and he showed pictures of birmingham, alabama, and the horror that was going on in birmingham. and that they attack the birmingham police on the young nonviolent demonstrators there. there was something in me that just said, this is not, something is wrong with this. this is not right. and so it stuck with me. so the next semester, i took a class, and the only thing way to do in that class was write a term paper. and i ended up, i wasn't a very good student, but i wrote a paper that was 60 pages long, and i did on the student non-violent coordinating committee. so i really got into the whole civil rights thing by writing this paper. i thought it was like way but anything i had ever done. which didn't really say much, but i turned it in fully expecting to get in a. i got a b on the damn paper. the next semester the same course was offered but at a different professor. about a week before the paper was due in the course, a young woman, her name is bonnie, and she was a santa barbara blog, and i had eye on her for quite some time, and she said, i don't have the paper. i didn't do

in birmingham. >> dr. martin luther king was invited to come to birmingham to help with the situation. >> as difficult as it is, we must meet hate with love. >> we would also meet at 16th street baptist church. that was the meeting place for dr. king. ♪ i'm on my way >> it was always firey meetings with a lot of good singing, a lot of good friends. ♪ i'm on my way ♪ i'm on my way ♪ to freedom at last >> dr. king was arrested on good friday april 12th, 1963. he was jailed for parading without a permit. so dr. king is in jail, and i don't know how many, but a substantial number of people, young people particularly in jail -- when i say young people, i'm talking about kids 14 to 18. there may have been some younger, but 14 to 18, and being in jail overnight is one thing, but being in jail more than one or two nights became a major issue. i think the first time i visited him may have been that saturday. as i approached the jail, i had the burden of being identified as quote, dr. king's new york lawyer.

it was dead. >> i'm going to say to you, wait a minute birmingham, somebody birmingham. >> dr. martin luther king was invited to come to birmingham to help with the situation. >> as difficult as it is, we must meet hate with love. >> we would also meet at 16th street baptist church. that was the meeting place for dr. king. ♪ i'm on my way >> it was always firey meetings with a lot of good singing, a lot of good friends. ♪ i'm on my way ♪ i'm on my way ♪ to freedom at last >> dr. king was arrested on good friday april 12th, 1963. he was jailed for parading without a permit. so dr. king is in jail, and i don't know how many, but a substantial number of people, young people particularly in jail -- when i say young people, i'm talking about kids 14 to 18. there may have been some younger, but 14 to 18, and being in jail overnight is one thing, but being in jail more than one or two nights became a major issue. i think the first time i visited him may have been that saturday. as i approached the jail, i had the burden of being identified as quote, dr. king's new york lawyer.

near birmingham, birmingham airport there. the u.p.s. plane crashes down there. both the pilot and the co-pilot, they have been killed. the plane immediately went up in flames, big explosions down there. a devastating scene to say the least. >> video of the fire just moments after impact. and there were no other passengers that we know of on board. just the pilot and the co-pilot. it was a cargo plane for u.p.s. we know a lot of cargo damaged and destroyed. ntsb scheduled to hold a briefing about that crash, what we know so far, before they actually head out to the crash site near the birmingham airport. in just a few minutes the ntsb will be gathering to hold more info. we'll of course bring that live to you as it happens. devastation this morning. 6:26. a bay area mother desperate for answers in the death of her son. we'll tell you how she's taking a one-on-one approach today to urge anyone with information to come forward. >>> more on breaking news, the u.p.s. plane crash right out in the field, again, near the airport in birmingham. down in alabama. marla tel

. >> i'm going say to you, wait a minute, birmingham, somebody has got to have some sense in birmingham. >> dr. martin luther king was invited to come to birmingham to help with the situation. >> as difficult as it is we must meet hate with love. >> dr. king was arrested on good friday, april 12, 1 19 1963. he was jailed for parading without a permit. he said have you seen this? i said what is this? he holds up a newspaper and in that newspaper there is a full-page ad signed by eight prominent white clergy men from birmingham. he was angry, he was hurt, but he was motivated like i'd never seen him motivated. i didn't pay any tensio attentio the letter. didn't even think about it. it was not in my mind until i suddenly learned that i think the quakers were going to public the letter in one of their newsletters, and that the letter using today's terminology, the letter went viral. >> i think the most important document of the 20th century, very much like the gettysburg address. >> dear fellow clergymen, while sitting in the birmingham jail i read your letter calling our activities unwise

attention. >> i say to you wait a minute, birmingham, somebody's got to have some sense in birmingham. >> dr. martin luther king was invited to come to birmingham to help with the situation. >> as difficult as it is, we must meet hate with love. >> dr. king was arrested on good friday, april 12, 1963. he was jailed for parading without a permit. he said have you seen this? so i said what is this? he holds up a newspaper, and in that newspaper, there's a full page ad signed by eight prominent white clergymen from birmingham. he was angry. he was hurt, but he was motivated like i'd never seen him motivated. i didn't pay any attention to the letter, ok no didn't even think about it. it was not in my mind, until i suddenly learned that i think the quakers were going to publish the letter in one of their news letters and that the letter, using today's terminology, the letter went viral. >> i figure it's the most important document of the 20t 20th century, very much like the gettysburg address, and it began the movement. >> my dear fellow clergymen, while confined here in the birmingham cit

was arrested on good friday in birmingham alabama that april. that arrest is remembered because while he was in jail in birmingham, a group of mostly white clergy in alabama spoke out and published an ad calling on dr. martin luther king to stop the protests, to work inside the system and stop organizing these demonstrations. to stop being the outside agitator, he responded with a letter from the birmingham jail which he wrote longhand in the margins of the newspaper in which he was able to read the ad and read the stories of his fellow ministers criticizing his tactics. his arrest was one component of a big activist plan for birmingham that year. birmingham was seen as being among the most impossible places for progress. it was the most stubborn, the most violent, the most rigidly opposed to desegregation. the plan was to push there in one of the worst places notice country. and see what happened. see how they responded to pressure. and after what they thought was a slow start of sit-ins and protests in the first eight days a total of 150 peopl

from before birmingham, throughout birmingham-- which brought into being made it possible to have the march-- up until the mount top, his life, theologically and personally was swinging between mount tops and valleys. the answer is he was very pessimistic and despondent when he was in the jail cell in birmingham and he didn't know if birmingham was dpog succeed. he needed it to succeed. when the young people went out-- it was the young people of birmingham to indvindicated the model king had written about in letters from birmingham, it led to the things david just described. if you look to back stage and front stage, to king enjoy that summer, he goes to wrigley field, and now the rabbis are involved, the union is involved, the idea of rationalizing what had been a local struggle, and blacks were not on their own. on jiewb 11, after he heard kennedy's speech, he was elated. what he said to some of his colleagues, you can believe that white man hit it out of the park? there was another side of him. he was prepared to be disappointed by kennedy as he did continually. but nonetheless, it

they think of the tragedy of birmingham. but they don't think about those people who came together to say, we will make the change. >> modern-day birmingham is a testament to those who fought for that change. a thriving downtown business quarter, first-class hospitals and even talking of landing an nba team. >> nelson mandela said one of the things that encouraged him during his 26 years of incarceration in south africa, is if change can come to birmingham in the american south, then change could come to south africa. ber! with new phillips' fiber good gummies. they're fruity delicious! just two gummies have 4 grams of fiber! to help support regularity! i want some... [ woman ] hop on over! [ marge ] fiber the fun way, from phillips'. no-charge scheduled maintenance. check. and here's the kicker... 0% apr for 60 months. and who got it? this guy. and who got it? this guy. and who got it? this guy. that's right... [ male announcer ] it's the car you won't stop talking about. ever. hurry in to the volkswagen best. thing. ever.

janice stayed in birmingham. both are now retired. and proud to retell the story of what they did that summer. >> the march for birmingham was to initiate a freedom that we had. because we couldn't do anything. >> i felt that i had been mistreated. and i felt badly that i didn't realize how much i had been mistreated. so i was very determined to do something about my situation immediately. and i had no idea that it would have all of the ripple effect that it did have. ♪ freedom ring >> my thanks to craig melvin for traveling down there for that excellent report. despite thepeople, the violence continue. 18 days after the march on washington, four klansman set off a bomb at the 16th street baptist church. it killed four little girls. the tragedy drew more national attention to the ongoing struggle for civil rights. >>> we've got a special panel with us today. in the second half as well to talk about the march 50 years ago. how much reverberating in today's politics. assistance dean at georgetown university, robert trainem. former dir

king 's, story, delivering birmingham to the world. >> without birmingham 1963, the letter from the birmingham jail, it is unlikely that there would have been a march on washington. the letter was a national call to the conscience of america. using the real life, real time reality of birmingham as its template. >> clarence jones will join us next week. he'll tell us how he smuggled out this letter answer his part in the speech. that's it for us. join us at al jazeera.com. good night have a great weekend. haiti, october 2010, at a hospital in a small, rural town north of the capital. these were the first victims of a horrific, unknown disease in a country still reeling from a devastating earthquake. patients were dying in the space of a few hours. children were especially vulnerable. al jazeera was the first news channel on the scene. in the following days and weeks we tracked the epidemic as it ripped across the country. leaving dozens, then hundreds, and soon thousands of haitians dead in its wake. i'd reported from war zones for years - and from haiti since a

but when one bus arrived in birmingham alabama, a mob surrounded them and beat the freedom fighters. >> i was on the greyhound, that was the bus they set on fire. burned it. and we would have all burned to death had it not been for the fact that one of the fuel tanks of the bus exploded, scared the hell out of the mob. >> reporter: that ride ended abruptly and the riders feared the violence would snuff out the movement. the first ride was not the last. students willing to face death picked up the cause boarding buses heading south. in his san francisco home, frank nelson shares his story with blankenhide. nelson took his first ride in june, by then the movement had spread to trains. >> they got off the train and headed to the homes that were right there. the black riders went into the whites homes and they were carted off to jail. >> reporter: nelson was 23 when his body was bruised and beaten. >> friend, i'm a mississippi segragist and i'm proud of it. >> reporter: as the south resisted integration, president john f. kennedy grew frustrated, nelson says the president wanted to help

on in birmingham, alabama. we're more divided than we've ever been. we just had i school board election where only 21% of the citizens came out to vote. the school system has been taken over by the state. the cities that surround the suburban cities, they're failing a lot of the students in their schools. we need to have an open conversation and not just in the alabama but around this country what's best for all kids. about reclaiming the poms for all kids. i think one reasons that we wanted to push for you to come here is other media outlets won't have that conversation that you will have. and we really appreciate that you invite us and we're having the conversation about all children. it's really sad that we are divided in communities in places like philadelphia and chicago. they're shutting down schools but also we've shut down schools in birmingham and it destroys communities. and i just think it's really sad we don't have those conversations. >> mr. franklin, are we picking and choosing neighborhoods? is i

cargo plane crashes, not far from the birmingham airport. we have just learned the ntsb officials, they are expected to head to the scene this morning and check thicks out up close and personal. "today in the bay's" marla tellez joining us from the newsroom. breaking details. scary scene. >> across the wire, rigeuters reporting the only two crew members on the airbus 300 are confirmed dead. this is the pilot and co-pilot for flight 1354 which left kentucky and set to land at birmingham international. let's take another look at these dramatic, unbelievable pictures coming from the scene. this is a scene outside airport property where the plane went down. u.p.s. has just released a statement saying is it determining the details of the crash and says, quote, as we work through this difficult situation, we ask for your patience and that you keep those involved in your thoughts and prayers, enquote. this happened 90 minutes ago, about 4:00 our timing this morning. faa official describes the area as open land with no homes on the property where th

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cargo jet this morning in birmingham alabama. >> birmingham's mayor says just two people were killed the pilot and co-pilot of that air bus. rick jackson of our birmingham affiliate is at the scene. rick, good morning. >> reporter: yes we're about half a mile away from the actual accident scene here. the reason why is because officials early on block the entire perimeter off because of the explosions going off. that happened just before 5:00 a.m. a lot of the fire officials were on deck for this. and it took them a while for them to contain that fire. that fire was reignited. so they pushed everyone back. we have confirmed from mayor bell of birmingham here that two died. those two were the pilot. he also said some debris flee on to some houses. we're just blocks away from a large residential area. no injuries are reported in that regard. we spoke with the resident who was out walking his dog, describing the scene as a volcano erupting. luckily, everyone as far as the residents are all right. two lives were lost here this morning in that crash. charlie, norah. >> rick jackson, thank

before dawn in birmingham, alabama. a huge fireball lights the sky. a massive car cargo plane for u.p.s. slams into an empty field next to the airport. the two people confirmed dead are said to be the pilot and co-pilot. only people onboard flight 1354 which originated in louisville, kentucky. those living near the airport realize the death toll could have been staggering. >> we were in bed and we heard something go over the house and it sounded like a plane had gave out of fuel and a few minutes later we heard this loud boom and we really didn't know what it was. but, we came out the door, we did see some smoke through the trees, but we still didn't realry knreal y know what it was. >> william bell is on the phone right now and he's at the airport. he joins us live. good morning, mr. play mayor. >> good morning, carol. >> it appears from the pictures that this plane literally slammed to the ground. >> yes, it did. we don't know why it did. but it left a pretty long debris field and broke up into several parts with the fuselage and the wing section se

, women in the streets of birmingham. hundreds and thousands of young people, young children, had been arrested and jailed in the city of birmingham. people couldn't register to vote simply because of the color of their skin. back in 1961, '62, '63, people had to pass a so-called literacy test in my native state of alabama. on one occasion, a man was asked to count the number of bubbles in a bar of soap. another occasion, a man was asked to count the number of jellybeans in a jar. >> before he would be allowed to register? >> register. and there was black doctors, lawyers, college professors, high school principals, maids, sharecroppers, tenant farmers, stood in unmovable lines all across the south. were denied the right to participate simply because of the color of their skin. >> you lived a very frenetic schedule in the months leading up to the march. you were in all the hot spots, from arkansas to mississippi, alabama and north carolina, but in your speech you made a reference to danville, virginia. i remember you desc

cargo plane crash in birmingham, black. ntsb agents tweeted this photo of the crash site just a few hours ago. the pilot and copilot were killed when the plane crashed. wendy gillette reports. >> reporter: emergency crews arrived to find a large section of the u.p.s. jet consumed in flames in an open field. just a quarter mile from a residential neighborhood. news photographers had trouble identifying what they were looking at. >> i don't know what part of the plane that is. >> reporter: not far from the burning wreckage, firefighters found the front of plane. they used flashlights to look inside the cockpit. the fire chief says the only two people on board, the pilot and the co-pilot, were both killed. the plane took off from louisville, kentucky, and was making its approach when it went down just outside the birmingham airport. hours later parts of the jet were still burning. birmingham's mayor says the impact of the crash rattled homes and sent wreckage flying. >> the plane broke up into five or six components. initially

cargo plane crashed in birmingham. marla taye welleztellez. >> getting a look at scene, compelling pictures just into our newsroom. let's roll that tape so we can show folks what we're dealing with. this is the aftermath. explosions and you can hear it as well. coming from nbc affiliate wvtm, reporting the plane is burning. so far two explosions heard from the scene. here what happens nbc has confirmed so far for is. u.p.s. cargo plane is airbus 330. it crashed very close to the birmingham airport where it was scheduled to land. this happened 6:00 a.m. local time, so just within the last 45 minutes. a pok spokeswoman said the plan crash on the outskirts of birmingham shuttlesworth airport. no homes are affected or compromised by any of this this morning. the crash has not affected airport operations. this information coming from our nbc affiliate. u.p.s. has been notified of the incident. we are checking their twitter feed to get latest from the u.p.s. official twitter feed. that is the latest from here. of course, the

birmingham's mayor say there was a -- ups cargo plane crashed in birmingham, alabama. we will continue to bring you updates as soon as they are available. >>> we are following developing thinks into san lorenzo. investigators are investigating a deadly shooting over night. claudine wong joins us now with what we are learning about the victim. >> reporter: good morning, pam. we are out here on the 1800 block of rob scott way. you can see if we push down toward the street where the brake lights are this is where it's all happening right in front of a home there. this all happened after midnight. we talked to investigators this morning. they tell us multiple people called in after hearing multiple shots fired in the neighborhood. they came out here and found the 33-year-old victim in the street. paramedics tried to revive him but were unsuccessful. we talked to them about the victim and have learned just a little bit of information. 33 years old from alameda county. but there is not much more to say at this point about the victim. >> he was at someone's home. and we're in

, women in the streets of birmingham. hundreds and thousands of young people, young children, had been arrested and jailed in the city of birmingham. people couldn't register to vote simply because of the color of their skin. back in 1961, '62, '63, people had to pass a so-called literacy test in my native state of alabama. on one occasion, a man was asked to count the number of bubbles in a bar of soap. another occasion, a man was asked to count the number of jellybeans in a jar. >> before he would be allowed to register? >> register. and there was black doctors, lawyers, college professors, high school principals, maids, sharecroppers, tenant farmers, stood in unmovable lines all across the south. but were denied the right to participate simply because of the color of their skin. >> you lived a very frenetic schedule in the months leading up to the march. you were in all the hot spots, from arkansas to mississippi, alabama and north carolina, but in your speech you made a reference to danville, virginia. i remember your

cargo plane crashed near the birmingham airport. we've now confirmed that two people were killed aboard that flight. the pilot and co-pilot. the good news, it appears there were no other fatalities or injuries. it was away from residences. nearby neighborhoods about a half mile away have not been evacuated. that information is coming to us from the mayor of the city of birmingham. again, this plane crash, a u.p.s. cargo plane, crashed at roughly 6:00 eastern time this morning. the ntsb is launching what it describes as a full go team to investigate the crash. an air bus a-330 en route from louisville. that is the u.p.s. headquarters. it crashed on approach, again, at about 6:00 this morning. our affiliate there is wvtm. they report that the crash caused at least two explosions. explosions that you could actually see from that video. the birmingham police say the plane went down in a field. pretty much parallel to the airport perimeter. no residences fortunately have been compromised. u.p.s., by the way, did release a statement that

the city of birmingham posted a photo. you saw it a moment ago, the front part of the plane had broken off. now, both the pilots and the copilot were killed. this plane was flying from louisville, kentucky, to birmingham, alabama when it went down around 4:00 pacific time. the flight should have taken 45 minutes or so. but again, that plane went down. a website that tracks flights says four minutes before that crash the plane actually plummeted more than 9,000 feet in two minutes. >> we don't know why it crashed but it left a pretty long debris field. >>> the cargo plane crashed into an open field. luckily no one on the ground was hurt. investigators are sending a team from washington, d.c. as well as an investigator from their office in atlanta. they will examine the plane, the prms of the pilot, the air traffic control. the weather, everything involved and the investigation will take some time. >>> 8:03. back here at home, a deadly shooting. it happened in the east bay and a neighborhood has been on edge for several hour

jet crash killed two people and went up in flames in birmingham. the mayor, william bell, is speaking on the investigation now. let's listen. >> landed on the rooftops of some homes and the perimeter of the investigation and search expanded to those areas. i want to make sure the public knows that if they find or see debris from this crash, please do not try to remove it or take it if the site but call our police department, call 911, and have someone come and recover it because it may be a critical piece to the puzzle of trying to figure out what happened to this plane. i will be happy to entertain any questions. >> [ inaudible ] >> from the indication of the treetops that it clipped, it was probably flying some 25 to 30 feet above treetops. and so you can imagine that the height of a home, probably in the general vicinity and it flew near a couple of churches. but, again, we don't have any notice that anyone on the ground was injured or real damage to any homes or churches in the area. >> mayor, do you know if the plane was in its flight plan or

wide-body cargo plane crashed this morning as it was attempting to land at the airport in birmingham, alabama. the two pilots were killed. this evening, the national transportation safety board brought us the latest information on this and manuel bojorquez is in birmingham. >> reporter: flames lit up the predawn sky on a grassy field just half a mile shy of birmingham international airport. flight 1354 was on a routine service flight from louisville, kentucky, to birmingham, alabama, when residents were suddenly awakened by a loud explosion. eddie smith lives near the crash site. >> shook my house so bad i thought it was coming off the foundation. that's how bad it shook the house. >> reporter: pine tree tops were sheared off as the plane made its approach, barely missing houses. debris was spread for blocks. flight tracking data show at 4:43 a.m. central time the plane made a steep descent from an altitude of 9,500 feet to 2, 600 neat about a minute. that's three times faster than it normally descends. robert sumwalt from the n.t.s.b. says there was no distress call from the pilots.

announced his dream of racial justice a nightmare struck birmingham. a bomb explode underneath the 16th street baptist church, the center for king's non-violent campaign to integrate the city's schools, businesses and parks. as they finished sunday school three girls aged 14, one aged 11 were killed. among them addy may corpulence whose sister was among the injured. >> i said called her but she dit answer. >> the brother of cynthia wesley rushed to the church but left before they could tell him that her body was identified in the republic. >> that was your sister. i didn't stay. instead, i left. >> reporter: violence was nothing new to birmingham which saw so many attacks on blacks that it became known as bombing ham. but king's southern christian conference encouraged people young and old to march through the streets. accused of risking the safety of school children in birmingham's direct action campaign king drew criticism from some of his civil rights allies yet one year later government passed the civil rights act banning discrimination based on ra

overnight, a deadly cargo plane crash in birmingham, alabama. what went wrong just before the flight landed? we're at the scene. >>> and egypt explodes in violence after security forces storm opposition camps. >>> why washington is trying to block an airline megamerger. plus, more of charlie's revealing conversation with oracle ceo larry ellison. >>> first, we begin with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. >> i heard a sonic boom. it shook my whole house. it could have been in the neighborhood. >> a cargo plane crash in

the ntsb has a go team now on the way to birmingham. they should be on the scene sometime this afternoon. as of now the police and fire department have the cash scene cordoned off. they are investigating the crash. 6:00 a.m. eastern time, 5:00 central. it appears the pilot and co-pilot died. we will have more as we get it throughout the day. >> tom, thank you for that update. >>> right now israelis and palestinians holding first formal peace talks in jerusalem in nearly five years but starting on shaky ground. despite israel's release of 26 palestinian prisoners yesterday, a top palestinian official warned those talks could collapse over israel's settlement expansion. while politics takes central stage, gaza strip, a rocket fired into israel the day before. at humana, our medicares sit down with you and ask. being active. and being with this guy. [ male announcer ] getting to know you is how we help you choose the humana medicare plan that works best for you. mi familia. ♪ [ male announcer ] we want to help you achieve your best healt

it was on a scheduled flight from louisville, kentucky, to birmingham. the aircraft is an a-300-600. a-300-600f. the "f" stands for freighter. the registration number is n155up. and has been reported, the aircraft crashed while on approach to runway 1-8 here at birmingham shuttlesworth international airport. the ntsb's g.o. team arrived here in birmingham. we landed at about 11:00 this morning. we had an investigator on scene actually about 9:15 this morning who drove over from atlanta. and today what we've done is just a very overall initial assessment to begin planning the next steps of our investigation. but i can tell you from the preliminary information that we've gone out and gathered, from the initial ground impact -- and bear in mind that there were three strikes prior to the initial ground impact, but from the initial ground impact to the final resting point of the forward fuselage, which contains the cockpit area, that distance is about 200 yards. and then another 75 or 80 yards past that, closer to the runway, that is, there would be the part

cargo jet that crashed while attempting to land in birmingham, alabama, this

a ups cargo plane has crashed near the birmingham airport. the faa says the aircraft was an 8300 that crashed on approach to the airport just before dawn this morning. it was flying from louisville to birmingham before it went down. we'll have live updates throughout the ktvu morning news. >>> in the meantime we are following developing news of a deadly shooting near san lorenzo. claudine wong is live at the scene with what police are saying about the investigation. claudine what do you know so far? >> it's still very early. we just spoke to a sergeant on scene. we have the latest information for you. this area remains blocked off. you can see a little further down from where we are standing is where a police car still sits. we are waiting for the crime scene techs to get here. it could be shut down for hours. it has been shut down for hours since the police got the call for help. >> about 12:07 this morning alameda county sheriffs deputies responded to multiple calls of shots fired in the 1800 block of rob scott avenue. and unincorporated sa

was shipping down here to birmingham. possibly something that the investigators might also be interested in. >> as soon as you get more information on, that david mattingly, we will talk once again on cnn. thank you, very much. we appreciate you in birmingham, louisiana. >> and meanwhile, one hostage is dead and another in critical condition after the police ended a 12-hour standoff with a gunman at a bank. he is identified as fuaed abdo auk med. this is what we are learning about the man, he was a paranoid schizophrenic according to police who was known to local law enforcement. they tell us that he had no intention of rob ing tbing the but during the standoff, ahmed said that he heard voices and he wanted a quote, device removed from his head. >>> and blood is flowing again on the streets of cairo and egypt and the government backed by the military has imposed a state of emergency. the killing began after dawn today, just about 12 hours ago there in egypt as troops moved in to clear the two large camps of peaceful demon

it crashed into a field just outside the birmingham airport. people who saw the jet plow into the ground say they heard the engines struggling, and there were two pilots on board. a family friend says one was shanda fanning. back in her hometown of tennessee she's known by her maiden name shanda carney and is remembered for her love of flying. >> she lived and breathed aviation. she was the consummate aviator. amelia earhart had nothing on shanda carney. >> friends say she has been flying since she was a teenager. manuel bojorquez has more. >> reporter: flames lit up a predawn sky on grassy field half a mile from alabama international airport. flight 1354 was on a routine service flight from louisville, kentucky, to birmingham, alabama, when residents were suddenly awakened by the explosion. eddie smith lives nearby. >> it shook my house so bad i thought it was coming off the foundation. >> reporter: pine tree tops were shirred off as it mates its approach barely missing houses. debris spread for blocks. flight recording data shows at 3:43 cent

early this morning in birmingham, alabama, a ups plane in route from louisville to birmingham crashed as it was approaching landing. it wasn't landing but it was on approach, killing the pilot and co-pilot. airbus 300-600 in route from louisville to birmingham. a statement by ups says we place the utmost value on the safety of our employees, our customers, and the public. we will immediately engage with the national transportation safety board's investigation, and we will work enhawesively on response efforts. by the way, as you look at shares of ups we should mention there is an ntsb go team on its way to alabama. also, u.s. officials are reviewing the cargo on the plane. that's standard. according to a senior counter terrorism official talking with nbc news, there is no indication at this point that there is anything related to the cargo that caused this crash. again, that's very preliminary. here's the ntsb talking about the next step in the investigation. >> the board has very good success rate with being able to recover the recorders. so at this point i'm optimistic that we will

. >> birmingham was like a spark that ignited a prairie fire of national protests. >> here in gaston, it was probably one of the worst places in the state of alabama when it came down to police brutality. we were demonstrating and marching, protesting in front of the different stores here in town for the right to be served at lunch counters. >> they used cattle prods, if you know what a cattle prod is, on us here in gaston. i still have burns and spots on my body today where they had stuck those cattle prods to me. >> the fires of frustration and discord are burning in every city. next week i shall ask the congress of the united states to act, to make a commitment that is not fully made in this century to the proposition that race has no place in american life or law. >> in 1963, i was 23 years old. i finally became the chair of the student coordinating committee. i was invited to come to washington for a meeting with president kennedy. the deep of black leadership spoke up and said mr. president, the black masses are restless, and we're going to march on washington. i think that was

justice, a bombing exploded birmingham. the 16th street baptist church, the center for king's organization, as she finished sunday school, three girls were killed. among them addie mae collins, whose sister sara was among those injured. >> i called my sister's name, three times. but she didn't answer. >> brother of cynthia wesley, rushed to the church but left before they could tell him her body had been identified in the republic. >> they found her without no in head. that was your sister. [ sobbing ] i didn't stay. i left for her. >> reporter: violence was nothing new to birmingham which saw so many attacks on blacks that it was known as bombingham. king's conference recruited hundreds of people young and hold to march through the streets. accused of risking the safety of school children in the direct action campaign king drew criticism from some of his allies. yet one year later congress passed the civil rights act. it wasn't until 2000 that three members of a klu klux klan group was convicted of the bombing. all of them

announced his dream of racial justice a nightmare struck birmingham about a bomb exploded underneath the 16th street baptist church, the center for king's exaint for integration. three girls aged 14, one aged 11 were killed. one addie may collins. >> i call my sister addie, i said addie, addie, addie, she didn't answer. >> fate morris, brother of cynthia wesley left the church before they told him the body was identified in the rubble. >> they said, they didn't find no head, that was jury sister. -- your sister. but i didn't stay. i left her. >> violence was nothing new to birmingham which saw so many attacks on blacks it became known as bottoming-ham. but in 1963, king's southern christian leadership congress recruited young and old to march through the streets. accused of risking the safety of schoolchildren, king drew criticism from some of his civil rights allies. yet one year later congress passed the civil rights act banning discrimination based on race color religion and national origin. it wasn't until 2000 the three members of a can yo can ku klu p were arrested. >> they nev

the bell, as you heard, was from the 16th baptist church in birmingham, alabama that was bombed just 18 days after the "i have a dream" speech made by martin luther king, jr. four little girls were killed in the bombing. those bells will ring for five minutes, and they'll ring not just in dc but around the country. they'll ring in topeka, kansas where the brown versus board of education decision originated. they will ring at lookout mountain in tennessee, at stone mountain in georgia. they'll also ring at churches and at organizations around the country, and after the bells ring for five minutes, we will then hear from president obama. we have so far heard from presidents clinton and carer, oprah winfrey has spoken as well as john lewis, the congressman who also spoke at the freedom march, freedom and jobs march 50 years ago today. i want to bring in very briefly if i can juan williams who is standing by with us. we'll get back when the bells start ringing and listen to that in its entirety. juan, earlier president clinton said something we thought was quite powerful when he said tha