alexandria ocasio-cortez. today the pair held a one on one meeting, but was it a meeting of the minds? jeff bennett joins us now. jeff. >> that's right, lester. house speaker nancy pelosi holding a high profile 30 minute sit down mng with the freshman member of congress to try to smooth things over, pelosi even tweeting the photo with alexandria ocasio-cortez afterwards, both of them smiling. now, the meeting ll fos sharp disagreements she's had with ocasio-cortez and other progressives over strategy and key issues. pelosi down played those disputes, comparing the situation to disagreements within a family. and the house speaker today also said she wants to continue chaking a wait and see approao pursuin

of mississippi students, two with guns posing in front of a memorial to slain civil rights icon emmett till, the sign riddled with bullets it's not clear whether the students vandalized it, but for many it's drudging up memories of a painful past. emmett till was 14 when he was brutally murdered by a group of white men more than 60 years ago in mississippi his killers went free. >> it is not surprising but disturbing >> reporter: nbc news has not been able to identify one of the students in the photo and could not reach the other two for comment. all three were suspended from their fraternity kappa alpha which called the picture unacceptable ole' miss calls it offensive but says the students' actions did not violate its code of conduct. that defaced sign is now gone soon to be replaced. it will be the fourth marker the three before it vandalized >>> e murder trial >> what is your message to people who would deface markers like this? >> stop it just stop it we're better than that >> reporter: from a controversial picture and important conversation blaine alexander, nbc news, mississippi. >>>

who emmett till was, they wouldn't have anything to do with this. >> right. >> because he -- his deathelled the civil rights movement, really, in america. his mother's courage to stand up and say, i wanted the world to see what was done to my baby. >> yeah. listen, again, we want to be clear, we don't know if the men vandalized that sign, the ones who were posing there. >> no. >> but it's not the first time the sign has been vandalized. it's been vandalized before. >> no. repeatedly. >> right. which is -- that's a whole another story. the university of mississippi issued a statement and it reads like this. it said, "while the image is offenses, it did not present a university violation of code of conduct. it was off campus and not an university-affiliated event." however, the men's fraternity kap kappa alpha emailed you this statement. it is unacceptable and inappropriate. how have both the school and the fraternity handled this in your estimation? >> well, i mean, they've handled it the way they've handled it. obviously suspending the students you would say that's a step toward, you k

joining me now is debra watts, a cousin of emmett till.ng us to speak about this first on cnn, we appreciate you taking the time. i'm curious your initial reaction when you see this photo in 2019. >> looking at the photos of those three students standing in front of the sign that was used as a marker for a place where emmett's body was placed with a 75 pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck. when i think about it, it doesn't compare to the torture that emmett had experienced. but of course i'm disappointed, of course it's disturbing, but the unfortunate thing is not surprising, because of just where we are in our country today. we are experiencing an uptick in terms of hatred, violence and people feeling emboldened to take those kinds of -- take that kind of action. not sure if those young men place those bullets there, that's not the first time bullets were placed on that sign. >> which is also an important sign. >> or the sign has been shot up. >> the sign has been vandalized before. >> you mention people being emboldened. i want to s

we have to stay focused for justice for emmett till.has ever been convicted for 'til's murder. he would have been 78 yesterday. john and alisyn. >> i have to say, martin, it is horrifying to see that picture when you just think about the history. >> that we keep learning over and over again, its seems. >> and hear from the family saying they're saddened but not surprised. >>> internal emails and contracts revealed during a congressional investigation into juul's role in the youth vaping epidemic. an employee suggesting in a memo they seemed to duplicate those of big tobacco. this is a fascinating hearing. sanjay gupta joins us now to explain. have we learned here? >> there was a lot going on in washington this week, i know. but this -- this was a pretty passionate hearing. you had people talking about all aspects of these e-cigarettes. the marketing claims, the health claims, the role with big tobacco. they're putting billions of dollars into these e-cigarettes. that should tell you something about this. but there were also some pretty

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es for that vandalized emmett till sign in mississippi, this one will be replaced in october. difference-- it's bulletproof. the three 'ole miss. students they could potentially face a civil rights investigation by the department of justice. >> o'donnell: this story is not over. mark strassmann, thank you. libya's coast guard recovered dozens of bodies today, one day dter two boats capsized in the mediterranean. as many as 150 people are feared dead, mostly women and children. the u.n. calls it the worst tragedy at sea this year. hie victims were hoping to reach europe to escape war and poverty in north africa. survivors were taken back to libya. in puerto rico, governor ricardo rossello leaves office one week from today, but many of the problems that led to weeks of ootest and his resignation remain. david begnaud went to a countryside still recovering from hurricane maria nearly two years ago. >> reporter: it's known as "between mountains," a lush mountain area ravaged by hurricane maria. we were there nearly two years rricwhen mudslides and swollen rivers destroyed homes, b

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we begin this half hour with new bullet-proof signs honoring civil rights icon emmett till. the signs were posted after three students at the university of mississippi were suspended from their fraternity after posting in front of a bullet-riddled sign marking the spot where till was found murdered. we want to warn you the story does contain images that may be disturbing. mark strassmann reports. >> reporter: in the photothree ole miss fraternity brothers posted with grins and guns and echoes of a rebel yell. behind them, a bullet-riddled sign marking the spot where 14-year-old emmit till's boss 1-800-found in 1955. mississippi investigative journalist jerry mitchell. >> you see the photography and you just go what? >> reporter: the instagram photo drew outrage but nothing like the disturbing one taken of till 64 years ago for "jet" magazine. it showed emmett till, his mutilated body lying in an open casket. the 14-year-old had been tortured, shot, and dumped in a rink. let the world see what they did to my boy, his mother said. >> this was somebody's child that was brutally

. >>> i want to speak to the cousin of emmett tills, the co founder and executive director of emmett . thank you for being here and thank you for keeping this story and his legacy in all of our hearts. what did you think when you saw this photo? >> you know, that's been a question that's been asked today. and i think it's appropriate, but i'll tell you that i think about those young men standing in front of the sign with guns. it is a spot that is a solemn place for us. and i just am not surprised, but just deeply disappointed and saddened that they would take a place that -- and emmett's place in history, his death and his mother's brave act to expose his body and the face of hate to this country. this is a place that started the civil rights movement. so for them to stand in front of that sign and with their guns and such a callus manner, it also gives me a pause to reflect that emmett's tortured body and what he had to endure, it doesn't compare to the bullet holes that are in that sign. so i often think about what happened to emmett. and i'm hoping that they think and now have a c

that's also the year emmett till is assassinated.'s a 14-year-old black boy from chicago who is assassinated by whites and lynched in mississippi on august 28. we now know he did not whistle or say anything to this woman. caroline bryant. he was killed just for being black and 14 and going into a store. he is very important for us, because his body is recovered from the tallahatchie river. in mississippi. there is a 125 pound cotton gin fan belt around his neck. he is mutilated, disfigured, this grotesque symbol of white supremacy and the fact that black life does not matter in the u.s., 1955. but jet magazine from chicago, they published his mutilated face, his open casket, because his mother allows his body to be seen in open casket, because she wants the world to see what they have done to her son. this is important. he becomes an icon before trayvon martin, before black lives matter, we have emmett till. 1957 is the little rock central high school crisis, where president eisenhower has to send troops to protect black schoolchildr

. >>> the bullet riddled sign for emmett till where three white university of mississippi students posedeen removed. the students were suspended from ka pa alpha fraternity after this photo showing them posing with guns in front of the sign surfaced earlier this week. >> that sign memorializes emmett till, a 14-year-old african-american who was tortured and killed in 1955. his death became an important moment in the civil rights movement. the sign will now be replaced in object with a nearly 600 pound sign made of reinforced steel. previous signs have been vandalized multiple times over the years. >>> vegas is under siege from thousands of grasshoppers. my producer knows i don't like this video, but we keep showing it. >> one more time. >> we'll tell you why swarms of the insects are troubling the residents and the visitors there. copd makes it hard to bre. so, to breathe better, i started with anoro. ♪ go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way" with anoro. ♪ go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators that work togeth

outrage over this photo -- fraternity brothers from ole miss posing next to a vandalized memorial to emmett till. the image posted on instagram back in march and just published by propublica. till's cousin reacting tonight. >> seeing them standing there and smiling at a place that we think is solemn ground, it's definitely disappointing. >> reporter: that photo reopening deep wounds. at 14 years old, emmitt till was abducted and lynched in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. his anguished mother leaving the casket open for the world to see. till's death helped galvanize the civil rights movement. tonight these students have been suspended by the kappa alpha fraternity but not expelled. the school says it got a complaint about the photo in march and reported it to the fbi. ole miss calling it "offensive and hurtful" but adding it d not violate the school's code of conduct. we were unable to reach the three students. >> i think it's very ridiculous the university won't suspend them or expel them. i think it's disrespectful. >> reporter: there are several signs honoring him along the riv

outrage over this photo of fraternity brothers from ole miss posing next to a vandalized memorial to emmett till. the image posted on instagram back in march and just published by propublica. ed hill's doesen reacting tonight. >> seeing them smiling, it's decision appointing. >> reporter: that photo reopening deep wounds. at 14 years old, emmitt till was abducted and lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman. his anguished mother leaving the casket open for the world to see. two white men were later acquitted. till's death helped galvanize the civil rights movement. tonight these students have been suspended by the kappa alpha fraternity but not expelled. the university saying it reported the the photo to the fbi. ole miss calling it "offensive and hurtful" but adding it did not violate the school's code of conduct. >>> think it's skra zi they will not suspend him. >> reporter: the roof that maintains the memorials hopes to one day them them off bullet proof. >>> we turn next to a brazen heist pat an international airport. thieves gets away with 1600 pounds of gold in sao paulo, brazil. t

the emmett till case still an open wound for so many, that 14-year-old murdered for allegedly whistlingt a white woman back in 1955. whit. >> a lot of outrage over that photo. marcus moore, thank you. >>> now to the international fight this morning over american rapper a$ap rocky. president trump is blasting sweden's prime minister over the rapper's treatment behind bars as he faces an assault charge. abc's stephanie ramos has the story. >> reporter: this morning, president trump lashing out at the swedish government demanding they give american rapper a$ap rocky his freedom after prosecutors there decided to charge the 30-year-old with assault. ♪ after being in custody for nearly three weeks, swedish prosecutors say aacce accepsap t be released until the case is complete. this video obtained by tmz. >> he's disappointed that his version hasn't been accepted. >> reporter: soon after his arrest celebrities coming to his defense including kim kardashian west and husband kanye who lobbied the white house for help, and president trump has tweeted about the situation ever since, even speakin

through 3rd her 3rd round singles match in straight sets with us 2 time former champion patrick emmett till the is 3rd to the last 16 she drop. just 5 games against lynette. and 15 year old corrie golf is the star of wimbledon so far as she reached the final 16 at the tournament the american qualifier came from a set down and save 2 match points to beat her sock on center court her fairy tale run continues into the last 16 where she'll face former world number one simona halep. the line up for the semifinals at the cricket world cup spain decided right now with india and australia vying for a top spot in the final group table and via have been set a target of 265 by sri lanka at headingley angelo mathews with a century australia are up against south africa at old trafford south africa currently 112 for one who are finishes top of the table will play new zealand in the similes while the 2nd place team will meet host england the number one pick in last month's n.b.a. draft and williamson had a shaky start to his debut for the new orleans pelicans on friday but it wasn't entirely his fault the

when "jet" published the disturbing open casket image of 14-year old emmett till who was beaten and lynched sparked the civil rights movement. rosa parks said she was thinking of till when she refused to give up her seat. these are images wilson wants shared with future generations. why is it important to have this record? >> just to let them know and see how far we've come. >> reporter: there's hope in these boxes. >> a lot of hope. >> reporter: hope and history preserved in time, heading to a new home. adriana diaz, cbs news, chicago. >> quijano: powerful images. that's the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. "60 minutes" is coming up. i'm elaine quijano reporting from new york. we leave you tonight flying high in new jersey, site of summer's biggest hot air balloon festival. from all of us at cbs news, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by >>> an overturned fuel tanker makes a dangerous mess of a bay area road and we've learned it should never have been there in the first place. >> one of the suspects in the murder of the policeman in rome appears in a new photograph, this

these people are shooting at the emmett till, what is it -- >> the memorial. >> plot, and taking -- theand standing. this is not right. this president is stirring up hate, and elijah cummings is not a racist. let's look at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. president trump, i asked you if you were a race uft. you said no three days later but your actions and words and tweets are showing just that. >> gabby talked about the president being a moral leader. did the president step away? has his jargon, has his actions meant this president has stepped away from being a moral leader of this country long ago, and especially now with these tweets? >> well, it's extremely difficult for the president to go out on the campaign trail at his rallies and talk about african-american unemployment and talk about his tax cuts and the way that has helped the black community and then to see that juxtapose with these tweets. it makes all that rhetoric feel empty. it makes voters question his authenticity and sincerity. so that is going to be a key problem for his and -- for himself and for his campaign advisers in 2

what happened at this emmett till statue.ront of it with the guns. >> they are facing -- these are students. facing possible civil rights charges and civil rights investigation for things that they posted online. they were with guns. they don't know if they, in fact, did something to the monument, right? desecrated the monument. but it's all under investigation. >> you know what's going on. i'll be back with you in a second, d. lemon. >>> you want to know what's going on? the federal government is bringing back the death penalty. why? because that's what this campaign is about. it's about the new harshness. social instructions and different types of brutality. so, what is the right move here? you have to look at this policy deeply and in different ways. i will do that for you in the closing argument next. ♪ here i go again on my own ♪ goin' down the only road i've ever known ♪ ♪ like a drifter i was-- ♪ born to walk alone! ...barb! you left me hangin' on the high harmony there. if you ride, you get it. geico motorcycle. 15 mi