geraldine schwarz, what can you tell us? >> yes, cherif was to send them to iraq. he himself tried to go to iraq. really important right now in france is this an islamic terrorist attack? these three gunmen, when they appeared in the -- at the beginning of the attack on wednesday, claimed that they were actually from al qaeda. and when they escaped from the building, journalists heard them saying allahu akbar, which means god is great. we avenged muhammad's -- charlie hebdo is dead. >> right. what do you make of the fact that they had such military expertise? apparently they were very adept at using their weapons. the attack appears to be very well planned. does that indicate for you that they must have had some kind of military experience? >> well, i think it is a bit too soon to make any statements on that. there is a clear difference with other accidents which happened in the last weeks like a man who drove his car in a crowd in dijon. who clearly was psychologically a bit disabled and then another man a few weeks ago who stabbed three men in a station also shou

i think we may have geraldine back up. geraldine, are you there? am. >> i wanted to know a little bit about the potential this event has to change the political dialogue in france. >> yes, i think it has already been mentioned earlier. the french political arena has already been very much polarized, and the far right was doing extremely well. it is going to embolden them further. they were already rating high thanks to the bad economic news thanks to the very high unemployment rate. now they have another case. it is strengthening their case. they are doing very well on the fears of security. it is definitely given them a case of the current government is kind of free with security. it also gives them a case to show how strong or wise they were to say the government was weak, had been weak, and remains weak. this is one of the worst terrorist attacks paris has seen in years. >> jolting thank you. nice to see this morning. our bureau chief in paris. we will be back in a few minutes. ♪ >> coming up he may be gone, but he is certainly not forgotten. fa

geraldine amiel . let's get straight to our reporter on the ground. we understand there is a hostage situation. can you tell us anything more? >> [indiscernible] is reporting that negotiations are taking place. negotiations implies potentially that there are hostages. it also implies some potential and game. it may indicate that they have this somewhat -- not under control -- but they have this isolated. i want to go back to what our guest said earlier. he said he is about 300 meters away and there is a school about 250 meters away. teachers are putting themselves -- the children are lying on the ground. this is according to our witness. that is very important. also, he said that he received no information from authorities about what to do and he is relying on media accounts. that indicates to me that this is very close to where the operation is happening, and operation that still is in progress. we will look for confirmation from authorities on whether there is negotiation taking place between these suspects the kouachi brothers, cherif and said, bet

and so whenever, for instance, carrie in trip i had gone to see geraldine page do the movie i left theent to my agent and i said you get me my gift trip to bountiful and i will retire. he looked at me and laughed and that was it. i advise theed himvisited him on a monthly basis and said where is my trip to bountiful, i wasn't referring to the actual play, i was referring to one role. i have done phenomenal pieces. >> lord yes. >> and so i said i just want one more. i won't be greedy. i'll back away. you know. and then i'll go. you know. well, 26 years later. i receive a call from my assistant who said van ramseyy is looking for you. he is the costume designer for "trip" and he has someone he wants to introduce you to. the person turned out to be haley foot, courton's daughter. we met and she said i'm about to do a play of my fathers. and i was a black cat and he had so much respect for you. i know he would want you alone to play the lead role. i asked who is your father. she said horton foot. i said and the play? she said "trip the bountiful i fell off the chair. because i thought had

his wife, geraldine, died in 1918 from the flu pandemic. he was never the same. in a personal way, he was a broken man. they had been inseparable. i should've mentioned her earlier in terms of getting a newspaper out and being by his side. women were part of the protest of the movie. he struggled along in a big way in the years after. his wife -- the other thing it why he has become lost in time is he was overshadowed by the naacp, which he would not join. 1915 turns out to be a hugely pivotal year in the naacp gaining traction. look at the numbers at the beginning of the year and the end. i do not have them. the number of new branches, new members, many of which occurred because of the protests against the movie as it moved through the country. it was a breakout year. trotter would not be a part of it because he felt strongly that the organization crated by the -- created for the advancement of colored people should be integrated but run by blacks. it was not then. in his early years, the top people were white liberals. he felt that sent the wrong message. >> in

that went instead to fellow new yorker geraldine ferrero.rofessionally, the governor of new york hit it out of the park. >> we democrats believe that we can make it all the way with the whole family intact, and we have more than once. >> reporter: cuomo became a much talked about potential presidential candidate for 1988 and 1992. he was born in queens, the briarwood section in 1932. his parents born in italy, ran a store in the south jamaica section. protecting the underdog whether ethnic or income level would be one of the benchmarks of the cuomo legacy. he was also against the death penalty, vetoing several attempts to reinstate it in new york. his last public appearance november 4th, 2014, at the victory speech for his son's re-election. >> his inspiration and his legacy and his experience is what has brought this state to this point. >> reporter: bill ritter, abc news, new york. >>> to indonesia and the recovery of bodies from the air asia crash site is moving more quickly today. more than a dozen of the 162 victims have been pulled fro