The country to find out more. She joins us with our cover story, a great assignment, morgan. Reporter it was very fun, sharon. New york city. Here as what you can expect from the business of play as 2016 unfolds. From robotic dogs to barbies new hoverboard to more than 100 new shopkins characters, companies are unveiling their newest characters and play things. U. S. Toy sales grew to more than 19 billion last year. One of the strongest performances in years. Experts hope 2016s product lineup will keep the momentum going. Star wars has helped, with a number of companies benefiting from the franchises source. Legos saw sales surge next year of course star wars is superheroes. Theres no doubt the stories are a core part of the industry. Reporter 2016s film roster should continue to film sales. The hopes are very high. A lot of them are on the fantasy kind of genre. Reporter playmobile is hoping its National Licensing deal with the National Hockey league will propel it into the u. S. Mass
These heavy trucks that were pounding on the road every day and at that time we didnt fully know how many there were. But we knew it was a lot. Reporter christina lives just down from the old farm on Victory Church road and has been leading the charge to stop the trucks for the past year and a half. She and her neighbors chipped in. They bought a hunting camera right here, wrapped it to a tree and theyve been counting trucks on the road ever since. 200 trucks a day on a heavy day. 200 trucks. I would say, if theyre heading northbound they weigh 80,000 pounds. Its one after another. All day. Reporter 200 trucks in just one day. She startetemaking calls. We reached out to a Public School because there were a lot of school buses that use our road. Department of transportation. About all the pot hole issues. We also reached out to the state trucks were heavy and driving recklessly. Reporter she hasnt let up but neither has the truck traffic. We dont know how many times we have to keep repr
In Mississippi Black lives did not matter. I am senator david jordan from greenwood who attended the emmett till trial and have written from a cotton field to the state senate and include one chapter in my book which has been not the bestseller but a very good seller. But its for sale, too, in the bookstore so you all should go buy one of his books affect. Yes. So i attended the trial but the experience that i had there on the outside forward where the news media were where my first time meeting and africanamerican congressman named davis was with mrs. Teal and i was just a freshman that Mississippi College state, college at that time. And we were asked to give a report. Sargasso 25 cents a gallon. We headed for summer mississippi but when we arrived there worth staying around on the outside for a few minutes a beautiful lady walked up to his welldressed and reporter said were going to ask you some questions. Whether emmett till will get a fair trial in mississippi. And she said, well,
Pretty severe injuries, and his body just was very weak on top of that severe infections from all the multiple bite wounds hes gotten. Reporter harper says theres no question remy whose only about a year and a half old had been repeatedly used for dog fighting. And when the poor pup got sick, he was tossed out like trash. All of the nick that is he has here, all of the discoloration in the fur and the nicks are all from previous fights. I hope we can stop this kind of behavior. Because its awful. Its really awful for the pets for the patienting to undergo this kind of brutality. Reporter now remy is fighting whole new battle. Hes fighting for his life. As long as he keeps fighting he keeps showing hes Getting Better and hes not in pain well continue to fight with him. Hes not out of the woods y yet. He has shown some improvement since he first came in so thats encouraging. But you know its still touch and go. Reporter but a lot of people rooting for him. Justice rescue offering 1,000 r
I was nervous because i am the panthers fan and there was an onscreen teeing lombardy in this battle skid they had to do and all of a sudden there was a commercial. I was not really focused but i saw a freeway sign that said detroit and i got my attention and the pocket of backbeat of music and all the symbols of between, joe louis downtown, the diego rivera murals, incredible murals in evoking the manufacturing sculpture, the spirit of deflate downtown and a black sedan driving a couple woodward avenue, the main thoreau fare of detroit, and c. Eminem in the car. I am not an eminem guy. I am now but wasnt then. I love the music that was playing in the background, but he gets out of this restored theater in downtown detroit and walks down the aisle and there was a gospel choir. This is the motor city, and it got to me some way. What detroit meant to me. And my earliest strongest memories of that city, and that commercial, set me on the path to thinking about what do i do . How can i hon