so you get a few days and then you're on. >> charlie: how did you get a chicago -- south chicago accent? >> i worked with a dialect coach. >> charlie: do you have to work really hard? >> there's no magic bullet. i work really hard. then it comes. i'm not a mimic. i have to get right inside the character. >> charlie: you went and talked to sidney? >> yeah. >> charlie: what was the conversation? >> i got him on film. i taped him. he is just a gentle man, so giving. the first thing out of his mouth is support. he says, oh, i could never be as good as you, denzel. i'm, like, right, get out of here. he met my son. he just started lifting him up right away. he's just the best -- he's just the best. so, you know, i didn't go over there necessarily to get that, because i had never seen the movie from start to finish. >> charlie: did you want to? i have now, but i hadn't before. i had seen scenes from it. i just liked going over and hanging out and talking. i mean, all of this -- i met him when i was young, and he gave me some good advice earlier in my career. >> charlie: which was? he said -- t

. >>> temperatures are climbing, the city's south side braces for what could be another hot bloody summer in chicago. mayor rahm emanuel, on the city's south side gun sales are just one part of the equation. how to survive the fight for chicago from "america tonight"'s christof putzel. >> it's an all too common scene ton south side of chicago. police cordoning the area. chalk outlines. symbols of gun violence react in protest against a system that's failing osave lives. >> what do we want? when do we want it? now. >> for weeks now residents are demonstrating to bring attention to a critical need. politician he say it's all about gun control while people here say they're meesing the point. >> they -- missing a point. >> they believe our children are violent. i believe our children are suffering. >> it would be that really little little piece of light in a really dark room. >> in 1988, the university of chicago shut down the only level 1 trauma facility serving chicago on the south side. only open to children under 16. >> common sense says these people are dying because they can't get to a trauma cent

the story followed the hopes and dreams of the younger family on the south side of chicago. it anticipated the changes of the civil rights struggle, and offered a depiction of the lives of black americans that was more complex than anything else on stage. the play returns to its original theater in a new production nominated for five tony awards. denzel washington stars as walter lee younger. sophie okonedo plays his wife. and latanya richardson jackson plays lena younger, the family matriarch. i am very pleased to have them at this table, to talk about a remarkable play and what it means then, when she wrote it, and today. welcome. tell me what brought you back to this play at this time. >> kenny leon, the director, and i had great success with "fences" four years ago. the day the play closed, what are we doing next? i am going on vacation. a man gets the award. i do not know. two years later or something, we started talking. we talked about other plays, not this play at all. i figured he did not want to do it, because he had just done it. he said, it has been 10 years. we

chicago,d you get a south chicago accent?> i worked with a dialect coach. >> is that hard for an actor? >> i find it really hard. i have to work really, really hard. it is no magic bullet. i work really hard, and then it comes. i have some year, but i am not a mimic. i have to get right inside the character. i am not a comedian mimic person. >> what was the conversation? >> i have him on film. i tape him. he is a gentle man. so giving. first thing out of his mouth is support. he says, i could never be as good as you, dan zell. get out of here. he met my son first thing. he started lifting him up right away. he is just the best. he is just the best. i did not go over there necessarily to get -- because i did not -- to be honest with you, i have never seen the movie from start to finish. cresud did not want to? >> i did not want to now, but i .ever had no i just wanted to go hang out and talk. i met him when i was young. me some good advice early in my career. movie i was first going to do -- i was not going to do it. i hated i

we have flashing traffic lights due to power outages in south chicago. it stretches from 79-75. numbers look good. as the get more volume spilling in we see the slick road conditions making it possibly a heavy commute. another update in a few minutes. >>marcus is here ... hi marcus! >> i'm so excited because you're talking about everyone's favorite topic. mullets. >> patrick kane started this with his signature mullet which is here on this t-shirt. this is from last year. there is a place in chicago where he gets his hair cut and it has become a trend with fans to get these cuts. take a look. >> you have to make the top of the shorter. >> he's the general manager of the 316 club, an upscale men's salon in the loop. sports fans know him as the barber of the blackhawks. >> it started back in 2009 when patrick kane started coming in. we had a nice relationship and he started to bring in other teammates and one thing led to another and now i have 16 of them coming in here. >> things took a turn during the stanley cup run in 2010. kane was ready to do something different with his hai

the boy grew up in south side chicago in a complex known as the robert taylor homes, once the largest housing complex in the country. he was raised by single mom, shared bunk bed with her and her sister in his grandparent's two-bedroom apartment. the golden dome state house on boston's beacon street is lifetimes away from that tenement apartment, the distance between the south side and the corner office paved with education. >> without brown, would deval patrick be governor of massachusetts? >> who knows? i don't think so. the actual decision, as you know, was just about desegregating the classrooms and just about desegregating elementary school classrooms. but the import of brown was to, as i say, enable people to imagine a different kind of country and a different kind of community. and i think that's been huge. >> in the arc of civil rights history, place brown for me in terms of the importance for the advancement of life in the united states for african-americans? >> i mean, there are kind of conspicuous examples, like barack obama is our president, or me as the first african-amer

you know what's happened to the south side of chicago. what's happened here, do you think, that this sense of family -- in all communities, talking the african-american community because of brown. wat's happened? >> i think it's a critical question and i think sometimes i hear people talk about brown as responsible for the breakdown of that kind of sense of community. i don't think that's it at all. i do think there is a connectedness that in many, many quarters people no longer feel. we used to v not just the old ladies in church on the south side of chicago, but our public leaders encouraging us to turn to each other rather than on each other, talking about the stake in a strong community that we see not just in our own dreams and struggles, but neighborhoods as well. that's one of the reasons i was drawn to president obama's candidacy because he spoke in those terms. i think a lot of people connected to that because we're hungry for that connectedness. >>> i want to talk to you about your friend, barack obama. >> you mean our president

chicago. they come in dribs and dribs from different places 3. >> reporter: so far this year officers have recovered 2100 guns. on the potter south and west side of chicago the $5,000 bounty sounds like a lot of money, but members of the gangster disciples doubts the church. >> $5,000. i hope there's going to be money to bury you. >> reporter: street justice aside, the father said he handed out the reward once before. and the city's top cop stands by him. >> when it comes to the issue of firearms, he's definitely in the right place. anything that he can do to support us stopping guns from hitting the street i support. and a reward for gun runners, yes, that's obviously something that could help us. >> i think once somebody sees, wow, they're really giving a reward, or something really did go to jail who is selling guns, we'll make them an example of that. it's not the end-all answer. it's part of the answer. >> the cold realities of life on the street in a place where death is a near daily occurrence. ash har quaraishi, al jazeera america utah. chicago. >> the national memorial will take part in new york. one of the items on disp

it will hit the brakes south of chicago but we think it will press self later. the temperature range today. we have temperature ranges of a 11 degree differences. falk will be an issue today. or at a 2 mi. visibility. lansing to a half mile visibility. if it clear at the fog it will get better. showers across each of eastern and central cook county morgue could pop up later today as a front just slowly creep through. today we're up to 60 degrees. early tomorrow morning we are at 56. as we get into tomorrow we reach 72. sunshine for thursday friday and next weekend. friday's high is 77. >> some work on the bridge that we are visiting right now northbound at 57. left lane block right there. when volume is light this early it's tolerable but passed the 6:00 hour it gets bad. we have some ramps that have been closed at 88. they are going to be finished with this by the week's end. we will see changes there is been pretty rough for a while. another week left on the project. numbers look good. we will break it down for you in just a few minutes. >> a man was fatally s

you for the question and, you know, i'm embarrassed by it because i'm still a kid from the south side of chicago and people ask me questions like that, it still kind of blows my mind, so thank you. >> i talked to another guy that had been to the south side of chicago about this time in 2008, so maybe i'm in the habit of trying to look down the road a little bit. thank you, governor. >> thank you, al. >> governor deval patrick, thanks for your time this evening. >>> coming up, cheer up, congressman ryan, we figured out where your bizarre theories on poverty come from, and we're getting the "politicsnation" time machine ready. >>> plus, you've got to love this one. the party that's perfected the art of a good conspiracy theory is now worried about them. >>> and first dog sunny obama is making a big splash tonight. stay with us. awesome, amazing, that's epic, bro. whatever happened to good? good is choosing not to overshoot the moon, but to land right on it. good is maxwell house. ♪ good to the last drop cut! [bell rings] this...is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain... ...and a cho

some areas south of chicago are at 54. satellite's radar deposits shows cloud cover across the area means we are going to be cloudy to the morning. temperatures to move much. slow to warm up. to cool down later in the debris warm-up quicker. in this case the cloud cover shows a steady rise temperatures in the '70s. despite a chance for a shower or sprinkle letter today. 70 degrees today. ties with the downed 56. mostly cloudy. isolated showers is possible especially late as the war front moves through. tuesday we make 80. chants of storms and maybe a chance tonight but a better chance into tomorrow. when state climb up to 77 after that we have sunshine into the weekend. >> still had, karl rove is not backing down from comments. >> scientist revealed what makes a super-. >> its '80s. >> i will have more coming up. more great stuff ahead. >> the late michael jackson is training for his performance at the billboard awards. marcus has reactions coming up. karl rove is not backing away from what he said about hillary clinton's

see if i can be unusual and say that five of us who were members of an interracial church in chicago, on the south side of chicago, woodlawn mennonite church, had decided that we wanted to really test out our own convictions about brotherhood, as we termed it then-three white, two black -- got into an old station wagon and started out in little rock, arkansas, to drive across the south to pledge to each other that we would not allow ourselves to be separated, because we believed deeply that we were brothers in some god-given way. and as we were driving, we came into alabama, and it was clear to us that we shouldn't be in alabama without seeing martin king. and so, in those days of non-cellphones, non-computers, non-anything, we simply called his house and told coretta, who we had not met, that this crazy bunch of folks were driving through, and we wondered if we could come and see him. >> in montgomery. >> in montgomery. >> when he was head of the dexter avenue church. >> and more than that, he was recuperating at that time from the wound that he had sustained here in new york city, and he was in

they will settle south and to chicago. these look rather unimpressive.dynamics are there to get some pretty active storage. not everybody may see them. they will be in the area and we will have to watch carefully. some areas may get an inch and three- quarters of rain. here's what is driving it all. the warm air coming up from the gulf of mexico. here's a broad view of temperatures that will go into the '90s again as they did yesterday. near 100 out in kansas. that area is in terrible drought. the soil and it is that drive the air heats up like a furnace. we were up 13 degrees from where we were yesterday. 23 degrees warmer. there has been a big change. this moving depiction of a lump shows how the warm air comes in here. the stand friday we will get lake breezes. we could be talking 80 sunday. almost 26 degrees warmer than last year. two years ago we had a 90 + degree temperature on memorial day. that does happen. 69 at o'hare yesterday. these readings have already clinched yesterday's high by a wide margin. it is 81 at midway. these temperatures were u

. >> after columbia, he elects to go not just to chicago, but the south side of chicago, to be a communityrganizer. this has not only an altruistic impulse to do good, but also has to do with the construction of an identity. >> in 1988, obama entered harvard law school, where through a rigorous selection process, he was named the first black president of the law review. after graduation, he married michelle robinson, another harvard-trained lawyer. they met when she served as his mentor during a summer law firm internship. >> she's very much a partner to her husband in their relationship. she's a very accomplished person, thoughtful, and she has strong opinions about things. >> the couple made their home in chicago, where barack taught constitutional law, worked on a book about his life, and began thinking hard about his ambitions. >> if a point comes where i think that i can do more good in a political office than i can doing the things i'm doing now, then i might think about it. but that time is certainly in the future. >> two years after that interview, the future came to life, as obama

maybe some showers south of chicago early but that's it. a big change weather wise as temperatures to drop. today we make 83. on wednesday we have a 20 percent chance of rain. a few degrees cooler arm thursday. >> let's look at the traffic situation. to roll over accident out there on the west part of a 80-94 on the grant offer. the exit ramp is partially blocked. looking at this shop, you can see they're doing work on that ramp try to pull it off. no big backups because it's still so early the we're keeping our eye on this to let you know how it looks. the rest of the traffic is looking good. >> coming up a swiss bank in trouble for helping american had money. >> and a from this driving up the cost of your morning coffee. >>and next in sports -- brandon marshall picks a strange place to break news of his contract extension. oh! the name your price tool! you tell them how much you want to pay, and they help you find a policy that fits your budget. i told you to wear something comfortable! this is a polyester blend! whoa! uh...little help? i

on sunday morning i spoke to african- american baptist churches on the south side of chicago.ast sunday morning of speaking at several african- american communities. our message is a bipartisan one. he stuck to his agenda of criticizing lawmakers in springfield. >> third highest on employment rate in america. no excuse for that. great people great location. >> continues to push his platform of term limits in springfield more jobs and improved education for children. >> after cram had joined russia in march. russia has said they were just a year for training. today they released a statement saying that the exercises over in those troops are ordered. the senate has not seen any major changes so far. u.s. justice department announced a first of its kind of espionage charges. >> is a case alleging has been lodged by members of the chinese military. >> chinese officials are accused of hacking into u.s. industrial u.s. officials say labor unions say labor companies are among those. >> it is unlikely. a rare public apology from a north korean government after the apartment building c

dolton, illinois, just south of chicago. 15-year-old marshawn pitts attends a special education highchool called the academy for learning. attorney ed manske says the trouble begins when a police officer notices marshawn's shirt is not tucked in which is against school policy. >> marshawn said he was actually about to tuck it in, but the tone that the officer spoke with turned him off, and so he decided he wasn't going to tuck it in. and he then proceeded to walk away from the officer. >> school security footage shows the interaction from two angles. the school later obscures some images to protect the identity of minors. the officer, christopher lloyd, is a member of the dolton police department who stops at the school regularly as part of his patrol. marshawn and officer lloyd start yelling at each other. >> other witnesses have said there was a heated exchange, that their voices were loud. another member of the school staff. she stops. very briefly touches his wrist in her attempt apparently to calm gown the situation. >> marshawn keeps walking down the hallway. >> the police offi

two thirds happened less than six miles from the city's business and tourism district in chicago's south side where barack obama did social work the most dangerous neighborhood is named englewood for. the daily violence ravaging chicago is the result of a bloody war between street gangs but this violence has never come up in the presidential debates. englewood two am. there was a shoot out in the parking lot of the store one man was wounded another killed the shooter caught up with a man in the sally. we don't know what happened just her gunshots and the people leaving they said it may have been a drug. gang related or whatever the case may be but we don't know together as it had been open. and. you have every. other data coming. over here this inglewood men. are worse than right they did this. violence is an everyday occurrence here beleaguered residents have to live with it . over memorial day weekend alone in late may eleven people were shot to death in chicago forty six others were wounded. as your old partner in the heart of the south side. two families are mourning loved ones this

but for most youngsters in chicago's south side college. beach tutors like ronald hires are working to boost their self-confidence ronald run who's the african-american resource center monitoring and assisting students like martinez. a lot of students on a campus they're going to our classes for the summer right like he always was it took like maybe he wanted to do this i want to learn it so little time and we don't want to see you know we're not working to see you fail we look we're going to see you succeed so far so good you know man i suppose for major and one day for sure you'll never be without work saying yeah. you know i encourage a lot of the young men did i meet on the in the community and out on the streets that if you're on the block there's someone else you need to be it's not handing on the block benefit there is a block that waits for you and is called a sale block. to avoid the bullets and the president many englewood residents like martinez save up their money and move to call more neighborhoods martinez went to dalton an ho

chicago. >> of always wanted to own my own house, because i work for white people when i was in the south. beautiful homes also always said, one day i was going to have me one. >> white folks banded together. it drives me crazy even today that we don't admit that. this is the best example i can think of the institutional racism. >> to talk about "the case for reparations," we're joined by ta-nehisi coates here in new york city. welcome to democracy now! you start your article with one particular figure, clyde ross. tell us his story and why you decided to begin with them. >> mr. ross is really diplomatic much of what is happening to african-americans across the 20th century, and i emphasize 20th century. mr. ross was born in the delta region of mississippi. his family was not -- they were quite prominent farmers. they had their land and possessions taken from them through a scheme around allegedly back taxes and were reduced to sharecropping. in the sharecropping system, there was no assurances over what they might get versus what they actually picked. when i first met mr. ross, the first

we have some flashing lights on the south area of chicago and stolid--tony island. congestion building in their numbers look pretty good. no big delays. we will keep tabs on this and give you another update including a few hot spots in terms of construction all coming up in a few minutes. >> a young woman ... who may be a student at northwestern university ... was hit by a car while riding her bicycle. it happened around 11 o'clock last night near campus, at the intersection of sheridan and chicago. the car's windshield broke ... and we're hearing the car *did stop after the accident. the young woman was taken to the hospital in serious condition. we'll bring you more information as it becomes available. a fire started inside this kia dealership in burns harbor, indiana. the fire started last night from a vehicle that was in for service and spread through the garage. nobody was inside at the time. the fire was contained to the garage, but there is smoke damage in the showroom. three vehicles were also damaged. fire investigators will return this morning to find the

conflict or a shooting, it is because of something that started online, like just a few weeks ago on chicago's south two girls fighting over a boy on facebook, escalated to 14-year-old inddiao martin being shot and killed on her way open from school. chicago police say social media is increasingly important tool they're using to help prevent and solve crimes. plus superintendent gary mccarthy says it is become the modern day graffiti for gangs. rather than spray painting on somebody's fence, they do it on social media. often times because of far-reaching effects of social media and awe eyes can see it, quickly escalate into further gang violence. jenna, this is just spreading, the police departments across the country, almost all of them have some type of presence on social media and they all say within the next year, in a recent survey, that they are going to be expanding those presences. jenna? jenna: very interesting, garrett, thank you. jon: speaking of monitors, parents are using new high-tech tools to track their baby's vital signs. is this going overboard or just a smart way to keep little ch

it is not true necessarily of say the predatory contract buyers in the south side of chicago who spentyears targeting african-americans for their home equity and ripping them off as an explicitly racialized project of exploitation. >> it does exist. i'm not saying it doesn't exist. what i'm saying is we need to get to the point where we think more deeply. we're not so affected by superficial things. >> jose? >> it's beautiful. you are so right when you open somebody up, they are all pretty much the same. what's ironic and sad is when you sew them back up with your beautiful work and your hands, that person is probably going to have a lot more difficulty because of the outside color of their skin being darker than a white guy that you sewed up in the exact same manner. so we all want to look at the insides and make sure that everybody in the inside is what's important, but the fact is that there are reality in our day in age the color of your skin and who you are perceived to be has an impact on your future. >> would you have predicted 10 or 15 years ago that you would see latinos self-

a lot of moisture gets pulled up to the dakotas and chicago and just south and east of this storm is where the likelihood of severe weather. temperatures will climb each day, but there is that threat for strong thunderstorms, severe storms and flooding with very heavy rain moving into minnesota by this weekend. watch this closely slowly pulling to the east. this is the area of concern this weekend. >> thank you very much. >> we want to thank each and every one of you for watching aljazeera america. i'm del walters in new york. you can check us out 24 hours a day by going to aljazeera.com. that is where the news continues 24 hours a day, seven days a week non-stop. a. >> this is "techknow." a show about innovations that can change lives. we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and doing it in a unique way. this is a show about science by scientists. let's check out our team of hard core nerds. >> dr. crystal dilworth is a monthly ec lar neuroscientist. would you give kids marijuana if it could help them?

today and tomorrow we were month. 79 degrees in chicago much warmer south of the city. wind out of the east at 9 mi.. take your jacket and put it away today and tomorrow you won't need it until the weekend when temperatures will drop. 57 at the lakefront. 57 and bartlett. 56 and juliet. 55 in kankakee. really warmed numbers. typical high is only 10 or 12 degrees warmer. sublet composite shows a line of showers and thunderstorms missing gas it will move through detroit and eventually go through cleveland. as you look down to the southwest there's a monster. we are on the lookout for light showers popping up before lunchtime but after that it's smooth sailing this afternoon. tomorrow is a different story appears slight chance of asia restore chance of rain lenders into friday as a cold front comes through. the will drop the temperatures bring us the chance of showers on sunday. 79 degrees today. morning storms are possible. nothing to write home about. 63 degrees. tomorrow we hit 84 friday 75 degrees. >> looking at a few items causing some issues out on the roads. first p

chicago's up and coming basketball star is also from the south side. it's graduation day for the students of st sabina high. father phleger welcomes an honored guest seventeen year old joe body parker is the nation's number one ranked senior basketball player the big american teams are trying to recruit him both boys for you isn't far off just a couple weeks ago he represents a bed. next generation of leadership. thanks. to. the movies. and. for free. you might see the internet you know. it's just a few years. away. you know it was you know if you're. a supporter. our community needs to be safe. needs to be a better place mark hughes one of the kids' room i figure now a better environment to live in. really now than anything. that's a role model i want them to go after because when our young people see him and see where he's doing and do that with their own minds we get into violence because we had too many dreams out here. rather phleger has been living among gangs for over thirty years threatened regularly he's gotten to know the gangs and learned to

south. mass exodus to places like chicago and kansas. and to compare an inquiry into the deaths of four americans on another 9/11 to reconstruction is both insulting and i think invidious, silly counter productive and poison news to the national discourse. bill, i think this is a common patterned when administration gets into trouble. you saw eric holder lay down a racial charge of sorts implicitly in front of al sharpton's group recently. even michelle obama at the kansas school speech shoe gave referenced kind of a race question. this comes up again and again. it even came up in the obamacare context yesterday with senator jay rockefeller. implying that the criticism about obamacare is racially based somehow. and all i would say is if the congressman is saying all these things are being drummed up, i have a question for him. is the fact that median income is flat lining, is that charge drummed up or the fact that we have record number of people on food stamps? is that drummed up? how about the approval ratings for president obama? thos

for the other kids on welfare on the south side of chicago in the 50's and 60's. >> we heard earlier about some of the amazing things that brown has achieved. but governor wilder -- and you alluded to it but let's be a little bit specific. when you look around this nation, even around this room, tell me some of the things that you are proudest of that brown led to. >> you know, in the words of he negro national anthem, born in the days when hope undid -- unborn was dead. was dead. can you imagine the people that had no hope, no aspirations? and no one even preaching it. other than in their own families, in their own -- our teachers. even though we were -- we had segregated schools, we had the best possible teachers. i mean, they were dedicated, they didn't watch the clock. they disciplined you. you rounded your d's, you crossed your t's and dotted your i's and you kept your mouth shut. and what brown did in terms of that aspiration, it made people believe, as the governor has so beautifully pointed out, that it's no more than the normal expectation of anyone growing up, anyone being

tornado threat we saw on sunday but widespread gusty winds, large hail from detroit and chicago all the way south into dallas. keep it mild across the east. feeling like summer here and temperatures continue to climb as we head through the week across the west. john and diana, back to you. >> jim, thank you. >>> both of the embattled owners of the los angeles clippers are speaking out this morning. shelly sterling tells abc's barbara walters that her estranged husband is in the onset of dementia. >> and she says even if donald sterling is forced to sell the team because of his controversial comments, she should be able to retain the 50% that she owns. >> mrs. sterling, you own 50% of the l.a. clippers. the nba may insist that the team be sold. what would you do then? >> well, that's -- i'm fighting for my 50%. >> well, there are reports that the nba wants to oust you completely as a team owner. you'll fight that decision. >> i will fight that decision. >> what does the team mean to you? >> it means a lot. i've been with the team for 33 years, through the good times and the bad times, and it's my

colorado, san antonio, texas, augusta, georgia, memphis, tennessee, columbia, south carolina, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, chicago illinois with news stories being covered almost every single day. mr. speaker, these stories were crystallized for me and other members at a recent hearing that we had on patient wait times on the 9th of april. mr. barry cotes, a veteran from columbia, south carolina, informed the committee that he waited almost a year to receive a colonoscopy at v.a. when he finally received his appointment, it was revealed that he had stage 4 colon cancer. mr. cotes testified, and i quote, the gross negligence and crippling backlog epidemic of the varks a. health system has not only handed me a death sentence but ruined my quality of life. mr. speaker, the need for accountability to help veterans like mr. cotes is the reason why h.r. 4031 is so critically important. the v.a. management accountability act of 2014 would give the secretary the authority to fire or to demote v.a. senior executive service or equivalent employees based on performance at any time. the current system is so calcified in bure

further south, nice in chicago, mid 60, 74. up to 77 degrees in kansas city. further south, that is where things are going to sizzle. we'll deal with high fire danger across the southern plains. it will stay on the dry side. 91 in oklahoma city, 92 in dallas, low 90s around san antonio and maybe triple digit heat sunday, monday and tuesday. the heat will stick around. we'll run above average. dallas - textures into the low 90, next week into the work week text doors running where they should be. atlanta topping out at 74. >> at least 19 were injured when a new york city subway derailed. the train was in quoops when it started to shake and tilt. six of eight cars came off the track. passengers say they were trapped for two hours. new york has one of the largest public transportations in the world. here is a look at some past derailments. may last year a train went off the tracks in northern manhattan and no one was injured. in 2000 a car in brooklyn jump off the track. more than 80 were injured, and one of the worst derailments happened in 199 is. five were kill

chicago police bomb and arson investigators are looking into a string of suspicious fires on the south side. about 20 vehicles were torched during a six hour period early yesterday morning, while they were parked in the englewood and marquette park neighborhoods. the vehicles were entered without any windows being broken. items inside were set on fire. investigators say accelerants were not used, just a flame. some of the victims said they did not lock their doors. >> i woke up this morning it was in flames. >> we heard popping noises we didn't know what was golan but looked out the window. >> no suspects in custody. >>francis cardinal george is scheduled to give a deposition today in lawsuits involving a former priest and convicted sex offender. the deposition could take the place of testimony during a trial. the cardinal will be asked about what he knew about daniel mccormack's criminal behavior. a review board of lay people voted overwhelmingly to remove mccormack in 2005. the cardinal has been criticized for keeping mccormack in charge of his west side parish. mccormack was arreste

for the other kids on welfare, inthe south side of chicago the 1950's and 1960's. >> we heard sherrilyn ifill talk earlier about some of the amazing things that brown has wilder,, but governor and you alluded to it but let's be a little specific. thisyou look around nation, even around this room, thatme some of the things you are proudest of that brown .ed to ofyou know, in the words , "born inonal anthem unborn wasen hope dead." imagine a people that andno hope, no aspiration, no one even preaching it? other than in their own families, in this their own -- though we had segregated schools, we had the best possible teachers. dedicated. they didn't watch the clock. they disciplined you. rounded your ds, crossed i's and youtted the kept your mouth shut. brown did in terms of that aspiration, it made people believe, as governor brown has , thatutifully pointed out it's no more than the normal growingion of anyone up, anyone being a part of the .abric i remember one of my teachers at proctor --ion, sam you know him well. part of the being a politics, being a part of the decision-making proc

chicago. about 1,000 homes have been evacuated south of anchorage.t this point the blaze can about 30 porras contained thanks to more than 600 firefighters on the scene. >>> pope francis is planning a meeting with victims of sexual abuse. the pope announce d those while on the plane. it comes as part of a zero tolerance plan for anyone in the catholic church who has abused children. he will meet with rate victims next month and cardinal sean patrick o'malley from boston who is head of the commission for the protection of minors. >>> vigils taking place in isla vista, california, following a deadly rampage near the university of california santa barbara. as we learn more about those who were killed many are asking a painful question, could something have been done to prevent the attack. we have the latest now. >> reporter: a mother and father embraced in their doorway in anguish and tears. >> i just think god why don't take me, instead my son? >> reporter: their son way haha wang was among the first victims. >> shots fired. >> reporter: it was a long

for the other kids on welfare on the south side of chicago in the 50's and 60's. >> we heard earlier about some of the amazing things that brown has achieved. but governor wilder -- and you alluded to it but let's be a little bit specific. when you look around this nation, even around this room, tell me some of the things that you are proudest of that brown led to. >> you know, in the words of the negro national anthem, born in the days when hope unborn was dead. was dead. can you imagine the people that had no hope, no aspirations? and no one even preaching it. other than in their own families, in their own -- our teachers. even though we were -- we had segregated schools, we had the best possible teachers. i mean, they were dedicated, they didn't watch the clock. they disciplined you. you rounded your d's, you crossed your t's and dotted your i's and you kept your mouth shut. and what brown did in terms of that aspiration, it made people believe, as the governor has so beautifully pointed out, that it's no more than the normal expectation of anyone growing up, anyone being a part o