so ferguson did lose money. but what is the lesson when it comes to this police department knowing that it can police effectively but without violating constitutional rights of its community members? did they learn that lesson? >> they haven't learned that lesson. ferguson is still in the top ten of the worst police departments in the country so they are not really learning a lot. i think if them hurting financially is going to fix the problem, then that needs to continuously happen. because in st. louis county in general, they're still ridiculously stopping black and brown people, giving out tickets for ridiculous fines and pulling people over still. so the problem has not changed. it's slowly progressing, but in the end, like the senator said, st. louis county police have always been a problem. so this hasn't just been ferguson, but they have been essentially still one of the top ten police departments in this country. >> we know the naacp issued this travel warning for missouri warning people of color that th

on august ninth teenager michael brown jr was tragically shot and killed in the streets by then ferguson missouri police officer darren wilson and the humid dog days of the summer of two thousand and fourteen brown's murder in the dubious actions of ferguson city officials and its aftermath was just the match to gasoline the broad longstanding racial tensions between law enforcement and black communities across the united states back into the headlines problems killing in the violent militarized police response to the protests over his death helped lead to the exponential rise of the black lives matter movement who originally came into being after the death of trayvon martin at the hands of george zimmerman who like officer wilson was never actually held accountable for committing any crime despite having the death of a young black man on his hands. after brown's death we saw the violent police killings of twelve year old tamir rice in cleveland walter scott in south carolina freddy gray and baltimore and recently philander steele in minnesota just to name a few. these deaths in the bure

today marks the third anniversary of michael brown's dad shot and killed while unarmed and ferguson missouri sparking protests which still reverberate today needles are turning up off the coast beaches shorelines even hiking trails i mean talk just sweden coming up we'll explain the latest facts of the opioid at the deming. late evening it is wednesday august ninth five pm in washington d.c. i'm on your part until you're watching r t america we begin this hour as today marks the third anniversary of michael brown's death brown was an unarmed black teen who was shot and killed in the streets of ferguson many people were outraged by the events which transpired forcing many to question the role of long foresman

of everything that happened with michael brown of the city of ferguson the justice department came. you know you need to reform investigation from policing for profit from the systemic racism within the city you need to reform you know where we have three years now where is the city of ferguson and in those reforms that were supposedly had to down by the justice system of the oh you know the city of ferguson it's about two thirds black and during the time michael brown was shot there weren't a lot of black people and high positions there so over the last three years we've had the police chief in the city manager step down there a white males and now they've been replaced by african-american men in addition to that the seven member council that includes the mayor. at one point during our michael brown to incident there was only one african-american on that council and now we have three. some progress and like you said when the d.o.j. investigation came out it revealed a lot of systemic racism and that african-americans were wrongly targeted and the the city they had like two options

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>> jessie tyler ferguson. there is ferguson there, striking that pose. he shared this image on instagram saying, we loved having you all. >> they look like they're having a good time. >>> all right, next, who knew? our gma colleague, laura spencer. showing off her ripped abs in a striped blue bikini while vacationing in nantucket. >> wow, that photo has already wracked up more than 13,000 likes. >> good for you, lara, you got it, you flaunt it. >> talk about pop news. >>> and nick lachey has cooled down from his 98 degrees days, he shared a throwback photo from his boy band days. check out the tattoo. see what's different in this picture? >> yeah. >> yeah, well, he blacked out his 98 degrees inside his famous sun tattoo. ooh. >> in our bff, jeff timmons who was the number one singer there of that group. >> what is that? >> he has a 98 degrees tattoo.

thousand and fourteen officer in a wilson shot and killed unarmed black teenager michael brown in ferguson missouri brown's lifeless body lay in the street for four hours after the shooting took place which angered the community on august tenth twenty fourteen st louis county police held a press conference claiming brown was killed because he was reaching for wilson's gun later that evening protests erupted through the city now between august eleventh and august twelfth the f.b.i. announced it would join the police investigation and president barack obama addressed the shooting calling brown's death a heart breaking police were outfitted with riot gear dispersing pepper spray and rubber bullets as protests continue now on aug fifteenth the police department released surveillance video of brown taking part in a robbery prior to the shooting brown's family accuse the police of trying to turn as his character the very next day on august sixteenth the governor nixon declared a state of emergency and ferguson and impose a curfew making it a legal for anyone to be on the streets after midnight f

how much has changed in ferguson since you've been on?t has changed. >> the city council, nearly all white three years ago, is now nearly half black. problems persist, of course, but hope is rising in places literally and otherwise. >> there's a lot that we can do. there's some things we can't do, but i think as a community when we're working together, that's when you can move mountains. >> moving mountains here in ferguson, missouri. obviously, the quiktrip convenience store no longer here. standing in its place is the new urban league community empowerment center. they hope this will be a magnet for positive changes in the neighborhood, jobs being number one, which they are hoping to bring to this community. jacob, back to you. >> i want to ask you, here in los angeles we had decades of tension between the community and the los angeles police department. things have turned around, but there are still fissures. i'm curious, three years is not a lot of time. what is the sense in the community today about the relationship between the commu

today marks the third anniversary of michael brown's dad shot and killed while unarmed and ferguson missouri sparking protests which still reverberate today needles are turning up off the coast beaches shorelines even hiking trails i mean talk just sweden coming up we'll explain the latest facts of the opioid at the deming. late evening it is wednesday august ninth five pm in washington d.c. i'm on your part until you're watching r t america we begin this hour as today marks the third anniversary of michael brown's death brown was an unarmed black teen who was shot and killed in the streets of ferguson many people were outraged by the events which transpired forcing many to question the role of long foresman and the justice system here's our teens ashley banks with more. on august ninth two thousand and fourteen officer derren wilson shot and killed unarmed black teenager michael brown in ferguson missouri brown's lifeless body lay in the street for four hours after the shooting took place which angered the community on august tenth twenty fourteen st louis county police held a press confere

how much has really changed in ferguson since you've been on?has changed. >> reporter: the city council, nearly all white three years ago, is now nearly half black. problems persist of course. but hope is rising. and places literally and otherwise. >> there's a lot we can do. there's some things we can't do. as a community when we're talking together, that's when we can move mountains. >> reporter: moving mountains. that's what they want to do here. they believe that's what's in front of them. one thing to tell you, they are looking forward here. they obviously will never forget what happened just down the street here three years ago. but they want to put their focus forward. this building behind me, this urban league community empowerment center is one of those things. they're going to focus on job training and job placement for primarily young african-american men but also african-american boys and girls as well. they want to try to change this community one place at a time if they can. and the police department as we have seen wants to be a p

emt and ambulance volunteer ferguson is concerned.may have to help someone else monday who made the same mistake he did as a child. >> i can't see the middle of your face because it's not there. >> reporter: ferguson suffered permanent partial blindness when he glanced at an, i clips in the early '60s. >> and i remember my older brother saying let's go take a look. and we went out and looked up. >> reporter: ferguson says he didn't stare into the sun, but -- >> the damage was done. >> this little light spot there is actually permanent damage that will never come back. >> reporter: ferguson's optometrist was able to see into the damaged eye with his new equipment. >> solar mackulopathy. it's a very severe thing because it causes permanent damage. >> reporter: dr. carl katrel says it's similar to macular degeneration. the sun's rays are strong. >> which will burn the retina and they never come back. >> reporter: they have to have proper eye protection or look away that day. >> people can think just wearing sunglasses is good enough. no.

you're not seeing the militarization that we saw in ferguson. and, you had a president then who said that i may or may not agree with some of what the protesters are saying, but i denounce the violence himself. you have seen this president make some very nebulous statements, almost putting it equal on both sides, and has not addressed anyone that would be supportive of him. why isn't the president saying that "i am against white supremacy, and if you're wearing my slogan, if you are using my name, i denounce it, and those that are with me slhould not engage in these kinds of demonstrations." because let's remember, the antiprotesters are protesting an event. in ferguson and in baltimore, even though all of us were against the violence, they were protesting a police killing. there's no killing here. there's nobody that was -- that caused a spark here. this was a rally called about white supremacy that ended up with one of those alleged supremacists killing somebody who was coming to a counterprotest saying that america should not be celebrating o

ferguson day one.nd you're right, but not seeing the tanks. you're not seeing the militarization that we saw in ferguson. and you had a president then who said that i may or may not agree with some of what the protestors are saying, but i denounce the violence himself. you have seen this president make very nebulous statements, almost putting it equal on both sides and has not addressed anyone that would be supportive of him. why isn't the president saying that i am against white supremacy and if you're wearing my slogan, if you are using my name, i denounce it, and those that are with me should not engage in these kinds of demonstrations? because, let's remember, the anti-protestors are protesting an event in ferguson and in baltimore, even though all of us were against the violence, they were protesting a police killing. there's no killing here. there's nobody that was, that caused a spark here. this was a rally called about white supremacy that ended up with one of those alleged supremacists killing

ferguson with access to that education it takes to prepare yourself. so those are those seminal moments that really prepare him to become the charles houston that we all know. like his professional working career between 1925 with that 25 year period, it is an enviable by any measure and how one of the real tragic elements of houston's life he was born with a congenital heart -- heart defect and was aware of it but even into the late '30's or 40's particularly of the '40's just a slowdown and is a testament to the motivation of charles houston and his dedication that he felt so compelled to do the work that was needed to make the world a better place where the people of the united states and his activities and this is what i argue in the book and three different areas because of the three par strategy that unfolds it wasn't just enough to deal although critical they demanded the strategy go forward so he spent time upon the hill with his congressional record and testimony it is fastened 80 and hubris because he sets them up. so he encourages people wit

>> brown did overall ferguson.t was applied to school and in subsequent cases the court applied it to desegregate swimming pools and other public facilities and so forth. the main question was should the case be overturned and brown be overturned. >> i would say i think what the caller may be getting at is the way in which the opinion was written. and the fact that in the opinion, justice warren writing for the court, used language saying to the extent that there's anything in the case inconsistent with what we're saying, then what we pull back from the principal of that case. so it wouldn't the kind of robust language of overruling that you might see in some other cases, and i think that was by design. it was a strategy for the court to try to be a consensus court. >> and there was another -- that's exactly right. there were other parts of the opinion that by failing clearly to say, segregation was wrong at the time of that case and it's wrong now because it's stigmatizing and degrading, gave critics of brown time

and that iraq from the police point of view why wasn't i denied reported a lot on ferguson and i won that ferguson are standing right but i do know that there were only i think it's three arrests on saturday including the killer and or suspected killer an alleged killer and. and that number compared to obvious fights you know i've talked to friends who were in those fights and things like that it seems like a very very low number to me you know what water of the water water your i know it's still fresh and i know it's not something easy to see you know what are your thoughts coming out of the week. and walking away from this. well i think there's a lot of there's a lot of points to be made about our society and everything like that i think i need some time to. get my thoughts in place because right now it's so emotional and and you know that actually can be a point in and of itself it's like people like oh well i you know that is one case where i stand for the death penalty and it's like yeah having been there and watched people get hit by these cars i would love to see that guy. get

this happened in ferguson, missouri but the two cases are miles apart. hilary lane has more. >> reporter: the answer was they really don't know. it would be a personal decision for officer trainer to step down and then the d.c. police can make a decision after the disciplinary review is finished. let's look at the similar high profile cases across the country. three used for the day yesterday crowds rioted in ferguson, missouri after an unarmed black teenager, michael brown, was shot and killed by officer darren wilson. will's and was not criminally charged but did resign from the ferguson police department and in minnesota, jeronimo yanez was acquitted of murder after a shot and killed philando castile in 2016 at a routine traffic stop and who received a $40,000 payout as part of the severance package. according to this tracker, 2017, 605 people have been shot and killed by oer country including 132 people who are black. back to the terrence sterling case, no word onweather officer trainor will resign. hilary lane, wusa9. >> we are staying on top of eve

jane ferguson is following the investigation in barcelona. first up, kpix 5's jackie ward, who spoke to the father of a man who went missing during the chaos. jackie. >> reporter: michelle, the secretary of state has confirmed that one american is among the 14 dead following the attacks in barcelona and dan tucker of walnut creek is almost certain that it's his son, jared. >> from the time that the -- time that it happened until this morning, we have been going back and forth but not really knowing anything. >> reporter: dan tucker's son jared had been celebrating his one year wedding anniversary with his wife heidi this past week. this is the picture heidi took of him a couple of days ago. jared in the water off the coast of spain. jared and heidi were walking around barcelona yesterday when he told her he had to use the bathroom. moments later, the van plowed into dozens of people and heidi couldn't find jared. >> i don't understand how somebody, anybody, could do that type of thing to innocent people. it's beyond my comprehension to unders

nbc's ron mott is in ferguson today for us, and ron, with a good sunday to you, how has this community since 2014, and is it still ongoing? >> reporter: hey there, alex, good day to you. a lot of folks here find it hard to believe it's been three years since michael brown was shot and killed, not far from here, just around the street and down the corner. there was a lot of ugliness that followed that shooting. one of the ugly things was the quiktrip convenience store that once stood here. now there's a beautiful building here, the urban community league empowerment center. they have a program called save our sons that is targeting young african-american men and trying to get them into gainful employment, so the thrust of the employment will be job placement and job training, so a lot of new faces and places, but a lot of the residents think there's a lot more change that needs to take place here. i caught up recently with the first african-american chief of police here, talked about the enormous challenges that he undertook and how do you even begin to address them. here's what we talk

ferguson, brown v. board of education. what should we know about the legacy, the long tail of this? you want to start michael ross about its importance and where the debate is about its importance? >> well, i think paul is perfectly situated to answer that question because in mcdonald there were people advocating the slaughterhouse be overturned and there were people that did it. >> i'm happy to turn it over to

speaking at a news conference in ferguson she had made a mistake said she had made a mistake and let others down and not only apologized to the president but his family as well. the secret service is reportedly investigating her comment. the lawmaker faced growing critics including u.s. senator claire mccaskill and chairman of the state's democratic party who called for her to resign. schaap pell nadal reiterated yesterday she has no plans to step down. >>> coming up next, more on president trump as he prepares to address the nation for what's next for the u.s. military in afghanistan. and both weigh in on the expected plan and whether it will end the 16-year war. just moments away. i needed something more to help control my type 2 diabetes. my a1c wasn't were it needed to be.

and a black man's brief but spectacular take on finding courage after ferguson. but first, the pace of the news cycle feels like a blistering swirl recently. north korea and charlottesville have bumped the russia investigation out of the headlines. and president trump's latest attacks on republican congressional leaders have overshadowed his very public criticism of his own attorney general. but as lisa desjardins reports, behind the scenes, jeff sessions is taking action, making significant and controversial changes. >> i will well and faithfully discharge the duties... >> i will well and faithfully discharge the duties... >> desjardins: that was february, when attorney general jeff sessions was just starting out in his new post. in the months since, while headlines focused more on his meetings with russians and the criticism hurled at him publicly by president trump, but behind the scenes, sessions has been one of the key forces executing the president's agenda. >> so today, i have this message for our friends in the intelligence community: the department of ju

. >>> let's talk more about this with cnn political commentator ben ferguson, also host of the ben ferguson show and rick wilson. he is a republican strategist. great to see you both. >> good to be here. >> thank you. >> so, ben, the big question tonight, there are a lot of big questions, one of them being, does he, should he go after senators mccain and flake on their home turf tonight? how worried should they be? >> i don't think they're worried at all, because everybody knows in arizona how they feel about donald trump. and they've gone after donald trump in arizona. they've gone after donald trump in washington, d.c. and they've gone after donald trump everywhere in between. so this -- there's no secret in arizona that the two senators are -- they are very much at odds with donald trump. i would expect donald trump to get in a couple jabs here and there. that's the sport of politics. i also think, though, the president's going to be really trying to refocus on the bigger picture, the bigger issue, which got him elected in arizona, and that's the issue of border security, immigration ref

and one ferguson happened you know what it was it was you know it was it was racist bigoted rioting by black people and soros funded folks and somebody should have said they're all all these people are rotten people when you come with bats and no permit to come in you're not looking for you're not looking for friendly discussion and argument you're looking to cause real problems and that's what he's seeing there it's a problem on all sides germany were to the president go wrong today if he did i mean this is a great conversation this is slightly amusing to me because we have been saying for so long that conservatives particularly those who go the right on the republican. basics supporting racist bigoted views and policies and for so long to say no you have a strong now we have a sitting president who is legitimizing white supremacy i was legitimizing housing live as one of them who legit i will never finish who only god. who's li who know each of them izing this is i'm not finished i know you want to interrupt me because you tried to pivot to some foolish is about twitter but he is

that's ferguson.f it but we certainly could use some of that strong handling of police that we saw with peaceful protesters in ferguson that we're not seeing against white nationalists standing on steps throwing full bottles, which is tantamount to a legal weapon, with others. we just located seth and cornell west and they are safe as well. >> good to know. we're finding out some clergy who were struck by members of the white supremacist groups. you can see there's another battle going on. one of the other guests that we had on earlier, andrew stepanian. clashes. >> joy, i'm going to lose you because the police are requiring me to get out of here. >> thank you so much for your time, reverend blackmon. i think this might be a good opportunity to take a quick break. we'll take a very quick commercial break and then when we come back, we will update you on the situation in charlottesville. more a.m. joy after the break. tk madeline out on a date, he would call her corded house telephone and get permissio

rich ferguson is back.s got daniel fernandez with him to teach him mind blowing ways to get that number. >> quick question. >> this first one, all kinds of wizardry. >> my phone's off, mind if i call someone quick? >> girl is like, sorry. can i just call? suddenly the phone starts ringing in the pocket? >> did you just call yourself? >> well, now i have your number. >> oh, my god. >> that's a clever one. a girl would appreciate that one. >> no. that's creepy. >> you lied and stole her number. >> wrong. the girls love it. >> you get a high five for that. >> okay. so no magic and wizardry in that one. okay. got more. >> i'm going to try to guess your number. >> hands her a piece of paper. i'm going to get your phone number. starts writing things down. >> i've written it down. can't change it. so you know, you can't cheat. secretly write it down on there so i can't see it. >> this is magic. >> does your number start with a 2? >> no. >> it doesn't? does it have a 2 in it? can i see what you have? >> yeah. >> ok

cate: john ferguson. he leased it to the confederacy at the time. brian: how big was it?ate: 147 feet long. brian: how many people served on it? cate: there was a crew of about 10. that included three white officers. they were officers in the sense that they were working on the book but not enlisted in the confederacy. there was a captain and first mate and a deckhand. sorry, and an engineer. there was the enslaved crew. brian: when did robert smalls begin the process of trying to do something about the planter? and where was his family? cate: his family was nearby in charleston, but a lot of slaves did not live together. they did not see each other regularly. but robert started thinking about escaping soon after a new captain came on board the planter. his name was charles. he had two things that made robert smalls' plan possible. he was wearing this widebrimmed straw hat. the third thing that was critical is he often decided to leave the ship in the enslaved crews' hands while they spent time with their families. that was a direct violation of confederate orders, but he

let's bring in our political commentator, conservative ben ferguson, host of the bern ferguson show and "new york times" contributor. some said that bannon was the architect of the ideological movement. so with bannon out what does that tell you where the president's head is at and where his administration is headed? >> look, i think it's too soon to tell where his administration is headed. i think it's clear here that steve bannon was a guy that's a great architect when it comes to a campaign and understanding how to connect with voters and maybe that isn't serving the president well in the united states and he did not get along with general kelly the new chief of staff. so i think bannon going back to bright bart will -- breitbart will be going back to his roots and he'll be in contact with the white house and the president and to remind him on the issues and what is out there and what he promised and what he better be doing with the american voters. otherwise, they may turn away from the president come next -- you know, the next election cycle. i think this could be a blessing in dis

marlon ferguson his goal to turn 4-acre lot into community of tiny homes for veterans.will feature as many as 17 small scaled homes with community center all with energy efficient technology. he says it's a dream turned into reality for so many who have served. >> not under my watch. we always say this, not under our watch. we're veterans here and we're a community that want to help make veterans lives better. >> ferguson says the project is part of his mission to never let his colleagues down. >>> a 700% price hike. you got to act quick full want avoid that when buying a national park senior pass we told you about this awhile back it's looming now at the end of this month. demand is sky rocketing for the passes. the national park service says it's received more than 250 thus san requests for passes this year. some sites ran out. and have started giving out rain checks to folks, congress passed legislation to end cries prices in december to pay for national park maintenance projects. >>> so water, really important to you, right? well some drink it from their brita filte

had the 56, ferguson ship back.hen about 10 years later, the ship was trying till another ship and she sank. parts of the planter were obviously t she was no longer in operation. and smalls was said to have said, when he learned that it was like losing a member of his family. host: speaking of family, what to his wife, han, in a how long did she live and she was 13 years older than he? guest: unfortunately, hannah died fairly young. and they had, of course, two lived.n that hey had a third, a young son who died during the war. several years later smalls married another woman, a school from charleston, annie wig, and he had a son with her as well. wives.had two i think hannah often is overlooked as the hero in this story. a ortunately, we don't have lot of records on hannah. could only find one newspaper source that actually recorded anything from hannah, and she about how they agreed, they agreed, if they attacked, when they were escaping, that they would all hold hands and jump overboard be drown rather than recapt

someone who grew up with the rizzo family, ferguson feels the monument. >> it's about prep. >> reporter: that's why he startedet to gather support against efforts to take it down. >> thisbol of hate. >> there's a long-standi racisme bout about. >> reporter: councilwoman at large helen gym calling on the statue of the former mayor and police commissioner to be removed. gym and others say they're troubled by allegations that african-americans were routinely targeted and brutalized during rizzo's tenure from the late ' '60s to 1980. >> symbolizes racism. take it down. real simple. walking past the rizzo statue today and for hem itsivisive. >> at that time and that pennsylvania and in philadelphia we needed tdt. that. i like the statue. >> i think they should leave it there because ius or whatever, and when i'm out here >> reporter: in center city,y i'm trang dough, cbs3 "eyewitness news"po.sperson forr kenny release the this statement "we think now is a good time toe statue's future. we need to figure out the proper forum for that, structured way,w is the right time ". ni, philadelphia pol

i do want to learn a little bit more about plessey versus ferguson, 1896. you mentioned it was a transportation case. >> it was. and this was a time when jim crow was not yet up and running, so a allow requiring segregation was not welcomed universally by the railroads themselves. it was challenged as a violation of the equal protections law, and as tameka well said, justice brown held for the court, as long as the cars are equal, there's no problem, because equality is all -- facilities is all the constitution roiequires and any information of inferiority is the problem of african-americans. justice john marshal harlan, one of the greatest dissents of the 19th century, this is a kentucky former slave state. he's a know-nothing, turned abolitionist. he said, i would rather be right than be consistent. he's the one when he's writing the decision, dissenting from the court's decision to strike down the civil rights act of 1875, his wife puts the pen that chief justice tawny had used to write the dread/scott decision and realizes this is the pen that suddenly

correspondent janes ferguson is in barcelona with the latest developments. >> reporter: this was the scene in cambrils, spain, last night as a fifth terror suspect died in a shootout with police. davies caught the fire fight on his cell phone. >> for me i thought he was on something because he was hit so many times and get back up and then when he was walking to the police, he was smiling. he was laughing. he was like saying come on, come on. >> reporter: police say the suspected terrorist in cambrils were wearing belts with fake explosives like the attackers in barcelona hours earlier they drove their car into pedestrians killing one person and injuring at least seven others. authorities believe both spanish links are attacked. the attackers part avenuer rift cell who originally planned a wave of attacks using gas canisters. islamic state has claimed responsibilities. >> spanish media are reporting 18-year-old man was the driver of the van in barcelona who zigzagged for seven blocks apparently trying to hit as many people as possible. he is still on the run. here on las ramblas the

in august ninth teenager michael brown jr was tragically shot and killed in the streets by then ferguson missouri police officer darren wilson and the humid dog days of the summer of two thousand and fourteen brown's murder in the dubious actions of ferguson city officials and its aftermath was just the match to gasoline the broad longstanding racial tensions between law enforcement and black communities across the united states back into the headlines. killing in the violent militarized police response to the protests over his death helped lead to the exponential rise of the black lives matter movement who originally came into being after the death of trayvon martin at the hands of george zimmerman who like officer wilson was never actually held accountable for committing any crime despite having the death of a young black man on his hands after brown's death we saw the violent police killings of twelve year old tamir rice in cleveland walter scott and some.