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host: helen, greensboro, north carolina, democratic line. 8002.r: i dialed i am independent. what i want to say is a lot of this gun violence is brought on, some of it, by our politicians. it amazes me, every time we have theylent gun crime, oh, are out there, talking, they are going to take our guns away. we have had guns centuries. -- what theyicians need to do is get off there can and get the people's work done. one thing i would like to see them do, every day they are not working, take their pay away. does the american people realize these politicians get paid anywhere from 150 to $174,000 per year. they are protected by guns. cars forto park their free. they are out campaigning. harris is a bunch of nothing. host: what is your position on gun rights? caller: less. we do not need gun control. sir, is mostto do, of the crimes are committed by people that have problems. it is just ridiculous that they want to take the law-abiding citizens' guns away from them. maybe they don't need to be protected. wisconsin, a gun owner. good morning. caller: good morning. waukesha. host:

and beto has spoke ton voters in charlotte, greensboro next. two cities with different identities. talk about the message we'll hear from beto today? >> reporter: good morning, yasmin. jumping in the car ourselves in a moment going from charlotte on the way to greensboro, a meeting in chapel hill before driving up for a series of events tomorrow in virginia. you mentioned what north carolina looks like. not only do they have a large african-american population here in charlotte, but also a large latino population. i asked beto o'rourke the very question of, when it comes to mayor pete buttigieg, a lot of folks we talked to quarrel with the democratic party saying perhaps democrats need to go with a nominee from the midwest who understands the rest belt community as a big part of the reason hillary clinton lost in 2016. i put that question to him and let you hear his response. >> i really don't think that our nominee or the next president can bank their political prospects on one part of the country, one geographic region. one demographic. if you're not for everyone, for every singl

a little over 1000 would be paroled in greensboro. 308 ingoldsboro and charlotte between june 1 and june 5. as you might expect, by may 11 to june 5, many of these made their way home and decided to get paroled. april, continuing into may, even into june, lee's soldiers trickled in. sometimes as individuals but often has groups. the final number of men i had in my database is 15,739. this includes places beyond virginia, north virginia, west virginia. the eastern shore, on the peninsula, in farmville, lynchburg, throughout the valley. the process begun here at appomattox of disbanding and paroling these army continues. some decided it was in their best interest to turn themselves in. others found themselves and had --choice -- from them selves and had no choice but to turn themselves in. their ability to do so reflected the inclusiveness, the flexibility and the generosity of grant's terms. importantly, this often overlooked story is crucial to understanding how the war ended. of course, we all know that not army in theohnson's field, but other armies in the field. appomattox is a stand-

i was just in greensboro, north carolina, 1960, four people by city at the lunch counter in the woolworth'sunter shocked the conscience of the country and it sure was a demand for change. the friendship nine in morocco south carolina the freedom writers in the deep south john lewis crossing the edmund pettus bridge. we like to and maybe i'd like to, or people who look like me like to, tell the stories about we overcame this to people overcame this. a better country for it. but in his memorial to justice and peace, he describes the lynchings, the brutality, the violence visited upon people in this country based on their race and the color of their skin. just outside of houston, texas, in fort bend they just discovered a graveyard. not from the days of slavery or the era of the civil war, but at the turn of the last century, convict gangs comprised of black americans who were arrested for the color of their skin to supply a a labor need in that community and were literally worked to death. as they do the forensic investigation they see the muscles torn literally from the bones on that body. t

i was just in greensboro, north carolina, 1960. 4 young people by sitting in that lunch counter in theoolworth's shocked the conscience of the country. the deepom riders in south, john lewis crossing the edmund pettus bridge. people who live like me like to tell those stories like, you know what? we overcame this. people overcame this. we are a better country for it. but in's memorial, he describes the lynchings, the brutality visited him people in this country based on their race and the color of their skin. just outside of houston, texas, they just discovered a graveyard . not from the days of slavery or the era of the civil war but the turn of the last century, comprised of black americans who and literally worked to death. they did the forensic investigation. they see the muscles torn, literally, from the bones on that body. that wee the challenges live with today that continue today. ist brian stephenson told me before you talk about payments and money, you must talk about the truth and the facts of the full story. everybody must understand what is happening in this country. he sa

theent on to teach at university of north carolina greensboro and west virginia university before landing and probably one of the finest places you can land as a historian, it is berg college as the professor of civil war studies and director of the civil war institute at gettysburg college, where he has been since 2010. ofer also serves as coeditor the civil war america series from the university of north carolina press. he is no stranger to the historical society, where he has conducted a lot of research and spoke in a number of times before. he is the author of numerous scholarly and popular articles, and several books. most recently "the war for the common soldier: how men thought, fought, and survived in civil war armies," copies of which are available at our shop and i am sure pete would be happy to sign them for you. please give a warm welcome to peter carmichael. [applause] peter: sorry very any to get settled. thank you so much for the kind introduction. nostalgick here is and it makes me started because 1985, i was aof seasonal historian at appomattox courthouse. i had to play a

two hours later he was seen on tape at a cracker barrel restaurant in greensboro. he checked into this hampton inn in hillsdale, virginia. this is him front desk. about 11:00 p.m. and him again at midnight. he also made a phone call around midnight. and that was the last time anybody heard from jason young until he made another call at 7:40 the next morning. >> a normal person would look at this and say he was 170 miles away. he's got an alibi. >> that sounds like a great distance, you know? but 170 miles you can get between the crime scene and the hotel in about 2 1/2 hours. >> reporter: perhaps. but there were curious anomalies at the crime scene. couldn't explain them. a jewelry box was missing two drawers. so was it a bungled burglary? then there were footprints near the body that seemed to eliminate jason. an obvious print on the pillow was a size 10. but jason wore a size 12. but this was weird. there was another partial footprint. it defied easy identification, so they began calling in shoe experts. and now they wondered were there two attackers? of course,

officer jared franks of greensboro police department. corporal travis wells of the dallas police department. frooper kevin k. connor of the north carolina highway patrol. trooper samuel m. bullord of the north carolina highway patrol. senior police officer christopher driver, deputy sheriff david l. manning of edge comb county, and deputy sheriff alexis locklear. it's with sadness i recognize them but in honor of their great service, mr. speaker, this resolution demonstrates our bipartisan support, not only for the men and women in law enforcement who put their lives on the line each and day to risk them, to leave their families to serve their community but the broader family of law enforcement in general. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support this resolution and seeing that the gentlewoman has no additional speakers, i'm going to yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from minnesota, mrs. craig, is recognized. mrs. craig: t

we know about those in greensboro. the freedom riders. all of those young people who took their lives into their hands, it was not lbj or anyone else to whom we owe the victory of the civil rights progress we have made. it will be too young people against climate change. katie, thank you. ana: it is the young people. the next question comes from south carolina. southker of columbia, carolina has been a teacher and today is organizing. metand her comrades have some incredibly creative actions, you're going to like this one. i think a video called i want to marry you for your health care. really good. senators lindsey graham and tim scott. i want to learn how to do that. viral.s video went .he helped lead parades she is bad ass and is here to ask you a question. >> hi, beto. i want to say as someone who is organizing in an extremely red state it is discouraging to cast .y vote everyone for my city council rep to my u.s. congressman and even my flip-flopping senator is so confident in what they have done through gerrymandering and voter supp

host: let's go to tina, who is calling from greensboro, north carolina. tina, good morning.aller: good morning. that the concerned media is portraying the democrats as just wanting impeachment. and i have heard you say that in the last election, that many were voted for that. andaccording to your show all the democrats were running other thansues impeachment, and so therefore that should not be anything that we are looking to do right now. i am concerned that the voting process is absolutely corrupt. greensboro, we reported that we were voting for hillary clinton, but at the conclusion of the voting process is, our votes were changed to donald trump. what did the board of elections do? they ignored our, you know, our didms and acted as if it not happen. what is the point of saying you are going to vote out a president with the voting machines are corrupt? someone needs to check in with that. and then there are other things that we can do other than impeachment. number one, they can censure this president and limit some of his powers, because he did not become president just

near greensboro, north carolina, high winds ripped the roof off of a fire station.sponding to other storm-related emergencies when that happened. >> there was a couple of weird cracks that we heard. we opened the door to look outside, and i walked into the day room to look out the window, and the next thing i know, there was a loud boom. sounded like the roof flew off literally. >> the storm system is being blamed for at least five deaths including that of an 8-year-old girl in florida who was killed when a tree fell through her home. >>> more than 1,700 flights were canceled nationwide on friday. >>> scientists at the national hurricane center now say hurricane michael was a category 5 storm when it made landfall back in october. michael's winds clocked in at 160 miles an hour at landfalling an increase of 5 miles an hour over the estimate last fall. that's just over the threshold for a cat 5 storm. michael is blamed for about 16 deaths and $55 billion in damages. it's the first category 5 to ever make landfall in the u.s. >>> the justice department says a subpoena

carolina hasn't had a risk like this in three years so you're talking about virginia from lynchburg to greensboroeas that could see winds in excess of 70 miles per hour today, taking down power lines, definitely going to impact travel and certainly have some flash flood potential all the way down to florida. by the way, flood alerts up all throughout the northeast because you can get two to even four inches of rain with this storm today into tomorrow. amy. >> wow, a lot of people traveling on this busy easter weekend. thank you, ginger. >>> now to that dramatic video inside the tennessee cave rescue. abc news has obtained exclusive footage showing the moment that trapped diver was saved. steve osunsami is on the scene in jackson county, tennessee with more on this. good morning, steve. >> reporter: good morning to you, amy. this underwater video shows just how dangerous this rescue was. the diver who recorded it flew in from florida and is one of the few people in the world who could have pulled this off. this is the beginning of a daring rescue from the camera of diver ed sorenson who flew in fr

. >> from greensboro, north carolina. >> on our honeymoon from dunlap, iowa. >> to our sister in new> from north carolina >> celebrating our 16th birthdays. >>> good morning. welcome back to "today" on a bright, beautiful wednesday morning. we are so happy to have you along with us. >> look at that crowd. >> good crowd. sunshine, too. >> another great day in new york city. if you can't make it, no worries. #mytodayplaza is the hashtag. upload that video. put it on instagram, put it on twitter, and we will put you on television. >>> something special coming up tomorrow on "today." almost a year after losing their 19-month-old daughter in an accidental drowning, bode and morgan miller are doing something really important and they want you to know about it. they're teaching their new baby boy how to swim. well, they are going to take natalie along for that and open up about the importance of water safety for all families. so many of us have followed their stories. we know how important this is to them. they are continuing to get that message out. natalie sits down with bode and morgan.

in 1960, 4 african-american theege students sat at lunch counter in greensboro, north carolina, to desegregatehe south. they were courageous beyond belief in standing up for equality. today, young people like nadia across the table from me and across this country are courageously standing up not only for equality, but for our existence. climate change is our lunch counter moment for the 21st century. host: do you agree or disagree with him? are you concerned about climate change? gilbert says he is very concerned. gilbert? go ahead. caller: good morning and happy earth day. i am very, very concerned about this matter. as a person that has gone through a natural disaster, my home was destroyed by a windstorm in 2001. as i follow the weather patterns from beach storms like the one in joppa, missouri, and what and across houston this nation, when you try to tell someone who has the experience what climate change has done to them. my thing is this, we are on the verge of becoming a nation of no man's because we have so many people -- it is warmer in places where it is normally cold and colder in .

in greensboro, bennett college. my question kind of follow up on that. pell grants are great. many of us students who attend hbcus, 80, 90% of them depend on it, financially. and yes, we have expanded it year-round, , but i think we alo need to expand the money year-round because if you stretch it out and we don't with additional dollars in, that doesn't help very much, but it is certainly an opportunity for students to do better. is it true that your fiscal year 20 budget plan fails to request reauthorization of mandatory funding for msis resulting in a cut of 255,000,055,000,000 for msis including 85 million hbcus which represents some of our lowest endowed institutions? i want to move quickly so if you could tell me if you know that, yes or no? >> the budget has proposed consolidating many of those smaller grants into one that could be better targeted to the institutions and primarily the students that need it most to give more flexibility to meet individual students needs. >> so that is a yes or a no? >> it's a proposal to consolidate some of the small r line items into on

greensboro, north carolina, for those who oppose the policy. go ahead.aller: yes, i don't oppose what is being done, i don't have a problem with transgender in the military. it makes no sense when we have a problem with transgender in the military. i like to ask reviewers, how many of you can i come into your house, how many would let the government come into your house and tell you who you could be, who you can be with, what you can do with your life? that doesn't make any sense. i understand the argument is the i understand the argument, it is the cost. , and a lot ofgh it should be put on those people that want to be transgender. if they want to change their gender, they should foot part of the bill for it. part of it, yes, should be in their military package, but for the most part, they should take themselves, part but banning transgender in the military, that is retarded. make any sense. if we are at war, if someone is coming over to invade, if someone is holding you at gunpoint, are you going to stop and say, "hold on a second, are you transgender?

[laughter] joseph from greensboro, north carolina, a non-gun owner. , i want totoure applaud you foru're doing. i was raised in newark, new jersey during the 1960's riots and i was raised as a child to believe that no one should have officer ort a police a criminal. i have lived in north carolina for 40 years. the 40 years i have lived in north carolina, i have had family members, black-and-white, and white, whok own guns. when you look at the murder rates for the state of north carolina compared to the murder rate in the state of new jersey, there's a tremendous difference. am kindnt to say is i of a born-again gun person. i do not own a gun myself. i do not use a gun. i choose not to have a gun. but my stepson carries a gun. it is legal. he is fingerprinted. and i certainly believe that african-american americans should be allowed to own and carry firearms. guns are not the problem. it is people who are the problem. that's all i have to say about that. guest: i will give them a little push back there. the reality -- it's a human right. even at certain times can you had americans wh

. -- i am 40 years retired college professor in greensboro at bennett college. my question in terms of following up on that. pell grants are great. 80 to 90% of students depend on it for financial aid. and yes we have expanded it year round. but i think we also need to -- we have got to expand the money year round. because if you stretch it out and we don't put additional dollars in that doesn't help very much. but it is certainly an opportunity for students to do better. is it true that your fiscal year' 20 bung plan fails to request reauthorization of mandatory funding for msis including $85 million to hbcus which represent isn't some of our lowest endowed institutions? >> i want to move quickly. so if you could tell me if you know that, yes or no. >> ma'am, the budget has proposed consolidating many of those smaller grants into one that could be better targeted to the institutions and primarily the students that need it most to give more flexibility to meet individual students' needs. >> so that's a yes or a no? >> well, it is a proposal to consolidate some o