in a storybook that accompanied his musical album "soldier's heart," he wrote -- jacob george killed himself on september 17, one week after president obama unveiled the new u.s. military mission against isis in iraq and syria. george was 32 years old. we go to break with jacob george singing "soldier's heart." ♪ [music break] >> you can link to the whole song on democracynow.org. george committed suicide september 17, and afghan war veteran. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we turn to ferguson, missouri, were protests are continuing over last month police shooting of 18 euros michael brown. tension escalated over the weekend when a police officer in ferguson, missouri, was shot in the arm. a new round of protests erupted thursday when thomas jackson released a video apologizing to brown's family more than six weeks after he was killed. >> i want to say this to the brown family. no one who is not expensive loss of a child can understand what you are feeling. i'm truly sorry for the loss of your's done. i'm also sorry it took so lo

so i would like to thank george, christen jacobs and the video team at brookings for producing thad video. i wrote this book because i was curious about billionaires and wanted to know who they are, how they got rich and watt they are doing with their wealth. i wanted to know what they are like as individuals. between teaching at brown for 26 years and being at brookings for six years i have had encontenters with a number of billionaires. my experiences revealed tidbits about their mentality and viewpoints. i was visiting a friend in palm beach and one morning we were sitting on the patio overlooking the water when a helicopter through down the coast and ruined the serenity of the morning. a friend rolled his eyes and said that is my neighbor. it turned out instead of driving his car two miles down the road to go to the golf course he flew down there. this is an example of billionaires annoying other billionaires. in 2012, i had the experience of billionaire annoying me. i was asked about the possibility of donald trump speaking at the republican national convention and i joked into the a

jacob barker. let's look at who they were. john mason, who plays the most minor role here was a friend of the madison's. the son of george mason, father of the bill of rights, a merchant, banker and businessman who served in the war of 1812 and served on roosevelt island in the potomac river between georgetown. he never claimed glory, but there was gossip jackson asserted the onhonor for mason. he was with madison on the 23rd and 24th, not in washington, d.c. john pierre was born in france and immigrated to the united states around the time of the french revolution. president madison hired him as a chef and he remained in that position until the british raised the building. there after, he worked at the bank of the united states and bank of the metropolis. he was the madison's caretaker for the house on la fayette square down the block after they acquired it from the cuts family. -- from the cuss family. dolley and he remained in touch throughout her life. he died in 1864. in their correspondence, there's no whisper of him being responsible for taking down the washington painting. he wanted her to remain her friend, her

jacob barker. let's look at who they were. john mason, who plays the most minor role here was a friend of the madisons. the son of george mason, father of the bill of rights, a merchant, banker and businessman who served in the war of 1812 and lived on an island now known as roosevelt island in the potomac river between georgetown and virginia. he never claimed glory, but there was gossip jackson asserted the honor for mason. it's not known why. we do know that john mason was with james madison on the 23rd and 24th and not in washington, d.c. john pierre was born in france and immigrated to the united states around the time of the french revolution. president madison hired him as a chef and he remained in that position until the british razed the building. thereafter, he worked at the bank of the united states and bank of the metropolis. he was the madison's caretaker for the house on la fayette square down the block after they acquired it from the cuts family. dolley and he remained in touch throughout her life. he did not die until 1864. in their correspondence, there's no whisper of him being responsible for taking d

i would like to thank george soros, christine jacobs, and the video team at brookings for producing the video. i wrote this book because i was really curious about billionaires. i wanted to know who they are, how they got rich, and what are they doing with their immense wealth. whato wanted to know they're like as individuals. between teaching at brown university for 26 years and now being a brookings for about six years, i have encounters with a number of different winners. i think my experiences reveal some interesting tidbits about the mentality and viewpoints. i was visiting a billionaire friend of mine in palm beach. of course, he has a beautiful place right on the water overlooking the ocean. one morning, we were sitting on the patio overlooking the water when a helicopter flew very noisily write-down the coast, kind of completely disturbing the serenity of the morning. my friend rolled his eyes and said, oh, that's my neighbor. it turns out, instead of driving his car two miles down the road to go to the golf course, this guy flew his helicopter very this is an example of alien e

jacob and sarah. leon? >> we have new developments in the case of a mother accused of suffocating her two children. a spokesperson for the prince george county department of isrections says the woman being moved to a state psychiatric facility after psychiatrist found it would be a better fit for her. toddlersund her two unconscious sunday with plastic bags and duct tape around their heads. they died at the hospital. spoon is charged with first-degree murder. >> more than 200 customers still without power in alexandria tonight. they have been in the dark since early this afternoon, when a vehicle hit power poles on north van dorn street near seminary road. police closed up the lanes of repair theile crews damage. nearly 500 customers were without electricity at the height of the outage. >> looks like a pretty good weekend coming up as well, maybe a little bit of rain involved. eileen is standing by in the weather center with the weekend outlook. are going to book in the weekend was sunshine. sunshine for the remainder of the evening, sunshine sunday. saturday, some clouds and a few showers. it will not he a washed out -- be washed out

george weinstein simon weiser david m. weiss david thomas weiss chin sun packwells vincent michael wells debra jacobs welsh timothy matthew welty christian hans rudolf wemmers ssu-hui wen john joseph wenckus oleh d. wengerchuk peter m. west whitfield west jr. meredith lynn whalen eugene michael whelan adam s. white edward james white iii james >> and my uncle emilio p. ortiz jr. i love you and i miss you. on behalf of our entire family and all your friends, we love you and we miss you and we'll never forget you. and to daniel lopez, we love you and we miss you too. >> and my godfather, kenneth. i wish you were here. i wish i had more memories of you. i wish every time i look at your picture that you would be there. you were my number-one fan. everyone misses you. emily and i miss you the most. and you are never forgotten. [ applause ] john sylvester white kenneth wilburn white jr. leonard anthony white malissa y. white maudlin a. white sandra l. white wayne white leanne marie whiteside mark p. whitford leslie a. willington mark p. whitford michael t. wholey mary catherine wieman jeffrey david marie wildman glenn e. wilkin

jacob and sarah. the siblings went missing more than a week ago >>> right now cell phone towers are going up in some of your children's schools in prince george's county. they said the county has not been transparent with health concerns. the school district gets $25,000 for every tour that's built. montgomery county parents joined the fight. >> we would like to see parents involved in the process. we think they have been left out of the process. and we think that this is a problem statewide. >> now, today there are 73 proposed cell phone tower sites in prince george's county. the apex in bethesda appears to be staying point. they have dropped plans to demolish to make way for a bigger purple line station. county executive ike leggett said developers were not keane on the idea of waiting for the new structure to be constructed to build on top of it. instead, it will be built in a tunnel. >>> senator mark warner and ed gillespie will take part in a forum in h. it is sponsored by s of chambers of commerce. it will be held at the center for innovative technology at 11:30 this morning. 5:49 now. >>> if you're not going to be around for the november

george's county very soon. reporting live in palmer park, i'm tracee wilkins, news4. >>> eight days in, thousands of acres searched. tonight, still no sign of sarah and jacob hogglel. while the case of these two missing children is a murder investigation, the children's father and investigators say they will not give up hope. news4's pat collins has been working the story for us for a week now. he joins us live in germtown. pat? >> reporter: wendy, this is a study in frustration. there is so much land, there are so many possibilities. day eight. the search continues on. and troy turner, he's right in the middle of it. >> i'm a father whose kids were taken, and to me that's just what you do. you go get your kids. reporter: finding jacob. finding sarah. for troy turner, this has become a crusade. a campaign. his day job, his night job. it's all he thinks about. in a portion of this germantown parking lot, he's set up a command post. he has a small army of friends. they have handed out more than 10,000 flyers. >> people coming up from the community saying what can i do to help. people from my job who have taken off workday after day. i have friends who have t

stating jacob barker, a wealthy supporter of president madison had handed dolley into a kaerj in the moments before the british arrived. the president had asked barker to remove the portrait of george washington along with a silver plate from the house. there are two additional 1814 letters of dolley's from that fall. both are addressed to women friends. in the fall, undated, dolley sent minerva rogers a quote, pure wine saved from the president's house the morning of its destruction. rumors had spread after the invasion that the soldiers had drunk all the wine and that none was left. this leaves us to wonder whether dolley was giving out bottles of salvaged wine to make the point the rumors were only that, rumors, and that the president and his household were braving the circumstances and doing well. perhaps it was simply a gesture of warm regard to a woman friend. regardless, the president's wine, like the government and the country, had survived. on december 3rd, 1814, dolley wrote mary elizabeth hazel, wife of the architect benjamin henry latrobe and the daughter of a philadelphia merchant. the two men -- the two women had been friends from the 1780s and the 1790s when dolley l

george weinstein simon weiser david m. weiss david thomas weiss chin sun packwells vincent michael wells debra jacobs welsh timothy matthew welty christian hans rudolf wemmers ssu-hui wen john joseph wenckus oleh d. wengerchuk peter m. west whitfield west jr. meredith lynn whalen eugene michael whelan adam s. white edward james white iii james patrick white >> and my uncle emilio p. ortiz jr. i love you and i miss you. on behalf of our entire family and all your friends, we love you and we miss you and we'll never forget you. and to daniel lopez, we love you and we miss you too. >> and my godfather, kenneth. i wish you were here. i wish i had more memories of you. i wish every time i look at your picture that you would be there. you were my number-one fan. everyone misses you. emily and i miss you the most. and you are never forgotten. [ applause ] john sylvester white kenneth wilburn white jr. leonard anthony white malissa y. white maudlin a. white sandra l. white wayne white leanne marie whiteside mark p. whitford leslie a. willington mark p. whitford michael t. wholey mary catherine wieman jeffrey david wiener william