oklahoma riders have had the extra challenge of reclaiming the oklahoma landscape in oklahoma people from stereotype that we are not all people that use that grammar, that we are not people that live in metal shacks and struggle against the dust. essentially that is the case for all oklahoma writers. we tell our story, reclaim our landscape in showing what is here. there's so many other things as well. the oklahoma writers exhibit is a vision of mine to help make oklahomans more aware of their literary heritage. so many people, oklahomans included cds list for oklahoma is way down the bottom of the route when it comes to literacy, when it comes to competency in other academic skills and yet we have this rich literary history. so the exhibit is awaiting a press more aware of that. it's just the beginning. i've got to tell you. at 60 authors feature. we could feature 600. we are at a little bit behind. we have exhibited several opinions and they do this in conjunction with okay pop in oklahoma history center. the writers are part of our lives in several different locations in the sever

oklahoma writers have had the extra challenge have reclaiming the oklahoma landscape and oklahoma people from stereotypes. not all not all people that use bad grammar, not all people that live in little shacks and struggle against the dust. essentially that is the case for all oklahoma writers. we are reclaiming our landscape and showing what is here. the oklahoma writers exhibit is a vision of mine to help make oklahomans more aware of their literary heritage. so many people see all these lists were oklahoma is way down at the bottom of the run when it comes to literacy competency and certain other academic skills. and yet we had this rich literary history. and so and so the exhibit is a way to make us more aware of that. it is just the beginning. we have 60 we have 60 office beaches. we can go ahead and feature 600. that is my goal. we had the exhibit in conjunction with the oklahoma history center. different venues. they are part of our lives in several different locations, activities. this is part of our multi- venue exhibit. this particular station is at the tulsa historical society

and america -- not just oklahoma city and oklahoma -- were given a moment to mourn, a moment that attracted the president of the united states. billy graham. a national audience and thousands of oklahomans who simply wanted to get together and pay tribute to those who had lost their lives. it was an exceptional act of public leadership on her part. and the two of them set up a foundation to take care of the educational needs of anyone who had lost a parent, let alone two parents, in the course of that. and that institution still functions till this day. again exceptional leadership. and we've had other moments of tragedy in our country like 9/11 and just as rudy giuliani was, quote, america's mayor on that day, ron norig in oklahoma was america's day. it was an amazing performance as i got together his police and his firefighters and was immediately on the scene and one of the great public servants that i've ever seen. and i would be remiss not to mention my friend behind me, mr. lucas, as he alluded to in his remarks that was his district office, one building over. that was a place where h

in many cases in oklahoma.n obama to do research for her novel paradise one of the things she said that struck her about the state was the fact that it was much more lush than she had expected. a lot of times, it's interesting to people that have written about oklahoma has caused us to change course in our history jim lehrer wrote a really funny satire about oklahoma politics called a crowd of oklahoma bemoaning the fact that wasn't a crown on the oklahoma capital. if you look at the picture, you can see that sure enough we have a dell now and many people credit jim with getting the kick started the exhibit consists of the narrative about various writers. we divided by genre because oklahoma has extraordinary genres like journalists memoirists, historians, literary novelists playwrights. so it's divided into genres but beyond that we also have some personal artifacts just so people can understand that these writers are some faraway literary figures they were real people with real names. for example, we have som

so oklahoma writers i think, have had the extra challenge of reclaiming the oklahoma landscape and oklahomafrom stereotypes that we're not all people that use bad grammar that we're not all people that you know, live in, you know little shacks and struggle against the dust. but, essentially that's the case for all oklahoma writers. we're telling our story, we're reclaiming our landscape and showing what is here. there's some dust, yes, but there's so many other things as well. the oklahoma writers' exhibit is a vision of mine to help make oklahomans more aware of their literary heritage. so many people see all these lists where oklahoma is way down at the bottom of the running when it comes to literacy -- of the rung when it comes to literacy competency and certain other academic skills, and yet we have this rich literary history. and so the exhibit is a way to make us more aware of that. and it's just the beginning, i've got to tell you. we have 60 authors featured. we could go ahead and feature 600. so that's my goal. so we're a little bit behind with just the 60. we had the exhibit at se

it's law now in oklahoma.e supreme court, this is what they're going with. oklahoma law now says this nitrogen thing is going to be what they'll do instead. firing squads, hanging, electric chair, lethal injection now this is the new one. if they can only sort out how to keep the prisoner ripping off the mask it might work fine. who's going to be first to try it? we'll see. the move...her food...? so we tried purina cat chow gentle... ...because it's specially formulated for easy digestion. she's loved it ever since. and as for her and ben... ...she's coming around. purina cat chow gentle. one hundred percent complete and balanced for everyday feeding of adult cats. look like this. feel like this. look like this. feel like this. with dreamwalk insoles, turn shoes that can be a pain into comfortable ones. their soft cushioning support means you can look like this. and feel like this. dreamwalk. i care deeply about the gulf. i grew up in louisiana. i went to school here. i've been with bp ever since. today, i le

>> well, one of the things that was done here in oklahoma city was to open what's called the oklahomamurrah center and for the study of homeland security law. in other words, if something bad happens natural or man-made dys dysasteter, how do we ander the jurisdictional disputes? in oklahoma city the fema director said the fire department and police service were so competent and professional and skilled he made the fema workers work for those individuals. that was not the case in many cities of the united states. remember new orleans had a real hard time locally handling the problem with the hurricane katrina. so it's all a discussion with homeland security in the future when a man-made or natural disaster occurs who's in charge, how do we handle it legally take care of the blizzard of regulations statutes and jurisdictional disputes and we handled that in oklahoma city but it will be a problem going forward if we don't have with homeland security's leadership as well as the department of justice some guidance and advice going forward. >> i thank you for working closely with them. i'm

oklahoma's big idea.entists were involved in coming up with plan and no doctors of scientists testified about it in front of the legislature. but based on the videos, based on people choosing voluntarily to breathe too much nitrogen as a way of trying to kill themselves, oklahoma is confident that this will work. one political science professor involved in researching the matter for the legislature raised one issue that did not seem to give them any pause when they voted on this thing. the state senate vote for nitrogen as a new form of execution was a unanimous vote. she raised some worries to us about whether we have any idea what it would mean to kill people against their will with this method of execution that has never been tried before. >> the anecdotal data we have shows what happened when someone is ex exposed to nitrogen, but none of the cases are people who are fighting for their life. do they gasp? do they struggle? is it different? is it painful in that instance? people being led to the death

when a bomb exploded at the alfred building in downtown oklahoma city. will cartels us how people are remembering the victims today and hoping for change in the future. ♪ >> reporter:. >> the sound of bagpipes filled the air in oklahoma city as hundreds of people gathered to remember the victims of the oklahoma city bombing. former president bill clinton said the whole country can learn from the people of oklahoma city city. >> you have reminded us that we should all live by the oklahoma standard service honor kindness. >> reporter: in 1995, home grown terrorist timothy mcveigh set off a truck bomb in front of the federal building. the blast killed 168 innocent men, women and children and injured hundreds of others. bombing survivor richard williams spoke at the ceremony with two of his grandchildren. >> may this memorial offer comfort, strength, peace hope and serenity. >> reporter: they asked for 168 seconds of silence.

russell: oklahoma city metro area. my oldest daughter, she's graduated from college, runs a business. my oldest son works for hitachi. they are all doing pretty good. trying to find their way. i got them all to 18 without incident or crime. i'm thankful for that. now, it's on them to make a good life of their own. host: what about your life here in washington as a member of congress? what do you want to achieve? rep. russell: i think the main thing is that we need to get back to the basics of life liberty and property. the government has a federal role. abraham lincoln put it really well when he said those things that we can do ourselves, the government ought not interfere. those things collectively we cannot accomplish, the government may have a role. i think we should keep it in that perspective. it is tempting for the government to want to take over every aspect of our lives but that is not something we need to do. the american people are resilient. they largely want to be left alone. they want to have fruit of thei

learn more about tulsa, oklahoma all weekend right here on american history tv. robert trepp: there are more native people in tulsa's 20 mile radius than anywhere else in the country. it is completely inside the boundaries of the muskogee, cherokee, or another reservation and it is the only city in the united states that has that status. the tribes that were native to this area were the osage. there were scattered bands of wichita, lots of tribes lived in this area because of the rich resources of not only the arkansas river, but the grand the other rivers down south. there was a huge political conflict in the muskogee nation. one signed a treaty saying all of the lands would be gone and they would move out west. that chief was executed. the united states, the only time they repealed a treaty, the united states did repeal that treaty, even though it had been ratified. the negotiations following that, his followers were allowed to move west to oklahoma, and they settled in the area -- towns like broken arrow started growing up there. in 1830, they set up a system

there's oklahoma. oklahoma, the inventor of lethal injection in the first place, now inventing america's newest form of execution, one which they say has the advantage of not requiring the participation or even the input of doctors or scientists of any kind. >> people have made fun of us because, oh, you know, you have no medical background, how dare you go out and try to do this? well, that's with it's come to, because no doctors can be involved, it is left to people who don't know. so, i mean, we do the best that we can. >> that is an oklahoma legal studies professor named christine pappas, who was involved in the research team who recommended to the oklahoma legislature that the state invent this new form of capital punishment, that would use nitrogen gas to kill prisoners for the first time anywhere in the country, anywhere in the world. professor pappas, i should say, is personally against the death penalty. she said she had qualms about participating in this research, in terms of the state invent

oklahoma is a deep red state. oklahoma is a very very pro-death penalty state. but oklahoma has now invented and put into state law very quickly a new form of execution that has never been done before. not only here in the united states but anywhere in the world. and they have done it at a time when the death penalty and the politics around it are chaos. and it is no longer as simple as liberals not liking the death penalty and conservatives liking the dependath penalty. i mean, there is still a little bit of that but it's getting more woolly. the republican montana state legislature advanced the bill to repeal the death penalty in montana. the bill ultimately failed down the line but the fact that it got as far as it did was a shock wave in montana politics. nobody knew there was as much opposition to the death penalty even among conservative republicans. but that bill uncovered a whole current of the death penalty that nobody had ever found before. nebraska is a non-partisan republican legislature but overwhelmingly dominated by conservative legislators. never

in oklahoma -- an oklahoma state trooper pulled over army veteran timothy mcveigh for driving without days later he was recognized as a bombing suspect. his accomplice, terry nickels turned himself in the same day. mcveigh was convicted and given the death penalty. he was executed in 2001. >> timothy james mcveigh has been executed by lethal injection. >> reporter: nickels was also convicted and is serving life in prison. in the years after the tragedy oklahoma city banded together to turn the tragedy into something positive. they built this solemn memorial on the side of the federal building, dedicated exactly five years after the bombing took place, each victim is honored with a symbolic chair including 19 smaller chairs in honor of the children that died. the selfless actions that average people took in the moments after the bombing and beyond became known as the oklahoma standard as they gather today to remember the fallen, organizers are asking everyone to recommit to that standard, a principle that lives on two decades after terror ripped through this city. in oklahoma city, i'm

sunday marks the 20th anniversary of the oklahoma city bombing. as we again try to understand why that happened, there is the remarkable fact that timothy mcveigh left a record of why it happened on tape. tonight a special presentation of the mcveigh tapes. >> we've got a lot of people here. >> six years before 9/11 in the worst act of domestic terrorism the united states had ever experienced, a truck bomb explodes in oklahoma city. 168 people die. over 700 people are injured. the man who did it the former u.s. army sergeant timmy mcveigh, never confessed his crime to the fbi, to the courts or to the media. but he did give a series of interviews details what he did and why to two newspaper reporters. interviews that have never been heard publicly until now. >> death and loss are an integral part of life everywhere. and people in oklahoma that lost loved ones i'm sorry, but you know what? we have to accept it and move on. >> mcveigh's voice will lay out his version of events using new facial replacement technology we transform recreation shots with

morgan brennan reports from craig, oklahoma. >> struck prague oklahoma was the largest in history. >> everything was shaking and it was scary. >> and though highly debated, many point to the energy industry as the culprit. because the number of earthquakes rattling oklahoma has urged. the state averaged one to two quakes per year and now it is one to two per day. >> they increased in 2009 and in just a few stated and a few places in colorado southern arkansas and texas and oklahoma. >> they say most can be linked to oil and gas production. but not fracking but the disposal of wastewater the toxic byproduct disposed of in the ground, in wells far away from the drinking water supplies. >> it has been done for years and years but that changes the fluid balance at depth in the gio logic formation and that is what has the poeshlt for triggering earthquakes. >> oklahoma has been hit the hardest because of the fact that billions of barrels of wastewater have been pumped. they don't deny the possibility of a link for some possibility. but kim hatfield said what is lacking is specificity, loca

and america -- not just oklahoma city and oklahoma -- were given a moment to mourn, a moment that attracted the president of the united states. billy graham. a national audience and thousands of oklahomans who simply wanted to get together and pay tribute to those who had lost their lives. it was an exceptional act of public leadership on her part. and the two of them set up a foundation to take care of the educational needs of anyone who had lost a parent, let alone two parents, in the course of that. and that institution still functions till this day. again exceptional leadership. and we've had other moments of tragedy in our country like 9/11 and just as rudy giuliani was, quote, america's mayor on that day, ron norig in oklahoma was america's day. it was an amazing performance as i got together his police and his firefighters and was immediately on the scene and one of the great public servants that i've ever seen. and i would be remiss not to mention my friend behind me, mr. lucas, as he alluded to in his remarks that was his district office, one building over. that was a place where h

. >> jolingses in oklahoma-- geologists in oklahoma say recent small earthquakes in that state are very likely triggered by the underground disposal of wasted water from oil and gas wells. >> that area shook by nearly 600 quakes last year, more than any other state in the country. >> the state averaged one to two quakes magnitude three for year. in 2015, it's averaged two per day. >> jon: hmmm... ♪ oak-ula homa where the ground starts shaking twice a day ♪ i wonder if there's a connection between the uptick in industrial-scale drilling and injecting of high-pressure fluid deep into the earth fracturing its shale rock and siphoning out the natural gas to the surge of ( bleep ) falling off oklahomans' shelves in the middle of the night. governor. >> we have had a long history in the state of oklahoma of earthquakes. we have people looking at what are the cause of the earthquakes? are they manmade or are they just a natural course of nature itself? >> jon: is it, as it might suggest, due to fracking or is the lord using our great state as a shake weight? ( laughter ) ( applause ) that's un

not long after the oklahoma city bombing, nearly 20 years ago now in 1995, somebody wrote an oklahoma bomber-style anti-u.s. government screed and left it as a claim of responsibility alongside this purposely derailed amtrak passenger plane in the arizona desert. one person killed, more than 100 injured, a lot sent to the hospital with very serious injuries. whoever caused that derailment did it on purpose. they pulled out more than two dozen railroad spikes and removed a whole section of the rail line there specifically to dump that train at speed off a highway bridge. it's a miracle that more were not killed in that terrorist attack, but that was nearly 20 years ago. nobody has ever been arrested in conjunction with that, and last week the fbi doubled down on the reward in that 20-year-old case in the hopes of goosing public interest in solving it all these years down the road. and at the highest levels of the justice department, they do this all the time. they really believe that rewards work. late last year the state department's rewards for justice program announced a $5 million

he was born in oklahoma. we are proud to have this work back in oklahoma where we think it belongs.was an advocate or people who were disenfranchised, for people who were migrant workers during the dust bowl era who found themselves in california literally starving. he saw this vast difference between the house and have-nots and became their serviceman through his music. the woody guthrie center was opened in april of 2013. it started with the purchase of the woody guthrie archives from woody's daughter, nora. the plan was to have this research facility in tulsa. as the concept grew into the idea of opening up the archives to a new generation and teaching people about woody's important part in american history, this museum came to be. we consider it a place to inspire people. we want them to investigate what woody did with his talent and inspire people to use their talents to do something of their own. woody guthrie: ♪ when the sun come shining i was strolling ♪ >> many people displaced during the dust bowl were just looking for a better way of life. some had lost their forms due to

because i thought does that mean oklahoma city? was he foreshadowing? >> after camping in his car outside the branch davidian compound for a few days, mcveigh drives to terry nichols' farm in northern michigan. >> in less than an hour, the compound that fascinated the world for 51 days was destroyed in a raging inferno. >> mcveigh and nichols watched the violent end of the davidian raid on television. >> my eyes just welled up with tears and tears started coming down my cheeks and watched the scene unfold and just stood there in stunned silence. what is this? what has america become? i just remember seeing that scene burned in my memory. now as i talk about it, i felt absolute rage. >> tim saw this as an act of war against the people. >> the rules of engagement, if not written down, are defined by the actions of an aggressor, okay? now, what rules of engagement would you interpret in examining waco? kids are fair game, women are fair game. >> i think that that was the final moment for mcveigh and he says so himself, right? i mean, after waco, now is the

oklahoma the most.esearchers have focused on finding out what's going on in oklahoma and applying that the other states. >> ifill: despite the scale of the earthquakes, when we think of earthquakes back east here we think of a lot of wide-scale destruction and collapse. is that what we're seeing here? >> no. it's important to note most of these quakes are relatively small, most you don't even feel. so you're talking about magnitude 3.0 earthquakes earlier in the -- coming up to. this and that's the threshold to which most people can feel it. prior to 2013, we averaged less than two a year. in 2013, two a week. now we're averaging about two every single day. so the relatively small but people can feel them. in 2011, we did get a 5.6, 5.7 that some scientists have linked to oil and gas activity and that did cause damage. that injured two people damaged a lot of homes and businesses, toppled a tower at a nearby university. so while there's not the sort of widespread destruction you might see in a plate, yo

russell: i grew up in del city, oklahoma. as far as we can ascertain, i'm the only federally elected congressman to ever come from del city. it's a small suburb of oklahoma city. i have an older sister and then an older brother. he is in the middle of the three of us. i had a four-year army scholarship, rotc scholarship, got good marks in high school, and that allowed me to go to college. i went to university and got a degree in public speaking in debate. i never thought i would use it for a living. i just thought if they will give you a degree for talking, sign me up. i was trying to get a commission in the united states army. and it was something i enjoyed. so, it turned out to be a good decision on many levels. i met my wife there. we have been married 30 years this year. embarked on a military career. host: what is the key to being a successful public speaker and what is your approach? rep. russell: i think a lot of times the most effective speakers are those that can relay with stories. we see that through so many exampl

he was born in 1934 in oklahoma.are proud to have this work back in oklahoma where we think it belongs. he was an advocate or people who were disenfranchised, for people who were micro workers -- migrant workers during the just bolt europe -- dust bowl era who found themselves in california literally starving. he saw this vast difference between the house and have-nots and became their serviceman through his music. the woody guthrie center was opened in april of 2013. it started with the purchase of the woody guthrie archives from woody's daughter, nora. the plan was to have this research facility in tulsa. as the concept grew into the idea of opening up the archives to a new generation and teaching people about woody's important part in american history, this museum came to be. we consider it a place to inspire people. we want them to investigate what would he did with his talent and inspire people to use their talents to do something of their own. woody guthrie: ♪ when the comesun come shining i was strolling ♪ >>

a oklahoma state trooper pulled over timothy mcveigh 90 minutes after the i tack. he was recognized assist the bombing suspect his accomplice turned himself in. mcveigh was convicted abbey given the death penalty and and you telled in 2001. nickels was convicted and serving life in prison. in the years after the tragedy oklahoma city banded together to turn the tragedy into something positive. they built this solemn memorial on the site of the former federal building dedicate dedicated five years after the bombing took place. each victim is honored with a symbolic chair including 19 smaller chairs in honor of the children that died. the selfless actions that took after the bombing became knowns oklahoma standard. organizers are asking everyone to recommit to that standard a principle that lives on two decades after terror ripped through this city. and a number of high profile speakers are expected today including the current director of the fbi and the current secretary of the department of homeland security. the keynote will be delivered by former president bill c

, 1941 the uss oklahoma was one of eight u.s.tleships stationed at pearl harbor in hawaii. and we all know what happened there. >> they were coming in from our starboard side. we were watching them. >> torpedoes. you're seeing what he did as at the found theiring its. he remembers how it felt. >> just like one of my aunts used to shake me it does it shakes it. it would move that 29,000 ton ship. i ant wean worried about the oklahoma. i was worried about me so i just started running. want to know the truth. this ship was 90 degrees over and i could see it was going farther. >> goodyear jumped from the ship. within ten minutes the uss oklahoma had rolled over trapping 429 men in her watery tomb. >> i have prayed that most of the kids down there were killed by the torpedoes and didn't suffocate and drown. i think that's the thing that haunts most oklahoma men. >> 429 men or as he said many of them not more than kids died on board that ship only 40 or so have ever been identified. most of the others the other 380 plus men who died ar

he believes that the bombing did not build the character of the people of oklahoma. he said it revealed what was already there. >> "it was astonishing to me that it was a universal culture of sharing." >> reporter: those who lived through the tragedy say this city will never be the same. its people changed forever. but their resilience and commitment have never wavered. and this memorial demonstrates just how far they have come. in oklahoma city, i'm ryan nobles reporting. >> vicki: a day after taking game one in their first-round playoff series at oracle arena. kron four's philippe djegal reports the golden state warriors are in good spirits. but still focused on the big picture. >> phillipe: the road to the championship for the golden state warriors continues here at their practice facility in oakland. the warriors say that they're happy to come away with a victiory against the pelicans in game one. but there are a lot of things they have to clean up defensively and offensively if they wait to come away with a win in game two. >> "we got off to a good couple runs t

the people of oklahoma were terrific. the country was so shocked by this, that there was an enormous pulling together of resources and feeling. i thought the president-- you had some of his remarks-- was terrific in a healing role and making sure that the people of oklahoma city understood that the rest of us were there for the people of oklahoma. >> woodruff: barry grissom back to you, you've seen since them as a u.s. attorney in kansas, that part of the country, the entire country having to deal much more with domestic terrorism since then than anything we knew at the time. how have you seen the responses evolve and change? >> well, the responses can best be defined as this-- roles have dissolved. it's very rare that it's federal, state, and local name tags. it's law enforcement. through these joint terrorism task forces that we have now, we're able to work with law enforcement partners cross-designate folks, and work closer with one another than we ever have in the past. >> woodruff: and what has that meant? how is it

in oklahoma city, ryan nobles reporting. >>> "good morning america" will have more on the oklahoma bombing anniversary after this newscast. >>> next on "action news" sunday morning a wildfire is on the move threatening home homes in california. >>> dash cam video shows police in new jersey pulling a woman alive out of a burning car. >>> police come face-to-face with suspect and ohio -- and how the officer brought it to a peaceful end. >> reporter: in southern states we have a chance of large hail. if you're traveling out of town all the most frequently traveled destinations, no major delays in any of these cities. i'll be back with the afternoon call. he >> good sunday morning action can mean is live at the foot of the -- action cam is live at the foot of the art museum. it's the donor dash, it will bring attention to the need for organ and tissue donation. this is a good day to run. this is the kind of weather runners like. it's a little cool, you don't want to sweat too much. >> reporter: good cause, too, i have the organ donor thing on my license, you don't think about it much, but it's

the oklahoma legislator was moving to get rid of history. it was said: late this week - short of cutting a.p. history, but looking for ways to require new readings in the curriculum to balance critical voices. other states debated the new a.p. standards. schoolboard and educators want emphasis on exceptionalism to balance slavery with the religious struggle to end it. in a statement it was said: an enormous state and influence on textbooks and curricula asked the college boards, which administers a.p. tests, to rewrite the curriculum. about a century ago the writer and historian van white brooks talked about a useable history for america, not just a long list of events and dates, but a way to look at the country that helped to make sense of it. it's another fight about >> there is a different function here. if we work with that question, which is the right one, what is history, form, it's informed citizenry. there are important things that we are doing when teachings history. one of the matters on the table is how to do it. do we do it and h

carl. >> kelly o'donnell tonight in oklahoma city.elly, our thanks to you. >>> when "nightly news" continues, the lingering effects of a disaster in the gulf of mexico. >>> and later they're behind some of the most brazen jewel heists in history. did the so-called pink panthers strike again? >>> they were images that helped define one of the worst environmental disasters in u.s. history. pelicans, turtles and other wildlife covered in sludge during the bp oil disaster. tomorrow marks the fifth anniversary of the spill and while the gulf is on the rebound, there are still questions about the impact on animals who call it home. more now from our chief environmental affairs correspondent, anne thompson, who joins us from venice harbor in louisiana. anne, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, carl. commercial and recreational fishing are slowly coming back but five years after the spill, these waters still hold secrets scientists are trying to unlock. bottlenose dolphins, the graceful denizens of the gulf and one of the enduring myster

. >> there are a lot of stereotypes from oklahoma coming from powerful images. like "the grapes of wrath" that was the one my father would not allow me to read as long as it wasn't "the grapes of wrath" because he felt it defined oklahoma. but we're not a dust bowl now forever then to mesmerize black-and-white images so of course, they have lingered in in a totally opposite and with the exclamation point but it is a true either. that is why it is the extra challenge because the oklahoma people from stereotypes. it and it is the struggle but because we tell our story to show what is your. but there are so many other things as well. but to make them more aware of their literary heritage oklahoma is way down at the bottom when it comes to confidence of academic skills the yet we have a rich literary skills to make us more aware of that. so that is my goal but we are little bit behind

. >>> that deadly shooting in oklahoma where a reserve deputy shot and killed a man after pulling his gun instead of his taser. one of the shooting victim's loved ones is speaking for the first time and gabe gutierrez spoke to her exclus >> reporter: in tulsa, pressure is mounting. >> i mean look around us. people are here and they want answers. >> reporter: after the april 2nd shooting death of eric harris by reserve deputy captured on a body . >> oh i shot him, i'm sorry. >> see how he was treated. >> reporte kathy fraley is the mother of harris' 16-year-old son aidan. this is the first time she's spoken publicly since the man she calls her soul mate was killed. >> hard not to love him. i know he made some poor decisions but, you know when you love someone you don't give up on them just because they make some poor choices. >> he shot me man. oh my god. >> you didn't do [ bleep ]. you didn't do [ bleep ]. you are hear me. >> i'm losing my breath. >> reporter: they want more scrutiny of the other deputies would can be heard yelling at harris. the sheriff's office has said the deputies

oklahoma has 4,000 active reserve deputies many volunteer or unpaid. oklahoma reserve deputies are required to complete 240 hours of basic training. tulsa county says its reservists get 320 hours of training. ed >>> audio surfaced recording the moment after a white police officer shot and killed a mon in norte charleston. the officer can be heard reporting the walter scott shooting to a fellow policeman. >>> that recording is thought to be from officer slater's lapel microphone. florida senator marco rubio has made it official running for president in the 2016 election. he announced his candidacy joining ted cruz and rand paul and former scritry of state hillary clinton. we have more on what marco rubio says he'll bring to the race. >> reporter: in front of thousands of supporters in miami, marco rubio made it official. >> tonight grounded by the lesson of our history, but inspired by the promise of our future i announce my candidacy for president of the united states. >> reporter: at 43 years old marco rubio is the youngest candidate in the 2016 presi

but there in oklahoma and in oklahoma city, how did the local community change after the bombing?oma has suffered oil busts and i think everyone had their chin on their chest. we had just had some tough economic news and when we saw how well people handled this, the professionalism, the police department, the fire department, the national guard, as a matter of fact when the fema teams came, james leawood who was president clinton's very capable fema director, told the fire chief he was in charge here and the fema people would follow him. that rarely, rarely, rarely, if ever, happens. the feds always thinking i'm a former fbi or u.s. attorney and the like and think we will control the scene. they didn't to that here because it was so handling so competently. 302 buildings damaged or destroyed here and no active looting and money was raised to put every child through college who lost one or both parents. 170 children who lost one parent. the good news that came from this was very positive spiritually morally, it was an uplift to the community. now we have the oklahoma city thunder.

reporter: the marker is for the fallen, but for many of the crew of the oklahoma, their identities are known. several were found buried together, as many as 22 share the same gravesite. officials have a new policy to identify the remains of the unknown, calling for researching family history, obtaining dental and medical records, with the help of dna technology. the aegon says the military will not stop with the oklahoma -- the pentagon says the military will not stop with the oklahoma. >> we will also look at other unknown graves and determine if they are eligible. kimberly: service members who are identified will be returned to their family for burial with full military honors. an 11-year-old in prince george's county has something to be proud of tonight after bringing a happy ending to a story everyone has been talking about. emanuel marshall donated a wheelchair to a four-year-old after somebody stole the four-year-old's wheelchair from his langley park apartment conflux. marshall and his mother saw the story and call the police, who made the delivery. >> i think it was a bad perso