horace: i love doing them.is all about helping you make the right decision about spending your time and money on a trendy service or highly advertised product. we have looked at home warranties, ridesharing, and other items. 7 on your side is investigating getting a new set of items to determine for you, is it worth it? believe it or not, it's time to start making your list and checking it for your holidays, but most of us wait for the big black friday sales to get the best deals on big-ticket items. standing in line and trying to get their first -- there first, i enjoy the rest. horace: what is it worth going through this on the friday after thanksgiving? and this may be the hottest gift item in stores this holiday season. >> virtual reality will become part of our everyday life. horace: is it worth buying a device now that could be obsolete in a few months when a newer, better version comes out? and there will not only be long lines at stores and shopping malls. if you're planning to jet off to grandma's hous

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horace mann was a black high school. central was a white high school. during that time, it was great seven-12 before they built horace mann. thetended dunbar through seventh-ninth grade. when i was in the ninth grade they built horace mann which was the senior high school. my cause was the first class to graduate from dunbar when it became a junior high school. the next year we went to horace mann. attempted classmates to attend. the governor ordered both schools to be closed to prevent -- they school requested integration process. the centralng of high school crisis and what is now known as the little rock nine. most of the black student parent during that time, including mine, did not have the courage to allow their children to attend. to be one of the pioneers. i do commend the parents of my classmates as well as my classmates for having the courage. [applause] >> to take that leap and become students at little rock central high school. during night year, during the years the schools were closed, all the students except the little rock nine scattered

the next year we went to horace mann. classmates attempted to attend the all-white central high school. governor ordered both schools to be closed to prevent the black students from attending central. the courts denied the governor and the school board's request to delay the integration process. thus beginning the central high school crisis and what is now known as the little rock nine. most of the black students parents's, including mine, did not have the courage to allow their children to be one of the pioneers. i do commend the parents of my classmates, as well as my classmates for having the andage to take that leap become students at little rock central high school. , during theyear year the schools were closed, all of the students except the little rock nine scattered and went in different directions in the world. some of them stayed out of school the whole year, the majority stayed out the whole year, some went to small-town schools and there were six of us. a doctor builde a school for the central high students. t

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horace holmes digs in to find out if it's worth it.an you think of a worse feeling than hopping in the car on a cold winter day and turning on the ignition -- [engine stalling] this is the time of year to give your car a check-up. this is the toughest se the year for the car. the winter car care package sounds good. >> not that much money off the usual rate. >> a lot of places that advertise specials are marketing come ons presented by often lousy businesses trying to bring in customers to find something wrong with the car. >> ignore the specials they say. take your car to your personal mechanic. of course you can do it yourself for very little money. winterize the checklist out. first, drain your cooling system and add new antifreeze. check conditions of the tires, replace the wiper blades and look at the battery and clean the connecting cables of corrosion. i'm horace holmes, abc7 news. >> right now at 5:00, indictment and not guilty pleas from the two former trump campaign officials. while a third person pleads guilty and sparks mor

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she graduated from horace mann. but she did follow her sister and attended college at southern university. phyllis was a 15-year-old volunteer at snick, do you know that southern nonviolent coordinating committee, that did work in arkansas. and she's going to speak for a little amount of time. bless you all. >> hello. i will be brief because you said -- hello. i bet that woke you up, huh? stretch. we do need to stretch, folks. and i will be brief. yes, i was the sister of milly jean brown. i was the tag along sister. i followed her like a little puppy. and because i was the tag along sister, that meant i got to sit at the feet of the little rock nine, at thelma's house, at elizabeth's house, at melbourne's house. and i'll tell you a cute little story. i hope you'll laugh. is that melbur and milly jean wore those cute little -- slips. by the way, i didn't know you were an ordained minister. all right, and where do you preach? sorry, i diverted. online? okay, anyway, so melbur would come to our house because we live o

let's go and talk to horace about that. horace, we can't have this continue to go on.he fans are ticked off and others are upset. so do you agree roger goodellre will get a hold of this when the owners meet this weekend? >> first of all, good for jerry jones.es i am pleased to see that owners understand that offending our flag in this way should not be condoned. shouldn't be condoned by the owner, by any league or by any players. good for jerry jones. as for this idea that it's okay to offend the american people, we get the right to also choose whether we are going to watch something that we don't like. leo talked about these boycotts in the past during the civil rights era, where people were able to say, i don't like what you are doing. i won't participate. in overwhelming numbers, we are watching the american people say we don't like what you are doing and we will not participate. that's as american as apple pie. >>ri brian: before you talk, i've got to read the rest of the letter. just in case our audience didn't. he doesn't just say stand. he said he's actually try

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leaders to declare independence the march coming as spanish prime minister might be on the way to horace said he would take measures to prevent the region from breaking away organizers say nearly a million demonstrators packed into the center of bosler and local police however put the number at three hundred fifty thousand waving both spanish and catalan flags the protesters called for an end to the country's worst political crisis in decades this report now from. who was at the demonstration. long live the nation is their message. christina a student from barcelona and her friend couldn't agree more. they feel catalan spanish and who repeat. that. i was born here but my entire family comes from all over spain and the supporters of independence have no right to pick us out. we don't want to for a commanded and divided europe we want europe to flourish and we want to be part of it. but many in catalonia who are against independence such as this architect are still against today's protests they worried it will increase the tension. this the spanish the spanish flag and. there was russian w

on the list it says horace plus the hoff. and somebody who has made a career to make themselves a good at yours, so i don't know why boris and the hoff is together, but yes, he is with another movie, and this time it is about the hoff. rachel is much too young to have any of this.|j about the hoff. rachel is much too young to have any of this. i had no idea who this person was. i ran him from baywatch and from knight rider with his car, with the irritating voice. i didn't watch that, it was more of a boy thing. i know you should not see those gender specific thing. in this case you might be right, and a favoured at a d riverless right, and a favoured at a driverless car i hope it will have the accent of kit. he has become an extraordinary phenomenon. and dave at the voice in my year tonight, reminded me that he performed in berlin when the wall came down. a p pa re ntly berlin when the wall came down. apparently he was hugely popular, because he is of some german extraction apparently, and he even made hit singles. he is not

horace cooper. and leo terrel. do you like where this story is going?> we've got a problem with the story, brian. the ultimate issue is this was about racial injustice. guess what? that flag represents more than the military. it represents teachers, nurses, doctors and everything. roger goodell's statement is unenforceable. he has one objective, make big money for the owners. 70% of the nfl players are african-american. there is racial injustice in this country. i just find it amazing how the president has flipped us into being patriotic. one final point, african-americans serve in higher numbers in the military than their actual numbers for the population. tell me what is wrong with the kneeling? not turning your back, kneeling, brian. >> brian: i did not know that stat but it's an important stat. that's it important stat. however, i will tell you -- i did not need to hear any commentary to come in and do fox & friends paid when i saw colin kaepernick take a knee, my gut said you are disrespecting the flag. if you want to talk about racial inequities,

animals you should be with our group of angry people we have the most disgusting factory forming horace role in this country calf's and piglets kept in cages for their entire lives that aren't big enough to turn around in with them is employed do that just to make sure that when it's their turn to be bacon they welcome it is that the boy like i like a doctor assisted suicide is like crazy to me. and as if that wasn't bad enough now every hipster is making some sort of order with bacon sprinkled on it is bacon shock good pay can i break in flavored condoms. yes. but let's put the anal back in our tis an old. oh pigs everywhere. i hipsters i hope your suspenders good cause or rather of the way they can do time you thought. you already did chocolate isn't that hedonistic adolfo you really have to sprinkle some pig on top. and where oh where by the way where are the christians on all the factory farming ha it's god's creation it's the lord's work they tell us and then we slaughter the lord's word chop it up and stuff it down or basis even when we're not hungry. i couldn't possibly swallow a

outside your mouth when you go and do almost all you will are blow shoes we will need a solution horace from one hundred one to one you want real jewishly. he said there come back. the whole. lot of dawn comes. a time i don't you love educate you will share. you who are greater juju e.g. gun phone you're a true complainer up there you are well are wise you doc was annoyed on how george of the whole ocean for home eons no. hole rule by law for so in joke wish she grew up there she. is child. some of the lord so we all hope that she's harder good gender she's a troll which i'm not are usually by those who assume the show with. your heart or could see how your haner question. you when you measure crucial in trying to show off even when she and someone singleton cover and other you appear to have joy each in doing in here then you'll do me or your me or you or. your child or one or your. all you on the wards are those of. this is all we are. cumbered you. blow me out to thomas. funk going to assume. that. fossil. mahdi's say this is a full time machine. to be entered into genuine shape actu

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horse apocalypse you took a photo of it and you came up with a good idea about this you know the i am horace apocalypse is the new technology of his day many people who are here the native population for a thousand years living pete. peaceably and then suddenly this technology rolled across the iron horse the railway and they refer to this in the poster as the iron horse apocalypse and another word that goes neatly into this whole period of history is genocide you know this technology came across an effective lee helped a genocidal extermination of an entire population a way of life that have been around for a thousand years and i mean really was struck with the idea that artificial intelligence is the technological ironhorse apocalypse of the twenty first century and the victims are going to be shocked when this happens as people here in north dakota were shocked the sioux were shocked at the appearance of this our norse apocalypse i think many people in the united states and around the world going to be shocked by how the artificial intelligence apocalypse once it rolls over will cause dev

unknown to infuse damage in the large intestine is it a shared skepticism they do not believe that step horace is is truly by independent scientists and in the needs industry period you for this i received some compensation for my time as well as you know others why is that you know me to lobby definitely do like what we've been doing. if you want to learn more. about floating around. back. is it big business against health. this is starting to show us. all. still exist. rico's treated as one. hundred forty three cool. little can i do a lot of. the island is controlled by the us government and some crave independence. either with. their ideas. still many do wish to join the us hundreds more leave every day knowing. that i'm a long way from the. beings. with the country at a crossroads for anger of the island is on the rise. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington media the media the voters elect the businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business l

out that this was a good option and he for him to see it from the inside because tickets are nuts horace lee hard to get hold of and he said they were unavailable in his lifetime the echoes are of course the big awards in the german classical music brunch and the evening was kicked off by your own us caliph one who we heard. he has already won the three echoes as singer of the year this time around she walked off with the best of the year for a cd of it's holly and songs called. and we can see now how the rest of the evening proceeded. big gala event featured an orchestra conducted by kent nagano the maestro was also one of the winners being honored as conductor of the year. the lifetime achievement award went to break it to fassbender with a career in music spanning more than five decades the german metal soprano has worked as an operatic soloist stage director author and teacher. but younger talents were also honored with one of the awards for best newcomer going to soprano pretty ending the singer from south africa performed an aria from romeo and juliet. with. one of the most moving

horace holmes, abc7 news. alison: good to know. thank you for that. water date is synonymous with scandal. room 214 where the nixon burglars oversaw the democratic national committee break-in got a makeover. the room has been actually redesigned by scandal costume designer lynn paulo and they say it preserves the history and gives at it modern feel. >> we decided wouldn't it be great to bring the elements in the room. for instance we have a tape recorder. if you w friends, we have typewriter which works. >> wow! >> i know. it's so cool. >> room 214 can be booked starting tomorrow but it will cost you $800 a night. the watergate hotel completed a $200 million make over. >> there are kids at home saying mom, what is a typewriter? alison: yeah. jonathan: what does it do? alison: and what is watergate jonathan: that, too. talk about what is happening outside. it's gorgeous. i hope you got to spend lunch outside. alison: perfect day. steve: if you couldn't spend lunch out there today you have tomorrow, saturday and sunday and then it changes moving to next

also checking out a crash on abington at horace avenue at old york road. back to you. >>> today ivanka trump is coming to pennsylvania to promote her father's tax reform plan that she says will help middle-class families. nbc10 has more from richboro where they will host a town hall. >> reporter: over the weekend the president had a conference call and warned republicans that 2018 would be a political failure for the bp to and a disappointment -- for the gop and a disappointment apparently for the nation if his tax plan isn't passed. one of the first daughters, ivanka trump, will be in bucks county later today. she's known for the softer side of the presentation of her father's plan. she will be here to talk to supporters. see supports increasing the childcare tax credit from $1,000 to $2,000 per family. she's been making a pitch. according to republican sources, he said the president -- the president said republicans would lose the midterm election if the plan was not passed. ivanka trump here talking to reporters later today. that's the latest, nbc10 new

. >> chris carol and matthew hora horace, thank you so much on the investigation piece of this. next we'll pivot back to our breaking news out of the white house. the line from sarah sanders was they're open to the conversation on banning those bump stock devices that the shooter may have used. the nra with a statement just in this last hour seems to be getting on board with that. we'll talk live to the republican congressman who says president trump needs to take the lead on the issue. the man known as mr. las vegas joins me live. wayne newton has now met with some of the victims, the survivors of that mass murder, donated $100,000 to their recovery fund. we'll talk to him about how his be loved city moves forward. endless shrimp is here with flavors you'll love. like new savory grilled mediterranean shrimp, topped with a blend of green onions, tomatoes, and herbs. and your favorites, like garlic shrimp scampi. now's the only time to try as much as you want, however you want 'em. so hurry in today. how much money do you think you'll need in retirement? then we found out how man

worse, we may see school choice as a misguided effort to abandon the dreams of thomas jefferson or horace mann for a system of schools where all, highborn and low born, learn how to be successful citizens together. i do not presume to know how the future will judge us on this question. looking at the evidence will help us reach a better future. evidence about what kinds of private and public school arrangements actually work. we will explore these and other questions about education with our distinguished colleague and special guest professor paul peterson, the henry lee shattuck professional of government and -- at harvard university. a senior fellow at the hoover institution at stanford and senior editor of education next, a great journal of education policy. he is a member of the distinguished american academy of arts and sciences and the national academy of education. he has written many books : froming "saving schools and anotherto --" book on urban policy. theabeth the boss is secretary of education of the united states and has been involved in such for more than 30 years in her hom

amy: i want to turn to professor horace campbell, currently spending a year in west africa at the institutef african studies at the university of ghana. a peace and justice scholar. he spoke on democracy now! earlier this week about u.s. forces in africa. aboutt we must be clear to the f forces in the united states of america, that neither france n nor the uninited staten have anyny political legitimacyn africa went on the streets of the united states ofof america, fascists arere walking around wh massive flags and police are killing black people. i want to go back to the point from the beginning. the united states has no legitimacy for fighting terrorism in africa becausee it cannotot fight to defend black lives in africa when black lives are not important in the united states of america. amy: your response to what he says, nick turse? >> it makes a strong point there. i might add come into something in my recent pieces, that the united states counterterror activities in africa seem to have the opposite effect in many ways, that the u.s. was supposed to be building up counterterrorism capa

. >>> joining me now former atf executive matthew horace and former fbi senior profile jonah var ro. i want to start with you, the idea that killer wanted to buy tracers two weeks before the shooting, what use would they have been to him? what does that tell you? >> in this case, they wouldn't have been much use because he committed the act under the cover of darkness. they wouldn't have given him any advantage because he wouldn't have seen where the rounds were going or who they might hit. >> and joe, to you, the profiling now, so many people looking for a motive, looking for the why. there was a note a piece of paper left in the room, but it wasn't a suicide note, wasn't a manifesto. it was some kind of a list of numbers. what does that tell you? >> well, it could be any number of things, but the simplest thing is, this individual has already demonstrated an incredible ability to plan, to orchestrate, and it may just be a list of things to do so that he doesn't miss any one item that he was planning to execute, so it may be something as simple as that. >> interesting analysis right

. >> reporter: gabe is referring to father horace mckenna who helped him enroll in the all boys prep it. and before i at gonzaga. >> reporter: you have to remember, this was four years before the supreme court's landmark ruling that led to the dee segregation of public schools. looking back in year books, gabe certainly stood out, but he says his classmates and teachers never made him feel different. >> it was just like, hey, you're just another guy. so, you just carry on as usual. >> reporter: and when he wanted to go out for football, gabe remembers other schools threatening to boycott playing against gonzaga at just the thought of them having an african-american on the team. the coach stood by gabe. >> he was the main one who said, hey, we're going to -- we'll play, play our game somewhere else, but gabe, if you want to be on this team, you're going to be on it. >> gabriel i is the foundation from an historical perspective on which every african-american student and every student of color, and frankly the rest of the school period, stands. school will honor gabe smith, his name no

he has written many, many books including saving schools from horace mann to virtual learning, go politics chicago style and city limits which is a pathbreaking study of urban politics and policy. elizabeth the boss is 1111 secretary of education of the united states pictures been involved in politics and education policy for more than 30 years in home state of michigan and nationwide. in interview with the philanthropy roundtable, she recounted how she first got engaged with education issues in a visit to potters house christian school in grand rapids. there she saw a school that it matters to create a safe, warm and rich educational learning environment for many low income children. she start helping individual students with their tuition, then supporting the school itself which her family still does through their philanthropy. this effort grew into larger philanthropic effort to provide a scholarship fund, and then she pursued this commitment to choice in the public policy domain working to pass michigan's first charter school law in 1993. then as now she seeks to transform education sy

today it's horace albright who helped make national parks what they are today. >> albright was born in california in 1890. he worked for the department of the interior in washington when the national parks service was formed in 1916. in 1929, he became the second-ever director of the park service. >> he was a superintendent of yellowstone and yosemite park and is responsible for opening national parks to regular people. in 1980, he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom. albright died in 1987 when he was 97 years old. >> if you've got a monumental american, tweet us. stay with us. you're watching "velshi & rhule" on msnbc. america's beverage companies have come together to bring you more ways to help reduce calories from sugar. with more great tasting beverages with less sugar or no sugar at all, smaller portion sizes, clear calorie labels, and signs reminding everyone to think balance before choosing their beverages. we know you care about reducing the sugar in your family's diet, and we're working to support your efforts. more beverage choices. smaller portions. less sugar. ba

word legal commentator horace cooper things to such steps show the rewriting though of american history we are not open to allowing the ideas that authors contribute being given the opportunity to be exposed to our young people or to any kind of an academic that is dangerous for society our young people are the most in need of understanding the benefit of hearing from varying ideas that they may not know about and that they need to be exposed to we shouldn't be so willing to just kicked to the curb the authors of their writings because of some things about them that remind us of the past that we're not happy about this is a bad idea there isn't much difference between pulling statues down our burning books are just essentially rewriting history. food for thought i'll leave you with. us here in moscow our programs continue to after the break. still exist. rico's treated as one. of. the islanders controlled by the u.s. government and some puerto ricans crave independence. either way. still many do wish to join the u.s. hundreds more leave every day. with the country at a crossroads anger

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adventures of huckleberry finn of the complaints about the use of the in would legal commentator horacecooper thinks that such steps show the rewriting of american history that. we are open to allowing the ideas that authors contribute being given the opportunity to be exposed to young people or to any kind of an academic that is dangerous for society our young people are the most in need of understanding the benefit of hearing from varying ideas that they may not know about and that they need to be exposed to we shouldn't be so willing to just kick to the curb the authors of their writings because of some things about them that remind us of the past that we're not happy about this is a bad idea there isn't much difference between pulling statues down our burning books or just essentially rewriting history. well it's not just books that have fallen victim to political correctness in the us oregon is dropping the name lynch from a district elementary school of racial connotations in texas a black woman demanded the removal of a cotton decoration because slaves were used to gather it on t

horace greeley's new york tribune, another organ that would become critical of mcclellan emphasized how mcclellan cared for the troops in both mind and spirit. junior officers enlisted men echoed, these reports in praising mcclellan for instilling great determination to the recently demoralize regiments. given all this attention, almost any human being's head would be turned by all this praise and attention. on this score, i have to be very sympathetic to mcclellan. i think most of us would probably not be strong enough to at least embrace some of this flattery. to the troops, mcclellan became not only a highly visible commander but a very humane one. an approachable figure. because they did not know about his privately expressed contempt for volunteer soldiers. . they thought he was a great man who had a there he dignified bearing, and impressive appearance on horseback but seemed approachable by the troops. and stories about this circulated widely. now, mcclellan may have been no he could dropt others and officers into his orbitr. a cynical hoosier volunteer thought that mcclellan bec