. >> reporter: steven smith was there and witnessed the moments the teenagers tried to find fox >> people swimming with him were panicking they went back in trying to look for him. i guess the current took him out >> the father wants details on what happened and says he's hearing different accounts. he's hopeful authorities will find his son. >> my son beautiful and a great kid, never hurt nobody and harmless, and i don't understand what's going on right now. >> reporter: according to philadelphia police, northeast detectives are currently investigating all avenues. they have is already spoken to the three teenagers that were in the water with the missing 16-year-old. reporting live in torresdale, annie mccormack, channel 6 action news. walter back to you. >>> at least 200 acres torched in a brush fire in burlington county new jersey. started about 10:00 this morning in shamong township and burned most of the day before firefighters gained the upper hand. some crews battle the flames, others protected nearby homes and businesses. nobody has been injured. >>> a 2-year-old is hospitalized a

. >> reporter: eyewitness steven smith says the scene was chaotic along the dark river. >> they werell panicking and trying going in and looking for him and the current took them. >> reporter: fox's family provided "eyewitness news" with this picture and told us antawn was not a good swimmer. marine police searched along the river bank all day saturday as family and friends prayed and cried together. caesar says that he and fox were classmates at abraham lincoln high school and played football together. >> teenager thing you see in the movie where they all jump together we tried to do that last one together and -- >> reporter: we have not gotten any update from the police during the day top found a out where they stand with the search and what their plans are going forward. family left this afternoon try and get a little break. live in northeast philadelphia, i'm cleve bryan, cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> all right, chief thank you very much. >>> now after days of warmer weather today was considerably cooler outside. rain fell across the region. looks like more might be on the way. chel

. >> reporter: eyewitness steven smith says the scene was chaotic along the dark river. >> they werell panic. they went in looking for him hm everybody came over. that's when the fire trucks came. >> reporter: fox's family provided "eyewitness news" with this picture and told us antawn was not a good swimmer. marine police searched along the river bank all day saturday as family and friends prayed and cried together. caesar says that he and fox were classmates at abraham lincoln high school and played football together. >> a teenaged thing you ever see like in the movies where they all jump together. we tied to do that last one together. >> reporter: we did see a helicopter over the scene earlier on saturday. no word from philadelphia police what the plan is going forward. in northeast philadelphia, i'm cleve bryan cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> a 300-acre forest fire in shamong township burlington county, new jersey, is now 50 percent contained. evesham fire rescue sent us this photo of the fire burning off route 206 near dingle town road and bard's bit. thwart say the fire was sported

. >> steven smith was a s.w.a.t. officer killed in the line of duty. >> reporter: officer tony garisson knows how special that brotherhood is. he lost a friend last year when steve smith was killed during a stand-off with a suspect in columbus, ohio. >> great guy. one of the best guys you ever want to meet. he's our brother. you gotta pay your respects to the family and to him. >> reporter: while this was the first time 9-year-old mclean williams attended the police memorial, it won't be his last. the same badge his father and grandfather proudly wear today. >> i think it's important to protect the people of the world. >> reporter: in the district, mark segraves, news4. >>> up next, a painful warning about the dangers of college life. a family shares their story of heart ache and pain in hopes of saving others after their son's death during a hazing ritual. >>> i'm adam tuss, checking out the busted water pipedz that are preventing several metro stations from being cooled. take a look where those pipes are, right und

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. >> eyewitness steven smith says the scene was chaotic along the dark river. >> they were all panicking and trying going in and looking for him. i guess the current took him out. >> fox's family provided "eyewitness news" with this picture and told us antoine was not a good swimmer. marine police searched along the river bank all day saturday, as family and friends prayed and cried together. >> ceasar says that he and fox were classmate at abraham lincoln high school, and played football together. >> ever like in the movies where they all jump together. we tried to do that last one together. and -- >> in addition to the search both, we see helicopter over the scene earlier on saturday, no word from philadelphia police what the plan is going forward. northeast philadelphia, cleve bryan, cbs-3, "eyewitness news." >> funeral plans set for chris colonel, will be laid to resume 26 in los angeles, the sounds garden front man's body will be flown from michigan to los angeles today. he will be burried at the hollywood cemetery. died wednesday night after perform withing sound garden at the fox

. >> eyewitness steven smith says the scene was chaotic along the dark river. >> they were all panickingd tried to go in and look for him. everyone came running over. that's when the firetrucks came. >> fox's family provided "eyewitness news" with this picture, told us antoine was not a good swimmer. marine police searched along the river bang all day saturday as family and friends prayed and cried together. ceasar said he and fox were classmates at abe whom lincoln high school, and played football together. >> a teenager, ever see in the movies, they all jump together. tried to do that last one together and -- >> in addition to the search boats, we did see helicopter over the scene earlier on saturday. no word from philadelphia police, what the plan is, going forward. northeast philadelphia, cleve bryan, cbs-3, "eyewitness news." >>> new this morning, president trump is starting his day by meeting with arab leaders, joining with leaders of the gulf cooperation council in an effort to counter the financing of terrorism. reportedly includes a pledge to prosecute the financing of terrorism

nephew, steven kennedy smith and brinkley reflect on 35th fe and career of the president. >> he was a decorated combat veteran. he did believe in strong military, but he had a much about what eption american identity really was. aisle,hed out across the started with the alliance for engaged in the space race. >> for complete american history go to c-span.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our topic this morning, nuclear safety. edwin lyman, who is global security program senior scientist for the union of scientists here to talk about what happened in hanford n state at the nuclear waste site. t's a 500-square mile expanse in remote interior washington. 200 miles from seattle, created in world war ii as part of the manhattan project build the atomic bomb. happened this week there? guest: workers were doing an inspection of an area at hanford called 200 east, which is where factory operated plutonium for weapons during the cold war, and they discovered a hole feet. ground, 400 square the problem was this hole was tunnel, over a waste which the site had used for radioactivelow

officer steven smith was shot and killed -- excuse me. officer steven smith was shot and killed during a swat standoff in columbus. officer thomas katrell jr. of danville was killed in a heinous amyou shall about. each of these losses -- heinous ambush. each of these losses is a tragedy. as we honor the work and is sacrifices made by law enforcement throughout police week, we need to offer more than kind words. we need action to support law enforcement as they work to keep our communities safe. yesterday i was talking to police chief richard beale of dayton and youngstown police chief robert lees about what more we should do to support police officers and their families. this week we unanimously passed several pieces of bipartisan legislation that will provide new support to the officers who protect us and the families who sacrifice alongside them. public safety officers benefits improvement act which senator grassley introduced will put pressure on the bureau of justice assistance and d.o.j. to speed up claims processing so families of d

smith. syriza businesswoman, housekeeper who got to know thaddeus stevens so well.e don't know the extent of their relationship, and we have nothing to support the scene in the movie abraham lincoln that shows stevens and lydia smith in bed. so goes it. we still need to teach the history correctly, which you would normally get if you regularly come here. one thing we can say for lydia smith, is when that you stevens spend $500 in care of his grave. there is something else she did as well, she was -- she sued his fortate that his estate $5,000. owedwas saying that she that he owed her for six years pay. she works for him in pennsylvania, and they worked on the underground railroad. recent archaeological investigations have shown that, in the buildings behind the house, there was apparently a place to hide escaped slaves. here we have an article, thaddeus stevens with his colored housekeeper and he goes on to talk about how she opened a boarding house in bc. that was after the civil war. ?an you imagine the wife of edward bannister, andof the leading artists, she beca

fallen officers were from ohio, aaron christian, a patrolman from the danville police department, steven smith of the columbus division of police, and kenneth vale discharges an ohio state trooper. i had the opportunity to meet with the families of these officers to express our appreciation, to express our respect for them and the sacrifices that they bear. it takes courage to wear the badge, and those officers wore the badge day in and day out. although these men were taken, from their examples can never be taken away and won't be. ohioans will remember them as models of bravery and service, examples of fellow citizens who on behalf of all of us who were in the habit of walking into danger rather than running away from it. we've got an opportunity to do something for our police officers, by supporting police week. there is a resolution that my colleagues are working on. i think we need to show our men and women in blue on the front lines that we do appreciate them. there's also legislation that can be supported. most recently i introduced legislation with the majority whip called the back the

. >> steven kennedy smith, thank you, sir. miss the special event president obama receives a profile in courage award from the john f. kennedy museum in boston. live coverage 8:00 p.m. here on msnbc. it only takes a second for an everyday item to become dangerous. new tide pods child guard pack. helps keep your laundry pacs safe and your child safer. align, press and unzip. ♪

steven kennedy smith. very good to have you both on.kennedy's greatest speeches, alongside essays by america's foremost historians and writers, coming our 35th president. >> douglas, we'll get to that in a minute. >> thank you. >> thank you for being with us. with gary, we have business first. >> all right. >> like the president before us you said yesterday, about the same time i was tweeting that things were getting worse by the day. >> yeah. >> you said it was one of the most bizarre 24 hours in american presidential history. and talked about its confused mental state. >> i can't believe the media rollout of donald trump over the last 24 hours, the confusion about andrew jackson and getting people -- giving a nonhistory lesson of -- it was idiotic what he said about jackson, but more to the point, that could be another trump misstatement, what he -- the way he's praising the north korean dictator right now, it's newsating to me when you know what that man does to human live, the schedule muching of the human rights policy since fdr, w

back with me, steven brinkley and douglas smith. position to decide -- 3,600 secret files about the assassination of jfk to be released. what do you think? should they become public? >> i assume he will green light anything that opens up archives. >> are you eager to see them? >> we're eager to see documents. i believed of the oswald assassination near ro theory. i never want to see a president keep things sequestered. >> this is not just history. it's personal. you're a family member. what do you think about these? >> i think it's fine to release the records, for public information. i think my father and rfk believe the warren commission report was accurate. larry schiller who worked on the book with me, knew marine oswald and knew jack ruby. and went back to russia with norman mailer and went through the kgb files with oswald. and he's convinced that oswald acted alone. he was a disgruntled, unhappy man. and he needed to find an identity. but larry who knows the situation very well, never thought there was a conspiracy around it.

. >> kennedy's 100th birthday and sunday, steven kennedy smith and douglas brinkley reflect on the lifer of the 35th president. >> he was a decorated combat veteran. he did believe in strong military, but he had a much broader conception about what american identity really was. >> he reached out across the aisle. >> he started the alliance for progress and he engage d the space. >> go to cspan.org. >> saturday at noon eastern on book tv. military historians discussed their books on world war i. speakers include jennifer keen with her book, world war i, the american soldier experience. the path to war, how the first world war created modern america. retired colonel, and his book over there. america in the great war. and the recipient of this year's kole be award, david barren and his book, waging war, the clash between presidents and congress, 1776 to isis. watch the 2017 colby military writers symposium, saturday at noon eastern on cspan 2's book tv. >>> now, a panel discussion on president trump's $1 trillion infrastructure plan. how that proposal can be funded and what the federal gov

kennedy's 100th birthday and sunday at 8:00 p.m., jfk's nephew steven kennedy smith and historian douglas brinkley reflect on the life and career of the 35th president. >> he was a decorated combat veteran. he did believe in strong military. but he had a much broader conception about what american identity

kennedy's 100th birthday and p steven kennedy smith and historian dowling las brinkley reflect on the life and career of the 35th president. >> he was a decorated combat veteran. he did believe in a strong military. but he had a much broader conception about what american identity really was. >> he reached out across the aisle. he launched the peace corps in 1961, an incredible program for young people. he started with the alliance for progress and he engaged in the space race. >> for our complete american history tv schedule go to c-span.org. >> saturday, at noon eastern on book tv, military historians discuss their books on world war i at the 2017 speakers symposia. michael nigh berg and his book the path to war, how the first world war created modern america. retired colonel's books "over there: america in the great war" and the recipient of this year's award, david barron and his book "waging war." 1776 to isis. watch the 2017 colby military writers symposium saturday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >> next an advisor to the british government on its negotiations to leave t

and sunday at 8:00 p.m., jfk's nephew, steven smith and douglas brinkley reflect on the life and career of the 35th president. >> he was a decorated combat veteran. he did believe in a strong military, but he had a much broader conception about what american identity really was. >> he reached out across the aisle. he launched the peace corps on may 1st of 1961, an incredible program for young people. he started with the alliance for progress, and he engaged in the space race. >> for our complete american history tv schedule, go to c-span.org. >>> sunday night on after words, physician and journalist, elizabeth rosenthal examines the business side of health care, in her book an american sickness, how health care became big business, and how you can take it back. dr. rosenthal is interviewed by dr. david bloomenthal, president of the commonwealth fund. >> so i was wondering if your book gave you any thoughts about whether health care is a free market, whether we can solve our problems in health care through free market forces. >> i think what we've seen is the answer is probably not. i me

kennedy's 100th birthday and sunday at 8:00 p.m., jfk's nephew, steven kennedy smith reflect on my life and career of the 35th president. >> he was a decorated combat veteran. he did believe in a strong military, but he had a much broader conception about what american identity was. he reached out across the aisle, launched the for in 1961, an incredible program for young people started with the alliance for progress and he engaged in the space race. >> for complete schedule go to c-span.org. >> on monday, "washington journal" will be live from the offices of axis, a new foundation founded earlier this year. we will discuss the mission in funding and challenges facing new startups. we will also have the latest news from the white house and capitol hill. "washington journal" live from arlington virginia starting at 8:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. later a three-judge panel of the ninth circuit court of appeals in seattle will hear oral argument on president trumps revised travel been. hawaii versus trunk. the court is considering an appeal of the ruling that blocked the bay on on issuing vis