[ bird caws ] im jamie colby in southampton county, virginia. Im here to visit a family, some of whose ancestors were murdered in the nat turner slave revolt. Their strange inheritance . A powerful and some would say holy relic of that bloody and historic rampage. My name is wendy creekmoreporter. My stepfather inherited a bible with a controversial past. Hes 88, and his memorys going, so he asked me to tell our familys story. Hi, wendy. Im jamie colby. So nice to meet you. I meet wendy at persons methodist church. The forebearers of her stepfather, maurice person, started the church in 1838, seven years after the family is nearly decimated in nat turners slave rebellion. I cant think of a more appropriate place to learn about an old bible that survives from that bloody day. What did the bible look like . Tattered. Its missing the cover, very small. It was obviously something that you could carry on you. And, according to person family lore, the centuries old book belonged to the upris
Charge for allegedly jumping on the cars hood. And its the tigers versus the tigers. College football crowns its champion tonight in new orleans. Lsu is looking for its first title since 2007. Meanwhile, clemson wants to go backtoback and win its third championship in four years. That hurts this gamecock from the great state of South Carolina. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, january 13th. From abc news, this is world news now. Good morning, everyone. We begin with half hour with the growing tenses inside of iran. Thousands of protesters clashing with police as they rally against their government. Yeah, the demonstrations continued even after the head of the revolutionary guard apologized for the downing of a passenger jet with mostly iranians on board, calling it a tragic mistake. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has more. Reporter protesters taking to the streets in iran shouting antigovernment slogans following the iranian militarys admission that it accidentally shot down that
Resident trump wayne and yesterday on the protest. Saying this. To the leaders of iran do not kill your Protesters Thousands had already been killed or imprisoned by you and the world is watching. More importantly the usa is watching. Turn your internet back on. Let reporters roam free. Stop the killing of your great iranian people. The u. S. Blaming the attack on iran. No group has claimed responsibility yet. To you first. I just told up this New York Post. The protesters wont trample them. They call it a real enemy. With iran admitting that it downed the ukrainian airliner and this is the response in the streets. A lot of the outrage comes from the beginning that they denied that they have done it. I think the people knew they were being lied too. It reminds me of prior to the fall of the berlin wall. I think this is one that is good to get more and more attention i think the world should be watching and stacked one thing is when the treated adversity. He hes speaking directly to tho
The finish line in sight all the details coming up later. Though we begin in washington where the u. S. Senate has launched formal proceedings for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump House Democrats read the formal charges triggering the Legal Process in the last few hours the chief justice of the u. S. Supreme Court John Roberts was sworn in as the presiding judge along with 99. 00 senators they would act as jurors during the proceedings the trial which donald trump has denounced as a cone job by the democrats will start on tuesday President Trump is accused of freezing aid to pressure ukraine to investigate a political rival. Donald j. Trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that using the powers of his high office President Trump solicited the interference of a Foreign Government ukraine in the 2020 United States president ial election he did so through a scheme or course of conduct that included soliciting the government of ukraine to publicly announce investig
And its expected to get bigger with people hoping to reach the u. S. The United Nations considers setting up a Monitoring Mission in libya to keep an eye on any potential future cease fire. I mean again this news in the United States where the senate has launched formal proceedings for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump as democrats have read the charges in congress what set in motion the Legal Process the trial which donald trump has denounced as a condo by the democrats is going to start next week i did jocasta reports from capitol hill. The ceremony laden impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is now underway very very. All persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment donald j. Trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that. Using the powers of his high Office President trump solicited the interference of a Foreign Government ukraine in the 2020 United States president ial election john roberts the chief justice of the Us Supreme Court has ta