Road map. What was going through your mind, first to move you to write the book and then as you were writing it, to sort of take that approach where you were doing all these thing at one time imim going to teach you something, show you something, tell you something. Guest first of all, thank you for being here. Nor one of my back book cover quotes so that means a lot to me. We have been friends for 25 years. I dont want to talk about how old we are now. Just teagueing. But to answer your question two things happened in 2015. That for me were gamechangers. The first one was the riots in baltimore. Stephanie rawlins blake was the mayor. I was in shock eye. Born right after the riots and i never saw that so seeing an American City burn was shocking. The second thing that happened was the charleston shootings. The issue over the confederate flag, seeing nine africanamericans shot in a church by someone who to this day doesnt think he did anything wrong, doesnt feel bad about it, actually a
Lady. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Tonight from the Democratic National convention in philadelphia. Ed democrats official theme here tonight is united together. But deep divisions were exposed today. The Democratic National committee apologized to Bernie Sanders for leaked emails that suggest officers of the dnc were attempting to undermine the Sanders Campaign in favor of Hillary Clinton. The controversy forced the dnc chair to resign and give up her role at the convention including gaveling it to order. Not the way Hillary Clinton wanted to state her week. We start with nancy cordes. Nancy . Scott, things were getting so tense here on the floor that the clinton camp asked sanders to send a test to his delegates asking them not to protest as a courtesy to him. Still we are hearing a mixture of boos and cheers every time one of these speakers mentions Hillary Clintons name. But nominating Hillary Rodham clinton as our candidate. Reporter t
Clinton and accept the nomination. He is expected to take the dnc tomorrow night ahead of president barack obama. Meantime, lets take a live look at the floor of the convention, they have done the call to order, the pledge of allegiance and the National Anthem and the role call is expected to begin in a few moments now. Right now there is a debating process going on for each candidate, hillary and bernie. We can expect it to get boisterous. Joining us live on the floor of the convention is action News Reporter, dann cuellar, with more of todays events at the dnc. Reporter good afternoon rick, many Bernie Sanders supporters are resigned to the fact that Hillary Clinton will secure the nomination tonight but they want it known here on the floor just how widespread his support is and they will make a lot of noise tonight and there are some in key states like florida and pennsylvania wanting to make the point, but will they ever unite . Here is what we hear from both clinton and sanders to
Perhaps last novembers paris carnage. Under arrest 31yearold belgian moroccan, Mohamed Abrini, trained by isis in syria and smuggled into europe with refugees. He was on europes mostwanted list for his presumed role in the paris attacks last november which killed 130. Police are looking whether he was third suspect in the airport bombing. Seen as you mentioned with two others pushing carts loaded with suitcase bombs. His bomb didnt go of and he fled. According to fox news contacts in brussels, it almost certainly is him but not yet confirmed. His dna, his fingerprints have been found at a couple of apartments used by the terrorists. So, today in total, five people were arrested, including a man who authorities think might have had something to do with the brussels metro bombing. That was the bombing at the subway station which left another 16 people dead. So, deirdre, lots goingson and news coming out and moving towards solutions on this horrible story. Deirdre gerri, thanks so much fo
Strikes. She has seen a increase in seal activity and mary is getting full. We have had an influx of harbor seals on our shorelines, in Atlantic County and Cape May County this could be one of the food sources our largest sharks like to feed on. Reporter most likely answer is most obvious, sharks are all over the ocean were just paying attention to this one. When we are swimming out in the ocean we are in fact, swimming with sharks whether we want to ignore that fact or not. Reporter biggest splash is making in the mind of the people out here shes making a bigger splash right here. Coming up at 6 00 we will talk about how an animal with no fingers has more than 10,000 twitter followers and, how that may be a good thing. Live from brigantine, im Steve Paterson for cbs3 Eyewitness News. We will all be following by tonight, steve, thanks very much. In weather we will on a roll of summerlike days and we hope it continues in the weekend. Meteorologist kathy orr is live outside on a sun soak