Black churches, its the inside story. [ ] welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. For generations, one way people upset about black aspirations, angry at demand for equality, made their displeasure known was by setting churches on fire. During the bloodiest days of racial conflict, sometimes there were people inside the burning churches much in more recent years churches burst into flame under the cover the darkness. What does it happen . What are the vandals trying to say . Is an assault on a building a reminder of how Little Things have changed. Movie reel exploding on a girls. 196 3 birmingham alabama members of the ku klux klan bombed a church. Fastforward to the 1990s, 60 churches set ablaze in 18 months, a rash of fires leading to the Church Arson Prevention act. I want to ask every citizen in america to say we are not going back, we are not slipping back to those dark days. November 2008 three white men burnt down a predominantly black church in springfield massachusetts, hours
It is going to feel like summer today. Definitely starting to get warmer back out there. The humidity is back with us and remaining with us for the next several days and another heatwave on our hands as well. Lets get it started with the michael son weather cam and the day planner. The temperatures quickly on the rise today, already 82 degrees at 10 00, 88 degrees at 1 00, 92 at 4 00 and thats dropping down from a High Temperature of 93 degrees, which will reach between 3 00 and 4 00 in the afternoon. The threat for thunderstorms is minimal until we get into the evening today with a slow moving cold front making its approach, it could trigger an isolated storm by about 6 00 or 7 00 in the afternoon and evening and then the chance for thunderstorms will start to increase as we head into the evening, kind of counter intuitive. We usually see the storms more so in the Late Afternoon but today we will see them later at night. Right now 68 degrees in fredericks, still 71 in hagerstown, 75 i
And should be done. People come here to the texas ranger hall of fame and museum because they want to see the pieces of this history to kind of immerse themselves in it and there is always a chance since we have a Texas Ranger Company on site here that they can meet a real, live texas ranger, which is what a lot of them would like to do. In 1993 the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms raided the Branch Davidian compound outside waco, texas. After a fierce gun battle, a 51day standoff ensued and ended with a fire on the religious compound that killed 76 people. As the cspan cities tour of waco continues, we talk about the Branch Davidians with the religion professor from baylor niversity. [gunshots] bring the tanks and stuff around here, i tell you what. Being an american first im the kind of guy that ill stand in front of a tank. You can run over me but ill be biting one of the tracks. No one is going to hurt me or my family. Thats american policy here. You could have arrested me
Chester township soon enough to save him. Drew smith is live on the seen on buckner road. Drew . Reporter there is a deep sense of sadness in this neighborhood. You can see this home is scorched and boarded up now. Were told the boy was asleep in the second story and we believe he died from smoke inhalation. Firefighters worked most of the morning to put out the fire in this house. Neighbors woken up shortly before 6 00 a. M. Were shocked to find out a little boy was trapped inside. The father walked up to the scene. He spoke to one of the firefighters and asked if anything was okay, and with tears in his eyes, he said no. Reporter were told the boys father arrived home to see the flames and ended up getting cut up as he tried to reach the second story. You can see how high the fire reached where they had to board up parts of the roof. A lot of damage, a lot of damage. Reporter william herr said the boys stepmother didnt say a word when she came over for a hug, but her body language sa
Storm harvey. Heres the radar look. You can see the center of the storm now sits south of austin, but the arm bands are the big issues now. We talked about this issue, the storm surge and winds yesterday were a big issue. Today and for the next several days, all about the heavy rain that is just pounding the houston to galveston area. These are the areas that i think will see the most devastation due to how much rain has fallen already in some areas. About 20 inches of rain have fallen over the houston area. With a possibility of two more feet in the days to come. Lets look at the storms path. The newest projection for Tropical Storm harvey. You see the winds are sustained at 45 Miles Per Hour, but the issue is its only moving at 1mileperhour. Here the track as it goes to monday overnight. This is 1 00 a. M. Barrie moves to the south. And brushes up against the coastline for tuesday with winds still at about 35 Miles Per Hour. That will drop it to a tropical depression, and then it sho