the one thing i keep leaning on, rob emanuel said the worst thing you can do is waste a crisis. the eyes of the world were put on west baltimore and there has been a lot of attention and focus and it is important that we lean on our federal state, and local folks to try to end some of these decades-old issues. at the end of the day the things we're talking about were not created overnight, but we have to ensure that we are putting the right plans in place to try to eradicate and forever change the trajectory. you know my hat is off to this community because at the end of the day they continue to fight. they do not allow anything to go unanswered. i try to hold everyone accountable to deliver a service and you know, know they are the type of committee that we need throughout the city of baltimore. in this area, too, we know that the statistics are significantly damning, especially some of the disparities are on health and employment and all the critical things. but i think there is also a lot of positive that we can try to build off of it's like the metro. not many communities ha

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but i wrote about the night before the inauguration when rob emanuel was the chief of staff coming in. he told me and our line. has been a bona fide threat on the inauguration. finally what the concern was, terrorist was terrorist threat and he asked me to write a 62nd speech for the president that he could give if he had to disperse the inaugural ceremonies. and you can't tell anyone not even your family. my wife and son went off in the morning. i was going i was going to television. they went off to do church services. and i was so one of the time not to go because i thought of something happened elderly without. i was one of the same thing. and happily it turned out not to come to pass. it was taken the inauguration. kind of welcome to the moment about what the presidency really is. you have to balance of these i sat in the room and an off the record discussions in which he talked about that. you know, balancing all of these different factors. you just don't have to balance them if you john to sack. [laughter] >> i agree with you. let me ask you a follow-up. >> certainly. the criti

. >>> a pleasantville man arrested accused of robbing several hotels in atlantic county, new jersey. police arrested emanuelesterday after responding to an attempted robbery at the comfort inn suites in egg harbor township. police found a gun and ski mask that link heath to two other robberies that occurred in the the last two weeks. >> a lot of eyes on greece. so far markets like what they're hearing. let's go to maribel aber live at the nasdaq if times square. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you tam. stocks rose on hopes of a potential deal between greece and its lenders and the nasdaq closed at a record high. futures pointing to a you here open. reports on durable goods and new home sales out later today. the number of first time buyers picking up. first timers the accounted for almost a third of existing homes last month. the largest share since september 2012. the increase in first time buyers is attributed to the stronger labor market. the next generation of the apple watch could feature a camera and better why if i. that's the prediction from the web site nine to five mac. a front facing c

. >>> a pleasantville man arrested for robbing several hotels in atlantic county, new jersey. police say they arrested emanuel after responding to an attempted robbery at the comfort inn sweets in egg harbor township. police say they found a gun and ski masks that link heath to two other hotel robberies that occurred in the past two weeks. >> and developing this morning, a tornado touched down in northern illinois. dozens of homes and businesses were caught up in its fury. erin o'hearn is live for us. she's in the satellite center. she's got the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, tam. wicked weather in the midwest. we now know at least seven people have been injured after a severe storm spawned at least one tornado across the northern part of that state. now, the national weather service confirmed the twister touchdown in cold city, which is a community of about 5,000 people in illinois. several homes were damaged as storms ripped through the chicago area last night. there are also reports of downed power lines throughout the area, natural gas leaks to many homes and heavy flooding that made muc

rob, thank you. >>> we turn now to south carolina, charleston today saying good-bye to more victims of that church shooting. here, long lines of mourners waiting outside emanuel ame for the funerals of three church members who died there. but tonight, the controversy over the confederate flag still flying outside the capitol heating up. one woman taking justice into her own hands. here's abc's devin dwyer. >> ma'am! ma'am, get off the pole. >> reporter: activist bree new newsome, 30 feet in the air, grabbing south carolina's confederate flag. >> this flag comes down today. >> reporter: on the way down, she lands in the arms of the law. >> i'm coming down, i'm prepared to be arrested. >> reporter: newsome and another activist were charged with defacing a monument. >> she would simply like to maintain her innocence on the charges. >> reporter: less than an hour after her arrest, these african-american state employees put the flag back where tonight, it still flies high. >> take it down! >> reporter: the debate still raging across the south. in columbia, south carolina, defenders and opponents of the flag faced off. in charleston yesterday, president obama sayin

emanuel a.m.e. church sat with black parishioners for nearly an hour before shooting and killing nine before fleeing. federal and state officials are investigating the shooting as a hate crime. al jazeera's rob mcrae joins us from charleston. >> evening. the suspect is in custody. fbi flew him here to charleston earlier today from north carolina. he has a bond hearing at 2:00 pm tomorrow. in the meantime you can see a lot of people gathering throughout the night in front of the church where the nine people were murdered a little over 24 hours ago. a stream of individuals, some talking about exactly what the issues are, racism, gun control. many discussions on the streets. earlier we had a woman with bagpipes showing her report. the streets went silent after she ended her talent. we are taking it in here. it's a sad moment in charleston and another moment of reflection where america has to dig in and figure out what need to change so this doesn't happen again. we are told that the suspect's room-mate said that dillon was perhaps planning this for the past six months. a question raised is why the room-mate never brought this to the attention of authorities, who knows. sensitive subject. we nee