r. kelly may not have committed a crime there could be investigation. e was telling me today there is the possibility that kelly is attracted to under age girls. that has her angry with women who tend to be turning a blind eye. >> what is i think alarming to me is the amount of specifically black women have about how we can excuse his attraction to it. the songs are inherently sexual, very provocative. black women not wanting to protect other black women alarms me. so i say throw the whole catalog away and we will be okay. >> she went to social media and started having this conversation about what songs were out before i believe i can fly. she said let's go to those when it is time for graduation instead of playing his songs. there was music before r. kelly and plenty of music afterwards. >>> michael vick who has raised eyebrows telling fellow quarterback colin kaepernick to cut his hair, improve his image and land a new job. that is not sitting well with a lot considering vick has had his troubles. >> people see colin kaepernick taking a stand for this

r. kelly. his attorney saying that he is very disturbed by these allegations and unee givably denies them. no charges filed against him. the women involved in the allegations are all of age. >>> we have new video ofa bobcat attacking a man and his dog in arizona. a good samaritan jumped in to help and the bobcat then bit him. eventually the bobcat runs away but was later located by wildlife authorities who say the cat tested positive for rabies. the man, the dog, the good samaritan all expected to be okay. >>> in china the dramatic video of that crash between a van and a semi truck. the truck appeared to hit the van causing a massive explosion. the van was loaded with paint and paper. the truck was carrying steel products. the driver of the van says he didn't see how it happened. he just heard a big boom. amazingly no one injured. police are investigating. >>> the world's best golfers getting set for this year's british open. it starts o other sports from espn. >>> good morning, it's "sportsce

r. kelly, she, the mother, was a huge r. rt and introduced her to r. kelly. and then when he asked for the parents' blessing to take this girl under his wing and on tour or wherever he took her, they said okay because they really didn't believe the charges that were brought up against him since he was acquitted of them. >> you know, from james brown to chris brown, we make these sort of divisions, from the music versus the person. i mean roxanne gay talks about this in some of her writing, when the rhythm is that good, you can't divorce it from what your brain is thinking about. the person is evil or vile. you just get stuck. and dancing to music that you know is not aaffirming to you and your life. >> race is also a factor. for so many african-americans because of the history of how they have been treated in the criminal justice system, they look at r. kelly like him being abused or mistreated by the system. but that's without them doing their homework and digging deeper. this buzzfeed piece isn't just gossip on the internet

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r. kelly of holding their daughter against her will. >> my daughter is severely

i was a freshman at the academy when i first saw r kelly. him leaving with a girl. and i think it was one of the worst kept secrets. we didn't think much of it. we already knew that he had a fondness for young girls. i don't want to presume his guilt here, but obviously girls have said that they had underage sex with him. yep. what reaction is there when people come forward and say that? do people blame the girls or the man? there is a tendency to blame the girls. when i read about this in 2013, we were taught that it is usually on the young girl to steer clear of the predator. if she puts herself in the line of danger then it is on her, if horrible consequences befall. it's so ingrained in us that we don't really...we don't really interrogate it. so when the story broke in 2000, you know, a lot of us were reading the times back then thinking, finally, someone is bringing this to light because no one ever talks about it. some would say that there is a race element to this, that society asks fewer questions about the welfare of black girls th

r. kelly has him going on the sketch of a man suspected of killing two girls while they were on a hike in indiana back in february. officers believe he is 5-6 to 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs about 180 to 220 pounds. the sketch shows him with a goatee. he's accused of murdering liberty german and abigail williams. their bodies were discovered the day after they vanished found about a half mile from a bridge where the girls were last seen. >> going to get you now. we have a face to go with you. >> liberty german's grandparents think police are one step closer to catching the 14-year-olds' kill. >> we want to get this guy off the street. >> investigators released this composite sketch monday. >> it shows a little more facial features. gives you a little more information on what we're looking at, who the suspect might be. >> it's the face of the man in this blurry image. german shot it on her cell phone as pursued her and 13-year-old abigail williams. >> we can get a name or at least a location of this subject that would be great. >> the sketch is based in part on a witness who claims to

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r. kelly running the weirdest music school i've ever heard of, and them dudes behind "game of thrones" finallyound some roles for black people. >> hbo announce add new series from the creators of the wildly successful phenomenon "game of thrones." >> david benioff and d.b. weiss have a full season order from hbo for a series called confederate. it would imagine a world where the southern u.s. won the civil war, so modern day only if the confederacy won. ( laughter ) >> can you even imagine such a strange reality? a modern-day america where confederate flags fly everywhere, black people are treated like (bleep) and white supremacists run the country! where did they come up with this stuff, man? hobb's doing it! oh, man, they're doing it! ( applause ) why do we need this? we already have a show about black people working hard for no money, it's called college basketball. >> trevor: yeah, but, roy, look on the bright side, at least this will mean more roles for black actors. >> or, knowing hollywood, the lead slave will probably be played by matt damon. probably won't even change his accent. he'l

announcer: today on "tmz" -- >> finally, r kelly speaks up, defends himself on camera, but he needs adirector. >> despite all of the crap you haven been hearing, i will be coming to the east to do my show. >> he's in a dark hallway/dungeon. >> why the dark lighting. >> he wanted it to look like a deposition. >> that's not sexy. >> it's not sexy, he's trying to deny he's keeping girls in his home! geez! >> tobey maguire and leonardo dicaprio over in saint-tropez on a yacht together. >> if you're a girl with tobey, you're a little disappointed. >> that's second place. >> distant second. >> you're underselling tobey maguire here. you're saying there are women who got on that yacht and went to hang with tobey and not leo. >> i never said that. [laughter] i never said that. >> rick ross is issuing an apology. he was t

announcer: today on "tmz" -- >> finally, r kelly speaks up, defends himself on camera, but he needs ag director. >> despite all of the crap you haven been hearing, i will be coming to the east to do my show. >> he's in a dark hallway/dungeon. >> why the dark lighting. >> he wanted it to look like a deposition. >> that's not sexy. >> it's not sexy, he's trying to deny he's keeping girls in his home! geez! >> tobey maguire and leonardo dicaprio over in saint-tropez on a yacht together. >> if you're a girl with tobey, you're a little disappointed. >> that's second place. >> distant second. >> you're underselling tobey maguire here. you're saying there are women who got on that yacht and went to hang with tobey and not leo. >> i never said that. [laughter] i never said that.

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the family of one of the women claim their daugher is being held by r kelly at a home in atlanta.was, inside this house where he resided, with rooms set up like a hotel for girls to stay in. and he also had a black room which he would do different sexual acts in and then he had three separate rooms out of 24 rooms in his house and they all have the same identical setup. my daughter is severely brainwashed. she is brainwashed to the point where she says anything that he asks her to say. she's not the same jocelyn that we knew. so we just want him to release her and let her go on with her life, because he has affected too many young girls over the years and ijust want her home and to try to get her rehabilitated to the jocelyn we know and miss. headlines coming up on the bbc news channel. at the moment, we say goodbye to viewers on bbc two but first, the weather. for many of us, hot and sunny today through into the afternoon, temperatures up to around 30. many of us enjoying scenes like this, but the towards the south—west, the clouds are gathering. you can see the cloud is becoming

r. kelly of holding their daughter against her will. >> my daughter is severely brainwashed. >> allegationscult-like conditions at the r&b star's homes.

last summer more than 200 artists, producers and composers, from hans zimmer to r kelly, signed a courtacts behind hits like could it be i‘m falling in love, along with other businesses, backed the marvin gaye family calling the motion hypothetical, because the decision was based on disputed evidence about protectable aspects of a particular piece of music. i think it‘s a great shame because, speaking personally, i‘ve been influenced by motown, rock and roll, punk, all this stuff, 90s music, dance music, and if i am a good musician, i hope i am, or musicologist, because of all these influences taken on board, i‘m proud of these influences and it‘s a great shame that artists are actually disinclined to reveal their inspirations. in the blurred lines case, robin thicke's interviews went well beyond saying that he was simply inspired by got to give it up. what he said in his interviews was that he and pharrell, or he directed pharrell, to create a song just like got to give it up, and that they tried to get the same rhythm and those types of things going in creating blurred lines. so it's

issue is currently playing out in several lawsuits across the >>> representatives from r&b singer art kelly are denying allegations laid out in explosive new article on buzz feed. he's accused of brain-washing young women and keeping them as prisoners in his homes. the report claims he isolates women if families and in a consult like existence taking their phones and controlling who they see. police reports from chicago and georgia show officers have gone to investigate the claims and found that the women involved do not want to leave. kelly's attorney says the s singer is alarmed and disturbed and denies such allegations and will work workforceably to clear his name. back in 2008 he was acquitted by illinois jury on 14 charges of making child pornography. timely a lot of people are streaming on netflix. the company says it now has 104 million subscribers around the world. half are here in the united states. netflix also raking in the doe the last quarter alone. they are whipping. >> yes. >> thanks, holly. >> 4:40 is the time. coming up. 15,000 new visas for foreign workers could prove to b