i said come by on martin luther king day, i'll come this. so it kind of grew from one family.tist, what is the best way i can give back and the best way i can give back is with what i'm trained to do. >> he said when he accepted hishi hisdy l hisdydy proceed in a, he was never going to leave anybody in discomfort. and that was the truth. the african proverb it takes a whole village. >> community has whu my entire life helped me to get through some challenging times. and so part of what i'd like to do here is just make a thank yo& back to people because i have been able to be successful as a dentist. thank you for making the time to come in. i know you're busy. it's so enriching when you give back. when you give from the heartñand you see the experiences that come out of that. >> giving is something this doctor does freely without hesitation or reservation. >> they don't turn you away it at the door. you almost become a family and they treat you that way. >> what we i think can do is recognize that there something that we can do in a few minutes really makes a big difference in

remember what we martin luther king died, martin luther king, the civil rights race was over. his march, that last phase of for economic justice. he was on his way to launch a poor people's campaign for an economic bill of rights to make sure every person, every speck of race, color and creed had a house, education, income. that was the radical proposition that got martin luther king assassin a. so now when we raise, these dark getters, massive this assessment. because yes, we were played as a political football the whole notion of welfare, food stands, poverty program, all of this that was conceived in the mind of the american public has been programs for black people. but all along frankly in terms of not absolute numbers, more white people are being served by these programs than black people. [applause] right there was a racial subtext. that was used to disinvest massive disinvestment. there are no programs for young black people. they are on the joint partner training programs. there is no job court anymore. in those days we thought that was reform. we were raising against

martin luther king jr. would not be pleased. >> i tell you right there that they really don't know the history. you know. they don't want to know. >>reporter: lack at the sign on the front of the school. then take a harder one at the daniel inside. the richmond fire department says that when martin luther king jr. elementary burned last night someone did it on purpose. >> lacks like multiple starts. >>reporter: add a word again. west contra costa county school board president charles ramsey is concerned by a trend. >> we have a fire at difficult an is a. we had a fire at crest and we had a fire at coronado. so this is our fourth firing. we are really concerned with the outbreak in the last just year and a half. >>reporter: the only partially saving grace that martin luther king jr. elementary had closed for good. replaced next year by a new campus next door. but much of this stuff that burned would have been the guts of it. karl helped with the clean up attended here as a kid and is tired of the fires. >> y

martin luther king." and we're going to pretty much have a lot of subtle messages saying, "well, what if this happened to america? and this is how we feel." and i happened to be in hamburg, germany, when all of it was going down. and like i said, it was like--it was a highlight of my career, being that we played in arizona with u2 in sun devil stadium, no pun intended. you know, everybody was expecting the big p.e. show to open up for u2. and we played that song and then got off the stage. and by the next year, they voted in a dr. martin luther king holiday. my whole thing was saying that you can spur and you can trigger minds into not being so much asleep by using art, using song, to make them think progressively against what's wrong or what's ignored. oftentimes, when we're not heard or seen while we're in pain, you know, it's business as usual in america. and my whole thing is to say, "well, sometimes it can't be business as usual, because slavery was business as usual." and if you have the discussion

the first thing that strikes me is he lived as long as martin luther king. when i'm on campuses and very often senior generation, i often ask them name four people in, say, the spiritual field that made living in the 20th century worthwhile. well, you hear mother teresa, you'll hear martin luther king, dorothy day and bonhoeffer, they tend to be the top four on the list my part of the world will say. and he lived to be 39, and the last three years were in prison. so, basically, he lived to be 36 plus the little book i wrote about. this is the newest edition of the book i wrote about. this is the one you might want to buy because it's affordable and carry bl, and this one costs $80. but it's a 16-volume series of somebody whose writing, basically, stops at age 36. and meanwhile, he was active in underground activities, he was in, a double agent in the cia of germany, if you want to call it that. he spent a year in america, he went to barcelona, he had a church in london. all these things are crammed in there, and my search for his soul is what held him togeth

martin luther king jr.ld not be pleased. >> they don't want to know the history. >> go look at the sign on the school and look at the damage inside. when martin luther king jr. elementary burned last night, someone did it on purpose. >> the crews had's mup - mup - multiple start. >> we had a fire in presby and cornado and this is our fourth fire and we are concerned with the outbreak in the year and half. >> only partially saving grace that martin luther king jr. elementary was to be replaced by a new

. >> this is the martin luther king march, the march on selma, can't really tell because the heads are missing. >> the faces of 25 historic figures peer out from a mountain of bronze. >> in this area here is where frederick douglas' head will be. >> what it's about is remembering people who did extraordinary things under the most difficult of circumstances. >> when it's done this will stand 21 feet and weigh 60,000 pounds. the idea came to him 3,552 days ago. the day of the 9/11 attacks. >> at the moment i said why would any one do something like this and what am i doing to contribute or not. >> his contribution is a memorial that will live in a park in the emerging uptown district. >> this will contribute to showing that oakland is more than what people hear all the time. oakland is a place to be recognized. >> among the figures, martin luther king, mother theresa, also poet maya angelou and harvey milk. >> you look at the individuals, at issue is the fact that some of them made mistake, some didn't do in the early part of their years what they ultimately did in the final part of the

luther king was mike's boyhood hero. he had seen -- phleger as a high school kid, had seen martin marching through the park in 1966, and he had been stunned because he was raised in st. thomas moore parrish, two miles west of st. sabina. he saw king hen as entourage marching through streets and people were shouting and throwing rocks, and they were our own people, kids i knew. he said, i can't believe it. he said, this man, king, was walking totally erect, totally unbothered, seemingly unbothered, and he said what is the strength in that man that he can walk through hell as it were and keep himself together. he was moved by that experience to go and read up on martin luther king and he has been a great fan of his, so he started to teach the people the tactics of defense -- what am i thinking of? nonviolent protest, nonviolent dissent, and it -- the people were beginning to, for the first time, thinking along the lines of what can we do? what can we do, we parrishs? they saw in mike a kind of leader they had never seen be

we know that we all followed martin luther king. there is a-- there's a lineage here. the most common thread was pete seeger. i think they should give a course in pete seeger in high school. pete seeger is a great american. pete exemplifies what we're talking about here in terms of a human being that lives their life in such a manner that you want to be like them. you know, you see pete seeger, and you say, "gee, i want to do that. "i want to stand next to that man. i want to stand shoulder to shoulder with that guy." he's the guy who never compromised his principles, even when he had his back to the wall, government was saying, "you're not a real american." house of un-american activities committee, you know, he just told them, "sorry, i'm not buying your stuff." (bender) one of the things you'll see in the documentary is a wonderful moment where pete describes that, and he said, they're-- "mr. seeger," you know, "are you--were you a member of the communist party?" and he answered, he said, "well, i was polite, if uncooperative." and he said, "i wished i had done what

metro en el sureste de la capital hae percance se produjo en la interseccion de la avenida martin luther y la calle w. como emergencia los dos choferes han sido suspendidos mientras las autoridades investigan un altporcentaje de alumnos pros los ninos no podian usar los banos , los ninos del tercer piso no podian utilizar las escaleras, ni los pasillos del tercer piso ..." ...la inundacion ocurrio el viernes y obligo a que se cancelara el programa de cuidado de ninos despues de las clases.... katalina fue una de los 120 padres que se vieron afectados...algunos no pudieron trabajar porque tenian que cuidar a sus hijos... "uno no puede ir al partime, imaginese que tal vez llegando, padres llegando y los estan llamando a que tiene que venir a recoger a sus hijos, tiene que perder su dia de trabajo..y a como esta el trabajo ahorita usted sabe que la situacion esta dificil." y no seria el unico incidente... este profesor dice que el edificio viejo de la escuela ,constantemente causa problemas e interfiere con el aprendizaje de los estudiantes"es un edife la

i'm sorry from 1865 to 1963 is right twice freedom story because and march of 1963, reverend martin luther king came looking for one of those famous mass meetings and he had been driving around for two hours and finally found a meeting and said that dr. king practiced his into the famous i have a dream speech right here in the second half of the baptist church in savannah. an interview with creston russell from savannah georgia. mr. russell's the author of savannah a history of her people since 1733 a comprehensive book about his own town. it's about 40 minutes. >> he's a man of many parts. physician, paynter, historian and writer. he finds time to play golf. since preston retired from medicine after 30 years of memorial hospital, his paintings have appeared in the regional art shows and in homes throughout the united states and europe as well as here at the morris museum in augusta. his book, the low country from savannah to charleston contains 85 of his paintings which capture the mystique of the region. preston russell along with his wife, barbara, who is here today if you could stand u

. >> this is the martin luther king march on selma. you really can't tell the yet because the heads are missing. >> reporter: the faces of 25 historic figures peer out from a mountain of bronze. >> in this area here is where frederick douglas's head will be. it's a big head. what it's about is remembering people who did extraordinary things under difficult circumstances. >> reporter: when it's done the sul temperature will weigh 60,000 pounds. the idea came to him 3,552 days ago, the day of the 9/11 attacks. >> i remember when 9/11 happened. that very moment i said, why would anyone do something like this? what am i doing to contribute or not? >> reporter: his contribution is a memorial that will live in a park next to oakland's fox theater in the emerging uptown district. today the city broke ground on the project. >> this will contribute to show that oakland is more than what people hear all the time. oakland is a place to be recognized. >> reporter: among the figures, martin luther king, franklin d. roosevelt, mother theresa, poet m

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martin luther king. the principles that the practice, the compassion, the vision, the perseverance, are all those same kind of values and principles that i know are being practiced within the iranian american community today as well. whether you want to see a green iran or whether you want to help participate in the civic process in california or in your own city, this is what is very heartwarming, by us coming together on a night like this. i very much appreciate all the dedication that has been applied in making these nowruz events as special as they are. i also would like to say that we would like to have -- we like to have fun. it is really the best part of introducing what nowruz means. that is why over the last six years, we have had art shows in my office. we would have exhibits down here, supported by the mayor, and introduce it to people exactly how we like to celebrate, through the arts, with great food, civic engagement, and it is wonderful to see, and it really helps us appreciate just what a

> a special school board meetings is being held tonight to discuss a suspicious fire at march kin luther king elementary school. it's being investigated as an arson. there was lots of damage to classrooms inside a building in an older part of the campus. the building was going to be used to host a day care program, but the building is set to be demolished later this summer. >>> first lady michelle obama is in for fund-raising for her husband's reelection campaign. she started with breakfast at claremont hotel. i'm any, this is the first bay area fund-raiser today. >> reporter: she has busy day. first time at the claremont. about 250 people here. some republicans are complaining that tax dollars are being used for fund-raising but nothing but support here in berkeley. one woman, this is obama country >> tennis lessons were delayed so they could line the driveway to welcomes first lady michelle obama. >> to see the first lady. we look up to the whole family. it's pretty special. >> it was quick. people waited around for more than an hour and her motorcade pulled in pretty quickly but she d

también se espera una marcha que partirá precisamente del capitolio de georgia hacia el centro martin luthergracias y precisamente continuando con el mismo tema hoy día por primera vez en 10 años se realiza en donde especificaron altos fubz nis del gobierno para apoyar al dream act. >> lori montenegro en donde parece revivir a los indocumentados. >> fue una audiencia llena de emoción y tensión. >> el principal promotor del dream act en el senado el demócrata richard d. intentaba ponerle rostro a a la causa de miles de estudiantes indocumentados que podrían beneficiarse de la medida. que viven bajo el temor de la deportación. >> (hablando en inglés) >> dijo que no solamente se trata de llamar la atención de algo que aún está pendiente sino que iniciar el diálogo bipartidista, se produce después de nuevos directrizes. >> la secretaria janet nap li. que no había que ajustar. >> enfatizó que el presidente ha sido firme al decir que el asunto no resolverá de manera administrativa que está en manos del congreso. >> es por eso que la joven peruana, no se siente segura. >> pues, no es ley, también e

the opening celebration is here tonight at the martin luther king library in northwest d.c.o today we'll loosen up, do some dancing, we'll learn another martial art and i might try to learn how to play this interesting instrument. sarah, i don't even know where to begin with this. >> i don't either. have fun with that, paul. we can't wait. that does it for the 6:00 hour. now over to allison, who is joining steve. >> good morning, sarah. thank you so much. >>> and coming up on fox 5 morning news, a sexting congressman now apologizing. anthony wiener finally admitting to taking nearly nude photos when sending them out via twitter. >>> two scandals rocking the district. an alleged pay for play scandal as sulaiman brown finally testifies before city council. >>> plus a councilman accused of using public money for personal use. he is now facing a million dollar law enforce

. >> reporter: it was 1964 when surgeon general luther terry warned of a link between smoking and lung cancer. >> cigarette smoking is related to higher death rates in a number of diseased categories. >> reporter: the first label, warning that smoking may be hazardous to your health appeared in 1966. in 1970, the label warned, cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health. in 1986, four rotating labels warning of cancer, heart disease, emphysema and pregnancy complications. now the first change in 25 years. roughly 20% of the adult population smokes today, down from 40% in the early '70s. but 4,000 teenagers still light their first cigarette every day. these new warning labels are largely aimed at them. >> kids who are under the impression that smoking is cool or glamorous will be confronted by a very different reality. >> i didn't know that that's what my lungs could look like. >> and you smoke. >> yeah. >> i smoked for 50 years and i know darn well that it wasn't good for me. >> reporter: several tobacco companies are suing to block the new labels arguing even on acute poisons, the w

> a special school board meetings is being held tonight to discuss a suspicious fire at march kin luther king elementary school. it's being investigated as an arson. there was lots of damage to classrooms inside a building in an older part of the campus. the building was going to be used to host a day care program, but the building is set to be demolished later this summer. >>> first lady michelle obama is in for fund-raising for her husband's reelection campaign. she started with breakfast at claremont hotel. i'm any, this is the first bay area fund-raiser today. >> reporter: she has busy day. first time at the claremont. about 250 people here. some republicans are complaining that tax dollars are being used for fund-raising but nothing but support here in berkeley. one woman, this is obama country >> tennis lessons were delayed so they could line the driveway to welcomes first lady michelle obama. >> to see the first lady. we look up to the whole family. it's pretty special. >> it was quick. people waited around for more than an hour and her motorcade pulled in pretty quickly but she d

martin luther king boulevard.y crews have been plugging potholes and smoothing out roads to the tune of $7 million. city planners say costs areoff set by the 100 thousand visitors and $70 million, the race is expected to pump into the economy. so they have to -- >> look at the underground utility work. >> reporter: but on the surface, some residents say that money could be better spent. sometimes, when you are out walking, i can't keep on looking down at the ground. >> reporter: now, nearly 30,000 daily motorists are looking ahead to where the construction and the race are both over. tim williams, from downtown, "wjz." >> the race is on track to generate $7 million in tax revenue and create nearly 2,000 jobs. >> here is some inis spiation to drive down to the beach, ocean city giving away $100 thousand in free gas if an effort to encourage people to visit. it's the first resort in the country to do this. leaders will decide how to split up the money sometime in the next few weeks. >> our meteorologist, meteorologi

you can also go down martin luther king boulevard. you can plan your trip by going to wjz.com. >>> mark fulkenham's name was added to the maryland fire rescue memorial. this is the sixth straight year that a name has been added to that memorial. >>> a big battle is brewing in baltimore and it's all over one simple word. hun. the new fight is getting ready to kick off right as hun fest is getting ready to start. >> reporter: hun is a term of indearment baltimore knows well. but the battle is brewing up again. just as the hun-fest starts next weekend. back in december, protesters picketed hun fest founder janine's restaurant. >> this is our word. >> i'm a very hard working entrepreneur and i love camden and i love baltimore. and i spent a lot of time and energy doing whatever i can that's positive for the city. >> reporter: but the outcry against whiting when she sent letters to festival vendors telling them what they can't sell at the event on the list, anything with the hon logo. political or religious statements, even cat's eyeglasse

i love martin luther king, but also malcolm x, sometimes you have to really hold your ground.ompassion, kindness, education. rather than more killing. >> when you graduated in 1965, it was the height of the civil- rights movement. you just alluded to the environment that you were growing up in. as a young musician, what was it like for you in san francisco at the time? >> it was heaven on earth. we would go down to the fillmore and see these great band, the doors, and jimi hendrix, cream, and then go down to the grove to see other music. you could go to the mission district to hear mexican. everywhere i went there was this multi dimensional color and i felt like it was on necessary for me to do just one. like baskin-robbins, i want all the flavors. you cannot just be a mexican play music. there is a lot of beauty in that, but it was not for me. i was born without arms around my heart that wants to embrace everything. palestine's, israelis. japanese, apaches. i am more concentrated with life and love than flags, nationality, religion. that stuff gets in the way. one gets in the

her company is the architect of record for the memorial that bears martin luther king, jr.'s name and likeness on the mall. that dream was about more than just civil rights. >> america has given the negro people a bad check. a check which has come back marked insufficient funds. >> reporter: dr. king was also a drum major for silver rights. >> dr. king's dream was not to have the big house with the big mortgage or the big car. it was about having a business you can pass on to your family. it was about creating wealth. >> reporter: darrell's family built their fortune from scratch. her great great grandfather moses was a slave who learned the trade from his owner. five generations later, building is still in their blood. darrell and her twin sister own a 30 million dollars company making its -- $30 million company making its mark on d. c. and beyond. darrell never thought the foundation for family laid in 1905 would lead her to one day own the doors that were once so hard to walk through. she credits dr. king and his dream of equality for helping to make that possible. >> we

martin luther king, jr.'s name and likeness on the national mall. >> i am actually living the dream that he talked about. >> but that dream was about more than just civil rights. >> america has given the people a bad check. a check which has come back marked insufficient funds. >> dr. king was also a drum major for silver rights. >> dr. king's dream was not as the big house, with a big mortgage or the big car. it was about having a business that you could pass on to your family. it was about creating wealth. > gerald's family built their business from scratch. five generations later, building is still in their blood. darryl and her twin sister own a $30 million company making its mark across dc and beyond. >> she never thought the foundation her family layed in 1905 would leave her to one day own the doors that were once so hard to walk through. she credits dr. king for helping make that possible. >> we restored the stone where dr. king stood when he was giving the i have a dream speech. >> more than 40 years

we call the martin luther king, malcolm x working on this initiative. so it's going to take that too because what happened is rather than do that, rather than give the racial social and economic justice that we deserve, they gave us a policing of law enforcement program and a judicial enforcement program. that was the substitute. the war on drugs is a substitute for the kind of social, economic and racial justice that we should have asked what people. if we declare the war on drugs it has got to be holistic and include all these things. we want all these reforms, all of these whatever is required to get it ended up the end of the day it must also include a social, economic, racial justice agenda that will make sure we have jobs, economic infrastructure and the time of equity that would in fact he'll ever community and that is what we need. we want to heal our community. and we need to heal our community and in order to do that we have to move forward in this way. so i conclude, brothers and sisters, on this note, we want people to join this army of advo

he joins us live from the martin luther king library in northwest. not quite brazil. way -- >> reporter: well the event starts tonight here at the library at 5:30 and it's a free event. all week long they have a wide vary the of events from film to food to music. many of them are free. i'm going to bring in nicole hughette to tell me the details. let's talk about the schedule tonight. >> tonight we are kicking off the event. we have three african dance performances, afro-brazilian performances, we'll have samba, afro, it's a great event. bring the whole family. it will be kid-friendly so bring the kids. >> reporter: so throughout the week what other highlights do you have? >> on wednesday we're meeting at a bistro and have music. on thursday we'll have a p.m. discussion. friday we have food and just come out to the center and we'll have street food for the families. we'll have an amazing party on friday night. saturday we have workshops and then sunday in the columbia heights plaza we're having performances outside. >> reporter: why do you think it's important to cele

on the left, that was martin luther king day. i went out and said, this is a violation of the ordinance that the tax our street trees. you need to stop. you definitely can not do that to the trees down the hill that are fine. the image on the right is the tree this morning when i left my house. it cannot be made healthy again. as other folks mentioned. these trees are left in the hands of the property owner. we need to find a way to work in the maintenance of these trees in the future. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker please. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is scott. i am a home owner. what about my home in bernal heights 20 years ago, the street in front of it was not new. supervisor avalos, you mentioned that your tree was 2 for maintaining needed to find time to do it. the tree in my home is 75 feet tall. the lowest lives are 45 feet off the ground. there is no way that any of the home owners can personally maintain those trees. it requires a cherry picker, posting to make sure that cars are not part under the

tell them the story of martin luther king, in new york, malcolm x. some day, some time -- and a lot of black people go to church. those ministers in church, i tell them, do not preach about the hereafter, preach about none now. we are losing too many young minds. do not tell me that there are no good african-american doctors. my grandson became a doctor. there is nothing there to stop him -- he is supposed to graduate in april. [laughter]

i grew up 20 miles away in a town that put martin luther king in jail for a few nights in 1963. when they heard the story of hog zila i wondered why people killed things they don't understand. i would like to read hog zila this is the first timei've read this part one is what i'm reading today. killer of kid and faun, muddy wallower trichinosis and tick. trap smart, nonnative gar gant wan flea bag you root in the oak brush of bogs and swamp. if we killed you now, hog zila, if we took aim for your belly with our cross bow or laser sight and pulled a trigger or let a tripped arrow rip through the night air there wouldn't be a story to tell. while we lay and wait for you to appear, chewing our ciao and the fat lit up on beer, lit up on the last of the evening light. we will harness you in speech, laszo you with language and make you bleed like the common pig you were before all this celebrity. in dreams you are bigger than you will ever be. you must be made to suffer for your mystery. the origin of hogzila. are you spawn of desoto men? long snouted do your upper tusks sharpen the l

officials say the buses collided near the intersection of martin luther king avenue and w street aroundis afternoon. several passengers were injured. it's not clear who was at fault. metro says both operators are undergoing routine drug and alcohol testing. >>> the plane that safely landed in the hudson river two years ago about to land at its new home. the u.s. airways plane traveled through maryland today on its way to the carolina's aviation museum in charlotte, north carolina. the wings were shipped separately to the museum. while the plane is being brought down there many people have lined travel route to watch the journey. the plane is scheduled to arrive saturday. >>> the world's largest passenger plane now flying out of dulles, plus trimming the fa fat in order to pay for gas. -- the fat in order to pay for gas. shawn yancy has your top five fox 5. >> no. 5 a new harris interactive poll finds 28% have cut back on restaurant meals, 24% on groceries, 18% on entertainment and 11% reduced the amount they drive to foot the bill for the rising cost of gasoline. no. 4, for years we've

. >> reporter: richmond's old martin luther king jr. elementary school is a melted, ashy mess tonight after it appears someone set fire to the building that was scheduled to be torn down in the next funk. >> everything that they had in here, their years of history, all that they had compiled, it's all lost. >> reporter: crews were scheduled to box up the school's materials and equipment and move it to the newly constructed school today. but last night's two-alarm fire has snuffed out those plans. teacher alva carruthers says it's devastating. >> it just makes me sad. it's a sad way to see the school go down instead of it being torn down. it was going to be heartbreaking, but this is worse. >> reporter: among the losses, textbooks, and the school's library collection. but perhaps the most painful -- the items children created themselves. >> i can't even describe it. it's just so much pain and so much suffering like in my heart. it's like my soul dropped to my feet to hear that the school that i went to burned. >> reporter: we are back he

>> martin luther king said the tools of advocacy was education and i would add innovation and we are seeing innovation in the energy space, which is going to help us have our energy system and take it away from big coal, not because of legislation on capitol hill but because solar and wind can deliver cheaper. one of the companies i'm involved in is bright source and building a plant in the desert. we are building it in three years and 10 years to build a coal plant, 30 years to build a nuclear power plant. same as a coal plant, 1/5 the cost of a nuclear plant. it is free energy forever. all we have to do is pick it up. the sun isn't going to stop shining and costs cheaper to build that plant. once you build the coal or oil plant, now you have to go to saudi arabia and punch holes in the ground, bow down to local sheiks and hated by their own people and getting periodic wars, ship it across the atlantic with military escorts, we pay for it, spill it all over the gulf, burn the oil and poison everybody in our country. the big costs happen after you build that plant. we are -- we have

this and this made the government so mad at me coming at the heels of vietnam right after martin luthering was killed. >> reporter: in 1994 they told the pratt story that exposed how the panthers had been declared a national threat by the fbi's j. edgar hoover to neutralize pratt. >> by them hitting me for helping my people made my people hate him. >> reporter: he spent 27 years in solitary confinement. but today he has peace. >> you have to learn things there and various eastern forms of discipline. and when you enter into that realm of discipline, you right away you learn you cannot have no room for bitterness, period. >> reporter: no bitterness towards butler? >> no way. >> reporter: holding his only grandchild pratt is ready to make up for lost time. >> i want to see my mother. go see momma. and do something with the children. like i said, the biggest hurt is not being there for your children. and you see it so much in prison with youngsters coming in fatherless. >> reporter: today surrounded by family and former fellow panthers, pratt prepares for life. >> times have changed. >> i

martin luther king was also a young man when he made some of his revolutionary changes to this world, so i want to encourage you to stay vigilant and stay inspired, and i want you to feel supported. i am here to continue to support your education if you need someone to continue to talk to, and allied. i make myself and my staff 100% available to you, but we are here to talk about technology and the commitment and the impact that technology has on education. i opened with an example of google and how it was a young college students that revolutionized how we communicate. and i hope that the next great application will come from the hearts and minds of some of the young folks in this room or maybe the next new piece of technology, which will revolutionize how we speak to each other, not just here locally but globally, or come from some great mind right here in this room, this institution. i am very excited to be here. thank you, michael stott, for your contribution to the students, and i also consider this to be an investment, so we have to make good on their return that our community i

martin luther king jr. stood for hope this is the concontrast. frustration and despair. >> this is not what dr. king stood for at all. >> why don't they understand that? they have mental chains on them. they blame everybody for things that go wrong and step up to the plate, people. this is not what you do when all we have is the children and we are trying to educate thim. - them. >> this is discouraging and takes away from text books and furniture and programs. we can't give up. the fire department is continuing to investigate the fire and there will be an emergency board meeting deal the loss tonight. >> what a loss, thank you, wayne. >> and a county judge ordered a vallejo teacher held on bail. jerry johnson raped a eight year old teacher's aid in loma vista elementary school where they worked together. johnson did not enter a plea. the police say the victim has the mental faculties of a seven year old. >> coming up, people have been getting away with buying liquor thank to self check out machines. she wants it to top now . capitol correspondan

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pioneering plans for corporations to privately run schools funded by public tax dollars well dr martin luther king. say justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere so it's better to harbor today but it could be in new york. or couldn't be chicago next week then said harbor is one of roughly one hundred cities or towns in michigan reportedly on the verge of fiscal collapse and economic desperation that could be the way for financial martial law to spread throughout the states critics say that would lead to a deepening demise of democratic rights the u.s. has always claimed to stand for. were enough for an artsy michigan. well now to some other stories making headlines around the world this hour iran state media has shown footage of what appears to be a test of short and medium range missiles in the scheme of a ten day nationwide military exercises in the country and iran's foreign ministry said the drills are a purely defensive display in light of what he called israeli and u.s. aggression on monday tehran unveiled hidden underground missile launching pads ready to counter possible atta

pioneering plans for corporations to privately run schools funded by public tax dollars well dr martin luther king. said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere so it's been to harbor today but it could be new york tomorrow or it couldn't be chicago next week benton harbor is one of roughly one hundred cities or towns in michigan reportedly on the verge of fiscal. and economic desperation that would pave the way for financial martial law to spread throughout the states critics say that would lead to a deepening demise of democratic rights the u.s. has always claimed to stand for. marina porton i.r.t. michigan around the world. the international monetary fund has picked french finance minister christine lagarde to become the first female i.m.f. director in history she was backed by european members account to for nearly a third of the votes as well as russia the u.s. and china she replaces dominique strauss kahn who resigned after being arrested on sexual assault allegations like ours opponent mexican student carstens round on the promise to give more states emerging economies but