police say 69-year-old robert lewis was injured and tried to shoot back but his shotgun was not loaded. this happened early this morning on lake view drive. the intruders have not been caught. lyanne melendez has more. >> chaos. >> reporter: that is how described the police activity just after midnight after his neighbor was shot during home invasion robbery. police say this was a targeted home but don't know why. police say the owner robert lewis, took out the shotgun and pointed it at the man without realizing it was not loaded. >> he did point the gun at the suspect with an intention to protect himself and his wife, but the shotgun was unloaded. we don't think he knew that. >> reporter: initially lewis told police he had injured one of the intruders. the 69-year-old resident and his wife were inside the house at the time and a relative visiting them. lewis was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive. this afternoon his wife returned to the home with family members and asked for some privacy but not before investigators swept through the house taking the shotgun and other ev

robert lewis served as washington's private secretary. howell lewis also lived with the washingtons briefly during the presidency and also served as estate manager in mount vernon and was also a very beloved nephew of george washington. so any one of these you can imagine this association could have originally gotten hold of the standard. it then passed down to betty washington lewis and these two sons at the time that washington -- the washington flag first came out of the woodwork it was in the possession of this woman francis, fanny bering lovell who was living in philadelphia, in germantown, she's the won who bought the flag, put it on sloan, when she died in 1924 it was donated to the society and published in an updated guide to valley forge park. well, way down in marietta, georgia, ellen patrick lovell crosby fanny lovell's cousin, read about this flag which had been donated to some church up in valley forge and wrote a very cross letter to reverend burke saying "i don't know how this flag could have been given to you because this i

emblem to honor fire fighters joyce craig and michael goodwin as well as a police officer lewis walker and roberties were there to help with that dedication. very well deserved. >>> 8:36. do you see that stuff being tossed from the eastern state penitentiary, those are tastykakes. let them eat tastykakes, 2,000 to be exact they were thrown from the top of the eastern state penitentiary asthma reantoinette was drag to the guillotines this was of course all part of the bastille day reinact. is an annual tradition in philadelphia's fairmount neighborhood. bastille day is expect particular california of song, dance to commemorate the beginnings of the french revolution. >>> all right. 8:36. nfl and philadelphia soul honored men and women in uniform with the speaks football game. wounded warriors took on nfl alum night including former eagles. "eyewitness news" reporter alexandria hoff was there for the action. >> reporter: only thing separating these two teams are their stats, and their sacrifices. >> men and women, talking about professional athletes, very motivating and sometime it goodies to get b

robert e. lee said he considered this emblem to be a symbol of treason. >> later, congressman john lewis put thetoo heavy a burden to bear. but i was marching across that bridge in selma in 1965. i saw some of the law enforcement officers sheriff's deputies, wearing on their helmet the confederate flag. i don't want to go back and as a country we cannot go back. >> that flag for many americans for me represents slavery and lynching. but it also represents what congressman clyburn quoted the confederate general robert e. lee saying it represents why would we as a country celebrate those that betrayed it and killed american soldiers to try to secede from it. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> tony down or trump it up? let's play "hardball." >> good evening. i'm steve kornacki. reince priebus called and he wants his party back. have you ever seen anything like this? a fire breathing cowboy billionaire shot out of a cannon into second place by his inflammatory comments about those he calls illegal immigrants. donald trump is building bridges left and right in the

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john roberts said in the dissent that if this institution was good enough for the cars beginans and the aztecs, who are we to change it? i thought, this sounds like a setup for stevenphen colbert or lewis black or -- the aztecs? i thought they were known for human sacrifice, not for family values. >> it turns out you can cite international law. >> so speaking of expressing one's own opinion justice thomas wrote 57 opinions this year -- 37 total opinions, 19 dissents, 11 concurrences. he obviously is a believer in not signing a petition he doesn't totally agree and is expressing his own views. so i wonder, do you have any theories on why he's writing so much? is he trying to make up for never asking a question, just to show us that he's awake? and how do these separate opinions affect how you cover the cases? >> i don't have a great theory on any of that. i do think justice thomas has always been a contrarian who likes to go his own way. it's one of the strongest things you remember about him from 20 or 25 years ago. he always viewed himself proudly as i think for myself and go my own way. and the entire time he's been on the court, he's devoted a lot of effort, almost every year he wri

john roberts said that if this institution was good enough for the bushmen, carthaginians and aztecs, who are we to change it? i thought this sums like a setup for stephen colbert or lewis black. the aztecs? [laughter] i thought they were known for human sacrifice not family values. [laughter] >> it turns out you can cite international law. [laughter] >> speaking of expressing one's own opinions, justice thomas wrote 37 total opinions, 19 dissents and 11 concurrences. he is obviously of a reliever and not signing a petition to doesn't totally agree with and i wonder you have any theories on why he is writing for so much. is he trying to make up for never asking a question? how do they affect how you cover the cases? >> i don't have a great theory on any of that but i do think he has always been a contrary in the likes to go his own way. he always viewed himself proudly as i think for myself. the entire time he has been on the court almost every year he writes some long separate dissent making a completely different view of why the voting rights act is wrong or a lot of separate short dissents. it is very much in keeping with him to say i will have my own say. >> the oft