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put up the american flag. >> stephen: but mayor "hates the flag" seems hung up on obeying the law. >such thing as an individual deciding they simply are above the law. >> stephen: even when the law is wrong? rosa parks taught us... (audience reacts) you sometimes have to oppose an unjust law, but the mayor says rosa parks is a criminal. >> i have never said rosa parks is a criminal. >> stephen: oh, really? let's check the tape. >> rosa parks is a criminal. (laughter) >> stephen: all this unwanted attention comes as a shock to this shy philanthropist >> i am shocked for people to be asking me to rip down the american flag is pretty tough. >> mr. trump has certainly accused me of having the desire to rip down the american flag. >> that's really what they're doing. they're ripping down the american flag. i just can't understand why they want this. >> you don't always have to put up a huge flag just because you can. >> stephen: mr. mayor, if there's one thing americans know: size matters. when it comes to flags or anything else that waves in the breeze. (laughter) but mayor sterns doesn'

a flag with holes had to fly. ending it with these words, you must fly until bin laden dies. >> it was always represented. never damaged or vandalized. >> reporter: on sunday night, when news broke that bin laden was dead. >> always used to seeing it flap and flutter. >> reporter: the thomas family lowered the flag for good it. >> was hard to digest. one sixth of my life has been flying here. >> reporter: neighbors and strangers stop to look at the pole where it once flew. >> i have three grandsons and tried to explain to them and it was meaningful to them. >> it will stretch it out a little bit. >> for thomas' children the flag in front of their home was a huge part of the neighborhood. taylor and mckenzie thomas were 7 years old when the flag went up and they are 17 as the flag came down. >> it represents what distress our nation had gone through for so long. >> it's crazy how much more meaningful it became over the years. i didn't think much of it when i was 7. >> reporter: the thomas family admits it will take

we better design a flag! >> we'll have more fascinating flag facts in future programs. so stay tuned, maybe one of them will be yours! >> coming up, i'll take you behind the scenes at the yankees press room. >>> this season, we were invited to do some behind-the-scenes reporting on the new york yankees. here's this week's segment. >> ever wonder what it's like to be a journalist covering major league baseball? i'll show you. we're here in the press box with brian, who works for yankees.com. so brian, what do you do?

president laid a wreath before the tomb of the unknowns and addressed military families who waved flags and fans in the sweltering heat. >> our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay. but we can honor their sacrifice and we must. >> smith: the crowd greeted retired chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullen with a standing ovation for his four decades of service. earlier in the day, the president announced the admiral's replacement, army general martin dempsey. >> for nearly 40 years in uniform martin dempsey is one of our nation's most respected and combat-tested generals. >> smith: general dempsey will serve as the principal military advisor to the president and his newly reorganized defense team as they tackle the war in afghanistan, conflict in libya and wind down operations in iraq. as wind whipped through the so- called desert of death in afghanistan, marines at camp leatherneck paused to remember their fallen friends. and last night candles in kabul for the more than 1,500 american servicemen and women who have died in the nearly deca

but for one man in cape may, new jersey, every day is about veterans and the flag.ight from nbc's mike taibbi. >> reporter: on summer mornings on the southern tip of new jersey they raise a special flag each day. it's the coffin flag of a fallen u.s. veteran, brought by family members to sunset beach. on this day it's the flag that once draped the coffin of felice uzalino, dora to her friends, who served in the army during world war ii. >> my mother would be honored and very proud of this day. she's like up there. she's just flowing with the wind. you know. standing tall like my mom would. >> reporter: the flags were the idea of sunset beach owner marvin hume, himself a world war ii veteran, who lost a childhood friend when the japanese attacked pearl harbor. his friend's body was never recovered, but hume wanted to find a way to salute his sacrifice. >> i thought, here's the last flag in the southern part of our state. what a place to honor my friend. >> reporter: and then in 1973, to honor others who'd perished in service to their country, he ran a single newspape

not the flag drop. >> on this one, it has been eight years since the fare increase. there have been fuel increases, standard inflation, and i just want to say to the cab drivers and other members of the industry you have come to speak with us coming have represented yourself very well and yet made the case eloquently and passionately. i am in favor of a fare increase and also in favor of changing the system so we don't have to deal with this ad hoc and we don't have to do other things to deal with this and more systematic fashion. there is a small part of the proposal we have, procedurally, just to be clear, we are not looking on the entire fare increase nor can we vote on it for sunshine reasons. nor can we as a board consider the entire package as one so we can consider how much of an increase is being given to drivers and how much of the total is being imposed on the public. i think our friend from the division of weights and measures may ak procedural -- made a key procedural point. it doesn't matter when we vote on this because it doesn't have to be for fairness

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. >> reporter: when a flag is so worn and no longer fit to serve as a national symbol.eral law stipulates that it shown burned by a dignified manner. starting this weekend he's collecting tattered flags. >>> for a list of events taking place here in the bay area for memorial day, go to our website ktvu.com and look under the right now section. >>> an 8-year-old california boy is showing his respect for old glory as well. luke smith the member of a group named young marines from oceanside noticed a flag on the oceanside pier was faded and tattered. so he wrote a letter to the mayor asking to replace it and the mayor did just that. >> it makes me feel very proud. i am honored to have him at least listen to a kid, because most people don't listen to children. >> we don't have the eyes and ears out there like we used to be with the cut backs, to have a young lad like this spot a flag tattered in a military town was fantastic. >> reporter: the mayor also sent luke a letter. and there's no surprise that when luke grows up, he wants to become a marine like his father and broth

he incorporated the british flag in the upper left-hand corner of the hawaiian flag.e also included eight red, white, and blue stripes. they represent hawaii's eight major islands. in 1894, americans with powerful interests in hawaii's sugar and pineapple industries overturned the monarchy. they declared hawaii a republic. following the attacks on pearl hasher in 1941, public sentiment among hawaiians grew in favor of statehood. in 1959, hawaii became our 50th state, but its flag has never changed. today hawaii remains the only state to feature a british flag from times gone by. for flag facts, i'm kristen. >> that wraps up our show, but we'll be back with more "teen kids news." >> thanks for joining us, and have a great week. >> write to us at info@teenkidsnews.com. >> on behalf of everyone here at "teen kids news," we want to give a special thanks to all our military overseas. @x@x

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the steel was draped in the american flag once considered evidence of osama bin laden's evil. soon they will stand on end as part of the 9/11 memorial. >> it's going to be something where the local community will feel and see, you know, a piece of some history. >> reporter: now the plan is to put them along the waterfront. they will be joined by two pieces of stone from the pentagon. the goal is to share stories of heroism. final stages of design for the memorial are underway. the plan is set to be complete pie september 11th -- by september 11th of next year. >>> organizers of the memorial will release ren consider itings of the -- renderings of the project. wreckage will be incorporated into the privately funded memorial. it will function as a sun dial using the shadow of the trade center. it will bear the names and birthdates of the victims who considered maryland home. we have plenty more on this story at abc2news.commed we also look at how the death of osama bin laden will affect the economy. that's all at abc2news.com. >>> a 5-year-old boy spends days trapped in the clos

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the confederate flag represents liberty and justice for some. and the fact is that when in 1861 there was treason, american was broken apart, the losers now have their flag hanging there. and the fact is that the area, fredricka, is 48% black. that flag represents oppression, slavery. that essentially is racist. and i think the louisiana supreme court should be given credit for taking the case. i think they're going to vacate that conviction. but mr. dorsey's going to go back to trial and he's going to be retried for the murder as he should be. >> richard, you agree the supreme court would take on this case is an indication that, perhaps, those justices might feel like something is awry here? >> unfortunately, fred, the defense attorney did not raise the issue of the flag at any time during the trial. so the record on appeal has no objection by defense concerning the flag. therefore, the justices in the appellate decision are not even going to consider that argumentment they are going to consider the fact that the argument that the claim the gov

. >> full package, flag drop too. >> i want to make sure when we say full package, because i heard a discussion about gates. >> if we could take it item by item and let me know, let the board know, what we will have by that meeting. >> i'm walking down that. we can have a proposal on peak time medallions, we can bring back the meter increase and that is mileage as well as wait time and then we can also bring you pack a proposal as it relates to a flag drop. so we can have all of that by the second meeting in june. >> personally to me, that's fine. i don't need to wait for the gate increase, that's a different issue that needs to be vetted, i wouldn't want to hold this up for that. i mean i realize the director may feel differently or feel differently about timing but for me if we get those three things an clarity about how the credit cards are going to work vis-a-vis the customer, there's a whole mess of issue it is deal with as to whether 5% is the right fee and who bears it in the industry but if those four things came forward in june, i'd be satisfied and prepared to vote for the

the red flag the raids on the top of the lifestyle game a nine hundred forty five. became the symbol of victory of soviet people over fascism. six in one nine hundred forty five of a silly two wolf was an anti-tank gun platoon commander she still keeps him out that he got before assaulting berlin. if the river i do this is a map they gave out before the dawn we were supposed to attack the outskirts of girl in the dark back and before that they gave me a map. in late january nine hundred forty five the success of the vistula other offensive had gained soviet troops a foothold deep in german territory. causing the other river they had covered nearly five hundred kilometers in twenty days the germans no longer offered any serious resistance the soviet line was now just a stone's throw away from berlin he also made objective of the red army offensive yet really on the map i measured the distance with a ruler the just the one kilometers to the outskirts of berlin it only sixty one kilometers or media and when the allies bombed the flashes of an aircraft shells lit the sk

the flag. we don't want it to sit on the garage floor or in a closet. we'd rather seen it come in and be used for a meaningful purpose. >>> there's a special memorial day baseball game today between the oakland as and yankees. fans can donate to troops direct before and after the game. the nonprofit provides necessities like tooth paste and bottled water to frontline troops. today's game starts at 1:05. >>> ahead while you may have to make different connections if you take to san francisco from the east bay. >>> crews are getting ready for pipeline testing in two bay area cities. that involves filling them with water at a high pressurized level. that will happen tomorrow in newark and wednesday in san jose. the actual testing should be done later this week. customers shouldn't notice any interruption in service. the tests are in response to the san bruno pipeline explosion. other utilities are asking the state to change power pole safety rules. they want to eliminate a requirement that they nee

i'm pretty proud of him. >> i saw the american flag at the top of the pole. i felt proud and i was sad. the flag was all lit up and tattered. >> we don't have the eyes and ears that we used to be. a young lad like this, a tattered flag in the city of oceanside in the military. >> our country and the people who fight for it. i would be pleased to see what would replace it. >> i thought it was great. i gave it to the city manager and replaced the flag. >> it makes me feel very proud. i am honored to have him at least listen to kids. most people don't listen to children. >> i'm not worried about the future with kids like him. >> and the mayor sent luke a letter of proclamation, which luke says he will cherish every day especially the holiday weekend. >> i wish all of you watching a happy memorial weekend. >>> spaceshuttle endeavor undocked from the international space station two weeks ago. the shuttle is taking a lap around the space station before coming home. astronauts perform four space walks to make repairs in the iss. this is endeavour's last mission much

you fought for this flag, now here is a flag for you. it sort of helps me.ng something that he would have appreciated. he would say that's good, dad. it really makes you want to cry. just think, just having something to do with it. >> that was amalia bereta reporting. >> the cemetery previously banned flags because they said the flags made it difficult to maintain the grounds. these flags will stay for a week. >> emotional story. >>> here is your memorial day forecast -- heat advisories in d.c., philly. gusty winds, hail, chance of tornados from the dakotas into minnesota. stormy, not as severe around kansas city, oklahoma city. heavy snow in the rockies, and rain in the pacific northwest. >> 60s in seattle and portland. 77 in albuquerque. omaha, 85, chicago, 89. mostly 90s from new orleans all the way to new york. >>> you have your dancing shoes on right now? >> yeah, i do. i love the story. >> the broadway play "anything goes" lived up to its name this memorial day weekend. saturday's performance ended with a marine captain taking to the stage and proposin

flag and cheering the death of u.s. soldiers? is there hypocrisy there? >> when we see young people in the middle east, dancing in the street about americans dying in a burning the flag is, we have not seen that happen very much since barack obama became president. we have to get behind it. ask ourselves why is it happening. they have a reason for doing it. we have to understand what those reasons are. they may be misguided, but they have a reason. what i have been trying to say is that it is not over and it is not going to be over. you can't shoot all of these people. you have to understand what the motivation is behind this rage. it has nothing fully been redirected in a lot of countries at their own government. which is where it should be directed. until we solve these problems of the unemployment out there, the lack of participation in the government out there, there is going to be this rage and it will sometimes be directed at us, which is the wrong place to direct it. >> part of what you were suggesting to us was that just because he is dead, 10 yea

it no red flag.s for the luggage, the security administration said it would have no way of knowing he had no bag as he went through securities on the red flag. same thing for the one-way ticket, no way for the gsa agents not knowing. it's not always an indication of a security risk. the gsa said the best line of defense with the watch list is one official speaking on the condition of anonymity sang he was not on the terrorist less. >>pam: what does that leave the travelling public? the gsa san make sure no one is travelling with anything on them are in their bag that could harm anyone, in this case he wasn't traveling with anything that could harm. >>pam: any indication whether he went through the second screening? the tse said there's no way of knowing, they don't follow that. he is due back in court on friday, hopefully we will get additional information and more information about the possible motives. >>pam: a massachusetts man allegedly tried to open an emergency door on a delta flight from orlan

you will see a that the flag is flying tonight. just down here, two doors down, there is a pakistani restaurant. the owner said he welcomed the good news thing about osama bin laden's death and calling him a bad man. we talk with some of the customers. one of them likened his death to hitler and timothy mcveigh. another told us it is about time. visits with another customer had to say. >> he did not mention once any cooperation with pakistani government. and indicated to me that there was not any collaboration on this. historically, there have been links between the pakistani inter- services intelligence agency and al qaeda. that is joel who is a professor of middle east history at stanford and watched the speech with him earlier tonight. he said while the debt is a blow to would-be terrorists, he said it is mostly -- mostly symbolic and said that was the important piece missing from the speech. he also says, as you probably have heard tonight that this does not mean that terrorism is overt. there could be retribution. we will cont

. >>> plus the service one bay area company is now offering when your american flag becomes too worn to display. >> good morning. westbound 92 traffic looks pretty good out to the high rise. we will tell you more straight ahead. @ >>> good morning. a lot of low clouds and even higher clouds, a sea breeze in place. we had sun yesterday but we lose that especially coast today. >> police in lumas are investigating a triple homicide. police say one woman was found dead inside the home saturday morning and a man found dead outside. a third victim was also found severely injured outside the home then later died at the hospital. the three victims reportedly suffered trauma to the head. no signs of forced entry and investigators say the act does not appear to be random. >>> the u.s. is apologizing for a nata air strike in afghanistan that killed civilians. the air strike was launched on a compound where insurgents took cover after killing a u.s. marine but the compound had civilians inside as well. the u.s. says nine civilians died in the air strike, afghan officials say as many as well chil