Theyve all been charged with blocking passage. The protesters got some signs of solidarity today from the st. Louis rams. Five players took the field with their hands up to salute ferguson. Weve also learned officer Darren Wilson will not get a selfrans. He hopes his resignation allows the community to heal. The mayor made a big announcement. The city will Fund Scholarships to get more minorities on the police force. Jennifer johnson explains how ferguson is a defining moment for Race Relations. Officer Darren Wilson offered his resignation after the police chief told him about threats against others in the department. Thats been ongoing for months with the officers and of course, it takes its toll on them. The threats have been egregious. The mayor of ferguson appealed for healing with plans to hire more africanamerican officers and a civilian review board to look at complaints against police. Number one goal is to bring together our Police Department and our community. To bridge the
Another cold front is on the way. It will bring us rain on monday but then some wintry weather. Demonstrators protesting the ferguson decision shut down a busy d. C. Hirntion and they say they will do it again. It. In light of ferguson, a Police Department and a Community Come together. The efforts to change h street to marion barry boulevard. That story coming up. Hello, im bruce johnson. Get ready for wintry weather near the beginning of the work week. Tuesday is a yellow alert day. Meteorologist erica grow is here with the forecast. Thats right, bruce, we have one more nice day to get through but a cod front is going to move through monday evening. You can see green on the radar now. That is rain. As High Pressure bids to the north it will drive the winds out giving us colder air, and that will set the stage for some wintry weather. We have a very mild start to the work week. In fact, you might not even need the jack as youre heading out the door tomorrow. But light showers develop
Tomorrow morning. Things start to change by late in afternoon. The 95 corridor. Heading on toward our capital beltway. Along at, outer loop west into silver spring, looking good. Check out the ride for folks headed along 66. Eastbound just pass business 234, what is left is on the Left Shoulder. The focal bunt of the delays the Prince William parkway. Continuing south, lanes are open, volume still slight. Andrea, mike, back to you. Calls for justice continue around the country in the ferguson case. This after a missouri grand jury decided not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Protests were held in in the morning, even on the nfl football field. The st. Louis rams showed solidarity with demonstrators. They exhibited the hands up dont shoot pose. The st. Louis Officers Association condemns that mood. Also today at the white house president obama is scheduled to hold meetings with civil rights leaders to discuss national attentions surrounding the fer
Form that explored the Publics Trust in media among the topics discussed were media bias and social media this is about an hour, 40 minutes. I am Steve Clemons of semafor. We are thrilled to have you here with us this morning for a major event for us. Today we are going to be speaking today we will be speaking with commentators on the contemporary battle and whether news can operate in a highly polarized landscape. Our event is going to be live streamed. Hello to everyone online joining us on twitter and youtube. You can follow us and use semafornews to join the conversation. I want to say a major word of thanks to jim clifton, john clifton and gallo for being not only our venue partner today, but our very good friend and we are going to be partnering on many other things that my friend justin smith, the founder of semafor will share in a moment. I want to thank the Knight Foundation for its support not only of this conversation but other conversations down the road on what we need to
Thats a step that i have worked on every single day. Number two people can succeed. The genius of america is the Free Enterprise and freedom and the fact that people can go out there and start a business, work on an idea, make their own decisions. As Abraham Lincoln understood, there are also some things we do better together. In the middle of the civil war, Abraham Lincoln said, lets help to finance the transcontinental railroad. Lets start the National Academy of sciences. Lets start land grant colleges. We want to give these gateways of opportunities to all americans. If all americans are getting an opportunity, we will all be better off. That does not restrict freedom, that enhances it. What i have tried to do as president is to apply the same principles. When it comes to education, what i have said is we have to reform schools that are not working. We do something called race to the top. We have said states we will give you more money if you initiate reforms. We have had 46 states