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California, or someone from the south is different from someone from the north. China is a massive, diverse country. If you come to visit, do not spend all of your time just in beijing. Try to go somewhere different. Other places are nothing like beijing. When i have friends come to visit, i love to go out and try regional foods. Hunan food, middle eastern food, just to give people a flavor that when we talk about china, and i am guilty of it too, it is just a short hand. There is no one china. ...

Communist party. I think the escape of the blind activist got as much attention from folks back here who are interested in the human rights question. Chen guangchens escape from harsh treatment and interrogation. Partly because he is blind and being a human rights lawyer and activist. Somehow, he escaped from these conditions. He made his way hundreds of miles from the province to beijing. That really got a lot of attention. That was a pretty dramatic story that happened over the last year. How ...

After but this is the same cat walk a that they used in their escape. For the latest, lets turn to Jason Carroll in new york. Reporter that prison guard was arraigned wednesday night. Hes now in custody facing several serious charges including promoting dangerous contraband contraband destroying evidence and official misconduct. Im told these are low level felonies and at one point he could have faced an even more serious charge of aiding and abetting. But still serious charges nonetheless for h...

At the top of the show, we asked, why are you awake . We have a lot of interesting responses today. John tower has a few. Hey, john. Darren writes, my fake i recall grend is in town early today. On twitter, im up because i thought i saw you walking on garden street a few years ago. Am i right if i think you probably are right. Lets face it, with no makeup and no suit, i dont look very good on the street, so you might not have thought it was me, but it actually was. All right, john, thank you ver...

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Heres whats happening. They came by the thousands last night, black and white, young and old, gathered in a charleston arena to hold hands and mourn and pray for the nine lives taken at Emanuel Church in a city shattered. Everyone old and young, all colors, all religions, all backgrounds, all neighborhoods, all walks of life we all have one thing in common our hearts are broken. And while the city mourns today the investigation into al...

It wasnt me. It was god. He used me as a vesvessel. If anybody is a hero it is him. It was through him that everybody happened. I asked long time mayor joe riley about dills this morning. What did he think about debbie dis. Heres his response. Well, its a wonderful american story. When we got that go i in custody, an automobile gasp of relief was heard in our community and in peoples hearts. Nbcs adam riess is joining me now. Lets talk about the arraignment and whats going to happen. Its ironic ...

To richard matt and david sweat. Also back at the prison where as you mentioned,a second prison employ has been charged. A second corrections officer arrested in connection to a brazen jailbreak now out on bail. 57yearold gene palmer expected to plead not guilty to charges of promoting dangerous contraband tramp erampering with evidence and misconduct. He allegedly carried frozen hamburger meat with tools inside. Palmer was acting at the request of fellow prison employee Joyce Mitchell who hid t...

Yesterday afternoon, relatives of those victims confronted the shooter to tell him that they forgive him. Much more on that in just a moment. Were also on the show going to be tackling the controversy of whether South Carolina should still be flying the Confederate Flag. Americans more divided on that question than you might think. Plus turning away from the tragedy for a bit, its also been a vang week in the world of politics, one that has the potential to have Lasting Impact on the race for pr...

Legislation. I remarked that it was very unlikely that this congress would act. And some reporters i think took this as resignation. I want to be clear. Im not resigned. I have faith we will eventually do the right thing. Every country has violent, hateful or mentally unstable people. Whats different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns. And so i refuse to act as if this is the new normal. Or to pretend that its simply sufficient to grieve and that any mention of us doing so...

Killers. Investigators apparently finding dna of one of the two men after more than two weeks on the run as we say good morning on a monday. Im bill hemmer live in americas newsroom. Martha dna was reportedly found in a cabin in a town called cowlshead its 30 miles west if you were walking from the prison to this spot. They are also looking in the area of a potential sighting near friendship, new york. Well continue to search this area until all leads have been exhausted. As we have in other are...