. ♪ ♪ >>> so this front yard that you're looking at here in alexandria shows jim clark's love af plantslark to cut the weeds or they might do it for him, and he's like, seweeds, t are my plants. that's when clark contacted news 4 and erica gonzalez had more on how we're working for you. >> i like being outside. >> reporter: this is jim clark. >> i've lived here 30 years. >> reporter: this isome in alexandria. >> this is cinnamon fern, st. john's wart, and dill pine weed. >> reporter: and this is his yard. aears back he really got into local plants. he's got the shirtve to p it. >> this person is stepping on ivyhere i'm stepping on after i've cut it down. >> reporter: so he was surprised >>en he got a notice from the city. yeah, this is a first. >> reporter: he needed to cut the weeds or the city might do it, might tack on a fine, too. and according to the notice the numbers on t house also needed to be fixed, displayed where they could be seen. then clark reached out to news 4 and got the city send a hort culturist to the apartment.ou the city the majority of the plants to be ornamental

ws4 working for you, what haened when we started appsk >>> this shows jim clark's love of plants. that love was loste on city of alexandria. they asked clark to cut the weeds or they might do it for them. that's when clark contacted news4.go erika nzalez has more on how we're working for you. >> i like being outside. >> reporter: this is jim clark. >> i've lived here 30 years. >> reporter: this is his home in alexandria. >> this is st. john's worth and false blue indigo. >> reporter: a few years back he really got into plants and has the shirt to prove it. >> this person is stepping on a tyrant's neck and here, i'mng stepn ivy after i've cut it down. >> reporter: he was surprised whot he got ae from the city. >> yeah. this is a first. >> reporter: he needed to cut the weeds or the city might do it. might tack on a fine, too. according to the notice, the numbers on the house also needed to bix, displayed where they can be seen. the clarks reached out to news4 david culver who started asking estions and ultimately got the city to send its to its property. >> i don't understand the w

. >> so homeowner jim clark is all about using what heve calls na plants his labor of love is on display in his front yard. so much that the city ya sent clark a notice and told him he needed to cut the weeds or they might do it for him. he might even have to pay for a fine too. >> i think of myself an ample of what you can do with native stuff instead ofd ivy stuff that kills your trees. >> clark also had a small problem with not having his house number in plain sight. >> in some ways it's a smart way to go rsh a friend of mine had a place in salt lake city. they caed is zero scaping. in the high desert like that, it was mostly suck leculents. >> it does look a little overgrown. the neighbors are saying it looks crazy. >> pretty flowers. >> okay. >> i don't know.>> ust no hogwood or whatever that is. >> what was that?us >> poisohogweed. >> i kept making that hogwarts joke is, and i can't remember the name of the plant. >> i think it's hogwood. >> what you need to know about the weather. rain eming to an early this morning. most of us, by the time you get outside after 5:00, 6:00, most o

sheriff jim clark actually standing at the top of the steps.you see into where the door is, that is where sheriff clark would be standing. protesters lining up, attempting to get past. you would have folks lined up rap around the building singing freedom songs and protest songs and doing chants. anybody who was walking by, might hear a good -- ♪ woke up this morning with my mind set on freedom i woke up this morning with my mind set on freedom i woke up this to morning with y mind it was on freedom. halleju, halleju, hallejuah. hallelujah . ♪ this is one of the movement churches, one of the main churches that was holding meetings, training sessions and meetings of civil rights movement leaders. it is one of the oldest black churches in the city of selma. the first beach in the city of january 2, 1965. >> i'm here to tell you tonight the the businessmen, city, the police commissioner of the city, and everybody in the white power structure of this city must take a responsibility by everything that jim clark does. knowtting the folks here that the

>> somewhere along the line, sheriff jim clark are the state public safety director had determined a they implemented it right there. major john cloud, who was in charge of the state troopers, said kneel and pray and go back where you came from. they kneeled, prayed, and nobody moved to turn around. that is when state troopers came in with night sticks and started pushing people. when they started pushing people, of course they fell like dominoes. they were injured from scrapes a nd bruises. a short time later is one tear gas was thrown out. people begin screaming. panic,t fear was, in the they were going across the bridge, and some of them might jump off the bridge. fortunately it never happened. it was quite a tumult at that point. my friend and i had gas thrown at us. fortunately i had finished gas drills earlier for the military. eyes asdn't impair our much as it did the marchers. it was a sad moment for us because we had anticipated the fact that dr. king confided in his people that he was unsuccessful in selma, and was thinking of moving to jackson, mississippi or memphis. that

an alexandria man's front yard is proof ofha >> jim clark is all about using native plants, nothing invasive. his labor of love is on display in his front yard, so much of the city that the city of alexandria sent clark a notice and told him he needed toeut weeds or they might do it for him or he might have to pay a fin called news4 david culver who got the hort culturist to check out his property and they found out clark was right, they're not ornamental. >> it's what you can do withve nati instead of ivy and stuff that kills your tree es. >>lark also h a small problem with not having his house number in plain sight. he gothat taken care of, too. also, you should know in case you ever get notice like clark did, you can dispute it yourself with the inspect on the notice by calling that number. >> interesting story. >>> commuter concerns. up next, a warning about a busy train line in our area as an importantafy deadline approaches. approaches. what happens if they approaches. what happens if they i'm a small business, but i have... . big dreams and big plans. so how do i make the efforts of 8

so if white folks didn't see racism even when it was blatant in your face bull connor, jim clark, selmaat, then why would we be shocked that white americans are in denial about racism even on the part of the president in this case? it's a long tradition of denial. he is not the one who originated it. he is just the current example of it. >> so alice, if the president is offended by about what samantha b. said about his daughter ivanka, which was offensive, why is he not offended by what roseanne said about valerie jarrett? >> because he has made similar comments. look, the unfortunate thing here, don, he had really three options on how to respond to this. one, the best option would have been to use this as a teachable moment and say this kind of rhetoric, this kind of dialogue, racist statements, homophobic statement, misogynist statements cannot be tolerated. i'm guilty of it. we should not do it. he is busy focusing on more important things like north korea and the economy and not commented at all. but for him to take the worst option by saying it's not about me, apologize to me for t

minneapolis police and emergency medical responders i don't know if you all are aware of this but when jim r. clarke was killed in minneapolis in november of two thousand and fifteen that was a result of emergency medical professionals calling the police and claiming that john mark karr a twenty five year old african-american man was acting belligerently and when people you know saw the videotape of him outside the ambulance that was that could not have been further from the truth but. after lamar clark was killed and i got to say great great work up there great work in the community of stand your ground up there and it came always a pleasure to have you on thank you so much. thank you for and as we go to break call quarters don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics you covered on facebook and twitter see our full shows at our t.v. dot com coming up sean stone breaks down the walls of the modern drug cartel but with author and ph d. as well those of iowa and later we will take a ride on the legacy of astronaut sally stay to. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be

war camp in jim crow-era arizona, that experience was just the beginning of the discrimination she would face. it's all detailed in the new book, "enemies in love," by author and journalist clark newshour weekend's ivette feliciano has more. >> reporter: german soldier frederick albert was captured in italy in 1944 and taken to a prisoner of war camp in arizona where he met african americane, nulinor powell. how did they meet? and what's the story of their courtship? >> frederick, who was a great cook, and a baker, worked in a mess hall. and, apparently, he saw elinor for the first time and he shared ith family members, walk right up to her and said, "you should know my name. i'm the man who's going to marro " >> reporter: and it was all smooth sailing from there? >> well, she was shocked, of course. i mean, here's this german prisoner of war, you know, hitting on her. broad daylight. and it was obvious that he was, you know, trying to court her. >> reporter: is there anything about their respectivebr gings that you feel made them more open to an interracial romance?as >> sherom a prominent black family in the boston suburbs. it was actually very progressive; it was calledac m