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fall, and bigotry began to fade. new doors of opportunity swung open for an entire generation. yes, laws changed, but hearts and minds changed as well. look at the faces here around you, and you see in america that is more fair and more free and more just than the one dr. king addressed that day. we are right to savor slow but certain progress, large and small across the nation, every single day as people of all colors and creeds live together and work together and fight alongside one another. and they learn together and build together and love one another. so it is right for us to celebrate today dr. king's
i knew we had won a big victory. the journey that got us there. the people who made that night possible were martyred or couldn't afford to be there. i wish dr. king, i wish they could have been there for 30 seconds to see their work. i thought about them. i thought so much about mrs. boynton. who is 100 years old in selma, alabama. i thought so much about her. nameless, faceless people by the name of james orange, turner. made the night possible. because the -- there were no lawyers on that march except -- there were no movie stars on that march, no bright lights, just the blood and grit of fighting for democracy. i felt them in my bones and
founding of the country and its ideals. in that sense, the king memorial fits into that continuum because it is a memorial to this idea of justice. of justice for all. regardless of color. in that sense, i think it took time perhaps for that idea to become as cemented enough in the american consciousness and the american way of life so that we could have this memorial. >> i know. i think about the man and certainly the memorial being appropriate to him. but to pick up on your point about soldiers, he was a soldier. this was a fight. this was a battle that he was in 24/7, an uphill one. the end of which by many people's accounts has yet to be resolved. >> sure. i mean, he said that when he was to be remembered, he wanted to be remembered not for his nobel prizes or for his
service sweep and couldn't get to the camera. >> caller: i can't get over there. if i go over there, i can't hear the president. i'm caught in the crossfire. but it's a glorious day. beautiful, sunny day. >> it looks absolutely beautiful e.bout your emotions, sir, in particular. as you take part in this dedication, you view this memorial, what comes to mind? >> caller: well, two things. one, 132 miles from here, where the slave ships landed, 132 miles and almost 400 years is a long time to get 132 miles. but we made that journey. both through dr. king and the monument established the peace and reconciliation and for -- that says a lot about growth in america. on the other hand, i was here with him, the living dr. king, who planned a poor people's campaign to occupy the mall to be willing to go to jail until
of the martin luther king, jr. memorial. stay with us. honoring dr. martin luther king is honoring something who fought for change and paid a massive price for it. we model values and moral behavior by the stories that we tell about our past and by the heroes that we honor. in honoring dr. king, we continue to teach the virtue of nonviolent disobedience that he taught the nation. we also honor the things that he taut fought for, the things that we won as a country. the things that he fought for that we have yet to achieve. it is a very proud thing for us to have a grand monument to dr. king in washington, d.c. but it took too long. [ applause ]
of peak popularity. in fact, he was arguably on the decline of his popularity when he was killed. >> there's analogy to be made, melissa, with the black community in america putting this same sentiment on president obama. the hope, the change we can believe in, in 2008 and now there's a level of discontent. i mean, are there parallels to be drawn here and that perhaps down the road they will look and see the tremendous advantage that -- and paving the way that president obama has made and it will be a little bit softer on reflection. >> i think we want to be careful on the parallels that we draw between dr. king and president obama. >> in terms of likability. people wanting an expecting more from him. >> right. >> we want to be really careful. i want to kind of put that out there. i suppose history tends to be kinder to our great leaders who were reviled in the moment of
troops in iraq. more than 4,000 soldiers have been killed since the start of the war. it is a region that's still unstable and there's a lot of concern that if all of the u.s. soldiers leave, it will only become more unstable. president obama hits the road for a three-day bus tour. he'll be focused on his domestic agenda. beginning of the week but they will field a number of questions about the reports as we try to determine exactly how that withdraw process will be carried out. alex? >> chris ten before you go, there are a number of people filing out of the white house. that's not typical for when we're speaking with correspondents in the morning. are those people that are going to the mlk dedication or i also heard that they've opened up the white house for tours today in a way they don't usually do? >> reporter: i haven't had a chance to speak to those people, alex. but it's quite possible that a number of them are headed to the mlk dedication. as mike viqueira just talked
of this lovely warm autumn. management says the higher the normal temps and humidity force them to postpone opening the rink which was supposed to be this weekend. it's supposed to be later this week now. what's it going to be like outside today. alex wallace has the details. look at all the orange and yellow colors. >> we saw a lot of this over the summer. seems like summer is striking back. check out memphis. 88 degrees. the record is 87. shreveport may hit 95 degrees. so a lot of hot stuff out there for us. some big changes on the way. it all starts here as we start off the week across the plains states. big dip in the jet stream starts to take over. as that happens some cooler air slides on down. by midweek, remember, memphis upper 80s today. we're talking 59 degrees come wednesday. almost a 30-degree drop in temperatures and a lot of the eastern half of the country will chill down. wet weather into florida. that's going to continue throughout the workweek.
officials at the pudding stone reservoir in san deem as say the victims were riding together when it crashed headfirst into a motorboat. four people on the boat were badly hurt. three were airlifted to nearby hospitals. there's an old saying. when you hear hoof beats think horses not zebras. turns out that's not always true. as they found out in boston saturday. two zebra as got loose. the baby busted through an electric fence so the mom followed and that's when the chase began. >> we were waiting outside and she ran right by us. there's three golf carts chasing him. >> fortunately, no one was hurt. zookeepers cleared the area until both animals were returned to their pen. speaking of app mals gone wild, a far cry from pamplona, but this was in arizona. 200 people joined two dozen