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  Berlin brings more than 25 years of professional culinary experience and is tasked with overseeing the kitchens, crafting menus, and hiring culinary staff to run the day-to-day operations.    Prior to joining Mill Town, Berlin was the executive chef at resort Blantyre Country Estate in Lenox. Before moving to the Berkshires, Berlin held a variety of positions at culinary entities across the country, including Gordon Ramsay at The London in Los Angeles and Manhattan, Church and State Bi...

Will be very compromised from these floodwaters, from the mud, from the -- from the extremity of what has been experienced. what is your message to people today about where they can and cannot go safely? >> well, we have our police officers there, cordening off any buildings we have not checked out yet. were keeping people out of the town right now. were not letting anybody come into the town. we have been through this two years ago, we have businesses and residents who have personal property, b...

That came to ellicott city after the devastating flooding two years ago, but that it took a long time to come and youve really just recently received it. was anything put in place that was at all helpful during this storm or did you simply not have the time to implement what needed to be implemented from that funding? >> well, 22 months is not much time to get things actually built. we had already done a lot of analysis, a lot of work done, we worked with the u.s. army corps of engineers to eval...

The solution. >> tucker: oh, no! >> i think it with the past policies that level the playing field to -- >> tucker: wouldnt that? slow down. if im coming from somalia, you move me into some dead, depressing mill town with no mills, my chance of success are much less s than if i move into your neighborhood. why shouldnt i go to the school and -- why shouldnt i live in california? >> itsiv kind of you to offer that. >> tucker: all, because rich liberals dont want to live near them, thats why. >>be...

Its been a one-candidate race thus far. reason to speed up to the northeast corner of the state when we hear from roy moore tomorrow when he goes to a mill town to speak to his supporters. the polls seem to be working in his favor. >> exactly. hes been absent from this campaign. and essentially hes going up to what used to be the sock capital of the world which is ft. pain. a town of about 14,000. used to have sock factories. and most of those jobs have gone overseas, and hes going to be essenti...

As managing editor of "the grio." we heard about the story and we were commissioned to write the piece. i had nightmare, just seeing that little boys face. the facts you write were chilling. in small mill town a seg rated town where his parents and brother and father had to leave the town for fear of lynching. so he was all alone, but for one or two visits from his mother when he spent those two months in that jail cell with another man who spent time the jail cell with him who testified that he...

>> this is my son. say hi, miles. you did it, baby. >> i dont think its natural. >> im sorry, im seething. >> god created women to be women and men to be men. >> anyone who thinks we are different or strange can go jump off a cliff for all i care. >> im not going to let one persons opinion of me just ruin my family. tom and scott moore have been married for three years. despite their appearances, they were both born as girls. >> growing up i was 100% girl. my mom had me wear my hair ...

And so the interesting dynamic here is that the solicitor general, the guy you see in the tape is actually the son of the first african-american supreme court justice in south carolina. you have the irony that its an african-american solicitor arguing against the stinney side. 12 jurors heard the case, a jury is verdict was rendered, case closed. but theres a lot of problems with the case the family has uncovered. starting with the fact that you had a 14-year-old boy in 1944 in south carolina wh...

Testified by videotape. and so the interesting dynamic here is that the solicitor general, the guy you see in the tape is actually the son of the first african-american supreme court justice in south carolina. you have the irony that its an african-american solicitor arguing against the stinney side. 12 jurors heard the case, a jury is verdict was rendered, case closed. but theres a lot of problems with the case the family has uncovered. starting with the fact that you had a 14-year-old boy in 1...

And black boys were obviously incredibly deadly. this was 1944, obviously 11 years before the emmett till lynching. and also, you had this mill town that was sort of bifurcated racially. these girls were playing near a railroad tracks near the black side of town. and he admitted to having talked to them and told them where they could find flowers they wanted to pick. but theres weird things about the physical evidence in the case, which was very little. one thing they found was a prosecuted spik...