the crackling of the burning grass hiszed at the quiet country night. my mother wis perred. in the last stages of the war the retrieving army would burn the dry grass. my mother's family came upon the burnt out fields and found the body of a dog still smoking from the fire. it's tongue was sticking out of his charred skull. my mother heard it whine. it's only the wind my grand mother told her. but the clouds above stood still. there was no wind that day. it is almost dawn. she is quiet now. mother, i said, stroking her hair and forehead. she opens her eyes and for a moment creeps me with a blank stare as if i was part of the nightmare. but she smiles and the past restores itself. i kept you up again my mother said. no. it was the heat, i answered softly.

. >> berry repeatedly cited hisz own civil rights record and blamed the media for exaggerating his remarks. >> i found that there are a group of you reporters who are determined to divide us. but i'm not going to fall for this divisiveness and back and forth, et cetera. >> reporter: on monday, berry told a budget hearing more nurses needed to be trained here. >> if you go to the hospital now you find a number of immigrants who are nurses, particularly out of the philippines. and no offense, but let's grow our own teachers, let's grow our own nurses. so we don't have to be scrounging around in our community clinics and other places having to hire people from somewhere else. >> thursday dc delegate was u e urging berry to apologize and avoid racially tinged remarks. lori cap lane says jobs and social needs are not race specific. >> the city is changing, we want the young people, unemployed people to have jobs, it's important we create the opportunity for everyone in our community, not some, not a few. >> downtown washington, tom sherwood, news4. >>> coming up tonight a fight brewing over stu