dealing with honestly to try to bring that flag down, but, you know, as remarkable as what jenny did is and as grateful as all of us are for it, it was such a team effort, and, you know, representative russell ott, representative rick quinn, representative james smith, todd rutherford, all of us have fought in our own ways for years to try and move this state, but what we were able to accomplish last night by comie ing togethes just beyond amazing, and, you know, i m grateful, i m glad that my boys can now have a state house and state house grounds that they, too, can be proud of, but i m also a little bit saddened by the fact that my parents won t be here to see
to vanish from the grounds of a state capitol. the flag will still fly over a few places like some civil war historic sites, also in the corner of the mississippi state flag and, of course, on the t-shirts and bumper stickers of people who will not let go of that now what s become an outdated symbol of the south. but where you will not see it after 10:00 tomorrow morning is flapping on a pole in the shadow of the south carolina state capitol. its time is officially over and state lawmakers finally voted to get rid of it. here is what it took. a heated and passionate debate last night that really lasted well past midnight in columbia. house members voting in favor of bringing that flag down. and giving it a brand-new home in a museum or some other place where relics are stored. what happens next?
this move and this change towards truth and inclusion and change in south carolina. it s going to be a very emotional day. representative, we are just learning that there will be the taking down of the flag will occur at 10:00 tomorrow morning, and that is something that a lot of folks are going to be watching. kind of wonder, and we re wondering, have you when this vote happened, have you had a chance today, i know one laymaker that lawmaker that sn top of mind for everyone which is clementa pinckney. have you had a chance to speak to any of the families, including mr. pinckney s about this, how they feel about it, and if they are going to watch it come down? i have not had a chance to
last ten days i ve said definitely put an exclamation point on race relations not only in south carolina but across the country. over the next few weeks and months the sentence that proceeds that exclamation point will still be written by people depending upon what they do with this moment or if the energy just putters out and people go back to the way things were. we have to remember that this last incident the shooting of the nine people in the church are very much like what happened in birmingham alabama, to the four girls when the church was blown up. what gave permission for those things to happen is they all wore that flag the thing that moves them on to do what they want to do. that s why it is important for that flag to come down. professor, james foreman i thank you so much and emmy award acting actor, i appreciate
the confederate flag removed from the capital this morning in south carolina. the state didn t do it. someone else climbed up that pole and took it down. two people are now in custody. we begin in new york where hundreds of officers are out this morning looking for this man, david sweat, the escaped killer still on the run, three weeks after breaking out. i m christi paul. i m victor blackwell. 10:00 this morning on the east coast, 7:00 out west. thanks for joining us for newsroom. we are starting with the helicopters and the search dogs. 1100 law enforcement officers. a huge rush of resources. police are now searching for escaped killer david sweat. they believe they could have him, here is the word they are using, contained inside a perimeter. the search is going on near the upstate new york community of malone. we are covering this story across several angles and from the area. they are live on the ground.