tavis: how do you think you are regarded in odessa these days?>> i have been back a fair amount of time. once the movie came out, hollywood trumps everything, so i was like the has-been at that point. there's still some people who hate me, but they are school officials who have said, "you know what? we did hate you. this was a hideous look in the mirror. but you were right -- we had to look in the mirror and we had to make some changes," and they have. there's much more gender equality, the football team is not nearly as big as it was because they are not winning nearly as much as they were, so they are calmed down. i have stayed up with two of the kids, boobie miles, the black running back, and brian chavez, who was the tight end who went to harvard. i wasn't in odessa, but i was just in kermit, texas, where i saw boobie. tavis: how's boobie doing? >> not well. when you are treated as a football animal, when you are considered that you cannot be educated, when you are simply passed through because you are playing high school football, when you a

if you're heading up to odessa, ritzville, it's exiting. east side of ward. you may hear a rumble of thunder. kind of rare for this time of morning. shouldn't cause too many problems. we have the tropical flow -- monsoonal flow, excuse me. numerous showers and storms in the areas of arizona. that looks like it's dried out. we're warm in many other areas. interior california, still very warm. cooled off slightly in vegas. phoenix right there about 99. a little bit below average. that's a loo90s. yuma, arizona, 101. probably a little bit below average. showers continue in the northwest for much of the week. looks like that's the cool spot once again. >> i don't understand how they're below average. 95 for vegas? >> typically this time of year 100. >> really? dry heat on top of that. >>> big ben rocks the hill, pump prices fall and an exciting new difference this morning on the internet. your early morning business headlines next. >>> plus, cool, cute cartoon critters bust open the box office this weekend. >>> a slug fest in the broncos. steven strasburg does it

heavy rains have struck odessa in ukraine causing severe floods and damages it's brought destruction to roads and traffic it is impressive pictures right here emergency crews are battling to deal with the situation and it does follow a massive deluge last friday in a nearby southern region and russia of course we're talking about the question of our region where over one hundred and sixty people die. hard as promised to show your fans are waiting to get your hourly update now it's been a tough day for banks hasn't it it has. to start with j.p. morgan now the troubled land it's going to. demand back millions of dollars from the executives if they lead lost the bank billions of dollars in a strategy the under-fire c.e.o. jamie diamond is calling flawed complex poorly reviewed poorly executed and poorly monitored the f.b.i. got involved after the bank's trade at the london well run up huge losses several top managers including chief investment officer in the drew have already quit but diamond wants them to return money as well the land is expected to report record losses on friday and o

and heavy rains have struck odessa in ukraine causing severe floods and damages the striking footage right here big destruction to roads and traffic emergency crews are battling to deal with the situation as we speak of course that follows a massive deluge last friday in a nearby southern russian region of course i was present on that region where brought in from sixty. or let's get back to our top story for you here on r t the latest pictures just in from madrid where there have been a violent clashes at a big demonstration against austerity let's have a look right here we are the police and security forces have been firing rubber bullets and using batons and dispersing the crowds of coal miners who have converged on the road trip and also been joined by thousands of other demonstrators who came out. to vent their anger at the government cutting subsidies to the mining sector by almost to. bring you the latest on what's happening there as soon as we get it again these are the latest pictures to come to us here tonight from italy. or it could here standing by for us to be off the per

enders, texas, way out west near odessa and midland. try as we might, you natives, the rest of them just don't get it, do they? it's impossible to explain. all right. i'm going to put it to work just a little bit. we will have a little fun uneducated the same time. lets plagal word association game. work with me on this. you say eagle forum. >> eagle forum. >> i'm going to say washington d.c. you say washington d.c. >> washington d.c. >> i'll say america. [inaudible] what would you say? what one word would you say best defines america? >> freedom. >> is it that easy? so easy. but what is freedom? all my life i wondered this question. if you go to the dictionary you will find what is not. you will find it is not being enslaved. it is not being restrained. it is not, it is not, it is not at least 17 different definitions of what is not. what is it? all of you know the last two sentences of the star spangled banner, the second to the last would be of say does that star spangled banner yet wave of the land of the free of the home of the bra

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