[crowd conversations] jim good morning. Good morning. Jim my name is jim. I am with the comcast corporation. We are pleased to be with you here today at Eastern High School. We have a wonderful guest speaker. Many times, leaders have a very uncommon vision and uncommon commitment to excellence, convictions. I think we will hear all of that this morning. We are in for a very special treat. This program, the students and leaders program, is a wonderful opportunity to bring leaders back to the classroom to show young people the values of public service, the importance of leadership, and to give people an opportunity to become more involved in government and more aware of the issues that face our society. Cspan, our partner at comcast, cspan is one of the very special ways we are able to do that every day. It gives our audiences on cable a chance to see their government firsthand, whether it is from the floor of the house of representatives, the senate, or special debates about public poli
Yearold kid entered through a lifetime to keep moving. Keep moving in the right direction keep bringing other people to move and to do it without hatred in his heart to sing and dance. As his brother freddie said introit keep moving to the ballot box even if it is a mailbox. Keep moving to the beloved committee. John lewis was many things. But, he was a man, a friend and sunshine in a storm and a friend would walk a stony road that he asked you to argue would brave the rods he asked you to be whipped by keeping his eyes on the prize and believing, none of us will be free until all of us are equal. I loved him. I always will. I am so grateful, that he stayed true to form. He left us with marching orders. I suggest, since he is close enough that the god to keep his eye on the sparrow and us, we salute march on. It is an honor to be here. Thank you for enabling us all to be here. To honor and celebrate the life of john lewis. With three president s of the United States. President clinton,
Remarks from three former president s, george w. Bush, bill clinton, and barack obama. Live coverage is here on cspan3. Amen. This is john lewis favorite poem, invictus. Out of the night that covers me, black as a pit from pole to pole, i think whatever god may be to my inconquerable soul. In the fell clutches of circumstance, i have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeons of chance, my head is bloody, but im bound. Beyond this place looms but the horror of the shade. And yet menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll, im the master of my fate. Im the captain of my soul. John lewis was my hero and my friend, lets honor him by getting in good trouble. [ applause ] only the inconquerable spirit and the magnanimous soul of john lewis could summon all of us together in this place at this time. Only john lewis could compel three living american president s to come to this house of god. To celebra
A black man is wrongfully arrested all because facial Recognition Technology got it wrong were going to discuss its time to move i. 19 numbers worldwide cases now topping 10100000 and 502000 reported deaths the top 3 countries with the most confirmed cases the u. West still leading the way followed by brazil with more than a 1000000 cases there and russia and right here in the u. S. Some 2500000 cases with about 125000 reported deaths now since reopening texas and florida are 2 of the states seeing massive increases in code cases with florida getting hit hard with record coated cases since reopening in june and Miami Dade County has become the epicenter of the pandemic in the Sunshine State so much so the beaches there are being closed for the 4th of. Holiday i think john honey is live in miami with the latest on the skyrocketing cases in florida and texas john just how bad is it there. Well manila you know look at a look at the numbers right now and its really dizzying because theyre
Capture complete. Another first for spacex. Its great to get the United States bacne. And later, a squirrely story from a pandemicinspired photo shoot. They went nuts, so to announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Good evening. Im steve savard reporting from kmov in st. Louis. Anger and anguish with america on edge tonight, protests erupting in dozens of cities following mondays arrest and death of george floyd in Police Custody in minneapolis. Most of the protests have been peaceful. Then at night, turning to rage. Om thehootinea mhael papersold of the pain, and hearg minneapolis and st. Paul which saw its fifth night of violence. We begin there with cbs news chief justice and home land security correspondent, jeff pegues. Reporter this city may have turned a corner last night. Law enforcement brought in reinforcements to help restore order. This is one of the flash points, though. You can see how they put razor wire out here, trying to make sure that the demonstrators dont breach t