A stop at the Detroit Public Library which was the location of the jail that was the location of the citys first race riot. This location is where thornton and rutha were in jail. They escaped from slavery and there was an uprising to free them. They escaped from louisville, kentucky. They escaped because rutha blackburn had been sold down into new orleans, and thornton did not want to lose the woman he loved, so they escaped together and came to the city of detroit in 1831. When they came to detroit, it was far away from kentucky. Slave law,the 1793 going to ohio was still risky because bounty hunters could come and take you, even from free states, and take you back out to wherever you came from. In ohio where they had been for a little while, it was too close to kentucky, bounty hunters were always in and out of ohio bringing people back into slavery. So when they arrived here, thornton is a brick maker, working as a brick mason for a couple of years, making a is ag, and rutha seamst
This weekend the Ringling Barnum bailey circus will fold their tent for the last time. Hes the first cub born in dallas zoo in more than 40 years. All that and he wins the premier league for the first time. Cavaliers just dominating. The worst loss ever in celtics franchise history. And all that matters double intercept. Brian doob lynn let that one go. It wound out ricocheting at the front of dion phaneuf and in. On cbs this Morning Saturday. I dont care what he says to the russians. I mean hes the president of the United States. If he wants to say that, barack obama wants to say whatever, if george bush says i looked in his eye. Even to his death you would defend him. Whoa, baby. He said the news stories are coming so fast and frequently, i need dramamine to watch cnn. I have breaking news fatigue, i do. And welcome to the weekend, everyone. Im anthony mason. Along with alex wagner, we begin this morning with the white house under siege. As President Trump started a nineday four coun
Incident in the terminal. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The saudi king about to greet donald trump in person. President trump jets off on his first foreign trip, but he cant escape controversy at home. New explosive headlines about the russia investigation that the New York Times reporting President Trump told russian officials that firing fbi jim comey relieved great pressure on him. Congress will hear from comey. Hes agreed to testify before the Senate Intelligence committee. The Washington Post now saying one of the president s current advisers is considered a person of interest in the russian probe. And even i myself has gotten to the point of whats going on here. This is the fight, but its all about democracy. Scare in the air. The man tried to break into the cockpit of an American Airlines flight from los angeles to honolulu. New orleans removed the last of four confederate monuments friday, the last, a statue of robert e. L
Ground. A slow go because of the cold air mixing with all of the moisture lurking to our south. Temperatures low to mid 30s, twend downward a bit until the arrival of the arctic front and once it gets here we will settle back into a cold weather trend. At least the weekend will be like the numbers. That is okay, it is nice to day. 6 week s on the fbi 10 most wanted list and no luck finding the last of the suspected scream mask bank robberies, the fbi is hoping new photos and video will help the public identify milo mason. Victoria sat down with the special agent. The fbi believes he is still in the country, even with a 100,000 reward, no one has turned him in. 25yearold milo mason is still accomplices in the scream mask bank robbery may be in jail but the fbi believes other friends are helping him stay hidden. The friends will abandon him. He will run out of cash and his luck will run out and we will be there, law enforce. To put cuffs on him. Special ijant involved, robert evans belie
Agreement with the county. It says mgm must hire minority owned businesses for 30 of the total construction. They have to give the county Council Reports to show if theyre actually living up to that agreement. Just yesterday mgm told the counsel they were. Im happy to tell you that mgm exceeded the goals for local and business participation in two categories. Reporter but the minority Business Owners in this lawsuit continue to say its not true. They believe the contracts mgm gives to minor run businesses are much smaller than what was promised and other firms are getting the high dollar ones. They have comfortable relationships. Some of our contractors dont have those. Reporter 1 contractor working with mgm says that hasnt been his experience and hes working with mgm on three different contracteds. Ronald lipberg runs an architectural firm. He said the worth of the contracts was substantial. It is not a token. I just need a few more tokens like that and i will be good. Reporter mgm sa