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the governor issues a state of emergency in six counties and warns hundreds of people will lose their homes. the end of the so—called wagatha christie trial — rebecca vardy and colleen rooney will find out today which of them has won their high court libel case. # everybody needs good neighbours. and its farewell to neighbours after four decades as fans here in the uk prepare for tonights final episode. birmingham put on a spectacular show last night for the opening ceremony of the...

>> reporter: melisande is pushing to make the institution the first institution in the country to make payments for reparation. recently they got one step closer to their goal. an overwhelming majority of students voted to increase their own tuition by $27.20 per semester. thats 10 cents for each of the persons the university sold. the money will go to a louisiana community where many of the descendants live, a community that lacks basic services like a hospital and secondary school. >> were not...

That the university sold off 272 people to stay a float in 1838. those people ended up in louisiana on some of the worst plantations in the u.s. one of their descendants is a current student at georgetown. >> my ancestors were here until members of their families were sold in 1838. so my family and who i am as an american actually goes back 11 generations. >> milison is among a group of activists pushing to make the university the first in the country to pay reparations for slavery. an overwhelm...

Slavery. an overwhelming majority of students voted to increase their own tuition by $27.20 a semester. thats 10 cents for each of the people the university sold. the money will go to a louisiana community where many of the descendants live. a community that lacks basic services like a hospital and secondary school. >> were not making a gift to these people. their, like, quality of life is directly ti lly tied to the act the university. even just geographically. being put in communities in louis...

attracting the attention of homeland security. wolf blitzer is off today, im candy crowley, and youre in "the situation room." right now theyre pretearing to vote on a resolution. it strongly condemns the killing, gee mooning the assad regime call off sits forces and cease all violence. well bring the vote to you live when it happens. we have cnn journalists in syria right now documenting some of the awful violence. youll see that as well, ahead. bus first to the battle for michiga...

Win but animal kingdom just. to the end. had a chance and 50 yards more and perhaps animal kingdom would have won. came in second. for those that bet on shackleford to win, it paid pretty well. for every $2 bet it paid $27.20. $100 put you about $1,300-plus. not bad. betting totals from all sources -- $60 million put on this race. over 107,000 folks showed up. this has been a problem in years past because people have protested the whole not allowed to bring your own booze into the infield. they ...

and it continues as we speak 200 miles above us. this is coming to us from the international space station where two astronauts have been doing a spacewalk and theyve got some serious work theyre doing up here and have been at it for the past five hours or so. well give you an update about this historic "endeavour" mission. this is your cnn sunday morning for sunday, may 22nd. im t.j. holmes. also a big breaking news story we are following for you this morning. cnn has been able to...