my mother screaming, "emmitt, stop! emmitt, don't! emmitt, emmitt, emmitt." so i didn't want to carry that name. harvey: when did you change it? tyler: i was about 16 years old and somebody asked me what my name was, and i said tyler. i don't know where it came from. - harvey: just the air. - tyler: just the air, yeah. so i said tyler, and it stuck. everything i've read was just a hellish childhood. - mm-hmm. - he made your life hell. - beat you badly. - mm-hmm. he had this distinct disdain for me. and i think he knows i'm not his child. i think he's always known that. and that was the disdain. i think so, i think so. so what he blamed on her, he took out on you. absolutely. and once i got more information about who he was, what he had been through, i couldn't excuse it, but i could forgive it because it was too painful for me to hold on to anymore. and to this day, i still take care of him. he lives very well, and gets a check every month, and he's taken care of. did he ever say, "i'm sorry"? i don't think so. i don't think so. if he has, it may have been in

till, the emmitt till murder which was right there? yeah. >> so a couple of your chapters back to back, i think, are particularly fascinating. one, a magical town and the other a not so magical town. >> right. >> and it's a real startling compare and contrast between the quite wonderful world of white greenwood and the not so wonderful world for african-americans in greenwood. it was a time and a place that -- in the recent past, and yet so riveting. now, you've spent a lot of time in greenwood. how would you compare greenwood today to what it was like in 1955 or even -- >> yeah. i mean, i've spent a lot of time in greenwood to do, i did not spend a lot of time in greenwood in 1955. >> right. >> it's hard for me to make a true comparison. i definitely think that, obviously, it's changed tremendously. and, yes, the emmitt till murder was just 8 miles outside of greenwood. and, you know, i think one of the things that's interesting and one of the reasons why i wanted to write this book and, yes, there's a chapter called a magical town wh

till, the emmitt till murder which was right there? yeah. >> so a couple of your chapters back to back, i think, are particularly fascinating. one, a magical town and the other a not so magical town. >> right. >> and it's a real startling compare and contrast between the quite wonderful world of white greenwood and the not so wonderful world for african-americans in greenwood. it was a time and a place that -- in the recent past, and yet so riveting. now, you've spent a lot of time in greenwood. how would you compare greenwood today to what it was like in 1955 or even -- >> yeah. i mean, i've spent a lot of time in greenwood to do, i did not spend a lot of time in greenwood in 1955. >> right. >> it's hard for me to make a true comparison. i definitely think that, obviously, it's changed tremendously. and, yes, the emmitt till murder was just 8 miles outside of greenwood. and, you know, i think one of the things that's interesting and one of the reasons why i wanted to write this book and, yes, there's a chapter called a magical town wh

in season two, she won the mirrorball trophy with emmitt smith.placed fourth with chad ochocinco. does that add any pressure to you, knowing that you're dancing with someone who has been dancing with nfl players in the past? >> no, not at all. i think i bring something different. with her, my rehearsals, she says, smile more. smile more. it doesn't come out until i have to perform. >> reporter: and there's no question the former wide receiver knows how to put on a show. from pom-poms. to popcorn. t.o. made a name for himself with his over-the-top touchdown celebrations. >> i love me for me. believe it! >> reporter: terrell made it to the super bowl when he was with the eagles. and tomorrow, philly will take on the carolina panthers for "thursday night football" on cbs. the 43-year-old's been on the sidelines since 2010. but won't rule out a return to the nfl. >> you never know. >> you never know, right? >> like i said, i have always kept myself ready. i'm in decent shape. may not be in game shape. i can still play the game. >> i love that he said

. >> reporter: probati >> reporter: reporting in emmitt elseberg. >>> things heating up with presidentrump. the staffer was responded to the president's waking up this morning and slamming the tennessee lawmaker in a series of tweets. trump obstructing the warehouse and corker didn't quote, have the guts to run for election. he begged the president to nominate him as secretary of state. corker responded back saying quote, it's a shame the white house has become an adult daycare center, someone obviously missed their shift this morning. joining the story on our nbc washington page. >>> investigators say it was around midnight there was some kind of fight inside the walmart, this is in el cut city, someone shot a man. police say that man, victim was shot, went out to the parking lot, got a gun from his car and fired multiple shots at the store. no one was hurt in that later exchange. >>> and here in the district we had late night grilling apparently sparking a fire in this is along colombia road off of 18th street. calls traced to a grill on a wooden rooftop desk. >>> vice president mike

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. >> well, we have a great mayor, mayor turner and judge emmitt, county judge, working together here. i'm going to applaud mayor cruz. i think the question for the president, and you want to ask how we address it, we take him on. i applaud mayor cruz for taking him on because, unfortunately, he does not know the topography or the he does not know puerto rico. puerto rico happens to have many cities. mayor cruz made it very clear that what she is speaking of is those individuals, those mayors, those small governments beyond san juan who cannot speak for themselves who are facing the devastation of bodies, the devastation of dead animals, the lack of water, having to travel an hour and a half for a bag of groceries, roads that are impassable. and the president failed on this, absolutely failed. it's not the fema personnel. they don't govern themselves. they are guided by directions from the administration for them to be on the ground. knowing there was going to be this catastrophic category 5 hitting puerto rico, a commander in chief would have predeployed a number of assets at least cl

rosa parks represented a story could tell schoolchildren and can't really tell the emmitt till school- story to schoolchildren. emmett till, his murder was one of the first times when national news reporters were coming into the south and seeing what life is really like and for them to be found innocent and month later to give an interview to a magazine saying yes, we did it was pretty horrific and you realize that it's not hyperbole to say that black life in the t south at that time was cheap life that you could be murdered, raped, attacked and no one would pay the price and everyone got to see that for themselves. >> as i was listening to you, made me think of another question. was there a difference i guess would be a good word and a feeling between when you would visit mississippi as opposed to when you were in san diego? was very different sense of belonging? >> i would say it felt different and i did not feel like i belong. in california, i was the only student of color in all of mych classes until i went to middle school, but in greenwood, everyone was down and i had a cousin i