he is charged with murdering melissa huggins jones in 2013. it is an understandably emotional trial that you can watch live on abc11.com. gloria rodriguez is at the wake county justice center with what is next in the case. gloria: testimony does continue today. smith is one of three people charged in connection with the murder of the mother. yesterday it was a very take a look. gloria: yesterday the carpenter who actually discovered the body along with her daughter testified and her mother took the stand. in the next hour we will bring you some audio from that testimony so you can see what happened in the courtroom yesterday. as i mentioned, it continues today. we will be streaming it live on abc11.com so tune in there for the latest developments. live in raleigh, gloria rodriguez, abc 11 eyewitness news. virus through sex it is usually spread through mosquitos. dr. william shatner at vanderbilt university said the vaccine with likely be a killed virus. those are similar to the flu shot shot. john: messages of support on the facebook page of c

transferon smith is accuse -- traveon smith is accused of killing melissa huggins jones in may of 2013. you can watch the trial on abc11.com. barbara: a north carolina couple is in jail accused of abusing their three-month-old twin sons. they have traumatic brain injury. brittany didn't say a a word. it was clark who called 911 sunday from their home and when paramedics arrived they had to pearl c.p.r. on one of the babies. the twins were taken to the children's hospital in winston-salem where one is in critical condition and other is in stable condition. a news reporter and photographer in san diego are recovering john: they were from abc 10 were covering storm clean-up both legs. cornell's husband saidre she went to work. sometimes is sometimes a game of inches. maybe that made the difference. john: they are both expected to make full recoveries. barbara: additional security is on hand at university of new york in albany after a group of female black students said they were attacked because of race. hundreds came together to raleigh against racism. with a dozen white men and women bu

he is the suspect charged with phurbding melissa huggins jones in 2013. it is an understandably emotional trial. gloria rodriguez is at the wake county justice center and tells us what is next. gloria: good morning to you. testimony will continue today here at the wake county justice center. smith is one of three people that has been charged in the mother. it was a very emotional first day of testimony yesterday. take a look. >> she told me that she tried to wake her mother up and couldn't. she had blood all over the place. gloria: this carpenter remembers when hannah jones came to him for help. was working at the apartment complex where her mother was stab and beaten to death. he was the first witness called to the stand yesterday. he recalled checking on huggins jones. >> she had blood all over her face and as well as everywhere. gloria: three people were breaking into cars in the complex and smith and an accomplice went into huggins jones apartment through an unlocked door. but smith's attorney said anthony killed huggins jones. death penalty and is se

but the defense attorney said anthony killed huggins jones. he pled guilty and is serving life without parole. a prosecutor said the state would prove smooth delivered the first blow. huggins jones's mother took the stand and talked about the impact on hannah. >> just a little girl and a lot of her mama's personality. you can clearly tell she didn't know what was going on with her mama. gloria: very emotional words the trial will last four to six weeks. unwatch in live on abc11.com. we will have it streamed live. barbara: a french company is infected through sex with someone who returned from a country where zika is outbreak. it is usually spread through mosquitos. a doctor at vanderbilt says vaccine would likely be a kill virus similar to the flu shot. john: messages of support flooding the facebook page of clyde cooper's barbecue this morning after our story aired about threats in the wake of a sign posted outside the restaurant. people to stop profiling muslims. owe spoepbts chimed in with one man threatening a boycott. the owner is not bac

. >> reporter: this picture of an emotional leigh ann touhy huggin her adopted son "big mike" who some neighbors felt that she and her family should never have taken in. >> he was so excited, and i was just sobbing. i mean, i was absolutely sobbing. >> reporter: and now he's a super bowl champion. >> we won the super bowl! >> dreams do come true. >> reporter: theirs is the true story behind the film "the blind side." where sandra bullock won an oscar for her portrayal of a white mother who reached past her comfort zone to lift up a young black teenager from a broken home. >> he is your family, michael. you have to protect them from those guys. >> reporter: the actress had seats at the game and dressed her son in oher's jersey. today, on their drive back home to memphis the real leigh anne told us she loves michael just as much as her biological children who joined the whole family last night. >> families don't have to match. you don't have to look like someone else to love them. the thing that needs to be addressed here is, there are wonderful kids all over this country and this world

that is where 18-year-old murder suspect, michael huggins was captured. he was on the run after escaping from a youth detention fas it's yesterday and huggins was found late this morning. one of the four teenagers that escaped and stole a vehicle. they managed to get away from the scene and found three hours later and again huggins was finally captured today. john rawlins joins us live where officials announce the details of huggin as rest in the coming hours. >> we are expecting a news conference here at the atlanta county courthouse around 2:00, 2:30 today. huggins was picked up and taken into custody today at about 10:00 or after 10:00. not in his home town of bridgeton but the 100 block of south carolina avenue in atlantic city. chopper 6 hd was over the location a short time ago and the arrest is part of a joint effort by the new jersey state police fugitive task force and u.s. marshals office and others. we should hear more details at the news conference scheduled for later this afternoon. we know that 18-year-old michael huggins was recaptured but

. >>> bob huggins. west virginia. taking on texas tech in lubbock. the red raiders looking for the response. look at naim stevenson. sweet, left-handed stroke. no time-outs for west virginia. they're going. carter. no good. tuck this away for texas tech. when they start to look at their resume come march. big win. >> a lot of teams playing pretty well there in the big 12. that's going to do it for us. he's max. i'm the coach. enjoy your wednesday. >> all right, thanks, fellas. >>> up next in "the pulse ts house speaker paul ryan getting a lesson on what exactly is the dab. >>> and we hear from mariah carey for if first time speaking out about the new year's performance. as after a dvt blood clot,ital i sure had a lot to think about. what about the people i care about? ...including this little girl. and what if this happened again? i was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me? so i asked my doctor. and he recommended eliquis. eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. y

it is like when bob huggins to gust the final four. it is like when we had a wonderful golf tournament this year. held out november 2? how about spike maynard, david mckinley? [applause] if barack obama can go hand-to-hand combat and west virgia gives him a little message. i think that would register all across the united states from here in a coal producing state that is going to stand up and tell him what to do with cap and trade real quick. that can happen real quick. [applause] when congress is taken by the republican party, which it will be, we are going to have a new leadern congress, aren't we? his name is probably going to be john maynard -- john boehner. what happens when he is the leader of congress? who sets the plate? that means obamacare will be a lot of trouble. cap and trade, in a lot of trouble. stimulus money, going back to the treasury. card check, in a lot of trouble. that is what we want. that is what america wants. that is what the tea party once. that is what our children want. we are in the position in west virgi

he won the katherine and huggins prize, the perry miller prize and thomas templeton prize for his american uprising. the book we will hear up today. american uprising delved into the history of in 1811 slave uprising in new orleans but was actually the largest labor revolt in american history. kno yet very few people know anything about the events thatw transpired there. new orleans and generally shroudedud in mystery.and its history often ignored inidea textbooks andli idealized in out cultural interactions. but in the past six years alone new orleans and the mississippi river and gulf coast areas have been central to some of our significant current events. the history of the nations culture. not with daniel rasmussen's book on the 1811 slave uprising we have one of the most extensive books on all little-known piece of early american history and two hundred years after the rebellion, and 150 years after the start of the civil war is even more important to take a look back and remember the people and the values for whom that war was fought. on a personal note i just graduated from the univ

i went to erika huggins a partner. that's would back and forth. i'm talking to landed and i said daniel is not in the party. i know, chair. i kicked george out of the party five or six months ago for beating up somebody in san francisco. but chairman, i don't give a damn. you get rid of him. why d delight in the party? stokely say you want to keep them in a partner i said no. you will not follow my directives, you're going to go follow this. yet, i know. but you're wrong. so the next thing i know, boom, i'm back in california. what in fact happens is, find out later, that landon told him to take this man out of here, behemoth, taking back and taking back to wherever. george sands doesn't do that. if you read my truck is good, probably the one and only person who has the drop transcript now. i'm going to long. i probably answered it. after he killed this man, he goes to six chapters of the black panther party. he's got all this money to fly on planes to indianapolis to denver, colorado, another in ohio, et cetera and so on right on up to chicago. e

jodie chesney, charlotte huggins, tudor simionov, nedim bilgin, lajean richards, dennis anderson, aliny mendes, simbiso aretha moula, sarah ashraf, asma begum, kamil malysz, bright akinleye, glendon spence, shane morrison, david lopez fernandez, kamali gabbidon—lynck, brian whelan, jayden moodie. i'm not sure that that is a complete list of everyone that has been killed by a knife in london this year alone. but i can tell the home secretary that the task force, the consultations, the more reports isn't working. what on earth will it take for him to recognise this is an emergency that requires an emergency response? we're joined now by anti—knife crime campaigner garvin snell, and by chris douglas, who is from the charity unique talent, which helps young people to leave gangs. thank you both forjoining us. there are no easy answers, but garvin, you are no easy answers, but garvin, you area are no easy answers, but garvin, you are a parent and an anti—knife crime campaigner. it strikes you as a parent, these are just kids going around, very often, just their normal lives. lots of th

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authorities have focused search in bridgeton for huggins. >>> let's send it over to katie for a check of the forecast but you say we are in store for a mild day. >> it is a nice day all and all even if you do not find wind sunnies starting to break out. we had a glummy morning but this is a live picture in our neighborhood network at the area middle school in kutztown where sunnies shining brightly it is cool but not as chilly as we have seen in recent days we do expect in philadelphia to hit 60 this afternoon w that caveat wind does pick up and cold air catches up to us. by tomorrow we will not break out of the 40's but there is sunshine, always a good and bad. >> through go, silver lining, thanks very much, katie. good morning. looking outside we have an accident out here in trenton new jersey route 29, is closed right now past route 129 and fuel spill is involve you will to have use an alternate. traffic diverted on to 129 and use 206 to completely avoid it if that works better for you. construction straight up 9:00 a.m. between broad and schuylkill rahel over to you >>> next updat

huggins? [glass shatters] i don't know any huggins. oh, urgent, huh? oh, very well. i'm on my way to my office now. i'll see you later, major. yes, sir. uh, your shirt. shirt? uh-uh. oh, yes. i'm sorry. [knocking on door] oh, come in. dr. bellows? yes. harry huggins. mm. sit down, mr. huggins. department of internal revenue. uh, the department of--? now, if it's about that trip i took to jamaica last year, i can prove that it was government business. i'm not here to, uh, discuss you, doctor. but, uh, i'll certainly make a note of that. jamaica. no, i'm here because something peculiar's going on what has major nelson done now? i didn't mention his name. how do you know it was major nelson? do you see these reports? they're all on major nelson. oh? well, uh, what are they about? well, i wouldn't know where to begin. here's a report of a woman who swears she saw him flying over cocoa beach. well, he's a pilot, isn't he? what's so unusual about that? he had no plane. a gas station attendant saw major nelson's car go into a drive-in theater. well, that doesn't seem unusua

now, more than 22 hours after he first escaped, there's no sign of michael huggins. bridgeton police scowering the city tonight as the

and made them look at that and same thing with john huggins and bunchy carter in l.a. they started changing the gangs around because that he had revolutionary idea to help the community. and what it is going to take is revolutionaries who go back in the community and reteach and reorganize people. because what they have done, we take one step forward and two steps back. we had different organizations and groups. like the slawsons for instance. when bunchy carter got of the prison. he had learned through the process of being in prison what it took to make change. so he took the ideology of the black panther party down to l.a. and said we're not going to be the slawsons no more. we are now the black panther party and all you o who don't want to be in our group you can leave. that was the kind of the down fall of gangs at that time. the era between 1968 and 74 you don't hear too much about gang activity. as a matter of fact the juvenile delinquency rate in all those communities went down. do you know why? because they have a new model. they have a new image in the communi

similar to what fred was going to do later on and that was to politicize the street gangs of los angeles, huggins and carter, started to throw the la chapter into disarray and geronimo pratt, a vietnam vet, decorated soldier, he had experience no one else had and mostly that was fighting and he was such a threat, framed him for murder and he went to prison for 27 years and if you study the history of gangs in la, the crips and bloods, you can follow direct line from the destruction of the panthers in the late 60s into the emergence of what would be the crips and bloods by the 70s and 80s. it is pretty fascinating to see, and disgusting -- to see how the destruction of the panthers played out. >> a few minutes left, one question going back to fred hampton, how you address the assassination in the graphic novel and that ties in to a question i wanted to bring up to you because of the recent film, at the climax of the film, the assassination, you have some powerful pages in this booklet deal with it. i haven't seen your art yet, you can purchase the book through bookshop.org but i find it is more vi

then all night search ensued in bridgeton for huggins who was in jail on murder charges yet he somehow turned up more than 50 miles way at carolina village apartments in atlantic city. >> it is my understanding that the apartment that he was located in that the individual Ñ-s that opened the door were in fact, cooperative with law enforcement and at this time there are no pending charges against thoseom the press of atlantic city shows two people one huggins taking a gun. when we approach thepartment was unusual. lots of door shaking and laughter from within. >> hello, can you co us, channel three.lexis rodriguez found nothing funny about an armed murder suspect hiding out in her neighborhood. >> i'm shaking because i just found out a half an hour ago it was him a scary because we didn't, you are living aro face isditional charges including anding cleve bryan for "eyewitness news". >>> we are following b out oftic county fire co road inf:ety a b w shor havme a and word on her >>> police say a man i moorestown burlington county may have tried to lu teenage girl. this ish that n then of

huggins, the focus tonight of an expansive search. i spoke early in the afternoon to due van thai lee's mother. she certainly says she wants this man arrested again much in the way of law enforcement commitment to this. the local police chief just talked. he's talked about the kind of search they're running here. we'll put that in our broadcast coming up at 6:00 o'clock tonight. for now i'm live in bridgeton, jeff cole fox 29 news. folks. >> all right. we'll see you at 6:00, gentlemen. >>> the man police say is trying to kidnap young women in bethlehem is still out there somewhere tonight. latest victim a moravanian college student much police say the man grabbed her arm, asked where she was going. she started screaming. he took off in a blue four door sedan. the other victim a student at liberty high school last week. the only description police can give as of now is that the man is african-american with a medium to heavy build last seen as we said in blue car. an older model one. if you have any information about who he may be, give

a source tells fox 29 they are actually going to a addresses to search for michael huggins. he's 18 years old. he's an cued killer of a young man right here in the community of bridgeton. state police copter lifts off from a field in bridgeton and makes sweeping loops over wooded neighborhood. a few streets away three state troopers stand in front a cruiser and officer in back of what fox 29 is told is the home of escape alleged teenaged killer michael huggins. police tell us to go. late afternoon and law enforcement says the search is in full force. >> anyone who would harbor a wanted individual who escaped from a facility would be committing a crime. so we're asking the public not to provide assistance for this individual to remain at large. >> reporter: earlier, near a bridgeton state prison more troopers sheriffs and men in military gear man staging area. again, we're told to leave. just after midnight, egg harbor city and four juveniles muffled two guards at the harbor field s youth detention facility and run for it. >> they overpowered two guards. they stole a vehicle.

this one never really a con vest and there's mike sheshefsky and huggins, 1500 wins between the two. and came down to tlo players, they combined for of 63 of duke's 78 points and led the entire way, a comfortable lead and coasted down the stretch and shooting over 50% from behind the three-point arc and for many at fox i'm tough to take because of my gloating, but listen. >> he's unsufferable. >> it's tough being a duke fan, the son of a duke graduate everyone hates duke and this'll hate them on monday because butler has the cinderella. they're not a cinderella, they've been a great basketball team all year long, let me dispel that. >> the news headlines, saying david versus goliath. >> you're going to hear lot of that. >> i've never heard you read with such dramatic pause as you did with that. >> i stayed up till 11:30 last night i've got to be pretty thrilled what took place. >> i don't know how do you that. all right, guys, nice weather again across the eastern part of the country and really a nice easter weekend in general. take a look at the satellite radar across the east, ever

. >>> still ahead, quite a moment on the basketball court after west virginia head coach bob huggins, check this out, he falls to his knees during last night's game. the good news is he's okay this morning. louis has the story next in sports. glad to see he's back up. there's nothing more important to me than my vacation. so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it. they offer free cancellation, in case i decide to go from kid-friendly to kid-free. now i can start relaxing even before the vacation begins. your vacation is very important. that's why booking.com makes finding the right hotel for the right price easy. visit booking.com now to find out why we're booking.yeah >>> we start with a scare on the hardwood. west virginia's coach bob huggins went down to his knees as he got light-headed and his defibrillator went off. he returned for the second half and was in good spirits after the game saying with a smile, he was surprised he didn't get a technical foul. we hope he's feeling better. talk about commitment to the

you are know, what, he played on coach huggins' basketball team. seems to use the pump fake pretty good. >> bob: one thing i noticed he gets sloppy in ball security. sat some point you might give a pump fake but hold it high and tight. ted roof, his defense is under duress. >> mark: brown escapes again and tip toes out of bounds near the first down. put a nice move on zach clayton who is still looking for him. picked up eight on the play. >> bob: ball security. go back to the last play. there's the pump fake. i mean you never know -- yeah, that could easily be stripped out. you never know what is behind you. sought some point bob huggins taught him to put that football way. you love those ball fakes. >> mark: i love it. and room to go. touchdown. devine! that was a very impressive drive by west virginia to start the third quarter of play. and a third touchdowning of the night for noel devine rushing. >> bob: the north/south ability and that's a tie, not relief but disgust by ted roof but noel devine marked the ability to go north and south.

generations of children have grown up reading about the adventures of henry huggins and ramona quimby among others. beverly cleary was 104 years old. >> 104. incredible. >>> we're going to start this half hour, though, with the suspect accused of launching that shooting rampage that killed ten people in boulder, colorado. he's now expected to face additional charges as new questions are being raised about his mental health, and we're hearing for new calls for stepped up gun control. elizabeth schulze has the latest from washington, d.c. elizabeth, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. well, more than two dozen law enforcement agencies are working around the clock to try to determine the time line of events leading up to monday's mass shooting. boulder's police chief says the question haunting investigators is motive. this morning, investigators are searching for a motive for the mass shooting in boulder, colorado, that left ten people dead. >> we too want to know why, why that king soopers, why boulder, why monday? unfortunately at this time we still don't have those an

bobby seale and human newton and eldridge cleaver and kathleen cleaver, all these individuals, erika huggins, that put our books about the panther party. so really it's just our contribution to that, but giving it another angle in terms of particularly for young readers out there who are just being introduced to the panther. here's way because many of them are coming out of their visual experience counseling is an opportunity for us to give you kind of visual representation of the black panther party. >> host: i think some people may take with you referring to the u.s. as one of the world's most oppressive governments try to which one? >> host: in your dedication, you dedicate it to the panthers who dared to challenge one of the world's most oppressive governments. >> guest: yeah, well, i think we are talking about one of the world's most oppressive governments. that was certainly their perspective on it. that's how they did it come at d the move with that particular understanding. so i don't argue with their particular interpretation. i tried find out what t did they mean in terms of how di

all of these individuals, erica huggins that put our books about the panther party. the real is just our contribution to that. but giving another angle in terms of particularly for young readers out there who are just being introduced to the panthers. here's a way because many of them are coming out of their visual experience counseling is an opportunity for us to give you a kind of visual representation of black panther party. -- i think we are told about one of the world's most oppressive governments. that was certainly their perspective on it. that is how they viewed it and they moved at that particular understanding. so i don't argue with you know, with their particular interpretation. i tried to find out what do they mean in terms of how they deliver, who was or what was the reaction to this oppressive government? and the reaction across the country was a very violent period. probably one of the most violent periods in the nation's history in terms of what was happening out of the african-american community. and voicing the resistance. you know this is an outrag

she touched millions of lives with her books including huggins published in 1950. her characters including ramona captured a realistic slice of childhood. her young readers could relate to that. in 2000 she was named a living legend by the library of congress for her contributions to children's literature. she was also a cal berkeley alumni, and a dorm is named after her in her honor. >>> an apartment building is now sitting on wheels, ready to be moved just three blocks away. chopper five flew over the building on east reed street. it will be moved down the street, habitat for humanity will ultimately renovate it and qualified buyers will have a chance to buy one of the four units. the two-story building was set to be demolished last year to. it was saved with the help of donations. the three block move is expected to take about three hours. >>> more local news at 5:30, including an original report. the immunity factor bay area scientists explain how you can make a coronavirus vaccine more effective, and the critical role stress plays. >> if we can't maintain thes

her stories of ramona quimby and harry huggins have been enjoyed by generations of children. she was working as librarian when she started writing after little boy asked her where to find books about kids like us clearly was inspired by her childhood in oregon, writing more than 40 books. rewards include the national medal of art in 2003 clear graduated from u. c. berkeley she's lived for decades in carmel, where she died yesterday at the age of 104. coming up more than two dozen tornadoes reported across parts of the south over the past few days, and now communities are beginning to assess the damage as the threat of more let us take you to a place you've been craving. where the aroma of authenticity turns into the scent of home. and the warmth of friends and family is in every bite. here, there's a story behind every meal. with cacique, you'll be inspired to add your own flair. so you can tell a story of your own. cacique.your auténtico awaits. charges. now the boulder police department and the d a given update today in front of a makeshift memorial outside boulder police

the big connection with the black panthers, bobby sele giving us the red book and then john huggins and bungee carter. -- raise your hand if you know who they are. they founded the gang in south l.a., but they founded the black panther party and they came to east l.a. to say let's work together. i said who are these guys? i could relate to it because i'm from south l.a., i had already moved to east l.a. by then. we were able to bridge that. and bungee and john were eventually assassinated at ucla, but they had the forethought to talk about black and brown unity. here's a picture of me, i don't know where that was. i don't think that was appropriate. but there i am, angry young chicanos, when we became conscious, we thought the problem was the white man, chicano power supported black power. one of the first big actions was walk outs in east l.a., that's in the book or the movie, "walk out" by hbo. i think that they be one of the reasons we got the notoriety, but by then we were already becoming more radicalized, the vietnam war, the black panthers, we weren't really socialists, but we li

and made them look at that and same thing with john huggins and bunchy carter in l.a. they started changing the gangs around because that he had revolutionary idea to help the community. and what it is going to take is revolutionaries who go back in the community and reteach and reorganize people. because what they have done, we take one step forward and two steps back. we had different organizations and groups. like the slawsons for instance. when bunchy carter got of the prison. he had learned through the process of being in prison what it took to make change. so he took the ideology of the black panther party down to l.a. and said we're not going to be the slawsons no more. we are now the black panther party and all you o who don't want to be in our group you can leave. that was the kind of the down fall of gangs at that time. the era between 1968 and 74 you don't hear too much about gang activity. as a matter of fact the juvenile delinquency rate in all those communities went down. do you know why? because they have a new model. they have a new image in the communi

bob huggins has strong ties to the state. he just took his team to the final four. he was a star at the university some years ago. he made a surprise visit to the families of the miners who have been killed or are missing following monday's explosion. he met with these people for about an hour and he brought them pasta and mountaineer t-shirts to brighten their spirits and show their support. >> he didn't want it to be about him. >> definitely not a photo op. kudos to him for being there. one of the greatest tennis players of all time is faced with her toughest battle. nine-time wimbledon champ martina navratilova has been diagnosed with breast cancer. the good news here, robin, is that it's not invasive and there's at least a 95% chance of survival which is huge. she thought about keeping it private, but she decided she'd speak out. >> when i found out why, what i have and i was so lucky that we found it early, because of the mammogram, i thought you know what, i really owe this to the women out there that are putting it off, to speak out and say you know what, get

"henry huggins" and so many more. tonight beverly cleary has died at age 104. here's rehema ellis. >> reporter: beverly cleary's stories are timeless favorites in bookstores and libraries, inspiring kids to read her first book "henry huggins" was published in 1950 followed by ralph, the legendary star of "the mouse and the motorcycle" and the spirited heroine ramona quimby. like the best of authors, cleary wrote about what she knew. >> ramona's father lost his job and tried to give up smoking well, my father lost his job and tried to give up smoking. >> reporter: growing up in rural oregon, cleary struggled to read once she mastered the art she said it was hard to find something she wanted to read >> so many books in those days, back in the 1920s, had been published in england, and the children had nannies and pony carts and they seemed like a bunch of sissies to me >> reporter: the reluctant reader eventually became a librarian. when she found many kids were just like her and bored with the books they were given, cleary decided to write for them it was genius.

bob huggins not pleased at all. later, check out this pass. just sloppiness from west virginia's kevin jones. michael perrinetakes it in. and 70-60 the golden flashes beat west virginia. it is the mountaineers' first home loss, nonconference home loss since 2005. >> wow. >> what do you suppose happened? >> kent state. >> they're going to be running wind sprints tomorrow. georges county. >>> also, there is a shortage of turkeys. we'll tell you about that. >>> it may be up to the public to decide whether to bring slot machines to prince georges county. lawmakers tabled a ban on that type of gambling today with the 5-4 vote. they say it's best if residents get the chance to weigh in with the state referendum. maryland law as it stands right now only allows slot machines in five locations outside of the county. some lawmakers in indianapolis want to expand the law and bring slots to rosecroft raceway in fort washington. critics say gambling would drive up crime and traffic in the county. >>> around frederick, maryland people who live out that way

of readers with her humor and realism, featuring iconic characters such as ramona quimby and henry huggins. beverly cleary was 104 years old. still to come on the newshour: georgia acts a new law some say restricts access to the ballot box. the immigration debate intensifies over a proposed pathway to citizenship. iran continues to develop its nuclear program despite crippling sanctions. plus much more. >> woodruff: a new law signed by georgia governor brian kemp last night imposes a series of new restrictions on elections in the state, one of the first laws to pass after the 2020 election. supporters say it's necessary for election security, but as lisa desjardins reports, it is drawing ire from voting rights groups and even president biden. >> a fast-moving issue inside the georgia state capitol where a new election law got final passage and was signed by georgia governor brian kemp within hours yesterday. >> georgia will take another step toward ensuring our elections are secure, accessible, and fair. >> defiant of critics, he said this will improve elections. elections. but outside his

mountaineers head coach bob huggins not happy. 2) then check out deonte burton. he's gonna through down a huge dunk cyclones get out to a 25-10 lead. and hilton was rocking! thing were looking really good 3) mountaineers answered - gather up the loose ball, devin williams dunks and is fouled. he would make the free throw. west virginia started to get back into this thing.4) then the press takes hold, jaysean paige finishes. cyclones led by 4 at the break. they lost that huge lead! 81- 76 the final!hey check this out! iowa senior basketball player jarrod uthoff is on the cover of this week's regional sports illustrated. the magazine hits newsstands later this week. the article inside the magazine focuses on the all-america candidate and the fifth-ranked iowa hawkeyes, who host penn state on wednesday evening. uthoff is the first iowa basketball player since george peeples in 1966, to be on the cover of sports illustrated. and it marks the first time in school history that iowa football and men's basketball were featured on sports illustrated covers in the same sea

one of my dear friends and mentors was nathan huggins, a great african-american historian. he loved to tell the story of being a 19-year-old or one-year-old undergraduate at stanford -- 420-year-old -- 19-year-old or 20-year-old undergraduate at stanford and was learning for the first time in his life about slavery. a book called "peculiar institution" came out. nathan loved to tell that story. ta-nehisi coates, whom i have gotten to know pretty well, would be the first to tell you that his own sense of american history came from reading a lot of historians on his own, basically self-taught. edna: not totally. we taught him. [laughter] >> i know. at howard. blew that. half of the book is about the mecca. edna: he was a history student. >> what grade did you get him? -- give him? edna: i was only his advisor, not his professor. >> i think we better move on. i had eric holder in my class. i gave him a b. back then, a b was a respectable grade. >> i am a docent here. you talked about the effect of slavery economically and sociologically. the slaves were the heart and soul of t

the first book, henry huggins, published in 1950, followed by ralph, legendary star of the mouse and motorcycle. cleary wrote about what she knew. >> ramona's father lost his job, tried to give up smoking. well, my father lost his job, tried to give up smoking. >> reporter: growing up in rural oregon, she struggled to read. once she mastered the art, she said it was hard to find something she wanted to read. >> so many books in those days, back in the 1920s, had been published in england and children had nannies and pony carts and seemed like a bunch of sissies to me. >> reporter: she eventually became a librarian, found many kids were bored with books given, cleary decided to write for them. they became an instant hit in print. >> i get to ride the bus to school all by myself. >> reporter: she won dozens of awards for 42 books, with more than 85 million copies sold around the world. captivating tales of childhood adventures still worth the read today. for "today," raheem a ellis, nbc news. >>> if you wonder why i am wearing this leather jacket, the next story is about happy days and

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melissa huggins jones is a family left the courthouse without making a comment yesterday. verdict for travion smith. the decision came within an hour of closing arguments. jurors will decide if he gets the death penalty. it can take several days to reach a decision. >>> as we had to break a live look outside, partly cloudy and sunshine. after the break. >>> morning, everybody. it's 8:30. wednesday, february 17th, 2016. great to have you along with us. nice day out here on our plaza. except for matt, who is enjoying some time off this week. the weather has warmed up nicely. >> by the time we get to the end of the week, you'll be -- >> how high is it going to get? >> saturday, it'll be 55. >> amazing. >>> coming up, from reading headlines to making them, a local tv news anchor opens up for the first time about the mistake that ended her career. and how hitting rock bottom provided the foundation to rebuilding her life. >>> plus, mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the evillest of them all? "the huntsman" won't be in theaters for month but we have a sneak peek of the star-stud