i believe that the statues, we have one in memphis -- we have two in memphis, nathan bedford forest statue right in the heart of east of downtown memphis in a public park, jefferson davis statue in the park that used to be known -- named after him but now has been changed. i think those statues, as the orrs, are going to leave public places. i have advocated this. as you said, i write a column in the newspaper every week, and i am steadfast in my call to get these statues out of public venues. i don't want my taxpayer money going to, for the upkeep of these statues. they need to be in a museum. you can put nathan bedford forest statue in shiloh, that's fine. he wanted to be buried in elmwood cemetery, he was buried there for 20 some years until they dug him up and put him in this public park. i think, again, decency is going to win in the end. and i'm going to keep shouting for it. and i just hope that the majority of voices keep shouting for it. and i'll talk more about my book a little later. >> great. >> i'd like to say one thing just because i edit a daily paper in virginia, so this hi

the mayor of memphis under a lot of pressure right now, as you can imagine.able for an interview, but we did speak to the city attorney, and this is what he told us about where the city of memphis stands vis-a-vis donald trump's remarks yesterday. >> i think it has impacted the situation in memphis at all. the city of memphis is an inclusive city. we're on one accord with what we want to do. as i said before, the city council voted 13 to 0 to have the statue rye moved, and we are all on the same page with what we want for this city. >> reporter: the city of memphis still faces a lot of legal hurdle says to actually remove these confederate monuments that could take months and even years, and protestors here are telling us they are not willing to wait. >> thajs for your coverage. now, those protestors in memphis were calling for the removal of a statue of jefferson davis. davis, you will know was the president of the confederate states of america during the civil war and is one of the most recollect on the ground niezable faces along with general robert e. lee

that they have been deeply influenced by the king, and now 40 years after his death we travel to memphisis connelly. >> reporter: 40 years ago linda thompson got a phone call at her home. on the other end of the line was a 9-year-old girl. it was lisa marie presley. >> she said, "my daddy's dead. my daddy's dead." she just blurted it out. >> reporter: thompson had spent 4 1/2 years as elvis presley's lover and confidant before they parted in 1976. one year later she struggled to believe what she was hearing. the king of rock and roll, dead at 42. >> presley was found unconscious in his mansion at about 2:30, was pronounced dead an hour later. >> i first quizzed her, are you sure that he didn't just go to the hospital? and she said no, no, he's dead. >> reporter: four decades have passed. how long? this year elvis's granddaughter, riley keogh, was nominated for a golden globe, an award elvis never won. and the love his millions of fans have for the king of rock and roll and the electrifying music he gave to the world never did die. ♪ well, that's all right mama >> reporter: it all started

laura bicker, bbc news, memphis. if you are an elvis fan there are two programmes on the bbc. can also watch it on the pipeline later and stay with us. let's get your weather prospects. feeling more like summer across the south of the uk where the temperature was 2a celsius. at al to the west, some thick cloud bringing rain. -- the west, some thick cloud bringing rain. —— but out to the west. the rain. —— but out to the west. the rain will turn steadier and heavier. across scotland, the west of wales, the skies will clear but it will be pretty mild out there. we will all get rain at some stage. the cloud will break leading to a few showers. northern england and south east scotla nd northern england and south east scotland may miss the showers and feel some sunshine. but western scotla nd feel some sunshine. but western scotland will get some showers. they will continue into the evening. 0vernight it will get wetter. that clears the way of friday morning and we get some sunshine and showers before things turn wetter in northern ireland and the rain moves back over the irish sea

we will go to memphis, where protests over the statues got heated overnight. in baltimore, statues taken down. how are city and state legislators reacting to this monument movement, and the bitter protests that have followed? i'll talk to the mayor of my hometown, columbia, south carolina. but first, one tennessee resident's reaction to president trump's comments. >> it's no reason for him to say, you know, both sides are guilty when it's only one side that's at fault right now. and that's white supremacy. ama. but as you get older, it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. >> announcer: no one loves a road trip like your furry sidekick! so when your "side glass" gets damaged... [dog barks] trust safelite autoglass to fix it fast, and we'll get you back on t

>> still worried about the heavy rain threats around western tennessee, memphis. it's still spinning near alex ar -- alexandria. flash flood warnings around beaumont and areas of western louisiana. and those flash flood watches go through memphis, nashville, lexington and louisville, kentucky. compared to what has fallen in the south, this is south, but two to five inches widespread. isolated totals could be seven inches. if that happens in a short period of time in western tennessee and the hills, so watch out memphis to jackson up to louisville. those are the concerns for today. that's a look at the big weather story of the day. rain and thunderstorms will also be hit and miss through areas of alabama and georgia. we could have a few severe storms, maybe isolated tornadoes in mississippi. and and tropical storm irma will become a hurricane in the days ahead. >> bill, thank you. >>> other stories to tell you about. a federal judge has blocked texas from enforcing a tough new law in so-called sanctuary cities there. the law would have allowed police officers to as

, memphis, could be included in the heavy rains from this all the way through friday. so let's time it out for you. by tomorrow morning we're in northeast louisiana, you go up to memphis and that rain shield, especially if you're driving i-40, say, 3:30 p.m., we stopped it here between little rock and memphis, this will be a problem. 6 to 12 inches still in our swath especially in east texas and far southwest louisiana. guys, houston areas had more than they have in an entire year of rainfall. that's what we're dealing with. >> in just a couple of days. thanks very much. >>> and many of the victims of harvey escaping those dangerous floodwaters head to those evacuation centers but the problem is, after they've been rescued, those centers are now completely overwhelmed. the red cross saying more than 17,000 people are in shelters in texas right now. abc's chief national correspondent tom llamas is in houston this morning with more on that side of the story. tom, good morning. >> reporter: amy, good morning and you'll remember right here on "gma" yesterday we brought you

i walk back in, and the television's display at elvis presley's memphis. restaurants across from graceland, a $137 billion bet that elvis fans will continue to make the trip to reexperience his legend. his backup singers performing "sweet sweet spirit" after they sang it at his funeral. ♪ in the presence of the lord >> he's one of the greatest singers and entertainers of all time. never seen anything like him. back then we didn't have the smoke and the fire and explosives on stage. it was hem aic him and the musi. >> so elvis presley not a fan of robert goulet. now we know. >> he's one of top-selling artists of all time. >> and the songs are still good. they have more than stood the test of time. ♪ come on and do the jailhouse rock ♪ >>> coming up, why "game of thrones" fans should think twice, not just for the obvious reasons why. if you've got a life, you gotta swiffer ♪he's gotta play it cool to seal the deal.♪ ♪better find a way to smooth things over.♪ ♪if only harry used some... ♪...bounce, to dry. ♪yeah! ♪he would be a less wrinkly, and winning at li

all the way into southern ohio, just south of cincinnati, so louisville, lexington, nashville and memphis in the next 48 hours up to 8 inches. remember, even though the rain has stopped in houston for now, you still have rivers that are going to rise. the way through this weekend and some places for weeks. watch as the river expands. this is the brazos river, the town of richmond, thompsons, all communities that could see flooding because they're expected to crest at 56. they just updated this. this water is moving so fast, 100,000 cubic feet per second and the runoff already in the gulf of mexico. >> okay, ginger, thanks. already 30,000 people have taken to houston shelters. 10,000 national guard troops will be deployed from across the country joining the 14,000 already there. abc's chief national correspondent tom llamas on the

he was found at his home in memphis not breathing. his road manager tried to revive him. he failed. a hospital tried to revive him, it failed. his doctor pronounced him dead at 3:00 this afternoon. the end at an early age of one of the two most spectacular careers in the history of american entertainment, the other being frank sinatra's. long after he became an institution, here what how presley looked and sounded on an nbc television special four seasons ago. ♪ you ain't nothing but a hound ♪ you ain't nothing but a hound dog ♪

f course, martin luther king assassinated in memphis in april of 1868. memphis t like in today?uest: there has been a renewed come or the statues to down, especially with, as you mentioned, the 50th anniversary martin luther king, jr.'s execution. the city is planning a big rollout. m.l.k. 50 there is a big push to then.it down before i think everyone in memphis, who elected official, in the on board with taking it down. city council voted unanimously to take it down. the mayor, jim strickland wants down.ke it what is keeping it from coming own is the state, memphis is a democratic city, heavily democratic controlled. a red state and i think there is some tension people tween just what want from both sides of that issue. could nd could the -- some who want the statue taken get a waiver from the commission? about there is a question wheth whether -- if they get a waiver, can take it they down, whatever. but if the commission does not the cities they are willing to appeal all the way up to the state supreme court. that is one option. he city council just recently said if they -- o

if you look right here, here is vicksburg roughly between new orleans and memphis. perfect stopping point and probably the biggest city -- maybe baton rouge might be bigger, i don't know, but one of the bigger cities on the lower mississippi. the irony about -- one of the many ironies about vicksburg is the very thing that makes it thrive in peacetime is going to be the very thing which brings the armies here in war time. vicksburg with those high bluffs are just going to prove impossible for the union navy to take by themselves. they can't elevate the gun. the railroad militarily speaking is going to allow the confederates to supply a large army away from a ready base of supplies, but as far as the defense of vicksburg the railroad allows the confederates to bring in some big canons. when i say big canons, i'm not talking about these pea shooters like you see on most battle fields. i'm talking about the big boys, you know, 100 pounds or more as far as the shells being fired. so vicksburg really arguably for about a year during the american civil war is the most imp

in memphis, protesters demanding the removal of all confederate statu statues. of nathan bedford forest. the first grand wizard. >> of the kkk. the president defending these moniments. >> the most famous calvary leader for the confederacy. tonight in lexington they'll vote on a resolution to move two statues. the president tweeting his support this morning for the nation's confederate monuments. >> extraordinary. the president remaining defiant in his response to the violence in charlottesville this weekend but he's really for the most part standing alone. members of congress are blasting him by name. his two business councils, a kadrie of ceos that jared and ivanka broke up over his comments and according to the "the new york times," some of his top advisers are stunned, despondent and numb. others disgusted. now trump is going after republicans again. this morning tweeting, pub liscy seeking lindsey graham falsely stated that i said there's moral equivalency between the kkk, neo-nazis and white supremaci s supremacists. tuesday he was asked if he was putting b

has been in memphis where people are calling for the removal of the statue of jefferson davis.arryian that. >> all ali, it's not only jefferson davis it's also the statue and the remains of confederate general nathan bed ford forest. and in a city like memphis where 67% of the population is african-american, 27% are white, many of the anti-monument protestors we have spoken to have said we want to be able to come to a park like this one and feel welcome. but i did go out into the city and spoke to locals to get a feel of the different perspectives out there around in debate over confederate monuments. let's play some sound from that. >> those people now did he say incarcerating the historical monuments. it just doesn't make sense. they need to get a life and go on. they need to go volunteer. we were talking about this today. go to a school, nursing home. go to something responsible instead of destructive. >> these monuments were not instructed, many of them until 50, 60, 70 years after the send of the civil war at a time at the height of jim crow. and so these monuments, to som

just outside of memphis from dyersber or '9 in sacramento as we go through friday and saturday. also more details on the western heat wave. because it's been insane, record-breaking stuff heading their way. >> what a summer they've had. >> endless. >>> we've got other stories to tell you about this morning. a federal judge is blocking texas from enforcing a tough new law in so-called sanctuary cities, the law would have allowed police officers to ask individuals their immigration status in cases like routine traffic stops. it was set to take effect or friday. >>> the next law set to go into effect in texas on friday is a cut above the rest, the so-called open sword law that allows texans to carry blades longer than five inches. and. >>> spain's famous tomato fight. it was tough getting out there on stage. i wanted to be clear. i wanted it to last. so i kept on fighting. i found something that worked. and keeps on working. now? they see me. see me. see if cosentyx could make a difference for you- cosentyx is proven to help people with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... ...fin

northeast louisiana by thursday morning and memphis thursday into friday.he big picture. let's a get a check now a little closer to home. >> around here ginger rain has tapered off. as we take a look outside we have plenty of sunshine across center city and most of the region right now. as we step outside it's a little cool temperatures near and 60. this afternoon warm, 78 degrees, clouds mixing with sun, a nice day. sun and clouds tomorrow, warmer, 83. a spotty thunderstorm or shower in the afternoon or evening and then friday more clouds and cooler, 71 and it does look like the remnants of harvey at least in the form of a couple of showers will start to move in saturday. saturday night and sunday morning. he calls terrifying. that would be dad to twins. adrienne bankert is here now with more on the story. good morning to you. >> good morning, lara. this is not a movie, okay. george and amal clooney's bouncing babies now almost three months old and the reality of fatherhood is now sinking in. george clooney may be new to the role of daddy but the magnitude

it's been hammering memphis over the last four or five hours.lso, another batch of thunder showers pushing through. we'll zoom in, and memphis could obprably get 5 inches before all is said and done. so we're going to see some flooding here, as harvey continues to work its way northeastward. here's a look at how much rainfall has fallen in the last 48 hours. we've talked about the axis of heavy rain being essentially the texas/louisiana border. actually, a heavier band too along the florida panhandle in the last 48 hours. in terms of the rainfall potential, it's going to continueto move northeastward. notice, we're in light green. that's great news for us. we'll take you into saturday at 11:00 a.m. now the rain goes up to leto

they've been getting pretty much hammered in memphis. along 69, and 40, you're getting pretty heavy rain. it will lift northward. here's the precipitation potential. the heaviest axis of rain extends from memphis to nashville. there will be another separate batch of 1 to 3 inches from asheville, and almost into charlotte. but as far as we're concerned, not that much gets into the metro area. this could take you all the way through the saturday morning, less than, you know, inch by saturday morning. just not a big deal for us. it's going to move just to the east of nashville, and kind of just stall out in ohio. this is by 2:00 on saturday afternoon. again, it is going to have an impact on our weather. clouds come in tomorrow. showers possible by tomorrow evening. we'll come back and tell you which days we can salvage of the holiday weekend. >>> customs enforcement agents have deployed more than 200 people to the flood zone. i.c.e. officers from around the country were recruited for this effort. the agency says that these operations are no

back to the west, tracking what's the latest with harvey, right now we're on the memphis area.to 6 inches of rain. they may see more. no more rain in houston. but of course they're still cleaning up. take a look at some pictures here. these are live pictures. this is the refinery or actually the chemical plant that caught fire earlier because they ran out of power and they were not able to keep the chemicals cool. that caused a fire there -- they are expecting more fires as a possible explosions of that plant down there. that's right along, i believe, i-90 and they had to close another highway. you can see part of it still flooded down there. >> it's going to be a big mess down and around the houston area for days and same thing. weeks probably months around louisiana. now i tornados out of this. tornado watch in effect of alabama, parts of mississippi and tennessee. we have seen some confirmed tornados. for us, a little different. isolated showers this evening. but as the cold front moves on through, tomorrow, it's just a cloud cover and much cooler temperatures. temperatures

it's been hammering memphis over the last four or five hours. also, another batch of thunder showers pushing through. we'll zoom in, and memphis could obprably get 5 inches before all is said and done. so we're going to see some flooding here, as harvey continues to work its way northeastward. here's a look at how much rainfall has fallen in the last 48 hours. we've talked about the axis of heavy rain being essentially the texas/louisiana border. actually, a heavier band too along the florida panhandle in the last 48 hours. in terms of the rainfall potential, it's going to continueto move northeastward. notice, we're in light green. that's great news for us. we'll take you into saturday at 11:00 a.m. now the rain goes up to leto significant rains from cincinnati, almost to charleston. but we're still in the light green -- we'll come back and talk about which days you can plan that cook out. >>> the latest numbers out of texas are staggering and are only going to get worse. 7,000 homes in state have been destroyed by flooding. 37 to you homes suf

this is from memphis to jackson, tennessee. most of this will be tonight so if we have really bad li life-threatening flooding and cars getting floolded out and evacuations, it would be in western tennessee. it's not 50 inches of rain we had in the gulf, but when that water runs down those hills and collectings it builds up in a hurry. that's why we have a high risk of flashflooding in this region from memphis to jackson, to dyersburg, to paris. that's the area of greatest concern. not a lot of other problems out on the map but in the atlantic we're tracking tropical storm irma. this is starting to show signs of becoming a hurricane. this would be the next storm we have to talk about that we have to wonder where it's going to g. it's still at least 7 to 10 day ace way from coming anywhere near the u.s. so we have time to d -- worry about that in the future. also hurricane center says a 20% chance, stephanie, of something forming in the western gulf in the next five days and some of that moisture could go fourth the north. itted

by the way, memphis, i remember meeting b.b. king on beal street. >> it's hard to forget. modern germany is a leading part of the modern europe. out of that war came something with a silver lining named the european un dwron. although, it is being stressed enormously at the moment by the influx of refugees from the middle east who as far as i'm concerned came in as a result of the bush invasion in iraq. but consequences of that have not been fully understood by most people. most people have no understanding of history. you need to understand history fully. you need to go back to 1915 and they diffied up the middle east between great britain and france arbitrarily. en in 1953, we had a democratically elected president of iran. democratically elected. he was dismissed by the cia and british intelligence. they had unimpeded access to oil. we instilled the sha. so the west has an enormous amount to do with a mess in the middle east. en that was exacerbated by the invasion of iraq. where we funneled. ally disturbed the geopolitical bounds that have been created where iraq had b

him to still be around and still be sharing. ♪ falling in love >> reporter: catie beck, nbc news, memphisith you >> we appreciate you spending part of your evening with us. that is "nightly news" for this wednesday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching, and good night from los angeles. tension at thes departnent. more than a hundred people are rallying in oakiland...anbd more are >>> right now at 6:00 tension at the sheriff's department. these are live pictures of more than 100 people rallying in oakland and more are expected to show up. this group upset about a sheriff's department social media link to a white supremacist. >>> the news at 6:00 starts right now. good evening and thanks for being with us. i'm raj mathai. >> i'm jessica augeri. we've been tracking this story for over an hour. reaction is mounting because of a tweet that went out monday night. the alameda sheriff official twit account retweeted one of the nation's most prominent wipe supremacis supremacists. he said it was an accident. the latest on the people showing up today say they are

it gets to memphis.ome of that lpleftove moisture may be coming up in our direction. we'll talkxd about how that cou effect our labor day weekendñr coming up. womane1 who grew up in houston. she moved to philadelphia two f her mom is still in houston. she is safe and sending her daughter images showing the devastatk$s in the neighborhood where she grew up. of the neighborhood that as içó kid it never flooded. çó i u!ei to walk down there as a kid. you just thinke1 it's so different. >> she is planning a trip back to texas in october. for many people in our area harvey is a reminder of devastation from superstorm sandy. >> afterq surviving sandy some new jersey natives madet( the me to texas where they are reliving the nightmare ofxd a hurricane. ted greenberg has that part of the story. >> reporter:xd houston under war storm unrelenting. >> it's jfÑiunbiluju((sq that t rain is still coming down. r that's what is just it amazes me that it hasn't stopped. ye1 misery. >> it's reallyÑii] bad and devastating.

king's only living sibling,, his sister in atlanta to this day can't go back to memphis.been almost 50 years since they killed her brother and she still -- unless it happened in the last couple days -- has not been able to go back to the city of memphis. i was so angry at the state of florida for the way they handled this, mishandled it, letting this guy off the hook, for the way the law is written. i've been mad at the state of florida. that's my personal assessment. how have you continued to live in this place that brought you so much pain? >> i actually think florida started this mess with stand your ground and so i don't think we should just pack up and leave and run. i never been a person to run from a good fight, and so what i think that is worth fighting for is worth fighting for not only trayvon martin but other trayvon martins, as well. florida took awhile to get in this mess and will take awhile to get out of the mess. we truly know trayvon is in heaven. i'm not going to let a specific location define where i go and cannot go. even though in the beginning i said

. >> mola lenghi is at elvis' home in memphis, tennessee, and spoke with fans of the king as well aswho knew him the best. >> fans arrived throughout the day at graceland, for a tour of elvis presley's home, on this solemn anniversary. >> there is just a special feeling about grace lands, that there is no other place in the world. >> ♪ >> forty years after the death of the king of rock-and-roll, tens of thousands of fans still make the pilgrimage to memphis wanda has been an elvis collector for zero six years. she metal advice when she was a teen. >> i said can i get your autograph? so he said: why don't you just come in the dining room and have breakfast with me. so i did. and i had the napkin that he ate with. >> that was elvis' napkin? >> that was his that he ate with. >> just one of the many things fans can do here in memphis, during elvis week. >> the unique thing about elvis, he never forgot where he came from. >> angie, the director of archives at elvi presley grace lands, $45 million entertainment complex that opened in march. >> not just about elvis. they're about people who

that's coming up in a bit. >> listen, they get memphis barbecue for lunch. i want him those kids are lucky. >> planning ahead with the cool dad and the cool recipe. >> thanks to molette. >>> today is the day amazon is taking over whole foods. it starts with lowering its prices. we have a look at the key items that will be cheaper. >>> i'm adam tuss. it's been closed for a year. the first section under construction opened back up today. i'll havertys furniture helps even when life isn't.t nice pick. pops, your pick. art monk! retired. i'll take him over these fools playing today. aw come on, man. that's not how this game works. art monk! i want to change my name to hot momma! lame. you're lame. no! i'm not writing down somebody who's retired! baby, i'm changing my name to hot momma. that's not how this works... the labor day sale is on now at havertys. life looks good >>> just about 6:30. thanks for waking up with us. >> we have continuing coverage now on harvey ahead. we need to begin with the forecast. sheena parveen and chuck bell. outside on the weather d

right up towards alex and dra louisiana, right across monroe and right up towards memphis by friday night. here's a look at the rainfall forecast and notice another eight inches possible in houston but about another 6 to 8 inches possible in eldore radio, arkansas, and memphis. and there could be some flooding in alabama also. back at home temperatures up to about 5 degrees cooler on the peninsula that's about 55 in daly stoi 60 in redwood city. commute planner fog to sunshine if you're on the bay, a little more cloudy innocence you're going to be on the roads this smorng and mild to hot if you're taking mass transit. sioux. >>> we're seeing eastbound bay bridge stopped again for -- they've been filming a movie or television commercial overnight hours and those absolutely clear on that lower deck headed eastbound so they've been revolving and stopping and starting. so just be prepared for delays if you're head eastbound on the bay bridge that the early hour. otherwise westbound we're looking pretty good. we'll check back with them in a little bit. road work on the san rafael bridge this i

here's fixed route between new orleans and memphis. the perfect stopping point. probably the biggest city, maybe baton rouge, maybe bigger. one of the bigger cities on the lower mississippi. -- one of the many ironies about vicksburg is the thriveing that makes us in peace time is going to be the very thing which brings the army here in wartime. vicksburg, with those high bluffs, are just going to prove impossible for the union navy to take by themselves. they can't elevate the guns. the railroad, militarily speaking, is going to allow the confederate supply a large army away from the ready base of supplies. as far as the defensive expert, the railroad allows the confederates to bring in big cans. -- big cannons. i'm not talking about the shooter's you see on most battlefields. i'm talking about the big boys, 100 pounds or more as far as the shells being fired. really, arguably, for about a year during the american civil war, is the most important place, strategically. that would be my opinion. it basically becomes, ladies and gentlemen, the last confederate stro

him to still be around and still be sharing. ♪ falling in love >> reporter: catie beck, nbc news, memphiste you spending part of your evening with us. that is "nightly news" for this wednesday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching, and good night from los angeles. >>> oh yes. >> whew. >> summer's hottest show just turned up the heat. this is access hollywood and simon's relationship juggling just may be the most impressive talent of all. >> on vacation with the current boo and the former boo. >> i've been through so much. >> and now wait until you hear

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the memphis grizzly opened it for anyone from fourth graders to high school seniors to sharpen skillsthis is now a four-year tradition. >>> time for a check on sports. jeff skversky is here. and a new sheriff in town, rhys hoskins. >> suddenly the worst team in baseball is a lot of fun to watch. rhys hoskins on pace for 99 home runs. >> that's crazy. about chance to play the entire season, 99 home runs on pace for. absolutely ridiculous. even rhys hoskins can't explain it. the phillies rookie phenom is off to the best start in baseball history. homers again today. incredible. 11 homers in his first 18 games. nobody has ever been that hot to start a career. how about rhys hoskins? busting on to the scene. against the cubs today, there you go. hoskins making the diving catch in left. only been playing out there for a month. he can do it all. starts the triple play to hernandez, to tommy joseph. the rare 7-4-3 triple play. phillys down three until the fifth. nick williams, two-run shot. phillies score five times in the fifth to take the lead. then in the eighth, save the best for last. a

today at the press conference thanks actually appreciate it for more on this we go to luther mercer memphis tennessee advocate director for the tennessee charter school center mr mercer thanks for your time tonight i wanted to talk to you because our children are listening and they are watching and they are being influenced what does this change in education in your opinion give us your take on how this should be handled. well first of all thank you for having me on. my condolences to the family of heather higher and to all those who have suffered from injustice. tonight i think we need to take a pause we need to think about what this means in our history and then how this reflects upon where we move forward after four hundred years we've been having a conversation in this country about how we view each other we look at any quality we look at racism we look at these things and we have these intersections where there seems like a moment where we can say ok it's time to move forward is that a movement or we have a moment right now mr mercer you have got that you know what i think we're at ano

again, memphis is the concern. later this evening we're expecting heavy rain to develop.nce you get up here in to the blue, that's two inches of rain. when you get to three inches, the river and the small streams start going up quickly. when you get to the five enchz of rain, that's when you start to have the problems. the forecast for memphis to jackson, that's where we could get the five inches of rainfall, and that's where they are most concerned we could have life-threatening flash flooding and maybe even some water in homes this evening. we actually have what we call a flash flood risk map, and that high risk is the area from memphis to paris, tennessee. we'll watch that this evening and see if that develops and happe happens. seven inches of rain is typically a big deal, but after what we just had we are, like eh, seven inches of rain. >> well continue to watch the situation. bill, thank you for that. >>> still ahead, with tonight's preseason's game canceled -- >> in baseball disaster narrowly averted in the bronx. sports is next. when i received the diagnoses, i kn

laura bicker, bbc news, memphis. time for a look at the weather.de. cloud and rain are on the way in. we have seen the rain arrive across northern ireland. and in scotland as well. we slow to arrive in england where through the rest of the afternoon last it will stay dry. the exception to that really is the western coast of wales and into cornwall. occasional spots of rain getting in here, but the bulk of the rain arriving as we head towards the evening. late in the day. it will be windy, gale force gusts of wind. certainly knocking the edge of the temperatures. our band of rain pushes eastwards, some of the rain will be heavy where it will be still lurking in the second half of the night in the midlands, clearing skies for the northwest, scotland and ireland becoming dry for a time. further showers working in here through thursday. thursday sees a band of rain quite slow to clear. a legacy of cloud for a time here. sunshine breaking out elsewhere. a rash of showers coming in across northern ireland and scotland in particular. frequent showers, som

. >>> police arrested several confed statue in memphis.rotes tried to climb the bedshe that's when police pushed them. >>> now to a story that's a man from virginia has started monume the statue of a rapper born in ♪ the petition has more than 17,000 signatures. >>> the great american solar tomorr the earth, moon and sun will be aligning turning eclips parties are being we go live to center city at the frankl institute where there's a huge party planned. what if you're just out and could that be harmful to your eyes? >> rep i checked on that hurt you. so you're okay if you're just but if you see people looking up and you want to check it out protec those special glasses are tough we found out today that even if at the institute this glasse >> online. phone calls. >> rep they are not alone. viewin without protection is danger >> the front of the eye ball glass. and it's permanent. >> rep it's not that the danger comes in looking right at it. >> when you do something you >> rep those lucky enough they h free viewing party stayin home here's

they say there is one of the a lot of triplets were doing hehee in memphis.f i don't like what i hear, what am i going to do, get off? greyhound has more respect. they would take before the train, the plane, the less leaves the terminal. m, doe is a hell of a stor you want to ststay or get off?" they will announce all of that that got ripped offff in memphi. there are no backs. i'm sitting next to this white dude is never been on before. excuse me, sir, what do we have to fill out. you have never been on greyhound? you nothing. greyhound, it just says "lost" they don't pretend. i just hope some kind of way when you stop and think about the fear that goes on -- and then what job young folks have to do. your older folks. i'm 70's old so i have been listening to older folk for a long time. sometimes we have to stop this craziness. you can be just as silly at 80 and 90 as you was at three years old. i hear some old folks this morning in new york looking at young folks on their way to school. they got these baggy pants on, shirttail hanging out, she's not type. th

in memphis a protest over volati protes tried to climb the that's when the police arrested philad leadersre it was defaced last weekend. a mural was spray painted by histor histor are celebrity jaying >>> an expedition discovered the uss indianapolis japane the ship in 1945 hirosh >> we tried to do these as >> crazy story. ten minutes before 5:00 a.m. let's find out what the weather day. >> we're especially focused on >> we'll see plenty of sunshine this is a live view of the clear at the shore. aftern temperature at 80 degree scatte clouds is wilmington, the chance of showers will be eclips time i think there will we're fog. blue bell visibility is at one mile. no issue for trenton, it's in the clear right now from millvi atlantic city. no fog in wildwood. sunshi be nice and bright we'll see some clouds bulling. there multiple turns for the first clouds arrive during you'll see the scattered clouds nice and clear for our area at during the afternoon hours we'll see some clouds building but the chance of showers really will evenin that's when the lehigh valley then overnight tonight prett