greer and loves him as a principal. and the er physician called me and said, hey, you need to get to the er, the principal of the high school is here and he's in bad shape. that was very hard on me. i do try to treat each patient like they're my own family member and that day greer was my brother and nothing was going to stop me from getting what he needed. and just the whole process was an emotional roller coaster. we had a bed and then couldn't get transferred, then we found another hospital but then there was transport issues again. i was told that he wouldn't fit on the helicopter and just ups and downs of trying to get him to what he needed was definitely an experience i'll never forget. when the helicopter finally took off, i hugged one of the nurses that was helping me get him off the ground. we hugged and stephanie, greer's wife hugged. there were about 30 of us out there crying watching him leave. >> principal greer, i know you were very grateful, there's such big love in such a small town. and you were able to

ebony hilton, msnbc medical contribute and professor christina greer from fordham.ews on what we ran through including some of the problems in florida where the new state surgeon general seems to be taking a fairly political line against safety measures. >> it's absolutely dangerous. you know, particularly when we're talking about children, we literally had a million children diagnosed with covid-19 over the past four weeks and if we're looking at it, it's literally at this .555 children that we know have died from covid-19 by the end of this september. and if we look at july that number was 358 kids. between august and september we lost another 200 children to covid-19. that's three kids dying a day. so this political play, it has consequences and it's not only for the old but it's for the most vulnerable persons that literally don't have a choice and say of whether or not they can get vaccinated. >> professor greer, it's hard to track any national conversation, quote/unquote because there's a lot of different things going on but it seems this year after the first

for farmers like greer, this is just another example of setbacks black farmers have faced for decadesd, president of the black farmers union agrees. >> i want to be really clear here, it took place on the watch of republicans, it took place on the watch of democrats, and it took place on the watch of the american people. everybody's guilty here, because we didn't step up and stop it. >> reporter: he admits he's disappointed with how the covid program has been rolled out, but believes the resistance is part of a bigger problem. >> there's a real division between white america now and black america. and even a bigger division between a black farmer and a white farmer, you can feel the tension. >> reporter: back in lyles station, all hope isn't lost. greer's grandson, deanthony, encouraged by his grandfather, is about to graduate with a degree from tennessee state university in agribusiness. while he's not sure he'll be taking over the family farm. he understands the close ties farmers, regardless of race, have with their land. >> understand that we want to be out here too, we want the s

david allen greer won tony for best featured actor in a play.hose previously announced included david burn. a concert welcoming broadway back. that and the awards part of the evening featured some of broadway's legendary performers. >> very cool. >>> 4:45. let's get a check of your forecast with mary lee. it was a little damp this morning. >>> tracking that drizzle along the coast and around the bay, a wet start to our day in spots. as we head through the afternoon, tracking a weather system that could bring a few showers for us. a live look with our mark hopkins hotel cam looking at san francisco, you see the drops on our live cam as we are looking at temperatures on the mild side from concord, oakland, low 60s, mid 50s in livermore, san francisco, san jose, upper 50s though a bit chillier in santa rosa down to 47. checking current visibility, it is a foggy start along the coast down to a quarter mile at half moon bay. you will notice that humidity as you step outside. you can feel that as e looking at high relative humidity this morning. here

next on lectures in history, brenna greer teaches a class, debunking myths around rosa parks. and a 1956 bus boycott. professor greer explains that rosa parks was not the first american african american woman who refused to give a petite and then the boycott had planning and presidents. she also explains why simplified version of the history has become so widespread. >> so our focus today than is going to be the montgomery bus boycott, like i said, and that's what you read all your sources for, accept that pain article that gave you a larger focus. and you do that, we're gonna go back to our discussion of origin points. our favorite slide, which you are going to be so sick of. representing the narrative art of the popular story of the civil rights movement. we're going back to our topic of origin points, again, with the objective of troubling it. one, putting those events in context but also troubling the idea of them as origin points. and last week we discussed brown versus board of education, we discuss the decision, response, the impact and also the legacy. and i want to ta

that's something you had afros and bell bottoms and you get pam greer and all those other flicks thats fun to be us and that psychological change is atomic to people under represented. kids like me who grew up watching my dad's movies, watching the movies gordon parks and ozzie davis decided we want to do that, too. spike lee, singleton, kids like some of the sisters coming out now. i got melvin's grandson now here who is getting more auditions and making more money than me. look at his shirt. i'm a -- say hi, boy. >> hi. [ laughter ] >> so we have fun and we play a lot in our family. me and my song hang together. me and my dad hang together. what is cool is you develop a work language but you have a father son home language and that's beautiful and he lived a big life, man. he did his thing. he did broadway. we're going to bring "don't play a natural death" to broadway and as you point out, the criteria folks are bringing his movies and when "sweet back" was the hit of 1971, the guy who did the artwork on the cover for the "black panther" label was henry douglas. so 50 years helpry -

. >>> coming up on lectures in history professor brenna greer debunking myths about rosa parks and the montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and '56. she explains that rosa parks was not the first african-american

. >>> coming up on lectures in history professor brenna greer debunking myths about rosa parks and the montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and '56. she explains that rosa parks was not the first african-american woman to refuse to give up her seat and that her action was planned in advance. she also exploring why a simplified version of the history has become so widespread. >> so our focus today then is going to be the montgomery bus boycott. that is and what you read your sources for except the payne article that gave you a larger focus and to do that we'll go back to the discussion of origin point. our favorite slide which you're going to be so sick of. representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the civil rights movement. and we're going back to our topic of origin points, again with the objective of troubling it. one, putting those events in context but also troubling the idea of them as origin points. and last week we discussed brown versus board of education, we discussed the decision, response, the impact but also the legacy. and i want to talk more about the legacy as we

military killed and wounded and remaining american citizens who you ha beent greer risk. >> mark jacobsonhat you've heard so far. >> i think if there's one thing about the hearing today, you heard direct, unambiguousnd professional testimony from two of the most seniorilitary leaders, general frank mckenzie and of course chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, milley. i understand the distinction they were trying to make between the advice they were trying to give earlier to the president and the advice where they were unanimous in terms of the risk to the mission later. you know, look, there is a lot of nuance that people have to understand with regards to the testimony here. this was a complex environment. and i have been very clear, you know, i didn't agree with the president's decision, and i woul have liked our troops to stay longerbut i thought, again, the witnesses made really very clear what was going on in terms of the advice given, why they gave that advice, and then were also very clear that the president gave that advice a great deal of consideration. >> you three have all of t