that s what we re trying to do in state after state, city after city. part of what i have seen around the country is that afscme is talking about a day to day, door to door operation. i know that all of us will be working with you all around the 50th assassination of martin luther king in memphis and that was a afscme boycott or strike that he was there for. and using that to galvanize and mobilize. but to do it on the grass roots basis. 50 years after dr. king s assassination, 50 years after the sanitation strikers there in memphis which was the reason he came, we are confronted with the same issues under donald trump that we had 50 years ago when dr. king was assassinated fighting for workers in memphis. well, you re exactly right. it is important for all of us to commemorate the weekend of april
sad to see the history and culture of your great country being ripped apart with the removal offensively our beautiful statues and monuments. you can t change history, but you can learn from it. robert e. lee, stonewall jackson, who s next, washington, jefferson? so foolish. waiting for a third tweet on the topic. maybe he s getting it straight from a fox news teleprompter. we have reporters in two of those cities. stephanie gosk in lexington, kentucky, and mariana atencio in memphis. stephanie, first this lexington, give us an update. what is it like? i know city council is expected to vote tonight. reporter: they are expected to vote on the removal of two statues here, two statutes, one, john hunt morgan, who was a confederate general, and the other, john c. breckinridge, the last confederate secretary of war. it has this city on edge because of the controversy you ve already seen around the country and they re worried this is going to be a flashpoint for
civil rights historian and a associate professor of his three at rhodes college in memphis. and you a gene scott, welcome to both of you. thank you. professor, let me begin with you here, of course we would all agree with what mart mart third just said to come wrasse there in trump tower. but you also have congressman lewis, right, who is a civil rights icon, but he is also a democratic politician cowlings the president-elect illegitimate the week before inauguration. do you think he was looking to start something? i think he was doing what john lewis has been doing for the last 50 years. right, which is speaking truth to power. when you go back to his speech on the march on washington in 1963 rks he does the same thing. he says where is the political party that will make marches on washington unnecessary. he goes on to say that too often our political our politicians are morally compromised when
my neighbor and friend from mississippi b.b. king. please come up, would you? thank you. he even presented lucille to the pope. and received numerous awards multiple grammys and the presidential medal of freedom. all for playing the blues like no one else. the music b.b. king once said is really the story of life. dan harris, abc news. can t help but to move when you hear that music. just sad. i grew up with this. i grew up in west memphis of course, and b.b. king is everywhere. and spent so much time my party at my for my wedding was at his restaurant on beale street in memphis. b.b. king s blues club. he s such a part of the culture. you can t grow up in that area and not have him be part of your life. music will live on. man, we have lost a legend. will never be another one like
reported and drivers are urged to use extreme caution through the morning hours. as the storm system moves east this morning, up to eight inches of snow could fall in baltimore, philadelphia and new york s long island. flooding downpours in the south. rapidly dropping temperatures in the middle of the country where record lows are expected tomorrow. 70s in phoenix and los angeles, 50s in seattle, new orleans and atlanta. 30s in denver and kansas. 20s in memphis and new york. teens from minneapolis to detroit. well, supreme court justices have heard arguments over president obama s health care law. at issue whether tax credits, given to millions of americans to help them afford health care premiums are fair and constitutional. here s abc s jim avila. it is an effort to kill obamacare, leaving 7.5 million americans without health insurance, a lawsuit brought by four people who didn t want to be forced to buy it and designed by a conservative think tank. all based on four words bu