i want to go to taylor branch taylor, when did you first meet julian bond?et him in 1968 when he was a boy wonder that we looked up to because he had been representatives out of the civil rights movement. i was only 21, but there was a plan a foot to try to challenge the segregationist delegation at the democratic convention. and modeled on the mississippi freedom democratic challenge in 1964. out of that became a great inventor of traveling around, forming a challenge delegation, julian went up to chicago to argue before the credentials committee as a representative. my job was to get him to head this delegation him and he did. we went up there, and to everyone's shock and surprise, democratic convention. that was part of your introduction. i would like -- i wish joke iron his shirts while he was giving press conferences and really mesmerizing the world with his good humor and his patriotism and his principles, so much so that the convention got carried away and nominated him for vice president. amy: talk about what this meant that he was nominated for vice

he's taylor branch. this is "overheard." [applause]. >> actually, there are not two sides to every issue. >> so i guess we can't fire him now. i guess we can't fire him now. the night that i win the emmy. >> being on the supreme court was an improbable dream. >> it's hard work and it's controversial. >> without information there is no freedom and it's journalists who provide that information. >> window rolls down and this guy says, hey, he goes to 11:00. [laughter]. >> taylor branch, welcome. nice to see you. >> thank you. nice to be back. >> appreciate you being back. so, here we sit 50-odd years from the voting rights act, from selma, from the assassination of dr. king. we have an african american president, which is a sign of progress in this country itself. we've gone from we shall overcome to hands up, don't shoot. to black lives matter to i can't breathe. >> yes. >> how far have we really come, in your estimation, as the preeminent historian of the civil rights era? pronounce wisdom on what we're looking at today. [lau

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on taylor street, night -- lightning struck that 90 foot redwood tree and branches landed everywhere.> we saw a blue flash. >> it was like an explosion. loud, really loud. >> there was an enormous flash and an incredible blum -- boom. we weren't sure what happened. i saw sparks and realized that a tree in the backyard next- door had been hit. >> the lightning good strike a transformer and knocked out power to the neighborhood overnight. crews work to make repairs throughout the morning and power was restored to 20 homes that were affected. to give you an example of how powerful a lightning bolt is, pg&e told us a lightning bolt -- goal is 1,000,000,000 v and one flash could power a lightbulb for three months. out here live, here's the duplex that was hit. neighbors tell us branches are in the rafters but no one was at home when it happened. they are really glad there were no injuries. we were told by some neighbors that a hot was nesting in the redwood tree. they worry about what happened to the bird. herdie incredible as we are about to go line, some neighbors stopped to say that som

branches in this morning. for the gang in wildwood, new jersey high water a at 26th and taylor, and then here's a live look at route 47, just off of route nine, in wildwood, so if this is your week down the shore, the the kid are getting woke up by thunder boomers and heading out for your early coffee doughnut run just be prepared, there are areas down the shore there that are dealing with high water. the here's i-95 northbound, cones are still down, only the two left lanes are opened northbound working your way from center city up toward bridge street. these guys have been good. they are out of here by 5:30 or so but nonetheless light volume in all of the work zones there is that possibility of having a high the water, especially a along 422, 42, and 295 over here in bellmawr. you can see the spray, coming up off the cars and trucks in front of you. where we don't have daylight it is tough to see a big puddle will so until you go through them like a log flum there. upper merion trinity lane blocked between balligomingo and route 320, down trees from the the storms that came through last night, so this mornin

taylor street in san jose came out to see this. >> a redwood tree out there the top part is on fire. you look and there's a huge branch on the lawn. >> branches scattered all over. it fell on the duplex. >> people were saying lightning strike but i was just thinking somebody had to get hurt during that. somebody has to be hurt. >> thankfully no one was injured. deputy chief john justice of the santa clara county fire department said no fires were reported as a result of the lightning but says the season is far from over. >> you have combustible leaves and other things that lead up to the house. that's going to take the fire right to your house. what we're actually asking you to do is help us help you. >> fire officials encouraging officials to provide some defensible space around their home. in the south bay, chris wynn, abc 7 news. >> after all of that lightning last night or weekend forecast is thankfully a lot more calm. >> yes, it certainly is. spencer is here with what we can expect. >> larry, alma, it's a lot calmer. we're very fortunate there were no fires with those hundreds of lightning strikes. dry lightning

branch a 15 minute delay right now. everything else on or close to schedule. ben and juliet. back to you. juliet: we have a lot more coming up. ben: nicki minaj and taylor swift there's no bad blood between them but nicki and someone les. anna gilligan talking about the so everyone is saying, "hey! you gotta get fios!" but why? percent fiber optic so you can get access to the fastest internet and in-home wi-fi available. big capacity too. so everyone in the house can get online. but the main reason to get fios? we're rated number 1 in customer satisfaction. ultimately, that's why. get 50 meg fios internet, tv & phone starting at $79.99 a month. plus get $300 back. hurry, offer ends september 19th. >> anna gilligan is here. good morning. >> good night for music wades. >> a great show big night with taylor swift and nicki minaj proving there's no more bad blood between them. they opened the show with a duet and taylor sang a few seconds of bad blood to let everybody no there is none between two of them. they hugged and after the show they tweeted out their love to each other nicki telling taylor thank you for being epic while they made headlines swift too