peggy featured who is or o was katherine johnson. >> katherine johnson is 99-year-old mathematician calculated the trajectory to get john glenn orbiting the planet. and she was a hid opinion figure margo who is here -- talked about her writing the bock and actually margo is the daughter of bob lee who was the engineer who worked at nasa with me so like a family affair, and katherine like i said celebrating her birthday in population 800 but it tells you that no matter what zip code you're from no matter what you do with grit perseverance you can do whatever you put your mind to. >> bronx new york. good afternoon. >> my question -- [inaudible conversations] any black president -- [inaudible conversations] i apologize we're going to have to hang up there. i don't think either of us could understand but i apologize aubrey for that let's hear from kevin in princeton, new jersey. kevin we're listening with leyland melvin. >> thank you for taking my call mr. melvin question how soon might his own person begin training academically for -- a mission in space, and exactly or not exactly but relatively

you will not see nasa mathematician katherine johnson from hidden figures. legos says it could not get approval from all the key people. that's too bad. there's so many people who work behind the scenes. astronauts are a big deal. they couldn't get there without the katherine johnsons. >> great movie by the way. >> so good. tonight and tomorrow night you will want to take a peek at the night sky. that's because the orion meteor shower. it's going to give a spectacular show. >> nasa says if you're going to be able to see it streaking across the sky from anywhere o earth. the best time to watch, between midnight and dawn. look out the window. hopefully the skies will be clear enough for that around here. chuck? >> yes, they will be. absolutely. the peak of the orion will be saturday night into sunday morning. might see a couple tonight. we'll have relatively clear skies both nights this weekend. take a gaze upwards and see if you can spot a shooting star. cool start to the morning. weekend check coming up. >>> a guidance counselor accused of sexual assault. po

katherine johnson one of the inspirations for hidden figures, the company told fortune magazine they could not get johnson's approval. we'll see you after the break. when you're a double-dipping pension-padder like steve sweeney, it's important to maintain a certain... lifestyle. that's why sweeney spent over a hundred grand of his campaign funds on high-priced meals and other gifts. we're talking fine cigars, fancy watches, pricey restaurants, and expensive wines - all to charm the type of folks who helped him raise your taxes 145 times. too many in south jersey are struggling. but steve sweeney's looking out for himself, not for us. everybody, 5:50 a.m., saturday morning, so glad you're waking up with us. sky6 live hd overlooking the commodore barry bridge there. meteorologist chris sowers tracking the weekend forecast. he said it's going to be a great weekend. >>> "healthcheck" this morning when it comes to working out there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. according to a study at the university of chicago, you could literally exercise yourself to death. more than 3,00

a key figure is missing, katherine johnson one of the inspirations for the movie hidden figures. the company said they could not get johnson's approval. >> i hope there's a later updateed set and get her to change her mind. >>> how a new jersey family's beloved pet who they were told died ended up living for months with someone else without their acknowledge. >>> residents of a fairmont neighborhood arrests after several people are robbed at gunpoint. >> now on "action news" a suspected killer in a shooting spree in delaware and maryland awaits his day in court. >>> a rash of armed robberies have ramghtsed -- rattle a normal quiet philadelphia neighborhood. >> good morning, 5:30 a.m., october 19. meteorologist david murphy and karen rogers is here about weather and traffic. you have to think about your outfits, i can wear the car coat which will come off and put on the other jacket. >> reporter: a lot of cars have heated seats these days. >> reporter: we won't need it this morng

margaret hamilton and sally ride and mae jemison, the >> it included a nasa mathematician, katherine johnson who is featured in the movie "hidden figures" but lego says it couldn't get permission to use her likeness. but very nice. >>> all right, so finally a california fifth grader you might say is playing it forward. take a listen. ♪ >> that's nathan jang tickling the ivories during his recess and plays for first graders during lunch time even the kids i don't think arenow-- a multi state manhunt ends with a man facing multiple murder charges this morning. police say 37-year-old radee prince walked into his job at a granite company in edgewood, maryland-- and opened fire. 3 people are dead this morning, 3 others are injured. prince fled, and was later linked to another shooting in delaware. police finally caught up to him, and arrest after a short chase last night in near wilmington. police still not giving any details on why prince went on this shooting spree. this is not prince's first contact with the law. the i-team discovering a lengthy criminal record -- including 42 arrest

. >> it included a nasa mathematician, katherine johnson who is featured in the movie "hidden figures" but lego says it couldn't get permission to use her likeness. but very nice. >>> all right, so finally a california fifth grader you might say is playing it forward. take a listen. ♪ >> that's nathan jang tickling the ivories during his recess and plays for first graders during lunch time even the kids i don't think are paying all that much attention. >> he does it because it's good for them, he says. due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. but no matter where i ride, i go for my best. so if there's something better than warfarin, i'll go for that too. eliquis. eliquis reduced the risk of stroke better than warfarin, plus had less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis had both. don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don't take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. while taking eliqui

but bought katherine johnson, mathematician, was a central character, they really created a plot in the movie that hinged on max and her viewpoint -- it was just something i didn't even really learn until after the movie was produced and had all these questions about how this particular part of the script had come together, but they made this very interesting decision to really make it a movie about math ay as oppose to about the engineering, which the book is more about engineering that the minutiae of the math. >> and about their lives. you detail their lives a lot more than the specific prodistract worked on itch want to ask you to talk about the human computer project that you're working on. this is something you have continued past the life of the book. can you talk about what you're doing there and how it's succeeded since the book and the movie have come out. >> the human computer project. what i was so surprised to discover during the research for "hidden figures," how many women were involved in computer. not just at nasa and all these other organizations. so this is really a w

one of the key hidden figure heroin will not be added katherine johnson calculated trajectories for mercury and apolo programs and portrayed in the films hidden figures and lego said it was unable to get approval from key people and must drop the figure. figures of the others will be included in the set available on november 1. >>> overseas now in president trump wax figure made way toy madame tu sew in berlin. he stands amongst president obama and other sports and show business figures. 16 specialists worked four months on replica baesed off body measurements supplied by white house. >> most of us have taken flights before. you probably have too. when people they end up in lost and found. if nobody claims it it has to go somewhere. one airport auctioning offer cellphone chargers to abandoned cars. this happens every year pittsburgh international airport and it started because more than a dozen cars left behind every year in the parking lot. people leaving behind cars. >> cars of. >> after they try to get them back new ones show up and they take them home. >> we just looked at each other li

. >> they'lego was forced to drop katherine johnson. lego says it was unable to get approval to use her likeness. >> that's unfortunate. >> that's too bad. >> llet me just go on record and saying i do know about venmo. >> yeah. >> thanks to one mike thomas. he introduced venmo in my life and it's a game changer. i love it. >> it's amazing, no fees, easy to send money, you don't have to carry money. >> i send money to mike for walt. >> i think that's the only reason to use venmo is so people can start paying me for the coffee runs. >> it's going to be another fantastic day. a warm cup of coffee will do you good. it's rather chilly outside. later on this afternoon sunny bright skies will warm us up and will be fine. 51 in the city. suburbs waking up to 40's and even still a few 30's. culpeper manassas you're waking up to temperatures in the 30's this morning. winds just very lightly out of the south and west. satellite and radar cloud or two coming across this morning that will be about it for the day today. a couple of fair weather cloud

she's a member of the national assembly and supporter johnson said he's a member of the ruling do you believe party and senator for nairobi county and my colleague katherine soy she's a reporter with al-jazeera english covering east and central africa welcome to the stream now catherine you know the government good to have you here we know the government has banned protests in three major city centers you can see this headline here. on my screen this is what our community thought about that. is totally unacceptable it's a direct attack on our bill of rights our constitution enshrines freedom of peaceful demonstrations someone else though says it's a good thing this is a man who says we welcome that decision these demonstrations are purely for right loading us selfish interests and they do not represent us how what's behind this move to ban protests and how were other people reacting. absolutely and thank you for having me and. the cabinet secretary here into your cabinet secretary had this press conference and he gave reasons why. the government has banned class. that's in western ken

joining us right now is "associated press" white house reporter katherine lucy, national political reporter for nbc news digital, jonathan allen, and msnbc political contributor, morgan state university professor and politics editor at theroot.com, jason johnson. great to have you all here. jonathan, let me start out of the gate with you. as you hear congresswoman wilson say that kelly needs to apologize, you also have several newspapers using their op eds to suggest the same thing. if kelly doesn't apologize, is this a problem for his credibility as chief of staff? >> i'm not sure that he necessarily ends up needing to apologize to make this controversy go away, but it would certainly help him if the president stopped repicking his fight with congresswoman wilson. we'll have to see what john kelly does and says, but you know, already there was a backtrack from his point of view that a four-star general shouldn't be questioned, or i guess sarah huckabee sanders had said it that way. you know, this is a controversy that doesn't seem to be going away, and yet, you've got a white house that's