Tennessee where at least one person was killed. And this morning flash flooding concerns. Angie lassman is here with the latest on the Severe Weather threat. President biden drawing a line in the sand, saying he will not supply the weapons for a major operation in rafah. How israel is reacting. Questions this morning over a Fatal Shooting of a u. S. Airman by police. A witness telling civil rights Attorney Ben Crump that police burst into the wrong home before shooting the 23yearold victim. The federal government finds a Texas School District violated the civil rights of students and will seek action after reports of racist and homophobic discrimination. The new developments coming after years of nbc news reporting in the district. And a volunteer ems dispatcher in new york is honored for her 47 years of service, just shy of her 100th birthday. Its thursday, may 9th. Early today starts right now. Good to be with you this morning. Im frances rivera. We begin with the latest onslaught of
Police say hemming has a record of armed robbery, burglary, felony cocaine, vehicle theft, destruction of property, and now two counts each of attempted first and seconddegree murder. The latest charges stem from an incident last week when hemming allegedly tried to kill two Montgomery County detectives with a homemade pistol. They were attempted to arrest the uber driver on a warrant at the time. Uber of course, require all applicants to submit to background check. How did he clip through the cracks . We contracted uber five hours ago but have not gotten an answer. It gives you pause when you think those are the people that could be picking me up at my house or any random place and brick me somewhere else. They are driving you and you expect them to have record or be model kevin no word if uber parted ways with him. Well tell you what we discovered outside his house this afternoon at 5 00. Im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Michelle quite the rap sheet. Thank you. We showed Surveillance Video
Have more men could go overseas. She worked in washington, d. C. Where she worked as a payroll person. In the 1920s, the fears of immigrants which had been boiling during the time of the great migration to america started to come to a head and eventually leading to the johnson reed act of 1984 which effectively ended immigration by ins instituting quotas. This would of course become a very difficult thing, an obstacle ten years later when a lot of European Jews could have used another safe harbor during the rise of the nazis. The 1920s was a rise of antisemiti antisemitism, largely due to the immigration surge that had happened up until the 1920s. So here we talk a little bit about that, about henry fords antisemitism and the protocols of zion, this was a fraudulent document purportedly outlining a jewish conspiracy to take over the world. It was published during the 1920s. In the 1930s, there was a sort of cultural flourishing in america despite the depression. A lot of really rich ar
Dedicating his flag to all the other men who are still missing in action or prisoners of war in vietnam. A lot of times veterans, if they want to come see the things that they left, we are always willing to give them a tour and show them around. It also helps us because we can connect specific names, donors to what they left. We have a big barrel that was left. I think it was left in 2002. I am too young to know what it was. But i have been told that in vietnam they used it as a letrine. An unfortunate soldier was given the job of burning it. But they came and they gave us a bit of context about what it was and when they left it and why. So thats really cool. Theres some donors who are still really active and want to see the things that they left. So this, as you may or may not know, is a roll of toilet paper. You may wonder why we have it in our collection. But toilet paper was as good as gold in vietnam, because if you were out in the field and you didnt have any toilet paper, you ha
The National Park service. I work specifically for the Vietnam Veterans memorial collection, which is housed here in the Museum Resource center. The building is for the National Capital region parks. But our collection specifically is housed entirely in this building. We are a collection of objects that are left at a memorial in d. C. , Vietnam Veterans memorial. Visitors come by every day, leave objects at the memorial which our park rangers collect. And then every two weeks or so, we do a pickup at the memorial. We bring them out here to our moo zeal Resource Center where we sourt through them and catalog them and make them part of our collection. I have chosen objects to show you from the collection. They kind of cover the range of topics that the collection interprets, including ptsd, mothers and fathers who lost children. They are objects that will go on display soon. They are good examples of the tin things in the collection. This was left at the wall in the 90s. This is part of