there was another letter that came from a little girl, a young girl who was a student at the white plains high school. and i looked at that letter and i'll never forget it. it said simply, "dear dr. king, i am a ninth-grade student at the white plains high school." she said, "while it should not matter, i would like to mention that i'm a white girl. i read in the paper of your misfortune and of your suffering. and i read that if you had sneezed, you would have died. and i'm simply writing you to say that i'm so happy that you didn't sneeze." [applause] i want to say tonight that i, too, am happy that i didn't sneeze. because if i had sneezed, i wouldn't have been around here to 196960 when students all over the south starteted sitting-in at lunch counters. and i knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the american dream and taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy, which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the declaration of independence and the constitution. if i had sneezed, i wouldn't have been around here in 1961, when we decided

high school in brooklyn was vandalized with anti-semitic speech. bill? >> bill: alex, thank you. watching that story for us in white plains, new york.dra: and new yorl bank robber set free on thursday thanks to new bill laws. what's he do the very next day? he pulled off his fifth bank heist. laura ingalls here with more on that. >> hi, sandra. this was the very same critics of the new law were worried about, and now this accused serial bank robber somewhere out there, free to hit another bank or commit other crimes. according to police, jerry would be first struck on december 30th, robbing a chase bank with a note, not a gun coming here in manhattan. he got away with $1,000. he was arrested january 1st and released without bail the next day. this new law, which went into effect the first of the year, mandates most nonviolent felonies are no longer bail eligible. meaning no judge can order someone held pending trial even if they wanted to. he then attempted to rob another bank january 3rd, using a note, but did not succeed. january 6 he tries again, his note-wielding no-gun plan works, and he makes off with $5,000. he went through s