This is a special edition of nightline. City of angels legacy of the riots. Good evening. Thanks for joining us tonight from south los angeles, the city of angels, for this special edition of nightline. 25 years ago this week, this community was known as South Central. Scene riots in u. S. History. Five days of violence and mayhem when race and raids collided sparked by the rodney king verdict. As you know, i grew up in california in a koreanamerican family. Like most americans i will never forget watching in disbelief as chaos consumed one of our own cities. Tonight we dont just look back, we examine the lessons we as a nation are still struggling to learn. A lot of people are driving through right now, they dont know why were standing here. By all their measures this is just an intersection of los angeles. This is utter lawlessness. Fires, lootings, beatings. This is where it all came together. This is where it all fell apart. 25 years ago at the intersection of florence and normandi
You would be a superhero if you brought back a million. Oh, yes, i would be. You are halfway to that 1 million. Halfwayjust 7 more questions. Three more to that next threshold at 50,000. You still have one lifeline. That plus one is still hanging out there, should you need it. Are you ready to get back into it . Lets do it. All right, lets play who wants to be a millionaire. [dramatic musical flourish] right off the bat, a chance to double your money to 20,000. Heres the question. Which of these oscars is the only one that has never been awarded to an africanamerican . Which one has only has never been awarded to an africanamerican . So. Ive got to imagine best original song has. All right. Im gonna call my wife up here. Im gonna use the plus one. Use that plus one . All right, final . Final. All right, muriel, come on down. [cheers and applause] how you doing . Good to meet you. Good to meet you too. All right, im not sure if he called for help or just if hes going down, hes going dow
You would be a superhero if you brought back a million. Oh, yes, i would be. You are halfway to that 1 million. Halfwayjust 7 more questions. Three more to that next threshold at 50,000. You still have one lifeline. That plus one is still hanging out there, should you need it. Are you ready to get back into it . Lets do it. All right, lets play who wants to be a millionaire. [dramatic musical flourish] right off the bat, a chance to double your money to 20,000. Heres the question. Which of these oscars is the only one that has never been awarded to an africanamerican . Which one has only has never been awarded to an africanamerican . So. Ive got to imagine best original song has. All right. Im gonna call my wife up here. Im gonna use the plus one. Use that plus one . All right, final . Final. All right, muriel, come on down. [cheers and applause] how you doing . Good to meet you. Good to meet you too. All right, im not sure if he called for help or just if hes going down, hes going dow
When and if they can open up evacuation areas and whether it will be safe for people to go back into their homes, even for a brief moment to grab medications and other valuables. An update on the numbers, 36,000 people are impacted. 3300 people stayed overnight at two emergency shelters. Mandatory evacuation orders do remain in effect of three years of san jose. The william corridor where im reporting, which includes brooklyn terrace. A second area is oak hill road and this area where massive rescues were done by boat yesterday. No one expected rock springs to flood the way it did yesterday, and quickly. Staff is trying to pinpoint what failed to cause the water to inundate that neighborhood. We asked the mayor a pointed question. Did the city do everything it could to warn people to evacuate ahead of the catastrophe they faced . Was the holiday yesterday a factor . The first time that a resident is aware that they need to get out of a home is when they see a firefighter in a boat. The
Hauled out in handcuffs and arrested. Then you have a shooting that took place just moments after that. Police noticed notified by our shots by the camera system. When they arrived, they found two men on the ground in front of that home. You see all gun shell casings. Both taken to the hospital, one in surgery right now in critical condition. There were two hard hats nearby. We were told they were both construction workers, not in this area, but they were Walking Around the street when the shooter approached them in a mask, fired the shots and then took off on foot. There is no suspect description or motive at this time. We are working to find out new details, and as soon as we have them, we will pass them along. In the meantime, alabama and ninth street remains closed. Reporting live in southeast, sam sweeney. Back to you. Come to grips after a house fire claims the life of a young bonino. Q mccray with more. Just a sad story allaround here. We are going to show our viewers what the s