they were the early years of the black awareness, robert williams was active in south carolina. there was a period of time when the cot in the back of the store was a drop off for various disassembled armaments. sometimes someone we didn't know would put something under the mattress, making the cot unusable for several days. someone would come by and take the hardware away in a shopping bag and that would be it for a week or so. there was often a black photographer who would come to the shop with an empty shopping bag. when he left, he with leave in a zigzag and eventually get on a bus going south. >> i wanted to read a poem that was sent by the poet that i invited to the recent san francisco international poetry festival from iraq i've been in touch with for more than a year and a half. after the united states would not give him his visa, i asked him -- i told him about mutanabbi street and he wrote a poem and he wrote it in english, though he writes in, of course, in arabic. but this one he wrote in english. so i'll read it. one figure in the poem you should know, humbaba, whi

william shortly. now back inside. >> thanks. before he tepees down -- steps down robert gates will address the graduating class of the u.s. naval academy in annapolis. secretary gates is scheduled to speak at the academy graduation ceremony three weeks from today on may 27th. after four and a half year he will leave making him the 4th longest serving pentagon chief in history. >> surprising it's a short-term but one of the longest. >>> still to come, on wjz"eyewitness news" at noon... >> more protesting in syria. thoughts are -- thousands are taking to the streets despite a governmental crackdown. >>> drunk with laugh. a passion called a call to the police. >>> another look outside with a beautiful spring day. stick around. your complete first warning forecast is still coming up. >>> complete coverage continues with don scott, jessica kartalija, and first warning weather with marty bass and meteorologist tim william. it's wjz maryland's news st promise me low prices. and stick to it. like seriously low prices. [ male announcer ] at safeway, we made a promise of low price

williams could be a guaranteed selection. >>> to baseball, roberts is back in the lineup.ladimir guerrero is not in the starting lineup. buck showalter and the birds look to bounce back after an extra-inning loss in kc light night. a pitch that is ripped by the royal jeff van cure, tied it in the 6th inning. still tied in the tenth. and he comes through it with a fly ball to right field. nick more cakeis gets the catch. that's how it ended a 6-5, kc victory. second straight loss to the o's. jake arieta, starting pitcher for the o's. the bull pen has been taxed on this road trip. kyle davies is the starter. now has ruth scott batting for him. game time, 8:10, you can see it on masn 2. watch baseball enough, you never know what you might see. brandon phelps with a play for the all-time highlight reel. he'll slip the ball through his legs. got to see it in slow mo to appreciate it. spontaneous toss with no time to spare. they bounced back to beat the astros this afternoon. horse racing's triple crown. with the running of the kentucky derby. but today, there is pause to rememb

robert bazell, nbc news, sacramento. >> does it stay on better? >>> that's our broadcast for this thursday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams, and we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

robert redford. he collaborated with likes of albert hitchcock and leonard bernstein. >>> the hottest royal couple in the world is now heading for the golden state. prince williamnew bride are planning a three-day trip to california beginning july 8th. their official schedule, though, has not been made public just yet. and believe this or not, it will be kate's first trip here to the u.s. >> that's amazing. that is surprising. >>> well, in sports, university of alabama baseball players, some of whom barely escaped last week's tornadoes, returned to the field tonight for the first time since the devastation. and as for last night's sports highlights, we go to espn news. >> good morning. i'm don bell with your espn news update. we start on the ice. daniel sedin and the canucks looking to take a 3-1 series lead before heading back to vancouver. second period. game tied at 1-1. christian ehrhoff feeds it up top for alexander edler. second of the playoffs for him. canucks lead 2-1. later in the second, preds on the powerplay. aaron roam gets the slash on the stick of marty erat. predators go on five-on-three powerplay. five seconds left on the advantage. you look at

apparently secretary of defense robert gates and we know secretary of state hillary clinton who are against the release, there are others as we know leon panetta told brian williams last night that he thinks it should ultimately be released to sort of head off the conspiracy theorists who say osama bin laden is still alive. however, this debate is not likely to be ended today. there are some idea that the white house would announce this decision today, but we get no indication of that yet. we're still looking though for either photos or even perhaps video of the burial service aboard the aircraft carrier carl vinson in which osama bin laden's body was laid to rest at sea because it's felt that that will -- that at least will offer some evidence that at least that ceremony was respectful. >> respectful and osama bin laden's body in keeping with the muslim tradition. i mean, it was washed, it was draped in white. i mean, all that is dictated. correct? >> absolutely. >> okay. >> followed the tenets of islamic law in slipping his body into the sea. >> thank you so much. >> okay. >>> bin laden's death makes his heir apparent al zawahiri the new most wanted terrorist i