this young woman was assigned that work sheet, a math assignment based around the life of maya angelou. >> other questions were born she was born in this place, this many years old. >> reporter: two questions on the work sheet causing anger from some parents, one asks about angelou suffering from sexual abuse. another asking about her time working as a prostitute to support her young child. >> we have a lot of sad stuff in our curriculum. it's not a big deal to me. because we've read so much about it. it's realistic that way. >> reporter: a few students we spoke with say angelou's story is important. her autobiography is part of the curriculum here. other schools have tried to ban that book. >> there is worse things said in school. kids deserve to know what's happening. >> reporter: on social media, outrage from some parents, so much the district issued an apology saying more context should have been given to students. those test questions are not part of the official curriculum. the school says a teacher downloaded the worksheet from an online porter where teachers share materials. th

that assignment uses questions based on the life of famed poet maya angelou. the two questions out of eight at the center of concern were actually events that napped maya angelou's life. still, some parents say the questions were out of place. >> i still think it's a problem. >> reporter: and why? >> because that shouldn't be on a math test. >> reporter: the school district released a statement admitting it has received numerous complaints about the math assignment. that it says contained adult content without proper context. the statement goes on to say we apologize to anyone who was offended by the contender of the assignment and have taken steps to avoid such occurrences in the future. the parents we talked to say their kids didn't have a problem with the content just the class it was taught in. >> she said it's very inappropriate to nut a math quiz. she says that doesn't even belong. she says more or necessary a history class but not math. >> reporter: so back out live we had add that the district adds that worksheet was downloaded from online and it is no

maya angelou said "i may not know what you said, but i remember how you made the feel."ard president obama speak, i felt uplifted and encouraged. thank you. host: christine. president obama was on abc's "this week," gave an interview and talked with george stephanopoulos yesterday about how history would view him. here's a little bit from the interview. him.d story about he goes to 1962. greaterhe the man, the easier it is a described the menacing the sentence." what is your sentence? >> what was jfk's answer. think maybe the obamace is "president believes deeply in hi this democracy and the american people." as i reflect back on what has worked for me in this office, it has been that i've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged. ironically, i have even gotten the other side that didn't believe in the process. i gather i'm the father of the tea party. i invigorated the grassroots of the republicans and democrats. health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians but our citizens who pushed f

things he said in the past, i heard another caller say he needs more information, but i remember maya angelou saying when someone shows you who re are the first time, you have to believe them. if he shows he has a racist past and a bigot, you have to believe him. i hope they vote against him. we do not need a sheep in wolf's clothing in the highest office. >> waiting for the return of senator sessions. all day long coverage on c-span 3 of the senate armed services committee day one of their confirmation hearing for jeff sessions, who has been in the senate for 20 years now, selected by donald trump to be his attorney general nominee. day number one today. another session will follow tomorrow. we expect this evening still more questions to come from possibly several other members and from chairman grassley as well. we will continue to take your calls and comments. it's been fairly calm in the hearing room the last couple of hours or so but a fairly rowdy, rough start earlier in the day. fox news tweets 25 people were arrested by the capitol police today in the sessions hearing, 18 of those rat

. >>> a bucks county homework assignment about maya angelou is sending shock waves over social mediahis is the math work sheathe raising some eyebrows. one problem refers to angelou's sexual abuse. another about her time working as a prostitute to support her young child. but some students at penn ridge high school say the assignment based on angela's autobiography makes the work easier to understand. >> we have a lot of sad stuff in our curriculum, so it's not really -- it's not a big deal to me, because we've read so much about it and it's fairly realistic that way. >> but some parents took to social media to complain about the work sheet. so the school issued an apology. pennridge says a teacher downloaded the work sheet the from an online portal where teachers share materials. the very same work sheet caused a stir at a school in florida last year. >>> a no-sitting rule in rittenhouse square is now in place, but not everyone is following the rule. this week, parks and rec put up four no-sitting signs. three of them is in response to an increase in vandalism and to also protect th

. >> i was looking at quotes the other night to make signs and maya angelou said believe people when they show you who they are the first time and i believe he has shown us who he is. it is important fortous be out here and show our representative, our congress, and -- who we are, what we think and ask them to do our jobs and represent us. >> reporter: and back here live, the police are still trying to manage this crowd and move these people along. it has been loud. it has been colorful as they are right now marching down market street to justin herman plaza. as for a head count, it is hard to tell how many people are out here, but we'd have to say in the thousands. guy ? >> you can't see from your vantage point but they are still all along market, all the way down to justin herman plaza. so many thousands of people out there. has it been pretty peaceful? >> reporter: you are going to have to repeat that, ross. i can hairly -- hardly hear you. >> we want to make sure it is peaceful. have there been any arrests or violence? >> reporter: it has been very peaceful that is the interestin

if someone tells you, as maya angelou says, who they are, believe them the first time. had a didn't moderate in his campaign, he didn't moderate when he won the republican nomination, he didn't moderate when he became president-elect. i do not expect him to evolve when he's president, nor do i advise people to. because to stop him from doing what looks like he intends to do is going to take us organizing, it's going to take us engagement and activity. and people should be right now today, as he is ascending into the presidency, people should be preparing to fight, to defend, to resist, to seize ground where we can and hold it where we've gained it and earned it in the past. and so, i really do see my role as someone who is going to continue to look across the aisle in senate. i've partnered with a lot of senators on legislation that i'm really proud of. but as i look towards the presidency and know what it seems like he intends to do with the environmental protection agency, with the justice department, with foreign policy and his relationship with the russians, all of

the pennsylvania high school based the question around the life of the poet maya angelou, asking students she was just eight yea rs old. pa rents abused her when she was just eight years old. parents complained that the subject matter was not appropriate for young teenagers. let's move to space. two astronauts from the international space centre have been on a spacewalk. they have been upgrading the space station's power system with new batteries; it took a lot of hours, during that time there was no food, no toilet break and apparently their space suits became increasingly stiff in the vacuum of space. but it seems to have gone well. thankfully. well, i am back on sunday night. that's it from me, we are keeping you up—to—date of course throughout the rest of the day. goodbye. there will be a comparative look at the weather here in the uk before the weather here in the uk before the top of the hour, but right now whether to take a look at some weather stories from elsewhere around the world. in the united states we got some relatively warm and moistaircoming states we got some relatively

the high school says the math questions are based on maya angelou. i know why the caged bird sings. they say their sorry if it offended anyone. randy gyllenhaal is at the school getting reaction, and we'll have his story at 5:00. >>> right now, we have new details in the investigation into the deaths of a prominent new jersey couple. the medical examiner has changed the death certificate of john sheridan to list his manner of death as undetermined. it was previously listed as suicide. prosecutors say the ceo killed himself and his wife. they were found after a fire inside their home in 2014. the sheridan family petitioned to have the suicide ruling changed. it's not clear what this means for the investigation which has been closed for more than a year. >>> at a time when police departments are under a microscope, the department of justice says the philadelphia police department is doing a satisfactory job. we have more on this new report released today. >> this is a follow up from 2015. that assessment gave the department recommendations focused on deadly force training, policies, p

and besides the famous people like maya angelou and those people, there were, everyday, everyday locals who were very close to him. his doctor after he retired was there for every night for dinner his male man who was a very young boy at the time used to come because he was only one in saint-paul who read any english and he had to take down the telegrams which came in by morse code or something, word by word by word and bring it. and he said, he told me i said, i came there i was 15 or 16 and he would always greet me with a big kiss but he was like a grandmother to me. he used that word. i always got invited in for a drink and, he was living in this tense situation at the moment with being followed even in america, when he went back to teach and he went to new york, the fbi was on his tail, organized by j. edgar hoover. you know about that, been confirmed now. everybody was saying this is only, well, and he called him a black homosexual communist and he has to be followed. he was not a a communist. i think j. edgar hoover should have come out of the closet at that moment. [laughter] peo

here are two responses on twitter to the maya angelou worksheet. not what people had in mind. another woman posted so you rather ignore facts, ignorance. some being so sensitive. >>> takata has agreed to plead guilty to one criminal charge and pay a bill dollars in fines for falsifying airbag data. three high level executives are also facing criminal charges. in the plea agreement takata admitted it knew its airbags could explode. the airbags are being blamed for 11 deaths in the united states. >>> thousands of boy scouts are ready to prove their bravery by camping out in some icy weather in kansas. this weekend's annual jamboree draws troops from around the country and the world. up to half an inch of ice is predicted. it's tough. wait a minute the boy scouto is be prepared. that's what organizers have been doing. they have nearby schools and chu churches on stand by if the weather gets too rough. >> no major icing concerns like some parts of the country but we'll see our own fair share of wintry weather later today. right now temperatures much co

. ♪ ♪ ♪ maya angelou: when i decided to speak, i had a lot to say. ♪ queen victoria: i know that i'm ready. narrator: a month-old orphan of one of africa's most-feared species, rescued from certain death. he captured the hearts of 4 young children, but half a century on, mystery still surrounds his fate. kate: dad said we were coming back to see him, so we all said good-bye. that was really the last time we ever saw rupert. narrator: with the species on the brink, the family is on the hunt for answers. narrator: an animal born to be wild. the rarest of bonds with a human. a friendship across the divide. a story of unbreakable devotion.

elizabeth: poetry of the late maya angelou from bill clinton's first inaugural address back in 1993.sfer of power occurs every four or eight years and hallmark of democracy, but for some protests they are planning to protest that donald trump's swearing-in ceremony on friday. right now civil rights activists are making their voices heard after observed martin luther king, jr., holiday. caroline shively is here. hi, caroline. reporter: hi, elizabeth. folks are battling near freezing temperatures and brutal drizzle gone on throughout the day, keeping attendance numbers well below the 25,000 they hoped for. we're down to a few hundred folks out here on the mall today. the march is called, we shall not be moved, put together by reverend al sharpton's national organization, the national action network. they're putting president trump on notice and want to protect the legacy of president obama. there are four non-negotiable issues they're talking about, voting rights, national. they have a message for the president-elect and also congress. >> we come to say to the democrats in the senate a

for maya angelou. you don't hear those kind of stories. that is wonderful thing.n new york, donald trump wrote me a letter two years ago, i write every single day about the markets. he saw one of my pieces, and he called my office and sent me a letter. i know he reaches out to people. i want to see that. i think that is going to come after the inauguration. neil: truth be told, trump had called me and said, neil, can you write a letter to payne. >> you got his signature down before -- neil: i am just joking with you. we did have steve moore on. what i long suspected seems to be coming into play, and i'm not trying to rile up the antitax cut side, i believe if you stimulate economy, it should be big tax cuts because we're running out of other ammo, the fed, that's gone. they will be hiking rate, not cutting them. i think tax cuts are the only answer then. i'm hearing from number of powerful operatives, mitch mcconnell, and then of course former treasury secretary john snow we're not going to see that, nor should we. that is what their position is. too big of a tax

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. >> thank you thanks for maya angelou making it seize easy /* easy i'll be willing to support supervisor eric mar's motion i say this not to disrespect john, i think your frankly the person i've known the least out of the 3 candidates. >> next speaker. >> but not taking away from our qualifications dwech any understanding of the professor and his background i believe that he is more of an activist than more of us know up here so i would be okay with supporting the motion that supervisor mar put forth. >> okay. let's call the vote. >> okay. >> roll call vote on supervisor mar's. >> motion by to appoint bill to seat 2 on the police commission supervisor mar supervisor cowen no supervisor tang we have 2 i's with supervisor cowen in december sent and so we'll i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> as a committee report than all right. thank you, everyone >> soak so supervisor cowen will proceeded to the land use committee i have a memo he can appoint supervisor avalos to our committee as a third member we're going to call up item 3. >> to appoint 6 me

. >> thank you thanks for maya angelou making it seize easy /* easy i'll be willing to support supervisorric mar's motion i say this not to disrespect john, i think your frankly the person i've known the least out of the 3 candidates. >> next speaker. >> but not taking away from our qualifications dwech any understanding of the professor and his background i believe that he is more of an activist than more of us know up here so i would be okay with supporting the motion that supervisor mar put forth. >> okay. let's call the vote. >> okay. >> roll call vote on supervisor mar's. >> motion by to appoint bill to seat 2 on the police commission supervisor mar supervisor cowen no supervisor tang we have 2 i's with supervisor cowen in december sent and so we'll i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> as a committee report than all right. thank you, everyone >> soak so supervisor cowen will proceeded to the land use committee i have a memo he can appoint supervisor avalos to our committee as a third member we're going to call up item 3. >> to appoint 6 memb

when my on to live found -- when maya angelou found out about it, she got on the board and said never again. i got an honorary doctorate years later. but howard university was transformative for me. it was where i was nurtured, midwifed into a world that i knew i had to go and do something. it wasn't about being cute and dancing and shaking it, what were you shaking at about? what was it going to be about? coming out of howard university, there was an incredible so many great, great teachers who were my mentors and remain my mentors through my whole professional career. i went on a journey that i am still on today, and i know that the arts are transformative. i have traveled the world. i have traveled the world -- i have been to china, india, israel,, palestine, south africa, london, paris. in places where we don't speak the same language or even pray to the same god, we can dance to the same beat. we can move. there is something about cultural diplomacy that is more powerful and almost anything. you have to know that out of america, hip-hop culture is the greatest export, it is. i we