. >>> on to selma, alabama now to today. vice president joe biden is helping mark a civil rights milestone. 48 years ago this month when alabama state troopers and others attacked a peaceful group of marchers, they were marching from selma to montgomery in support of what would become the voting rights act. a live report from selma coming up minutes from now. >>> buckingham palace is canceling or postponing all of queen elizabeth's official engagements this week. she was taken to the hospital today. suffering from flu-like symptoms. our richard quest is at the hospital and joining us now. richard, what is the latest on her condition. >> well all we know is that this afternoon, after presenting some long service medals at windsor castle, the queen who had been suffering from gastroenteritis was driven in a private car to the king edward vii hospital. that's all we know. except 230r the fact that all her engagements over the next few days will either be canceled or postponed. and that would include a trip that she and her husb

. >>> in selma, alabama, today, thousands are rein act an historic march. vice president joe biden is helping mark a civil rights milestone. it was 48 years ago this month when alabama state troopers and others attacked a peaceful group of marchers. they were marching from selma to montgomery in support of what would become the voting rights act. we will have a live report from selma coming up in just a few minutes. >>> right now u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in saudi arabia for talks. earlier today, he was in egypt meeting with president mohammad morsi. kerry announced the u.s. is starting a fund providing direct support for democratic reform in egypt. the first installment is $60 million. but kerry says the pledge will rise to $300 million in the years ahead. >>> back in the u.s. now, a horrifying car accident has rocked a hassidic jewish community brooklyn, new york an orthodox jewish couple expecting their first baby died when their cab was hit by another car. susan candiotti joining us live from new york. susan, the couple's baby, a little boy,

. >> when bloody selma happened and then dr.ded to march again after it, what was the mood? >> the mood was the mood was rebellious. the question is, what do we do in the face of this kind of rage and this kind of mayhem. the bottom line was that we go back as often as necessary. >> belafonte, enlisted by dr. king to bring artists into the movement, convinced the likes of joan baez, paul newman and marlon brando, but one of his first calls was to old friend and supporter tony bennett. >> i didn't want to do it, but then he told me what was going down, how some blacks were burned with gasoline thrown on them and they were burned. when i heard that's correct i said i'll go with you. >> in that black/white divide, white faces would see your face. what do you think they thought about you? >> that you're a traitor. there was a spirit that we decided we would just march right through it, no matter what. >> reporter: after a federal court affirmed the right to march against the government and national guard troops were ordered to prote

and our very own victor blackwell is live in selma.tor, voting rights back in the news with this case before the supreme court. do we expect the vice president will address it when he's in selma today? >> absolutely. the vice president's office said part of the reason he is coming here is to recognize the role in the civil rights movement but undoubt undoubtedly, he will mention this today. over a portion of the 1965 voting right act, section 5 which gives the government oversight in certain states and certain cities and one area in alabama, shelby county says that is burdensome. the federal government saying that those laws are still needed to make sure that everyone has a part of the franchise and is able to vote freely. we'll hear from him today. he had no idea that america will be fighting and refighting so many fights that he thought would be settled. part of what he will talk about today, but also recognize this area's role in the civil rights movement. >> victor, do we have a sense of how big these crowds are going to be and how

selma or not, anniversary or not. >> alice, i want to bring this in.ourt. >> i agree with bob 100%. i do believe scalia was way out of his line in his references to the perpetuation of racial issues in this, but i do agree with justice kennedy and times change and we've come a long way but it is important to look at whether or not we need to hold these states that have been singled out in section v, whether or not they need to seek special privilege from the courts when we're talking about changes in elections. times change and i think it's a veiled issue for the justices to raise. but i also want to point out in your interview earlier with the reverend martin luther king's daughter earlier, the ceremony today is so important to not only remember how far we've come but, as she said so eloquently, make sure we don't go back to where we came from. >> i would add to what alice said. hear a lot about the rhetoric and heard a lot about singling states. all states, all 50, are singled out in another section of the voting rights act, section ii. section v doe

weekend in alabama, as people gathered to mark two of the milestones of the civil rights movement, selma and montgomery, cities and symbols of that movement. but along with remembrance, there was healing and a long overdue apology. it was one of the iconic it was one of the iconic moments of the civil rights struggle, the march from selma, alabama, to montgomery in march 1965. marchers were turned back twice, beaten so badly on their first attempt 48 years ago that the day would forever be known as bloody sunday. >> we are marching today to dramatize to the nation -- >> reporter: a young john lewis was a leader of that march. now a long-time congressman from georgia, lewis was back in selma today, along with vice president biden, as he led a crowd of thousands across the edmund pettus bridge. >> we were beaten, tear gas, trampled by horses, but we didn't give up. >> reporter: nor did they forget the other clashes of the struggle. lewis was part of a congressional delegation that laid a wreath at a civil rights memorial in montgomery, where blood was shed long before selma. later came an

that's why we were marching in selma today.made that clear when he spoke at the bridge. >> although our nation has, indeed, changed, although the south is far different now and progress has been made, we are not yet where the most vital part of the voting rights act, section five, can be deemed unnecessary. the struggle for voting rights for all americans does and must continue and it will. it will and joe biden was the first sitting vice president ever to attend the event. great that he was there. >> my mother, god love her, used to say the most important virtue of all, joe, is courage because all other virtues flow from it. and, my god, did you show courage. as i sit here and think about it, john, you and jesse and dr. king and others could

people go into selma is a whole different game. >> reporter: harry bellefonte remembers the backdrop,ery marches in 1965. 50 miles had to be covered, but the real obstacle was hate. not long after 600 marchers began on sunday, march 7th, police brutally beat them, driving them back to selma. >> when bloody sunday happened and then dr. king decided to march again after it. what was the mood? >> the mood was anger. the mood was rebellious. the question is, what do we do in the face of this kind of rage and mayhem. the bottom line is we will go back as often as necessary. >> reporter: bring artists into the movement convince the likes of joe biaz and marlin brando but one of his first calls was to old friend and supporter tony bennett. >> i didn't want to do it, but then he told me what went down, what was going down and how some blacks were burned with gasoline thrown on them and they were burned. when i heard that i said, i'll go with you. and that black/white divide. white faces would see your face. what do you think they thought about you? >> traitor. the spirit that we decided we're

everybody remembers that he duringwe shall overcome" the selma march.he said there are times when destiny and freedom come together in a single moment, and that was as it was in appomattox during the civil war, and so it was in selma. johnson is welcoming a black-led movement, from the revolution to the civil war, but to the vanguard of it, a non-violent movement, saying this is showing us what our principles mean, and that is a very, very profound and radical memory, and i think people want to forget that as much as they want to sanitize martin luther king. tavis: yes. tell us about the 18. you have whittled them down. you picked 18 historical moments that basically turned this country during the civil rights era. i know we cannot go through all of them. my question i guess is how you settled on these 18 monumental moments in our history. >> well, first of all, i have to say that since i had to eliminate 95% of what i wrote, there was a lot of blood on the floor, and it was not easy. what i tried to do was to pick moments that delivered the fall span o

we'll keep an eye on that and come back to you in selma. thanks. >>> senator mitch mcconnell accuses a liberal group using racial slurs to criticize his wife. former labor secretary elaine cho. sent out a tweet that implies cho's asian background is linked with u.s. jobs moving to china. she moved to the u.s. when she was 8 and mcconnell called the comments "the ultimate outrage." progress, kentucky, has taken them off twitter and has apologized and will be a guest on "state of the union." >>> searchers outside of tampa have given up on finding a man who disappeared when a sinkhole opened under his bed. later this morning demolition crews will start tearing down the house and authorities say the ground is so unstable that it's too dangerous to look for jeff bush's body. the hole is about 50 feet deep and 30 feet wide and soil testing showed it could swallow up more houses in the neighborhood. two familialli families had to leave. >> we did some testing and we determined that the house right next to the house that is actually damaged, which

well, the marchers never got far out of selma.re set on by police with billy clubs and tear gas. john lewis was clubbed in the head violently enough that he is lucky not to have died. two days later the marchers came back with not 600 people this time, but 2500 people. and they crossed the bridge. the following sunday, they marched again, and it was not 2500 people, but 25,000 people by the time they walked all the way to the montgomery state capital. and president johnson had by then convened a joint session of congress, citing selma, siting those beatings on that bridge and demanding the legislation that became the voting rights act of 1965, which is what the supreme court is now considering gutting. yesterday they marched across the edmund pettus bridge again. it has become an annual event, with members of congress and elected officials and community leaders and civil rights workers all celebrating the courage of the people who first made that trip half a century ago. vice president biden was there this year. at the event he ap

it happened because of selma in 1965.demonstration now have the effect of helping to save it? joinings us now from selma, alabama for the interview is the director a member of the voting rights act team. >> thanks for having me. >> do you think it is fair the say that public pressure, a social movement, political activism is a big part of the immediate reason that we got the voting rights act in the first place so, it's appropriate to question whether it might still be effective? >> absolutely, rachel. i was struck by the reality. as i talk to you tonight, i'm less than 100 feet from the edmund pettus bridge where 48 years ago, courageous women, men, and children marched over the edmund put us the bridge to dramatize to the nation, indeed to the world their desire to be treated as equal citizens under the law and to have full access to the ballot. now, you know and your viewers know that when they crossed over the bridge that connects selma, alabama, to montgomery, they were met by alabama state troopers who spat on them,

selma and montgomery, you were just there for that event.t happened over 50 years that we are going to be commemorating over the next five years. you were there for much of that. how you read the ark of american progress or lack thereof over --se five decades gammon's five decades? >> it is important for people to participate. the answer my friend is blowing in the wind ♪ the answer is slowing and went region flowing in the wind -- the answer is blowing in the wind ♪ ♪ many years and some people exist before they are allowed to be free ♪ imagine seeing that in washington. that gives you an emotional sense. it is a genius. when we started at the time of the civil rights movement, it gotted before 1963, but it its momentum. in our nation's capital, there were signs above the water fountains, the bathrooms. marion anderson could not sing at constitution hall, and i was just in birmingham. there is of black mayor. the town has grown, and there was a lynching once every three days. now we have an african-american president. that is a genius. take

i wanted to talk to somebody about it i talked to john lewis who was nearly killed on a bridge in selma week before president johnson formed a session of congress to talk about what they did to the man in selma. john lewis is still in congress. there's no camera. we never get footage of what happens in there. it's weird to see antonin scalia in person. weird. >> jon: does he. i only read some of the transcripts of what he was saying. he was saying we've got to get rid of this because it's one of last invest yijs of racial preference. >> he said when congress reupped they looked into whether or not it was still necessary. ten months of debate, 21 hearings, 15,000 pages of evidence and in the senate they voted 98-0, yeah we still need but he said, yeah what does that vote mean. >> jon: didn't he say we told them to fix this in 2006 but clearly they can't or won't so we have to do it for them. >> voting is a racial entitlement now. something you are entitled to on the basis of your race. wait a second. do you know how it sounds. i think he does know. that's the neat thing about being there

>> victor blackwell for us in selma, alabama.hank you very much. >>> a new day for the catholic church, with division in the ranks. the next pope faces a daunting task. even among nuns in the u.s. we'll have that next. you know who you are. you can part a crowd, without saying a word... if you have yet to master the quiet sneeze... you stash tissues like a squirrel stashes nuts... well muddlers, muddle no more. try zyrtec®. it gives you powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because zyrtec® starts working at hour one on the first day you take it. claritin® doesn't start working until hour three. zyrtec®. love the air. >>> half past the hour now. let's look at the top headlines. >>> britain's queen elizabeth will probably spend the next two days in the hospital. doctors admitted the queen today with the stomach flu. buckingham palace said the 86 yltds queen is in good health and good spirits and that she's in the hospital as a precautionary measure. >>> another high-tech space milestone today, way over ou

. >>> thousands of people gathered in selma, alabama this weekend to honor and remember those who were part of the bloody march there 48 years ago. congressman john lewis, an original freedom writer joined vice president joe biden and other elected and civil rights leaders for the annual bridge crossing jubilee. voting rights marchers were beaten by state troopers as they began to march to montgomery in march of 1956. as part of the weekend memorials, the chief of police in montgomery publicly apologized to congressman lewis for his department's failures during that violence. >> needed to be spoken because we have to live with the truth, and it is the truth. >> this is the first chief any place in america to issue an apology. and it's -- it means a great deal. >> the 50-mile march that began in selma prompted congress to strike down racist voting laws, and ended all white rule in the south. we'll be right back. medications? i don't know. last immunization shots? really? honey, what's my blood pressure medicine called? one time i took something and i blew up like a puffer fish. i'm prob

lessons in courage lie from selma at the top of the hour. >>> i'm fredricka whitfield.ues right now. >>> first we went over the cliff and now we have been sequestered all in the span of two months. how bad are these automatic spending cuts economically in the short term and long run? how bad does the united states look to the rest of the world. we will ask all this to our panel, zanny minton beddoes economic editor of the economist, david leonhardt and roger atman has done two stints at the highest levels of the u.s. treasury and then went on to found evercorp partners. welcome all. david, you wrote a piece in which you said, this isn't so bad after all. that's sort of what the republicans are saying. so, let me give you the opposite view which is, you only have seven months to squeeze all these cuts in. while it looks like it's 2%, since so much is exempt, it is a lot more than 2% and because it's done in this cleaver-like fashion you can't scalp, so, in fact, this will look pretty bad. >> all depends on what your priorities are. if it won't matter, clearly won't matte

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he's there in selma. victor, i understand you spoke with one of the attorneys who argued this case before the supreme court. what did he have to say? >> i did. special counsel to the naacp legal defense fund. he was arguing alongside the u.s. solicitor general. he will say what we're expecting the vice president to talk about today during a keynote address at a brunch before he crosses the edmund pettus bridge that the voting rights of 1965 should be continued as it's been reauthorized without being dismantled as the county in alabama is trying to take out one part of it. they are trying to have the supreme court overturn section 5 of the voting rights act, which gives the federal government the opportunity to negate or overturn elements of voting laws in certain states. alabama is one of them. here is what he said about a comment made by justice scalia calling that section racial entitlement. >> from the perspective of a civil rights lawyer and american, it completely denies our history. the voting right

driving them back to selma. >> when bloody sunday happened, and dr.? >> the mood was anger, rebellious. the question is what do we do in the face of this kind of rage? the bottom line was that we will go back as o as necessary. >> reporter: belafonte, enlisted by dr. king to bring artists into the movement, convinced the likes of joan baez, paul newman, marlon brando. but one of the first calls was to old friend and supporte eer y bennett. >> i didn't want to do it but then he told me what was going down. when blacks were burned, gasoline thrown on them, and they were burned. when i said that, i said i'll go with you. >> and that black/white divide, white faces would see your face. what do you think they thought about you? >> that you are a god damned traitor. there was a spirit. we decided we would march right through it, no matter what. >> reporter: after a federal court affirmed the right to march against the government and national guard troops ordered to protect marchers, protesters grew from 600 to 25,000. to ral oath crowd, the artists came for

plus.the vice president apologizes for his belated civil rights trip to selma. and a newborn baby struggling for his life tonight as his parents are killed in a car accident on the way to deliver him. >> fisherman's wharf can be full of excitement - from the quirky street performers to the pungent smells of cooked crab. but it is also a place to find, well. we'll let stanley roberts show you, in this special sunday edition of people behaving badly. >> down on fishermans wharf the san francisco police are not clowing around about the rules this is kenny the clown and he is getting a ticket for skateboarding which is not permitted the port of san francisco has just opened this promanade which looks nice with the new seats but it seems even the new places have that home town feel and for what ever reason even with all the wonderful sites to photograph this is what captures some people's attention this police officer is trying to clear up a little dispute, apparently this man wasn't sharing with these men you see there are rules for street performers when it comes t

half ago he talked about the lessons we need to learn, the important milestones from seneca falls and selma, stonewall. the milestones of the women's rights movement and the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement. and that was a great, a great speech for reminding us how important it is that we stand on the shoulders of these great people who came before us, and who have turned radical ideas to commonsense ideas, and expanded our democracy and made our society more democratic. but one of the things i noticed in the speech and you probably noticed it yourself was that there was something missing in that litany of great moments, great milestones of progressive history, seneca falls, selma and stonewall. and that was really nothing about the labor movement and that speech. and i thought to myself, like, why not? and why was a later movement missing. and then i thought welcome maybe it's because there was no great milestones of the labor movement that begin with the letter s. i was trying to think if i was a speechwriter and is trying to inject the labor movement into the obama and n

she was an exceptional public servant who passionately represented selma. on a personal note, jean martin served with my number on the selma city council and was a beloved colleague and close family friend. my brothers and i closed her t. jean. she was a role model to me and i credit her love for community. i am now in congress and stand on her shoulders because of the many glass ceilings that this strong woman who died at 89. she was a wonderful public servant and i ask my colleagues in the house to join me in paying tribute to the life and legacy of jean martin. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin rise? >> permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to congratulate heyward high school lady kanes for winning the state hockey championship. in only their sixth year in playing varsity-level hockey, they won in a thrilling 5-2 match. the lady canes outskated for three periods and took the first heyward high school -- hockey championship. with gr

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going back to selma now shows how much progress has been made over the past four decades.t what still what needs to be done in terms of voting rights, preserving voting rights for all people? >> congressman lewis has authored this bill about voting rights. we had 200,000 people in florida, joe, that didn't get to vote in the last election because of lines. we had, in the last election previous, we had 3 million people who had voter registration problems and weren't able to vote. so if we could register online, be able to vote early, we could change some of the dynamics that result in long lines and people being denied the right to vote. so we want to basically renew and revive the civil rights movement in terms of making sure every american gets to vote. >> so you're telling me 200,000 voters didn't vote in florida. so mitt romney could have won? is that what we're saying here? >> who knows? but i doubt those were voters that would have supported mitt romney. >> i might have lost my bet to axelrod! you know what i don't get, barnicle, what i don't get is you have the supre

. >>> on to selma, alabama, now. thousands are re-enacting an historic march. was 48 years ago this month when alabama state troopers and others attacked a peaceful group of marchers, marching from selma to montgomery in support of what would become the voting rights act. vice president joe biden told a commemoration ceremony that the fight for civil rights is not over. >> we still have a lot of work to do, but i think it will be easier, a lot easier than it was 48 years ago, for one overwhelming reason. what we all did here 48 years ago changed the hearts and the minds of the vast majority of the american people. that's why i'm absolutely convinced we will prevail in the new fight with regard to voter access and voter rights. >> the vice president said it was one of his regrets he didn't join the civil rights marchers back in 1965. >>> a 911 operator begs a nurse at an assisted living facility to help a dying woman but she won't do it. listen to this. >> the nurse says it's against policy for her to help. details on that next. >>> plus, the gop throws itself a

we are in selma. in garage door is what the crew was just beginning to tag when they were caught. police came down and they were beginning to outline what they were going to color in with their graffiti. but a neighbor called after she heard them about 3:30 this morning. we have video when police arrived and ten were arrested, 10 adults and 1 juvenile. what surprised police is these people have backpacks filled and filled with graffiti kansas. 30 kansas of spray. this is unprecedented to discover this big of a graffiti ring. they also had large markers and pens inside their backpacks. san francisco police say this is an unusual bust but they are pleased to take steps to put an end to tagging across the city. six months ago they arrested four people who were responsible for many cases of vanneddism and also here in and around selma. they continue to have graffiti problems here so they are glad to make the arrests this morning. they will be charged with few felonies, felony vandalism and felony conspiracy. reporting live in san francisco, kira klapper, abc7 news. >> thank you, kira.

from selma to stonewall is why today matters so much.ourt arguments on same-sex marriage are an argument about civil rights. the rights of every man and woman. the rights we fought to gain and protect. we can't support equal rights for some, but deny those rights to others. the journey for equal rights extends far and wide. its path carves through new york and the stonewall riots of 1969 which gave birth to the gay rights movement. that same passion drove hundreds to wait in long lines for a chance to be in the courtroom today, waiting in the cold, waiting in the rain, waiting in the snow. waiting because of what today represents. our nation is built for everyone. no matter who you are or who you love. 50 years ago interracial marriage was banned in large parts of the country. but one courageous couple, richard and mildred loving, believed we could do better. they fought for their marriage all the way to the supreme court. and they won. in 1967, the justices said bans on interracial marriage were unconstitutional. the lovings were inspir

. >>> thousands of people gathered in selma, alabama to honor and remember those who were part of the bloody march there 40 years ago. congressman john lewis joined vice president joe biden and other elected and civil rights leaders for the annual bridge crossing jubilee. as part of the weekend of memorial the chief of police in montgomery publicly apologized for his department's failures during the violence. >> it needed to be spoken because we have to live with the truth and it is the truth. >> this is the first chief in america to issue an apology. and it means a great deal. >> the march prompted congress to strike down racist voting laws and ended all white rule in the south. ♪ roundup ♪ i want a weed free season, that's how i roll ♪ ♪ so i reach for roundup extended control ♪ ♪ with the all-new, no pump, one-touch wand ♪ ♪ it kills weeds dead and keeps weeds gone ♪ [ whip cracks ] ♪ roundup extended control ♪ i just spray them weeds, then spray them cracks ♪ ♪ the weeds are gone, and they won't be back ♪ ♪ driveway, patio, i just spray once ♪ ♪ and it's adios weeds for up to four

the middle of a three-day march commemorating the 1965 march there in selma.l you, for me, when i got back to delaware, reverend, my city was one of the cities burned down. a big chunk of it. jesse knows my city as well as anybody i know. i don't know how many times, jesse, you've been to my city. i came back to delaware working for what they call a white shoe law firm. a good law firm. the oldest law firm in the state that barely hired me because of my grades. well, you know, you only get to take the bar exam in delaware once, reverend. you get to take it once a year. and so they let you -- they let you study for it. and they -- you take it in september. you get the results in december. by that time, i had been home. 1965, dr. king was assassinated. 1965, bobby kennedy was assassinated. '68, i mean. when i graduated from law school. i'm thinking when i graduated from college in '65. '68 i graduated from law school and came home to wilmington. i realized i wasn't real happy doing what i was doing so i became a public defender. and i -- first cases i had were r

vice president joe biden traveled to selma, alabama today to help mark the 48th anniversary of the historic rights march. in 1965, peaceful protesters, asking for the right to vote, were beat by police and attacked by dogs as they tried to cross the edmund pettus bridge. police used batons and tear gas on the demonstrators. in what became known as "bloody sunday." civil rights leaders joined vice president joe biden to commemorate the day. the vice president said he was a senior in college then and he apologized for not taking part in the march. >> i was involved in my state in a small way, which was still fighting the lingering vestiges of jim crow, but i regret and although it's not part of what i'm supposed to say, apologize, it took me 48 years to get here. i should have been here. i should have been here. it's one of the regrets i have and many of my generation have. >> the vice president went on to say the march and events surrounding it were an awakening for him and other americans as well. >> former n-b-a star dennis rodman is talking about his trip to north korea. he met with the c

he joined hundreds of others in selma, alabama, to commemorate bloody sunday.hat was the day in 1965 when civil rights marchers were attacked by state police on a now famous bridge in selma. they were marching to pressure congress to pass the voting rights bill, and biden said today he should have been there. >> i was involved in my state in a small way, which was still fighting the lingering vestiges of jim crow, but i regret, and although it's not part of what i'm supposed to say, apologize. it took me 48 years to get here. i should have been here. i should have been here. it's one of the regrets that i have and many of my generation have. >> biden march today with georgia congressman john lewis who was among those beaten on blood ji sunday. facebook's sheryl sandberg says women have an ambition gap. it's sparking controversy even before her book officially goes on sale. and then there's this, yahoo! ceo marissa meier banned telecommuting for all yahoo! employees. a few months ago she boasted she only needed two weeks of maternity. >>> the backlash is intense

joe biden was in selma, alabama, to march in the annual bridge crossing.n said there's been great progress on civil rights but the fight is not over. >> look, folks, here we are. 48 years after all you did, and we're still fighting? in 2011, '12 and '13? >>> on the new updated list of top donors of president obama were will smith and wife jada pinkett smith. >>> mitt romney's wife ann said that she did did consider appearing on "dancing with the stars," but she was not in top shape. she was glad because she didn't have to compete against former olympic skating star dorothy hamill. >>> dennis rodman made friends with north korean's kim jong-un watching basketball game. >> he wanted to give president obama something to say. he wants president obama to call him. >> he wants a call from president obama? >> that's right. >>> check this out, washington state lawmaker ed orcutt came up with a reason to pass bicycling law. according to science, he's completely wrong one study said that driving car produces ten times more co2 emissions than riding a bike. >>> nbc m

he joined thousands of marches yesterday in selma, alabama.n event that lead to the passing of the voting rights action. congressman john lewis was there during the original march nearly 48 years ago. >>> most senior church official in britain admits that he's guilty of misconduct and is asking for forgooivforgiveness. cardinal o'brien stepped down last week after claims of abusz surfaced from four other priests. the accusers were still in the seminary. quote, i wished to take this opportunity to admit that my my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest, archbishop and cardinal. >>> analysts said that tit will likely cast a pal. >>> more overseas news, queen elizabeth is in good spirit after being hospitalized for the stomach bug. the 86-year-old monarch was take on the the hospital yesterday simply as a precautionary measure. her last hospitalization was in 2003 for an operation to repair damaged cartilage in her knee. the queen's calendar has been cleared for the rest of the week to allow her a full recovery.

we played footage of him at selma.estly, look, eric cantor has gotten painted as a very specific type of politician. he has made a lot of attempts in recent weeks to say that the gop is much more welcoming to have more sort of outreach to minorities, to, you know, put a message out there that republicans are not just the party of rich people. ryan li sfwl a has an interesting and compelling profile of cantor from last week, and i'll read a quick excerpt from it. he writes since the 2012 elections the republicans have been divided between those who believe their policies are the problem and those who believe they just need better marketing. between those who believe they need to make better pizza and those who just think they need a more attractive box. eric cantor, who is known among his colleagues as someone with strategic intelligence and knack for political positioning argues that it's the box. >> i think eric cantor represents probably -- i don't want to speak for the republican party, but most of those who are the

before any sit in, before any sit in at a theater, before any march whether it was a march from selma to montgomery or the freedom ride or the march on washington we studied and we prepared ourselves. we studied the philosophy and the disciplindisciplin e of nonviolence. we studied what gandhi attempted to do in south africa. we studied what he accomplished in india. we studied the role of disobedience and we studied the great religions of the world. and when it was time for the young people to sit in, we did. many of us use nonviolence not simply as a technique or but it as a way of life in the way of living. we wanted as dr. king was there the soul of america to create a beloved community. you heard in the introduction i did get arrested a few times. 40 times. during the 60s but since i've been in congress i got arrested four more times around the issues of south africa and around what was going on in sudan. but we never gave up during those days. we never gave in. them. we never gave out in spite of being beaten, left bloody and unconscious, having a concussion on that ridge. i sti

anniversary of bloody sunday when alabama troopers beat back civility rights protesters marching from selmaghts. bill plante brings us the story of peggy wallace, daughter of former alabama governor george wallace and her own march to personal redemption. >> segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever. >> reporter: at his inauguration in 1963 alabama governor george wallace personified racist defiance of civil rights. six months later he blocked the doors of the university of alabama to prevent integration. his daughter peggy was 13 at the time. >> the problems and the challenges that came with being the daughter of the governor who stood in the schoolhouse door to block two african-americans from going to school was very, very difficult. >> but when you were younger, did you think his earlier positions were wrong? >> my mother kept us very, very sheltered, so there were a lot of things that we didn't really know about, and so we weren't able to really think about them or have an opinion. >> peggy wallace married and raised two sons in alabama, rarely speaking about her f

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