reckless teens playing with a rope? or was it, as the boy's family suspects, a racially motivated attack? abc's linsey davis takes us inside this "american flash point." >> reporter: with that signature smile and boundless energy, this is how cassandra likes to picture her son. now when she clothes her eyes she has nightmares. >> i never in a million years would have thought it would come to my son nearly being lynched. >> reporter: she says the unthinkable happened to her biracial son at the hands of neighborhood kids last month. >> it's always been attempted murder in my eyes. >> reporter: these photos show the deep wounds the rope left on her child's throat. they went viral, outraging the public and bringing national attention to little quincy's case. he was only 8 years old at the time. how would you describe how you feel about it? >> very shocked. it's a pretty intense thing to try to swallow as a mom. >> reporter: especially now, in 2017. several hundred miles north of the mason-dixon line. in an industrial hamlet

let go of the rope. he stops moving right over the water, so now it's time to rescue dad.ad's just going to have to let go, so he lowers himself down into the water, lets go of the rope, and just swims over to shore. it's the california drivy pool challenge. >> get wet and get out. >> next "right this minute." >>> and still to come, it's big trouble on the first day of school. >> but it's not the kids you got to worry about. >> why these moms definitely aren't playing nice. >> that's messed up. >>> plus a trip to paris to do some -- >> wake boarding, wake boarding, wake boarding. >> see how hitting the water makes for an amazing adventure. honey? can we do this tomorrow? (grunts of effort) can we do this tomorrow? if you have heart failure symptoms, your risk of hospitalization could increase, making tomorrow uncertain. but entresto is a medicine that was proven, in the largest heart failure study ever, to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading heart failure medicine. women who are pregnant must not take entresto. it can cause harm or death to a

a piece of rope made into a noose found on city street right next to alameda high school. that's where laura anthony is live with the story. >> reporter: this was found yesterday afternoon here by a pschool employee. this noose was fashioned out of the small rope that holds up the screen on the fence behind me. it was small but the message loud and clear. courtney smith and other parents believe school officials should do more about a noose shown in this police photo found outside the tennis courts. >> it was a noose. that's a message. it's clear. i think we should send another message to say this is not how we do it in the bay area. >> reporter: it was fashioned out of thin, nylon rope. >> the whole length was about four feet. >> reporter: the district did notify parents with robocalls. >> i'm very sorry the parents don't feel the school reacted enough. >> reporter: smith and' others want more done to reassure african-american students that make up 6% of the population. >> if they don't feel backed and protected by the school it will create a hostile environment for them.

some teenagers targeted her son swinging the boy with a rope around his neck. it is being investigated as a possible hate crime. >> reporter: the boy's mother's furious that this ever happened to her son. and police didn't take it seriously until people in the town of clairemont rallied to support her child. >> the fact that my boy is biracial and the others are of white descent. >> reporter: police say all the responsible for the wounds to this 8-year-old boy are all under the age of 14 and because they're minors authorities aren't sharing their names. her son was over at a friend's house down the street on august 28th, with three older boys started teasing him and calling him racial slurs. she says her son was set up, convinced to wrap the tire swing ropes around his neck and they pushed him off a table. >> they made comments about white pride. even after the fact that they had hung my son. >> reporter: his 11-year-old sister was there watching and screaming. his family says he swung back and forth three times before he was able to remove the neck from the ro

the test is go tie a series of knots to put this rope around the next rope and.instructor was down the surface with a snorkel and a mask so he's breathing and watching. you tie or not you back often you stay down there, he comes down slowly and you look at the not look at the student and you act like you never seen it before and the first one is always wrong. he comes down and looks at the not and he'll say yeah that's good. go to the surface, get one breath of air not enough time for him to tell you about not number two. go tie a square knot. so you have another minute. the test is simple. type five knots in a row the right way. a friend of mine was on his last attempt. they won't let you try for only a certain amount of time. if he doesn't give is not right he'll never be in navy seal. that's a lot of pressure. on his fifth not, he drowned. the instructor came down to get him and he grabbed him and he swam them up and he hopped out and rolled them over and yelling for the medic and the instructor realized it was too much time so he started cpr and we could hear

now, in his post he said he hoped they are found and "hung from a tall tree with a long rope." the comment has since been taken down. >> plans to put harriet tubman on the 20-dollar bill could be facing a hurdle. treasury secretary steven mnuchin says the trump administration is reconsidering the obama era initiative to replace andrew jackson with tubman. his comment triggered strong backlash on social media. the new bill was scheduled to be issued in 2020 to mark the 100th anniversary >> beer proof sneakers coated with what the company calls a beer repellant. the shoes will be available online tomorrow and will set you back $240. who in college has $240 to pay for some beer repellant adidas.

no one says, thanks for the rope, but i would rather wait for some one more like me. >> thank you, i appreciate it. >> you're welcome, bud. >> later when they find themselves on the business end of the dumptruck, with nothing

in his post he said he hoped they are found and "hung from a tall tree with long rope." the comment has since been taken down by mr. love. >> plans to put harriet tubman on facing a hurdle. treasury secretary steve minnesota says the trump administration is reconsidering the obama era initiative to replace andrew jackson with tubman. now, his comments triggered strong backlash on social media. the new bill was that scheduled to be issued in 2020 to mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. >> adidas unveiled a pair of beer proof sneakers. they're coated with what the company calls a beer repellant. the shoes will be available online tomorrow and will set you back $240. so i've got questions. when they say beer repellant that means, what, like full spill beer on them it doesn't -- >> you can take a can of beer and pour it on the shoe like water repellant windshield

she says her son was set up, con vinced by the older boys to wrap the ropes from a tire swing around his neck. that's when she says one of the boys pushed him off a picnic table. >> they continued even after the fact to make comments about white pride, even after the fact that they had hung my son. >> reporter: his 11-year-old sister was there watching and screaming. his family safes he swung back and forth three times before he was able to remove the rope from his neck. people in the town of clairmont rallied to support the boy. the mother says police are trying to reach her tonight to discuss possible juvenile charges. she says when they interviewed her son, they did so in front of the other kids. david? >> steve osunsami with us tonight. steve, thank you. >>> we turn next here to hillary clinton, breaking her silence on some of the key moments that played out in the presidential campaign. her new book out called "what happened." clinton acknowledging her own mistakes, but also saying today that she would have won, had it not been for james comey intervening in those final days to

but whether new management will be able to push past this latest rope block will be an important test for the company's ability to stay on track. of course you can use were on your i phone and apple's latest model of it has hit the shelves today the i phone eight boasts a new display and wireless charging among other features excitement is high but some apple fans do have to outs about the new release. people have come out in the hundreds to buy the i phone eight in front of apple's flagship store on fifth avenue in manhattan considering the crowds that used to come back out for days ahead of new apple product releases this is a modest showing but hardcore apple fans are under target by their dwindling numbers. if you want one you know it's really expensive. but it's convenient if their whole family . they were locked in. the i phone eight has a faster processor of rational age to screen and wireless charging a plus version offers more features but reception has been lukewarm as competing products already come with bigger screens and wireless charging for less than the i phone eight h

he has why does he have a rope what i will tell us in just a moment have a look is a robe of an imperial wizard the top guy this is a white cotton robe with blue adornments blue stripes blue sash and blue cape and of course you see the klan emblem the mio the red blood drop in the center signifies that they will shed their blood to preserve the white race if you look along the white cross look at that that black line right there and these two diagonal lines the form a k. so you see four k.'s centrally and that stands for knights of the ku klux klan makes sometimes the klan members wives make them there was a mennonite woman couple hours from here who was making them for the clan they have a rope making division up and i was shelton connecticut. that why do you have so much memorabilia in your house for the k.k.k. i don't keep it all in my house to keep most of it locked up on a site far away from my house but i have the. paraphernalia and memorabilia regalia because one day i'm going to open up a museum it's part of american history you know in any country and america is no exception we

ropes to keep them down. themselves down with ropes to keep them downm people were tying themselves down with ropes to keep them down. in the french territory of saint martin, six people were killed. authorities said the island may be reduced to rubble. this is hurricane irma seen from space. it is now heading north of puerto rico and could hit florida at the weekend. it is one of three hurricanes in the atlantic. there are particular fears hurricanes in the atlantic. there are particularfears for hurricanes in the atlantic. there are particular fears for hurricane jose following close behind irma, and ona jose following close behind irma, and on a similar path. 0fficials jose following close behind irma, and on a similar path. officials say with most people homeless, barbuda cannot withstand another storm. if jose does have its way, the island may have to be evacuated. well, we heard the prime minister of antigua and barbuda, gaston browne, expressing his concerns there. earlier, my colleague mike embley spo

and you know that there is that immigration all those ropes forming the line and and my to them asking me like father what is this. it's a queue what is it. because they have never seen a queue i mean they obviously have seen their likes seven eight person standing in the grocery store like and waiting but they organized visit ropes. never never seen it all happens online. a study here is now one of europe's most wired countries this former soviet industrial states new talent airport is becoming a new silicon valley. we caught up with kalpoe caruso the machine gun we filmed in the forest these are software consultant there are like hundreds of services the countries offering us the government is offering us. companies like our company and we can use them for free and deliver our own thing which which is really really smart them secure and reliable so you basically leap frogged from being a fairly backward soviet economy to being a very bad start technically you know we're we have not joyce we have to do something right little stonier has developed some of the world's biggest digital pr

year-old boy who is biracial saying he was taunted by a group of teenagers who then swung him by a rope that was around his neck. he was airlifted to a hospital to be treated for his injuries, and abc's steve osunsami tonight. we warn you, this is a difficult story. >> reporter: the boy's mother tonight is furious that this ever happened to her son, and that new hampshire police, she says, didn't at first take this seriously. until people in the town of clairmont rallied to support her child. >> the fact that my son was biracial and these boys were of white decent. >> reporter: police say that all the older children allegedly responsible for the wounds to this 8-year-old boy are under 14, and because they're minors, authorities aren't sharing their names. cassandra merlin says her son, who's biracial, was over a friend's house down the street on august 28th, when three older boys started teasing him and calling him racial slurs. she says her son was set up, convinced by the older boys to wrap the ropes from a tire swing around his neck. that's when she says one of the boys pushed him of

wire rope just looks like rope, but it's made of wire and, of course, it enables not just suspension bridges to be built, but elevators, telegraphs, telephones, airplanes, automobiles. it was a hugely important product for the growth of the united states and world in the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. and john a. r ounce -- roebling's company was the biggest in the united states to manufacture this stuff. washington was very involved in the company. he also was a passionate mineralogist. he was a geologist and a mineral collector, and he had one of the best mineral collections in the country. and he gave it -- after he died, it was willed to the smithsonian where it really is the foundation of their remarkable collection. but when he was 84 in 1981, he was always involved -- in 1921, he was always involved with the family firm, but he didn't take a salary. he just advised his brothers and kept an eye on what was going on. in 1921, despite complaining all his life of his terrible health, he outlived one younger brother, then another younger brother, two of his

the cat is clinging to the pipe you see inside there, and they said once they got that rope down therethey tried many, many times to try to get the cat, but they couldn't. after struggling finally after losing sight of the cat at one point. >> come on, consistekitty, help you. >> the cat says maybe if i bite on this rope they'll pull me up. they don't know how the kitten figured it out but she did. she's clinging on with her mouth not letting it go, moving it slowly so she doesn't fall and they are able to pull her free. >> just made it by the skin of her teeth. >> she was wet, they got the blow dryer out to warm her up, giving her hugs. mom was nearby worried. then they gave her a bowl of milk. the good news is she's reunited with mom, out of the bore well and they sealed it so this won't happen again. >>> today we are on very special business or mission, right? >> yeah! >> very special mission with cute little claire. >> where t >>. ♪ i want to be where the people are ♪ ♪ i want to see, want to see them dancing ♪ >> she is a superstar on the interweb, she has a bajillian views and fo

and you know that there is that immigration all those ropes forming the line and and might mention them asking me like father what is this. it's a queue what is it. because they have never seen a queue i mean they obviously have seen the likes seven a person standing in the grocery store like and waiting but i organized a visit ropes. and i've never seen it all happens online. a study here is now one of europe's most wired countries is former soviet industrial states new talent airport is becoming a new silicon valley. we caught up with kalpoe caruso the machine gun we filmed in the forest these are software consultant there are have like hundreds of services the countries offering us the government is offering us. companies like our company and we can use them for free and deliver our own thing which which is really really smart them secure and reliable so you basically leap frog from being a fairly backward soviet economy to being a very bad start tech economy. where we have not joyce we have to do something right little stonier has developed some of the world's biggest digital produc

. >> he's missing his velvet rope. >> thanks for understanding, guys. >> he has to travel light becausee's not going to stay at the community college. >> you got a fake i.d. that's a fake i.d. >> i do not. >> you're good to go but we have a strict dress code i can't let you in now, ma'am. >> has to wear sleeves? >> yeah, tie preferably. >> up next the doughnut shop. >> private event tonight, if you're not on the list you cannot get in. >> this is great marketing, because now that they know they can't get into the doughnut shop, what do you want? a doughnut. >> jessica in this case she's on the list. >> jessica, jessica, you are, you're good to go in, jessica. if you go that way, too, ten bucks. that way zero. all right. >> now he's theat the park and s fellow is not amused. >> what organization are you? >> i'm freelance, i get hired in. >> who are you hired by? >> they didn't tell me. >> i ain't telling you [ bleep ]. >> it's ladies night if you don't have any ladies i can't let you in here. >> really? >> yes. >> the best part is you put up the ropes and people automatically walk into t

the new hampshire union leader reports a boy was the target of racial slur and suffered rope burns oneck last month. the boy's grandmother says a group of teenagers pushed him off a picnic table with a rope around his neck. he e was treat and released from the hospital. the measure singles out white nationalists, white supremacists, the ku klux klan, neo-nazis and other hate groups. it comes after a violent rally in charlotte ville, virginia, last month. >>> the "washington post" says they'll introduce bernie sanders today. sanders reportedly has the backing of at least 15 democratic senators. the bill would expand medicare so that everyone is covered and would be paid for by higher taxes. >>> "the seattle times" reports the resignation of the mayor. four other men accused murray of abusing them when they were teenagers. he denies the allegations. >>> charges were dismissed against an amtrak engineer in a deadly derailment two years ago. eight people died and 200 were hurt when a train derailed rounding a curve in philadelphia. the judge ruled there was not evidence to warrant a crimi

got the jump rope there, all right. i get it back here, it's just me and you hanging out.eah. think you could have brought abby to the show, but no big deal. [ laughter ] she's probably having fun. all right, here we go. one, two, three. [ cheers and applause ] yes! this is good. hey, patrick, get in here. ♪ patrick, you try it, too. patrick, watch it! patrick, watch it! [ cheers ] ♪ i think it's a great thing. leah, great job. emma, come on back. all the kids, come on back. [ cheers and applause ] come out here, patrick. guys, i have one more thing to show you. ge wants young minds to dream big to make the impossible possible. so they're giving each of you $5,000 to help further your education. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ congratulations! that's what i'm talking about here. leah, that's for you, a giant check. congrats, guys. my thanks to patrick, emma, leah, and our friends at ge. for more, check out our ge fallonventions website to see some of my inventions. stick around, we'll be right back with seth mcfarlane everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> announcer: ge -- imag

prepare -- a year for rope prepare -- road repair. >>> a man was attacked on the muni tuesday night at 11:00 and the bus was stopped at mission and geneva. the 28-year-old victim was getting off the bus when two men began to punch him for no apparent reason. >> it does not seem, based on the initial report, something targeted. we don't know what the motive of the suspects were but they had something in mind by attacking the victim. nothing was taken, not a robbery. >> the victim was treated for minor injuries at the hospital and released. the police are hoping there is surveillance video from a camera in the area of the attack and they want to hear from anyone that was of witness. >>> the san francisco police are hoping new surveillance video would help find the man that killed the popular oakland high school teacher and bring the family closure.>> we just want this to be resolved so that the community a little more safe than it is right now. >> ,31 carload detail -- 31 year old carlo tatao was shot to death outside of a market and they are releasing photos of some people called per

time to help us swing the rope. [ audience aws ] la >> jimmy: it's going to be okay.ghter ] i had the same problem growing up. yeah. so wait -- so, yeah, because you need a third person if you're going to double jump rope. >> yeah. mm-hmm. >> jimmy: this is genius, i love this idea. this is the jumper's helper. and -- so it just stands there. you've got some pvc pipe here. can i do it? can i try it out? >> yeah. >> jimmy: leah, i think this is going to take off. i like this idea. got the jump rope there, all right. i get it back here, it's just me and you hanging out. what's your sister's name? >> abby. >> jimmy: yeah. think you could have brought abby to the show, but no big deal. [ laughter ] she's probably having fun. all right, here we go. one, two, three. [ cheers and applause ] yes! this is good. hey, patrick, get in here. ♪ patrick, you try it, too. patrick, watch it! patrick, watch it! [ cheers ] ♪ i think it's a great thing. leah, great job. emma, come on back. all the kids, come on back. [ cheers and applause ] come out here, patrick. guys, i have one more t

he is trying to tight rope between announcing a tapering decision ahead of the governing council, helly didn't have a lot of leverage with his words. jonathan: joining me here is the head of global bonds and chief investment strategist at pgim limited, also eric stein from eaton vance, and trey parker at highland capital management. gents, great to have you on the program. here is what jumps out to me, the last couple of months, the message that seems to be received by the fx and bonds in europe and the divergence between the two. we can throw up a chart. bunds versus euro-dollar. my first question goes to you. why can we have a bond market draft -- have a market driving bund yields going lower and the euro ever stronger? robert: if you look back over the last five years, the money was first leaving the eurozone with a crisis. after that, they moved on to a new mode of stimulus. they broke any link to the idea that this was a bundesbank, central-bank motif, they would never do qe. and they went massively into qe and groundbreaking in terms of a central bank going negative on interest

then pushed off a table with a rope around his neck ... details on the outcome..st ahead..<> ((gary sports tease))"coming up a little bit later in this broadcast. 49ers and raiders, there opening weekends. we'll talk a little bit about it. also, curry and durant, ohhhhh, let's really make something hot there. that's coming up, a little later in this broadcast." (( pam ))here's what we are tracking new tonight at nine... ,. ,.nine... ,. (pam) an annual tradition, one of heartbreak and remembrance, mourning and healing. the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks... in a ceremony at ground zero in new york. a bell chiming.. marks the exact time the first plane struck the north tower... followed by a reading of the names of the fallen. (pam) several events also took place today here in the bay area - remebering those who died that tragic day. (steve) kron four's will tran shows us firefighters from station 7 in san francisco honored the first responders who died. (firefighters reading names) the names of

. >> they put a rope around their neck like this? >> could this nobel peace prize recipient be doing more to save these oppressed people? >>> plus missing mom. a mysterious disappearance in the houston area. a mother of two last seen the day before the hurricane hit. her car found underwater in a motel parking lot. but police say she was not lost in the storm. >> we do believe it is probably foul play. >> the new clues uncovered in the investigation. >>> but first here tonight, the "nightline" 5. >>> good evening. and tonight we take you to the front lines of a horrifying humanitarian crisis. reports of government-orchestrated torture, rape, and ethnic cleansing against a minority group in the country of myanmar. it is causing a mass exodus and an international outcry. here's abc's bob woodruff. >> reporter: they are running for their lives, hoping to escape what they believe is certain death, risking it all to cross illegally from myanmar into bangladesh. we ask why are you coming here? >> translator: we do not have peace in our hom

it's a rope tied into the shape of a noose, as you can see. police told us today they are investigate thing as a hiate crime. >> parents say they want to see this taken more seriously. >> it's a level seriousness that's way higher. >> reporter: kourtney smith and other parents believe officials should do more than a noose found outside the tennis courts. >> it was a noose. that's a message, it's cheer. i think we should send's message to say this is not how we do it in the bay area. whoever did it needs to be held accountable for it. >> reporter: the noose was fashioned out of thin nylon rope from the court's privacy screen. it was found on the sidewalk outside the fence. >> my understanding is that the whole rope length was four feet. >> reporter: the district did notify parents with a robocall and with a notice on the website. >> i'm very sorry that the parents don't feel that the school reacted enough. but i think people also need to understand that it takes a little bit of time to figure out how best to respond. >> reporter: smith and othe

a boy was the target of racial slurs and suffered rope burns on his neck last month.oy's grandmother says a group of teenagers pushed him off a picnic table with a rope around his neck. he was treated and released from the hospital. >>> "the new york times" reports on the measure that singles out white national lists, white supremacists, the ku klux klan, neo-nazis and other hate groups. it comes after a violent rally in charlottesville, virginia, last month. >>> the "washington post" says vermont's bernie sanders will call for reform today. he has the backing of at least 15 democratic senators. the bill would expand medicare so that everyone is covered and would be paid for by higher taxes. >>> "the seattle times" reports on the resignation of seattle mayor ed murray. murray's resignation comes after a cousin accuses murray of molesting him when he was 13 years old. four other men accused murray of abusing them when they were teenagers. he denies the allegations. >>> and "the philadelphia inquirer" says charges were dismissed against an amtrak engineer in a deadly de

it was fashioned from rope used to hang these privacy screens here at alameda high. this is the noose that a staff member at alameda high found on a sidewalk near the school. alameda police confirmed they are investigating it as a hate crime. in a statement, we believe that the persons responsible could have left the rope on display with the intention of threatening another person. this small island city has experienced a rash of possible hate incidents. a flyer found near the islamic center of alameda last month, and just days before that, a window broken at a local synagogue. some alameda residents told me they are concerned. >> i think people feel more comfortable blatantly displaying racism and hatred and it's scary. >> reporter: this man claimed the media is blowing the incidents out of proportion. >> what does a noose mean? >> it actually has a very violent history for african- americans. >> a noose as a violent history for a lot of americans. african and white. >> reporter: specifically for african-americans. >> why? >> because of the long history of lynching,

. >> they put a rope around their neck like this?> could this nobel peace prize recipient be doing more to save these oppressed people? >>> pl a mysterious disappearance in the houston area. a mother of two last seen the day before the hurricane hit. her car found underwater in a motel parking lot. but police say she was not lost in the storm. >> we do believe it is probably foul play. >> the new clues uncovered in the investigation. >>> but first here tonight, the "nightline" 5. >>> and number 1 fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. >>> and number 1 and with the new fios gigabit connection... you get our fastest internet ever. with download speeds up to 940 megs - 20 times faster than most people have. for $79.99 a month online for the first year. plus hbo for one year and multi-room dvr service for two years, all with a two-year agreement. and switching has never been easier. get out of you contract with up to a $500 credit to help