south carolina first in the south. right? it's iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. after that republican governor got turfed out in south carolina in 1998 as the naacp was coordinating a big economic boycott of south carolina over them fly that confederate flag, as state senator arthur ravenel was holding a rally in front of a 100 foot tall confederate flag. in the year 2000 george w. bush and john mccain were battling it out in south carolina to try to win the republican nomination for president. and so they very knowingly strolled right up to this rube con, right? would supporting the confederate flag remain just a political asset for south carolina conservatives or would it become a national conservative cause, too? john mccain in that heming and hawing way tried to refuse what he thought about the issue but at the same time played to the issues of politics when he was asked about south carolina's confederate flag, he made sure to reference his own role in opposing the martin luther king holiday being recognized in arizona. he then went on to say the issue of the

from columbia, south carolina, south carolina state representative gary clary and don doyle. in raleigh, north carolina, reverend dr. william barber joins us, president of the north carolina naacp. the we begin with republican south carolina state representative doug brannon, who is announced plans to sponsor legislation to take down the confederate flag from the front of the state capitol. brannon was a friend of the late state senator reverend clementa pinckney who was killed in last week's church massacre. state representative brennan joins us via democracy now video stream from spartanburg, south carolina, from the district he represents. welcome to democracy now! we are going to begin with you, republican state representative doug brannon. tell us about your decision to introduce legislation to bring down that flag. >> i woke up thursday morning, last thursday morning to the news of the deaths of these nine wonderful people. i felt something had to be done in -- then. it took a few hours to figure out what, but what really prompted my desire to file the bill was when i s

>> shelby, north carolina, police department. >> does he have ties to shelby, north carolina? >> no. >> is it about 250 miles from here? >> yes. how did he get so far away? >> well, he drove. it is not that far. and he could drive and there is a number of hours between what hppened here and -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> i don't know the answer to that question, and we are obviously -- >> and the interstate and the highway, and it is not through city. >> can you give us any information about -- the jail for a little bit and what kinds of things happened over the course of the day -- >> sure. will give you a brief overview, because of the moving parts, but the initial response was tremendous from all of the partners and people from various agencies who were here almost immediately. as i was driving to the scene from my home i was talking to chief keil from the fbi and the bosses and from that time we converged to the scene and brought to bear to to get up the 800-number quickly, and once we got the surveillance photos out, and the 1-800-number up, we started to the rereceive t-- st re

the suspect in that church massacre captured in north carolina being returned tonight to south carolina. that's where police believe 21-year-old dylann roof shot and killed nine people at a bibl study at a historic african-american church in charleston in what's being investigated as a hate crime. president obama's calling the deaths "senseless murders." >> i've had to make statements like this too many times. communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times. we don't have all the facts, but we do know that once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun. >> let's go to our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. >> reporter: we should point out in the last several minutes the white house says this afternoon president obama spoke by phone aboard air force one with south carolina governor nikki haley and the state's two senators lindsey graham and tim scott. the president's biggest call of the day, somewhat surprising was to ask the country to take a second look at gun c

carolina sent back to south carolina all within 24 hours. good. a much different picture than what's going on with these killers. now going into the third week. tom joins us now. tom, even i know there are obvious and material differences in these situation that is made capture much more easy in south carolina. let's break down how these two manhunts work. with south carolina you had video, you had a vehicle and a lot of engaged citizenry in a compressed time period. was that the magic formula? >> that's true i think it was, chris. you say an engaged public but a public that knew what to look for. the description of the car, the license plate number of the car. when you have miss dills driving down the street and sees the car in front of her face and makes calls to verify that it was a much better situation for someone on the street a member of the public to identify the person the vehicle and call it in and get the police there to stop the car. >> let's make the pivot to the manhunt in new york and why it's not getting done. it is easy to l

mccain lost the south carolina primary by a wide margin. three weeks later he ended his presidential campaign and bush won the nomination. not long after that episode when he was an ex-candidate he came out and said he made a mistake by backing the confederate flag. quote, i feared that if i answered honestly i could not win the south carolina primary. so i chose to compromise my principles. i broke my promise to always tell the truth. that same year in 2000 the south carolina state legislature reached a compromise of sorts. the flag would be removed from the dome of the state house and brought to a confederate soldier's monument nearby on the state capital grounds and that's where it still flies today and where it is again the center of a heated local and national debate. this time sparked by the murder of nine african-american worshippers in that charleston church. >> and what is the answer? what is the answer for race relations? >> i think the answer is that we move forward in a balanced way. that we make sure that the compromise in sout

north carolina carolina authorities, the sheriff of cleveland county in north carolina is saying that they do have in custody the suspect in the shooting dylann roof 21 years old is in custody. authorities believe he is the one who opened fire at a church killing nine con gra grants. libby, i understand there is going to be a prayer held. >> the senator of south carolina is going to gather members for a prayer circle outside of the building here. but it has certainly been talked about today. we have heard members of congress reference it. the chaplain very black, gave an opening prayer which he has does and he ended that by saying that certainly people are praying for comfort for the families in. so what has happened is very close to people's thoughts and they are talking about it. we have heard from lindsey graham of south carolina also of course, a presidential candidate, offering up his prayers, and trying to make sure that the african american community in charleston south carolina are being supported by many around the country, especially those who can advocate to make sure that

it is south carolina's historic moment and this will be south carolina's decision. to those outside of our state, the flag may be nothing more than the symbol of the worst of america's past. that is not what it is to many south carolinians. the statehouse belongs to all of us. their voices will be heard and their roles will be respected. we have made progress on south carolina on racial issues yes, but on so many others. the 21st century belongs to us because we have chosen to seize what's in front of us to do what is right and do it together. i have every faith that this will be no different. it is what we do in south carolina. it is who we are. second i understand that what i have said here today will generate a lot of interest. what i ask is that the focus still remain on the nine victims of this horrible tragedy. their families the mother eplan family the a.m.e. church family the south carolina family we all deserve time to grieve and to remember and to heal. we will take it and i ask that you respect that. we know that bringing down the confederate flag will no

to south carolina, and then what? >> well, once he is transferred from north carolina to south carolina, there is a number of laws to the look at. the most important is the murder statue. and south carolina inflicts death by electrocution or lethal injection, and they have done it over 40 times since 1985 when the death penalty was ree stored, so they are not shy about using the death penalty in south carolina. >> the juries are not shy about bringing down that verdict? >> absolutely lyabsolutely. in this case, two things that would qualify as death penalty case, multiple homicide case, and two, that members of the public were endangered which the gun fire, and so it does qualify under south carolina statue, and another thing that is interesting as i have looked over the south carolina law, and it is one of the states that has no hate crime legislation on the books. so we have heard that it could turn out to be a hate crime, and certainly looks like one at this point, but it looks like south carolina does not have a s

on the team coverage from south carolina to north carolina, we start with geraldo rivera live in charleston herald? -- geraldo. >> greta it's hard to look at that church behind me the mother immanuel ame church a church with great racial history. weep for what happened here last night. deeply troubled sociopath this dillon roof just inculcating himself with the worshipers at that bible study, pretending to be interested in what they were learning there in that say credit place after 45 or 50 minutes takes out the 45 caliber weapon, we think his father gave him for his 21st birthday and unleashes this awful violence, taking the lives of nine wonderful people how do we know this he allowed some to survive despite the fact as he fired his weapon killing them, shooting them time and time again he spared a couple of people because he wanted them to carry his sick racist message that the reason he was perpetrating this awful violence was because black people were raping white people and taking over our country. where that cancerous idea grew in this young man i have no idea. but i do know that th

he's now back in south carolina. tonight we're learning more about who he is. >> that's right, john, a portrait of dylann roof is starting to emerge and it's a troubling one. his records show that he changed schools multiple times and dropped out entirely in ninth grade. he has a charge for felony drug use. this man now suspected of a hate crime. in his facebook photo dylann storm roof is standing in a swarm. his jacket has two flags on it. one from apart side era south africa and another from white-ruled rodicha what would become zimbabwe. he's sitting on a car the same car seen outside of the church. his uncle describes his nephew as quiet and soft-spoken although he worried that his nephew was too introverted. at 19 years old he still didn't have a job, a drivers license or anything like that. and he just stayed in his room a lot of the time. he had purchased a pistol, it's not clear if that's the weapon that he used wednesday night. i spoke to him on the phone briefly, he said, he said i'm outside target practici

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but i think in south carolina we have to send the right message to all of the citizens of south carolina. the state house is a public place. it's a place that is supported by citizen's tax dollars. african americans and others pay taxes in south carolina. we cannot tell the state that because you have a symbol that is disgraceful, and hateful to us as a people we're not going to pay taxes. we don't have that option. so what the governor said today is that the state house is a place for all south carolina ns and we should not have significant on the state house grounds that is divisive of the population. >> yeah. we will see -- i have to end it here. we will see what the legislature does in south carolina. it's good to have you on the program. thank you very much for speaking with us tonight. >>> violent crime has gotten so bad in venezuela that even the police have become targets. >> venezuela one of the u.s.'s largest oil providers faces a number of major problems. its economy is in ruins, and leadersover the opposition of the socialist government have been in prison. but it's the crime

craig melvin is in south carolina, in charleston south carolina. craig, this is another moment where president obama has had to address the ravages of gun violence in our country. >> you know andrea we were trying to. count the number of times, or we've, you know had conversations like this on our air and we've stopped at five. i mean you think obviously you think about tucson and you think about newtown and you think about ft. hood you think about aurora and the list goes on. that will be part of the conversation i'm sure for the next few days. i can tell you a little bit more about reverend pinckney the president knew him and so did i. i worked in local news here in south carolina for a number of years. and he was a state house member back then. he was in the lower chamber. he was in the house. in fact, reverend pinckney was elected at the age of 23. when he was elected he was the youngest member to ever serve in the south carolina house of representatives. before that he was an intern and congressman jim clyburn's office. years later he would ha

right now he's in shelby north carolina. there will be a process we have to go through to get him back here. we'll be working that very diligently. >> now i want to bring in matthew fogg retired chief deputy u.s. marshall. matthew, roof was arrested less than 14 hours after the shooting. what does that tell you about his plan? >> it tells me his plans, if he had any, went awry. police did great police work by pulling this monster over and stopping him. when he went into that church he clearly had plans to kill the folks he did, to do what he did but thank god he got captured and police did great work in pulling him over. one thing i >> one thing i noted he had a gun in the car. are you surprised they pulled him out without incident? >> yes, i am. but he got his point across to bring home racial terror to particularly make a point that this country is not the way that he thinks it should be and probably a lot of other people are thinking the same way. i'm just glad that he got caught and hopefully he'll understand the full br

in south carolina we have pretty swift justice. because he's killed more than one person he's eligible for the death penalty in south carolina. they could move pretty quick if they want to or hate crime or terrorism type trial in federal court, i spoke to the u.s. attorney last night as well as this morning, everybody's ready to deal with this situation because of how horrific it was. >> miss scott, you mentioned that this should be seen in the context of other things that have been true about both race relations and other factors in south carolina and in charleston in particular. do you see that this young man and what happened here as being contextualized in anything else about charleston that we should understand? we're all reporting on the history of this church and trying to understand as much as we can about the history of this young man. is there something about the history of either of those two things we should focus on or get, those of us who don't know as much about the city as you do? >> i want to backtrack a little bit

berman live in south carolina. right behind me is the ame church the pillar in this community and state for well over 150 years and it's where last night nine people were murdered. they were murdered by a man who police believe they now have in custody 21-year-old dylann roof was taken into custody this morning in shelby, north carolina which is a 3:45 drive from here. they

charleston south carolina has been dealing with a lot. we can tell you a little more about this church emanuel church here in charleston. it is not just historic but symbolic for a number of reasons. this is a church that was burned down some years ago by slave owners here in charleston. more than 150 years ago. it was rebuilt then in the '50s '60s '70s it was a planning site of sorts. lots of civil rights marches and rallies that happened here in charleston and south carolina the northeast a lot of rallies were planned at the church behind me. the same church that was rocked by tragedy last night around 9:00. >> the breaking news that dylann roof has been arrested. thank you very much. we are expecting to hear from the president in the next half hour. we'll be back on the air when that happens. for now, this has been an nbc news special report. we'll have much more on "nbc nightly news" tonight and much more throughout the day on nbcnews.com. >>> we've been talking about the bethel a.m.e. in society hill section, a friend of reverend pin

and the people of south carolina. we all feel this pain on this one. and i think, to your question that remains to be seen to be giving an honest answer. i don't believe that our political leadership in this country is really ready to do the heavy lift and sometimes difficult work of resolving our issues around gun control, gun safety, gun laws in this country. you referenced earlier and kasie put it exactly right. we've been through this pain andrea what and reflection of 90% of the people in this country say we must do something and yet our political leadership couldn't even resolve the conversation in the house of congress. so my hope is that we have this debate. this isn't about taking away anyone's access or rights to guns. this is about how do we protect citizens in places of worship? how do they protect themselves, you know in their schools, how do the citizens protect themselves in a free and open society when some want to do the kind of harm that we've seen here? >> you know again, we should note that the 21-

carolina naacp. then pope francis calls for decisive action, here and now on climate change urging world leaders to hear "the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor." >> our house is going to ruin and that harms everyone, especially the poorest. mine is an appeal for responsibility based on the task that god has given to men in creation, keep the garden in which he was placed. i invite everyone to accept with open-heart this document which follows the churches social doctrine. amy: we will speak to naomi klein, author of, "this changes everything: capitalism vs. the climate," as well as nathan schneider, columnist at america magazine, a national catholic weekly magazine published by the jesuits. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. police are searching for a gunman who opened fire inside a historic black church in south carolina, killing nine people and wounding several others. the victims were attending bible study at

south carolina governor nikki haley. as part of that statement he talked about his belief that it needs to come down there in other tweets as well. john boehner showing you more tweets throughout the first 45 minutes. south carolina, carl is up next. good morning. are you with us? you have to stay by your phone. we will go to wayne in richmond virginia on the line for those who oppose. caller: i was listening to the caller who just held in who didn't have his coffee. am i still on? the way he talked he said he didn't talk too good because he didn't have his coffee. i am 55 years old. that flag is in virginia and is on people's arsenal are pretty hairy that is fine. -- is on people's personal property, that is fine. but he's talking about rape? we were raped for 500 years. i am in touch with my history. i love this country. right now we have a serious album in virginia with police -- serious problem in virginia with police. i have had that flag put on my car. i remember somebody things that were not in the media. the olde

says a lot about south carolina. a lot of the rest to the suit south too. >> there is a lot more talking to be done. we're going to believe it there. thank you all for your time. >> thanks. >> coming up a potentially major break in the search for two murderers are who escaped from a new york prison, next. ♪ kraft barbecue sauce's new recipe starts with simple ingredients like sweet molasses. and now with cane sugar. all slow-simmered. so go ahead, make wings, ribs...amazing. ♪ how's it progressing with the prisoner? he'll tell us everything he knows very shortly, sir. as you were... where were we? 13 serving 14! service! if your boss stops by, you act like you're working. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. moderate to severe crohn's disease is tough but i've managed. except that managing my symptoms was all i was doing. and when i finally told my doctor, he said humira is for adults like me who have tried other medications but sti

in south carolina. beat in up in police custody because of that. amy: i want to thank you, brett bursey for joining us. the hearse has just moved on. brett bursey, director of the south carolina progressive network. burned the confederate flag back in 1969. we will be back here in front of the mother emanuel church in charleston, south carolina in a minute. m♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting fro charleston, south carolina outside the historic emanuel ame church where nine people were gunned down on as they attended june 17 bible study. just minutes ago, state troopers brought reverend clementa pinckney's casket down the steps to a hearse. his funeral is being held just blocks from here at college of charleston with president obama delivering the eulogy. the church shooting suspect dylann roof is now jailed next to officer michael slager, the policeman who shot and killed unarmed african-american walter scott ea

no state in the union has changed more for the better than south carolina. it is typified as the indian american governor spoke today he was flanked by the most popular politician in the state, senator tim scott, who is an african-american u.s. senator. that aside, there are those who would like to use the act of one madman to indict a state or a region or the whole nation for some kind of failing of which he is supposedly symptomatic. how this has anything to do with the confederate flag is unclear to me. 45% said they had negative feelings about it. 50% or more south carolinians have negative flags about the flag than positive feelings. >> what do you think? >> this has been a politically fraught debate going on in south carolina for years. this was thrust in the 2012 race republican we-- this has been a debate that's been going on especially among gop primaries for cycle after cycle. what this has done now with the push to move the flag from the state grounds is allowing many of the candidates who otherwise might be stuck in a tough position here who migh

south carolina state senator pinckney. this is an all too familiar wake-up call. >> it doesn't happen other places with this kind of frequency. and it is in our dpour something about it. >> reporter: he has spoken out on mass shootings at least 14 times during his presidency, tucson, oak creek, newtown and the nation's capitol. one happened to gabby give ordereds. >> what if sasha and malia were at the movie theater, just assome kids are everyday. >> this is the worst while in office. >> these tragedies must end and to end them we must change. >> reporter: the president bushing for a new measure that would require background checks on firearms sold at gun shows and on-line. >> gabby giffords deserves a vote. families of tucson and blacksburg and countless other communities with gun violence, they deserve a simple vote. >> reporter: but after a massive lobbying effort by the national rifle association, the proposal was defeated. >> the amendment is not agreed to. >> there were no co-hernt arguments as to why we couldn't do

to south carolina. that is expected to take place shortly. so gunmen dylann roof a reminder that he was detained by police in north carolina. this is about a 3-hour drive from where the shooting took place at a church in south carolina, charleston south carolina and, of course this location enormously symbolic to the civil rights struggle and the struggle to end slavery in the united states. we understand that that shooting took place. nine people were killed and dylann roof managed to escape. police detained him. some three hours away from south carolina and right now these are pictures coming from shelby in north carolina where dylann roof will be loaded on to the plane and transported back to south carolina. we'll stay across that and update you. moving on to our other story - human selfishness is the reason for global warming. this is the message from pope francis in a long-awaited announcement on an environment. in a tweet the pontiff used stronger language saying the earth, our home is looking lik

to the south carolina state senate. he was elected when he was 27 years old. he was gunned down on wednesday night at the age of 41, married with two children. to talk more about the massacre in charleston, in addition to dr. warnock in alanna, we're joined in philadelphia by anthea butler associate professor at the university of pennsylvania author of "women in the church of god in christ, making a sanctified world." she has written a new piece for the washington post is called, "shooters of color are called 'terrorists' and 'thugs.' why are white shooters called 'mentally ill'?" anthea butler, would you continue on this point? talk about the issue of who we call terrorists and who we don't. >> thank you, amy, for having me. i really respect this show. the reason why, i believe, that whites are often are white shooters especially male white shooters, are always call mentally ill, is that it is the soft peddling of the structure of racism in america. whenever you hear about a muslim doing something or suspected of doing

it is south carolina's historic moment, and this will be south carolina's decision. to those outside of our state, the flag may be nothing more of the worse of the past, and that's not what it is to many. the state house belongs to all of us and their voices will be heard, and their role will be respected. we have made incredible progress on racial issues and so many effort, the 21st century belongs to us, because we have chosen to seize what's in front of us, to do what it right is to do it together. i have every faith that this will be no different, it is who we are. second i understand, what i have said, will generate a lot of interest, what i ask is that the focus still remain, on the nine victims, of this horrible tragedy, their families, the mother a.m.e. family, and the south carolina family, we all deserve time to grieve, and to remember, and to heal. we will take it, and i ask that you respect us. we know that bringing down confederate flag will not bring back the nine kind souls, nor rid us of the hate, that drove a monster through the doors of the church t

on twitter, there's a #takeitdown stz #takeitdownsouth carolina. lindsey graham was asked if he thinks that's the thing to do. >> to revisit that decision is fine with me. this is part of who we are. the flag represents a civil war and that was the symbol of one side to the other. it's been used by people. it's been used in a racist way. the problems we have in south carolina throughout the world were not because of symbols, it's because of what's in people's hearts. >> joining me now, the senior bishop of the ame church john richard bryant. welcome, sir. >> good morning. thank you very much for having me. >> thank you for being here. do you agree with senator graham? >> i agree that it's time to take it down. i think symbols are extremely important. it really teaches the culture. i have been protesting been part of protest movements in south carolina to take the flag down for more than 20 years. i really think it's time and i think south carolina reached the place where they know it's time. when i had the opportunity to be in the presence and to w

he waived extradition yesterday from north carolina and he was brought here to south carolina very quickly. he also waived the right to counsel. as far as we know he does not have an attorney at this point. but, you know we are learning more about him. he -- friends and family say over the last couple of years he became a loner, talked about segregation. he had several run-ins with the law. he was arrested after an incident back in february where he was outside -- police approached him outside a mall in columbia south carolina and they say he had been asking suspicious question of mall employees. when they approached him they say they found him with -- they charged him with drug possession. he was banned from the mall for a year but a short time after that they found him again at the mall police say. and so he was charged with trespassing. those cases are still ongoing. of course now he is charged with this just horrible horrible church massacre. craig? >> nine counts of capital murder and the weapons charge as well. gabe thank you so much. a short time ago the long-time mayor of the city

no state in the union has changed more for the better than south carolina. it is typified as the indian american governor spoke today he was flanked by the most popular politician in the state, senator tim scott, who is an african-american u.s. senator. that aside, there are those who would like to use the act of one madman to indict a state or a region or the whole nation for some kind of failing of which he is supposedly symptomatic. how this has anything to do with the confederate flag is unclear to me. 45% said they had negative feelings about it. 50% or more south carolinians have negative flags about the flag than positive feelings. >> what do you think? >> this has been a politically fraught debate going on in south carolina for years. this was thrust in the 2012 race republican we-- this has been a debate that's been going on especially among gop primaries for cycle after cycle. what this has done now with the push to move the flag from the state grounds is allowing many of the candidates who otherwise might be stuck in a tough position here who migh

south carolina's governor both u.s. senators are now calling for the confederate battle flag to be removed completely from the state capitol grounds. pressure is growing in the wake of the killings of nine african-americans in that church massacre by the white supremacist dylann roof who said he wanted to ignite a race war. cnn's martin savidge is joining us from charleston with more. what's the reaction over there? >> reporter: wolf the reaction as far as this whole flag issue is muted at this particular site. not because people haven't heard the news or that they don't care. it's that they care more about the nine victims who lost their lives in supporting their families and making sure that justice is done for the killer. inside this jail the sheriff says a 21-year-old admitted killer is on a suicide watch, being kept from taking his own life after gunning down nine churchgoers wednesday. now more analysis of a manifesto found on a website registered to dylan storm roof along with text photos of roof burning the amer

, to charleston south carolina. clearly he planned this he spoke about it for six months. >> he planned it and said to witnesses that he was going to kill himself, which never occurred because he got in that car and drove for three or four hours. >> he said he wanted to start a race war. right. but if you listen to his rhetoric "y'all are taking our white women. y'all are taking over." if you listen to that rhetoric and ask you "where have i heard the?" you've heard that coming out of places like the ku klux klan you've heard that rhetoric coming out of places that are very anti-black anti-jewish, anti-establishment type of organizations. it's that same rhetoric. >> neonazi white aryans. most of them just talk they don't actually commit crimes like this. >> that's right, but here's the thing. he may have been involved with this in terms of the act itself but i suspect there may be others who may have put this young man up to this because when you look at him, when i see him on footage, he appears to me to be somewha

the governor of south carolina fighting back tears. >> the heart and soul of south carolina was broken. so, we have some grieving to do. we've got some pain we have to go through. >> president obama said he and michelle personally knew several members of the his tor imame church. >> to say our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families and community doesn't say enough to convey the heart ache and the sadness and the anger that we feel. >> now, it's not clear if roof's roommate went to authorities. joey meek told abc news he had not. it's not clear why he didn't. they have reached out to meek and the roommate. we have the breaking news on the apparent confession. evans in washington with the breaking details. what have you learned? >> reporter: he wanted to start a race war. that's what he said in talking to the fbi and charleston fbi detectives who interviewed him yesterday in north carolina. today, he is back in jail and he must be thinking he failed because you can see the reaction there in charleston has been the opposite. we are told that he talked to these investigators

he was also a south carolina state senator and a rising star in south carolina politics a real community leader. he knew president obama -- knew people at the bible study. she spoke to reporters and described the scene the suspect came to the church and asked for the pastor they showed him where the pastor was, he said next to my cousin for the -- throughout the entire bible study. at the conclusion of the bible study, they started hearing loud noises ringing out. and he had already wounded the suspect, had already wounded a couple individuals, including mys could enmy cousin. i spoke with one of the survivors, and she said that he had reloaded five different times. her son was trying to talk him out of doing the act of killing people. he said i have to do it you rape our women and you're taking over our country. you have to go. south carolina state legislature paid their respects to reverend pickney today. >> we came to honor one as i mentioned in my earlier prayer who has been such a fond presence in the chamber. i will miss that booming voice coming from one of the gentlest men i've e

pelley" from south carolina next. >> remember the latest news and weather are always on our website, cbssf.com. >> pelley: the sanctity of the house of god shattered by violence. a white gunman opens fire on a historic black church. >> the heart and soul of south carolina was broken. >> pelley: nine people are killed. the suspect is in custody. >> at some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. >> pelley: as america mourns the words of a preacher echo from the past. >> we must not despair, we must not become bitter, nor must we harbor the desire to retaliate with violence. captioning sponsored by cbs >> this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from charleston, south carolina. >> pelley: this is our western edition. so, here we are again, another mass shooting in america. our neighbors, this time ministers, a librarian and grandparents cut down for nothing. it happened in the church behind me. it was last night during a bible class at this historic black church here

that should tell you about something here in north carolina. but nationwide, there's a generation of people that is weary and this is the same loin for me as trayvon martin. this is the same line as mike brown. same as gardner and rice and the woman who had a police officer sit on her back while she was swimming. and you know, this is not new for puss. us /* this is a larger discussion and i challenge you all in the media because i think that the discussion about race needs to be first. it is a 50,000 foot view type discussion. it is a discussion gnathat's necessary. and the debate is going on as to whether this should be classified as domestic terrorism and we should be comfortable with having that debate and having that discussion. if you look at federal law george and bacari knowes this as well, i this i this is clearly an act of domestic terrorism meant to intim dintimidate a grf people, a population of african-americans. maybe we need to talk about that this is do o mestic terrorism, call it what it is and what do we do about it. >> earlie

back here to south carolina. that's the latest live in charleston, i'm jay gray. jim? >> jay thanks so much. >>> now, one of the pictures that hate crime investigators are focusing on comes from roof's facebook page here that we brought up online this evening. so take a look at this apparent profile picture of roof skulking in some woods. it carries a possible indicator of his world view on race go in a little tighter to two patches on the jacket here. they show, according to the southern poverty law center, old flags of racist white minority regimes in south africa. for white supremacists they represent periods of apartheid south africa and renegade rhodesia. barbara? >>> another twist in the rachel dolezal saga. seems howard university raised questions about her race years ago, back when dolezal was a graduate student in howard in 2002. she sued the school for allegedly denying her a teaching job bus she was white. we just learned during a deposition for that lawsuit howard's attorneys asked if she tried to pos

a south carolina tag on it. white male early 20s with a bowl haircut. >> reporter: the dashcam shows police closing in epding the 14-hour manhunt. they ordered roof to step out of the vehicle, placing his hand on top of the car. he was checked for weapons but none found on his body. roof was traveling with a handgun in the backseat. now, officers found that gun underneath a pillow in the backseat suggesting that roof spent the night in his car following the shooting. meanwhile, a federal law enforcement source tells cnn roof purchased the weapon in west columbia south carolina not far from where he lived. alisyn? >> okay thanks so much for all of that background. we want to bring in a cnn contributor and former south carolina state representative. we want to talk about what's happening. thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> when is the flag going to come down? >> that's a good question. i'm optimistic about it coming down. there has to be a vote but hopefully -- >> that's the way you think it

roof waived extradition to south carolina. the u.s. justice department and other agencies have launched hate crime investigations into this shooting. you can get the latest on the church shooting in charleston and send your condolences by downloading the wusa9 news app. >>> storms are blowing through our region tonight, possibly again tomorrow. topper has live doppler 9000 fired up and he'll be back with the >>> you're looking live right now of a shot of dylann roof boarding a plane flying back to north carolina. he waived extradition to go to south carolina where he is alleged to have killed nine people yesterday in a horrific attack at emanuel ame church. >> he was actually arrested 250 miles away in shelby, north carolina. they're putting him on the flight on the way back. he was wearing a bulletproof vest. they removed it, searched him. now they're putting him on the plane for a short flight back here to face justice. >>> in other news, as many as five people are dead and four others missing following through southern china. ne60,0

live to the press conference happening right now and charleston south carolina let's listen in. the tremendous efforts"in with the team that we had working with us and it in the community tremendous push ford to make this a successful chase. and now we have to do as it continued to approve a successful prosecution of antalya all my >> darya: at a press conference just wrapping up now waiting for the president to speak my entering what's going on in south carolina and the mayor and a vice president calling them talking with the tragedy nine people shot and killed by 21 or 21 year old person living in south carolina cut in north carolina. >> mark: mission just one of the shooting victims of past errors state senator say it south carolina kill inside the church and learn the killer was in the meeting at that about an hour a for he opened fire in the past year that was killed a passer since he was 18 years old and recent member of the south carolina state senate way on the other victims who were killed and then more about the information on this morning. live >> darya: lawrence at h