curriculum actually became law are. tara kirkland explains how. a little bit of success one time around. reporter: students in this ap government class were already civil rights champions. for three years, the new jersey teens had researched, drafted and even tweeted to the president to turn their class lesson into federal law. it was an incredible moment. reporter: but when they heard the news the cold case act was a approved, mr. wexler knew history had been made. this is something way outside the normal scope. to the best that we can find, no teacher, to class, no set of students have ever done this before. reporter: the new federal law will allow investigators to review reports of murders from the civil rights era and as far back as the 1940s, believed to have been racially charged. the information is out there, it s sitting out there. it s just not available to these people. and i really just felt like they needed to know. i know if it was me, i would want to know.
row seat, you and your family. can you just tell me, what was it like sitting in there on being so close to the president? how does he seem? he seemed well. he s lucid, intelligent, he takes the class lesson out of the baptist special guide. it s not a special preparation that he has. it was what the subject was for the week of august 23rd and he did very well with it. what was a moment for you and your wife, you ve gone home and shared with your friends? that he s so accessible. he s just an authentic person. what you see is what you get. you know, he s not like most or many of the ex-presidents. he makes himself accessible to people locally, nationally and
they re celebrating big niem bean town. still savoring the victory as the world series champions. what you re seeing are duck boats up the waterways of boston cheering the team for winning its first world series at home in fenway park in nearly 100 years. this makes the victory all the more sweet with the red sox dedicating the victory to the victims of the marathon shooting. the biology assignment creating controversy at a colorado high school. a mom whose family struggled with alcohol addiction is angry when she finds out that the alcohol content of her daughter s class lesson. here s more on the story. when adrian mars was making dinner last week, her daughter was learning to make beer.
when they saw him drive off on his lawn mower they called police. a biology assignment creating controversy at a high school in colorado. they discovered the alcohol content of their kid s class lesson. it is standard to learn about ferm mentation one mother says this goes way too far. when adrien was making dinner last week she learned her daughter ways learning how to make beer. i said you are doing what? the assignment directed them to be familiar with how to make beer. students could earn extra credit if they visited the coors brewery. it came with a disclaimer it doesn t promote the use of alcohol but it is still hurtful for families like her. both sides of our family strugglied with alcoholism.