jon: you have had a lot of arguments, alan, with rich lowery with when we had you together. >> many, tammy. jon: what does he have wrong? >> what he is ignoring historical context here, fbi statistics show that a black youth is 21 times more likely to be shot by a police officer, by a white police officer than a white is. and that, yes, i think poverty is certainly a common denominator and is an issue but can't ignore the race issue here. this was a flashpoint. like we've had enough, what happened in ferguson. jon: in the moments leading up to that shooting, nobody is thinking about history. one cop and one kid. >> talking about reaction to it. why you have football players coming on the field. doing what they did. why you have protests. this has been enough. jon: doing what they did, hands up, don't shoot, there is no evidence, tammy that happened. >> even leading up to this, the reason this is happening i think in part driven how the media has been covering it. when you're a network like fox, the number one network, you have a lot more flexibility looking at all the details. when y

him>> evelyn lowery. >> they were not really in the movement with us.i just have to tell the truth. after the movement, evelyn lowery was in mobile. we were in montgomery. during the time we were integrating atlanta, they were not a part of it. >> [indiscernible] >> sclc women -- should i tell it? [laughter] sclc women -- the women came to me when my president -- husband was president of sclc and asked me to organize them. he took it to the board of sclc. reverend lowery was the chairman of the board, and he protested and said, it would be like having two separate authorizations. courtney to -- juanita needs to come on board. my husband said, i'm not going to have any fight over my wife. he dropped it. when reverend lowery became president of sclc, he gave it to his wife. that is how sclc women was formed. it is a separate organization. it couldn't be a separate organization with juanita abernathy chairing it with ralph abernathy as president. that is the truth from here to heaven. >> we have one less question. >> [indiscernible] >> they were in illinoi

ed lowery heads the criminal division of the u.s.r crimes. the fairly big breaches we've been seeing-- target, home depot-- ...who's behind that? >> ed lowery: well, those are professional cyber-criminals. those individuals, they make their living-- and a very good living, at times-- attacking the u.s. financial infrastructure. that level of cyber-criminal, that is the-- the new-age cartel, as it were. >> whitaker: secret service arrests have led to the convictions of 14 people, but there are plenty of others to take their places. the criminals buying the stolen numbers don't have to be that sophisticated. is it fairly easy to turn those numbers you buy online into one of these cards? >> lowery: now, i really don't want the general public to think that they should go out and start committing fraud. but it... obviously, the encoding and all takes a little higher level of sophistication. and you have to have the criminal drive to do it. but is it highly technical? in light of the intrusions we're speaking about and the... and the rest,

but now a collection of lowery paintings has been shown in eastern china, as john sudworth reports. >er: it's a side of british life that's long gone. but lowery's smokestacks and factories and his hurrying crowds of workers are still very much a part of china's industrial present. the landscapes of england now on display here in the city of nanjing, were just as china is today, places of mass mobilization and social upheaval. >> i think it resonates with china so much, the white sky. we have air pollution issues, so the sky color definitely resonates with chinese audience. apart from that, i think the crowds also resonate with us a lot. >> reporter: so, like the british public before them, those suffering china's modern day pea soupers may find a champion in lowery. the british art establishment has always been a bit more snippy, snobbish etch about his grimy working class reality. no solo collection of his work has ever been shown outside the uk until now. "it's nice that he paints working people," cai, a street sweeper tells me. everywhere, we're all the same, she says. larry's cho

representatives ron waters and vanessa lowery brown were five snagged in an undercover sting operationn kathleen kane inherited the investigation, she said it was racially targeted and could not be prosecuted. district attorney seth williams took the investigation to a grand jury and said jurors just hit the play button in the case of brown. >> i need a contribution. i'll take cash, the informant, how much? ç brown, 500. is that too much? >> eventually the d.a. says brown introduced the government agent to traffic court judge who was recently indicted. but prosecutors say representative waters was the first to take the bait in exchange for influence with the parking authority. he was also recorded. >> informant, it's the usual amount, it's 500. waters, okay, my man. informant, all right. waters, my man, that's two grand. that's for you. waters, okay. informant, just make sure you vote no on that. waters, okay. >> both representative waters and brown were released on their own recognizance in dauphin county today. if convicted both representatives would leave their political office. li

the lowery says it will release more details by new year's day. >>> google says the tragic death of robin williams was its fastest growing search request of 2014. williams' suicide in august set off global reaction making it the top trending topic for the year. the internet giant released its list of top searches this morning. the company says lots of people also googled the world cup, ebola, disappearance of the malaysia airlines flight 370, ice bucket challenge for als and the smartphone game flappy bird. >>> tonight marks the first night of hanukkah, the jewish festival of lights. 5:00 in san francisco mayor ed lee will join in the celebration to light the union square menorah. hanukkah comem rates the victory of jewish tribes over the syrians in jerusalem in 165 bc. it said a one-day of supply for the lamp in the jerusalem holy temple lasted eight days. so the celebration includes a lighting each night of eight candles. >>> as we mentioned the berkeley city council moved its weekly meeting to allow for enough space as protesters promise to attend. coming up tonight at 5:00 -- ktvu cre

. >>> happening today, philadelphia state representatives ron waters and vanessa lowery brown are set for preliminary hears on bribery and conspiracy charges. they were among five lawmakers caught in an undercover sting. indictment after kathleen kane said the case was racially charged and could not be prosecuted. >>> count on nbc 10 to bring you updates on those stories. >>> here are three others we will be following for you today. we'll bring you video from new york city as colleagues and families say good-bye to one of the two police officers killed in that ambush last week. a wake will be held for rafael ramos. services for his partner have not been finalized. >>> here in our area a balloon release ceremony will be held in willemten to remember the victims of an unsolved murder ten years ago. shot and killed matthew macerato and jessica watson in the big & tall store in the basement. >>> african heritage within african-american culture. we'll see how groups in this yare rucelebrating the holiday. >>> on this morning after christmas, philadelphia can proclaim its own birth miracle.

representatives ron waters and vanessa lowery brown turned themselves in yesterday on bribery-related charges. philadelphia's d.a. says the democrats admitted to taking illegal cash payments. he says a lobbyist turned informant recorded conversations of him giving money to waters and brown in exchange for their influence in harrisburg. >>> "i need a contribution. i'll take cash." informant -- "how much?" brown -- "$500. is that too much?" >> two other state representatives from philadelphia are also accused in this scandal, though charges have not yet been filed. >>> 5:06 now. the montgomery county teen who was convicted of stabbing his girlfriend to death is set to be sentenced in court today. tristan stahley killed julianne siller in may 2013 and left her body in a wooded area of skippack township. police say he told his mother what he did and she turned him in. because stahley was 16 at the time, he faces 35 years to life in prison, instead of the automatic life sentence. >>> and happening today in berks county, the tractor-trailer driver who is charged in a deadly crash will appea

representatives ron waters and vanessa lowery brown, both of west philadelphia, turned themselves in yesterday. philadelphia's district attorney says a lobbyist-turned-informant recorded conversations of him giving money to waters and brown in exchange for their influence in harrisburg. two other state representatives from philadelphia are also accused in this scandal, though charges against them have not yet been filed. >>> we have new information thi bucks county coin shop robbery. david piergrossi on the left was arraigned last night. daniel leflar is awaiting a preliminary hearing in custody. they are seen in this video at coin and collectibles last week. they say they tied up several people and smashed cases and stole coins. >>> new this morning, a north jersey athletic director is suspended following a high school football team hazing scandal. the sayreville board of education made that decision last night. younger players claim that their teammates held them down, beat them, even sexually assaulted them. the head football coach is suspended from teaching and coaching, and seve

two injured man were inside an apartment on lowery drive prices corner after 12:30 a 31-year-old was type christianne hospital in critical condition with head injuries and second man pronounced dead at the scene. no further information released at this time. >> a man from philadelphia killed a person breaking into his home and tacony overnight. it happened about 2bg this morning at a home on the 6100 block of vandike street. investigators say the homeowner witnessed a 23-year-old man trying to steal tools from his garage. they fought. and then police say the homeowner shop the man in the head. he was pronounced dead at the scene. no word ft. the homeowner will face any possible charges. >>> police in philadelphia need your help identifying this john doe here admitted to the hospital in critical condition. doctors think the man choked on food before brought to temple university hospital last friday december 12. he remains unconscious. anyone who recognize this man should contact philadelphia police. >> it has been fearly a month since shane montgomery disappeared and today a renewed e

but like such greats of the past as malcolm lowery, f.ut the world, particularly if accompanied by freshly baked cornbread, biscuits, pulled pork off that whole hog, sweet jerk chicken and brisket. hell, i feel better already. >> the mississippi i perceived is not the mississippi that i've had in my head. i was surprised how sold i was off the bat. if you want to write, come to oxford. >> you think that's true? well, apparently, yes. >> like that line in barton fink, you can't throw a rock without hitting a writer? then he says, do me a favor, throw it hard. >> it's easy to look at mississippi and go that just happens down there, so we're good, our hands are clean. it's a totally misperceived place. when i came, i fell in love with the place. i never thought that i would. there's something to it, but you can't put your finger on what it is. >> what it is can be found in the dark spaces across the tracks and on the other side of town. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the lounge right by the cemetery and back by the river.

representative ron waters and vanessa lowery brown turned themselves in to state police in harrisburgtheir arrest are the result of a grand jury indictment announced by district attorney seth williams. >> both officials personally appear before our grand jury and fully, i repeat, fully admitted that they knowingly took illegal cash payments. >> state representatives waters and brown are among four state reps and one traffic judge accused of selling their office in an undercover sting investigation and investigation state attorney general kathleen kane said she could not prosecute today. the attorney general said in a statement she supports the efforts of the d.a. >>> in just hours, red light cameras across the state of new jersey will go dark. they've been catching drivers in the act for years. why the money-making spáe ticket program is about to become history. nbc 10 has video that philadelphia police want you to see. it starts as a knock on the door of a bar but quickly turns violent. what the bad guy is accused of doing next. >> and pot by the pound. 100 pounds of the drug were fo

strawberry mansion was organize by philadelphia area state representative and black caucus chair vanessa lowery brown, but she insists that her constituents call for it a as they watched protest percolate across the u.s. following grand jury decision toss not charge the the officers involved in the deaths of unarmed black men eric garner a and mike brown. >> people were calling, and saying what are we going to do. >> reporter: at the podium speakers spoke about the closed door nature of grand jury proceedings. >> no achievement that we make is safe when we can be gunned down abe it can be lethal. >> reporter: panel collectively soluted demonstrators. >> what they are doing today and in these protests all over the country, it is not only laying a foundation for change now but also for those yet unborn. >> reporter: meantime state lawmakers say measures addressing police procedures have been drafted and they hope to put them in the pipeline for review and vote in the new year. looking live now at the a view from chopper three they are over the demonstrators making their way from bryn mawr to this

kyle lowery made a 20-foot jumper with a minute to go to steal the raptors 113 to 107 win. >>> manchester it four straight wins in the english primary lead with a narrow victory over trafford. it's only the second time united have been on such a return since the retirement from alex ferguson and hold on to fourth place in the league. >> in the second half, we played much better. we keep the positions. we were more aggressive. we created more chances. but then you are to finish but you have to see the whole match, and then you can say there was one team on the pitch who deserved it and it was man ch t manchester united. >>> there were five games in england on tuesday, stephen gerard returned to liverpool's line-up as his team beat lester 3-1. last seasons's runners rup newspaper two-8? >> tiger woods will make his return to competitive golf on thursday. woods has been suffer with a recurrent back injury. the 38-year-old will take part in his own tournament at the hero world challenge in florida, which hasn't won a major since 2008 but says he is confident he can regain the form which saw h

rich lowery is back with us as well. he had a lot of gems in this speech. play one in particular for you. giving the one about the bear and berries. let's listen to that. >> translator: maybe the bear should sit quietly rather than chasing wild boar, bigger and small than the tiger and switch to eating berries and honey. will he be left in peace then? no way, they won't leave him in peace. they will keep trying to chain him. as soon as he is chained his fangs and claws will be pulled. melissa: what? >> privilege of the dictatorship. do a three-hour rambling speech with extended bear metaphor. every advantage that he could. melissa: to me, when you sit out there and you sort of go on and on and the bear and the claws and u.s. and whatever as your currency is plunging, your coffers are emptying, oil is plummet being, you don't have a plan and what do you do next? >> that was beautiful russian prose as somebody who is a russian speaker. tiger and siberia and all that sort of stuff. what he is doing is projecting blame. he is trying to appeal to nationalism. we

there was no indication that michael brown had his hands up and i want to read something that rich lowerypolice co. he says the bitter irony of the michael brown case if he had actually put his hands up and said don't shoot, he would almost certainly be alive today. his family would have been spared unspeakable loss and ferguson, missouri, wouldn't have experienced multiple bouts of rioting. if michael brown did not have his hands up, isn't that true? >> well, i don't know. there's a video in september of a black man pulled up on video in south carolina. the police officer says show me your driver's license and i.d. so the black man reaches back into his car to present the wallet with his i.d. in it and the police officer starts to yell and shoot him and he actually shoots this man with his hands up as he's falling back. that is on video. so i don't know what the political writer perspective of the world is. all i know is there has been multiple evidence for many people in minority community that sometimes crooked police officers do bad things, and to do bad things in the shadows but the

. >>> happening today, philadelphia state representatives ron waters and vanessa lowery brown are setor preliminary hearings on bribery and conspiracy charges. they were among five lawmakers caught in an undercover sting. district attorney seth williams got a grand jury indictment after kathleen kane said the case was racially targeted and could not be prosecuted. >>> from our delaware bureau now a balloon release will be held to remember the victims of an unsolved double murder that happened ten years ago today. happened at the casual male big & tall a robber shot can killed two young employees, matthew macerato and jessica watson. they are hoping a decade of guilt will lead someone to come forward with information. >>> a show of christmas spirit for a surviving family of an ocean county mother when a plane crashed into her maryland home. her friend collected $15,000 in gift cards and the friend also received 600 gifts from people around the country. that's not all, a website raised $480,000 for the family. gemmell grew up in brick township and her two sons were also killed in the cr

we have rich lowery from "the national review.." welcome back. >> happy new year. gerri: in "the wall street journal" story they're talking about what the government wants to do, face it the obama administration wants to do with energy makers in coming year. here is what they quote officials as saying, new regulations needed to address the impacts of surge of oil and gas drilling and production. i don't think they mean they want to encourage it. >> no. gerri: in fact i think they mean they want the opposite. >> for the obama administration has to be bitter irony one of the main drivers of this economic boom is fracking revolution, right? they think fossil fuels are thing of the past. instead they're foraging the future and they want to do everything they can at the margins to discourage it. gerri: wait a minute. this is a part of the economy working right now. >> right. gerri: this is one of the few parts of the economy that is working. it is actually the engine literally pushing everything else. employment gains. it is pushing gdp higher. >> yep. gerri: so why wou

representatives ron waters and vanessa lowery brown turned themselves in yesterday. philadelphia's district attorney says an informant recorded conversations of him giving money to waters and brown in exchange for their influence. traffic court judge thomasine tynes is expected to enter a guilty plea later today. two other state representatives from philadelphia are accused in this scandal but have not yet been charged. >>> there is help for parents whose children attend a new castle county charter school. the charter for maurice moyer academic institution in wilmington is being revoked at the end of the school year. so, now families can learn more about enrolling their children elsewhere next year. a meeting is scheduled for 6:00 tonight at the school. >>> and happening today, the nativity scene at philadelphia's love park will be blessed. bishop john mcintyre will preside over the ceremony, starting at 4:00 this afternoon. students from st. francis xavier parish elementary school will also perform traditional christmas carols there. >>> and mayor michael nutter too

. >> i want to play a quick sound bite from rich lowery on one of the sunday shows and kevin, get yourn. >> if you look at the most credible evidence the lessons are really basic, don't rob a convenience store. don't fight a policeman and when he stops and take his gun. when he says yell, with his gun drawn, just stop. martha: andrea mitchell said, whoa, hold on. what do you think about it? >> hard to believe, andrea we would want to enforce rules of law and teach our children they need to respect law and things like this. i'm glad to jehmu agree with some of the points but the latter points what is happening in the black community is not a cop problem. it is problem with how we're raising our kids to disrespect their parents, disrespect authority, disrespect teachers, disrespect everybody and which want to pass the buck. america has had enough of this nonsense. we can take responsibility for what goes wrong in this country as black people and understand that some of these problems are being created. i get profiled. i don't take it personally. i take it that this cop has a reason to do

ron waters and vanessa lowery brown.ot be prosecuted. >>> today starts kwanza the holiday dates back to the 1960s, each day of the seven-day celebration carries a core principle, unity, self-determination and faith. we'll have another update in 25 minutes, you can get the latest news and weather at nbc10.com. have a nice day. >> announcer: from nbc news this is "today's take" with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist and tamron hall live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to "today" on this friday morning, december 26th, 2014. i'm tamron hall along with sheinelle jones. >> good morning. >> dylan dreyer. >> good morning. >> the crew. the rest of "the take" at home relax relaxing. >> what do you say? >> a lot of people say happy holiday weekend because you have kwanzaa come inging up and new year's. >> happy holiday weekend. >> yesterday how did you spend your christmas? was it a good day? >> it was awesome. you can't get better when you surprise family for christmas eve. i went up. we drove up to boston. n

bill: rich lowery writes this on the screen about dianne feinstein. the senate intelligence committee spent roughly $50 million in the cia and could not find michael hayden's phone number. it portrays general hayden as a liar and deceived the committee about the interrogation program yet the committee could not be bothered to interview him because it didn't bother to view anyone. he calls this depiction of the cia cartoonish are steve. >> cartoonish might be kind. that is the major problem with this report, it was not an attempt ever to be a fair report and serious examination of the costs an benefits of these kinds of enhanced interrogation techniques. one of the things we discuss in the article we have out in the "weekly standard" this morning is the use of an email that senate democrats, the authors of the report, used selectively of the they take one part of the email that supports what they say but they totally omit a second part of the email that not only contradicts the claims they're making about the effectiveness of these techniques but actua

bureau leslie lowery and also from nashville, nbc news and msnbc analyst jim kavanaugh. police officers turning their backs on the mayor's eulogy and that banner flown over new york city from retired officers but now doing it at the funeral? >> right, francis, you know emotions are running high and certainly in the ranks of police nationwide, i think it's a mistake basically to hurl public insults at political leaders. it makes you look small when you hurt insults and the police really are large. there are a large great force for good. and the nypd is a great organization. i think it's sort of a little bit beneath them to do it. i would think they should reassess that position and after officer liu's funeral, i would like to see commissioner bratton said today on "meet the press" see a rereconciliation movement to start with between the unions and police leadership and mayor but also the larger leadership and citizens in new york to stop this. we have got huge issues to deal with and let's stop this. >> on the other sense though a huge turnout though. what a show of supp