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Of an american president, pay respect to the war dead, 100th anniversary of the first world war. the president says im not going to go, because im not going to motorcade. his chiefs of staff and general joint chief say get us a motorcade. >> there are a couple of things we should note. yes, the president probably couldnt have taken the helicopter because of weather reasons. thats happened with other presidents. thats not unique. as other officials have noted yesterday theres always a backup plan...

He has an umbrella to cover his hair. hes doing that at this point right now. i want to go to you and get from you. there were other world leaders who visited a different cemetery. there were a lot of split screens i saw on social media showing other world leaders paying their respects to their countrys war dead. this was something that was not just for the american president but really all western world leaders kind of coming together to commemorate this great and tragic war. >> look, joy, i th...

Making a positive identification of remains where the shooting ended 65 years ago is a giant puzzle. the agency involved does have some important clues and we got to see some of them yesterday. the defense pow/mia accounting agency showed us the artifacts in the transport cases from north korea along with a lot of human bones. there is one dog tag, which will be given to the two sons of the fallen soldier next week. they theyll need further testing to determine if the mans bones are in the boxes...

Has called some of the gold star families and at the same time he exaggerated and if not, didnt tell the truth, he called every single family and he walked that back on the radio and said virtually every family. what matters most? >> its clearly not true he called every family and its not true that his predecessors did not call when their family members were lost at war. it had nothing to do with if he had dealt with the grief of the families of americas war dead. this is a conversation he initi...

Empathetic to understand where youre coming from and where were coming from. some of these monuments in virginia, for example -- millions of virginiainform s dont support this because some of these are their families, sacred monuments to war dead. those are big issues. history is very layered. let me paraphrase the black mayor of richmond, a great man who said a couple of months ago -- this has since changed because of politics but a couple of months ago he said keep the statues, but teach the c...

Separate some things. >> theres no question about it. look, i understand you can be em pa thit thet ic to understand where youre coming from. the some of these monuments in h virginia for example and there are million the who dont support this because some of family, some are sacred monuments to war dead. those are big -- let me paraphrase the black mayor of richmond who said a couple of months ago. the he said because of politics, but he said keep the statues but teach the context. create more ...

After what happened in your home state, where do you stand on the issue of the statues, whether they stay or go? >> well, you know, i stand in the same spot the african-american mayor of richmond said, leave the history there. driving up here, there was monuments to the war dead, battle feels, statues, just driving up virginia, its pervasive in our state. i stand where he stands where he says, lead them, but teach the context. maketure the history is completely known. i think whether you look fo...

Heavily populated as well. >> thats correct. >> derek van dam, thanks very much. >> thank you. lets turn to japan, because today the countrys commemorating the 70th anniversary of world war iis end with a variety of services. one event which happened early included a moment of silence in tokyo. japan forced to remember the more than 2 million japanese service members and 800,000 civilians killed during the war. shortly after that event, japanese politicians delivered an offering at a tokyo shr...

These are the top stories we are following this hour. anger at the white house. police furious that they cant get into memorials honoring the nations war dead. all the latest live from washing to be. a shocking end to the 22 year old mystery of who killed baby hope. new york police finally find the murderer. wait until you hear who they say it is. >> and the nasa juno probe is moving through jupiter. and well talk to the man who knows everything about this mission. that is right. it is bill ny...

Morning. we saw some folks basically creating a big nuisance for the park police and the park rangers as they tried to set up barricades there. there is a reason they are doing all of this. listen here. >> this is wrong like ted said. these are open air memorials. they are low cost if any to the federal government. these are for our honored war dead. we are not going to stand by and let this happen. >> what do you both hope to see happen after todays rally? >> i would like to see the politicians...