captioning sponsored by comedy central oh, wow! what a crowd tonight! (audience chanting larry) thank you so much. what a great tuesday night crowd tonight. i know! (cheers and applause) we ve got a great show for you tonight. bill nye the science guy is back with us on panel. we re going to talk about climate change. but first, let s talk about how the racial climate has been changing on the university of missouri campus. the university of missouri this morning is looking for a new president and chancellor. anger over racial tensions on campus forced them out. both leaders resigned monday within hours of each other. african-american students including the student body president say they ve faced repeated shouts of the n word on campus. larry: wait, which n word are we talking about? if the n word in question is nincompoop, then i would agree that it s probably not warranted. but i m not sure if it rises to the level of i m just kidding. i know it was nigge
tonight. i know! (cheers and applause) we ve got a great show for you tonight. bill nye the science guy is back with us on panel. we re going to talk about climate change. but first, let s talk about how the racial climate has been changing on the university of missouri campus. the university of missouri this morning is looking for a new president and chancellor. anger over racial tensions on campus forced them out. both leaders resigned monday within hours of each other. african-american students including the student body president say they ve faced repeated shouts of the n word on campus. larry: wait, which n word are we talking about? if the n word in question is nincompoop, then i would agree that it s probably not warranted. but i m not sure if it rises to the level of i m just kidding. i know it was nigger. all right. screaming the n word is a pretty messed up thing to do. but is this the only thing? have there been other things to happen on this ca
and we begin tonight with a deadly attack in the capital of lebanon. isil is claiming responsibility for the deadly twin suicide blast that ripped through a section of beirut, killing 40 and injuring 200. and aljazeera is there at the scene of the blast. reporter: a popular marketplace became a scene of carnage on wednesday. civilians were the ones killed and injured. and the ones targeted. this is a neighborhood in the bay lawsuit southern suburbs, where the shia movement has lived. suicide bombers on motorcycles detonated their explosives minutes apart. the second blast went off right off of a shia shrine. [ foreign dialogue ] a alarm number of those injured were severely wounded and died in hospital. and the body parts of the two suspected suicide bombers have been found. we might have escaped another catastrophe because the explosive belt of the bomber didn t go off. people have seen scenes like this before. there were times when the scenes like this were frequent i
welcome to your world this morning i m stephanie sy. and i m dell walters and a drone strike targeting i.s.i.l. s most recognizable figures the man known as jihad john sgln it was his covered face that appeared in multiple videos showing the killings of american and other western hostages, in august 2014 he was shown in a video be heading journalists james foley and seen later killing journalist sotlof and peter kasik and promised to track him down. born in kuwait and grew up in london where officials say he was radicalized and moved in 2012 and 2014 he began making headlines. otherwise this knife will become your nightmare. reporter: his british accent named him the nickname jihad john and he is shown be heading hostages and blaming them for their deaths and they promised to hunt him down. making mistake of harming americans we will not forget and our reach is long and justice will be served. and he later apologized to his family for the attention those videos
you can also get through on social media. lively conversation already going on on facebook. @c-spanwj.t to or e-mail address is journal@cspan. org. do u.s. colleges have a race problem is our question. here is the wall street journal s morning alarticle. universities are struggling to balance the free exchange of ideas with students growing desire to be shield by offensive views. at the heart of protests that have roiled campuses around the country. the missouri to yale to university of california, public and private schools have become embroiled in conversation and controversies that has faculty concerned about the stifling of free speech, and many students upset that their appeals to rid campuses of intolerance and racial insensitivity are being given short strip. while the tension between political correctness and open en colleges foriv decades, a hunger strike in protest over racial incidents that forced of the university of missouri s presidents on monday have supercha