lena horne. john f kennedy. 0prah barack 0bama. lena horne. john f kennedy. oprah winfrey.bc news. please stay with us. hello there. given all the rain that we've had over the past few weeks, it's still pretty wet out there. but the next few days at least will turn drier and also the temperatures will be rising. now, this area of low pressure brought cloud and some rain and drizzle to eastern parts of england. that's moving away. the next weather system is coming in from the atlantic. but in between the two, well, we did have some sunshine earlier on, particularly in northern ireland and here in scotland. but where we have the clearer skies in the first part of the night, there's the risk that temperatures could fall just below freezing in places. but that window of clearer skies will close as the night goes on because all that cloud will come in from the atlantic. it's going to bring some rain and briefly some snow over the scottish mountains, perhaps the northern pennines, but it should turn back to rain later on in the night as temperatures start to rise. so these are th

and his next show was "jamaica" with lena horne, with an all-black cast.that "finian's rainbow" in 1947 was the first show on broadway where the chorus line consisted of blacks and whites who danced with each other and the chorus was an integrated affair. amy: what happened to him during the mccarthy era? >> well, he could not work on any major film that they wanted him to work on from the major studios in hollywood. the setup was that roy brewer, who was the head of the iatse union -- i'm sorry to say that -- was the one who -- amy: what do you mean? >> well, i mean this is a stagehands' union. i'd like to say good things about unions, but they get bureaucratized and they go right-wing, you know? they get bad. this was a bad leader and he terrorized all of the jewish moguls who were being accused of communism by the house un-american activities committee, and they yielded to whatever he said to them out of fear that they would get branded as communists or that they'd boycott the film, all right? and so when they called yip in to do "huckleberry finn" with