important for them to be here. to pay tribute. i did speak with one gentleman who said he wished that those like congressman john lewis had actually attended so they could have fostered a dialogue and got that going. so that s what s at the backdrop of this. of course, this president sparked some controversy during a number of moments not only during i had campaign but as president one, of course, that has gotten so much attention, his controversial reaction to the charlottesville protest that turned deadly. and, of course, there have been a number of other instances. so jackson today is a city paying tribute to those who fought in the civil rights but also really wrestling, i think, with how to move forward and how to move forward and bridge the divides with this president. all right. thank you so much inside of the two museums awed sore yum at the new civil rights museum there in jackson. thank you for that.
house. residents say it all happened so fast. i mean we didn t have time to form an emotion. there was no time for fear, there was no time for anything. reporter: david, the national weather service says there were no significant injuries reported, but that ef-1 tornado that destroyed this building behind me is the second twister to hit the state in two weeks, david. all right, stephanie ramos. a difficult story, but great to have you on the team with us. we want to bring in meteorologist rob marciano. he is tracking it all for us tonight. hey, rob. reporter: hey, david. we re still looking more for heavy rain across the south, as that energy that brought the flooding rain across texas begins to slide east. look at the radar, and everything you see south of that front is very humid air coming off the gulf of mexico. so jackson, mississippi, montgomery, charleston, have the potential for heavy downpours. but the heaviest rains and flood watches are in mississippi and alabama. ra
the constitutional sankty of that union. during his presidency, south carolina was threatening to us is seed from the union, and had that happen, other states would have gone with it. there was called the nullification crisis of 1832 when south carolina was alleging that it didn t have to follow federal law. that states were sovereign and didn t have to follow federal law. if the federal government required it to it would secede. it was jackson who famously said, this union is treason. and also said our federal union must be preserved. so jackson s connection here and i believe what the president was referring to was jackson s firm belief that the federal government was what protected the independents and individual
snake. though we didn t see any snakes on the plane, for pickle and oreo and marlon bundo this was their first vpp motorcade. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. jeanne moos, you do it like no one else can. thank you for that. now in our america. at a time of so much division in this country there are moments of unity all around us every day and we want to make sure we show you those on this show as well. so tonight in our america we want you to meet jackson johnston, a sixth-grader in packwood, iowa. his grandfather was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and started losing his hair. so jackson shaved his own head in support. when we got down to papa s that day his hair hasn t all come out yet but it s patchy and he didn t want to shape it. he didn t want to spook the kids. sew was going to wait. and then jackson comes in and takes his hat off and says hey, papa, i thought we d start a new club. and just the emotion that went over his face. just amazing. but jackson s show of love
for his grandfather soon drew some pretty mean comments from some of his classmates. i was going to my first class and i had someone walk by me and say, well, you look like you have cancer. and i m just like, actually, i m not the one that has cancer. i did this because my granddad has cancer. but when principal tim hadley heard about how jackson was being treated he decided to take action. my mother had thyroid cancer. i have a mother-in-law who had uterine cancer. i have a grandfather who didn t finish the battle against cancer. and it was something that resonated deeply with me. i know so many people that have gone through what jackson s going through. i mean, to be a young man and find out that a family member has potentially a life-threatening illness it s a difficult thing to handle. and so principal hadley allowed jackson to shave his hair, explaining to his students that judging someone else for their reaction to cancer or anything is just plain wrong. soon after jackso