Thank you all for coming out. What a Beautiful Day to make history again. Inthis very day 50 years ago this very spot, dr. Martin luther king jr. Came to king street to deliver his march on ballot boxes speech. 8, 1966,nday, may mothers day, just as it is today, and now we gather on these hallowed grounds, 50 years later, to remember that important day in the history of king street and williams gstree and williamsburg, South Carolina. Thank you for being here for this importance occasion. When dr. King spoke your on may a rainy afternoon as you will see it was his first major public appearance in South Carolina. Speeches in three the state of South Carolina and defined not mistaken, the other two locations were in charleston and orange. Ree firstme to kingst and he came here after the passage of the Voting Rights act of 1965. He came as a result of mr. Virgil dimly of the funeral home who came to atlanta, camped out, took up residence outside dr. King pro office for three days, hounded
She said to me, on that day, i want you to see what you can be when you grow up. I will never forget that day. I thought about that day while we stood here in this field. Now i said to bakari a few ago, this day has even more significance to me. At the time that we came here, i was also serving as chairman of the board of directors of the shaw boys club in charleston, South Carolina. Many of you may not recognize shaw. Me robert gould Robert Gould Shaw was the quiet kernel colonel who commanded the 54th regiment. And to see here today reenactors of the 54th regiment participate in this program and reflect back on that day, this day has significant meaning to me in the way that you would not believe. [applause] heres what i want to say about today. I dont know if i ever thought, while standing on these grounds 50 years ago, that i would be back here 50 years later, as your representative to the United States congress. But i am. And its because of what was launched that day. Remember wat
It is going to dig south just a little bit. Over the north for today, we will have the slight possibility of a few scattered showers over the north bay. If it i get in a little bit closer, you can see how the clouds have taken over the north way. Sliding over the south bay and we have partly sunny skies and because of it. Not as cool this morning. But the possibility of rain is going to stick around for the next day or two. You can see the line is 90 miles to the north. It is the north bay that we will see the possibility of maybe a few sprinkles today. The rest of us not as warm. We will have a look at the temperatures and the how much i expect to look at it coming up. Call for help for the family of a los angeles dodge ares fan stabbed to death in San Francisco. They are heading back to the ballpark looking for answers. Allie rasmus is live for us with one fathers public plea. The father and the victims brother and sister will be out here at at t park. They claim to have a press conf
Embarrassed us around the world. Not worthy to hold that office. And snow in spain leaves hundreds of drivers trapped in their cars as roads are blocked and madrid airport remains closed. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Breaking news from our world correspondence just in the last couple of minutes. Royal correspondent. Buckingham palace at has announced that the queen who is 94 and the duke of edinburgh who is 99 have today received their covid 19 vaccinations. These were administered at windsor by a doctor in the royal household. The decision to release the news was made by her majesty and there will be no additional comment. So it isjust a one line statement really thatjonny dymond has brought us that they have received their covid 19 vaccinations. The queen has remained at windsor instead of moving to sandringham due to the tier 4 restrictions. These are library pictures clearly of an event that took place before we were in the pandemic and people with facemask and all the rest of it
Million since the outbreak began last year. Today the uk reported a further 59,937 cases since saturday. There are a further 1035 deaths. There are a further 1035 deaths. There was a people who died within 28 days of receiving a positive coronavirus task. The total number of people who have died since the start of the pandemic is now 80,868. Earlier i spoke to a professor at University College london who was a member of the sage group. She said, hospitals simply cant cope with the number of patients coming through their doors. It isjust really bad news. The thing with hospitalisations is that we have seen, especially in london, the nhs is already overwhelmed. The people need to go to hospital of the next ten days already have coronavirus. We know that because case numbers are going up, that number will keep going up every day. We had one small snapshot of what this means in a very simple way, which is a hospital in south london which is now moving its coronavirus patients who dont nece