love is a melody, harlem is harmony, ♪ ♪harlem is harmony, harlem is harmony, harlem is harmony. ♪ josen: marshall took advantage of the culture of harlem. boxing matches with joe louis and dinners and music. narrator: thurgood and buster arrived as the harlem renaissance was coming to a close, but the effects were still everywhere, and they were able to reconnect with school friends cab callaway and langston hughes. (cab calloway music) ♪ hey now, hey now! jose anderson: you had a group of african-american professionals, a group of african-american creative people from which houston and marshall could draw encouragement from the whole post-harlem renaissance era, and so that community actually helped to energize momentum for the legal campaign across the entire country. jose anderson: new york was an exciting place to be the headquarters for the campaign. in fact new york had plenty of race issues of its own. thurgood marshall: after a riot would break in harlem a code number would go out to all policemen in the 123rd street precinct - that's right in the middle of harlem. in the meant

others then went on to harlem and tried to, to take the t triborough bridge. tried to take the lincoln tunnel. small protests across city. this is one of many. don. >> miguel marques in new york city again. protests you see on the bottom of your screen. coast to coast. right here in america in the united states. boston. philadelphia. baltimore. washington, d.c. providence rhode island. chicago. new orleans. nashville. denver. dallas. san francisco. oakland. portland, oregon. seattle. of course, ferguson, missouri. and as we have just been showing you in new york city, in manhattan, and brooklyn, as well. we will be covering this throughout the evening here on cnn. when we come right back. we are going to talk about the protests again and the shocking rant by the stepfather of michael brown caught on tape before the violence broke out last night here in ferguson, missouri. plus officer darren wilson tells abc news he has a clean conscience. we will have reaction to that interview coming up. and how do parents in ferguson explain the events here to their childre

♪and best wishes from the lottery♪ >>> one of the harlem globe trotters makes a special appearance in today take a look. >> ha, ha, ha. looks like fun. "action news" caught up with handles franklin at the penn charter school in east falls, he was doing more than showing off his impressive ball handling, the program shows children how to prevent bullying and violence. >>> now time for sports. mark sanchez is getting ready for his second start against the packers on sunday. >> the next game is the most important game and probably the most toughest game on the schedule to date. eagles sun at green bay. mark sanchez hopes to ride the momentum from his stellar performance on monday. but weather could be a factor. temperatures notice low 20s, and it is green bay, it might snow. >> i heard talk about that, we'll worry about that in the next couple days, but this team can play in the snow and i saw it last year on tv and i watched the game and they looked sharp and coach kelly's biggest thing is control, and unless someone is in the locker room that can control the weather, we just go play. >

last night we walked all the way to harlem and there was a standoff with police when they tried to take a bridge. there are several simultaneous protests going on across the city. part of the protesters plan to try to take back the streets and show authorities who is boss, essentially. people, this crowd we're with, growing in size. if you can see that light shining over us as we go, that's the police helicopter overhead keeping track of this. police, i will say, were on an elevated part of the fdr, in large numbers, are along the bottom, here on the south side, you can see the police vehicles are gathered here. at certain points police did form a barricade or a blockade to try to slow the crowd down. it is not clear if this will come to a confrontation. they are allowing these protestsors to protest. anderson? >> miguel, how is this organized? it's organized over social media or planned well advance? had and i assume usually in new york you have to have a permit from protests. i assume something like there there's not a permit, they just marched on to the fdr drive, is that right? >> r

the second call, the fdr tower in harlem. trouble is, we lost the ping.da, it's probably hei phone battery died. we're narrowing it down, reagan. i know. hey, what are you guys working on? you never seem to go home. r cell you checking up on us? easy, i'm just making conversation. make it somewhere else. (sighs) i know this is a stupid question, but are you okay? yeah. no. we're going to figure it out, okay? i know. (cell phone rings) yeah, dad. they found the hummer under the 59th street bridge. and, danny, there's a body in the car. an unidentified female. i'm on my way. they found a body, a female, under the 59th street bridge. okay, okay. i'll drive. car's ready, sir. danny. it's not her! it's not linda. dad, are you sure? i'm sure. you okay? yeah. preliminary indicates all right. sylvia montoya. okay. salazar's girlfriend. yeah. she's the one that led us to him. i'm thinking it wasough for him to kill her lover. he had to see her dead, too. oh, god. n't en break the ice, with breath freshening cooling crystals. ice breakers. enly you're a mouthbreath

that's a little taste of it up here in harlem.ou can see the police backing us up. >> if he has to go to staten island, he has a long, long walk. luckily new york city great transportation. so he'll be fine. the 101 freeway we're looking at now in los angeles shut down. of course, traffic problems always a big issue in los angeles. but now we're being told the 101 freeway shut down in los angeles because of protests. and as we said, there are protests all over the country. you just saw what happened on the eef coast in new york city. the west coast, you ear lo're l at the 101 freeway. there are peaceful protests. a little bit of a standoff with some of the officers. it doesn't appear if there are any arrests. again, the freeway there appears to be moving. it doesn't appear to be -- the big hold-up with protesters, there's traffic. i'm not sure if it's associated. as we get closer, though, there we go. yes, it is. there are people on the ground. some of them appear to be holding signs. there's protests in portland, san francisco, o

we are also now starting to teach coding so that kids in the south bronx or harlem would want to get jobs in the information-technology industry can can come to the library. we are the leading nonuniversity part or with kucera, the online education university program so people who come into the libraries and have group sessions and will find instructors for them so they are trying to learn only online. we do the same thing with: academy. educational programs, quiet places, opportunities to read, take out books and to use computers. i is just in the circulating library, which is the majority of where people come into winners the research libraries where people come from all over the world who are writing books, doing research to use our archives, material, but also incredible spaces. you go to the rosemead rating him as one of the most beautiful pieces in new york and you'll find every seat is filled. >> host: tony marx, whitey think the new york outlook library is as you say at its apex now? just a bunch of reasons. after the economy had its difficulties in 2008, more people had to c

those programs and we are also now starting to cheat tv critique so the kids in the south bronx and harlem want to get jobs in the information technology industry to come to the library with a leading nonuniversity partner with the online education university program to have sessions that will find instructors for them so that they are not trying to learn only online but doing the same thing in the academy. so, educational programs, quiet places, opportunities to read, to take out books and to use computers. and if and that his trust in the circulated letter a. which is the majority of where our people are coming in and then there's the research libraries where people come from all over the world who are writing books and doing research to our archives and material but also our incredible spaces. if you go to the reading room is one of the most beautiful spaces in new york and we will find that every seat is built. >> host: why do you think? >> guest: i think after the economy had its difficulty in 2008, more people had to come into the branches because they couldn't afford an extra room o

one of the harlem road -- one of the harlem globetrotters. around the world, back again. dropping some science. >> they are funny. the holiday season is here, which means it's time for the volkswagen gn-then-drive event.son is here, for practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a german-engineered volkswagen. like the sporty, advanced new jetta... and the 2015 motor trend car of the year all-new golf. if you're wishing for a new volkswagen is season... just about all you need is a finely tuned... pen. hurry in and get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first month's payment on select new volkswagen models. >> today marks one year since a zebra attacked a zookeeper at the national zoo leaving him critically hurt. today, that zookeeper got a chance to save -- to say thank you tohe doctors who saved his life. >> it's hard to believe one year ago today, lane milner nearly lost his life. >> you look wonderful. >> this is the 850 pound animal that nearly killed him last november. zookeeper forgot to properly close a gate and a

. >> born in eat yep use, grew up in sweden and now in philadelphia i love his restaurant in harlem thehilly. >> thank you very much, thanks for having me you are all over the place. >> i'm excited to be here. >> when in philly we have to do a stake sandwich. >> that smells good, right. >> cheese stake. >> but i am going to do a stake sandwich like a regular cheese stake sandwich, no cheese. >> no cheese. >> it is not a cheese stake. >> it is a stake sandwich. >> the whole idea is really good break and then put it on. >> sit toasted. >> yes. >> i used flange stake, peppers and some onions. >> yes you do need some. >> a little bit, right. >> there is plenty of fat in that flange. >> what is the red thing. >> a little bit of red peppers. >> a little bit. >> not too much vegetable. it is not going to be healthy good that is fine with me. >> good, right. >> i will put in may owe that i did with corn. >> that is not regular mayo. >> no, this is roasted corn, super delicious. >> i like that idea good i never had that. >> i haven't either. >> and putting on some more good meat you are layering

in harlem al sharpton spoke and prayed over the families of michael brown who are in harlem for the weekend, and also erik garner, who was killed after police choke hold in staten island, and thai girly, after police shot him in a complex thursday. a lot of reaction in ferguson to the interview given to officer darren wilson mike brown's mother saying she found the whole thing to be disrespectful, and a lot of people here feel that officer wilson have a lot of time to prepare for that, that it was staged, and that there was an agenda. let's live to what he said. >> i reached out to the window with my right hand to grab on his forearm because i was going to move him back so i could get out of the car and i was no longer trapped. but and i can tell you that it was like a five-year-old holding on to hulk hogan. >> a lot of people have support for officer wilson. they don't appear on television, but they are on the internet, and they have raise $400,000 for him which he may have to use for a defense fund in the furor you may have to use personally. >> john terrett for us. for many in ferguson l

me and my brothers used to walk from harlem all the way to wall street. we would stop in the museums. and stores. we would walk and walk. occasionally we would steal fruit and run from the police. we walked and walked. i opened the world for myself between reading and looking at that stuff. nothing kept us there. >> you're lucky when you stole from the police, they didn't catch you. charles: it was a piece of fruit. it wasn't -- >> you're lucky you weren't shot in the back for that. charles: you're missing the bigger point. people can escape. that what you're talking about is an excuse. it's an excuse that's faded away. we're talking people came from a different country. can't speak the language. they're rich. >> it's the same mentality you and your brothers had. you can't say that the square mile where you used to work, people can't escape. millions of people -- >> have you ever been in the inner city? >> yes. >> have you spent time in the inner city. >> yes. >> i don't think nobody wants to make improvements. what little thing are you doing every day? c

up in harlem in the early 30s, an athletic new dance called the jitterbug took over.tests inspired the participants to maneuvers that looked downright hazardous. the 30s brought the swing era and the big bands. you could jitterbug to swing and everybody did. the jitterbug had staying power. it was the gis form of expression in 1942. the 1950s were a conservative time. if you wanted to dance, you went to dancing class and learned how to do a proper fox trot. on television, arthur murray thought a rather tame imitation of a cuban dance called a mambo. >> you start off with the left foot and you go forward together, back together back. and now with the music please ray. >> reporter: here partner dancing meant you held your partner. even in jitterbug still popular in the early 50s you would only let go of your partner once in a while. >> ♪ >> reporter: but then rock & roll came along. and with it something called the hop. dancers let go of their partners and were on their own. once those flood gates were open a slew of fad dances followed. for a short second there was a d

. >> he returned home to his east harlem apartment. he expects to go back to work soon.e knows that his case got the spotlight of attention. he pleaded with the americans to refocus on the terrible toll that ebola is taking in west africa and support the efforts to stop the outbreak there. >> they are trying to figure out how a man got stuck in a marshalls store in colorado. he was trapped for several days. they had to cut through the exterior to rescue the 35-year-old man. the man crawled through at vent on the roof for some reason yet to be determined. no charges have yet been filed. >>> president obama and chinese president xi jinping had a meeting two hours longer than scheduled and then taking questions from reporters. there is significant tension in the u.s.-chinese relationship. obama says that wants to take the relationship to a new level. >>> we have a special "action news" trouble shooters on this veteran's day. we are hoping that the children of a local veteran honor's their father's final wish. >> what can be more important than honour our parents final wishe

expansion plans we were looking at a regi regional play and we'll open up in midtown manhattan as well as harlemf those practices we think they can do just as well from a revenue perspective as newark or even better for the new york city offices. in terms of number of patients, we think that the new york city practices will probably double the number of patients we have purely because of the population density that's there. >> at home where they care for their five lovely daughters, chris and leslie's roles are interchangeable but in the office they learned the importance of staying in their respective lanes. >> one of the things that is really huge in our success is the fact that my husband doesn't have a background in health care and in the office we have very specific functions. the other person cannot decide okay well this is how we're going to deal with this clinically or i wouldn't be able to decide this is how we're going to, you know, negotiate this contract. it didn't work. in the beginning. >> one of the things that we used to hear a lot is oh, you work with your spouse? oh, yeah, that

it's like the white harlem globetrotters.ien, brian tucker, john mulaney, and yourself. so really it turns our to be very harlem globetrotter for sketch writing. >> thank you. you know, i worked very hard to you know, learn that character. [ laughter ] i studied acting. >> seth: you were real method about it. i remember. >> always dribbling everywhere i went. >> seth: i love this new book so much. there are two different stories, "animals," which is the point of view of a hamster in a middle school talking about what monsters the kids are. and then the other one is "sellout", which is the point of view of through time travel, your great-great-grant father gets to meet you as a 27-year-old. >> yes. >> seth: -- both these characters are named simon rich and they're terrible people. how much are they based on the real simon rich? >> 100%. [ laughter ] >> seth: "animals" is the best. it is so great, because from a hamster's point of view, you are the worst kid. were you a terrible kid? >> oh, i was awful. yeah, i was jacked up on

that, again, i'm surprised that no one's really spent much time on, is the connection between the harlem renaissance and thurgood's activities in the south. we think of him traveling through the south, but you present it and i think more about it than that, that coming back to new york and sort of almost being renewed in new york through the vibrance of that, and some of the entertainers and the people that he knew. then he would go back into the south is presented in a way that i haven't seen in any of the literature. world war i. there's been much written about thurgood marshall's involvement with the korean war because of that dramatic -- the dramatic encounters he had with douglas macarthur. but there was this major activity on the part of the naacp representing soldiers during world war ii. i said world war i. during world war ii. not only discrimination by people in the military, but particularly discrimination against soldiers in communities adjacent to military bases. there were so many of the american military installations in the deep south. i'm so glad that in this film you to

traffic snarled all over manhattan, protesters taking on fdr drive and west side to harlem. that's where cnn's miguel marquez found himself in the middle of a very huge and extremely passionate crowd. >> reporter: this is the end of the protests, so it appears for tonight. they have marched across the city from the south to the west. and now all the way back to harlem we're at adam clayton paul, i'm being quiet because they have a little bit of a performance going on now. >> please don't please don't shoot us. >> reporter: and this is the first time that we've seen this sort of -- the performance, the guitar come out. they are telling people tonight, that they will be out again, promising to come out on thanksgiving. it has been a peaceful but forceful crowd tonight, making their point that they want justice in the system. taking to the streets. taking over the streets, to show the world who is in charge. back to you. >> yeah, and a very determined crowd. they walked a couple of miles there. >>> well, in california, the highway pale patrol said 300 to 500 people stormed a fr

he played ball in harlem with the kids.t as much as coming up to bat at the polo grounds not so far away. he seemed so easy to come around, especially for kids. he was like a big kid himself. meeting so many people so suddenly that remembering all those names seemed impossible. mays got around that problem by greeting folks with a simple, say hey. soon he was the say hey kid. in 1954, all the elements were on the baseball field for that singular play in center field that has been known in sports for almost a half century simply as the catch. before for the cleveland indians was at plate. >> way back, it is -- willie mays just brought this crowd to its feet with a catch that must have been an obstacle illusion to a lot of people. >> when you look at this sketch and you see me running as i'm running i'm worried about getting the ball back into the end field. i'm not worried about catching the ball. i have the ball already in my hand. i am worried about if i catch this ball how am i going to get this ball back in the end field

paul lien meyers, based on harlem in new york and as i also said, mrs. tucker who was part of the ladies auxiliary but from the impoverished african youth and with her own naacp award and everything else throughout her life. those are are the kinds of things that by being able to participate women did learn leadership and become activist in their own rights. so than of course we get to the march on washington. the march for jobs, peace -- jobs and freedom. i was at the '83 march and i know that's. right for the '63 march. if you think about the march as it was originally conceived, a phillip ran do. who decided in december of 1962 they marked the he is not ten yl area of the emancipation proclamation but the momentum for that and endorsements and support for that march, that would come in august '63, burst in over time and in the eevent of that summer, and ending in police dogs and fire hoses and fascination in mississippi, that same night, now if you think about this, there are a lot of things going on. president kennedy of course today respond to these

and the harlem renaissance, and what i am trying to get at. even if i take an antiquated notion, there is -- still should be the way marginalized groups african-americans are acting here. it is one slice of a larger pie. >> a clear understanding of the takeaway that you are emphasizing here, as relates to the previous scholarship. take -- a legal period. it does talk a lot a boat away groups organize and the way they ultimately impact institutions, state and local government to deal with segregation in the south and so on. i you talking about similar types of activity in terms of agencies in this earlier period and continue the analysis backwards in time because that period has not been analyzed in this way or is it something different you are adding that goes beyond? >> yes and no. excellent question. one of my critiques in terms of whether it is a lot of the work that focuses on a later time period, so much of the civil rights literature especially around organizing and especially the naacp focuses on this later period. there is so little wo

i played in a basketball camp and my roommates were from harlem. they were like, "you don't know notorious?" i went back to the suburbs with this mix tape. when it hit the radio four months later i felt i owned it. it gave me for the first time the idea of self discovery of music. >> can you sing? >> till about puberty. >> can you dance? >> my first job ever was dancing at bar mitzvahs and weddings on the weekends for $150. >> how about playing an instrument? >> my instrument was always my ear. i knew what songs to make the audience move at the right time. >> one of the values of your company is have a super-human work ethic. what's the origin of that? >> i think it originally came from guilt. my grandparents were holocaust survivors and my parents did not grow up with a lot, really nothing. knowing i was the first generation to have a little bit of something, i wanted to not receive anything and i wanted to work harder than everyone to make my own mark in the world. >> you went to college but school did not suit you, it seems. >> yeah, i went to e

. >> after morning mass parishioners at church of the holy agony in east harlem weren't talking about the strip secure selections next summer they will have to start attending a different church. >> father victor says it is all about the numbers. >> a church a few blocks away is bigger, and can absorb his flock. >> the people here, are frustrated. >> the american catholic church is experience ago crisis of faith, over the past decade five ercent of its members have left, a third of all americans who are raised catholics no longer describe themselves as such. even among the most faithful those who describe themselves as strong catholics is down more than 15 points since the 1980s. catholics who attend mass at least once week has dropped from 47 percent in 1974 to 24 percent in 2012. >> at one time, the archdiocese of new york has 1,200 priests, it now has only 365. not must have to staff all of its parishes. the archdiocese spends $40 million a year to supplement what it describes as unneeded parishes. >> cardinal timothy dolan. >> this is about making the church stronger, more renewed

my roommates were from harlem. i went back to these suburbs and when it was on the radio, i felt i owned it. it gave me for the first time the sense of self discovery. >> can you dance? >> my first job ever was dancing at bar mitzvah weddings on the weekends for $150. >> what was your instrument? >> my ear. i knew what songs to make people dance. >> one of the values of your company is have a superhuman work ethic. what's the origin of that? >> i think originally it came from guilt. my grandparents were holocaust survivors and my parents did not grow up with a lot, really nothing. knowing i was the first generation to have a little bit of something, i wanted to not receive anything and i wanted to work harder than everyone to make my own mark in the world. >> you went to college but school did not suit you, it seems. >> yeah, i went to emory university in atlanta. i found myself wanting to do business, not wanting to sit in class. unfortunately, i started selling fake ids for about two months and then i realized i

stopping >> it's a weekday morning in new york city and a line forms well before doors open at this east harlemntry. the people waiting for food range from young mothers to older people on fixed incomes. inside the pantry, the number of people needing food is only growing. congress cut 5 billion dollars from "s.n.a.p." or the "supplemental nutrition assistance program" in late 2013; because of that, the new york common pantry, one of the largest in new york - serving 3 million meals annually, reports a 26% increase in recipients in the last year. new york ranked 4 in a recent survey of cities around the globe with the highest percentage of millionaires. joel berg, who heads the new york coalition against hunger says, as the city gets wealthier, demand at the 1000 plus food kitchens he represents is only increasing. >> well when neighborhoods gentrify, the demand goes up because rent is the single greatest cost that low income people face and if they can't afford to pay rent, they can't afford to buy food. >> and with less government aid for food, the strain is on charities to fill the void and

>> here at harlem's apollo theater rock taped two of his hbo specials.father. >> my dad's father is a preacher. i spent a lot of time with him. i'd watch him write his sermon. he'd write topics. then rip on the topics. i kind of do comedy like he preached. >> also like another relationship. when you're delivering aer is moan you're trying to get at a truth. >> you are. i watch reverends as much as i watch comedians. i watch t.d. jake every sunday. i watch joel osteen every sunday. >> why? >> because they're really good performers they are doing exactly the same thing, they are just going for a different thing. when i'm on tour, all the preachers come. they come through the back. they sneak don't want everybody to know. i'm not going to name names. all the preachers come. >> who is more racist, black people or white people? black people. why, because we hate black people, too. >> just like a preacher his subject can be heavy, it's not about nothing. >> like civil war going on with black people. two sides. black people and [bleep] and [bleep] have got to g

vea lo que consiguiÓ love de los harlem globe troters.tacado. el gobierno estadounidense planea lanzar un programa de refugio para niqos centroamericanos.el plan permitira a los padres con estatu legal, pedir a sus hijos sin tener que hacer el viaje por si solos. en mexico se reunieron autoridades y padres de los 43 normalistas desaparecidos. los familiares dudan de los esfuerzos por dar con sus hijos. mas en el noticiero ♪ >> tony de andrade estÁ en las vegascalentando motores para el latin grammy. >> este aÑo llegamos mÁs temprano esta entrega se une a nuevas atracciones en las vegas una estÁ detrás de mÍ. es la rueda de la fortuna mÁs grande del mundo. su tamaÑo es imponente. la llaman high roller estÁn el nuevo bulevar del hotel caesar palace. tiene una altura de 550 pie sin cada una de sus cÁpsulas caben 40 personas cÓmodamente. >> tony, bienvenido a la atracciÓn mÁs importante de las vegas. >> importante y espectacular dirÍa yo, wow! >> marÍa es una de las personas que mejor conoce las intimidades esta espectacular mole de hacer el

thunder law of the harlem globetrotters. back to the far basket. yes, you know this is going to happen. goes in. >> 82 feet, 2 inches from the hoop. the new record for the longest-ever longest basketball shot. he owns the record for the longest shot ever, more than 109 feet. >> he knows what he's doing. >>> and the pulse next. the size double standard. why women are being charged more for plus sizes than men. >>> and the school in minnesota doing away with snow days. i guess i never really gave much thought to the acidity in any foods. never thought about the coffee i was drinking having acids. it never dawned on me that it could hurt your teeth. my dentist has told me your enamel is wearing away, and that sounded really scary to me, and i was like well can you fix it, can you paint it back on, and he explained that it was not something that grows back, it's kind of a one-time shot and you have to care for it. he told me to use pronamel. it's gonna help protect the enamel in your teeth. it allows me to continue to drink my coffee and to eat healthi

holding the world record for the longest basketball shot was not enough for the harlem globe trottersafter sinking that 82-footer there. look at that. he made a shot from the stands 109 feet. slow motion, whoa, look at that beauty. >> don't we need to know how many times he tried it? i mean, is that going to take away from it? do i have to be the negative nelly hene nel? someone has to bring us down to earth. >> speaking of records, al roker is going for it. >> no, i was going to talk about you. >> shortest weather forecast. >> back to you, thomas. >> thank you, bill. what's going on weather wise? and roker is doing this big thing. >> 34 hours straight. tomorrow morning at this time, yeah. >> it's going to be crazy. >> endurance crazy. this morning if you're walking outside, cleveland, you have snow coming down. in little rock, arkansas, it snowed last night. just a little coding. so the cold air has headed east. it's here on the east coast. you can see all the snow on the map. all the whitest snow from grand ra pids. not so much in indianapolis or columbus, but cleveland and buffalo,

. >>> in the day ahead, a number of the harlem globtrotters will talk to d.c.tudents about not bullying others. john ross will be at the elementary schools in the district. they say they want to show them to use action, bravery and compassion. >>> if you come in to immediately cut your taxes, you may have to wait a while. larry hogan was surprised by the size of the state's budget deficit. according to the washington post, he says the shortfall could slow his plan to roll back taxes. >>> and you'll pay more for alcohol in virginia. they agreed to free proposals to increase 24 cents per bottle. the mark-up will help close a small part of the state's 2.5 billion budget gap. it will also help pay for new technology to make the price more first time. >>> he will get a chance to weigh in today on the brand new apartment complex and hotel for tysons corner. it will be built on route 7 at the site of the old best western motel. the plan calls for two apartment towers with 1,000 apartments and a 300-room hotel. the board meets at 3:00 this afternoon at the fairfax coun

and to violence, but there are millions of people living in the worst parts of our country, in harlem watts and apalachia and the migrant worker fields in the southern states or in southern california who lose their parents to disease or to violence. >> that's a direct result of their poverty and desperation and those kids don't have many of the advantages that i had. you know, i had a tragedy but everybody has tragedy in their lives. and i -- >> you also had to deal with -- >> i also had a tremendous amount of support. a very, very strong family. i had the resources for a good education, and so i had advantages. >> there is something different about going through it in the very public manner in which your family has had to go through it. >> there may be mooredship in going through it privately. so is a like my mother says, everybody takes their licks, you know. and the enemy of any productive life is self-pity. the adversary and it's toxic. and that, you know, we all -- everybody struggles with something. it makes us the kind of people that challenge and, you know, the experience in

. >>> and the harlem globe trotters set a world record for the longest backwards shot. it was from 82 feet and 2 inches shattering the previous record of 10 feet. he also holds the record for longest basketball shot at a distance of 109 feet. that was set in 2013. look at that go. >> that's hard enough to do when you're facing the net, let alone backwards. thank you. >>> time to get down to business. haz bro is in talks to buy dreamworks animation. >>> we heard about extended store hours for thanksgiving, but when is the best time to buy holiday gifts? according to savings.com, the best day to buy electronics is november 1st. since that's past, you still have time because the 26 lt and 28th are other good days. for toys, november 26th is tops with runners up december 8th and 19th. and for clothes, december 1st leads the way with the 11th and 18th next. >>> the college board says the average cost to attend college is rising. room and board for a four-year is almost $19,000. but a new survey finds that 24% of college students believe college debt will be forgiven. good lu

. >>> a harlem globetrotter set a guinness world record for the longest backwards shot, watch this.all the way. goes right in. 82 feet and 2 inches, shattering the previous record by ten feet. he also holds the record for longest basketball shot and distance of 109 feet and 9 inches set back in 2013. impressive. >>> just ahead, should governors be allowed to pardon their own family members for breaking the law. and one direction with the next new thing. stay with us. you're watching "early today" on nbc. and for many, it's a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine, what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar? imagine, loving your numbers. introducing once-daily invokana®. it's the first of a new kind of prescription medicine that's used along with diet and exercise to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. invokana® is a once-daily pill that works around the clock to help lower a1c. here's how: the kidneys allow sugar to be absorbed back into the body. invokana® reduces the amount of sugar allowed back in, and sends some sugar

reverend al sharpton will join the family for a rally in harlem. yesterday the police commissioner said that akai gurley was totally innocent and not engaged in criminal activity when the officer shot him thursday night. according to authorities, it appears to be an accidental shooting. the officer is now on modified duty. >>> okay. listen to this, a winslow township police officer is facing charges today for shooting his own cruiser. last month officer karr reported that somebody shot at his patrol car. investigators found one bullet hole in the front windshield and they believe karr used his personal gun to shoot the car. he's charged with making a false public alarm and is now suspended without pay. >>> next, high-tech red kettles. this holiday season in some spots you don't need cash or change to donate to the salvation army. just your smartphone. we'll explain. >>> all right. bundle up as you head out this morning. temperatures are in the teens and a lot of spots in the north and west of the city. here's a live look outside. waking up to clear