Bill Burr's Top Story

Bill Burr's Top Story

Lower 70s but still well below average.

And then tomorrow night we will see those guys mostly cloudy and 65.

Rain chances are going to be dropping.

Temperatures are going to be warming up so if you want a summer like temperatures just wait a couple of days and we are going to feel those 90s pretty quickly.you will see them in the 7-day forecast in just a few minutes.

>> this week we are remembering the five-year anniversary of one of the worst hate crimes in american history.

It happened here in charleston.

On june 17, 2015 a white supremacist gunned down nine people in the fellowship hall of emanuel ame church.

Tonight we hear from one of the survivors.

Denver pickney talk to about losing her husband and how she's raising their daughters to remember his legacy.

>> you cannot i do not think discontinued without having god in your life.

>> jennifer pickney police faith and family have guided her life especially for the fast five years.

>> the girls are very humble and the girls know that daddy was a man of god and so forth.

>> daddy is reverend pickney, jennifer's late husband.

>> where you are is a very special place in charleston.

>> the pastor of emanuel ame church in one of the nine people killed during a hate crime inside the church is fellowship hall on june 17, 2015.

>> i don't not talk about it.

You cannot help but talk about it.

>> memories of her love have not faded.

She sees images of him every day.

>> my daughter looks like her father and my other daughter acts like her father.

So i have the both of both in the best of both worlds when i look at my daughters.

>> one thing jennifer doesn't have is a bond with mother emanuel.

>> i am not there.

I do not visit the church or anything like that.

The girls and i used to go for the one year anniversary we would always go and put flowers on the church but then we just kind of just stopped.

>> she thinks the church is not the same.

>> a lot has happened and a lot has changed.

>> and jennifer isn't a fan of the design for a memorial on church property.

>> the girls and i felt that it did not represent emanuel and was it did not represent emanuel ame?

De it seemed like it was out of place to be beside the historical church and in charleston.

>> predator tyner spent today will be seen as an act of love as well as an act of righteous indignation in the face of injustices.

>> his legacy is one of love and of outreach.

It is something his family carries on.

>> i think now when you look at people you try to think about unity and bringing people together.

And we look at this pandemic that we are in and we look at the hate that is out there and so forth and it is like we are being separated and so you try to find things to bring unity and to bring love and to bring us all together so that we can be on one accord.

>> jennifer pinckney tells me she's working on a book about her experiences and also one of her daughters is collecting photos and writing details about her late dad.

This is pinckney tells me it's possible her daughter's work could also become a book.

It is the oldest ame church in the south.

Tonight fox 24's brodie hart helps us remember the beginning of emanuel ame and its prayer to see the end of hate.

>> there were many methodists who were anti-slavery.

>> it was a church founded in the shadow of slavery.

>> 'sexistence was illegal.

>> doctor bernard powers is interim international ceo in said slavery and segregation in the methodist church led black members to leave and eventually found emanuel ame in the early 1800s.

>> african-americans were consigned to the back portions of the buildings were forced to worship in the balconies in the white churches.

In that situation eventually became intolerable.>> he said it was still illegal for african-americans to worship alone.

They paid a price for doing it.

>> the authorities came and arrested them and jailed them and fine them and some were whipped and ultimately this church would be destroyed in the year 1822.

>> mother emanuel was burned to the ground after plans for a slave revolt were exposed.

Members rebuild it in the 1860s after the end of the civil war.

>> i started from that point, martin martin luther king and came up to present day.

>> from slavery to segregation reverend anthony thompson was inside emanuel ame when martin luther king spoke there in the 1960s.>> that's what she told me without saying a word and i got it.

>> a moment of clarity amidst a dark history but one emanuel church will use as a beacon to a brighter future.

>> who would ever think that the lord was preparing me way back then for this momentright here.

>> working for you, brodie hart, abc.

>> new data from dhec and the coronavirus.

Almost 300,000 s.

Carolinians have been tested so far.

4300 people were tested yesterday.

14 percent of them