(cheers and applause) >> rose: joining me now is tom brokaw. also joining me from north carolina john dr. hope franklin, the esteemed historian. i am pleased to have them as we take this time to celebrate this anniversary of dr. king and look at civil rights and race in america. john hope franklin, tell me where we are in your judgment in terms of the mutual that began with martin. >> the movement extends back to the early part of the 20th century with the founding of certain organizations, particularly the civil rights organization the national association for advancement of colored people. but by the time king came to the scene in the 1950s and '60s, we have turned the corner and we were in another stage of the advancement of the rights of all people in this country. we retire there had for a while between 1950, let's say, and 1968 and the movement took off with a new burst of enthusiasm and energy with the leadership of martin luther king, jr. during this time. >> rose: tom brokaw, you just have completed a two-hour film. tell me what you le

then at christmas time i got one check for $100 from tom brokaw and then i saw my climbing ger and i sold it and i sold my car for $500 that i got from my grandfather in a seedy area in oakland. by string i o spring i had only $2,400. my mother invited me to come and talk to the kids. when i got ready to leave, a fourth grader named jeffery looked me in the aye and he said i've got a piggy bank at home and i'm going to help you build that school. west side school raised 65, 300 pennies. it wasn't the celebrities or the sports heroes or movie stars or if i lan throw pears but children reaching out to children half way around the world to help them build a school. what can you buy with a penny the bay area? probably nothing. in montana you can buy 1/2 tootsie roll. but in afghanistan you can buy a pencil. it's not that's so important but education gives a child hope. you know, if you fight tear riz her rorism it's based in fear but the real enemy is ignorance that bleeds hatred. here in america, afghanistan, africa or pakistan. the way to overcome that i think is through education and

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when he took tom brokaw over afghanistan in 2002. and more than 1,500 fellow sailors took to facebook to express their admiration and support for honors. >> i've never heard a crew of a ship love their xo and a captain more than opie honors. >> reporter: but officials say these videos raise serious questions about honors' judgment and leadership. in fact, one of honors' former commanders told nbc news today that being a leader does not mean being an entertainer. otherwise, he said, you're just another guy on youtube. pentagon officials also predict that even temporarily relieving honors of his command will almost certainly signal an end to his career. brian? >> jim miklaszewski at the pentagon where this story will go on tomorrow. jim, thanks. >>> now we turn to a just discovered murder that's stunned a lot of this nation's veterans and those who knew the victim, his name was john wheeler. he was a west point graduate who served three different republican presidents and was one of the original driving forces behind the vietnam vetera

author tom brokaw spoke at the. >>> oneof san francisco's gem is almost back to it's glory. a project to restore the palace of fine arts is nearly complete and is expected to reopen friday. the palace was built after the 1906 earth wake earthquake as part of an exhibition to show the city has recovered. >>> if expectation for tonight's bcs game is that it would be a higher scoring affair. michael james against auburn and heisman trophy winner cam newton. neither team scored in the first quarter. newton found cody burns from 35 yards out. oregon went back in front when darren thomas threw right and back to james. but the auburn defense kicked the ball to the tigers and they would score before halftime. this time it's newton standing in and finding emery blake. auburn led 16-11 and would add a third quarter field goal. with a flair for a dramatic score. oregon successful on a two point conversion that ti the game at 19. then came the strange play of the night. the ducks are opening for over tight as michael dire is dragged down by eddy pleasant. dire lands on top of pleasant a

legendary newsman tom brokaw. iconic journalist bob woodward. and first lady michelle >> good morning, everyone. 5:23 on the abc 7 morning news. a live view from our camera atop sutro from the bay bridge. you see the traffic there. this is -- golden gate bridge. i said bay bridge, spanking time. somebody hit me. thank you very much! >> that wasn't me. >> you see traffic moving along there. just fine. can't believe i did that. but i deserved that little spanking there. thank you very much. >> it was our stage manager, joey's sound effects. thank you, joey! more news for you. a knew library opens in oakland in a neighborhood known for its high crime rate. the 81st avenue library has been in the works nine years, cost $14 million to build and will be the second largest in the city. it will house 30,000 books, dvd's and 62 computers. mayor jean quan calls it a commit to east oakland. >> i've been talking to kids in the gangs about making sure there's a one-block radius of making this a safe place that anybody whoever they are -- >> councilman larry

you know, tom brokaw has written books calling them the greatest generation. they were not great. they were just ordinary people, whom the government called on and who answered that cl. and they hated the army and they groused and there were jokes about it. it wasn't that they were all saying, hooray, let's go get them, at all. it's a miserable thing to b an infantrymen, in an army, especially in a bloody war like that. but they felthey were being depended on by their country and they were. and so they answered the call, grousing all the way. and it didn' matter. and, of course, everybody was working and everybody was involved and -- >> the holocaust, did you know about it during world war ii or how much did you know? >> yes, yes, i didn't know all of it, but i knew about it. there were books and there were -- there were books about what had gone on in germany, even at the beginning of the war, to the jews. and little by little, there were people that now say we didn't know, but it's nonsense. everybody knew, including the u.s. government. by 1943, maybe. >> so 1943, you would hav

>> i wassed a an event where i got to moderate tom brokaw. >>> sal is keeping track of r aiders and he has big news from the raiders? >> that's right. you didn't know that nambya is no longer with the raiders? it's on ktvu.com. you also have traffic on k tvu.com. traffic is moving well. you should try mobile ktvu.com. that thing is great for your iphone or blackberry. let's go out and take a look at the commute, westbound as you come out towards the toll plaza. that's moving along relatively well. for this time of the morning, i should say. it's about -- it's about a 1 5- minute delay. you will have to leave the house early. let's go to steve. >>> sal, go the way you know. >> yes. >> you will get lost if you don't, usually. >>> clues a little different pattern here. it's been fog, fog, cold, cold. now the clouds are in here. rain will be to the north. we've had high pressure in p lace. there is our system coming in right there. it's produced some snow up to lake county. there's nothing too heavy here but temperatures are in the 40s, not the 20s or the 30s that we saw yesterday under cl

tom brokaw, thank you so much. >> my pleasure. >>> it is 7:16. here's matt. >> thanks, meredith. doctors have upgraded arizona congresswoman giffords condition to good and say she is ready to begin her rehabilitation. janet, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning. this is a significant development for gabrielle giffords who was dealing with a side effect, buildup of fluid on her brain. trauma surgeons said she could not be moved from the intensive care unit to the rehab center until this resolved itself. meaning the fluid went down and they could take out the catheter or installing a permanent shunt. last night, word came that her condition had been upgraded to good. at some time this morning after she woke up and they reviewed her one more time, that she would indeed be moved to the rehab center. doctors scheduled a news conference for later today to tell us more about her condition. her husband, astronaut mark kelly, remains at her side. he declined an invitation by president obama to attend the state of the union address last night. the congresswoman's office rel

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journalists tom brokaw and bob woodward are joining mrs. obama on today's oprah winfrey show to honor our best and bravest. >>> this is the next to last day of our celebrating our birthday on "world news now," our 19th birthday, i should say. >> we've been lucky enough to get well wishes from those who have shared these two chairs before. this morning, the one and only anderson cooper shares his fond memories of the early days. >> hey, "world news now," just want to wish you a happy 19th birthday. you're old enough to stay up late, not old enough to drink yet. sorry about that, in this country. when i worked at "world news now," oh, those many, many years ago, we kept thinking we were going to get canceled like any day, so the fact you've reached 19 is extraordinary. we realized we weren't going to get cancelled when we realized no one within abc management actually watches the show. i don't know if that's still the way it is, but i assume it is no matter what they tell you. they don't really watch. it's a great show. and you're all doing a

you know, one the most fascinating things that i've heard on our show was when pat bucanan and tom brokaw talked in 2009 during the health care debate about how bad things have got. i said, well, you guys, you covered the civil rights struggle in 1968, the chicago convention when chicago was on fire. that was about as bad as can could have gotten; right? brokaw and buchanan said, oh, no. this is worse, much worse. it's interesting now when i was looking at the clinton administration and the gingrich congress, when we get together despite the fact that seems ugly in the 1990s, despite the pact fact redidn't like each other, when chips were down, we said we have to do the right thing, balance the budget, four years in a row since the 1920s, grew the economy. it did a lot of very positive things together, and i think that is before the hyperpartisanship really got fueled by a lot of the new media components. i'm not saying it's the responsibility of bloggers to be more tactful when they are in their basement eating chips at their mother's house writing nasty things about leaders. the respons

let's welcome in nbc's tom brokaw. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let's talk about last night's memorial service where the president spoke. there's been so much finger-pointing since this shooting about civility in this country and whether harsh political rhetoric somehow motivated the attack in tucson. how did the president do in addressing that debate? >> he said flatly last night, this is not the result of the absence of civil discourse and political talk. then he said, in a challenge to this country, but it is that civil discourse and talk that we need to face the challenges ahead of us in a way that will make the victims of this shooting proud. what he did by saying that, it seems to me, is to say we honor their memory if we all begin to change our ways here. most of this absence of civil discourse is taking place on the extremes, left and right. in the vast middle of the country where i spent a lot of time the last year and a half, people long for folks to get together again. these are reminders that fo

. >> reporter: and in 2002, as leader of an f-14 squadron flew nbc's tom brokaw on a combat mission over afghanistan. but navy officials say these videos now raise serious questions about honors' judgment and leadership. navy officials say that it's highly unlikely that captain honors will be on the enterprise when it deploys toward afghanistan in a couple of weeks and according to officials here at the pentagon, this catastrophe is almost certain to end his military career, matt. >> jim miklaszewski at the pentagon this morning. pete clark is a family friend of captain owen honors and served in the navy for seven years. good morning to you. you go back to the same hometown, you followed his career in the navy. when you first heard about these videos that he aired them for the 6,000 plus crewmembers of the uss enterprise, what was your reaction? >> actually i knew about the videos through some of the folks from the crew. and actually he was quite popular because of those videos. it was quite a morale boost for the crew on deployment. it's very stressful times and the morale of the crew i

. >> willard, tom brokaw. >> i don't know if there's any show quite like it. this is it. >> good morning, between you and i. >> you are part of television programming that is really a living historical document. >> career wise, there was no bigger day than i got the phone call that said you'll be the next host of the "today" show. >> this is "today" with katie couric, and matt lauer. and matt lauer. >> when i first got the job, i was nervous. >> meredith vieira is here and it's great to have you. >> i feel like it's the first day of school and i'm sitting next to the cutest guy in class. >> my feet would hit the floor after the alarm went off and i would almost shudder that i was going to do the "today" show. >> when the "today" show theme started playing and i saw, you know, bryant gumbel and katherine couric, it was such an out of body experience. >> you get that call, you know, we would like you to fill in for willard. it's something you dreamed about is about to happen. >> ann is officially our news leader. >> it's great to be here, i can't think of three

he's with tom brokaw in washington, gentlemen, thank you both for joining us. sheriff, let me start with you here. there's a question that we may never know the answer to, and that is, is this about the political climate? is this about the vitriol that's expressed on a daily basis in this country? or is it simply about the insanity of an individual. why do you seem to think that the rhetoric has contributed to this? >> well let me say first of all, that we're dealing with a troubled personality. but there are thousands of troubled personalities in this country. when you start trying to rationalize, irrational behavior, i think you come up with a zero. conversely, i think most of the experts in the field of psychology would agree that these people are very susceptible to emotions like anger and paranoia and so for the. and i think that the tone of rhetoric that has occurred in this country over the past couple of years affects troubled personalities. that's my feeling. that's my belief. do i have any proof? no. >> can people be held responsible, sheriff, for the

. >> tom brokaw said it best. nbc can survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not nancy fields. she was an incredibly efficient person, incredibly clever with getting things done. one time on the phone i called her and she had a lot of phones ringing in the office. she said, willard, i think new york is on hold. >> she always had a smile on her face. such wonderful things to say for everyone. nancy fields, again, starting as an intern working 50-something years here at nbc. our condolences. >> she started with howdy-doody and ended up with me. >> she loved working with you. i know that. thank you so much. >>nancy. nay. god bless. rest in peace. >> we're back after your local news. >>> good monday morning to you. i'm lawyeria garcia-cannon. i want to check the forecast. >> good morning to you. a beautiful day shaping up. lots of sunshine. similar to what we saw yesterday. just a little bit more fog in the east bay this morning. and the san joaquin valley. fog pushing into the belthead as well. we