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Please, stop it, people. it is an experiment. us techie experts are trying to figure this out as well, whats the practical benefit to someone. a couple of things. one, if it could give us real-time data. for example, if im following my wifes car, for example, she cant tweet while shes driving but if shes stuck if traffic, that could maybe alert me that i need to take a different route to go another way. there are some potential applications that may be useful to the general public based around t...

Connect to the internet all the time and thats the real big news here. >> what is it tweeting? there is no way it is tweeting like "kate is going to restaurant such and such." i mean whats the car actually going to tweet? >> it cant read your mind, right in but what it can do is because it is connected to car controls, it can tell if kate is tapping the brakes consistently. that might indicate that kate is in stop-and-go traffic. or better yet, if kate is tapping her brakes an her windshield wip...

From the industry. >> we will see him down the road. cars arent quite ready to start speaking to you but apparently they can tweet for you. were not kidding. our tech expert breaks that one down and you can bet it will take more than 140 characters. also, 30-year military career now has come to an end. a farewell to general stanley mcchrystal. 17 minutes past the hour. stay with us. im chef michael,

According to an international investigation. tensions have been running high. this is yet another ratchet up in the escalating tensions on the peninsula. >> it sounds like from north korea more mouths moving versus military movement. but explain -- you kind of hit on the exercises here. again these arent just routine. specifically, these exercises were done to send a direct message to north korea. >> youre absolutely right. robert gates, the u.s. defense secretary, said that this is being done a...

Significance. what do you think? has it given you something else now to think about, quite frankly? please, send it to us, were anxious to get your responses. in america, our blog here, the story was up. read more about the story there as well but also a lot of comments have been coming in literally thousands to that website. a lot of people chiming in. but again, the song not just a song. dr. askew saying it really serves as a barometer for race relations in this country over the years and ou...

Think people would be mainly in solidarity and black power movement. but a lot of people were singing other songs such as "we shall overcome," besides "lift every voice and sing." >> dr. askew, stand by. well at the a quick break here and continue our conversation. youre hearing one side here, but also the reverend jesse jackson in fact was part of an effort to try to get this song back into the forefront to put it on peoples minds. that effort was back in the 70s. hes here, going to be live wit...

I dont even understand the point of even discussing its value. >> dr. askew, you still are sitting next to me. how can you say to a guy like jesse jackson who has been one of those front-line soldiers of civil rights, nobody would question that. how can you say to that guy, or many like him, that this shouldnt be around today? >> well, first of all, i would say to reverend jackson how much respect i have for everything that hes done and everything he stands for in trying to bring people together...

Afghanistan. a disturbing discovery made along the u.s./mexican border. suspected casualties of the ongoing mexican drug cartel wars. nine hidden mass grieves have been found containing at least 38 bodies. the local attorney general says he believes some of the dead may have been buried as recently as a few days ago. a suspected u.s. drone attack in pakistan this morning kills 16 alleged militants. at least five missiles are believed to have hit a compound in south waziristan. the region use...

Show you here. take a look. this was supposed to be a simple traffic stop. you can see it was anything but. well tell you exactly what was going on here and what was the result. and also a warning from north korea just a day before the u.s. is scheduled to begin joint military exercises with south korea. 25 minutes past the hour. stay here with us.

♪ >> do you know it? it is "lift every voice and sing." but were you aware that it is the black national anthem? there is a college professor out there that says there shouldnt be anything out there called a black national anthem. certainly not now. says it is divisive. we got a debate you do not want to miss. he ties it all in to what were seeing in this country right now as it comes to race relations. plus, there is a major heat wave upon us. jacqui jeras will have the details of that righ...