c-span: how did george swanson starling die? >> guest: he died somewhat heartbroken because his children in some ways had been swallowed up by the north he had fled to. he died heartbroken but still strong, but he had a brain -- he had a stroke. i went to see him in the hospital. he want -- he went into a coma. he was in new york. he was hooked into all kinds of machines and i went and squeezed his hand and told him i was there and he squeezed it back. never regained consciousness. c-span: what happened to his kid? >> guest: the oldest son who had been a lost child had gone to see him in the hospital too. he was in a coma by that time and the son saw him in that state and he himself was diabetic and he was so distraught that -- he hadn't been getting the dialysis he needed. he needed all kinds of things that were wrong with him. he essentially gave up and he died before his own father died. his father didn't know it. he died week before his father died. he refused the dialysis so george swanson starling left this earth and not k

ida mae brandon gladden, george swanson starling and robert joseph pershing foster. tell us something about ida mae brandon gladden. where did she come from? did you meet her and why did you pick her? >> guest: she was from chickasaw county mississippi. she was the wife of a sharecropper will go where they were working the land of the plants are not counted just before the depression and once the depression hit they were still there. she was terrible at picking cotton and that was one of the things i was interested in. it turned out she was really bad at it and i was glad to tell you that. she had a wonderful way of incorporating both the south and the north into her psyche. she never changed her accent from the moment she arrived in chicago. she spent three times more years in chicago than she did in

this certainly isn't the end for ethan swanson. there are more stunts to come. >> i do. have to go out and scout them out and take measurement and see if it's possible first. >> we're sitting here talking about this. i wanting to pro too but i don't weren't to jump off rough g that could be an ad for go pro. >> go pro uses it for an ad. you know he was also in some reality show, doing obstacle courses this guy is adrenaline junkie. makes up for the cubicle work. >> scott williams you've been pumping adrenaline all night long. all kinds of stuff popping up on radar. >>> crunching the numbers it's a tricky weekend forecast, lucy and dawn. location will be key. as to how much rainfall you see over the next couple of days but ultimate doppler right now pretty quiet along the i-95 corridor. moving into south jersey right now, atlantic county also moving into burlington, ocean county watching light rain as we move into central southern delaware, you can see this band moving on up to the north right now around the milford area watching for moderate to heavy rainfall also into s

this certainly isn't the end for ethan swanson.e stunts to come. >> i have a couple, but i have to scout them out, take measurements and see if it's possible first. >> they broke the law coming to america, but one state is about to give thousands of illegals drivers licenses. >> he really rustled her feathers. vo: this is the summer. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. so get out there, and get the best price guaranteed. find it for less and we'll match it and give you $50 toward your next trip. expedia. find yours. >>> it is two minutes till the top of t hour. before you leave the house here's what's happening today. two americans infected with the deadly ebola virus are set to be flown to the u.s. and one is sected to receive treatment in atlanta. >>> bombshell new audio reveals bill clinton saying he missed an opportunity to kill osama bin laden in the 1990's. the recordings were reportedly from a speech he made in australia hours before the 9/11 attacks. >>> this morning colorado will begin issuing drivers

first is commander swanson joining nasa as a flight engineer in 1998. then was elected as a mission specialist. this is his third spaceflight of three cosmonauts are expected to return to earth in september. he studied physics at the university of colorado and a also a florida advantage university and computer science from texas a&m. flight engineer wiseman began as a naval aviator he made two appointments to the middle east with the enduring freedom and iraqi freedom the commander was selected for the astronaut program 2009 while he was deployed to the middle east. you recognize the commander from the foot as he treats from the international space station is twitter account has over 160,000 followers. he urged his bachelor science degree from polytechnic and a master of science degree with systems engineering from johns hopkins. and i will go into the mechanics how this will work. we will do our best to move through as efficiently as we can. questions will alternate between majority and minority. each side has a total of 10 minutes the members recogniz

. >>> and the man known as ron swanson is sharing genius shower thoughts. >> if your shirt is not tuckedo your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt. more thoughts that make you think, next. >>> pulled into the station, and -- >> check out this dust devil twisting in the outback of australia. this guy driving along, notices it, and is starting to freak out. you see the guy say, i'm going to run into this willie, willie. that's a term for a dust devil in australia. he runs towards it. >> that is absolutely -- >> he's going to get willie willie hurt if he's closer. >> the wind rocking the camera, and he takes cover back into the truck. >> oh, oh. >> the rest of the video is full of noise of this wind crashing over the truck. that's all you see after that. basically, once he was back in the truck or drove the truck through it? >> hard to tell. there is a short description for the video. he says since posting this, i've been getting video sent my way. i couldn't pass this one. check this guy out, what do you think? >> i was just going to ask, one wonders if this is real because w

george swanson starling from florida to new york. who was he? >> guest: he was a college student at the time that the migration situation became relevant for him. he had to drop out of school because at that time african-americans could not go to the state schools. they were segregated and he could not go to them. there was one school he could go to but it was far from home and his family decided they weren't going to keep sending him. his father decided he wasn't going to ski keep sending him. he had no schooling so therefore you have to go back to the primary work for people in his part of florida which is central florida picking citrus. when he got out into the groves in the way that he did he began to realize that they work being greatly taken advantage of. the working conditions were poor and the pay was worse. they were being paid 10 to 12 cents a box for dangerous work going into the 30-foot trees on spliced ladders, on limbs were sometimes people would fall in the process of trying to pick and he began to try to organize the pickers beca

ethan swanson, chicago native, what does he do when he gets out of bed in the morning?mediately goes to work on doing something completely crazy. in this video from gopro, we get a look at ethan in the mirror. what's ethan up to? he did try out for america ninja warrior. he's been trained in gymnastics, rock climbing, basically your standard background for a stuntman. ethan starts climbing up some narrow steep rooftops in the chicago area. here he is up on the roof, kind of looking like what's that look like down there? could i make that? let's give it a go. check out ethan in action. here he goes. jump. and now we're going to get this perfect shot with the el train in the background. >> does he land on the point? >> lands. slides down and then like what are you going to do? >> oh! >> on that spiral staircase. how he does it, i have no idea. watch it again. and can you see he launches himself, able to calculate that he would hit that slant, slide right down. >> i have a stomachache just watching this. i was so n. >> he just gets right off that roof. good job. you know,

and in "blood aces," doug swanson, investigative project editor at the "dallas morning news", recounts how the late casino owner, benny binion, helped shape current day las vegas. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> starting now on booktv, peter finn talks about the publishing history of boris pasternak's dr. zhivago. the manuscript of the book -- which was banned in the soviet union because of its critical depiction of the 1917 revolution -- was smuggled out of the country in 1956 and published widely around the world. the cia, recognizing the ideological value of the book, published a russian-language version and smuggled it back into the soviet union where it was sold on the black market and became an underground hit. this is about half an hour. >> hi. it's a great pleasure today to introduce a distinguished writer. as you have, no doubt, read from his biography, he's from ireland, but he does speak good english. [laughter] i'm not going to tell you what's on his biography, because you can

president obama called cancer in washington i'm going to party and a political analyst and blogger david swanson he says that washington has been quick so changes views on radicals and syria after its homeland security was put at risk. not only is this the group that was created by the secretary and division and the poverty and desperation that was left behind by the u.s. war on iraq but this is a group that's been armed and trained by the united states in syria and now the united states has is bombing this same group in iraq and talking about switching who it's going to bomb in syria the cia was involved in training isis and army in isis in syria and it was focused on the assad regime and the absolute need to to overthrow the government of syria that has now all been undone and been replaced by the idea that isis is the group that should be bombed and the critical thing remains to do something and do something in the language of washington means bomb somebody. how islamic state fighters who swiftly took over large areas of syria and iraq are now taking over social media to promote their cause a

scott swanson, the driver of the 18-wheeler, devastated by the crash. >> it just hits you.ou. you're lucky to be here. >> reporter: miraculously, police say the woman and toddler suffered only minor injuries. fredericksen came to their aid a full two minutes before the first-responders arrived, >> we were just glad to be able to be there to assist, you know, so they can see tomorrow. >> reporter: thanks to a moment of courage. mara schiavocampo, abc news, new york. >> not so ordinary heros. when we come back, what lies beneath the big surprise waiting in the water beneath a jet skier coming up next. januvia (sitagliptin) is a once-daily pill that, along with diet and exercise, helps lower blood sugar. januvia works when your blood sugar is high and works less when your blood sugar is low, because it works by enhancing your body's own ability to lower blood sugar. plus januvia, by itself, is not likely to cause weight gain or low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). januvia should not be used in patients with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. tell your doctor if you have a hi

it proclaims its mission is to contain the advance of the jihadists but as antiwar activist david swanson told our team america blacklist the supply policy in the middle east gave birth to the conflict in the first place. these are u.s. weapons us weapons on both sides in this combat just as three years ago in libya and in so many wars when you are the top supplier of weapons to the world seventy nine percent of of weapons transfers into the middle east are from the united states and you're going to have u.s. weapons evolved on all sides which is just fine for absolutely heartless weapons makers looking for a profit but it fuels destruction when you're providing weapons to unstable governments to never stable rebel forces to dictatorships and democracies and brutal governments totally you're going to see those weapons misused of course and you're going to see them transferred to parties you didn't intend to have them. the u.s. claims that involvement in iraq will be a limited one with obama promising not to send more troops back claim u.s. troops first employed in iraq in march of two tho

traveled to syria to fight for the islamic state also known as isis the extremist group has seized ron swanson of territory in recent months and with that they've also attracted more foreign fighters the numbers reported vary but thousands of isis fighters are now thought to hold western passports meanwhile we're just learning that at least four hostages held in syria by isis were water boarded after being captured that's according to a report put out by the washington post freelance journalist james foley was apparently one of those hostages the four were water boarded using a model similar to that of what the cia used to torture suspected terrorist acts after nine eleven. and despite u.s. aid drops that took place earlier this month thousands of years edis are still facing a dire humanitarian situation many are scattered in refugee camps while others have been kidnapped or killed at the hands of isis represent an ancient religious minority in iraq and therefore are a prime target for an extremist group that's looking to form a purely islamic state but that attempt to eliminate religious mino

here is gard swanson from our sister station in seattle. >> reporter: comic books have been around fortheme, genre, every topic. while one really stand out. bring it owner, in a silver locked case he showed us his pride and joy. truly one of a kind. >> this action comics is a holy grail. this year, mona lisa. >> reporter: the fourth owner of action comics number one. he bought it in what he says the seven figures range. off awe when i saw the book. i knew what he had. i was blown away. i couldn't believe it. >> reporter: for the first time the superman classic will be sold publicly on e-bay going to the highest bidder after ten days. >> it is a great story. awesome. ahead of its time. an individual from another planet coming here to represent good against evil. >> reporter: the comic book originally sold for 10 cents off a newsstand in 1938. darren says on e-bay he wouldn't be surprised if it sold for $5 million to $10 million. when you really think about this baby it belongs in a museum, because it is priceless. >> without superman there is no batman, no wonder woman. no spiderman. th

eeming an swanson is proving at stunt man from check khiing and that's a sneak into high performance thanks to a go pro. if you see a mouse in the house changes are you shoe it out the door and not invite him in. >> yes mighty star pets two this learned how to ripping the doorbell and knows how to gets out the door. shark jp nado takes a bite out of the ratings. with broke a. >> i hate to sigh it despite last night's big win phils are nut not good. whose the future of the film. especially we didn't do an

on this day, veteran san mateo inspector, bob swanson is checking out a station in bellmont thought heumped less gas than what he paid for. it measures the amount of fuel down to a cubic inch. >> they're actually getting the full five gallons, plus an additional three cubic informations. so actually got a little tiny bit more than what he was paying for. >> reporter: not so at this eel el camino in millbrae. >> the pump is shut off, but the meter still keeps going, right? and it doesn't go quickly, it creeps. >> reporter: in this case, inspectors say they crept 25 to 30 cents. the station owner said the problem was corrected and the customer got his money back. inspectioners say they rarely find a gas station that has intentionally manipulated pumps. >> most of these aren't sinister, manipulative plots. far and away, it's an issue with the pump itself. >> reporter: first, make sure the amount is correct. then try pumping a gallon of gas. >> as the prices went up historically, so did the complaints. >> reporter: joe is santa clara county's sealer of information. his inspectors checked o

mission commander, american steve swanson is working the space walk from inside the space station. clearly political tensions on the ground not affecting operations in space. two russians at this point are ahead of schedule and everything has been going very well. they've assembled instruments for science experiment and also take a swab of a port hole for another. when they return to the air lock to bring back some previous experiments to hopefully get some data and results in the near future. peruvian russian university students spent three years putting this nano satellite together. it also contains children's drawings with messages for extra terrestrial civilizations and soon those messages will begin being broadcast into outer space and perhaps listened to somewhere in a galaxy far, far away. >> e.t. phone home or at least phone phil keating. >> some stories for the next hour of "happening now" new fears about the spread of ebola. a woman in the u.s. now undergoing tests as six people are held in medical isolation in the united arab emirates. a medical expert weighs in. the pre

professor swanson at the university of west florida teaches and empathy class to inmates to help them crimes. >> it's right for every human being no matter where they are or where they're destined that they have the opportunity to be accountable for what they did, to understand what they did, why they did it. and for many of the men who are lifers, making things right just means changing their behavior in here. okay, so we're going to go over to the gate now. >> although these men may never meet the families of their victims, they will hear firsthand how violent crime can shatter lives. >> well, this afternoon we're really honored to have pat with us and she is a surviving victim of a really horrible crime. her daughter was murdered eight years ago and she is going to tell you her story. she'll tell you what happened and how it affected her and her family. >> i have to stand and move around. my name is pat. i didn't know how i'd feel about being here today. i had a lot of anger and a lot of sadness and i look at all of you i have to almost think as i'm facing the man who murdered my d

grace's mom, jane swanson, is shocked by the bus driver's action, but she is extremely proud of gracechelsea and the other students who showed great courage. >> they handled it very well. they were very mature about it. and i think that they didn't just react. >> i don't really feel like a hero. it's what grace and i were supposed to do. we're the older kids. and we were the ones who were supposed to help. >> everybody tells you the phrase that you'll know what to do in the situation. and that's how it was for me. i knew it was the right thing. >> guys -- >> don't get off the bus! >>> coming up, an elderly man with a sinister plan. and it's all caught on camera. >> he realized if he carried a firearm and threatened to use the firearm that he would get more money. >> but there may be more to this bandit than meets the eye. >>> plus, a plastered priest delivers a sermon you won't likely hear at mass. >> i'll give you the sermon on the mound. your sermon on the mound is this. get these [ bleep ] off of me because i'm getting a rash! >> when "caught on camera: unusual suspects" continues.

something to get his adrenaline pumping and that's why 24 year old ethan swanson is doing that.ff a rooftop in chica chicago. quite the hobby. of course, he needed proof of his stunt so in came the go pro camera and off the roof he went. >> you see the end product but what you don't see is all of the hours and days and weeks and months and years i've put into training environment that has pads and foam pits where i can train and i did screw up but when i screw up it's in save place when i fall i don't get hurt. >> here not so much. he's an act crow bat. you see those flips. >> he won't say where his neck stunt might be. says he hasn't run into any problems with the law as of yet. but if someone asks him to please leave their proper, he will. i'm wondering if he gets thirsty for lemonade doing all of that. >> in new jersey, a nine year old boy is stirring up a whole lot of business at his neighborhood lemonade stand. >> that's right. the money is for him but he plans to use it to buy something that will enable him to do what most of us take for granted. >> outside my house i'm se

question is the easy one for the commander what is your favorite food in space and also for commander swanson did think one day we will encounter light from another planet? >> i am a food lover but there is one particular food that they know when they opened the desert fox all chocolate pudding cake goes directly to my locker i cannot get enough. i tried it on earth i did not like it that much better up here i am in love wes. -- i am in love? >> yes. for the follow-up as he points out there are so many sources and planets and possibilities i figure it will happen sometime. >> thank you, mr. chairman. how the. in your experience so far what has surprised you the nez held up quite well on the space station and what have you found it that we will have to do future re-engineering? >> i would lead off with this is my first space flight i have known the space station for many years into our 5,000 the day of operations was struck me when i arrived i expected to see an aging system coming i expected it to be maybe it does look messy bet every wire has a purpose but is it an amazing shape banbury bell

attorney-general lori swanson has been aggressive about these cases and we have done some of this work together. i am glad senator blumenthal understand how important it is as well. we will continue to push on this issue but thank you for being here. >> the question i was about to ask, i appreciate your comment, your belief is that there are investigative efforts in some areas after the threshold reaches percentage and a half. you would not object to requirement that there would not be investigative scrutiny after let's say 2%? >> the devil is always in the details so certainly not -- certainly willing to look into it. one of the interesting things in the consumer survey, attorney-general sorrell mentioned, how often the customer responses, you discover a lot of these charges were what sometimes called teachable moments with family plans and the survey response indicates that a child of a family plan made a charge without the parent's consent. is serious issue in violation of fcc rules, users may be over 13. not all of the refunds are attributed to lack of knowledge, just maybe lack of

lori swanson has been very aggressive about the cases. there've been some of this work together. they we understand how port it is as well. thank you all for being here. >> returning the question i was about to ask you and i appreciate your comment that your beliefs is that there are investigative efforts of some areas after the threshold breaches a percentage and a half. he wouldn't object to a requirement that the scrutiny after let's say 2%. >> the double is always in the details. i would be certainly willing to look into it. one of the interesting things in the consumer survey that attorney general sorrell mentioned and was filed in the fcc back at is how often in the customer responses you discovered that a lot of these charges were but sometimes they're called teachable moments in families with family plans in the survey response indicated that a child on a family plan may be charged without the parents consent. this is a serious issue. it is a violation of sec -- ftc rules. so not all of the refunds are attributed to lack of knowledge command may be perhaps it's a sad lack

. >> well if you feel like ron swanson on "parks and recreation" imagine what he would think of the newartphones and tablets is. >> the feature can ask for your contact list text messages pictures, video and more. molly wood is a tech columnist for the kwoez names. times. she's in san francisco this morning. a lot of people who use facebook think the messaging function works fine. why create an app? >> good morning. it's funny. that's the one question facebook has not answered. the messenger app has existed since 2011. so some people have been using it since then. facebook has never really explained why it felt the need to create a separate messenger app. now it wants to concentrate its resources on building features into that application so it doesn't also have to handle messaging features in the main app. >> what's your conclusion about it? would you get the app and feel comfortable? >> you know if you don't feel comfortable with facebook and there are a lot of good reasons not to to be worried about what facebook is doing with your data then you can uh make a choice about whether to

you can look like gloria swanson in april the fda proposed rules to regulate to floor, but finally these rules could take call long time meanwhile, the e-cigarette industry is booming. to record companies with a history of marketing cigarettes to use have been jumping into the market. i don't know how many per day, per week. i just don't know, but a lot as the e-cigarette industry continues to rapidly evolve, we need to hold companies something called accountable, accountable. that is an american tradition gm is finding about that. dahlia found out about that. accountable for promotional activities that encourages kids to start using e-cigarette before we know what the health effects really are. did not wait for what you might be getting into, what army might be doing, but jump in now and maybe get fda will be, as they always are, slow. a lot of money will be our sorting this fallout. and then again, those 4,000 kids in west virginia may not be at the top of your list. and because e-cigarette looks so similar to cigarettes must also make sure that e-cigarette marketing does not undermine

you could hold one of these things and look like gloria swanson. is that her name? in april, fda proposed rules to regulate e-cigarette but these rules could take a long time making them complete. meanwhile the e-cigarette industry is booming and tobacco companies with a history of marketing cigarettes have been jumping into the market. i don't know how many. day per week, i just don't know but a lot. as the e-cigarette industry continues to evolve, we need to hold companies something called accountable, accountable. that is an american tradition. gm is finding out about that. toyota found out about that. and encourage kids to start using e cigarettes before the health effects really are. don't wait for what you might be getting into, what harm you might be doing, but jump in now and maybe congress and fda will be as they always are, slow so you make a lot of money while we are sorting this all-out. then again those 4,000 kids in west region yet are not at the top of your list and because e-cigarettes look so similar to cigarettes we must make sure e-cigarette marke

what if the road map for your money this fall on the markets, james swanson, chief investment strategy at mfs investment management. now i'm starting to think, so are you, jim, i'm starting to think so many people now are saying buy the markets, hold your nose, just hang in here because it's going to keep going higher because everything is looking for -- now i'm starting to wonder whether the market is going to surprise everyone and say that's not going to work, either. where are you on this? keep buying it, stay in it? >> i'm looking at the fundamentals. it's unbelievable how these companies are making money. i'm not worried about hitting new highs here. and i think the market is catching up with the fundamentals. just to give you an example, the government said in the first quarter, the economy shrank. the margins hit close to 10%, which is pretty unbelievable if this economy is shrinking. second quarter was better. so i'm following someone else in saying the story is getting better, not worse. >> so the story is getting better, but obviously the market has moved higher. before the s

and in "blood aces" dog swanson of the dallas morning news recounts how benny binion helped shape las vegas. watch nor author tuesday -- authors in the near future on booktv and booktv.org. >> booktv is on location at the number public library in mid-town man dnr man hat than. an thornton is here. >> i'm the director of the research libraries. >> what does that mean? >> there are four research libraries, there's this one in mid-town manhattan, the center for research in black culture in harlem, the library for the preferring arts at lincoln center, and the business library at 34 not stream and maddison avenue. >> host: what do you do as directors. >> collections, fellowships, reference and research and preservation. >> going to have ann thornton show us some of the collections in some of the research library pair fer naila. where are we right now? >> we're in the magnificent rose main reading room of the new york public library. this is really he heart and soul of the library. you see here lots of users who are taking advantage of the library's resources, not only our physical resourc