austin is still very much a confederate state like it was. and there's this thierry that was going on that -- theory that was going on that young black men, because they had not experienced the, quote, paternallizing benefits of slavery, had a tendency to deconstruct and return to their, quote, primordial state. and so this is exactly what the police believed had happened in this case of the first murder. an ex-boyfriend who was upset that molly, the servant woman, had moved on to another man, decided to take his vengeance. and he did it only in the way that a black man would do it, that this would only be a crime committed by a savage man. and it was a savage crime. and when the second murder happened a few months later, a young black servant woman was found with her head chopped in and wrapped in blankets and cut to pieces and an iron pick driven new her ear. again, the theory was, well, it had to be another black lover who got the idea from the first ex-black lover, so this arrest this guy too, and they arrested a mentally slow, barefoot b

ryan newman all get caught up in austin dillon. >> somebody got into austin dillon. i can't tell who it was. >> jimmie johnson, we believe. >> wow, i have not seen a melee like that on the back straightaway for a long >> guess what. we'll get to see it again. that was pretty big. that was unfortunate. michael annett involved. oh, ricky stenhouse. all right, watch the 48. so we watch him. 48 is going to come behind him. see what happens here. >> see the closing rate of the nurrer tires. the 11 kind of got him loose and up the racetrack in front of the 48. >> comes across right in front of stenhouse. >> stenhouse just clipped him. >> nailed him. >> that's really going to hurt that left front fender. >> looking all the worse of the childress cars piled up there. >> 3 of austin trying to get down in front of 11 gets him loose and yvon is sideways trying not to get into him. wow, look at that. amazing save by jimmie. >> boy and by trevor bayne who got almost by -- >> you're right. >> like a >> 15 is pretty bad. >> he tried to pull down in front of 11. 11 sent him into me

austin's brother, creighton baird, is one of the rope swing engineers. his job is to make sure everyone survives to tell the tale. >> to actually jump, you need two ropes. you always want a back-up rope when your life is on the line with something like this. you only mess up once. >> to build the rope swing, the crew is riffing off existing hardware left by past climbers. >> and there were five bolts placed on the arch in the '80s. we attached the two ropes we jumped onto webbing to attach to the five anchor points. >> they're taking every precaution but it's still a risky endeavor. a rope could break. a bolt might come loose. they're taking a slight misstep could land someone over the edge, onto the unforgiving rocks below. >> if i would have slid maybe another foot and a half, it's 150 feet straight down. >> it's a close call. >> i got careless, i wasn't thinking, and i made a mistake. luckily i just brought brand new climbing shoes with rubber on the bottom. i was able to recover like a boss and live to do the rope swing. >> everything is in place for

austin for us. good morning. >> the president is calling ing ing it a parent's worst nightmare. imagine sending your student to school and then this happened. this tower is usually brightly lit but, this morning, it is mostly darkened. the campus is heartbroken. >> reporter: this morning, ramped up security at the university of texas at austin. dozens more officers on patrol around the clock. students on edge. >> it could have been any one of us. it's -- and it did happen to one of us, and now it's just kind of rocked us to our core. >> now, let's have a moment of silence for haruka weiser. >> reporter: late thursday, many were in tears, remembering haruka weiser, just 18 years old, a freshman dance major. >> i'm so grateful for the opportunity to have known her and to have taught her for that brief period of time. >> reporter: her body just identified after being found >> it's disturbing. i walk to that place every day.

we continue to work on the ground to get information on the welfare and whereabouts of austin. it is something we raised all the time. we cannot provide any additional details at this time. we're obviously in direct contact with his family as well as the family of any u.s. citizens detained there. >> [indiscernible] mark: without speaking to great detail about individual cases, i would say support wherever we can get it in terms of getting the release of any americans who are held or detained in syria. >> can you talk it all about why he was detained, why this government helped him -- held him? mark: i do not have any details. >> do you believe he was improperly detained? mark: i cannot pierce sorry. i apologize. requested the syrian regime get anything? mark: no, i am not aware of that. again, we worked with assistance from the russians, but beyond that, i am not aware there was any kind of exchange in any way but we are just gratified the american was released. >> other americans, are they in the syrian regime custody? can you be more specific? mark: i do not have any more sp

libertarian republic founder austin petersen. [cheers and applause] . john: right to it. governor johnson, what would do about illegal immigration? >> i would make it as easy as possible for those illegal immigrants to get a work visa as long as they haven't committed any crimes. [ applause ] >> agreement? disagreement? >> our country was found on the principle of open arms. all of our ancestors were immigrants, so why are we trying to shut our borders and keep people out. if i have to be documented, then immigrants as well should have to be documented and made legal. [ applause ] >> petersen? >> we can incentivize legal immigration to cut down on illegal immigration. if we make a simpler path to citizenship then people will not break the law if they know there's a chance they can be here. john: simple path for the 11, 12 million illegals already here just -- >> they are already here, adding to the economy. make it so they can find a path to citizenship. john: because they lied to get in, it's an insult to the people who followed the rules. >> if you were living in a thir

from the edge of the cliff. >> reporter: jennifer mcnary is austin and max's mother. she's seen austin able to maintain certain functions while on the drug and regain others like raising his arm above his head. >> yes! >> reporter: max, one of the first to get eteplirsen is still walking four years later. >> it's almost worse to be shown something that could treat your children and then be told it could be taken away than it is to just come to terms with having children that are ill. why is the f.d.a. so focused on outliers? >> reporter: yesterday an f.d.a. advisory committee held a hearing before voting on whether to recommend the drug's approval, but the small size of the trial raised redding froms for the committee as well as questions about the drug's effectiveness, which didn't sit well with austin. duchenne. [applause] evens toking a football around inside the hearing room to demonstrate the drug's benefits did not sway the committee. they voted against approval 7-3. the families were devastated. >> it's an incredibly devastating ruling. if we have to go through

>> i'm at austin and a bar. [laughter] as long as you grant me the right to a heterosexual marriage then it you can marry whoever you please. >> i'm happy when anyone finds love picked a private contract, keep government out of it completely. [applause] >> as they do support marriage equality and when you say get government out of the completely what i came to find out if there are literally thousands of laws on the books and you would have to go through -- you would literally have to go through and change every single law supposed to just recognizing marriage equality you would not have to change a word in any of these laws. john: women are paid less than men to reach a government be involved in fixing that? >> first of all women should be paid the same as a man, equal pay equal work. john: should government shouldn't get involved in that? the devil is the details and having beato this many pieces of legislation as i have i would find it hard-pressed to sign that legislation but i would keep an open mind to how

absolutely stunning, liam and miley, emily glowing and pregnant, jessicace from brian austin green last summer, well, she's pregnant, and the big question now, who's the dad? megan hit the red carpet in a u co-stars shila buff and megan johnson. megan filed for divorce from actor brian austin green in august, they have two sons together, but they could be making a go at it again. this was megan and brian out last move month at lunch, twice, wit t >>> anr pl.t onoken. >> in the form >> u lookt how your life has changed and how much mor lfneed to be fed. celebrating? >> weap >> we were just hanging out. we're not all in the same brother luke and his wife. leah walked ahead, knowing the came watching, but he kempt checking back to make sure miley was okay, there she is, engagement ring on. "the huntsman" which opens may 2, she's with this guy scott w? >> i'm going to do something really extreme. definitely try and do something cool because the movise >> she's stunning in any hair do. >> you know what was stunning? the black dior she had on last night. dior lowered the neckline and beading

austin ties went missing in 2012 while in syria. >> can you say anything more than what was said in the release, specifically, what led up to it, what was the u.s. officials involvement in it, the circumstances, and where he is now? mark: i will give you what i can say. we have not confirmed the identity of this individual. we can confirm a u.s. citizen was released, but obviously, privacy considerations prevent us from commenting further on the identity of this individual. as john noted in his brief statement, we do applaud the work of our check protecting power in syria, which helped gain access to the individual and also his release. i can say this individual was released in the last few days, just to give you a sense of the timeframe. he is no longer in syria. and, beyond that, i do not have too much else. if you have any other questions, i can try to answer what i can. >> if he is no longer in syria, understood, but is he in u.s. government protection or custody at the moment or is he just free? >> in the u.s.? mark: i cannot say that. >> if he was released in the last few days, it

jon: back to austin texas. the news conference still going on regarding the murder of haruka weiser, a freshman at the university of texas. an arrest has been made in her murder. and the 17-year-old mikhail kreiner is charged and now with first degree murder. we are getting more details about this terrible case. the first murder on the ut campus in decades. it has really terrified that campus, young haruka weiser was texting friends that she was leaving to head back to her dorm sunday night. she was walking apparently through the campus when she was cornered, assaulted and ultimately left dead in a creek. 17-year-old mikhail cryner under arrest in that case. heather: another news a to bring you on a manhunt for an accused murderer who escaped from a psychiatric hospital in washington state. this is anthony carter. in 2013 police say he stabbed a woman 24 times and/or throat. he escaped from the mental hospital hospital two months ago with mark alexander adams was captured yesterday. let's check in with dan spri

todos: austin! maity: volvemos con ustedes a la casa de "despierta amÉrica". francisca: gracias a todos por mantenernos informados de lo que pasa en el mundo del espectÁculo cÓmicamente continÚen preparando bien los brazos para pintar por nuestro centro que vamos a tener, que es algo histÓrico que tenemos en el dÍa de hoy. ana: tambiÉn al los angeles y chicago, pero tenemos que estar bien informados. francisca: listo, enrique? enrique: listo con las noticias, activistas convocan a marchas en varias ciudades del paÍs el domingo 1 de mayo en las tradicionales marchas del 1 de mayo, ese aÑo la convocatoria tiene un impulso especial en respuesta a las propuestas de donald trump, como las deportaciones masivas y el mensaje que difunde, se encuentran organizaciones sindicales y defensores de los inmigrantes quienes harÁn un llamado a la suprema corte para que levante el bloqueo ha llamado alivio migratorio del presidente obama. a pesar de numerosas crÍticas, republicanos en arizona impulsan un

>> i'm at austin and a bar. [laughter] as long as you grant me the right to a heterosexual marriage then it you can marry whoever you please. >> i'm happy when anyone finds love picked a private contract, keep government out of it completely. [applause] >> as they do support marriage equality and when you say get government out of the completely what i came to find out if there are literally thousands of laws on the books and you would have to go through -- you would literally have to go through and change every single law supposed to just recognizing marriage equality you would not have to change a word in any of these laws. john: women are paid less than men to reach a government be involved in fixing that? >> first of all women should be paid the same as a man, equal pay equal work. john: should government shouldn't get involved in that? the devil is the details and having beato this many pieces of legislation as i have i would find it hard-pressed to sign that legislation but i would keep an open mind to how

up next reaction to the arrest of a teenager for the murder o a university of texas student on the austin campus. but jamie raskin is the only abdemocrat for congress who led the fight for tougher gun laws. only raskin took on the nra to ban military-style assault weapons. raskin: i'm jamie raskin, and i approve this message. time magazine called chris van hollen "a hero to environmentalists, education groups, and gun control advocates" for his accomplishments as a young legislator. now a respected leader in congress and key ally of president obama, protecting planned parenthood and social security... chris van hollen is the only candidate who fought the wall street banks and the nra...and won. that's why he's endorsed by the post as the "talented successor" to senator mikulski who will "deliver results." i'm chris van hollen, and i approve this message. . >>> shots rang out in land. an unidentified airman fatally shot his commander, committed suicide. no one else was hurt. police made an arrest the campus murder of a universi

austin, iterms of think we are trying to still get information about his whereabouts. assistance did you get from russia? mark: i cannot. getting him out of there or was it specifically involving his release? in actually negotiating his release? we have expressed our appreciation that they did play a role and i do not want to go beyond what i already said because it is really up to them to characterize. >> a special envoy for hostile fares was the lead negotiating i do not believe so. i would have to check on that. i just don't know. not know who was leading the effort to secure this release? mark: i will try to get clarification. >> is it like single digits? some general sense? apologize, isee, i mean, we have, in general, i do not have a concrete number. we are aware of reports of u.s. citizens who have gone missing in syria. obviously, we take all of those , as is seriously and said, try to get as much information as we can on their welfare and whereabouts. i do not have a specific number other than obviously the austan case. >> more than one? mark: yes. would it be

the child named austin wasas confused of the alert of bear right. he bear to the right of their car. when they arrived at the zoo in colorado springs. it took a while, but austin wasa finally convinced by his parents there was no bear on the right of their car. i feel sorry for that kid. >> i got to say, with a smart kid. very smart. sma austin maybe wasn't right this h time, but some day there ise going to be a bear on the side i of that car and they're going tg be glad austin was there to wara thrnem. > coming up at 7, the fbi has already cracked that locked loc iphone connected to the sand bernadine oh the shootings and d now it's willing to help otherlp law enforcement agencies do theo same thing. we'll have that story and muchnd more coming up. time now 7:35. > welcome back. the fbi is not done taking ontai apple when it comes to gaining a access to iphone. the fbi told law enforcementorce agencies around the country it would try to help them openth locked phones or other devices as much as legal and policy constraints allow.s there has been a

march on washington, italy 1000 demonstrators gathered in the all-black neighborhood of east oxen -- austin, texas. better and activists of all ,olors from across the state groups of white college students and mexican-american activists also joined the procession. the protesters assembled under live oak trees near the park of the capital, listening to leaders. they did so, calling for a passage in federal civil rights act but in an unusual manner. do not ever separate the african-american and mexican in politics. they will not ever separate the white man and the negro again. do not ever separate the labor movement and the negro again. i can talk more about him whenever you would like. not right now. intermune yes, and i -- henry munoz, and activist said the negroes have justice. we do not answer. the mexican-americans are waiting as well in our nation as well. he gives the speech on the half militantlitical, most of the mexican-american organization in the state. i will talk about why in a second. strange as it may seem, this march was a tip of a much larger iceberg. the getting in the 1930

austin plays guitar, piano, drums. and, oh, yeah, he sings, too. >> ♪ there will be many other nights like this ♪ ♪ when i'll be standing here with someone new ♪ >> austin plans to make music his career. chase isn't sure about what his future holds. but one thing is certain -- they'll always have music in their lives. and they want other kids to have it, too. >> coming up, i'll tell you about an organization that helps wounded soldiers in a unique way. >> they fight overseas for our freedom. and if they return home wounded, they face another kind of fight. carina tells us about an organization that literally races to help. >> i'm very proud of what we did, and if i had to do it again, i would do it again. ♪ >> those words are especially meaningful when you realize how much staff sergeant de los santos gave for his country. he lost his leg in afghanistan when his unit was attacked. >> it was like -- everything was, like, in slow motion, kind of like being in a movie. and then when they pulled me out of the tru

austin is 12 years old. i was immediately impressed when i met him. i knew how difficult it must have been for him to travel all the way up to washington from his home in tampa, but this is the embodiment of courage that people living with this disease show every day. so joe shared with me a few of the strugglings they face. he told me how austin is unable to attend school full time because he needs hours of daily physical therapy to stimulate his muscles. he told me how austin is quickly losing the ability to walk, and how he now needs help getting in and out of his wheelchair and with other daily tasks. he needs help with eating. joe told me how he spends hundreds of dollars each month on over the counter drugs that are not covered by insurance, and he spends hours every friday attending doctors' appointments. joe shared the dreams he once had when austin was born, dreams of being the proud father in the bleachers at the little league game or cheering loudly and waving a big foam finger, but duchenne, he tells me, he has even more reasons to proudly

con up-up who austin said broke a pledge of ethics not to run for mayor. >> he says i plan to stay my term, i'm going to do what i'm going to do, not running for mayor, only a few weeks later to come out and say, okay, you know what, i'm going to run for mayor. >> this is an important issue. i want to communicate with people. >> austin is not happy when he sees coniff campaigning literally at his front door. >> i was sitting on my porch one morning. people showed up. someone approached me to let me know who was going to be coming, and would i want to put on a t-shirt and come down there and join. i let him know what i thought and told them no. >> conup's staff updates him on the situation. >> i think there was some indication that there was a guy there who was, you know, a bit ornery, but we decided to go forward with it. >> we have a situation in toledo. >> as conup launches into his talking points about faulty water lines, austin makes his voice heard. >> run for mayor somewhere else. i seized my opportunity to boo him and call him a liar. >> liar. >> over and over. >> liar. >> and

austin's view from his wheelchair is dire. >> most kids with my disability are on death row. toward the end of their lives. >> reporter: he and his brother max suffer from duchenne, muscular dystrophy, a muscle wasting disease that is fatal typically by age 25. >> reporter: what's the roughest part of this whole deal? >> everybody else not being able to be on the drug. >> reporter: the drug, eteplirsen isn't a secure but slows down duchenne helping restore a missing protein. up to 15,000 buenos aires the u.s. have duchenne. austin and max are two of roughly 100 kids in clinical trials. >> i do believe this is holding the kids from the the edge of the cliff. >> jennifer mcnary is their mother. she has seen austin maintain certain functions on the drug and regain others like raising his arm above his head. >> yes! >> reporter: max one of the first to get eteplirsen is still walking four years later. >> it almost worse to be shown something that could treat your children and then to be told it could be taken away than it is to just come to terms with having children that are ill

an emotional austin police chief saying he had just spoken to her family, who had this message. >> go home and hug your children, not once but twice. >> reporter: just 18 years old, weiser was a freshman dance major, her body found tuesday in a creek on the main campus of the university of texas. authorities have not revealed the cause of death. but a police affidavit released today alleges the suspect pulled out what appeared to be a shiny rigid object and followed weiser. what do you think is the motive here? >> you know, it's hard to know. >> reporter: police say austin firefighters provided the crucial tip after seeing this surveillance video released thursday of a person of interest walking with a bike shortly after weiser disappeared sunday night. they remembered that on monday, a woman had seen criner lighting a fire in an abandoned building. when firefighters arrived, police took criner to this shelter for homeless youth. once police connected the dots, that's where they found them. >> the common denominator for all our youth is they've been situations and sometimes lifetimes

it's a murder mystery on the campus of the university of texas at austin where a young dance student was found dead in a creek, and now authorities are asking for help identifying a man caught on camera being described as a person of interest. nbc's gabe gutierrez is there. >> reporter: tonight, an urgent manhunt for

it was the austin membership for the brown berets. but it was all redacted. however, by noting how much was redacted, you can tell how many members were in the organization. [laughter] i mean, you can squeeze out a lot of things even from a redacted memo. >> some other questions -- i would like to acknowledge the presence here are one of the early, early major academics in terms of chicano studies in the formation of things like the national chicano studies association and longtime faculty member at uc berkeley. let's give a nice round of applause to mario barrera. [applause] ok, so questions, comments on the keynote address. >> thank you for that wonderful talk. i wonder if you could answer questions from the previous panel. what do think about the [indiscernible] i wondered if you could expand on the appendix, talking about the limits of the movement. dr. montejano: that's another talk. of course, there is continuity. the idea of a second-generation movement organization is interesting. we can look at several environmental justice organizations, for example