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john roberts right now is live in baton rouge, louisiana, with the latest. hi, john. >> reporter: good afternoon to you. mary landrieu hoping this will not be her last stand but she goes into today's runoff election at a definite disadvantage. she's done just about everything she can, working hard until the last minute to turn her fortunes around. she voted in her home precinct this morning and immediately hit the streets going and knocking on doors around her neighborhood and others trying to get as many other people out to the polls as possible. landrieu is said to do a lot of the work herself in this election because the democratic senatorial campaign committee withdrew $2 inle in advertising after the so-called jungle primary on november 4th, a sign the committee saw her candidacy as a lost cause here and while the poll-out was a blow land drew told us she didn't let it affect her spirit. >> i don't run her. i don't run hurt. i run happy, fearless, courageous because the people i represent are the most amazing people on this planet, so my heart is not hu

greg meriwether in baton rouge, cynthia in lake charles and doug warner in shreveport. we will take questions from twitter to join the conversation and send your questions using the hash tag the final debate greatly encourage you to get your commentary and occasionally you will see them flash on the bottom of the screen at hash tag the final debate. for tonight's format of the candidates have one minute to respond to questions at the moderator's discretion for academic way to do that there is a follow-up with no set time limit. we begin with the candidates specific question one for each of the candidates and by luck of the draw tonight that goes first to senator landrieu. he made it pretty clear today that you would like to talk about congressman cassidy. but i must tell you that when i hear from the cassidy supporters, the feedback i get is make sure that you ask mary landrieu about her travel into the idea that you refer to the most $35,000 to the claims that were billed to the senate office going back to 2002 when the rules changed. why isn't there an inconsistency d

of baton rouge. time running out for mary landrieu to get the votes she needs if she hopes for a no career change. she refused to give up fighting for the votes she could muster and president obama's deep unpopularity here is a factor in the difficult race, she said she would be to blame if she loses and today regardless of the outcome, she is proud of her record. >> today is about celebrating the that is done in this campaign. i am proud of supporting health care and education and access to higher education and fighting hard for the energy industry. >> many have questioned her tactics. she made it clear if she goes down, she will go down fighting. >> speaking of those tactics, some people view them as an act of desperation, what do you say there? >> some people have looked at it as if that might be the case. >> and there was a hail mary and the general election back on november 4th and she used her influence to ram votes for the key stone pipeline and it was swatted down by her own party and came up

john roberts joins us now live from baton rouge, louisiana, with the latest. hi, john. >> caller: eric shawn, good afternoon. if mary landrieu hopes to survive, she needs a big turnout of black voters today. this is actually five precincts near baton rouge, brisk business, a steady stream of people. the parking lot has been full. that may bode well for landrieu because she won this particular parish, 52-39 back on november 4th in the so-called jungle primary. she has been campaigning all day. she is knocking on doors right now. big event in new orleans last night. a real hometown for her. she doing this without the support of the democratic senator committee which pulled out after that jungle primary. landrieu said she still has plenty of support. >> the democratic senatorial committee stepped aside, but my colleagues stepped up and the national party stepped up. president obama stepped up. president clinton stepped up. hillary clinton stepped up. and most importantly, the democratic party in louisiana stepped up. i do not feel abandoned. i do not feel hurt. i

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. >> the main plantation in west baton rouge is sinclair.e harry and katherine jackson met. and it's also likely that the plantation is where your mother was born. and where kathryn died. >> i had grown up in the shadow of sinclair plantation but had never been there. and certainly never imagined i had a personal connection to it. but if that's where my great grandfather worked great grandmother died, and grandmother was born i want to see it for myself. >> right now, we are walking along what is known as manager's row. >> so who lived on this row? >> harry. harry, like lived his life in one of these houses. and walked up and down these streets, to and from work every day. this is a turn of the century map of sinclair. right here is the management. and then here it says negro quarters. so the layout in the past 100 years hasn't changed at all. and it kind of gives you an idea of where kathryn might have lived and where harry might have lived. now i have another document. this is his obituary. and the state times advocate 3rd of march, 1941.

. >>> good evening, this is john roberts fox news at the headquarters of bill cassidy in baton rouge,ents ago the associated press after barely counting even the early votes has declared bill cassidy to be the winner. he was leading about 65-35 over the incumbent senator mary landrieu. after 18 years in the senate mary landrieu will be looking for a new job. what led to cassidy's victory. he's a good candidate. then barack obama's deep unpopularity here in the state of louisiana. so it is official at this point. we'll have more details later on. bill cassidy now declared the winner in the louisiana runoff. mary landrieu, 18 years in the senate now will be going home at the beginning of january. john roberts fox news in baton rouge. >>> congress has made an important first step to protect the critical infrastructures. this week the house passed unanimously the act. arizona congressman trent frank. this has been a mission of yours for many years, sponsoring legislation for at least five years. the resistance has been great. what happened and why now? >> well, i guess first of all, i jus

. >> joining us now from baton rouge, the newest member of the republican way, bill cassidy. and senator elect, congratulations and welcome to "fox news sunday." >> thank you, chris. thank you for having me. >> your big issue in this campaign was the fact that mary landrieu voted with barack obama 97% of the time. what do you think is the message that louisiana voters sent last night? >> it is the exclamation mark on the metsage the american people sent on november the 4th. the american people do not like the agenda that barack obama has staked out for our country. nor do they like the effects of these policies, for example, obamacare, which continues to punish particularly low-wage workers. we were the exclamation mark on a message all of america has sent. >> this is really an amazing turnabout, the democratic party will now not have a single senator, governor, or straight legislator from-in the dooep south from the carolinas to your state of louisiana. not one. i guess the question is what's the democratic party's problem? >> if there's one party for the working person righ

. >> well, these are difficult analogies to make, particularly when one lives in baton rouge. i think there are analogies of the american civil war americans have never wanted to come to terms with. what is interesting about the literature on andersonville, most of it is written by what i would cause -- call lost cause apologists. yet, it is the lost cause apologists who talk about the local women trying to bring vegetables to the poor, starving union soldiers. they condemn wirz for saying these local women must be traitors because they want to bring vegetables to the union soldiers. so, i think yes, people at least within the vicinity of andersonville have to know what is going on. the stench alone must have been enormous. that is the other thing. it is hard to imagine how you could get anywhere near andersonville without being fully aware that there is a horror show there. one more hand here. >> [indiscernible] >> could you wait for the -- >> anyone interested in history -- about the holocaust, there is the scene in poland. the camp was in the distance. the gas chambers. the

louis, $1.88 in oklahoma city and $1.86 in baton rouge. why are oil prices dropping? analysts say saudi arabia is flooding the market with oil to drive competitors like the u.s. out. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> still ahead for us on a tuesday evening, a new approach to preventing alzheimer's. how doctors are training 30 and 40-year-olds to fight back against this awful disease decades before the symptoms begin to appear. >>> also tonight, the heartwarming and hilarious moments that millions of americans are sharing that have been judged the year's best. >>> cases of alzheimer's continue to grow in this country. more than 5 million americans are living with it, and we're told that number's expected to triple by 2050. with no effective treatment yet, prevention is the new frontier. and the key to it may come much earlier in life than previously thought. our report tonight from our chief medical editor, dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: 32-year-old musician and filmmaker max lugavere does not look like someone worried about alzheimer's, but he is. what did yo

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. $1.86 in baton rouge. why are oil prices dropping? analysts say saudi arabia is flooding the market with oil to drive competitors like the u.s. out. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> still ahead for us on a tuesday evening, a new approach to preventing alzheimer's. how doctors are training 30 and 40-year-olds to fight back against this awful disease decades before the symptoms begin to appear. >>> also tonight, the heartwarming and hilarious moments that millions of americans are sharing that have been judged the year's best. ...and tkind of like you huffing sometimes, grandpa. well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. it can be hard to get air out, which can make it hard to get air in. so i talked to my doctor. she said.. doctor: symbicort could help you breathe better, starting within 5 minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. symbicort helps provide significant improvement of your lung function. symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be taken

>> reporter: near baton rouge, rain rates up to four inches an hour. definitely white in the midwest. snow plows out in full force. in rapid city, south dakota, visibility down to a quarter mile this morning. and in minnesota, rain turned to snow in a hurry, snarming the evening commute. the rocky mountains, buried in snow. over two feet of it. a boone for ski resorts, but getting to the slopes is a problem. interstate 70, shut down for more than 100 miles, leaving drivers in colorado and kansas stranded. >> and rob is with us right now. the severe weather, we saw as we came on the air tonight, still brewing this is the same system moving up the east? >> reporter: yes, the system as a whole is moving very slowly. so, we still have a threat tonight, especially across the deep south. the i-10 corridor, and the florida panhandle. a slight chance, enhanced chance to see more in the way of damaging winds and always lated tornadoes through the evening. tornado watches remain in effect until midnight tonight. the storm system as a whole moves off to the north

. >> if you really want to save money head down to baton rouge louisiana.ing gas for $1.65. >> the national average for a gallon of regular is $2.27. >> more than half the new mobile devices activated worldwide in the week leading up to christmas were apple iphones and ipads. >> apple activations were almost triple those of samsung. the analysis firm says the biggest tablets are gaining market share. dunkin' donuts ringing in the new year with new menu items. the coffee chain offering clock late croissants and bagels topped with mozzarella cheese. >> holding sweepstakes on twitter and one of the top prizes a year worth of coffee. you have gone on twitter and done this. >> who can't use a whole year's worth of coffee right now. that's america's money. have a great day. >> ♪♪ we come by almost every day to deliver your mail so if you have any packages you want to return you should just give them to us i mean, we're going to be there anyway why don't you just leave it for us to pick up? or you could always get in your car and take it back yourself yeah, us pic

i go to sacred heart church in baton rouge, and black people had to sit over on the right. this is symbolic of the oneness in the body of christ am a black kids had to make their first communion separate or my kids and i never questioned it. in fact we had an , african-american couple that worked at the house. ellen worked in the house with mama. jesse worked in the yard. daddy and mama were kind. daddy helped them get property get a house, helped jesse get a job at the refinery, and then they moved on, but never questioned the system. i did not question the system. in fact my whole approach to the gospel one of my seven words , was jesus-follower. there's a way to follow jesus and there is a way to follow jesus. there are a lot of ways. [laughter] pope francis follows jesus, but it's different than what others have followed jesus or the , bishops or whatever. the institutional church that happens. for me, bryan, it really was an awakening around the gospel that i did not even really realized i had grown up in privilege. when i had joined the nuns, we still had african-amer

baton rouge parish which is part of matt white has a black city parish president. so we have made strides in terms of acceptance and understanding of others. is a more to do? of course. the parable of the good samaritan is about the good samaritan reaching across racial and religious divides to create unity with another person who is in need. that sure should inspire us to attempt to reach across and make things better. senator landrieu made a statement that we somehow, barack obama was not being of the ashman viewed as a vote because when the history of racism in the south. i think just because you disagree with the president doesn't make you a racist. when senator landrieu by implication said we were sexist and racist, she's been elected to public office since often college. i think we've made great progress. is there more to do? of course there is more to do. .. landrieu: i was asked why is president obama so unpopular in the state. i said he was unpopular among some people in the state because of his energy policies, and i went on to explain he is not for keyst

i never went to making a critical information in baton rou rouge?>> the race to the top was never supposed to be about common core. that's why we're suing the federal government. this is a violence of the tenth amendment to the constitution. the federal government shouldn't make curriculum decisions. they have broken the law in the child waivers using federal dollars to force states into the common core. by the way, i still don't want a one-size-fits-all part coming out of d.c. >> this was started by governors and is a set of standards, skills and knowledge that you have to have at the end of the school year. and critics say that your real abduction is that you are considering to turn for running for president and now you are concerned with them. >> even the ceo admits what gets sixed my child has brought home the math homework under common core. two and two, now it is more complicated that a lot of people have changed their way to see what it has bandaecome -- this becoming a top-down approach just like obamacare. we were told you can keep your doc

baton rouge, louisiana. $1.65. this economic recovery. the real recovery.t really does finally appear to be here. you just have to look at the numbers. can and should president obama be taking credit for this recovery? good to see you. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. thank you for coming on. what has happened on my watch. does it work? >> i think it will take a number of quarters and a lot more good news to get americans to feel what they have been talking about for years at this point. will he try? >> absolutely. >> it has been an argument or discussion we have had for years. even if your take-home pay has not gone up, you are not spending as much filling up the car so it feels like you have been getting a raise. it is exciting. both parties should be excited about that. a better economy. the question is, can you draw a line between president obama's policies the last six plus years. he had unbothered control of congress. the two big initiatives that they push through were the so-called stimulus. >> that is a republican counter argument. we will talk

john roberts fox news in baton rouge. >>> congress has made an important first step to protect the critical infrastructures. this week the house passed unanimously the act. arizona congressman trent frank. this has been a mission of yours for many years, sponsoring legislation for at least five years. the resistance has been great. what happened and why now? >> well, i guess first of all, i just have a great sense of gratitude in my heart right now. you know, i think when the holidays approach, we all get a sense of how precious our families are to us and the nation that my children and the children in this country would have to face the aftermath of a worse case emp event in this country is unthinkable to me. so i'm deeply grateful. vi to say to you, judge, it sometimes takes people like you to remind government that our first purpose is to protect people, protect the people of this country. you have been a clarion voice and coincidental with some of your broadcasts we began to see some movement. i'm really encouraged that we're going in the right direction. >> well, and we're all thrilled

throwing a hail mary attempting to raise suspicion of republican challenger bill cassidy's work with baton rouge medical school accusing him of getting paid by the hospital even on days he was in washington, d.c. >> the kindest man has padded his own payroll for the last six years entry into an agreement with one of our hospitals with absolutely no record of the work he has done. >> the charges are absolutely false. the dreck supervisor and i have made comments regarding this. taking the comments and proud of the work i have done. reporter: bill cassidy press the theme a vote for landrieu is a vote for the president's policies which is deeply unpopular in louisiana. both kenneth position themselves as friend of the oil and gas administration saying they will press hard to get the keystone xl pipeline built. >> it is a big deal, it needs to get built a a symbol of americas commitment to build infrastructure necessary. >> it was the bill that passed. >> if early voting is any indication, mary landrieu had a big hill to climb. democratic early voting down 18% from the general election while at the

we take you live to baton rouge louisiana for the senate debate between senator mary landrieu and challenger bill cassidy courtesy of wfab. live coverage on c-span2. >> between the senator mary landrieu and the congressman bill cassidy. we have a pa

fox news senior corspopdant john robert system in baton rouge to tell us how it is going. >> reporter: julie, it will not be long now if mary landrieu will know she will go back to washington for six years or six weeks. we'll get the results quickly i believe. landrieu goes in the run off with a disadvantage. bill cassidy, the republican challenger has a lead in the the polls. she is battling stiff head wientds. she was first elected in known 96. and then the deep unpopularity of the president. and pulling out of the race and loving her to battle this on her own with a help of a few friends like bill and hillary clinton. she is vastly outgunned by the republican machine that swept over america on november 4th. she is outgunned in the adfront by len thousand ads in the last month. it will be a difficult campaign for her to win. but don't count her out, she has won difficult campaigns before. and she said she would prevail in the election, but did allow if she does fail, to get a fourth term it will be her fault and no one else's, julie? >> i am julie bandaras. thank you for watching an

. >> i went to california to pick jeff up and bring him back to baton rouge. >> as authorities move the accused through the airport, the team is on high alert. he films the arrival for a local television station. >> i was up just off the security area where the passengers were leaving the security area. i noticed a gentlemen standing by the phones which was about eight feet from me. >> that gentlemen is the victim's father. >> i didn't pay too close of attention because he seemed like a normal passenger waiting for someone. >> i didn't know that gary was standing there. i didn't recognize him. i was looking behind the tv lights to see who else was there. >> i had my recorder go close to the security side to let me know when the suspect, jeff, was being brought in. as he was coming, i zoomed in and zoomed out. we are all lined up. the person on the phone, jeff and myself on the other side of him. >> gary is now in arm's reach of his son's suspected abuser. with his camera, he videotapes what happens next. a shocking close range shooting after gary takes aim. >> once i was past the pay ph

that's the prayer good in baton rouge.'s bringing their revival show to lae la. when the local press started pressing them, really? you want to blame hurricane katrina on what now? they took it off the event. they replaced it for a letter with another american association guy who blames 9/11 on homosexuality. maybe they think that will go better in louisiana than blaming the hurricane on the existence of gay people, they'll blame 9/11 on the existence of gay people. maybe 9/11 is further away? since the event at louisiana state university was announced, student groups at lsu have organized protests against him. the faculty senate say they want new restrictions on what campus facilities can be used for in the future. so maybe this won't happen again. but a long as events with the american family association are how republican candidates have to start their runs for president. events like this are going to keep happening somewhere. they're good for something, aparentally. joining us now is professional kevin cope, the chair

every player, but last year, the entire new finishedaints team practice, got on a bus, drove to baton rougein order to confront a legislature who was hearing a bill sponsored by the owner of the new orleans saints to cut workers compensation rights. quote theng to president of the united states that said if he had sons, he would have reservations about complaint ball. lebron james, who once was a great football player, said he does not want his son playing football. i know your son is a lacrosse player. if he said he wanted to play football, what would you say? have had a conversation, and i told him, if that's what you want to do, that is fine. we will insist on. we will insist on a coach knowing the right way to coach players to keep them a. knowan athlete need to that you need to take responsibility for your body. cede responsibility to someone else. you have the right to the best medical care in the world. if something happens, we know i will be able to take care of your medical costs. after that it is an individual decision. i have read about players who would let their sons play footb

john roberts is live in baton rouge with the details. hey, john. >> good evening to you. mary landrieu is hoping she's not three hours away from getting the worst news of her political career. but going into today's runoff election, the polls show that she has a lot of ground to make up if she hopes to i. despite from coming from behind, she wasn't about to give up. she's battling until the very end after logging some 1200 miles driving around the state in a rented suv during the week. she voted this morning and immediately started pounding the pavement looking to get other folks out to the polls. if she loses tonight, it certainly won't be for lack of trying. >> i'm proud of the work that i've done and we'll see. i think our voters are still very energized. congressman cassidy stopped campaigning. he's taking it for granted that he's going to win. i've watched that happen before and it hasn't turned out very well for those individuals. >> reporter: what she was referring to was her opponent, bill cassidy, off the trail today to learn the new medical coding system at the

just this week video released of a scrooge in baton rouge taking one family's christmas delivery.an even brought a u-haul -- yes, a u-haul -- to haul off her stolen loot. there's this guy in maryland. this guy in texas. and our favorite of the season, this woman in west virginia, peeking in the door, trying the handle and casually stealing holiday packages off ryan and marti ruth's doorstep. what was in the packages? a soccer ball and plastic cars. >> reporter: so your kids' christmas gifts? >> correct. >> reporter: that is lowdown. but she didn't stop at the toys. she actually swiped the wreath right off the front door. i mean, the lady took your wreath. that's just crazy. who takes a wreath? >> it's funny now. but i probably could have killed her. >> yeah. >> starting in october, early part of october, we start seeing an increase in the number of packages that are reported stolen. >> reporter: detective john bennett of the washington county sheriff's office says these crimes are so popular because they're so easy to pull off. >> it's a total opportunity crime. run up to the porc

i go to sacred heart church in baton rouge -- they like to go and be with their own people in me like being with our people. this is symbolic of the oneness in the body of christ am a black kids had to make their first communion separate or my kids and i never questioned it. we had an african-american couple that worked at the house. allen worked in the house with mama. jesse worked in the yard. daddy and mama were kind. daddy helped them get property, get a house, helped jesse get a job at the refinery, and then they moved on, but never questioned the system. i did not question the system. it's like my whole approach to the gospel. one of my seven words was jesus-follower. there's a way to follow jesus and there is a way to follow jesus. there are a lot of ways. [laughter] pope francis follows jesus, but it's different than what others may be follow, or the bishops or whatever. the institutional church that happens. for me, bryan, it really was an awakening around the gospel that i did not even really realized i had grown up in privilege. when i had joined the nuns, we still had afri

. >>> louisiana, a baby in baton rouge born on the same day as both her parents. mom and dad already had the same birthday, now baby makes three. >> she did come early and thank god, you know we're really blessed to have a healthy baby. and to have her born on our birthday, just blows me away. >> dad calls the little girl a birthday gift that keeps on give. >>> folks heading to vegas to ring in the new year can expect a rare snowstorm. a live update from the fox extreme weather center next plus one country is dealing with thousands of bottles of potentially deadly fake vodka in its stores. more on that ahead. s on savings accounts? that's right. it's just that i'm worried about you know "hidden things..." ok, why's that? no hidden fees from the bank where no branches equals great rates. you're here to buy a car. what would help is simply being able to recognize a fair price. truecar has pricing data on every make and model so all you have to do is search for the car you want there it is. now you're an expert in less than a minute. this is truecar. these ally bank

. >> to have a little perspective here, the white woman of privilege growing up in baton rouge, louisiana, during the days of jim crow gives me compassion in working with people because it took so long, culture gives you eyes and years, that is the way we do things. it is better for the races to be separated. when you get together people fight and all that so they like being with their people and we like being with our people so i will go to sacred heart church in baton rouge and black people had to sit over to a place on the right and when we made our first holy communion which is symbolic of the one miss in the body of christ black kids had to make their first communion separate from white kids. one worked in the house and jesse and the art and they were trying to give kindness to individuals, daddy helped fund get property, get a house, held jesse get a job at the refinery and then they moved on but never questions the system and i didn't question the system. my whole approach to the gospel, one of those 7 years was there is a way to follow jesus and the way to follow jesus. there are

now just on the latest image, north and east of baton rouge. these are flying at 60 miles an hour.e you do on an interstate, these are how fast they are moving. if you're on the roadway, pull over. the blinding downpours, gusty winds, it will slow you down. you can see it's not just louisiana seeing these storms here this afternoon. it's all the way across georgia, alabama. this rain is not going to stay just in the south. it's going to ride up the entire east coast. we have just begun with the problems here and that means airport delays and you also see a lot of slow conditions on the roadways. here is the storm. essentially you can follow the storm from south and north dakota to the coast of florida and then up the eastern seaboard. that's why we've been alerting you. pack your patience with this one and you don't want to be in a hurry if you have last-minute christmas shopping. just plan on delays. there will be plenty through tonight. >> all right, be careful out there. we appreciate it. >>> a delta air lines employee has been arrested, charged for aiding a former delta employe

year, al, the entire new orleans saints team finished practice one day, got on a bus, drove to baton rouge in order to confront a legislature who was hearing a bill sponsored by the owner of the new orleans saints to cut our players' workers' compensation rates. >> al: i'm going to quote the presidents of the united states who said if he would have sons he would have great reservations about them playing football. lebron james, once a great football player, says he doesn't want his sons playing football because of the violence. i know your son is a great lacrosse player. if he came to your tomorrow and said he'd like to switch to football, what would you say? >> we've had the conversation and i told him if that's what he wants to do, that's fine. we would insist on a coach knowing the right way to coach players and keep them safe. you as a player, as an athlete need to know you need to take responsibility for your body. you cannot cede responsibility for taking care of you to somebody else. you have the best medical care in the world, i know if something happens to you we'll take care of y

. >> reporter: near baton rouge, rain rates up to four inches an hour.st. snow plows out in full force. in rapid city, south dakota, visibility don to a quarter mile. in machine minnesota, rain turn snow. the rocky mountains buried in snow. over two feet of it. a boon for ski resorts but getting to the slopes is a problem. interstate 70 shut down for more than 100 miles leaving drivers in colorado and kansas stranded. the entire system pushes to the east on wednesday. the core moves off to the northeast where wind and rain will be a problem for your christmas eve. an the back side, cold air into chicago could see snow. that accumulates for a white christmas there. rob marciano, abc news, new york. >>> some holiday travelers got their wings clipped, literally. two planes had a fender bender on the ground at laguardia airport. an outbound southwest airlines jet and incoming american airlines jet collided. there were no injuries but the top of the southwest jet's wing was torn off. >>> more than 4 million passengers are expected to pass through chicago's tw

. >>> a new mom and dad in baton rouge, louisiana, will be cheering an their lsu tigers today when they face notre dame in the music city bowl. >> there's a bowl for everything you can think of. >> a new fan there. >> their daughter. mckenna reign hawk born saturday december 27th. here's the thing. mom and dad, their birthdays, december 27th as well. >> little mckenna was born two weeks early but is healthy and everyone is doing there's no way any of the three of them will ever forget anyone's birthday right? >> they all get to celebrate together. the odds they say, 1 in 48 million. i don't know how they do those calculations. but mom, dad, daughter, everybody has the same birthday. >> is that a good thing? i'm kind of selfish. i like to have a birthday to myself. >> that's not selfish. that's natural. that's okay. >> glad you confirmed that. >> a little selfish, though. >>> coming up -- i'm the same way. i want my day. i want my month. >> when is your birthday? >> august 19th. you know who i share one with? president bill clinton. i get nothing. nobody is talking about me that day. >>>

north of baton rouge. them to be said for way as southern georgia will the storm sent them several buildings here to people seem lucky enough to avoid a major injury residents are left with a to to clean up. >> james: and is get an update on the national weather and the local forecast. if >> erica: we're talking about storms coast-to-coast. is headed into the ohio valley. we're talking about a possible record high temperatures foreparts east we're talking about heavy rain significant down for their when this is but higher elevations you could see snow for about 6 in.. this concern to be enacted if you were expecting to kiss of flight not seem to was activity we have a lot of cloud cover is streaming our way we have all coal from the witness to bring us the rain is expected to arrive better off today the dense fog when the conditions in the wet weather had in our direction we could certainly see delays on arriving flights as a folk. such mccall ahead and check with your carrier getting out ride now a cold s

a littleo have perspective, a white woman of privilege growing up in baton rouge, louisiana, during the days of jim crow. it gives me compassion and working with people because it took so long for me to wake up. when you are in a culture, it gives you eyes and ears. honey, that's the way we do things. it's better for the races to be separate. be withe to go and their people and we like being with rp old. i go to sacred heart church in -- they like to go and be with their own people in me like being with our people. this is symbolic of the oneness in the body of christ am a black kids had to make their first communion separate or my kids and i never questioned it. we had an african-american couple that worked at the house. allen worked in the house with mama. jesse worked in the yard. kind.and mama were daddy helped them get property, get a house, helped jesse get a job at the refinery, and then they moved on, but never questioned the system. i did not question the system. it's like my whole approach to the gospel. wasof my seven words jesus-follower. there's a way to follow jesus and th

write live the east baton rouge parish will no longer employ a substitute tear for more than 30 workers and custodial swroarks been cut from 40 hours to 30. we eliminate that, that's a way to make the law less harmful to the pocketbook of working families. bill: democrats will not have a single governor from the southern states. >> if you are in a coal mine would you be voting democrat? of course not. if you are working at a wellhead would be you be voting for this president and his policies? of course not. if you are in the maritime industry or petrochemical, of course not. when we use america's resources to kreef state jobs. this president and his billionaire hedge fund backers oh poise. if you are a working family, you put bread on the table and create a bert future for your children, the republican party is the party for that. bill: mary landrieu would say she was working for the same thing. how do you believe she was beaten so easily. the. >> when you vote with the president 97% of the time, you are going to lose. bill: with the new majority, will republicans get it right? or will

those will be moving onshore, so really flooding will a big issue from lake charles to baton rouge, even jackson and birmingham. a flood watch is on. on the north side of the system, cold air has moved in. there's a winter weather advisory for this area in purple and that is running until noon. snow forecast totals will probably be 1 to 5 inches in the purple area as the cold air part of the system moves in. we see that intrusion of cold air, highs today only in the 20s for billings and denver and fargo. so that cold air is feeding into the moisture as that system moves across the country. so the eastern seaboard is looking mild. 51 in new york 55 in d.c. and super warm down in florida with high temperatures in the low 80s. anthony? >> thank you so much. >>> wall street's so-called santa claus rally delivered more presents than the day after christmas. also oil prices continue to fall. all that has some economists hoping americans will spend more now that they don't have topay as much at the pump. >> as the u.s. economy strengths the russian economy is in dire straits. it's causing a sha

. >> anyone waking up in baton rouge knows there's a lot of rain happening. take you over here.rain and thunderstorms. popping up along this stationary front. back into parts of eastern texas. houston to 58 today, new orleans at 60, montgomery at 60. and much cooler. these are highs. 45 little rock. unsettled through the end of the week here. now how much rain is going to fall? some of it has started. but total, talking 2 to 3 inches in the red zone. take the purple, and that will bring you 1 to 2 inches all the way to tallahassee. that includes parts of southern -- from birmingham down so southeast of atlanta. here in the northeast, a bit of a different story. cold, but run into pockets of ice from pittsburgh up through western new york this morning. they have a winter weather advisory just for a couple more hours. detroit, 34, 29 green bay, 32, chicago, and indianapolis, 33. leave you with a christmas eve forecast for the whole nation, but get to the local weather forecast -- having trouble talking. but first the weekend getaways brought to you by macy's. >> reporter: hi, ever