they went around looking for stoney lewis. stoney lewis couldn't be found.nd evidently in frustration decided to kill tony klann. >> eddie's story is that they drove down by doan creek. mike keenan, the driver, got out of the truck and was standing behind anthony telling him, where is stoney? where's stoney? and he kept saying i don't know where he is. keenan says put your head back. and that's when he come out with an 11-inch hunting knife and slit his throat. pushed him into the creek and told joe d'ambrosio, finish the job. >> at this point, espinoza said he heard tony screaming for mercy, crying out, "please don't kill me." >> joe grabbed the knife, jumped into the creek and put three big holes in that boy's chest. and killed him. that's eddie espinoza's story. my partner and i both felt that this man was telling us the truth. >> based mainly on espinoza's account, police charged mike keenan and joe d'ambrosio with aggravated murder. each would face the death penalty. joe's court-appointed lawyer convinced him to waive his right to a jury trial. >> i hav

lewis was carrying a 9 millimeter handgun. days later, he was nabbed for stealing a pocketbook from a department store. so what was that like-- and what happened at that stage after they arrested you? >> it was life changing. but it wasn't a good feeling. it wasn't a good feeling because you felt like you disappointed your family and you disappointed your mother, which is the most important person in my life. >> reporter: on the suggestion of his lawyer, lewis took a deal. for both cases, he pled guilty to a total of three misdemeanors and was sentenced to five years probation. no jail time. at that time, were you worried at all about how this might impact your future? >> no. because the lawyer had told me, "it's only a misdemeanor. it's never gonna hurt you. don't even worry about it." so no. i really didn't think that much into it at that point. >> reporter: a short time later, lewis began looking for new work. he was overjoyed when he got a tentative job offer from a building company. >> i worked there for about a month, wa

mischele lewis is a born caregiver. as a little girl in southern new jersey, she daydreamed about working somewhere in medicine, helping people. >> i knew i always wanted to do something in medicine from when i was probably 8 or 9. but it changed. i wanted to be a veterinarian, then i wanted to be a pediatrician. >> reporter: sure enough, as an adult she got her nursing degree and reported happily to the labor and delivery ward. you're with the team delivering babies right? >> i do. it's wonderful every day. you connect with your patients. i'm there with them the whole way. i've cried with them. i've laughed with them. it's amazing. >> reporter: fellow nurse robyn meyers says mischele is a natural, as a nurse and as a best friend. >> she's a light in a dark place. she's wonderful. she's the one trying to brighten up somebody else's bad day. >> reporter: but mischele has seen her own share of bad days. for years she struggled in a difficult marriage, eventually moving with her kids into her mother shirley's house. >> she

lewis is currently serving a one-year sentence for nonpayment of child support. he says it was always hard to make ends meet without a high school diploma. but now, thanks to a program offered by the jail, he's just days away from receiving his ged. >> my mom's proud of me. finally can say she's proud of me. after a lot of other stuff, she's always worried about me in boxing, always worried about me getting hurt in competition and other stuff i do. she don't really like tattoos. but this is one thing i can actually say she's proud of me for. >> while lewis has made the most of his time at louisville metro, some inmates continue to struggle. the special operations response team, or s.o.r.t., has just been alerted to a disturbance involving an inmate currently on suicide watch. it is jail policy to document such calls on video. >> behavior has been self-abusive. today he is stating that he has swallowed items. he's told the officers he swallowed a comb. he was spitting up blood. also, we did catch him in an attempt to swallow part of a toothbrush. he's been strip-s

we will get it right. >> lewis bears those scars.sters across the ud monday pettus bridge. for lewis, those memories caused pain. >> i had backpack. in the backpack i had two books. i thought we were going to be arrested and go to jail. i wanted to have something to read. i had one apple and one orange. i wanted to have something to eat. >> reporter: instead of arrest and jail he and others were brutally beating, his skull fractured. >> i thought i saw death. i thought i was going to die. my legs hurt from under me. i fell. i just thought this was it. and i said to myself i'm going to down this bridge. >> reporter: he issue add call for religious leaders to come to selma. two weeks later with federal protection, he lewis, and other leaders with thousands of people from all ore american cross thad bridge and marched onto montgomery, a peaceful protest for the right to vote. later that year congress passed the voting rights act. the legacy of dr. king. how do you even put that into words? >> martin luther king jr. helped free and liber

once roosevelt was in office lewis saw the winds changing. he became a partner to her. because of her support for the new deal and the reluctance of a democratic governor in colorado to cooperate with new deal programs, roche ran for governor of colorado in 1934 on the slogan, roosevelt, roche, and recovery. she ran a fantastically interesting whirlwind campaign but lost the primary. only to be scoop up by the roosevelt administration in december of that year. she was appointed assistant secretary of the treasury. roche was the second highest-ranking woman in the new deal government, only frances perkins, secretary of labor, out ranked her. from the treasury, she worked as a liaison between the administration and organized labor, as a link to feminists and a connection to progressives in congress who were often frustrated with the roosevelt administration's caution. she was also a darling of the washington press. reporters praised her feminine flow week dresses and hats while she rejected women's subordination to men. she was often in the position -- here is a woman, an

john lewis accepted that personal apology.the mayor of rockhill, south carolina has also apologized to john lewis for what happened to him there. gave him the key to the city. and jong lewis, states man, long time congressman accepted the key to the city. rockhill is trying to make good on what happened there a half century ago. they're trying to make it right. a few months before they pulled in, a group of friends from friendship junior college, decided they would break the segregation laws in rock hill in their own brave way. they decided to try to order lunch at a lunch counter in downtown rockhill. nine black students. they sat down, as soon as they sat down, they were pounced on and dragged away by police and arrested. for the crime of sitting at a lunch counter while black. that will group became nine as the friendship nine, after the school they went to, friendship junior college. today the surviving members of that group told mark potter what happened that day at that lunch counter. >> i remember being grabbed up by my

still to come, music from jenny lewis.can join our next guest for show tunes instead. she stars with meryl streep, anna kendrick, emily blunt, johnny depp and many more in the big movie musical "into the woods." it opens christmas day. please welcome christine baranski! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: did you meet the great mel brooks? >> am i supposed to follow mel brooks? >> jimmy: it's impossible. >> oh, my god, it's like a frat party back there. you're on your way to hiatus. it's definitely hiatus energy. >> jimmy: everything is screwed up. >> people are having some beers back there. >> jimmy: wished they would wait until the show is over. >> i considered it. i thought, no. >> jimmy: at least 40% of our guests are drunk when come out here. have you ever performed drunk? >> you know, once i did a play and i had two glasses of wine between shows. and it was definitely scary. you just don't want to do that. not when you're doing french -- obscure french playwrights. >> jimmy: yes, whenever i do that, i don't ever have a

dana lewis joins us. the man hunt continues. why do police say there's reason to fear the girlfriend or the common law wife of the supermarket hostage taker? >> well whether they fear her or not. they want to talk to her. she is wanted in connection with the shooting thursday of a french police woman, she is the common law husband of amedy coulibaly, who carried out the supermarket, the bloody supermarket hostage-taking yesterday. she has been with him for years, appeared in photographs at le monde. she is wearing a veil against regulations in france carrying a crossbow doing military training. intelligence authorities say she travelled with him to malaysia. she nose a lot and is considered -- knows a lot and is considered armed and dangerous and may be a threat on the streets of paris or france and is a reason french authorities are maintaining a high level of security in the country's history. >> reporter: french authorities are taking stock of one of the most violent weeks in recent memory. friday three terror suspects dead a

>> you can even hear richard lewis in agonizing pain. richard lewis suffered severe head and leg injuries. he remains in serious condition. his daughter katie says it has been hard on everyone shall specially her mom. >> my mom is having a hard time. >> now facing serious charges and if convicted could be lock up for good. >> you're not going to comb to polk county and hurt our people without us chasing you to the ends of ther. >> that was fox's gloria gomez. harry read out of the hospital after an injury while working out. the 75 year old spent last night in the hospital after breaking several ribs and bones in his face, as nevada home yesterday. spokesperson says reid was using elastic exercise band it broke hit him in the face he fell down. staffers say he will return to washington dc this weekend and will be in the senate whether the 114th congress is sworn in tuesday. doctors expect him to make a full recovery. >> couple headed to minute a.m. list fight quite the new years day surprise, allison and zach perry when allison went into

this is reason for cheer for dave lewis.eer for dave lewis because sales are much better than had been expected in the christmas period. 6000 more -- prices cut on key festive goods. that drew in shoppers. sales are much better than we have seen over at sainsbury's. we are to see a turnaround in tesco improving. overall, tesco is able to say we are sticking by our four-year profit forecast after slashing it three times last year. >> this is more than just a trading update. there is the bigger story that is driving the stock higher. >> you are exactly right. dave lewis is taking drastic action. some of the moves are key for his three priorities. how do you restore competitiveness? they are slashing prices, 25% on average, for hundreds of products. already, the posters have gone up in the shops behind me. also, a new ceo in charge of the u.k. business. the name is liked by the market. matt davies. he is seen as a good pair of hands. they are taking key action on unprofitable stores. they are even closing the head office. it is

kim lewis led a team of scientists at northwestern university. >> my guess is if resistance is going to develop, it will take more than 30 years for it to occur. >> overuse of antibiotics has led to drug resistant bacteria in at least 2 million americans a year killing at least 23,000. most antibiotic are produced by bacteria found in the soil but only about #% of these organisms can be grown in the laboratory. >> we did something very different. instead of trying to figure out in a petri dish, we grow them in a natural environment. >> reporter: they place the bacteria directly in the soil isolating 50,000 different specimens which made 25 new antibiotics. one, teixobactin effectively killed certain drug resistant bacteria including mrsa, c. difficile and tuberculosis. the mutationings that cause bacteria to become resistant doesn't seem to affect how teixobactin works. lewis says this may lead to a whole new approach. >> the dogma under which we operate is bacteria will always rapidly develop rapid resistance, that may be incorrect. >> reporter: professor lewis says human trials cou

and we start with john lewis the congressman and friend of dr. king. >> martin luther king, jr. helped free and liberate, not just the people but a nation. >> rose: and we continue with david oyelowo, who plays dr. king in the film "selma". >> she was an american hero but he didn't walk around in his life thinking i am an hero, i am an icon, i am a historical figure, he was a a man with flaws, with failings, with weaknesses with transcendent qualities as well but where i connected with him is, you know, he is man of faith, i am a man of faith i am a father of four, he was a father of four. and these were my entry points. he lived a life of not just talking about it but actually doing it. >> rose: we conclude this evening with jessica class stain and oscar isaac talking about their most recent first a most violent year. >> there was, you know, when i got the script the documentary .. i don't know if you saw it the documentary that came out. >> rose: right. >> an it was fresh in my mind and i read the script and i sat down with jc and has a four-hour lump and i said, i know it is

we have already had a look at the john lewis numbers. what do they say?> it looks like online is where it is at, and they have done well. we had something last week where we saw sales up from estimates an online really didn't see the bulk of the uptick, so we're seeing very similar sales trends here. in the five weeks to december 27, just after the boxing day frenzy, they have taken in 770 million pounds, and to break that down, that is about a million pounds per hour they were taking in over that five weeks. the christmas rush the boxing day sale, and it is now one third of all of their sales, a big growth so that you do buy online and then go and pick it up in the store. also quite interesting, not many cannibalizing in-store sales. they remained flat, whereas online picked up 20%. it was all about health, the neutral bullet, and wearables. there was a baking theme when it came to the kenwood mixer. >> i have to say, i did a little bit online and a little bit -- >> omni-channel. >> omni-channel. >> and tell us about black friday, because they did have s

he is replaced by dave lewis. says it plans to slash its dividends by 75%, and shares plummet wiping 1.3 billion pounds off the company's value. then, the bombshell. tesco overstated profit by 250 million pounds. for executives are suspended. -- four executives are suspended. tesco issued a fourth profit warning, saying trading revenue will be half-a-billionaire is less than it predicted. >> wielding wringing the details of that strategy update just after the top of the hour at 7:00 london time in roughly 25 minutes. >> let's return to paris. the youngest suspect in the shooting has surrendered himself to police. hans nichols is on the ground in paris. hans what do we know so far? >> you know that the search continues for the two other suspects, a 34-year-old and a 32-year-old. that is what the focus is on. this is a city in search of those two men. also a search for answers. how into french nationals who by all the accounts grow up here become radicalized and militarized? right behind is the office that was the f

i'm kevin lewis in rockville. coming up after the break, i'll tell you who was arrested and >> he told a judge he sold drugs to finance his budding rap career but tonight, he's singing the blues. >> today, a judge found 27-year-old abraham kamara guilty for his role in a wild high speed police chase. montgomery county reporter kevin lewis shows us that chase. >> a rainy april night in silver spring. police in hot pursuit of a bright yellow box truck. abraham kamara behind the wheel. in four short minutes, the liberian native blew stop signs and he even barrelled through this traffic circle. police eventually cornered him in a cul-de-sac. a digital scale and 74 grams of marijuana stashed in his truck. >> even the time of night when people are bringing home their children from basketball practice or ballet and here's this box truck going through the neighborhood. >> kamara, an aspiring rap artist routinely posts music videos on you tube. today in court, he admitted to dealing drugs all to pay for recording studio ti

lewis is getting ready for the weekend. founder of the first on demand water taxi. >> we operate on a 24-hour schedule. give us a call. tell us where-up are going. where you want to be picked up. >> you can do that through a mobile app on your phone. >> track our bets now on our mobile site. on an app. go to it on your phone. click live map. see where our vessel is. we are slowly getting there. >> getting there in time for the golden gate bridge closure. >> a lot of ridership has been local, marin, we haven't overextended ourselves. >> this weekend will be different. lewis is hoping for a bombing business. he has the osprey capable of hauling 40 passengers and a small bet we hitched a ride on tonight. it hold six passengers. those who depend on the golden gate bridge know the closure is coming and. >> not going to go near the bridge. that's going to stay up here and stay on this sigh. and i think the folks in east bay have had that happen to them. so whatever happens comes around to us too. not such a big deal. >> this week

. >> next person is dan bowersox and i believe he withdraw his application so gary lewis are you here? >> hi. good afternoon members of the board. first i would like to thank you for inviting me to come down again and put myself forward for a position on the local homeless coordinating board. i come to this with -- my interest in coming to this board stems out of the last six and a half years working along the tenderloin and working with the homeless and low income individuals. i started this work in 2008 and leaving my job in biotech and going to law school and having a role in community development. i quickly began volunteered at the shelter and referrals through a student group. throughout school it snow balled there and i went into the homeless advocacy project and legal aid and worked with the -- what was then the good neighborhood coalition on the efforts to get a cbmc hospital project. upon graduation in 2011 i was extremely lucky to be offered the role much the executive director of the assistance advocacy project and an organization in the tenderloin around for 30 years provi

that is what dave lewis said yesterday. selling off assets that are surplus to a shrunken strategic plan. starting to look at the land value in her and in a large supermarket chain. there's quite a lot of in action. instead of pressing on with heavy investment, we are going to pull our horns. we've got plenty of exits. >> when you look at the debt profile of a company like tesco and others a debt profile that is bigger than the market cap of the company, how much of a hindrance is that? >> i think it depends on the business. you would expect a mining company with looking forward to leverage up. you would expect a business which is in decline to deleverage. it depends on the business profile. >> i want to talk about a fixed income market. this reach for yield, sometimes you end upholding junk. if you reach for tesco, you now hold junk. there was a story today on the flip side of this. negative yield in government debt in the eurozone. 1.2 trillion euros. it was 500 billion back in october. what are the consequences of this?

. >> dana lewis joins us now from paris. it's midnight where you are. updates on the search for the gunmen? >> reporter: well, david by the way, you know, in connection with this region in fact the highest level of security that had taken in paris has extended to the pick dee region, they deeply concerned these brothers are in that area, that's where they are concentrating much of their search. they have closed off some of the roads in the town, turning back motorists and searching intensely. that is where the gas station was and that was the last sighting of these two brothers, heavily armed with the with, accord to this gas station manager, rocket propelled grenades which as you know are serious weapons used in the battlefield, lots of discussion here about where they may have gotten them. some people say here there is a pretty big black market from eastern our up to weapons in france and if you have the money you can get the weapons. authorities announced today they continue to detain nine people who were close to these brothers and they will be deta

kevin lewis, abc 7 news. >> kevin, the power of social media fundraising,, too, huh? >> no doubt. akin september 2013, when this hit the web, they were gathering donations of about $800 per minute. this took off fast. >> thank you. an amazing survival story in kentucky where a seven-year-old girl escaped a deadly plane crash. four members of her family from illinois were killed in the crash. the faa said the small plane reported engine trouble and lost contact with air traffic controllers. a half-hour later a resident called 911 because a child had walked to his home and was injured and sobbing. >> i opened the durable in the little girl about seven years old. bloody nose, legs, arms. she was crying. she told me that her parents were dead. and she had been a plane crash. >> a witness said the girl walked nearly a mile without shoes in near freezing temperatures to find the house. she was treated at a hospital and released. up next -- eileen has the weekend forecast. >> eileen whelan joining us with the forecast. you really have to bring the party indoors for this kind of weather.

joining me now with the latest from paris dana lewis.just before we went to air word started to trickle out in france that there have been arrested, that there have been suspects identified. tell us what you know. >> well, this is being reported by mainstream french media at this late our in paris. they're saying that, in fact at minimum the authorities have identified the three masked gunmen who carried out these bold bloody attacks here in the center of paris today. they have even named them in one up in report. two of them are said to be in their 30s. another one 18 years old. according to these reports that are unconfirmed by the government or the interior ministry to be specific, and that one of them may have been arrested or have been known to authorities at one point for attempting to go to syria and he was stopped. unconfirmed by authorities but there are many french media reporting that indeed three suspects have been identified by the authorities and some have suggested that they may have been detained. but again no confirmatio

the leadership emancipation proclamation and to my high school english teacher the foster i didn't lewis that made me fall in love with shaepz as the president i have big shoes to fill from ms. norton to president fewer the board has enjoyed a stream of very strong x i want to especially thank president fewer for her leadership much has been devoted to a strategic planning process that was launched beginning with president morton called vision 2025 in collaboration with our partners we asked we were asked to reimage public education in san francisco for a new generation and i courage everyone to read the vision 20 twooir 25 plan on the website our work in the coming year will mirror the approach we used to develop 12 it will be inclusive and interact active and spider we'll look to all of you our families and guardians and parents teachers and paraprofessionals and counseled and administrator and central office staff and community and city and corporate partners and most definitely our students to help to shape this education with us we have the perfect prudent to lead the charge i look

lewis, oh he had a game coming off the bench. 16 points for lewis. bcu up 13.e over a minute left. rams to melvin johnson. he can shoot it. three ball here. knocks it down. 14 points for him. bcu. they beat ducayne 70-64. american defeated lafayette. and catholic they beat scranton 71-65. the place he calls home for 17 years. unfortunately, it was not the homecoming he had planned. the game tied 3-3 in the third. >> the coach brutally honest about trying not to cry during that tribute. >> i knew if i started leaking i wasn't going stop so i really thought about how i could not. after watching it i thought i would go down and look down and i don't know if i had a water bottle but i felt like i was going to have a little bit of a leak. luckily i was -- a little later in the year. >> good game last night. really wished they would have got the win, though. >> that is the news for thank you cable. for the slower internet upload speeds. for making me wait longer to share my photo albums. thank you cable, because if we never had you... we wouldn't know the incredible

kevin lewis has with the police are saying about the cause of this terrible accident. kevin? >> this is where the crash occurred. the police say that it was a t-bone collision between the semi truck and a small car. a clipped it, over four lanes of traffic, onto the and bank met. the semi flipped over and ran into the sign that belongs to the community college. the police say the damage to the car was even worse. the recovery effort was both tragic and tedious. the tractor-trailer lying on its side, the car crushed beyond recognition. this was a rural stretch of route 50 in queen anne's county. the police say that five people, including a pregnant woman died when a fully loaded tractor-trailer t-boned this small vehicle. >> the tractor-trailer apparently rolled over the top of the car after pushing across the westbound and eastbound lanes of route 50. >> killed on impact, a 24-year-old, for 25-year-old girlfriend their seven-year-old daughter, and two-month-old son. her 30-year-old pregnant sister also died in the crash. this invitation posted on facebook indicates the family

a different society. >> lewis bears those scars on bloody sunday. he hope to leave protesters across the bridge. those memories cause pain. >> i was wearing a backpack. i had two books. i thought we would be arrested and go to jail. i wanted something to read. at one apple and one porridge. i wanted to have something to eat -- i had one apple and one orange. i wanted to have something to east. >> instead they were brutally beaten. his skull fractured. >> i thought i was going to die. i fell. i started to sit. i thought, i'm going to die on this bridge. >> he issued a call for religious leaders to come to some -- to selma. >> many marched on to primary. later that year, congress passed the voting rights act. >> we had it -- had not even put it into words. >> martin luther king jr. had freedom liberated not just the people, but a nation. >> black and white. >> black and white. he taught us so much through his actions words. he taught us how to live. he taught us how to die. if you believe in something that is so precious yet to stand up for it. speak

lewis. christmas trading was better, a lot better than they estimated. they thought it would drop by a half percentage dropped by 3.5%. 200 people will be impacted to lose their job. $400 million will be saved. marks and spencer, wide-out, drop-off. black friday and fashion dropped by 6% in the week before christmas. i bought a coat. >> a real tale of2 companies. tesco plans to close its head office. it also will not issue a dividend this year. caroline hyde joins us with a more. plenty of changes in the market likes what it is here. it is up 6%. >> yeah, the trading over christmas and we saw much better than expected, drastic dave to the rescue that is the nickname of the new ceo dave lewis. he does put and changes before christmas which seems to have helped sales and they fell marginally over the christmas trading period, much better than expected. 6000 more customers. we saw u.k. improve, europe post positive sales. asia was a challenge. it was online black friday giving it a boost. tesco says it is helping the stock in an particular. quarks will do m

we begin with dana lewis in par areries. new details about the possible whereabouts of these two suspects. >> they are still on the run and wanted and heavily armed and described as dangerous by the authorities, the latest development is that they were spotted near land at a gas station. i believe we have video now. the police at the scene of that, because it is more than a siting now reported as a robbery which took place by two men fitting the description of said and cherif kouachi. they were supposedly armed with rivals and r.p.g.'s as well. they stole gasoline, food, fired shots. to add to the concern of the authorities, they drove offer in the direction of paris. that is the latest they are saying. we are hearing now that security officials are beavering up police presence at some of the main highway entry points on the north side of the city, because that is the direction in which that they would enter paris presumably. the greatest fear now by the prime minister, he said this morning is that they could carry out anoth

so i, you know respect representative john lewis a lot. i find it very difficult to believe that his words will move a recalcitrant republican leadership. >> well the republican leadership is going to have a press conference tomorrow. casey, you're going to be there tomorrow? >> i hope so. >> get a question in for us. >> thank you both for joining me tonight. coming up an ethics complaint is filed against the st. louis county prosecutors in the darren wilson grand jury. who handled the darren wilson grand jury for a mistake that we first exposed on this program immediately after the grand jury transcripts were revealed. and chris christie's travel accommodation to see his beloved cowboys play football could actually get him into some ethics trouble. and it was a murder that no one saw coming. a hedge fund owner was murdered by his son according to police in dispute over $200. ♪ with the incredible fuel efficiency of 38 miles-per-gallon highway you can feel like royalty in the nissan altima. now, get great offers on the 38 mpg highway nissa

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that is astounding, and something we should not forget. >> john lewis sits in congress today, had hisd bashed in on bloody sunday. >> that's right. he was on the front lines of that march. when i see john lewis now -- >> king wasn't there. >> no. >> let's go to the final clip from "selma" where dr. king is calling all people of conscience to come to selma after that first march. >> dr. king, can we get a statement, please? >> while rageful violence continues toward the unarmed people of selma, while they are assaulted with tear gas and batons like an enemy in a war no citizen of this country can call themselves landless because we all bear responsibly for our fellow man. i am appealing to the men and women of god and goodwill everywhere white, black, and otherwise, if you believe all are created equal, come to selma. join us. join our march against injustice and inhumanity. we need you to stand with us. >> that was a clip from the academy award nominated film "selma." we're talking to the director ava duvernay. we're here in sundance. ava, that moment were he calls on all good people

my friend john lewis. 50 years. a half a century.e knows that we may have seen the promised land but the promise is not yet redeemed. there is still much to do. and the last congress the cbc played a central and critical role in shaping policy and moving legislation forward to benefit all americans. as this new congress begins with challenges facing our country we will continue to look to the group known as the conscience of the congress. for ideas and inspireded leadership. and inspiration. for over four decades the cbc promoted a vision of oh america where everyone regardless of color, creed economic circumstances has an equal shot to pursue the american dream and is entitled to equal justice under the law. that's the objective. that's the vision. that's the promise. no one in this auditorium would say that promise has been redeemed yet. so there is still much work to be done. it need not be only a vision but a reality. sadly it is not. it is the goal for which we strive and toward which the congress works. there are no members of