it also turned a black majority city into a white supremacist citadel. wilmington was 56% black in 1898. in fact, it had the highest black population of any major city in the south at the time. today, wilmington is less than 18% black. after the coup, black citizens in north carolina did not vote in significant numbers for almost 70 years until after passage of the voting rights act in 1965. now, in 1896, two years before the coup, there were 126,000 registered black voters in north carolina. 126,000. by 1902, just four years after the coup, the number had been cut to 6,000. so you can see how effective this coup was in just destroying the ability for black men to vote. in 1898, there was one black man in congress that needed the senate or the house. george henry white from a north carolina district next to wilmington. white supremacists hounded congressman white and his family so viciously that he left north carolina forever in 1900. white's parting words were, quote, i cannot remain in north carolina and be treated as a man. after the coup no black citizens serve

send black people to cover this but a great resource for me, black press and other cities where people from wilmington went, within days after the coup got real time interviews with survivors describing what happened so it was an excellent source of the black view. >> i hasten to add after the american african-american community after reading your book, i realized how well educated it was, there is a strong group of teachers there and they were doctors and lawyers who were trained in all sorts of institutions around the country. one of the centerpieces of the book i saw where the newspaper stories and the spark i suppose for starting the decision that we've got to take over here from the white supremacists that are was an editorial in the african-american paper, the daily record by the editor of it, alex manley had written something that provoked the white wilmington. >> he was the grandson of a white governor but he lived his life as a black man and was a very aggressive journalist and he started daily, black readership newspaper in wilmington in august of 1898, he read a speech from a white congress

live team coverage, morning rain is a new york city which has become the epicenter of this new covid wave but we will begin with mark meredith live in wilmingtonaware for the president is spending the weekend. >> good afternoon, biden offering a blunt assessment about one unvaccinated americans are facing given the last couple of weeks because they face a severe winter of bad illness and death and he's encouraging people to get their vaccine. we are hearing from concerns from health officials and we've learned president biden is going to speak at length what's going on with the pandemic on this upcoming tuesday. jen psaki putting out a tweet this afternoon saying if the president is going to build off his winter plant and announcing new steps the it administration is taken to help communities in need of assistance while also issuing a warning of what the winter will look like for americans who choose to remain unvaccinated. because of the rising cases, the administration deploy a few handful of states overnight appeals decision can ohio from a federal appeals court reinstating presidents vaccine mandate which impacts businesses with 100 employ

city, thank you. >>> president biden commemorated the deaths of his first wife and infant daughter in a car crash 49 years ago today. the president and first lady jill biden visited their graiches in wilmington delaware. beau and his brother were seriously injured but survived. cbs's christina ruffini is at the hite house tonight. christina how is the white house responding to the surge in cases? >> the president will be making a speech on tuesday, laying out the white house's response to the new covid variant. the president will paint a stark picture on what life could be like for unvaccinated americans. >> what does the congress adjournment mean for america? >> lifersing it its accomplishments the next year, 70% of the country vaccinated and moderate economic growth. the hallmark of legislationthe president wanted passed is stalled in the senate and that body adjourned today for the holiday weekend. that means it won't be happening before new year. >> oliver: christina ruffini at the white house, thank you. >>> thank you. >>> the ceos of the four biggest airlines testified together, that hasn't happened in years. included southwest ceo gary kelly, who appeared mask mtion,. >> sitting side

general motors plant in wilmington, the chrysler plant in newark, a refinery in delaware city, all of these hubs were good-paying jobs for thousands, thousands of delaware families, shut down just like that. workers across the state, whether an assembly line worker, a single parent working in the finance industry or family farm in our agricultural sector, every family felt the pain of the recession. jack didn't shy away from the moment. jack markell knows all too well that in adversity lies opportunity. i think he learned that from albert einstein. and in the face of great diversity, jack markell worked to court companies from all over the world to bring their businesses to delaware, to bring jobs back, to retrain the employees who lost their jobs they had held for decades. he got delaware back on the move, and the voters recognized his economic prowess by reelecting him by a wide margin in 2012. over his two terms as governor, delaware's unemployment rate came down significantly. in fact, delaware had the best job growth in the region, bringing vital jobs back to delaware families in

wilmington until monday morning with no other public events on his schedule. molly: we look forward to what he has to say on tuesday. mark meredith, thank you. and live in new york citye again slowing a pandemic -- the pandemic slowing things to a crawl here in the city. new york dealing with record levels of new covid cases, and residents are standing in hours-long hines outside to get tested -- lines. even the rockettes impacted. it's also impacting tonight's episode of "saturday night live." new york republican congresswoman nicole malliotakis, sorry about that, represents staten island and part of brooklyn and will join us in just a moment, but first, lauren green is live in new york city with the latest on all of this. >> reporter: hey, molly. covid is bringing chaos to the holidays as a rise in cases is causing shutdowns throughout the country for the second year in a row, and word is it's also threatening to shut down tonight's "saturday night live" show. there will be no live audience, and the show will have limited cast and crew. the spike in covid cases in new york has already forced several broadway shows to cancel performances including the famous christm

wilmington, delaware, definitely not from the white house. there was a slight they there, i couldn't see you. thanks so much, mark. >> reporter: no worries. no problem. griff: gillian, back here in rio grande citye're getting closer to when governor greg abbott is expected to unveil the new state-funded border wall. now, for more on the surge of migrants and this wall, one of the people attending it, congressman louie gohmert. congressman, i want to get to the wall. such an historical day for texas. but quickly, our white house reporter mark meredith was just getting reaction from president biden to the sixth circuit court of appeals reinstating the vaccine mandate. president biden saying we could be headed for a winter of severe illness. you're a lawyer and a previous judge. what's your reaction to sixth circuit's decision? >> i think the sixth circuit is totally wrong. just as some justices have said from other courts, just because there's an emergency doesn't mean that americans have to give up their constitutional rights. and especially since everything that fauci has talked about has not been effective. it's not working. you may have seen the latest data out of the united kingdom. so in en