i always think of the museum as the home of freedom. i don t know where this nation would be, i don t know where i would be today without the guarantee of the first amendment. there is a war against information, a battle against who controls information. talk about it. engage in the news, be a citizen of the world. give a damn. one of our distinguished jurists that justice to london delayed is justice denied. areeligion and our beliefs part of people s core identities. very interesting to feel that your protected by all and you have support to pursue your life. good afternoon. the video is so good, we will show it twice. i am president and chief operating officer of the freedom forum institute. eum.e partner of the news my job is to welcome you and give just a touch of history to bring us up to speed with the contemporary issues that we will talk about. i want to take a moment technology that this is bill of rights day. which we have been celebrating since 194
dozens of people still unaccounted for this hour. our mola lenghi is in the flood zone, and rob marciano times out the rain and the new heat wave threatening the east coast. the growing monkeypox outbreak. new york city joins san francisco in declaring a state of emergency. the city s health commissioner calls new york the epicenter of the virus as the city awaits more vaccine doses. the war in ukraine. one of the country s richest men, a top grain tycoon, killed in a russian strike as dozens of ships remain docked at the country s ports, those vessels packed with agricultural products. and vladimir putin s new warning to the west. the nation mourns the loss of two trailblazers tonight, nba bill russell, a pioneer on and off the court, a hall of famer with 11 nba championships, two as the league s first black coach. after growing up in the segregated south, russell marched for civil rights and paved the way for generations of nba players who followed. and we mark the
she talks about how the magna carta influenced the histories of the u.s. and u.k. to limits on executive power. this program is a few minutes. today s lecture will be on the magna carta. a document of great historical significance to the rule of law. the 800 anniversary of which will be two weeks from today. we are honored and privileged to have as our lecturer, the deputy president of the supreme court of the united kingdom, the right honorable baroness hale of richmond. let me describe that lady hale has herself a couple. she was the only member of the u.k. supreme court to be a woman she was the first and only woman in 1999 was the when she was appointed to the court of appeals. in 1994, she was the first high court judge to come from a background as an academic and a public servant rather than as a practicing banister, although called to the bar in 1969 and 89. when she practiced law briefly in manchester, she decided that the ratio one of six women in her class, she
attempted murder. julius was the mother of two teens. her family very emotional. it hurt. it hurt. reporter: as for a motive, the prosecutor says that too will be revealed in court. a lot of unanswered questions in this case. live in long branch, meg baker, cbs 2 news. meg, thank you. a rape investigation is going on in brooklyn tonight. a woman says she was followed off the subway then attacked at knifepoint by a stranger who threatened to kill her. cbs 2 s dave carlin bushwick with the newest information from police for us tonight. dave. reporter: jessica, rapes on the rise in the area and shortly after this latest case on dekalb avenue an officer saw a man matching the suspect description and brought him in here for questioning. the robbery and rape of a 27- year-old woman happened on this quiet block of dekalb avenue in bushwick. the knifepoint attack early morning tooth was in front of a residential building was caught on security video that s now with police
hill road at 4:00 p.m. yesterday and foup the body of its resident, 63-year-old elizabeth cullen outside. the suffolk county homicide department was called in to investigate and less than two hours later police arrest elizabeth s son, dennis. when we were processing the scene, again, we arrived approximately 4:15 p.m. while we were processing the scene, that s when he returned to the scene and we placed him unarrest meal and approximately 5:50 p.m. it was his own indication that he resisted arrest. reporter: dennis cullen spent the night in the precinct and is expected to be arraigned later today. we re live in loi harbor, new york, ali bauman, cbs 2 news ali, thank you. police on the hunt for a man who tried to rob an off- duty cop in the bronx. it happened just before 7:00 last night on clinton avenue near crotona park. police say the man tried to grab some necklaces from the officer s neck. there was a struggle, and the officer fired one shot. police say the robber