evan williams: that was surprising.have been really fortunate with that and a bunch of other high-profile people who have found medium to be the best place to share their stories and ideas. what we heard from people at the white house, they -- there are lots of places to publish online and there are very few where your ideas and words stand up above the navigation and likely the advertising that is crowding out the experience. >> folks like president obama, elon musk, professional writers feel comfortable publishing on medium. what are you doing to make it more accessible to everyday folks who may feel a little self-conscious about expressing themselves? evan williams: the original idea was medium was open to everybody. we knew that not everybody had the inclination to publish anything longer than a tweet but we wanted to really create the best place for those who did have that desire. really, lower the barrier. you don't have the overhead or the commitment required to publish a blog, which is pretty much the other alte

dick: that is where i got reconnected to evan williams who i've been talking to. emily: a cofounder of twitter. who is still on the board. how did he get you to come to twitter? that was 2009? dick: i had left google and was going to start another company. i got a private message on twitter from him. he said, i'm going to take a paternity leave. would you be willing to sort of help out here for a bit while i am off? with operational stuff? i said, "sure." after that conversation started, he said, what if it was more permanent? what if you became coo? i felt like those opportunities don't come along very often. maybe once in a lifetime and i have to do it. emily: it felt like a rocket ship. dick: it didn't have any revenue. it didn't have anyone working on that. i think there were 50 people when i joined. emily: mark zuckerberg described twitter as a clown car that fell into a gold mine. according to a book. what was it like for you getting into that car? [laughter] dick: just because mark zuckerberg described it that way doesn't mean that is what it is. emily: how

boston's police commissioner william evans: >> you know, not going to blow up our marathon, they're not going to blow up our city, and they're not going to inflict any type of terror in our country. i think that's the strong message we sent today. >> reporter: it's likely, this was the critical image for the jury surveillance video of tsarnaev placing a deadly pressure cooker bomb four feet away from the richard family which witnesses said put eight-year-old martin richard through excruciating agony before he deed as his mother begged him to hold on. all six capital counts that put tsarnaev on death row involved his use of the bomb that killed richards and lingzi lu. the defense's case centered on the argument it was the older brother, tamerlan tsarnaev who made the younger brother commit jihad. three jurors agreed with the defense the crime would not have happened without the influence of the older brother. >> nobody can see into another person's mind. our job is to try to recognize the facts and the evidence that would help the jury make that decision for themselves. >> reporter: the

evan perez, thank you so much for your great reporting. let's continue this. let's talk about this with william smith. the attorney for one of the men that is now behind bars facing charges in this shootout we talked so much about in waco. mr. smith also provides legal advice to several biker groups in texas. thanks for joining us so much. i want to get to that really startling bulletin that evan perez was laying out in just a second. first, to your client and what happened in waco. what does your client say went down? >> well, he was in the parking lot and the meeting hadn't started. he heard a gunshot, fell to the ground and then the melee grobr out. he was just there to attend the meeting. >> no involvement according to your client. let me ask you about this bulletin that just went out. law enforcement in texas concerned they're now the targets and they could be called on to be hit by molotov cocktails, grenades, families targeted as well. you had a lot of contact with these biker gangs over the years. do you think police have reason to be worried today? >> i can understand their concern. i'

evan mathis and we'll get into the mayweather/pacquiao fight. should there ab rematch? all of that and more in just a there's over two hundred thousand students in philadelphia. jim kenney and tony williamsing over public schools versus charters. i think they're both wrong...it's making sure they all get a good education. teachers should have their contracts respected. they also should be held accountable. and it's wrong philadelphia gets less school funding than other parts of pennsylvania. i'll work with harrisburg to change that. but if they refuse i'll take them to federal court. as mayor i'll do what's right for them. >> be sure to tune in tomorrow night to cbs3. prime time special celebrating the legendary career of late night talk show host david letterman as he gets set to retire later this month. ray romano hosts david letterman live on television tomorrow night at 9:30 right here on cbs3. this weekend meantime at the movies super opening for marvels new avengers movie. ♪ >> we can tear them apart. >> lesley we've got to see this. >> avengers -- you too justin. avengers pulled in $188 million the second biggest opening weekend in u.s. box office history. that number only the fir

evans said he sees no compelling reason to tighten in 2015. he went on to a he's easy and nation reaching the test is messy inflation reaching 2% until 118. john williamspeaking right now, -- until 2018. john williams speaking now, saying he sees some light at the end of the tunnel. carl, on this williams headlines we are getting, anything jump out at you? carl: it seems to be a fairly light speech in terms of policy or economic assessment, but it is consistent with the view the economy will perform better in the current quarter. that is a low hurdle to cross at this point. but to see the fed speak earlier -- the labor force participation rate we will get another update this friday in the jobs report. that has been steadily grinding lower. the key point i think for both speakers, who tend to be on the dovish end of the spectrum especially in the case of evans -- we have not gotten to full employment yet. we will know when we get there. we are not sure where that level is, but we are not seeing a lot of wage pressures. they are also still watching this purchase patient issue to see what the balance is -- watching this purchase a patient issue to see wha

evans, los angeles. >>> the iraqi city of ramadi is controlled by isis after a dramatic offensive by the extremists. military killed at least 500 and forced 8,000 to flee after a few days. holly williamsh how the government plans to retake the city. good morning. >> good morning. both iraqi officials say they have fallen to them though yesterday pentagon says isis temporarily has possession. isis is still capable of seizing territory. the battle for ramadi killed more than 500 civilian and iraqi soldiers over just a few days according to them. a more than 100,000 have fled the war-torn city the center of the anti-u.n. insurgency at the american invasion of iraq in 2003. as the u.s. and coalition partners have pounded isis from the skies, iraq's shiite muslim militias have made progress in recent months reclaiming territory from the extremists in other provinces close to baghdad. but this video released by isis appears to show iraqi soldiers retreating from ramadi in defeat. >> and to watch that force collapse in the face of a few suicide bombings essentially flee and leave me of its weapons and tanks behind after months of training and months of air support is a real warning. >> repor