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Continue to address the ways of economic inequality and racial skp and ethnic inequality are intertwined. this economy, its hit black and latino communities the hardest. the wealth gap was a crack in the ground compared to the canyon it became after the financial crisis. in real terms, you could not talk about economic inquality in america without addressing race. today, at least part of this new movement plainly and openly protested at the intersection of race and abuse of power by law enforcem...

dozens of shots fired as people scrambled for cover. >> they started shooting at us and the bullet went between me and my friend tony. we could hear the bullets bouncing off the concrete behind us. >> it started when the suspect described as a 51-year-old maple valley man stopped his car in traffic and started confronting people with an assault rifle. eventually opening fire. >> when we were about alongside the elementary school, we got shot at nine times. >> police swarmed the city cr...

dozens of shots fired as people scrambled for cover. >> they started shooting at us and the bullet went between me and my friend tony. we could hear the bullets bouncing off the concrete behind us. >> it started when the suspect described as a 51-year-old maple valley man stopped his car in traffic and started confronting people with an assault rifle. eventually opening fire. >> when we were about alongside the elementary school, we got shot at nine times. >> police swarmed the city cr...

issaquah today. dozens of shots fired as people scrambled for cover. >> they started shooting at us and the bullet went between me and my friend tony. we could hear the bullets bouncing off the concrete behind us. >> it started when the suspect described as a 51-year-old maple valley man stopped his car in traffic and started confronting people with an assault rifle. eventually opening fire. >> when we were about alongside the elementary school, we got shot at nine times. >> police swa...

Hop? joining me now to talk about this, tim wise, author of "color blind," and author of "the big bayback, the history of the business of hip hop" and robert watson, producer and grammy voter as well, all of them have been on the show before. when you hear sarah palin made that dated reference to -- does it seem like theyre out of -- what is it? >> theyre pulling bullets. i mean, they have nothing to go on. this is the cleanest rapper we have in the game. common sense is, i mean, he makes consci...

Are millions of people for whom the experience of america is different than theirs and they certainly dont want to have to confront that. >> are these pundits trying to get traction because the president is black and hip hop is primarily a black art form but who buys the most rap? >> white americans. >> are they trying to gain traction on this? >> yeah. are you asking me? >> yeah, tim. >> yeah. yeah, yeah. absolutely. look, this is one of those ways you can push a button with people. the same wa...

biggest cities in louisiana. but it means tiny communities could soon be under many feet of water. this is what it looked like in 1973. the one and only time the morganza spillway had to be opened. theres no guarantee it will even work. the mississippi river is already dangerously high in new orleans. the army corps of engineers is hoping that by diverting water through two spillways will lower the river level and spare the city. so far, the corps says opening the morganza spillway app...

Last word here. do you think that we would have seen this happen if we didnt have the killing of bin laden? >> no, like i said, i think it was the weekend off nerves and with five different flights with incidents there on, people were on alert and incidents and everybody was jumpy and the facts will sort themselves out, and the airlines addressed the issue with these two passengers and we need to wait for the facts and lets hope that everyone is home and we can have better flying weather ahead. ...

Door is what he takes off and lands with. >> mary, you want to weigh in here? >> yes, we are not taking into consideration what happened this weekend. we had a delta flight with a bomb note on it and we had a yemen man trying to break into the american airlines cockpit, and we had a continental flight with someone trying to open the exit door and we had amtrax with a dont ride list and people trying to go through denver security. it was a weekend of nerves and i think that the pilot was also rea...

The incident in september 11th taught us that, because several people had hunches and they didnt act on them. the hunches can be wrong, but they must have that authority and they have that authority by law and they must use it wisely. >> and tim, im curious where you stand on this. >> well, i mean, a pilot might have the right to remove a passenger if the passenger is engaged in behavior that makes them suspicious, but the only thing that these two did as far as anyone has said is be muslim and ...