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>> dubois: there was a memorial service near chicago today at the grave of emmett till. the 14-year-old was brutally murdered in mississippi 60 years ago today by two white men who accused him of whistling at a white woman. the case was a turning point in the civil rights movement. the goodyear blimp is sailing into the sunset. the last of the older model blimps will be retired next spring. they're being replaced with larger, faster aircraft that look similar but they're not technically blimps because they have light-weight frames. and it's a boy. today the national zoo revealed the gender of ...

Session, we're a lot better off than we were on monday. back to you. >> sue herrera, thank you. tropical storm erika has taken a deadly turn claiming at least four lives so far as it pummels the caribbean island of dominica. mudslides are to blame for three of those deaths as erika brings heavy rain and flooding. forecasts continue to show it could soon build into a hurricane with florida in the potential bull's eye. nbc's al roker is in new orleans with more for us. al, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. it's been ten years since florida had a landfalling hurricane and this co...

>> >> dubois: we end tonight in new orleans' ninth ward, a decade after katrina, it is the heart of darkness and the home of a man who decided it was time to light a candle. here's steve hartman, "on the road." >> reporter: this part of the lower ninth ward was once a thriving neighborhood. there was a house right there, another there, and another there. but like the porch steps that now remain, the last 10 years have led nowhere. >> it's been 10 years, and that's just too long. >> reporter: but there is hope, and his name is burnell cotlon. >> i'm just an average guy with above-average dreams...

The headquarters of that caliphate are, or whether you're in it... it probably makes more sense to start there. >> reporter: on immigration kasich toes a softer line than some of his fellow republican candidates. he would finish construction of a fence along the southern border and give undocumented workers here now a path to legal status, but not citizenship. >> the idea we would go out in cars and hunt people down is just first of all, it's not doable in order to ship them out. it's not doable. and secondly, i don't think it's right. i don't think it's humane. >> reporter: after serving in c...

These magnificent animals from the circuses. kevin libertowski is a trick- shot artist who keeps toppingrt himself. the 19-year-old from ohio bounced on a trampoline and fired not one but two basketballs into a hoop 60 feet away.k. here's another look. libertowski admits that it took many attempts to make this double shot. president obama had a special guest today. emma didlake of detroit is america's oldest living veteran. she's 110. she served in the women'srv auxiliary army corps during world war ii, and she marched with martin luther king in 1963. asked if she'll live to be 120 didlake sai...