there were 21 students on the bus from birmingham to montgomery. ne of them were over the age of 23. they were black and white. as they were being attacked, congressman lewis suggested to the students in the middle of all of this that they stand together. and try to huddle together, and not get separated. two of the people that were most badly beaten were the lone white male on the bus. his name is jim. he was an exchange student at the time from wisconsin. he and congressman lewis were the first to get off the bus. the crowd that formed had all manner of weapons with which to attack these students with. there were bats and chains, and pipes and crates, and just any manner of weaponry that you could think of to attack the students. after jim was attacked, the crowd turned to congressman lewis. he was hit with a coca-cola crate. that is the last thing he remembered, as they were both beaten unconscious. others caught up in this attack were the assistant to attorney general, robert f. kennedy. siegenthaller.as he came upon the scene, as the students w

the 21 students on the bus from birmingham to montgomery. none of them over the age of 23. they were black and white. as the were being attacked, congressman lewis suggested to the students that they stand and huddle together and not get separated. two of the people who were most badly beaten was the lone white male on the bus. he was an exchange student and nashville from wisconsin. he and conger's and lewis were the first to try off the bus. the crowd that formed -- he and congressman lewis were the first to get off the bus. the crowds had chains and pipes and crates, any manner of weaponry you could think of. after the reporters were attacked, they turned on congressman lewis. he was hit over the head with a coca-cola crate. they were both beaten unconscious. two others on the fight that day who were caught up in this were the assistant to attorney general robert f kennedy. she came upon the scene as it was in progress on may 20 and tried to intervene. he announced himself as a federal official and someone proceeded to hit him over the head with a metal pipe and attack h

the 28th, 1961. and after that we moved to birmingham for a period of time. i don't really go into that in my memoir. is so here it is, the end of march, and then by mid may already things are happening in birmingham. this is when the freedom riders who were passing through the south challenging the laws, the jim crow laws through the south that had segregated buses and all of that, they passed through birmingham, and then at the birmingham bus depoe is where they were met -- depot is where they were met with violence that the police, you know, just turned their backs on and just let whatever was going to happen happen. and then within a year we moved to marion which is a small town of 3,000 that's in the black belt renal of the state. and that -- region of the state. and that's where i as a child, by then 6, and i had learned to read, and i was able to witness the still the evidences, the whites-only signs and so forth in the stores. that made an impression on me. but we just happened to be in this particular part of the state of alabama where that was very m

a few hours after the birmingham arrests, in the early hours of this morning at gatwick another fifth arrest of 26-year-old man as he stepped off a flight from north africa. police say the arrests and described by security sources as significant, follow a joint investigation with french and belgian security services following the recent attacks in europe. is 3.5 weeks since the bonds --brussels at the airport bombs in brussels at the airport and metro in which 32 people died. and five months since the attacks in paris, which killed 130. both attacks have been linked to a belgian man called mohamed abrini, who is known to have visited birmingham. mohamed abrini is thought to be the man in the hat seen here at brussels airport just before the attack. he was arrested after four weeks on the run. he is also thought to have been caught by a cctv camera the french petrol station with the leader of the paris attacks just two days before they were carried out, potentially connecting him to both brussels and paris. the bbc has been told that abrini visited birmingham last summer before both se

birmingham was the republican city at that time. we went to the civic center and i was sitting at the table and near me was this young man with blond hair and he said why don't you tell us what you think of george bush's speech? i said well okay i will do that. so i took notes as bush spoke and when the speech was done the young man turned to me and said what did you think of that and i said he's a very nice man and obviously very sensitive and very bright but he needs organization and he needs a sense of style. it's obvious that speech wasn't rehearsed pretty needs to rehearsed and the young man said my name is karl rove and i worked for him and how would you like to meet him right now? i could take you upstairs. went upstairs and i shook hands with mr. bush and he invited me to come to houston to meet him. with him and his wife in january of 1978. i flew to houston at january and came to the house in a three-piece suit in houston. i was very formal in the morning and mr. bush came to the door and he was in an izod t-shirt. he said

the birmingham news breaking details in the story.or bentley bought multiple disposable burner cells at best buy. the governor, at that miraculously ill staged prison photo op did say he's still not even considering resigning but with each passing day the story gets bigger and not smaller and the fact the national media has caught up to it is probably not going to help his case. >>> i just want the people of alabama to know there is nothing there, there's nothing illegal, there's nothing that's ever been done that would effect the people of alabama and effect my job. >> joining us now from alabama is john archibald. thanks for being here. it's nice to see you again. >> thank you. >> why did the governor's alleged mistress resign, his senior political adviser while the governor says he won't consider resigning himself? did she do something worse than he did. >> she took the bullet for him. it was the inevitable first step if he's going to try to keep this job and she took the first step. whether she's really out of the picture remains

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the 28th, 1961. and after that we moved to birmingham for a period of time. 't even really go into that in my memoir, but -- so here it is, the end of march. and then by mid may already things are happening in birmingham. this is when the freedom riders who were passing through the south challenging the laws, the jim crow laws through the south that had segregated buses and all of that, they passed through birmingham, and then at the birmingham bus depot is where they were met with violence that the police just, you know, turned their backs on and just let whatever was going to happen happen. and then within a year, we moved to marion which is a small town of 3,000 that's in the black belt region of the state. and that's where i as a child, by then 6 and i had learned to read, that i was able to witness the still the evidences of the whites-only signs and so forth in the stores. that made an impression on me. but that we just happened to be in this particular part of the state of alabama where that was very much in evidence. and in a small town, it's hard to n

birmingham was the republican city at that time. we went to the civic center, and i was sitting at a table and nearly was this a nerdy young man with blond hair. and he said why don't you tell us what you think of george bush's speech? and i said okay, i'll give it. so i took notes as bush spoke. and then when the speech was done, the nerdy elementary dance at what you do think what i said is a very nice thing. these are sensitive and very bright but he needs some organization and he needs a sense of style. it's obvious that speech wasn't rehearseand he needs to readers. the young man said, my name is karl rove and i work for him, and how would you like to meet him right now? i can take you upstairs. i went upstairs, shook hands with mr. bush and he invited me to come to houston to meet him. with him and his wife in january of 1978. so i flew to houston that january and came to the house in a three-piece suit in houston. i was all very formal in the morning, and mr. bush came to the door and he was in an isa t-shirt. i'll never forg

but the man in the hat suspect is suspect of making several trips to the birmingham area last year. as the terror investigations continue, president obama said this week that we as a country are gaining on isis. >> on the ground in syria and iraq. our 66-member coalition is on the offense. we have momentum. >> joining me now, the deputy prime minister. >> thank you. >> first let's get your assessment of what this enemy looks like on the ground. you are fighting directly every day. >> the enemy is a brlt enemy. entrenched in iraq and syria. they have obviously as we know, taken a large piece of territory. over the last year and a half of coordinated effort, we've been able to take territory away from this enemy. and the coalition strikes have hurt this enemy's resources and its infrastructure. we cannot underestimate the ability of the enemy to continue to wreak havoc and cause damage. >> it was last time we talked. a lot of problems with red time. getting new womeapons. >> if you look at our womens capability, they are still no match for isis. isis still has much greater fire power.

after we lost the presidency, i lined up a job at the university of alabama birmingham. while teaching there, the new head of the republican party came to me and said would you help me out? i have to sell republicanism to alabama. now alabama is a red state but was a blue state back then. i went to work for bill harris and we needed to raise money and asked republican big names come to in. conley and reagan said no. we asked george walker bush to come in and he said yes and spoke at a big civic center in birmingham which was the republican city at the time. we went to the civic center and i was sitting at a table and near me was his nerdy young man with blond hair and he said why don't you tell us what you think of george bush's speech and i said well, okay. i will do that. i took notes as bush spoke. then when the speech was done, the nerdy young man and turned to me and said what did you think? i said he is a nice young man and very bright but needs organization and sense of style. it is obvious that wasn't rehearsed and it needs to be. and he said my name is karl rove

birmingham. my family came back and i was born and my brother was born and we came back to the u.s. i landed to u.s. in march of 1961. after that, there it is, end of march and by made-may already things were happening in birmingham. this was when the freedom whiteers who were passing through the south and challenging the jim crow laws in the -- riders -- area. the birmingham bus depot is where they were met with violence and the police turned their backs on that and let whatever was going to happen happen. within a year we moved to marion which is a small town of 3,000 that is in the black belt region of the state. that is where i, as a child, by then of six, i had learned to read, that i was able to witness the evidence of the whites-only signs and so forth in the stores that made an impression on me. but we just happened to be in this particular part of the state of alabama where that was very much in evidence. in a small town it is hard to not see what is going on. i do talk about the culture clash tat my family experienced. argentina does have a rich culture and my parents embra

at least 70 more are injured. >> the first bomb went off in a crowded pub near the birmingham city centernutes later and less than a hundred yards away, a second bomb exploded in another pub. there have been 200 people inside. police said they were still searching for bodies in the rubble. >> terrorism only works when it shocks people. the mid-1970s, the i.r.a. attempts an entirely new tactic, to bring the conflict to the british mainland. >> the british homefront has itself become a battlefield in the raging guerilla war over northern ireland. >> there have been many bombings in england in recent months as the terrorism of northern ireland has spread, but tonight was the worst. >> for sheer audacity, it was unrivaled. arab terrorists attacking opec, the headquarters of oil power. three men were killed and three wounded. >> there is no certainty, but there is plenty of speculation, that one of those terrorists who raided the opec meeting in vienna be europe's most wanted fugitive, carlos sanchez martinez, also known as the jackal? >> this is the clearest news film of carlos that so far ex

but the man in the hat suspect is suspect of making several trips to the birmingham area last year. as the terror investigations continue, president obama said this week that we as a country are gaining on isis. >> on the ground in syria and iraq. our 66-member coalition is on the offense. we have momentum. >> joining me now, the deputy prime minister. >> thank you. >> first let's get your assessment of what this enemy looks like on the ground. you are fighting directly every day. >> the enemy is a brlt enemy. entrenched in iraq and syria. they have obviously as we know, taken a large piece of territory. over the last year and a half of coordinated effort, we've been able to take territory away from this enemy. and the coalition strikes have hurt this enemy's resources and its infrastructure. we cannot underestimate the ability of the enemy to continue to wreak havoc and cause damage. >> it was last time we talked. a lot of problems with red time. getting new womeapons. >> if you look at our womens capability, they are still no match for isis. isis still has much greater fire power.

the police in birmingham arrested four people today following an anti-terror rate. a fifth person was arrested at london's gatwick airport. quotedurity official is one of thehat suspects in the russell's attack made various visits to birmingham last year -- brussels attacks made various visits to birmingham last year. a belgian minister has announced in is resigning over lapses security. as she stepped down, she told reporters she is the victim of she called a media crusade. transportbelgians minister has stepped down three weeks after deadly bombings in brussels. this accusation, which i was laxo claim that and did not pay enough attention to matters of security, affects me deeply. as a matter of fact, if there is one area that i always paid attention to, that was the one. reportaccording to an eu leaked by two belgian opposition parties dated from march, 2015, a year before the attacks. they detail shortcomings in but onlyecurity, covered areas reached after security screenings and not the departure lounge where the bombers blew themselves up. me --ht was confirmed

we have jeannie thompson who is a poet, this might downgrade from the vicki covington who also was from birmingham. so we did draw on the alabama literary community that we knew and then we had authors from all over the southeast in addition to that. i think you could say that pretty much all of them to start out of the conventional name string religious tradition that there were a of felt some pushback. you know, it might be what you consider sort of minor comments were, you know, people not been as friendly or it may be a major in the sense he decide the sense he decide he needs a bigger job because you can't be the person you are and still remain in that position. but i would say over all and all of these essays there is a sense of when you decide to be who you really are, there's a tremendous freedom that comes with that. and so it's a bravery. it took courage for these women to step outside of the mainstream. but i think it was so much better for them to do that they had to conform to something that didn't fit today were any more. my sense from reading these essays is that it was worth it. [i

[applause] the schoolchildren of birmingham. faced down the police dogs and the fire hoses because they wanted to and jim crow. undocumented young people. dreamers. to win protection for all migrants. you don't have too much to risk. in some other time people had so much more to fight for. we will knowledge the truth. the principles that we love. if we don't create democracy we have tos all, step up now. we have to fight for the principles that we care about. are you with me? are we ready to march? a rewritten to take back the people's house? what we say that. it is not because of the history of this country. we knowledget back there is a place in our hearts where is the people's house. there is a principle that is true that we believe in. thate here today to say even if it hasn't been in the past in our time for our efforts democracy will be real at last. are you ready to walk? we will say no more. it is the people's house. it is our house. it is our democracy. spring is here. then the congressional gold medal ceremony to honor

level, it's one thatth will force us to look at the local level to understand why the trend looks so positive in birminghamother places like tampa. >> woodruff: and are there clues now as to why that is? >> the places with the highest levels of life expectancy for the poor tend to have better health behaviors, perhaps not surprisingly these are places with lowerhe levels of obesity, higher levels of exercise, lower levels of smoking. they also tend to be cities like new york and san francisco, more affluent, highly educated, high-cost of living cities where the poor seem to be doing better. we don't know exactly why. one potential hypothesis is these types of cities invest a lot in public health. they're often the first cities to enact smoking bans or bans on transfats which could end up improving the health of not just the rich but the poor and that remains to be explored further.r >> woodruff: it's not just the big cities, the new yorks and san franciscos, you say it's the. >> brangham:s, the medium-sized cities as well. c >> that's right. it's really remarkable how diverse the patterns are around the co

authorities in the british city of birmingham announcing today five people were arrested. terror attack, being described as preplanned. intelligence led and significant. authorities say they had been working with french and belgian officials to address any threat to the uk after those attacks on the continent. several accounts today, special attention has been paid to the so-called man in the half, that's the third suspect in the brussels airport bombing: his name is mohamed abrini. he was arrested just last week and he admitted to his terror role. reports say that he andanother terror associate made several trips last year to the uk and particularly to birmingham . abrini reportedly taking a variety of pictures including some of the big soccer stadiums in that city. possible potential terror targets. you remember one of the locations hit by terrorists in paris last year was that huge soccer stadium on the outskirts of the city.mohammed abrini reportedly played a role in those attacks as well. earlier this year, isis called for a doomsday attack on the uk even bigger than t

the sunday school play at birmingham has ended. egro mother, we stand in the bitter smoke and hold a shoe. if our south is ever to be what we wish it to be, we will plant a flower of nobler resolve for the south now upon those four small graves that we that we dug." [applause] ♪ [singing a spiritual] >> we are going to close with the singing of the most recognizable song, anthem from the civil rights era. i'm going to invite bill shuster to come out and lead us. i would like to thank all of the presenters. [applause] i would like to thank all of the pulitzer prize winners. [applause] i would like to thank all of our friends from the pulitzer prize institute who came down here from new york. i would like to thank all of the people from the tampa bay times, and especially my great colleagues from the poynter institute. [applause] congressman lewis. if you will join us. if anybody else that would like to come up on stage and join us. feel free. ♪ >> ♪ we shall overcome we shall overcome we shall overcome someday deep in my heart, i do

tuscaloosa borders the black warrior river and in our southwest of birmingham. c-span's city tour staff visited many sites showcasing the city's history. learn more about tuscaloosa all weekend on american history tv. ringing] >> we are standing right in the central heart of the original canvas at the university of alabama. -- original campu at the university of alabamas in. 1831 , when the store is opened, it would have been and i doesn't rotunda. -- a magnificent rotunda. up byrth end is taken what is now the library. we are standing in the quad, as it is known today. interestingly enough, the quad has been the central part of campus from its earliest how things. the rotunda was right behind me. you can imagine alongside either edge, east and west, where the university dormitories were. directly behind it was the lyceum. that was another classically inspired building where all the classrooms took place. on either side of the lyceum were the faculty houses. this was like an educational village right and the middle of what, at the time was considered by outsiders

tuscaloosa borders the black warrior river and in our southwest of birmingham. c-span's city tour staff visited many sites showcasing the city's history. learn more about tuscaloosa all weekend on american history tv. ringing] >> we are standing right in the central heart of the original canvas at the university of alabama. -- original campu at the university of alabamas in. 1831 , when the store is opened, it would have been and i doesn't rotunda. -- a magnificent rotunda. up byrth end is taken what is now the library. we are standing in the quad, as it is known today. interestingly enough, the quad has been the central part of campus from its earliest how things. the rotunda was right behind me. you can imagine alongside either edge, east and west, where the university dormitories were. directly behind it was the lyceum. that was another classically inspired building where all the classrooms took place. on either side of the lyceum were the faculty houses. this was like an educational village right and the middle of what, at the time was considered by outsiders

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the continent. two key players in those attacks went to birmingham last year. they took pictures of various scenes in that city, including one of the huge soccer stadiums. one of the huge terror attacks was at a soccer stadium there. it raises the possibility those arrested overnight might have been planning something like that but no plot has been described as of yet. abaoud killed by police, abrini in custody. what more do we know, gregg? reporter: this underscores what you are saying. the european-wide program, a french-belgium a axe axis of te. it's reported he had enough time in october, one month before those attacks to go to birmingham and do a reconnaissance run about another series of attacks. abrini had time, too, to go to birmingham even though he was involved in the paris and brussels attack. martha: thank you very much. bill: now we go to politic where it's getting nasty between bernie sanders and hillary clinton. they were burning in brooklyn, aggressively challenging each other's judgment to be president. >> i don't question her judgment. i questi

. >> a negro mother wept in the streets sunday morning in front of a baptist church in birmingham. ,nhe held a shoe one shoe from the foot of her dead child. we hold that shoe with her. everyone of us in the white south holds that small shoe in his hand. it is too late to blame this -- blame the sick criminals with the dynamite. the police can do with that kind. the charge against of them is simple, they killed for children. -- four children. only we can trace the truth, southerners, you and i. we broke those children's bodies . we watched the stage set without saying. we listened to the prologue undisturbed. we saw the curtain opening with this interest. -- with this interest. we who go on electing politicians that keep the kettles of hate, we, who raise no hand to silence of mean and little men that have their nigger jokes. we stand aside and imagine in restitution and let mad dogs that run in every society slide their leashes from our hand and spring. we, the heirs of the proud south who protested the word and demanded recognition, we are the ones who have with difficulty skirted t

in the leadup to 1964, birmingham, new york, chicago, crackled over racial inequality. >> bricks andere thrown from rooftops. >> it drove that year's voter turnout to century-long highs. 94% of nonwhite voters giving lyndon johnson four more years. then in 1992, the reginald denny beating. 55 died in the los angeles riots. that after four officers were acquitted in the rodney king beating verdict. voter turnout rose 5 percentage points. >> we must not permit this country to drift apart further. >> 77% of nonwhite voters choosing bill clinton for the white house. >> he said i didn't know i was a citizen of canada. >> the big question today, might the same forces be at work in 2016. with recent community crisis ease. >> where it's getting less traction is in the presidential conversation and that's where we like to see it more intensified. >> luis gutierrez hears about the topic. he works six days a group for nclr. today at a puerto rican restaurant in orlando. >> i think the things that happen to people are going to affect the elections. >> black people and latinos and all of that stu

the night here? i said, no, miss lee, we're driving to birmingham tomorrow to see the sights. edibly careful. she says, just because the laws change doesn't mean people change. and she was genuinely concerned. >> rose: thank you for coming here. >> thank you for having me. >> rose: thank you for sing for me and for the show and the audience. i hope to be a friend and hope to join your journey. thanks. and harper, thank you for joining us. see you next time. for more about this program and earlier episodes, visit us online at pbs.org and charlierose.com. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> this is "nightly business report" with tyler mathisen and sue herera. >>> turn the page. the calendar changes from a lack lulser april. but are this year's tepid returns enough to make investors follow the old adage -- sell in may and go away? >>> off target. shares of companies get punished when missing estimates but still showing growth. is wall street missing the point? and are investors left to pay the price? >>> and a new

we have the high tech driving simulator in birmingham, alabama. i'll do everything wrong. d take selfies and researchers are tracking my eyes. see what happens. >> reporter: in the latest case, this woman accused of taking a selfie while driving. trying to post on snapchat and crashing into another car. after the accident, she snapped another selfie on a gurney with the caption, lucky to be alive. the driver she hit barely made it out alive. suffering brain damage. now suing snapchat. but it's not just on snapchat. this 18-year-old girl behind the wheel posting on facebook, i can't discuss this matter now. driving and facebooking is not safe. haha. seconds later, she crashed into a tanker truck and was killed. >> you picture our heart in there. just a big chunk gone. >> this is how it can end. >> reporter: now drivers across the country admitting to it. on instagram, the #drivingselfie going viral. tens of thousands of drivers posting photos from behind the wheel. so today researchers at the university of alabama at birmingham are using cutting edge technology to scare us a

the cloud to make people and organizations safer. melissa: another big terror bust overseas. this time in england, five suspects are now in custody. three men and one woman, four of them arrested in birminghamthe last one was taken at london's gatwick airport. the arrests are part after joint investigation by french and belgian authorities. there may be connections to the pair in the brussels attacks the we'll see. we'll bring you more details as they come in. connell: we mentioned secretary of state john kerry responding to those two russian war buzzing past, dangerously close to u.s. navy ship. he says quote, it is unprofessional and under rules of engagement could have been shot down. well, hear to weigh in, lieutenant colonel ralph peters, fox news strategic analyst. is the secretary of state right, colonel peters? >> the secretary of state is once again indulging sound and fury signifying nothing. to say we could have done something, doesn't help. could have is not a helpful word. what matters in the real world of geostrategy is your actions and this administration is always reluctant to take action until it is too late. added to which other things you can do short of taking down an ai

tremendous rainfall across this region. 1 to 2 inches. 2 to 4 inches in jackson and birmingham over the next 24 to 36 hours. the storm system migrates to the east. southerly flow ahead of the temperatures. ahead in washington, it soars into 70. notice what happens this weekend. 10 to 20 degrees above average. near 70 in new york city. >>> thank you. backlash over the mississippi religious freedom bill. and this rock star is speaking out. we will have an early start on your money next. ♪ i pack my bags outh. what's it like to not feel 100% fresh? we don't know. we swish listerine®. as do listerine® users. the very people we studied in the study of bold. people who are statistically more likely to stand up to a bully. do a yoga handstand. and be in a magician's act. listerine® kills 99% of bad breath germs so you can feel 100% in life. bring out the bold™. >>> the militant group is moving closer to claiming helmand provin province. let's go live to cnn's nick paton walsh in kabul with the exclusive reporting. nick. >> reporter: michelle, the afghan troops falter and the u.s. say the issue

when rbg her to the grapevine that a clerk was -- birmingham got buds by the chambers. he remembers picking up the phone apprehensively thinking he had met something. you know you have a special friend of the court rpg could you must have her up for tea. today's leader she set set up the placement of tea set and spent 30 minutes with the young couple. ladies she performed their sporting ceremony. i will never forget the end said berman instead of by the power invested me by whatever she said by the power vested in me by the united states constitution. my wife always jokes if we got divorced it would be unconstitutional. [laughter] rbg gets in on clerk shenanigans. in her first full term on the court the clerks concealed his fantasy baseball team along with the other justices of the course had put together. the clerk teams played against -- beat him soundly reports a clerk that year. he eagerly reported a victory to rbg and suggests these she sent to memo crowing about the memo. she looked at me like i was crazy she recalled. she boldly slid the draft memo across the tab

republican candidates for president are expected to speak at the event being hosted at the hyatt regency in birmingham. organizers are expecting a strong turnout but not everybody will be there to support the candidates for the ground for strauss is live tonight in berkeley and charles, you talked with at least one group planning to protest tomorrow. >> >> the republican convention is one of the first big events in california before our primary in june. on campus they said we want to do we can to disrupt his speech trial. >> this weekend, trump is suspected to be the keynote speaker at the 2016 california republican convention in burlingame. >> kind of a spokesperson for the >> the organizer with the coalition to defend affirmative action immigration and immigrant rights and fight for quality by any means necessary or bam for shorts. it comes to dollars -- he is one of the most hateful racist individuals for the >> she says he has reached out to hundred supporters asking them to protest this weekend's convention and in particular trumps speech on friday. >> we are organizing and calling for lots of pe

after we lost the presidency, i lined up a job at the university of alabama birmingham. while teaching at birmingham, bill harris, the new head of the alabama republican party came to me and said would you help me out i have to sell republicanism to alabama. then we asked george walker bush and come and we went to the civic center and i was sitting there and i said why don't you tell us what you think of george bush's speak. and when the speech was done, the young man turned to me and said what did you think? i said he is a nice man, sensitive and very bright but he needs organization and a sense of style. it is obvious that speech wasn't rehears rehearsed. the young man said my name is karl rove and i work for him. how would you like to meet him? i went upstairs and shook hands with mr. bush and he invited me to houston to meet him and his wife in january of 1978. i flew to houston in a three-piece suit. mr. bush came to the door in a t-shirt and he said if you get out of that silly vest i will make you breakfast. he is cooking eggs and hands me coffee. barbara bush com

i did a documentary called four little girls, which is about the bombing of the sixth history baptist church, birminghamalabama... where on september (chuckle) 16, 1963, four black girls were blown apart by dynamite. and in that film... we have archival footage of mayors of southern towns, who always say it's some outside agitators. like, "we know... we know how to control our niggers". it is outside agitators. "these... these negroes from the north who are comin' down to stir our niggers up." in a lotta ways that reminds (laugh) me of what these people are sayin' about me and... and... >> and it's not just chicago... >> and... and... and... >> it's baltimore. new orleans. >> yes >> anywhere, that's always it's the outside agitators. >> but here... here... here... here's... here's the thing that really is troublin' to me. nick cannon and i were gettin', you know, stuff in a social medium, saying... criticizin' nick because he's not authentic. here's the word that really got me. he's not a "savage". so that's... >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry. people are saying he's not savage enough to play... >> no, he's not

the plane. police saying there was never a arriving to passeng risk to passengers. they also police are searching two locations in birmingham in the uk related to these two arrests. #. >>> it's a little on the chilly side this morning and there are raindrop this is yos in your fu. we'll time it out and look at how many mornings this week we may actually be at or below freezing. coming up at 5:51. >>> brand new red line delays to shady grove, this just popped up here. an investigation happening at farragut authority. also a closure in spart. mary's. piney point at drayden, all lanes closed. sdwr >>> investigators are trying to figure out why equipment was sitting in the middle of train cracks eventually causing a deadly crash. two amtrak workers were killed when a train hit a backhoe they're philadelphia yesterday morning. amtrak train 89 was traveling from new york to savannah, georgia when it crashed this che in chester, pennsylvania. let's go live to monique braxton in delaware county. >> reporter: good morning. in the past couple of hour, we've watched activity here along the tracks just outside philadelphia. we have see

. >> a birmingham student injured in the shooting was reduleased from the hospital. another woman was also injured. >>> and today, we're getting video of a shooting. >> do it. use it. [ screaming ] >> the defendant was wearing a so-called stun cuff and when he ignored orders, the electric shock was used on him. the judge pled guilty to a civil rights violation and sentenced to a year of probation and had had to pay a $5,000 fine. >>> a power line was struck by lightning after a storm rolled through potomac this evening. you're about to see some video. you can see there it caused a pretty good sized fire. now, this happened around 7:00, officials from the montgomery county fire and rescue shot the footage while the firefighters put out the flames. while many of us did not see storms tonight that could change this weekend. let's talk to amelia siegal in the weather center. >> we're going to track rain tomorrow but not thunderstorms. and then tomorrow night very windy. a high wind watch will begin tomorrow, through noontime on sunday. this includes the entire d.c. metro

the south. here is huntsville. here is birmingham, sort of just to the south of huntsville, alabama. here is priceville there is the cell that was the problem maker that produced the tornado there. also, no reports of any injuries. amazingly enough. but numerous reports of very high water, and now we shift that focus a little bit further towards the east. and some reports we have just gotten another update on the computer models. and we were looking at 4 to 6 inches just to the south of atlanta. now it looks like that has changed again. this weather system looks to be falling apart. that's not to say we wont see more in the way of severe weather, because we certainly could. and this should materialize on friday through the carolinas, south georgia, and then into the panhandle of florida and maybe even into alabama. well, just when you thought spring was here, because we're seeing the springtime systems, here is a little clipper, because it moves very fast. that's the good news. the clipper is going to usher in much colder air. when you look at saturday and sunday, these temperatures

the severe weather threat around a three. shreveport in particular, watching it for this afternoon. significant rainfall. 1 to 2 inches. some areas could see 2 to 4 inches in jackson and birmingham over the next 24 to 36 hours. as the storm system migrates to the east, gusty winds and southerly flow ahead of the temperatures. temperatures soar into the 70s for washington. showers out of this by this afternoon. in the what happens this weekend. temperatures could be 10 to 20 degrees above average. around 70 in new york city. >> it's about freaking time. pedram, thanks. >>> the only story that michelle kosinski is talking about this morning. the warriors. coy wire with the bleacher report is next. woman:t's been a journey to get where i am. and i didn't get here alone. there were people who listened along the way. people who gave me options. kept me on track. and through it all, my retirement never got left behind. so today, i'm prepared for anything we may want tomorrow to be. every someday needs a plan. let's talk about your old 401(k) today. as your next supreme court i hope younominee.nsider me nominee 2: well, i have 19 years experience on the federal bench. nominee 3: steepe

after we lost the presidency, i landed a job at the university of alabama, birmingham. while i was teaching, bill harris, the new head of the alabama republican party came to me and said would you help me out. i had to sell republicanism to alabamans pay a 6% say that they are republicans. you can see where alabama has gone from 1976 to the present to start very red state. so i went to work for bill harris and we needed to raise money, so we asked various republican big names to come in. john connolly said no. ronald reagan said no. then wes george herbert walker bush to come in and he said yes. said he came and spoke in the civic center in birmingham. birmingham was a republican city at that time. so we went to the civic center and i was sitting at a table in near me was this nerdy young man with blond hair and he said why don't you tell them what you think of george bush's speech? i said okay, i'll do that. so i took notes as bush spoke. when the speech was done, the nerdy young man turned to me and said what did you think of it? i said is a nice man and obviously very

the fifth anniversary with graphics designed. this was a track, ef4 tornado with 190-mile-per-hour winds tracking its way from tuscaloosa to birmingham across the campus of the university of alabama. what is interesting and staggering at the same time to look at, these were just the tornadoes on that day. jonathan: wow! doug there were four e.f.5's. 11 e.f. 4's. one of the e.f. 4's is one that went through the area south of the university. 19 ef-3's. the list goes on. it's an incredible amount of tornado activity. average ef-4/5 path was 66 miles on the ground. incredible. last year at this time or the same time -- april of last year, the 27 to 28th locally we had several tornadoes, too. in the maryland they were ef0. ef-1 reported south of virginia. the one on the left-hand side of the screen ef2 came across at 2:00 in the morning with 130-mile-per-hour winds. on the ground for 30 miles. this is why we call it severe weather season. we get to april, may and june. it happens year after year. we are keeping the fingers crossed we won't have a horrible season here or anywhere. in the midwest and kansas and oklahoma, they had a dose of

so today researchers at the university of alabama at birmingham are using cutting edge technology to scare us all straight. >> let me get in the simulator. looks like a regular suv. once inside they hook me up to this special eye tracker software focused on my pupils. they can see where i'm looking in real time and how long i look addway. every second analyzed by the assistant professor. >> i want you to drive like you normally would and i want you to try to take a selfie. >> going 30 miles per hour here i'm going to try to open the camera app and flip it over to selfie mode and make sure that the lighting is good. got it. >> send a text message. >> i wouldn't normally text and drive but i will here. hi i'm shooting at the lab. call you after. and send. all right let me pull over here. how did i do? >> well not so great. that text you just sent required your eyes off of the road for ten seconds so you were all over the road, swerving. you could have hit someone? >> what about the selfie, was that better? >> you took your eyes off the road for 15 seconds when moving at 30 miles per hou

i did a documentary called four little girls, which is about the bombing of the sixth history baptist church, birminghamalabama... where on september (chuckle) 16, 1963, four black girls were blown apart by dynamite. and in that film... we have archival footage of mayors of southern towns, who always say it's some outside agitators. like, "we know... we know how to control our niggers". it is outside agitators. "these... these negroes from the north who are comin' down to stir our niggers up." in a lotta ways that reminds (laugh) me of what these people are sayin' about me and... and... >> and it's not just chicago... >> and... and... and... >> it's baltimore. new orleans. >> yes >> anywhere, that's always it's the outside agitators. >> but here... here... here... here's... here's the thing that really is troublin' to me. nick cannon and i were gettin', you know, stuff in a social medium, saying... criticizin' nick because he's not authentic. here's the word that really got me. he's not a "savage". so that's... >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry. people are saying he's not savage enough to play... >> no, he's not

in 2014 the new statesman reported on two british juhadis who before leaving birmingham for syria bought copies of islam and koran writing about young french juhadis. the islamic state is the ultimate gang celebrating violence for its own sake. these young men and some women are usually second generation europeans. in fact, he points out often they're revolting against their more traditional parents. they're unsure of their identity rooted in neither the old country nor the new. they face discrimination and in this context nthey choose a lif of rebellion and crime and ultimate adventure. why are these findings so important? they see the picture of a new kind of terrorist. one less drawn in through religion but rather who has chosen the path of terror as the ultimate against modern work and then finds an ideology that can justify his desires. radical islam does provide that off the shelf ideology using the internet and social media. it's the end point in the chain, not the start. this still means muslims have to battle and eradicate in the radical islam. it does suggest for western law en

this happened in 2013 when two cargo airline pilots were tragically killed in a crash near the airport in birmingham, alabama. i'm going to read an excerpt from the cockpit voice recorder on that flight and it's right here on the champlet and these were the two pilots speaking to each other just 20 minutes before this flight went down, and this happened just a few years ago in 2013. pilot 1 says, "i mean, i don't get that. you know it should be one level of safety for everybody." so they're actually discussing the fact that these rules don't apply to them. they are not protected, they don't get that 8-hour flying and then they can rest. pilot 2 says, "it makes no essential at all." pilot 1 says, "no, it doesn't at all. "request then pilot 2 says, "and to be honest, it should be across the board. to be honest, in my opinion, whether you are flying passengers or cargo ... if you're flying this time of day ..." often flying in the evenings or late --" the you know fatigue is definitely ..." pilot 1 says, yeah ..., yeah ... yeah ..." >> pilot 2: "when my alarm went off, i mean i'm thinking, aim he 10 ti

after we lost the presidency landed a job at the university of alabama, birmingham. while i was teaching, bill harris, the new head of the alabama republican party to me and said would you help me out -- and mark i had to tell republicanism to alabama and in the latest polls expert and say they were republicans. you can would have gone from 186 he said that it is a very blue state. i went to work for bill harris and we needed to raise money. we experience republicans scamming. john connolly said no. ronald reagan said no. and then where's george herbert walker bush to come in and he said yes. so he came and spoke at a big fund raiser in the civic center in birmingham. birmingham was the republican city at that time. so we went to the civic center and i was sitting at a table in near me was this nerdy young man with long hair and said why don't you tell us what you think george bush's speech and i said well, okay. i'll do that. so i took notes as bush spoke. when the speech was done, and a young man turned to me and said what you think of it? he's obviously very front