Menendez has betrayed the trust of new jerseys families. His actions reenforced all that the American People believe is wrong, with washington democrats. Governor Christies Office says he has no comment at this point. Of course we will follow this breaking news and bring you more throughout the the the newscast. Live from the sat center natasha brown, cbs3 Eyewitness News. I turned around and i had the gun pointed towards my face and he was, threatening all of us, not to run. Reporter tonight Eyewitness News takes you inside a Montgomery County firehouse, the scene of the tense hostage situation. Were now hearing from Fire Fighters, held begins their will and learning more about the the suspect, exfire fighter paul jordan who reportedly opened fire. The standoff ended peacefully, those hostages talk with the suspect, who they used to work with getting him to earned iser his weapon moments before police burst in. Eyewitness News Reporter walt hunter live outside firehouse in cheltenham
She went to the hotel to attempt to rob the victim. A second woman, Dominique Johnson is charged with conspiracy to commit robbery. Police say he was robbed of 40 and his metro card. It is now 4 31. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. Lets start with storm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal. More hot weather, amelia . Oh this summer like pattern continues today and on into the weekend. Storm team 4 radar right now though is dry. And for a good part of today, youll be experiencing dry weather, but its hot and its humid. Im going to be tracking some scattered storms and downpours during the afternoon and evening hours. Heres what you can expect. Starting off with future weather. You can see hazy sunshine getting into the midday hours. A little bit more cloud cover. Then as we head into the afternoon hours, 2 00 3 00 well start to see areas of storms develop. No Severe Weather in the forecast for today, but there could be some heavy, slow moving rain out there. Notice 6 00 the yellows,
Stoically carmichael and caught the man who started the whole thing, James Meredith and we were like sheep lucky to capture all of those. Host lets backtrack about the march how did you choose the title . Guest the title is down to the crossroads civil rights, black power, and the meredith march against fear the civilrights march begins memphis and ends three weeks later in jackson. During those three weeks the Civilrights Movement transforms with the crossroads. The call for black power is first heard. So to unveil the slogan to generate controversy it immediately generates swelling of the enthusiasm with the black people and a new direction of politics over the course of time because it brought together a civilrights leaders from all across the country to put them in to a repertory of black politics moving through mississippi that highlighted the key divisions and also the key strengths. Host speaking of dramatizing of march the people of my generation especially black parents will s
Power and the meredith march against fear. And at the university of memphis for fester tells the story of James Meredith the first africanamerican admitted to the university of mississippi who was shot upon his return to the state to promote Voter Registration. The ensuing civil rights battle rock the black Power Movement to the forefront. The program is about an hour. Host what a pleasure to be with you today to talk about your book. You know i looked at its cover and i was immediately intrigued by it. Some say you cant judge a book i its cover but lets start by judging this book by its cover. Tell me about the cover. Guest thanks for having me. It was actually quite a struggle to pick the perfect image for the cover. It is a picture from the last day of the march june 26, 1966 as leaders lead the final leg of the meredith march into jackson mississippi and it was kind of a struggle to pick the right picture because on the one hand we wanted to capture its Human Element and capture th
Without but the murderer of medgar evers, bobby frank cherry, involved in the Birmingham Church bombing, they were all ultimately brought to justice in a series of striking and horrifying trials in in cases 30 and 40 years after the crimes and not nearly everyone who was responsible for these outrages was brought to justice but there were many people who were brought to justice, and when you say the question about enforcement, one of the striking things that president johnson said on the weekend he signed the bill, he called his old friend, governor John Connellly of texas. He said you dont want to talk about enforcing this law. That gets a mans hackles up. You want to be talking about obeying it because thats the right thing to do, and i thought that was a fascinating distinction and one that probably he learned at a very early age. We have time for one last question. Thank you for taking the question. Mr. Williams, thank you for the Howard University reference, at alumnus, i definite