With me, zeinab badawi. My guest is South African jazz legend and political activist Hugh Masekela. His life and music have reflected the struggles of the anti apartheid hero, and the years of black majority rule. So, why does he now describe south africa as fast turning into a rubbish dump, and becoming removed from its authentic african culture . Hugh masekela, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, thank you, zeinab. You were born in 1939 in witbank, 100 miles east ofjohannesburg. You said if i have a trumpet, i wont bother anybody. You say music is your religion . Well, i was obsessed. I was actually bewitched by music from infancy. When i was five years old, my parents had to get me away from the gramophone and help me play the piano, with piano lessons. Nine years later, i saw a movie about a trumpet player. It was a biopic, called the young man with the horn. I had to play the trumpet. In fact, it was a man of religion, father Trevor Huddlestone, who gave you your first trumpet . He wa
Zeinab badawi. My guest is South African jazz legend and political activist Hugh Masekela. His life and music have reflected the struggles of the anti apartheid hero, and the years of black majority rule. So, why does he now describe south africa as fast turning into a rubbish dump, and becoming removed from its authentic african culture . Hugh masekela, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, thank you zeinab. You were born in 1939 in witbank, 100 miles east ofjohannesburg. You said if i have a trumpet, i wont bother anybody. You say music is your religion . Well, i was obsessed. I was actually bewitched by music from infancy. When i was five years old, my parents had to get me away from the gramophone and help me play the piano, with piano lessons. Nine years later, i saw a movie about a trumpet player. It was a biopic, called the young man with the horn. I had to play the trumpet. In fact, it was a man of religion, father Trevor Huddlestone, who gave you your first trumpet . He was a chapla
But it is one that is in the best interest of the people of baltimore. Baltimores top cop is dismiss. Fm and mr. Popularity, Bernie Sanders. Is he more than just a wakeup call for Hillary Clinton . Plus hes got rhythm. Grammy winner Terrence Blanchard opens up about the life in jazz and what lies ahead. We begin this hour with a technical glitches and sudden malfunctions that caused a lot of havoc for traders and airline passengers. Long lines lots of headaches and planned of unanswered questions. United airlines and then the snawctsnewyork Stock Exchange shut down because of computer problems. Lisa stark is in washington with more. Least lisa. David imagine one major Computer System goes down then another. Was something suspicious going on . All the Computer Systems back up and running thousand but it was a scramble for United Airlines and the Stock Exchange as the operations ground to a halt. It pushed back another hour traveling with two small kids. The company scrambled to ground i
Medford and mount holly, these winds 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. You see the stronger winds are starting to fall apart as with you go to southern parts of Burlington County. You could have small hail as well. Wind 60 Miles Per Hour and most areas stay on the dry side. Rick and monica when i come back well talk about the end of the week active as well because of Tropical Storm cindy. Thank you so much. Now to breaking news bill cosby sex assault case, lets than 90 minutes ago the judge decided that the names of the jurors that were deadlocked will be released but those jurors are banned from saying anything about the deliberations in the case. Before deadlocking on all three counts against cosby resulting in a mistrial. Kevin steele has vowed to retry the case. A murder mystery in south jersey. A 47yearold woman was found dead in a Swimming Pool behind her home. And now we are learning more about how she died. Action News Reporter sara bloomquist live athe police station. They are assuring
Even southern Chester County. The rest of these lighter shades of green are advisories. Be careful as youre driving around those areas this morning. There could be some flooded roads. You want to work your way around them not through them. Most of our rain is now off the coast. A couple sprinkles and showers out to the west. It does look like were quickly drying out this morning. 76 degrees in philadelphia, 73 in trenton, 73 in allentown currently. 74 in beach haven. 79 in cape may and wilmington is currently checking in at 74. For now its still very humid. Youll feel that as you step outside but we do expect improvement in a couple of ways today. First of all, temperatures. Were not in the 90s. By 3 oclock this afternoon well only get to 85 in philadelphia and humidity should drop on a westnorthwest wind and it will feel more and more comfortable as the day goes on. If you are heading out to the playground today, well, its a decent day to get out there. Sunscreen will be important. Cl