talked to two contractors about removal of all four monuments, pugh expressed frustration to that thess wasn't further along, more than a year ago, the previous mayor's commission recommended removing two of the four confederate era monuments. now, pugh and councilman brandon scott want to take down all four and place them in maryland's confederate cemeteries. it's a move that could cost the city roughly $2 million. >>> coming up. you may have heard the warnings in mexico about alcohol making tourists sick >> authoriti than two dozen popular resorts in search for a legal liquor, what they found up next >>> new study ranks nfl team fan bases and the redskins came up number one on the list but not for loyalty. we'll fill you in on that as we get ready for the nfl season, which is less than a month away. >>> we're less than week away now from the total solar eclipse, 2:42 here, what is a total solar eclipse when the moon positions itself between earth and sun and you can see that sun, blocked out by the moon. we won't get the total eclipse but so far so good in terms of the weather forec

baltimore mayor catherine pugh is promising to remove two additional confederate statues. it's unclear when they will come down. we have a crew on the way to baltimore, and will have a live update at the top of the hour. dense fog advisory for the entire area through 9am - foggy early, then sunny, hot & humid - pm storms thursday and friday - seasonable august warmth through early next week - still expecting fair skies for the eclipse - 5 days away today: fog early. becoming mostly sunny. hot and humid. highs: 87-90 winds: nw to s 5 mph tonight: mainly clear to partly cloudy. patchy thursday: partly sunny. scattered pm thunderstorms. highs: 85-88 winds: s 5 mph winds: s 5 mph back to our big fallout after the violence in charlottesville. later this morning, a memorial service will be held for heather hyer, the woman killed in a car attack at the "unite the right" rally. the event will be held at the paramount theater in charlottesville. heyer's family is asking that attendees wear purple, heather's favorite color, in honor of her memory. you can watch the memorial for heat

joining us now, baltimore mayor catherine pugh. mayor, thank you very much for joining us tonight.ciate it. when did you decide to do this? >> well, let me just say the conversations actually began in june when i met with mayor landrieu who in that previous month had removed four confederate statues from new orleans and had placed them in confederate cemeteries. and so we knew that we needed to do something, and as he has said to me, you need to do something quietly and as quickly as you can. and i say to folks that, you know, if you want to hear great speeches about why these monuments should be removed, then you can listen to his speech. for me, i just felt it was time for action because after charlottesville, we did not want to see that same kind of activity occurring in our city when we had four confederate monuments in our city. and so i had conversations with local contractors, white and turner, one of those who came to my aid quickly. we had conversations. i said to him i thought it's best we do this in late hours of night so that it would avoid any confrontation, traffic pr

a recent pugh survey say six in ten women pay more attention to politics since donald trump won the electiont is energizing to be in a space where so many people care so passionately about politics that they would wait for a long time to get into a panel about politics. >> i believe in limited government. that's my main things. in some ways that's libertarian. >> reporter: tommi layeren versus chelsea handler. >> what about human decency? >> reporter: as the heavyweight title fight of pliticon. a little earlier we were backstage as the main attraction. >> we've never, ever met. doesn't hold back. >> i'm getting sick and tired of the mainstream media. your husband was a drug dealer. it protects your right to be a whiny attention-seeking crybaby. finally we have a commander in chief who understands and isn't willing to put feelings and political correctness over military readiness and the mission. >> there are people that are listening to that and interpret the wrong way. >> reporter: let's hear a little more from chelsea and tommi. >> luckily, i am it 24 and i am still on my parents'. >> repo

florence pugh is brilliant in this adaptation of the story.ir burt —— alistair burt. she refuses to be vilified by society. fantastic sound design, really powerful. that sounds like something only a film critic would say but believe me, it's the film you watch with your ears and it's a fine piece of work. good stuff. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/mark kermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. hello. a fairly quiet weekend of whether at home but across the other side of the atlantic, a leg where the story is developing. this has developed into hurricane harvey, a major hurricane heading towards texas. it will bring strong winds, a storm surge with big seas to the coast. of greatest concern is the rainfall, sunspots could see 35 inches, around 900 millimetres of rain. that brings the risk of catastrophic flooding. there was some rain in places at home today, that was the

florence pugh is brilliant in this adaptation of the story. the script is by alice birch. a woman who refuses to confirm, refuses to be down—trodden, is vilified by society as a result of it. really powerful. fantastic sound design. that sounds like something only a film critic would say but believe me, it's the film you watch with your ears and it's a fine piece of work. good stuff. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. hallow, the weather is set fair for others or part to the weekend. there's been some club of april when the sun has made an appearance as it did do the most was at some stage of the day of felt pleasantly warm, i have the odd shower today across northern parts of the uk. they are fading and we're left overnight with dry many clear weather. temperature is perhaps a bit lower than last night around io—isdc. some spots in the countryside dipping t

florence pugh is brilliant in this adaptation of the story. the script is by alice birch. a woman who refuses to confirm, refuses to be down—trodden, is vilified by society as a result of it. really powerful. fantastic sound design. that sounds like something only a film critic would say but believe me, it's the film you watch with your ears and it's a fine piece of work. good stuff. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. hello. the uk weekend weather coming up hello. the uk weekend weather coming up in hello. the uk weekend weather coming upina hello. the uk weekend weather coming up in a moment, but first of all, what a night in texas. dealing with a major hurricane that once it comes m, a major hurricane that once it comes in, is going to hang around for several days. i want to show you the rainfall from that. bright colours showing the intensity of that rain

florence pugh is brilliant in this adaptation of the story. the script is by alice birch.an who refuses to confirm, refuses to be down—trodden, is vilified by society as a result of it. really powerful. fantastic sound design. that sounds like something only a film critic would say but believe me, it's the film you watch with your ears and it's a fine piece of work. good stuff. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. hard to believe it's september on friday. the final week of august. this is what we are expecting. a warm start for some, turning cooler, not cold. the threat of rain for some. wednesday, high pressure coming in, settling things down. at last into next weekend, the first of september. a lot of cloud tonight in the west of the uk, scotland seeing some outbreaks of rain. not too much, west to east with a strengthening wind. clear skies in wales. clear

florence pugh is brilliant in this adaptation of the story. the script is by alice birch. a woman who refuses to confirm, refuses to be down—trodden, is vilified by society as a result of it. really powerful. fantastic sound design. that sounds like something only a film critic would say but believe me, it's the film you watch with your ears and it's a fine piece of work. good stuff. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. good evening. a relatively quiet weekend of whether to come here at home. but across the other side of the atlantic, a major weather story is starting to develop. hurricane harvey is now a category three hurricane, bearing down on the coastline of texas. you can see this storm does look like a hurricane on the satellite picture. it will bring some strong winds. it could bring a storm surge which will inundate coastal areas with flooding. the ra

florence pugh is brilliant in this adaptation of the story. the script is by alice birch.confirm, refuses to be down—trodden, is vilified by society as a result of it. really powerful. fantastic sound design. that sounds like something only a film critic would say but believe me, it's the film you watch with your ears and it's a fine piece of work. good stuff. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. halloo. it has been a fine sunday across much of the british isles. plenty of sunshine hello. it has been a fine sunday across much of the british isles. plenty of this is a picture from cornwall. we have seen some cloud running into parts of northern the rest of england and wales, plenty of very warm sunshine. it isa wales, plenty of very warm sunshine. it is a fine evening out there, we will see overnight, some outbreaks of trains running from west and east, the bre

. >> joining me now is catherine pugh.ugh, you did it in the stillness of the night as the kids in baltimore say with the quickness. what would you advise other mayors to do and how they should operate both in the interest of public safety and in the interest of so many of us that see these as symbols of fate and bigotry? >> well, you know, i think that what we did was for baltimore city and i think that everybody has to make their own decisions, but for me it was about removing them quietly and as quickly as possible. i had a great meeting with the president now of the u.s. conference of mayors, mayor landrew who removed four statues in may and talked about what he had gone through and we had a process that had been set in place in 2015 through a commission task force that studied the issue, made some recommendations but it was will the the climate i thought that was occurring in this country, the hate that we do not need to exacerbate in this nation and that we ought to be focusing on how we unite our cities, how we unit

mayor catherine pugh is overseeing the operation, but so far she hasn't made any remarks. our suzanne kennedy is heading to baltimore right now. she'll have more in a live report at 5:30. and also breaking now in alabama... a confederate monument - covered up. overnight - officials in birmingham, boxing up the statue with plywood, amid chants from protesters. the city says this is temporary as it explores legal options for the statue's removal. . news conference unlike any other in history. 24 hours after condemning neo nazis, white supremacisits and the k-k-k - president trump, now defending some of those protesters who descended on charlottesville this weekend. the new comments, drawing fast and fierce responders from lawmakers.. and even stunning white house officials. we want to hear your reaction this morning - go to wjla.com slash vote-now -- and watch live results on your screen. let's go now to our sam sweeney live in xxx getting the pulse of the people. sot #2 trt=:17 oc= we're getting there happening today - a em honor of the died in saturday's violence. heather

now american muslims are slightly different in some respects as a -- pugh study that came out showed. that there's a problem. nobody is talking about it. should be the gay people should be lining up outside gun stores to protect themselves. that's just logic and this is why by the way, also so many gay people support trump because they don't care that the white house didn't issue a -- gushing gay pride proclamation like oh, we're so happy quality and diversity blah, blah, blah because for gays with iq above 80 they associate that with a sort of -- pointless pangeddering of the democrats. the democrat who is done blacks and to gays welcomedded in islam. gay people want to e e sou is action not words. and for donald trump to say i'm thinking about muslim ban i was at home like, applauding at the cccctelevision you know. [laughter] somebody is doing something. now that's unpopular position and not everybody will hold it but largely king the and i think i've done more for the image of gays -- you know, in places like midwest and the south than 30 years of, you know, pandering democrats an

stood t and closer to these parts, the mayor wants to take down confederate statues and catherine pughtalking to contractors about taking down four monuments, one monument of city council said they got to go. more than a year ago a commission examined the issue of removing the statues said it would be costly about to million to do that. we're going to talk a little bit more about it and the history when you take down the confederate statue as little bit later on in the show. let's talk about other problems that had been consuming the administration, north korea, the reggie said kim john has been briefed on its military branch. state media said kim jong-un planned to watch the foolish and stupid conduct of the yankees a little more before deciding to issue the missile tests which you know he won't. the chair many traveled to the korean peninsula and dun ford t making stops in japan and china >> do we have the capability to defend? the answer is yes, we do. in the meantime. the problem is directly in support of those diplomatic and economic measure >> china still a key player when it com

mayor pugh, first of all, as we continue to watch the candlelight vigil in charlottesville, i know youatred that exists in this nation. and when i think about having to remove the statues, you know, we removed them because it was necessary, but because the violence that's occurring in this country and the discussions over why they should exist and why they shouldn't are discussions that we should not really be having and certainly should not include the lost ls life. and so i had conversations with mayor landrieu of new orleans back in june at the u.s. conference of mayors. and i said to people, if you have not heard a speech more riveting that gives us real reasons to look at why we should remove those statues. and i felt that we didn't need to hear anymore speeches. that it was time for action. and so, i had laid out a plan before the city council on monday, because i had discussions with contractors and so forth to help me to remove these statues from the eyesight of the people of baltimore city, because we, too, are a city in need of much healing, going through a consent decree at

this involves the sexual abuse supreme pugh best and adolescent boys and has been illegal in afghanistan since the start of this year. yeah i. see. that. they don't. believe. it was this is. the city. that was there. and that's their. face not the first time such allegations of afghan soldiers were raping young boys have surfaced back in two thousand and fourteen human rights groups claimed abusers were often paying bribes to hide their crimes but in two thousand and fifteen reports surfaced that american military personnel were being told to look the other way in order to maintain good relations with afghan units allegations of child sexual abuse by afghan military or police personnel would be a matter of domestic afghan criminal law there would be no express requirements that u.s. military personnel in afghanistan reported one possible explanation is the leahy law process through its u.s. government that's foreign security forces as well as defense training programs to ensure recipients have not committed human rights abuses in other words break human rights laws and there's no more mo

the baltimore sun reporting that mayor catherine pugh talked to two contractors about removal of allnuments. she expressed frustration that the process for removing the statues wasn't further along already. more than a year ago, the previous mayor's commission recommended removing two of the four confederate era monuments, it's a move that could cost the city roughly $2 million >> as many pause to remember the dead after this weekend's violence, current and former students are shedding light on the culture of charlottesville, more just ahead . >>> we had a very swift response to this and we saw hundreds of people to this spot yesterday. mourning the victims and denouncing the violence that had taken place. there's going to be a lot of conversation moving forward. i think that people are ready to start the recovery process. figuring out what do we do next >> he's a newspaper editor from the university of virginia paper describing the aftermath of the violent weekend. >> the unrest in charlottesville obviously is dominating national headlines but for many, the city has deep rooted raci

baltimore mayor catherine pugh is promising to remove two additional confederate statues.me down. we have a crew on the way to baltimore, and will have a live update at the top of the hour. dense fog advisory for the entire area through 9am - foggy early, then sunny, hot & humid - pm storms thursday and friday - seasonable august warmth through early next week - still expecting fair skies for the eclipse - 5 days away today: fog early. becoming mostly sunny. hot and humid. highs: 87-90 winds: nw to s 5 mph tonight: mainly clear to partly cloudy. patchy

the police but before the community and for the victims of our own crown baltimore mayor catherine pugh weighed in saying quote over six hundred shootings in less than a year in our city and something has to give in so we are trying to protect the citizens of our city and make sure that we curb the violence and our city baltimore city police commissioner kevin davis has created district action teams comprising of officers and supervisors these teams have been deployed to different districts in the city in order to cut down on the violence and an organization called cease fire three sixty five is aiming to ensure that violence ceases to exist in the city all year round and washington nationally banks are t.v. . report published by the united nations office of counterterrorism down economics are a driving force for western youth who join terrorist groups in syria the report found a typical fighter is quote most likely to be male young disadvantaged economically educationally and in terms of labor market and went on to say foreign fighters are typically marginalized both socially and polit

florence pugh is brilliant in this adaptation of the story. the script is by alice birch.fied by society as a result of it. really powerful. fantastic sound design. that sounds like something only a film critic would say but believe me, it's the film you watch with your ears and it's a fine piece of work. good stuff. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week though. thanks for watching. goodbye. good evening. some places can up to 28 degrees today. it was bank holiday in much of the uk. tomorrow probably won't be quite as warm as that for most because of this band of cloud and outbreaks of rain sinking southward and eastwards. during tomorrow, the band of cloud will be slow—moving. not much rain, but it separates what is left of the warmth from some cooler, fresh conditions up north. for northern ireland, scotland, northern england, sunshine and a few showers. after 17 degrees. still clinging onto some

jennifer pugh runs the e.r. .he was on staff the morning hackers sent this ransomware message, demanding00 in the cyber currency bitcoin to unlock hospital data being held hostage. they went back to pen and paper for six weeks, until the systems were back online. >> i think it's-- it's disgusting. they're attacking some of the most vulnerable members of society by coming after a hospital. >> this is a form of terrorism. urese are criminals. in our case, we decided not to-- to pay that ransom, but make no mistake about it-- this definitely affected our urganization, and it's going to oost us a-- you know, a lot of money in the long run. >> reporter: thomas quatroche is ahe hospital c.e.o. n's. government has a long- tanding policy when terrorists kidnap americans-- you don't pay a ransom. welld that be the same case when they steal medical records? >> well, i think everybody hospital has to make their own decision. so let me tell you why we didn't. it was a matter of integrity for the institution. >> ninan: reg harnish leads the cyber-security firm that got the system back online. he says

the police but before the community and for the victims of our own crown baltimore mayor catherine pugh weighed in saying quote over six hundred shootings in less than a year in our city and something has to give and so we are trying to protect the citizens of our city and make sure that we curb the violence and our city baltimore city police commissioner kevin davis has created district action teams comprising of officers and supervisors these teams have been deployed to different districts in the city in order to cut down on the violence and an organization called cease fire three sixty five is aiming to ensure that violence ceases to exist in the city all year round and washington national banks are t.v. . america's longest running war in afghanistan has seen a surge in violence in recent months this weekend between fifty to sixty people were killed many of the victims were children the attacks are coming from an unlikely pairing for more on this let's go to manila chance and she has the story of manila while those weekend numbers are still trickling in ad there were seven afghan sec

loaded in hold confederate statues away from their post and attendance was baltimore mayor catherine pugh watched as each confederate statue was removed he said the removal of the statues was unannounced in order to prevent a violent confrontation i thought that there's enough grandstanding and no speeches before me get it done you know i spoke with the council on monday morning i spoke with the president city council. a with the climate of this nation that i think it's very important that we move quickly and quietly i also submit that to the entire body of the city council and said we're going to be moving quickly quietly to get this done and so that's what i did. that and thirty seven o'clock last night gathered and we moved the statues earlier this week the baltimore city council unanimously passed a resolution to remove the statues and it's happening i'm in national conversation after the deadly attack in charlottesville during a white supremacist rally according to local media reports on wednesday a group of protesters pledged to remove the robert e. lee and stonewall jackson monumen

if you're talking to -- clergymen or church-goers siting in pughs or talking to members of black student there, you're going to get three very different reactions so really it just does depend on the audience. >> again it depends. if you -- are speaking to people sympathetic to the naacp's point of view, and their methods of trying to help blacks, then you're going to get a negative response because a lot of what i write about -- makes a lot of what the naacp is talking about perhaps even its intis answer today relevant if the problem facing blacks today are not primarily racial barrier then there's not much use for them like that to continue saying things he want to say, and a to extent they're out there -- advocating against a chart hadder school which they recently did. they're doing more harm than good. they're not just being different. they're actually doing harm. so it is going to vary. it's going to vary. >> okay i just want to make sure michael goodwin. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you. the question about president obama, your comments about block voting and example with th

overnight by the city of baltimore and this comes a weekend after days just days after the mayor katherine pugh announced that she would be removing them and many residents say that they were upset with her announcement that these statues shouldn't just be removed but instead destroyed here's our correspondent ashley banks with more. the sound of heavy machinery runs out between eleven thirty pm and five thirty this morning in baltimore as contractors a low didn't hold a confederate statues away from their post and attendance of baltimore mayor catherine q watch as each confederate statue was removed he said the removal of the statues was unannounced in order to prevent a violent confrontation i thought that there is enough grandstanding and no speeches being made to get it done you know i spoke with the council on monday morning i spoke with the president city council i said a with the climate of this nation that i think it's very important that we move quickly and quietly i also submitted that to the entire body of the city council and said we're going to be moving quickly quietly to get this

this comes after mayor pugh ordered the removal on wednesday morning.spoke yesterday with the county chair, john weinstein, who said that the reason for doing this in the middle of the night because he wanted to avoid the crowds in the violence, the chaos that we saw in charlottesville in corrupting -- eruptingg -- yo there. , theyvil war exhibit thought that would be the best ways for it. live in ellicott city, stephanie woods. [chanting] night inaos last charlottesville after protesters briefly took control of the city council meeting. hands and it was directed at the mayor and local leaders. the anger stemming over the removal of a confederate statue. the president condemned both sides and this morning a new and can post all about the response found 56% of americans disapproved of the president's handling of the violence in charlottesville. 16% say they have no opinion. autria: good news this morning for a major transportation project. federal funding for the purple line is coming soon. the department of transportation says they will sign a federal f

it's a charge that was done by pugh and rasmussen. >> kimberly: that was compelling and also made up., august 1st but not just any august 1st, it's the fifth birthday for two very special girls, the twins pepper and wesley, my granddaughters. over the weekend they had extremely wild and wet party with 2,000 neighbors in the school friends, they neighbors, the theme of the party? superheroes. check out this cake that my daughter made for them. happy birthday, grand dad's is known as pop-up. >> kimberly: i remember last year they had gorgeous cakes too. that was fun, thank you for tha that. >> chris: every parent will know this feeling, especially parents of young men. i want you to meet charlie edwards. he's from britain and his parents arranged a sleepover party for him at the natural history museum. he was having a really good tim time. he noticed that if this play been identified wrongly and he told his parents and they said i'm sure you're wrong. and then he said no, dad, i'm sure i'm right and they went and told the museum and guess what, he knew more about that nut dinosaur that

but you've got some extraordinarily talented people in scott pugh wit at the eps and justice is extremelyell talented. and you ask for policy proposals to be staffed appropriately. let gary cohn help put together the tax package. you turn to done mcgahn who is the very talented white house counsel. let's hurry up on the judges. and then you go to mitch mcconnell and paul ryan and have a summit with maybe mike pence and niek airs helping to bring it all together and say let's organize our fall so that we can roll out sws we did the 14 congressional review act. so i'm very optimistic of a reset of what a coalition goth -- and i've been calling it a coalition government for months. i've used the analogy before as well. there is the party of president trump which includes a lot of people who are never republicans before. in my home county president obama won 60%. donald trump won 55%. they all swichld over to president trump. i think the party of trump and the party of congressional republicans have frayed in the past month. i think that can be put back together again, and i mentioned for the

the reason i bring up safety, the pugh research center gave at the top of the list, the two biggest threats isis and climate change. 13 countries said climate change here in l.a., we said traffic and gluten. but the rest of the country said cyberattacks, which i think is interesting. you really don't want to be off instagram for even a minute. president trump has to be happy he didn't make the most dangerous list, although he doesn't have much to celebrate right now. the president's approval rating has dropped to a new low. this is a newer low than the last new low.o % today, which i think is lower than the "emoji movie."there's no light at the the tunnel. [ applause ] did you hear what trump said about living in the white house? according to "golf" magazine of all places, the president told a group of members at his club in new jersey, the white house is a real dump. a white house spokesperson today denied the president said that, so it's true. and although to be fair, donald trump thinks any building that doesn't have his name on it is a dump. can you imagine if obama said the white house

. >>> in baltimore, the mayor catherine pugh said she wants to the city.e she talked to two contractors about removing four monuments. of brandon scott agrees >> we should have never had a monuments that are honoring traitors to our country and we should just immediately destroy them >> let's make this a transparent process and make sure that we remove them. it's not about destroying them. it's about removing them >> more than a year ago, commission examined the issue of taking statues down and determined the move would cost the city roughly $2 million. >>> meantime, tensions between north korea and the united states remain high. south korea president spoke out tonight. saying the situation must be resolved peacefully and the pun militarily without consent hours earlier kim jong-un was briefed on his plan to launch missiles near gam. military leaders say if that happens they will respond. >> general dunn ford traveled meet. >> do we have the capability to defend the peninsula? do we have the the capability? the answer is yes. we do. in the meantime the pro

now, just got off the phone before we went on the air with the mayor of baltimore, katheri katherine pugh who called me with conviction, we took all the con federal statues down, four of them. people have to -- don't tell me, show me. you have to show that you're really standing where you stand and not speaking is complacency. >> there's a political dimension to this. i take april's point. i would argue there's limits to how much ag grandizing you want to do. we might apply that to propaganda videos from isis, we might want to curtail how much we show of those. you have ceos dropping off his advisory council. this is getting beyond his core base. republicans have got to start to worry about whether he's ever going to get to the agenda items they are counting on. you see risk averse ceos, part of the business constituency for donald trump for years and now president trump getting more and more uncomfortable with him. these are the things he's got to be thinking about in the broader term of his presidential leadership. and it is -- john made this point. general kelly brought in as chief of

baltimore council decided monday to remove the monument, mayor pugh said she would get it done quickly and unannounced. >>> 5:46 is the time. as we take a live look outside. this shot is a lot more clear than the other shots. >> yes. >> hopefully things are getting better in some spots. commute people traffic, bad weather, bad news. >>> wage your way through the fog. >> hello, is that you? >> just make it tougher to get going. >> no rain, we traded the rain for the fog. you mentioned earlier, fauquier county going back today. fog at the bus stop. feels too early for back to school. >> caitlin >> no, no, it's not early enough >> it's not early enough. you're right. >> who are you talking to >> i vote for year around school. >> summer vacation. >> really. >> maryland school not going back till after labor day. >> i know. >> couple more weeks. >> couple more. >>> let's do weather, we got a lot of fog out there have not get right to it. areas of dense fog and advisory until 9:00 a.m. saw the live shot of the beltway. depends on where you are but the lowest visibles are mainly north and wes

but this morning, mayor pugh said it wasn't the threats by the residents that led to the decision. >>what we were planning to do. if you check with the president of the city council, i sat down with him and i said what we're going to do. move quickly and quietly. i did that. nancy: suzanne kennedy was in baltimore as the statues started coming down. suzanne: this is the site of one of four confederate monuments that came down overnight here in baltimore. what once contained a statue of robert e. lee and stonewall jackson is now an empty pedestal. what remains is graffiti put here overnight. crews were here in the 3:00 a.m. hour. it took a large crane to remove the statue dedicated in 1948. the monument had been proposed for removal by a committee appointed by baltimore's mayor. the roger b. taney station in mount vernon place also taken down overnight. not explicitly a confederate monument he is well known for advancing slavery in the u.s. and the 100-year-old confe blank pedestal. the baltimore residents woke to a new feel in their city. >> i felt like it should have been done a long

. >>> while baltimore was sleeping, mayor pugh removed all four city's confederate monuments before thee up >> she watched as the process taken more than a year come to action came to a head in the early morning hour, comes after monday's baltimore city council meeting where members voted unanimously to remove the statues. mayor moved quickly and quietly. public safety was her top concern. baltimore residents react to the removal. >> where are we going now is going to destroy us all. it's going to destroy us. >> mourning the art. and the archive and the documentation that we lost. because it was an accurate piece of history >> what are you going to do if it's bad history? we don't have statues of hitler and munich. >> the city is still deciding confederate cemeteries in maryland were previously discussed. the mayor would not say where they were taken in the meantime, or how much the removal cost. >>> to alabama politician is protesting the covering up of a confederate monument there, city crews boarded up the statue in birmingham last night confronted by angry candidate for mayor. the r

catherine pugh as mayor of baltimore city is working for the people of our city. >> i appreciate that. the president did say he did feel it was up to the local communities and states and cities to make decisions for themselves. obviously you're not just the mayor of baltimore. you are also african-american. i am curious when you have gazed upon the statue of robert e. lee, your whole life in your city, growing up and seeing it as an african-american, what feelings did it give you? >> well, let me be clear. i'm not originally from baltimore. i am the mayor of this great city. so i didn't gaze on this statue of robert e. lee but let me just say, what i do believe that it is part of our history and there should be something that says why that statue was once there, what it represented and more importantly, why it should not be there. because the confederacy did not fight to unite this country and we are the united states states of america. we should be folk efocus on beca more loving state, city, country and we will find out we have more in common than not. if we work together, our city,

. >> it was very interesting because in september of last year pugh did a study that asked the question optimistic about the future economically of the next ten years. african americans, highest optimism. white americans highest when it came to the wealth gap, only 41%. so when you the attacks on affirmative action. we're losing jobs 6789 well, if you look at where black folks were in the 1970, we were locked out of numerous industries. and so these gains, the attacks that we have seen have really taken place since brown versus board of education. when black votes started fighting for full freedom, folks said that's identity politics, if you give us the same rights you were born with, there's no need to fight for these laws. it is because of my skin color that we are being attacked, but then people say, well, you know, the spirit of freedom, the dana lash tweeted something about that. i'm going, no, if you don't deny people the opportunity, there's no reason to fight for their racial group. >> all right. so now what happens, though? because clearly the people who are marching as white s

union general ben butler who took charge of the city later wrote that its streets were "reeking with pugh electrifying filth." on a carriage ride with his wife to inspect the town, as they approached the basin near lake pontchartrain, the air he said was "filled with the most knoxious and offensive stenches possible so knoxious as to almost take away the power of breathing." the whole surface of the canal and the pond was covered with a thick growth of green vegetable scum. variegateded with dead cats and dogs or the remains of dead mules on the banking. butler ordered a complete clean-up of the city including hiring a force of some 2,000 men to clean the streets, squares and unoccupied areas. he established a quarantine station 70 miles below the city to inspect every ship before it could come into port. according to his biographer "he tore away shanties fill the up the holes purged the canals cleaned the streets, repaired the levy and kept the city in such perfect cleanliness that even the occupied citizenry that despised him had to admit that "the federal coz clean the streets if they

they only have a pugh weeks left where this is really realistic to get something big done.s you know, generate some positive coverage from the outlegs that are friendliest to president trump when he goes after those leaders, it's not viewed as something that's helpful to the president's end game of getting tax reform, getting health carrie for, getting the border wall, infrastructure, the things he's said he wants to get done before the end of had len latetive year. >> if that is his end game. >> you guys have known each other for severe years. when is you talk to the speaker, does he feel targeted and seem to know, if you talk to most folks, it seems like he's got to grow 50% more courage. >> well, i haven't spoken to him in some time. but look, these guys, of course, they understand that donald trump and his supporters will throw them under the bus. they understand that dynamic perfectly. and i guess the question is, what is donald trump's end game. look, you know, donald trump is donald trump's end game to pass all this major legislation? does he actually care or is this

the sunset....but rather is taken away in the early morning hours on a flatbed truck.mayor catherine pughimore"any city that has confederate statues are concerned about violence occurring in their city."baltimore removed all four of its confederate statues wednesday.other cities, including gainesville, florida and new york also removed confederate items over the past few days.but now this is going further than statues and plaques.adam bazaldua/parent"this is an opportunity to show our younger generation the difference in right and wrong." a dallas school district wants to change the names of five of its schools named after confederate officials.they are named after: robert e. lee, stonewall jackson, sidney lanier, albert sidney johnston and john reagan.oklahoma city officials are thinking likewise.aurora lora/superintendent, oklahoma city public schools"what we want to do is find out if the communities have interest in going forward with the name change."and the charlottesvill e city council, in virginia, recently voted in favor of changing lee park.....named after robert e. lee......to e

you've got first responders in there break breaking down doors, trying to find and russ pugh people. i'm not understanding what the complaints are right now. how about we get the thing, move forward, see what happens. you're all complaining now. what the hell is going on? and that new yorker, i am from brooklyn, new york, i am so ashamed. i'm ashamed of these people. they're making it political. they hate the president. it's all about that. they don't care about the people in texas. you can hear it. get a grip. you can't -- i mean, this is catastrophic. let the government do its job, and if you listen to the guy brock, he said they have the the military waiting. right now it's too difficult to get in. they can't put helicopters up, it's too windy. i mean, they are ready. so let's see whapts the end. don't predict what's going to happen. don't get excited now. don't blame anybody. wait and see what happens. what are you predicting? host: bobby calling in from georgia. are you confident in the government? caller: i think that the government is doing the very best they can, but i feel l