we see it below, the gas tube, to work a piston, the piston would then push the gears and springs into the receiver to operate the gun practices the adjusting knob on the front. if you adjust the flow of the gas, based on the barometric pressure and air temperature, which would impact how the gun operated. these guns were cited, so they could crisscross, crossfire. one gun working in pairs with other guns, that's what made the machine-gun so deadly in world war i. they also tried to keep them as camouflaged and is hidden as much as possible from the germans. because, they were big targets for artillery and mortar fire. with the advent of the airplane, and observation balloons, overhead cover and camouflage became more imported. especially during daylight hours. you might see machine guns -- a splinters -- splinter proof shelter like this in the daytime, to protect them from artillery, mortar fire, also from aerial observation. if there is an alarm or alert, they could quickly move up to the front line and set up and be operational within minutes. >>

what's so extraordinary is how she reached out to people, you among them when you were a detroit piston the story of how your friendship began. >> her family reached out to me the first day that i got here. i had just turned 20 years old. i was just leaving my teenage years coming to detroit and her family reached out to me and they embraced me, brought me into their family. aretha franklin was great with advice and wisdom and i've known her since 198. throughout my life she's been there with a personal text, personal phone call and the many dinners that we shared, the many conversations that we shared, just how to navigate and i remember some of our last conversations she kept telling me you travel so much, you have to get out of the hotel room. you have to start seeing life, you have to start enjoying these places. fine time, ask for an extra day so i'm going to start doing that. >> and that was a beautiful relationship. you weren't just there, you were really there. when i ran into you in florida you told me they were about to go to europe with aretha franklin and clive davis. >> cli

the pistons would push through the gears to operate the gun. this is an adjusting knob on the front that you can adjust the flow of the gas based on the barometric pressure and the air temperature. these guns were sided so they could cross fire. one gun working in pairs with other guns makes it so deadly during world war i. they try to keep them as camouflaged as possible from the germans because they are big targets. with the advent of the airplane and observation balloons and camouflage became more important so you might see machine gun teams in a splinter proof shelter to protect them from mortar fire and observation. if there is an alarm they can move up to the front line and set up. at nighttime they would go set the guns up and be ready to operate at night. they used wire opticals at front. they were designed to channel the germans into the cross fire. they cut them down from both sides. that is what really made the machine gun more efficient. sweeping back and forth is not spreading bullets. in cross fire you can keep it narrow and keep

bill is going to begin with your favorite quote the pistons and. it is in your bosom good message. for. the red sox going to see. there is. no baby. this will go the way that if. it's time for this what if it is a must win for good in the eyes. good grief feel. good that's all that's from outside you gross you think you still are strong and weak from the side of the right in your joints or you could be yours and you can try to do is the you could be good enough to be penetrated because. i think we were all trying to get it done aren't cool i should go was doing my much shit in the room and that's a lot of knowledge of the physical. how. cool. you know. how out here you. are stars the big guys. fight. hard to do that's my group which is uncle's type not you. but. with this other was the pushchairs to do gooders. well you. know do you do a book out of the book you say centuries. fortunately . in one field. or not is to be somewhere you have to and. so you really need to get on if you think you can do that and go house to house on the side and i can do a gene. and i think my. post thi

i spoke with former detroit pistons nba star, isaiah thomas. many wonder, huh? how did they become friends? he told a beautiful story of how aretha franklin reached out to him. he was in his early 20s. she took him and invited him over to dinner. everyone talks about how she loved to cook and how she really invited him into her world. they became wonderful, great friends. he would actually escort her to the kennedy honors in washington years ago. he would travel abroad with her. when i talked with him in florida, he was about to embark on a european trip with aretha franklin and clyde davis. that's how tight they became. then you heard from former president, bill clinton, who said, as you put it, i was a groupie. so much so that by the time he became elected as president, he reached out to her. she was part of his inauguration. over 30 years, aretha was part of three presidential inaugurations and invited back again, many times over to the white house. it was beautiful how mr. clinton talked about how he described what embodied here. she lived with courage, not

president to jesse jackson there, smoky robinson, stevie wonder will be eulogizing, former nba detroit pistonith last hour, isaiah thomas. he said his heart is full. he is hoping he can get through it. as will shirley caesar who will perform. she performed with aretha franklin whether they were teenagers in detroit and grew up together singing, even both invited to the obama white house and performing there. she, too, says her heart is very heavy today. we are feeling that from so many people who know her, love her. at the same time, this is a time of celebration for so much that she gifted to everybody. you see right there, isaiah thomas in the shot. so much she gifted to the word through her music, through her philanthropy. let's talk about so many ways in this she has touched lives. back with me makayla angela davis, joe madison and david ritz. joe, before the break and before, of course, we are celebrating the lives of two huge american titans today. in washington, john mccain and here in detroit, aretha fra franklin. pick up from when you were talking about how she also symbolized a leve

and a man created a cylinder, an enormous thing, and the piston watt had made fit inside it perfectlyt. all of a sudden, at the beginning you had a steam engine which is incredibly efficient. up to that point they sort of chuffed but lost power. once made precisely, james watt then ordered 500 more of these. with 500 hugely powerful steam engines being released into the english market in the 1770s, that powered factories. it led to cities, edinborough, london, being created. it led to all sorts of social consequences. it truly began the industrial revolution. precision was key because it made things work properly. >> what strikes me about the book is that we are now at an age where precision of the kind you need can actually not be made by human beings, it can only be made by robots. >> i tell the story of a plane flown by qantas with four rolls royce trent engines, hugely powerful engines. one failed on the inboard engine, it failed because of a tiny tube, the thickness of a drinking straw, was mis-machined by a hundredth of a millimeter by a human being in a factory in northern engl

he's playing with the pistons now. >> jimmy: he's challenging you online to a roast battle. >> he hitake griffin, i looked up who he was. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] and it turns out he's a basketball player. >> jimmy: uh-huh. >> who's a redhead. >> jimmy: uh-huh. >> and dated kendall jenner. so i'm like, i think there's a lot of material here. [ laughter ] so i've never roasted a redheaded stepchild before. and i think it's going to be a really -- it will be my first-ever time coming off the judge's table and i'm going to do my first roast. >> jimmy: you're going to destroy -- i mean, honestly, he would have a better -- he's a funny guy, blake griffin, but you'd have a better chance i think playing basketball against him than he's going to have in this situation. >> he challenged me to one round of roast battle, which i accepted, because basketball fans know blake griffin never gets out of the first round. [ audience moaning ] >> jimmy: that's going to be fun. >> yeah. >> jimmy: so we got the roast of sunday night. >> then right after that we're premiering. >> jimmy: right a

like steve cur with the warriors, former coach of the pist pist pistons. they all went in on donald trump and frankly used language and critiques for more biting than what lebron said. yet donald trump says nothing about white coaches who criticize him why because they doesn't pay the same cachet as attacking black folks. whether trump administration white nba or whether it's people like lebron in the nba. so i think we have to recognize there's a very deliberate pattern and also notice the kind of critique. he criticizes a lot of people because what better to do at 4:30 in the morning when your president of the united states than rage tweet, but what he does is he specifically attacks black people's intelligence, whether it's don lemon, whether it's lebron, whether it's maxine waters. likes to use low iq slur. for white folks he uses other types of attacks. i'm not saying he never attacks white folks. he's very specific about the kinds of attacks that he uses on black people and that's not a coincidence. >> i just to that very point, dan rather made a sim

isaiah thomas, detroit pistons fame. shirley caesar. faith hill is here.that has been planned for months by her family when they heard that she was not doing well. she did not, as we have reported in the past, aretha franklin did not leave a will nor instructions as to how she wanted this service to go. the group of people that have been surrounding her all of her life are calling themselves aretha's angels who have planned this service. it is expected to be over five hours long. many people taking not really bets but saying it will go much longer. you have 19 performers who will be on that stage filling this large temple with the beautiful sounds of their voice. we were in there, fox was allowed to be in there for the sound check yesterday and got to hear the sound check of faith hill. it was so incredible and so moving. so much more to come here today. the reverend jesse jackson is here and he will be speaking. and, of course, this is a ceremony fit for a queen. the queen of soul. outside here we showed you the pictures earlier the pink cadillacs, over 1

. $100 gift cards were offered in exchange for pistons and $200 for assault riffles. 51 -- rifles. 52ecial a work of art. >> it is making tools of violence, potentially violent tools into transforming it into something that is peaceful and works of art. and this is all because of the foundation. >> the foundation is named at a 22-year-old shot to death in vallejo back in 2014. a number of others have held gun buy backs in his name. >>> happening now, it is happening in oakland. the racers took off at 7:00 this morning. they're going to swim, bike, rub run and finish. and all of those festivities wrap up at 1:00 p.m. ktvu's allie rasmus will be out at that triathlon at 2:00. >>> and the niners and texans, preseason gym two. they lost, not a big deal. what kl counted was -- what really counted was jimmy garoppolo. he had a pick, but for the most part he looked terrific hiver here hitting last year -- here hitting last year's favorite target. two yards out. the niners lost 16-13. they visit the colts next saturday in indy for preseason game three. >>> and jon gruden is in l.a. taking on