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In charleston south carolina mourners gathered for ethel lance's funeral. lance was 70 years old. another funeral today for reverend sharonda singleton. her son described her as a woman who loved everybody with all her heart. president obama will deliver the eulogy for reverend clementa pinckney. his wake began at the same church where the attack took place. we are joined from charleston. you are outside the church. people have been lining up to view reverend pinckney all day. what is the mood like there tonight, alina machado? >> reporter: the mood here is somber. one of remembering the nine ...

Cooked up for him. the guard gene palmer has spoken to one of our producers. the latest on that. we are also learning even more including what he told new york state police about the favors he did for matt and david sweat. and in addition mr. palmer has a new attorney. he has also got a new court date. and alexandra field has the the latest on all of it including breaking news yet one more factor that may have helped sweat and matt prepare their escape. alexandra, what have you learned? >> good evening, anderson. cnn learned that investigators are now looking at whether prison guards on the ho...

His class at west point. i think it was some where in the 40s, out of 52 in the class. he was not the brightest of bulbs. >> reporter: amid the current controversy over the confederate flag some law makers now believe military tradition isn't enough to keep the names in place. >> there is a moment now to have a discussion related to the specific military installations and whether it is appropriate for those installations to be named after individuals who were fighting to uphold the institution of slavery. >> reporter: fort gordon georgia named for john b. gordon top general in the confederate ...

Expert advice. today he took his expertise outdoors along with rosa flores. >> there is so much out here wants to stick you, poke you, sting you, bite you. >> shane hovall a survival and tracking trainer, meaning he teaches people how to live off the land and how to track down just about anything traveling through a forest. he is closely watching the manhunt in upstate new york. these escapees are not survivalists that we know of. >> right. >> so what would they be doing? >> you know the number one rule its shelter. you got to get out of the elements. >> reporter: aside from breaking into cabi...

Here fort bragg north carolina home of the elite 82nd airborne division. fort braggparatroopers jumped into normandy on d-day. despite the glorious history there is a more dubious past. fort bragg named after confederate general braxton bragg. one of ten army base as cross the south the pentagon says were named for confederate civil war generals decades ago as a gesture of reconciliation to a defeated south. >> these are things that were part of a different time it was part of building a nation unfortunately we had this great civil war. but these men who were the military leaders were for the ...