oil ask how much you know about little rock. how much do we know about little rock? steve, tell me what you know. >> it was a school under federal order to integrate and when local authorities attempted to bar desegregation, president eisenhower sent troops for intervention of force. >> direct intervention of force. that's key. i'll talk about that in a minute. what about the background? what prompted this? actually, naacp lawsuit. naacp lawsuit calling for the desegregation of central high, the major high school in little rock. the lawsuit went to a federal court, the federal judge said, yes, central high should be desegregated, and he ordered the entrance, the allowing of eight young women and men into little rock high. when these kids show up to go to school under the federal order, they are turned away by a mob. they eventually show up again, they are turned away about the arkansas national guard. and essentially orville becomes the first of governors to stand in the school house doors to prevent these kids from going to school, to going to little rock central hi

everyone heard of little rock. you're generally familiar with what went on. what i'll talk about tonight is the fact that all three of these episode, especially little rock were going to, in effect, lay the foundation for what would become the more active civil rights movement of the 1960s. each of these episodes indicated profound changes in race relations and black progress. and as i've argued all throughout this class, when we talk about black progress and race relations we're not talking about black people gaining new reits, we're talking about african-americans seeing thing rights that they lost in the 1870s finally restored. in other words when we talk about vote rights, blacks were essentially trying to get back thing rights that were supposed to be guaranteed by the 15th amendment that was ratified finally in 1870. let me show a couple of slides that reflect on what i call this rising militancy and trying to change the narrative of the civil rights struggle. first of all, militancy is the watch word. african-americans throughout the country either ins

my son was working for our extended company in little rock. we couldn't reach him that morning by telephone. we got a call from the location saying that no one was working, so we tried to reach him by telephone. we didn't reach him and we got in the car and drove to little rock. by the time i got there, i got a call from the fbi and they said to me on my cell phone that your son has been involved in a shooting, something bad has happened, and my wife was sitting to the other side. my heart dropped to my shoes. i'm saying now i've got to tell my wife what you've just told me. we was totally shocked. >> daris, your wife was actually sitting in the parking lot 50 feet from the shooting itself. she saw the whole thing. tell me how you -- did h she cal you and tell you what happened? >> what had happened is she saw the other soldier and my son come out of the recruiting office and she was going to get up and go talk to him, and when she saw he had a friend with him, she decided to stay in the car. at that time she heard three bursts of gunfire, and

flooding on i-40 from nashville to little rock. storms drench i-5, 84, and 90 in the northwest. >>> if you're plying the friendly skies, airport delays are possible on the east coast from boston to atlanta. also in nashville, memphis, seattle, portland and san francisco. >>> and now to medical news this morning. what is being called major break through in the battle against breast cancer. >> researchers say they've come up with a targeted therapy that heads straight for the cancer. they've tried it out on a thousand women, including 28-year-old bridget spencer. they say the cocktail works like a smart bomb. >> it's really like a heat-seeking missile with a toxic payload, travels all over the body until it meets the cancer cell and then lets off a massively toxic dose to kill off the cancer without damaging the rest of the body. >> sounds ground-breaking. spencer is among half of the women in the study that saw their cancer stabilize or shrink. and they had fewer side effects than standard chemotherapy. >> big news for a lot of wome

june 1st, 2009, private william long arrived at the little rock arkansas army-navy recruiting office.of a united states veteran, leave time before a trip to korea, first as a soldier, 10:19 a.m. in the heartland of america, private william long was the shot and killed, the shooter, abdul mohammed. >> i don't think it was hurd. murder is when a person kills another person without justified reason and the islam justified and also justifies common sense, you know. >> mohammed was born carlos bledsoe and raised a baptist by a loving family after attending college at tennessee state university, he began frequently the islam center of nashville and there listen to the preaching of their imam, this country is not the richest country on earth because it's the worst country on earth. >> and he was on the way of radical islam, he returned to the u.s. in little rock and set out on his own personal jihad mission that led him to the arkansas recruiting office. he was convicted for murder in arkansas state court and sentence today life in prison with no chance of parole. this tragedy has brought to

severe storms in the south, around atlanta, jacksonville, birmingham, little rock. scattered thunderstorms from west texas to colorado. rain and windy in northern california, the pacific northwest, and the northern r k rockie rockies. >> cool in the northwest and northeast. 90s from dallas to miami, phoenix, again, topping the century mark. doesn't look like they'll get a whole lot of relief there. >> sizzling out there. >>> still ahead, that propgsing possible break through in the battle against breast cancer. >>> new numbers from facebook might blow your mind. sky-high salaries for interns. >>> miss usa crowned overnight in sin city. >>> welcome back, everyone. getting back to the top stories. there's a selloff on overseas market this is morning following disappointing news from around the world, including the ongoing european debt crisis and concerns about china. topping the list of worries is the economic report for the u.s. for may. tokyo's nikkei average lost 145 points. hong kong's hang seng dropping 452. in london, the ftse is closed today. the do you fell 3

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little rock. we were aware of rosa parks' efforts to desegregate public busing in montgomery, part of the montgomery bus boycott movement. and so we had to beware of the potential for some very negative dangerous things that could have happened. at the same time, it certainly seemed like something that was socially just, socially righteous, and made sense. >> so we decided to use the non-violent approach that dr. martin luther king used here in the united states. so we did this role playing at st. peter claver church, the basement of the rectory. we'd go there and sit on stools and we practiced how we would react if we were pushed or insulted in some sort of way or called out and we did this over and over until we felt comfortable in using the non-violent approach. >> this is the site of the dockum building where the dockum drugstore was located. obviously, it's under reconstruction right now. i'll just point out at least there is one structure that is still located here, and that's this row of el

>> well, this thing has been swept under the carpet, as a drive-by shooting in little rock.t difficult to understand how you can get 50 instances of people convicted or indicted on terrorism charges for attempting to do what mohammed succeeded atigo. >> shannon: mr. bledsoe, you obviously, when i i saw you talk about your son on capitol hill, expressed great pain at how his life changes and he changed. what are you hoping to accomplish? what message do you want to get out? >> the message i want to get out here is that, you know, this is supposed to have been the untold story. the federal government never wanted to tell this story. my faith, now myself and mr. long can tell what we know that happened to our sons -- i want to get that out. >> shannon: what did happen to your son, carlos? >> my son was radicalized by the gipping in nashville, tennessee, the mosque he attended and they sent my son to yemen to be further ramradicallized. my son was brainwashed, manipulated and lied to by these imans in nashville and certainly in ye yemen. something is wrongith some of the mosques

little rock, record water usage there. people are just hot. this is triple digit temperatures all across the united states. >> you know what? i think a lot of times people think it is hot and uncomfortable. they forget how incredibly dangerous this is, especially for the elderly, p em who are not as mobile and can't move as easily as others to move to somewhere cool. you're in atlanta. what are you seeing there as the temperature rises here in atlanta? >> reporter: as you mentioned, one in three americans, if you can believe it, a third of our population affected by this heat. this is just a tough situation to be in. heat is the biggest factor in terms of fatalities. a senior citizen said she is so thankful that atlanta opened this cooling center, otherwise, she wouldn't have known what to have done. >> they are really affected by intense heat. a lot of them don't realize that they are suffering from dehydration. and so to come to a place that is cool, come to a place where there's water provided, come to a place where they don't have to worry

they had seen, of course, the little rock situation, where federal troops came in to defend the rights of black children. but they also saw in 1957, and this in some ways came out of little rock, they saw in 1957, the passage of a civil rights bill. now, as we look back on it now, that civil rights bill was very weak. as we look back on it now, the -- probably the major thing that came out of the civil rights bill was the u.s. civil rights commission, which is still in existence, still limping along. but on the other, in 1957, that civil rights bill was the first bill of its kind to be passed by the u.s. congress since 1875. which -- think about that. in other words, finally congress was beginning to act on the rights of blacks and other people of color throughout the country. also, by 1960, those students in the south saw the success -- had witnessed the success of martin luther king. now, we won't -- we don't have time to talk about the montgomery bus boycott, but i think you're all familiar with it. i will say this. the montgomery bus boycott was a prime example of ordinary people.

little rock, all-time june-high record, 107. louisville, 103. and indianapolis, 104. you can tell from which ka to the ohio valley, that's where the heat wave was at its peak. it was humid in chicago. we had it at 114, so it wasn't exactly feeling lovely there. now this morning the heat dome is settling its over tennessee drifting toward the east coast and that means the hot air's spreading that way too. we have a little bit of thunderstorm activity, bringing a little heavy rain to areas around philadelphia, new jersey, new york city, now trying to dive down toward york, pennsylvania. we've had some thunderstorm warnings with these. but these are going to make their way to baltimore and philadelphia for your morning drive. keep that in mind. there's a few storms heading to the new york state throughway. we do have heat advisories, heat warnings in place from kansas city to indianapolis and a heat warning around philadelphia. how hot? look at that. charlotte, around 104. d.c., around 100. and we're still just as hot all the way through the mississippi river valley. tha

hail, gusty winds and a chance of tornadoes from little rock to the carolinas.rs and thunderstorms from d.c. up to maine. >> 59 in boston. 76 in baltimore. 90s from dallas to miami. 84 in omaha. 76 in chicago. phoenix hits 101. colorado springs, 90. and sacramento, 69. >>> there was plenty of hanging out and kind of hanging on, really, down in west virginia over the weekend. hanging on, that is, because a group of folks were trying to set a guinness world record for the most people to race along a zipline in under an hour. >> organizers count over 180 thrillseekers zipped among the tree branches. that beats the old record of 122 set two years ago in germany. >> and it will be about two weeks, though, until an official announcement about the new record is made by guinness itself. i've never ziplined. it looks like so much fun. >> that would be a team bonding thing for the "world news now" staff. don't you think? >> yeah, if we could do it in the middle of the night as opposed to the middle of the day. >> hang on to my feet. i'll carry you around. we'll slide down

we're going to do a little rock rolling. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. >> was that guy still on that rock?> i thought so, so i went back and watched it. there shhe is. he was filming from another area. >> i don't understand what they were trying to do. was that supposed to happen? >> he's got a hydraulic jack, like something you'd use to jack up a car. he's got the jack in between the gap there, pushing the rock away. >> it didn't look like they were expecting the response they got from this rock. >> you know what? it's one thing to be, you know, using the hydraulic lift to move it. it's another thing to feel the full force of mother nature when the rock starts rolling. that's a lot of power they saw. look how big that is. >> maybe he just didn't expect it to go so quickly. >> yeah. >> and that's why he was shocked. there it goes. >> gravity hits you hard, bro. >>> our producer jessica ward, aka cheese, should not see this video. because if she does, she will quit and go do this. this is in the u.k. this is the coopers hill cheese rolling 2012 edition. >> i love those videos where they tak

it was 107th in little rock, 105 in nashville, and louisville at 103, and even charlton it now 100 degrees today, and all of that is spreading east. temperatures are going to stay quite warm. and we have seen a couple of thunderstorms, and some of our computer models are taking the storms as it heads to the southeast. wants them pass right through us, so it is possible as this hot weather moves on in, we could see some thunder. otherwise it will be partly cloudy with temperatures ranging from near 70 to almost 80. heat advisories across central and eastern maryland. an area of low pressure and thunderstorms, and now the emphasis on the heat. that is the hottest flow of air we get around here, the possibility of seeing temperatures around 103 tomorrow. it is a day to slow down and stay cool, stay in the shade or air conditioning, and drink plenty of fluids. the mountains will be warm, not as hot as we will be because of higher elevations, but still mid to upper 80's, and they have a chance of a thunderstorm tomorrow and saturday and sunday. as the temperature hits 100, it will feel like 105

but back to the west. 104 in dallas, 105 in little rock. 105 in denver. that is the all time highest temperature ever recorded in the city of denver. that is not helping with the fire situation. they have four days in a row with temperatures above triple digits and dealing with more than a dozen fires in that region. one in the colorado springs area. they have had to shut down garden of the gods park and portions of pike's peak as a result of the fire. the heat down to the south will build our way but it will take time. we have nice weather coming in for tomorrow with abundant sunshine. stays nice on wednesday. we get warm again but the humidity will stay low and that will make things nice. tuesday and wednesday look great and the heat builds our way. tomorrow morning a great start, temperatures 50 to 60 degrees. 50 in some of the coolest areas. tomorrow afternoon, 79 to 84, just fantastic. a bit breezy with winds gusting to 25 miles an hour. and here comes the heat again. 93 on thursday. that's not too bad. but 98 on friday, 99 on saturday, 96 on sunday.

louis, 108, little rock, 107. the heat wave is heading east.are going to see the heat starting tpeak in areas of the southeast. what's been different is it wasn't all that humid in areas of the midwest. the heat index is going to be br brutal this weekend. even d.c. has a chance of three days in a row of 100. i will have more of the weekend forecast coming up. >>> europe steps up to the plate. blackberry sours and a six-figure cabernet that comes with its own winemaker. your first look at this morning's business headlines is straight ahead. >>> coming up, a megadeal for sydney crosby, history made at the nbc draft. a stunner at wimbledon. you are watching "first look" on msnbc. high schools in six states enrolled in the national math and science initiative... ...which helped students and teachers get better results in ap courses. together, they raised ap test scores 138%. just imagine our potential... ...if the other states joined them. let's raise our scores. let's invest in our teachers and inspire our students. let's solve this. trouble with

little rock, arkansas, 107. everywhere in the red coloring was temperatures in the 90s. east coast all the way up here through the northern rockies. the only areas not in the 90s was along the west coast and up towards the pacific northwest. amazing that everyone in the country is talking about how incredibly hot of a summer where people in the northwest are asking me when is it going to warm up and when can i wear my summer clothes? yesterday, 72. portland, and 81 in medford. the desert southwest, typically warm. what's next? we are watching the one storm that's already kicked through. weakening and washing itself out. there's another little ripple behind it. not a lot of moisture. it will keep the clouds and showers and cloudy forecast in the northwest probably right into your weekend. light rain around medford this morning. trying to head up to some of the mountainous areas. that's about it. i don't think too many showers will reach the ground in portland. the forecast, today on and off showers in seattle. not going to be all that wet. mostly a dry day. temperatures s

most of these are records, 104 in dallas, 105 little rock, 90 st. louis, but the core of this heat is back in the east coast in the upper 90s again by the end of the week. so enjoy what we have over the next 48 hours. here's the temperature trend. we'll be below average tomorrow, 87 afternoon. we're going for 81 degrees. wednesday about 85 degrees, thursday 92 and here comes the hot stuff again, friday 96 and saturday probably 98 or 99 degrees. so contrast that to what you're seeing out here tonight. it's in the 60s in a lot of spots especially off to our west. you could be headed for the 40s in the mountains accident 73 for the district, very comfortable night. we'll continue to -- mountains, 73 for the district, very comfortable night. we'll continue to see the temperatures dropping and the humidity is really low. toward richmond you're down to 72 degrees, new york city 64, pittsburgh 61. we're headed for a comfortable one. here are the overnight low temperatures, about 60 in the district, but you get west and it's into the 50s and mid-and low 50s

temperature and all across the country, we go to find a high temperature including 91 for saint louis and little rock. 89 for wichita, denver down a bit from yesterday at 96 degrees and still, mighty hot for much of the country and leave night temperatures are going to be jumping up. last night, places were in the 60s and humid tonight. hard toical off and the temperature here in the city about 74 degrees. quantico, 78; fredericksburg, 74 and when did you see high temperatures tomorrow. yet, we're going from mild to warm and up to hot. and we're expecting a high of 96 degrees in the district. again, quantico, 97; a lot of places in the mid-90s and upper 90s will be expected as well and so we do have that heat advisory as we mention and that is for much of the area between noon and 8 tomorrow, feeling like 100 to 105. the thunderstorm watch, everything is to the south or to our west and didn't want this to take you by surprise. far from land, no threat to land here. we have had our third tropical storm form and that is tropical storm chris. the good news, it's going to keep moving away and that is one

you can see that right now current temperatures are in the triple digits for little rock, memphis, birmingham all the way into atlanta. charlotte, raleigh is at 105 degrees. and the forecast calls for this heat, this large dome of high pressure that worked its way in from colorado. remember we were talking about triple digits there earlier in the week. dropped further to the south and expanded well out there. that's why we're seeing these heat indices all the way up to 115 degrees. when is it going to get out of here? it's not going to happen tomorrow. it is going to take a day or two. even when the temperatures start to cool down a bit we're talking about a drop from 105 to 99. so we're still looking at extreme heat for the next few days and it's very, very dangerous out there. you know, another problem with heat, poppy, is that it's cumulative. you have days and days and days with exposure to extreme heat and that makes more heat-related illness and is one of the reasons it's so dangerous. >> absolutely. you point out so many people die from heat-related illness and think i'm fine and they

interstate 40 is not a fun ride this morning anywhere heading from little rock all the way in to oklahomas going to be the worst of it. now the other trouble spot, we have a lot of rain over the weekend. and even some flooding concerns. especially in the mountainous areas of western maine. we're still getting a lot of rain coming in off the ocean here. it's not a pretty day in northern new england. temperatures are going to be in the 50s, with on and off light rain. and this will continue through much of the day, from vermont to new hampshire to maine is the worst of it. even southern new england, down towards new york city, it's going to be a very cool monday out there. definitely want to wear a light jacket or sweater. don't expect the warm temperatures that we've seen lately. so here's how you set up for the day today. the cool air all through new england, and that's going to spark a lot of afternoon showers and clouds. we have the thunderstorms this morning that are in oklahoma and arkansas later today. those will head up towards st. louis through tennessee. areas watch out around sou

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severe weather could threaten oklahoma city, little rock and dallas. >> temperatures drop to much moresonable readings in the upper midwest with minneapolis at a nice sounding 76. chicago will start off warm at 86 but then cool down a little bit. seattle and portland are in the 70s. >>> well, overseas investors seem to like the spain bailout deal announced over the weekend. even though the country's prime minister says that spain's economy will get worse before it gets better. asian markets are up the most in more than two months. the euro at a two-week high and oil prices are rising as well. that should be a good week on wall street. u.s. businesses depend on europeans to buy their exports. so this plan eases pressure. anticipating that spain would ask for help. u.s. markets rally last week for the best week all year. $100,000 401(k) plan added almost $3600 in just a week. but, of course, that doesn't compensate for all the disastrous losses the weeks before that. >> gains for the year which is good. positive for the year. silver linings. >>> in other news this morning, a manhunt is u