we should never forget that. [ applause ] god bless you all, and god bless the great state of alabama. >> the the governor positives final state the state before election gave a fiery comments about not expanding the state medicare statement. the article included reaction from the state legislators. the state house minority leader, a democrat said the governor was running against the president of the united states instead of the governor. many said the governor was inline with what they thought. >> democratic governor delivered mary land's state of the state. >> treasure cop, attorney general, governor hews, governor glen bening, attorney general kern, cheap journalling barbara, colleagues from city and county government. to all of the people contributing to the life of the state. and to my mom who is with us today. [ applause ] >> mom, thank you for raising me with an appreciation and a love for the tide of our state's history. members of the hardest working cabinet in america, men and women of the maryland general ass assembly. there is one more person i would like to a specially ac

. >> and southern charm flies out the window in the alabama state senate. >> he called me a son of a bitch, okay? where i grew up, that's somebody talking bad about your mother. >> when "caught on camera: politics gone wild" returns. [ male announcer ] so when he catches a cold, he's got to power through it. ♪ vicks dayquil. powerful non-drowsy 6 symptom cold and flu relief. winter olympian ted ligety can't take a sick day tomorrow. [ coughs ] [ male announcer ] so he can't let a cold keep him up tonight. vicks nyquil. powerful nighttime 6 symptom cold and flu relief. ♪ mom? come in here. come in where? welcome to my mom cave. wow. sit down. you need some campbell's chunky soup before today's big game, new chunky cheeseburger. mmm. i love cheeseburgers. i know you do. when did you get this place? when i negotiated your new contract, it was part of the deal. cool. [ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. it fills you up right. became big business overnight? ♪ like, really big... then expanded? ♪ or their new product tanked? ♪ or not? what if they embrace new technology instead? ♪ im

as a lawyer, former alabama state senator, and as a former chancellor of alabama's two-year college system, bradley has a proven record as a principled servant leader. i know bradley as a man of strong character who has dedicated his public life strengthening the community and improving our state. i believe bradley will ably follow in the tradition of his predecessors in proudly representing alabama's first congressional district. i look forward to working with bradley, especially on our shared constituents in clark county. recently a local reporter asked the delegation to give bradley some advice. the best advice that i could give you as you embark upon this special journey is to always put your constituents first. the oath you took today is a very sacred one. you join a body that has awesome responsibility and that responsibility is neither republican nor democrat. the issues that we talk about are for all americans. i look forward to working with you and i know that given your record of hard work and your willingness to work across the aisle, you that will be an amazing addition to the

. >> coming up next the "state of the state" addresses from governors and alabama, maryland, alabama, missouri, and kansas. kentucky governor speaking in an event in washington about his state expansion of medicaid and other health care law. later, the relationship between local law enforcement federal agencies. >> on tuesday alabama governor delivered his annual state of the state address to lawmakers in the state capital. some of his remarks focused on the health care law in the various reasons he opposes the legislation. robert bailey is alabama's 53rd governor, elected in november 2010. [applause] fest. [applause] [laughter] >> please be seated. firs. >> lieutenant governor ivy, speaker robert the president marsh, distinguished guests, members of the alabama legislature, chief justice of our supreme court, justice more, members of our supreme court in my fellow citizens, the poorest county in the united states of america is located just 73 miles from where we sit tonight. if we were to drive a little over an hour from this historic all we would find ourselves in will cracks cuttin

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as a lawyer, former alabama state senator, and as a former chancellor of alabama's two-year college systembradley has a proven record as a principled servant leader. i know bradley as a man of strong character who has dedicated his public life strengthening the community and improving our state. i believe bradley will ably follow in the tradition of his predecessors in proudly representing alabama's first congressional district. i look forward to working with bradley, especially on our shared constituents in clark county. recently a local reporter asked the delegation to give bradley some advice. the best advice that i could give you as you embark upon this special journey is to always put your constituents first. the oath you took today is a very sacred one. you join a body that has awesome responsibility and that responsibility is neither republican nor democrat. the issues that we talk about are for all americans. i look forward to working with you and i know that given your record of hard work and your willingness to work across the aisle, you that will be an amazing addition to the al

alabama state university raising some eyebrows with a contract caveat.must live in the president's residence alone as long as she is a single woman. the contract reportedly saying -- quote -- "for so long as dr. boyd is president and a single person she shall not be allowed to cohabitate in the president's residence with any person with whom she has a romantic relations. a university spokesman says boyd agreed to the deal and has no problem with it. >> two minutes before the top of the hour. before you leave the house here's what's happening. ariel sharon being laid to rest today. early this morning a 6.4 magnitude earthquake rattling the coast of puerto rico. it was centered about 60 miles from the capital of san juan. subpoenas expected as early as today over a traffic jam scandal involving top aides of new jersey governor chris christie. disciple -- >> time to look at the good, the bad, and the ugly. up first the good. your morning cup of coffee not only perking you up but also boosting your brain. a new study reveals the caffeine improves your memory

if i could marry him in the state of alabama, i would. i have his name right there.baby. >> while precious and marquis freely admit to having a sexual relationship in prison, marquis says he prefers women. >> i'm in prison. there's no women in here, but there are men that want to be women. so i have to deal with it while i'm in here. i'm straight. i mean, i like feminine men, so, you know, however you want to look at it. as you call is homosexual, being gay, everybody has a different word. but as far as in here, you know, he's a woman and i'm a man. >> marquis and precious insist their relationship isn't just about sex. both speak of a bond rarely shared in prison. >> yeah, i love him probably harder than i loved any woman. you know what i'm saying? and i have 13 children. i have nine daughters and four sons. >> this is my partner. this is my friend. this is, you know, the person that gives me strength. you know, like i say, i don't have family or anything. this is the person that helps me out day to day. so i can't just deny him when i get out, but you have to under

. >> in alabama, charges of abuse at a state prison.omen inmates in the tutwiler say they lived in fear for their safety at the hands of guards who forced them to engage in sex acts. that's the tip of the iceberg and the justice department is investigating what it calls a failure to protect the prisoners. the bammar department of corrections said in a statement: >> olivia osborne was incarcerated at tutwiler prison for several years, was sexually assaulted, had another prisoner in barack obama olivier and her lawyer victor join us now. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> glad to be here. >> olivia, what do you know about the allegations at tutwiler? what happened? >> i know that what these ladies are alleging is true. these officers see the women as their personal property that they can do anything they want to any time that they choose. it's not uncommon at all to see a guard stand in a shower while the women shower and carry on a conversation like they are having tea together. these guards wait until likes out and take select wom

because she was employed at alabama state university and worried about losing her job, no one knew sheal, the role of women in the civil rights movement is a story that still needs to be told. >> and we're going to continue to keep telling it. thank you, stan and josh. >> thank you. >>> all right. that does it for me. thanks so much for joining us. i will see you back here next weekend at 4:00 p.m. eastern. until then, have a great week. ♪ [ male announcer ] we all deserve a good night's sleep. thankfully, there's zzzquil. it's not for colds, it's not for pain, it's just for sleep. ♪ because sleep is a beautiful thing™. ♪ zzzquil. the non-habit forming sleep aid from the makers of nyquil®. we're gonna be late. ♪ ♪ ♪ oh are we early? [ male announcer ] commute your way with the bold, all-new nissan rogue. ♪ which 4g lte map has the most coverage? this isn't real difficult... pretty obvious to me. i'm going to have to say verizon. verizon. that's right! the choice is obvious. verizon's superfast 4g lte network is over three times larger than any other 4g lte network. act now to get $100

frigid temperatures are being caused by what's called a polar vortex stretching from montana to alabama. 25 states are experiencing temperatures of zero and below, some of the coldest conditions in decades. >> temperatures that are potentially deadly or certainly life altering. >> pay attention to your neighbors, take care of them. >> weather not expected to warm until later this week. until then officials urge people to stay inside, saying frostbite can happen in minutes. >>> schools are closed in several states as well including three in joplin, missouri. the campuses were supposed to open this morning after being destroyed by an ef 5 tornado. they were rebuilt and will be home to more than 1300 students once that weather clears. >> severe weather is having a direct impact here. more than a dozen flights are canceled with more expected. at least 60 flights will cancel at sfo yesterday. several passengers weren't just delayed, they were stranded. told they won't be able to get to their destination for at least a day. as always check your flight status before heading to the airport. >> did you see

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alabama state troopers beating back protestors on the bridge in selma in 1965.nd their violence would strike a flint on the nation's conscience. >> and we shall overcome. >> president lyndon johnson pushed through landmark civil rights bills to open up public accommodations to ensure access to voting rights. and signed the laws as dr. king stood over his shoulder. by the late 1960s, andrew young says king had become exhausted. >> we were pretty well worn out. i mean, he had been going from '55 to '67 without a let-up. >> there was a rumor dr. king was planning a sabbatical, maybe in india or in africa. was that true? >> he was thinking about it. that was his -- that was his dream. it wasn't india or africa, it was really riverside church. >> the prestigious riverside church in new york was looking for a pastor. >> he said, that was my ideal. that's what i wanted to be when i grew up. >> i speak out against this war. >> but that never happened. instead, this speech at riverside will become king's moral watershed over vietnam. by 1966 the u.s. was mired in a war i

carolinas, georgia, alabama, mississippi under a state of emergency. this morning nearly a thousand flights are cancelled nationwide. more than half involvie ining atlanta. the weather forced a thousand kids in alabama and georgia to spend the night at school. there they had access to blankets. >> some of the schools had not released students early enough in the day for them to be able to get home in their normal fashion before the roads became icy and the school buses could not run. >> just a few inches of snow fell in atlanta but commuters came to a stand still. it took more than five hours just to get home in some cases. the gridlock was so bad a baby girl was delivered there. the officials described the birth as flawless. the south is not used to this weather. in alabama two were killed in a weather related accident with as much as a foot of snow expected in parts of the region. many southern officials are asking people to stay off the roads. >> we're not used to this significant ice and sleet and snow that we're experiencing today. >> we're-ly reco

information center right now only six states still authorize the use of the electric chair the states alabama florida kentucky south carolina and tennessee and virginia. but historically in those states have only need to use the electric chair if an inmate personally request said. since inmates were given the option in nineteen ninety five only six of the eighty five inmates executed since then i've chosen electrocution over lethal injection. a fairfax county democrat had this to say about the new belt. he said it's a barbaric way for the state to execute people it's disappointing to me that my colleagues one to take a step backwards. these calls returned to abandon forms of capital punishment come as many states are in counseling and twirling complications over accessing lethal injection drugs as manufacturers refuse to supply the drugs for executions in the absence of potential barbie doll. just last week ohio administered to drug lethal cocktail that had never been used before on death row inmate. then as the choir of wire reportedly gasped several times in its morning low noise is turn up

governors of louisiana and alabama declared states of emergency. many schools across the south closed or sent kids home early. meantime the snow and ice grounded more than 3,000 flights. forecasters say the storm will last through tomorrow morning. you can sit around the tv and watch the president give the state of the union address tonight. they also say the south sees weather like this only about once a decade. sometimes in spots here and there, but not widespread like this. john works the atlanta newsroom for us. you're in montgomery, alabama, this afternoon. you look cold, sir. >> reporter: i'm cold, indeed. i'm a southerner. i don't know how to dress for this type of thing. it's 25 degrees now and we're experiencing heavy sleet in montgomery, alabama. county commissioner came up and told us that at 3:00 local time, that's about an hour from now, they're going to shut down all of the county roads here in montgomery county, alabama. they just don't have the equipment to keep all of the roads open during a heavy winter storm. that's pretty much t

what about those state universities? mississippi, alabama. tates you cannot invoke the nlrb stach yupts because those are just for private universities. what's going to happen in that situation are all the best players then going to go to a place like northwestern or another private university and play football? what's going to happen to the state university? how are they going to be able to compete in the future? it will be the end of college football as we know it. which you're going to see some universities which are there to grant degrees, okay? they're not there to pay students just to be athletes. they're going to say, you know what? that's what you're going to do? we're going to stop having any types of, you know, college clubs. any college teams. any college athletics. i don't think it's going to go that far. >> i was going to say, what is your sense of where this push to unionize will go? where will it end? >> it may not end immediately at the nlrb. it may go further. but at the end of the day, you have to look at the ramifications. y

alabama, ohio state, etc. they all clear $30 million to $50 million in football. that's just in the last few years because the television rights fees for college football are currently raising at a faster pace than pro football. in the last 10 years, the amount of money that college football programs year has gone from $5 , 40, million a year to $30 year.-- $50 million a host: what do they do with the extra money? guest: they spend it on the athletic department in alabama's case, the $43 million. $4 million went to the school's endowment and the rest was kept by the athletic department. l.s.u. which won the national championship four years ago made a big announcement last summer that from now on they would give 15% of -- 15% of what they cleared to the school's academic endowment. generous, you? host: you have lots of figures in here. how are they collected? guest: that's the department of education who collected the figures. host: what if -- sit u.s. education department? guest: it's in the exact -- one of those long chains of letters and numbers. it's in the are

it's also going to help the economy in the state of delaware, state of alabama and the state of ohio. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. sessions: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: wlg, the flood insurance program -- well, the flood insurance program is important to america and it is important to a lot of my constituents in alabama. they are concerned about it. the reform that has been passed into law is fundamentally the right approach to fixing the difficulties that we have, in my opinion. it moves this program from a big subsidy to a program that's actuarial sound, self-sustaining. i think that's the appropriate goal. i think at some point a person living in the interior of the united states should not be required to have money extracted from him or her or their family to pay for somebody who built their house on shifting sands on a beach somewhere. that's just my view of it. i think -- but people find themselves, unexpectedly maybe, and otherwise in dangerous circumstances where floods may occur rapidly or may not occur for decades. i

at the university of michigan, ohio state, penn state, alabama, one building on campus where everyoneate who paid for these universities is always welcome. in answer of father ed in state college, pennsylvania, methodist minister i interviewed for the book, he said we all need as human beings a place to stand, people to stand with and values to stand for. he said i know you can get these things here in my methodist church but i can't help but notice that penn state church holds 108,000 people. religion is real. >> i followed these things so closely. i don't know why you are apologizing to me for going to uva. i do know that tonight is the last hurrah for current bcs system. next year they'll start a four-team playoff system. do you think that will work better than the much hated bcs? >> it will work better for those making the money on it. not for players and not necessarily for the fans. the old system, current one, you pick two peoples based on polls, strength of schedule and computerized rankings. they pick that by picking four teams based on polls, strength of schedule and compute

in alabama, five traffic deaths. the governor declared a state of emergency.take a listen. >> these roads are horrible, absolutely horrible. black ice, you can't even see. i come over that hill and it just pulled me down the hill. >> the storm was so much worse than expected that over 5,000 children became stranded at schools across alabama and georgia. 50 kids in atlanta spent the night on a school bus. we got word 4:00 that they were able to get off the bus and get to shelter. the georgia governor says schools did not dismiss kids in time. >> several major areas of concern because some of the schools had not released their students early enough in the day for them to get home in their normal fashion before the roads became icy. >> people are sharing storm pictures online. take a look. teachers at the elementary school in atlanta covering up children sleeping on gymnastic mats there. 115 kids and staff slept there. they raided the cafeteria, got the freezer pizza for dinner. school buses found themselves stuck on icy roads. motorists trying to push out buss a

information center right now only six states still authorize the use of the electric chair those states are alabama florida kentucky south carolina tennessee and virginia but historically those states have only moved to use the electric chair if an inmate personally requests it since inmates were given the option in one nine hundred ninety five only six of the eighty five inmates executed since then have chosen electrocution over me people injection of fairfax county democrat had this to say about the new bill he said it's a barbaric way for the state to execute people it's disappointing to me that my colleagues want to take a step backwards these calls for a return to a ban and forms of capital punishment come as many states are. countering growing complications over accessing lethal injection drugs as manufacturers refused to supply the drugs for executions in the absence of pentobarbital just last week ohio administered a two drug lethal cocktail that had never been used before on death row inmate dennis mcguire but wire reportedly gasped several times and mates morning noises during a prolonged

to go back and say give everything to the state government, you going to give it to the state of georgia, alabama, mississippi or to some other state outside of the south? we don't want to go back we want to go forward and don't build. lyndon johnson was right, it is a war that we cannot afford to lose. if we go back, we'll have people receiving starvation wages. hundreds and thousands of people are better off today. they traveled and saw people living in unbelievable conditions, receiving starvation wages. as a nation we can continue to do better. we need to build off what lyndon johnson started 50 years ago. >> do you think people have just terrible memories and people like rubio who is a young guy who may not know the history of this country in the period you talk about are being taken because it seems to me that everybody knows richard nixon went into office in 1969. he put howard phillips, brought in donald rumsfield to destroy those problems. ronald reagan ran against the welfare queens and other iconic messages, the dog whistles. he trashed those programs. the bushes, father and son, how d

states. in alabama, trucks are spinning out on the streets and cars are flipping over on snow covered highways. unaccustomed to the dangerous road conditions and some cities without salt or sand trucks many drives in the deep south gave up driving altogether. >> people abandoned their car and we couldn't get by. >> freezing rain, sleet and snow made for such slick conditions on the roads. authorities shut down a bunch of bridges in parts of south carolina. over the border in north carolina, the governor declared a state of emergency. airports are feeling the freeze with nearly 6,000 flights delayed. deeper south in louisiana in the city of new orleans is also in a state of emergency. two major thoroughfares through new orleans shut down for safety. >> we are highly recommending that people stay off of the roadways. it is going to get colder and the ice will remain with us. >> it's the ice making for treacherous travel in central texas where emergency workers have responded to more than 300 crashes. in tennessee, students got stranded at schools because buses could not run on impassable roads.

making between $7 million to $7.5 million, by far the highest paid state employee in the state of alaba alabamain thbelieve it or not i'm an od dinosaur that believes the student-athletes should be student-athletes. what they should have is what hockey players already have, paid minor league systems with if hthey want to get paid they n go to another route. >> i've seen you talk about your books and whatnot, if an employer out there, a businessman has or business woman has an opportunity to hire a b-minus student-athlete versus an a, go with the b-minus student-athlete, explain why. >> as one of those guys i can speak from experience. my 3.4 in history pre pre-unemployment was good enough for a lot of things but maybe not medicine school, but i was not spending 30 hours a week on my sport, which is true not only in football, but hockey, women's feel hockey, volleyball, you name it, all these athletes spend counted or not, 40 hours on their sports. time management skills, their energy levels and discipline are extraordinary. they tend to do better than those who had higher grade point averages t

so for a candidate like rick santorum, they want to see states like mississippi, alabama, louisiana, take-all states. >> it makes it worth their while to spend time there. >> maybe rick perry would want to see texas move their primary into the winner-take-all period. there's also a waiver for some states so states that are controlled by democrats, for example, one of the things they were looking at doing is making sure this waiver went through because there's another rule that requires the delegates to be assigned about a month before the convention. so he doesn't want new jersey, which could pick chris christie, to loose its clout at the convention. >> it's so great because like what you want is you want these decisions to be made under a veil of ignorance where you're not making any decisions that are going to benefit any candidates. chris christie might look like the front runner now but might be the bridgegate guy but they're all making these decisions on the basis of their guy, not on what is going to be right in a generic way. i love this stuff. kasie hunt, thank you very much f

i wish he had been elected governor of the state of alabama as you said, the chamber of commerce said enough. joe riggins said enough. other business leaders said enough. we are not going to give it a length check to these people that are going to hold our government hostage. and you knew that this just might need happening. halfway through the government shutdown when the coke brother said acquiesce, we are out of here. we don't want the government shutdown and don't even think about defaulting because the united states needs to pay the bills that they owe. and so when they made that move, i started inking okay hold on a second. why did they wait so long but then i started tanking maybe, just maybe the this has community is going to step up. there are a lot of people because of the gerrymandered districts that have absolutely no fear. they think they can do whatever they want to do, say whatever they want to say, think it's good and they don't care how it impacts the republican party, how it impacts our brand, how it impacts the two-party system, how it impacts washington d.c. and ho

alabama, in 1965. >> the northeast states are nervously awaiting another massive winter storm and the national weather service says the storm could bring up to 10" of snow to new york and philadelphia along with bitterly cold air. a new polar chill is expected to spread sub-zero temperatures from the midwest to the northeast with the storm not expected to be as cold as the polar vortex this month but it could hold on until the end of the weekend. >> the local travels are feeling the effect of the big storm in the northeast, with the word "canceled" appearing throughout sfo last night with airlines grounding 1,700 flights nation wood including between sfo and major east coast airports such as new york and newark liberty, and philadelphia, and washington, dc. >> again, it has to do with the weather. here, though, it is clear as day. >> most areas it is clear. the clouds are bringing the visibility to near zero at half moon bay. this morning, it is moving through kentucky and tennessee and look how it is just gliding look the mid-atlantic bringing snow to washington, dc, 4 itch to 6", and up to 10" of sn

as a lawyer, former alabama state senator, and as a former chancellor of alabama's two-year college system, bradley has a proven record as a principled servant leader. i know bradley as a man of strong character who has dedicated his public life strengthening the community and improving our state. i believe bradley will ably follow in the tradition of his predecessors in proudly representing alabama's first congressional district. i look forward to working with bradley, especially on our shared constituents in clark county. recently a local reporter asked the delegation to give bradley some advice. the best advice that i could give you as you embark upon this special journey is to always put your constituents first. the oath you took today is a very sacred one. you join a body that has awesome responsibility and that responsibility is neither republican nor democrat. the issues that we talk about are for all americans. i look forward to working with you and i know that given your record of hard work and your willingness to work across the aisle, you that will be an amazing addition to the

less than an inch of snow near birmingham, alabama, caused this. six southern states have declared an emergency. widespread power outages are expected. this convoy of trucks was being pre-positioned near jackson, mississippi. now, towns are rolling out rarely used snow plows. bill hammond is a maintenance engineer for cumberland county, north carolina. >> it may be tough, depending on how much snow accumulation we get. if it tracks further east and we don't get none it, won't hurt my feelings at all. >> reporter: schools here will be closed tomorrow. fort bragg, the army's largest base, is also closed for nonessential personnel. scott, temperatures in this part of north carolina will not get above freezing until thursday. >> pelley: manuel, thanks. in the upper midwest today, we saw a tragic example of how dangerous this weather can be. jamie yuccas of cbs station wc northern plains dip to 46 below zero. jamie yuccas of cbs station wcco in minneapolis has our story. >> reporter: wind chills on the northern plains dip to 46 below zero. one driver who slid off a road we

louisiana, mississippi, alabama, all under states of emergency.d yes, new orleans. right in the storm's path. first we're going to go to meteorologist jennifer grey. she is live in downtown, atlanta, where it's already snowing. it's so weird when it snows in atlanta. everything comes to a halt. i hear there's a huge traffic ss

louisiana and state of alabama are under a state of emergency. >> windchills pushing into the midwest and northeast, in the midwest it feels like 40 below. out in the cold in chicago this morning. dean, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah and charlie. a windchill warning is in effect until tomorrow here. and as for today's high temperature, it's not expected to go much above zero which means that conditions here in chicago are dangerous. as temperatures plunged in chicago monday night, some folks hopped into cabs just to go up the street. >> it's cold. nobody wants to walk. just taking people for two blocks. >> reporter: for the second straight day, dangerous windchills are having a ripple effect across the midwest. schools are closed. flights are canceled and public transit slowed. chicago commuter train workers lit fires below track switches to keep them from freezing solid while residents did their best to battle the cold. >> the wind the jacket i've got on right now it's very cold out here but what can you say? it's chicago. >> reporter: subzero temperatures stretched f

the carolinas, georgia, alabama, louisiana and mississippi are under a state of emergency. and this morning, nearly 1,000 flights are already canceled. the weather forced more than 1,000 kids in alabama and georgia to spend the night at school. there, staff and students had access to meals and blankets. >> we have several major areas of concern because some of the schools had not released their students early enough in the day for them to be able to get home in the normal fashion before the roads became icy and the school buses could not run. >> just a few inches of snow fell in atlanta, but commuters came to a standstill. it took some more than five hours just to get home. the gridlock was so bad, a baby girl was actually delivered along i-285. thankfully, officials describe the birth as flawless. now remember, the south is not used to this type of weather. many cities don't even have salt trucks or snow plows. in alabama, two people were killed in weather-related accidents. and with as much as a foot of snow expected in parts of the region, many southern officials are aski

big picture themes of american politics and the last couple of pages was the alabama to wyoming, what is going on in each state. i was just out of college and so, to me i would go straight to the back pages, you know, alabama, arkansas, go through all the states to see what was going on and then i would read the frond part because i thought to me that was like cocktail party conversation. it was sort of vaguely interesting but not that important. but as i sort of my career progressed i started realizing, wait a minute, it is the stuff in front that drives what's happening in the back and i think as sort of as i moved along the thematics are awfully, awfully important. so i think a lot of people, particularly younger people think we put too much emphasis on some of the big picture stuff but over time it seems to matter in a enormous amount. the beginning of each election cycle i start off and think about, ask myself two questions and the first question is, what kind of election is this going to be? and whether it is sort of what i call micro or macro. around the second is, what's the election going to be about?

alabama is under a state of emergency as a wait a minuter storm moves through the winter region.r benton made the designation today as snow fell. the freezing weather is expected to stick around until thursday. all of that ice is becoming a safety concern especially out in the roadways. drivers are asked to avoid unnecessary travel. >>> forecasters are calling for sleet and freezing rain overnight at temperatures there drop. transportation crews are preparing for icy roads and have ordered extra sand. the worry is freezing rain could make roads and bridges impassable. >>> we had some cloud today. even a few sprinkles showing up in parts of the bay area. this plume of moisture driving into the pacific northwest would be nice if it were visiting us but it still stays north. as we go into the next 24 hours or so these showers are going to drop a few. and if they do we will get a sprinkle thursday night into friday morning. you can see the clouds streaming in now. these clouds aren't bringing any moisture. this time last night we had a few showers showing up but not right now. we hav

has been called forward once again from the life it resides in to carry out the wishes of the state of alabama of another death row inmate. death all smiles tonight. it didn't have to hunt man down. it didn't have to catch man by surprise from his fatal gunshot, a stab, while he lay in a deep sleep. no, tonight death is the hero. a feast is being held in his honor. everything we all feel is being worshipped tonight. the evil is the evil man do." >> everybody inside. everybody inside. >> jeremiah jackson called death row home for ten years, but he's just caught a major break. >> today, lieutenant came to my door. he told me, jackson, call your lawyer. i just said a little prayer and i called my lawyer. he said, yeah, he is. he said congratulations. i'm off death row. i said praise the lord. my i.q. was in the range of 69 to 72. >> although he's no longer a condemned man and is now serving life without parole, the reality is jackson committed a violent crime. >> at the age of 19, a robbery occurred on april the 15, 1996, rob and murder. and a female victim got killed in the process. i wish i cou

alabama is under a state of emergency as a wait a minuter storm moves through the winter region. governor benton made the designation today as snow fell. the freezing weather is expected to stick around until thursday. all of that ice is becoming a safety concern especially out in the roadways. drivers are asked to avoid unnecessary travel. >>> forecasters are calling for sleet and freezing rain overnight at temperatures there drop. transportation crews are preparing for icy roads and have ordered extra sand. the worry is freezing rain could make roads and bridges impassable. >>> we had some cloud today. even a few sprinkles showing up in parts of the bay area. this plume of moisture driving into the pacific northwest would be nice if it were visiting us but it still stays north. as we go into the next 24 hours or so these showers are going to drop a few. and if they do we will get a sprinkle thursday night into friday morning. you can see the clouds streaming in now. these clouds aren't bringing any moisture. this time last night we had a few showers showing up but not right now

a state of emergency declared in louisiana and william -- alabama. >> president obama will deliver theess calling 2014 a year of action and discuss raising the federal minimum wage and immigration reform. abc7 news will carry the state of the union and the republican response starting at 6:00 this evening. >> tracking an active pattern with a chance of scattered showers but the big rains wednesday and thursday and i will let you know how much rain to expect. >> traffic is inactive at the moment and we have a few extra cars as we make it away from the maze and toward the bay bridge toll plaza with no accidents it report but a couple of areas of construction and areas of congestion all coming up in a legal bit. >>> a devoted father dying of cancer wants to make sure he is always able to offer advise to his daughter. he has been putting inspirational notes in his daughter's lunch since she was in kindergarten. now she is 13 and over year she has received hundreds of notes but with time running out he is write notes for the future to make sure she gets one every day until she graduates fro

new numbers in from the state of alabama as we talk about this winter weather. five confirmed winter-related deaths for that state. as we continue to update that information, lease take you back to george. as you look at these pictures, hundreds of national guard troops are now out and about on foot, on georgia's highways, walking car to car, trying to help folks who are stranded. take a look. >> first priority was look for people that were stranded. you know, hadn't had any food or water and to bring that to them. you know, if we -- if we could -- if they needed to go to a shelter, we try to find out where the closest one was for them, direct them there. any type of coordination we could do with the local police or state patrol that was out here with us. there were some hero units out here as well. in a few instances for some smaller vehicles we had an opportunity where we might have been able to give them a little tow to get them unstuck or just use our own man power while we were out here. that's mostly what we've been trying to do. the basic stuff, keeping pe

americans as well when you have those who would support extremists senators from mississippi alabama and other states and what not opposed to same programs that we're putting forward except in this day and age there is no such thing as a bill that only helps african-americans is going to be very much a class and so that is if we're talking about repairing our nation's schools our public schools that's not just for african-americans it will be illegal to do that the same programs the supports that would help african-americans help poor white americans as well as we talk about working on issues like health care you know disproportionately african-americans are uninsured however large numbers of white americans that equinix these those numbers of african-americans are uninsured as well but somehow in these states they're able to convince these poor white americans that they should oppose these programs if they hold up an end flag in that process everybody feels good about a poll was in place to be on these measures there is a visceral response that occurs it is reactionary and incredible that in this da

that'sn alabama, which is now under state of emergency. schools and businesses closing today. tomorrow as well because of the storm threat. the alabama national guard even on stand by. to ohio. what you're seeing is a snow roller. they are a rare sight. it happens when snow blows chunks of snow along the ground. didn't know that. a picture from my home state of minnesota showing a massive amount of snow dumped in their yard. under state of emergency, windchills 35 to 50 degrees below zero. >> we were back from minneapolis and we had nothing but whiteout conditions. >> tried to push the car out to get unstuck so we didn't have to leave it in the middle of the road but it was hung up too bad. >> unbelievable. many schools in minnesota closing their doors for the second day in a row. trust me, folks, that never, ever, ever happens in that state. >>> the cold blast being blamed for propane shortage across the midwest. miesque the latest to declare energy emergency. some 14 million americans rely on propane. right now 24 states under that energy emergency. prices to buy the fuel dou