this happened first with floyd paterson. floyd paterson, a lovely man. but you know, like so much of the country, resistant to get with the change in ali's life and identity. he, you know, he refused to call him muhammad ali. and ali in the ring kept screaming what's my name. >> rose: every round would say what's my name? >> it was brutal. he carried him. he kept the fight going the more to punish him worse. >> rose: did you ever call him on that and say why did. >> yeah. and he felt that, and i understood, that floyd was caught up, you know, in the anti-muslim camp and he was representing christianities and america. he wasn't going to allow this muslim, this black muslim, whatever that meant at the time, to represent america. people didn't really want floyd to fight him because they knew floyd was going to get beaten. and it was going to push. >> think about what the atmosphere was. when many americans preferred sonny liston, a criminal, all right, a thug, they preferred sonny liston be the heavyweight champion to this brash young fellow. and that was e

. >> number one book, well, james paterson for me. >> yes. >> anything james paterson. >> leaders are what we say. >> we're on tv. >> not much of a leader. >> alex holley, hey mike i'm here with -- >> always eating. >> right here on frankford avenue at kare in street. >> you have all kind of goodies here. >> yes, all store made items, bakery items we made right from scratch in the bakery department. >> that pepperoni bread looks amazing mar nature a sauce we make in the deli, put them together a great combination. >> do you want me to try this. >> yes. >> it is huge. >> yes. >> right here. >> that is for us. >> birthdays, anniversary, we have fathers day look at that cake with the bow tie and these are our store made doughnuts. >> we could just keep naming these over and over. you have to have hoagies. >> store made hoagies. >> this is made fresh every day. >> absolutely from the deli department. >> yes. >> i will pig out then, mike, where are you now. there is a lot of food. >> you are right here. >> hey. >> hi, how are you. >> what is the name of your store. >> we're right here on 7

. >>> and now east side high school in paterson, new jersey, looking how rapper feddy whop was allowed to record the video with a pole dancer inside of a classroom. the rapper says he dropped out of the same high school and wants to show the students success. >>> still it come on "action news" the massive airbag recall has expanded again today. >>> and a local doctor has found a way to give back in his golden years. how he is bringing medical care to places that really need it. we'll be right back. >>> the next phase of the developingive airbag recall has been announced today. several auto maker are adding 4.5 million vehicles to the list. ford bmw and volkswagon are included in the expansion. they are calling to replace takata airbag inflaters that could explode in a crash. >>> many senior citizens are worried their lives will no longer have purpose. but today tamala edwards talks about a doctor using his skills to give back in his golden years. >> dr.olf is a dr. i saw a lot of poverty up close and a lot of disease that we don't typically see in the united states. i came to a realiza

from public media's "inside energy," leigh paterson reports from gillette, wyoming on how the state'sergy booms and busts are affecting almost everyone. >> reporter: gail japp's horses have helped her through hard times, like when she was getting divorced. >> when you've had a bad day you just come out and they just make life worth going on. >> reporter: especially this one, named money. >> he's very trusting and he's very loving. >> reporter: recently, things have been tough again. japp was one of the nearly 500 wyoming coal miners laid off recently. to pay her mortgage, she will have to sell a lot of her things, including her beloved horses. >> i have no choice. i've got to downsize. and there's a lot of stuff i'm going to have to sell. >> reporter: japp worked for peabody energy for over a decade, mostly driving large haul trucks. after cutting jobs, including hers, in march, the coal giant declared bankruptcy in april. >> those were so fun. them things were just awesome >> reporter: she misses it, and is worried about getting a new job. >> yeah, i can't leave gillette. which is re

nbc's steve paterson an lax. really appreciate it, steve. want to bring in shawn henry, former fbi assistant director. thank you for joining me. >> thanks, kristin. >> we will start with the holiday weekend. one of the busiest travel weekend of the year. there are concerns about isis calling for more attacks here on our soil. how would you assess the threat level this weekend heading into this holiday? >> isis has called at the end of ramadan for this to be a time for them to launch attacks. it core late with the fourth of july weekend where we see a lot of travellers. i think this is a 24/7, 365 day a year issue while people will be alert because they are out traveling. this weekend, is really the efforts will be taken by law enforcement. we need to carry them forward. i think we see a change going forward. they will continue to look at soft targets. they want to strike here in the united states. what they did in turkey and brussels and paris they would like to do here. fortunately we have been able to identify many of the groups. despite t

new this morning investigators are looking for the cause of a fire in paterson, new jersey this broke out around 11:00 at a home on east 26th vote near 14th avenue. officials say nobody was living there. no injuries were reported. >>> an investigation is also under way this morning in rockland county after a con ed su this happened last night in hillburn. smoke bill lowed into the air and could be seen for miles because of the risks of fighting the fire, hillburn officials decided to let it burn out itself. no injuries or power out ages have been reported. >>> the death toll from flooding in west virginia climbs to at least 23. this incredible scene was captured on cell phone video. a house consumed by flames floating down a swollen river near the town of white sulfer springs, up to 10 inches of hours destroying more than 100 homes. the national weather service is calling it a once in a thousand years event. two young boys are among the dead. a state emergency has been declared in 44 counties. >>> the u.s. government has released a new report on the lead levels of children in flint, m

in 1913, there was a paterson labor strike in paterson, new jersey. when of the few instances they got together for a political purpose and what did they do? they hired a halt, it is still there. popular, the 1913 ball, they started having them all the time and the drag ball at webster hall were infamous. sometimes they had two of them a week. i think it was only the depression that stop them. you think, we are so clever today. we are transsexuals, whatever we had today. but no. they had it all. and they let it all hang out until the 1930's closed it down. and you know the story, the village becomes popular. developers come in. they got these places and turn them into middle-class places for people from uptown. , theis like bushwick today same thing. but he 1920's, the village has become bourgeois. seemays of the bohemians to be over. you have number 1 5th avenue on the left, one of the great article buildings of the city. eleanor roosevelt, i think that was the building she lived in. that the a sign village has become gentrified. you still have the w

i talked to dennis paterson about it and he doesn't thinkç he's seen drafts back to back as good aso in the last year, which was obviously a bumper draft. is this year as good as last year? no. is it the average draft? we don't believe. >>> on the links, mickelson and crawford missed the cut. crawford finished at 12 over. the cut was at 9, 6 over. still a thrilling week for him. >> from day one, i had an awesome time all week. being here, practice rounds were a lot of fun. even thursday didn't bother me too bad, the weather. yeah, just really, really special. >> still a pretty cool experience. >>> the union was 3-2 this afternoon. i'm amy fadool at the comcast sports desk. denise, down to you. >>> people got down in the dirt to compete for cash prices and bragging rights. the borgata held its first ever bone frog challenge obstacle race today. the competitors tackled a course inspired by u.s. navy s.e.a.l. training. the bone frog challenge is owned and operated by the seals. some of the entry fees will go to support the navy s.e.a.l. foundation. great weather for that. looks like a

. >> ♪ >> that is paterson, new jersey native fetty wap in his new video for his song wake up.t was filmed in his former school east side high school, and the video includes drug referencing, pole dancer and school leaders are investigating how this was ever allowed some officials think it is inappropriate but some students just don't have a problem with it. >> content, the lewdness, galore case of drugs. it is not like the kids were there to interact with the singer or whatever. >> they can't be influenced by fetty wap or any other video that has drugs in it. >> principal has been placed on leave. spokesperson says that the district does not endorse the content of this video. >>> well, coming up taylor swift may have some new material for her next song. >> we will tell but the sour note in t swift's love life. >>> little boy with dreams of we coming a police officer turns 911 to turn in his own dad. crime he said his dad committed behind the wheel and important lessons he has learn, pat. >>> phillies are in the middle of a franchise rebuild so young players are getting time ac

. >>> officials say no one was living at this home that caught on fire overnight in paterson, new jersey. >>> police believe this is the person who slashed a 55-year- old man in the neck it happened early yesterday at canal street and west broadway. hospital. we are told he will recover. >>> a cbs 2 exclusive. an elderly woman robbed at gunpoint inside of her brooklyn home is sharing her terrifying story. three people, one with a gun, pushed their way into her apartment after she returned from walking the family dog. >> they push -- pushed me and said don't move, don't move. they said where is the money? it could have been their mother or grandmother or sister. why would you do something like that? >> the family said the men made off with the new flat screen tv, video game console and $300 no arrests have been made. >>> the search is also on for two robbers who broke into a brooklyn apartment and roughed up another victim. surveillance videos of the suspects just released. palmetto avenue. the police say they threatened the man with a screwdriver after punching him in the face and made o

. >> paterson. >> very nice. thanks for playing. appreciate it. thanks so much. play more later. and then i'm also here at a museum. >> we're from the penn museum at the university of pennsylvania campus. >> what do we have here, what is this. >> we teach kid all about mummies and how anxious egyptians made mummies. >> is that a mummy arm there. >> yes. >> we show people how they remove the brains. we should try it yourself. >> scrambled yellow brains. >> and let it drip out the nose. >> also, come check that out definitely for the kid. >> it is almost time to announce mazda finalist for this week. we will do that when we come right back. you scratch my back, i'll scratch yours. you know what it means. so does pat toomey. toomey got rich working on wall street. then he got elected and kept working, for wall street. voting to let banks continue their risky practices. and supporting huge tax breaks for millionaires, but higher taxes on working families. no wonder he's gotten millions from wall street. pat toomey. right for wall street. wrong for pennsylvania. senat

in south philadelphia, this huge tree crashed on top of a cab at broad and paterson. only "action news" was there as they climbed out of the vehicle, she was waiting for customers when they came in. all of a sudden boom, the car actually, part of it lifted off the ground because of the weight of the tree. i didn't know what happened, i was scared. >> you see the driver escaped without so much as a scratch and his car believe it or not, not badly damaged either. >> scary stuff. melissa magee is here to tell us if we are out of the woods. the worst is moving off the roads and showing us the picture, here is sky 6 hd live, the center city skyline and the clouds breaking apart and the bright blue breaking out. 65 in philadelphia, the dew point is 42 and winds from the northwest at 24 miles per hour and not much of a heat index. camden, new jersey, strong winds across the region and 69 miles per hour winds when the thunderstorms were moving through. harvey cedars a gust of 66 and brigantine, new jersey, 64 and brookhaven, winds as strong as 58 miles per hour. now we did ha

this happened at the garnet paterson campus in northwest.s hurt and there's no structural damage to that building. >>> breaking news overnight in texas, i'm tracking the threat for more flooding water in texas. the hvy >>> and on the streets in arlington where a man tries to pick up children. police want you to know about it. >>> and new information on why teen drivers get into accidents and the best way to keep them focused on the road. >>> plus, the happy ending for a little boy whose birthday party was ruined by someone who stole all his presents. "news4 today" at 6:00 is next. stronger is rebuilding a newborn's heart... and restoring a father's faith. stronger is being a typical kid... despite a rare disorder. stronger is finding it earlier... and coming home sooner. stronger is seeking answers... and not giving up, until you find them. because we don't just want your kids to grow up, we want them to grow up stronger.