john hewlett became the first african-american sheriff in lowndes county alabama. lowndes county was arguably the toughest county in alabama in terms of its resistance to civil rights. it was the county that the selma montgomery -- took place in lowndes county. selma is in dallas county in the next 50 miles of the march was through lowndes county before you go to montgomery and montgomery county. at the time that the march started through lowndes county in 1965 there were no african-american voters in lowndes county at all. 80% of the population was lack and there were no african-americans register to vote. john hewlett became one of the first two african-american people in lowndes county to register and it was 1965 before that happened. there was violence in lowndes county. larusso the detroit housewife became down for the march was murdered in lowndes county. a little bit after that jonathan daniels and wide episcopal priest who is supporting the movement in lowndes county was murdered in lowndes county. so it was a rough place and that was john hewlett's home. h

see while visiting mobile alabama with the help of comcast booktv talks to frye gaillard. his book is "alabama's civil rights" an illustrated guide to the cradle of freedom. >> i come to save you this afternoon however difficult the moment however frustrating the hour, it will not be long because truth will rise again. how long? not long because no bayh can live forever. how long? not long because you reap what you sow. >> it's called "alabama's civil rights" an illustrated guide to the cradle of freedom. basically it looks at the history of the civil rights movement in alabama kind of telling the story geographic we. i wrote an earlier book traditionally history telling it chronologically and the theme of the book is alabama had a central role in the soba rights movement starting with the montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and 56 on through the freedom rides, the birmingham movement in 1963 and the selma montgomery march in 65. but there are a lot of smaller stories scattered all around the state including here in mobile so i try to tell those as well. a lot of them were peop

estimate the book is called alabamas civil-rights the illustrated guide to the cradle of freedom and basically it looks at the history of the civil-rights movement in alabama to tell this jury geographically i wrote an earlier book history telling a chronologically but it is the theme of both books alabama had a central role starting with a the montgomery bus boycott with the freedom ride and a the birmingham movements and the montgomery march. but there are live to of smaller stories so i tried to tell those the best way i can. people that i had never heard of. there were abuzz they do amazing things under stressful situation. so it was a movement says much says great leaders. wanted to attract down as many people as i could that were still alive to talk to them about their stories while they still remembers the details of what happened. you can watch see old film footage to see the state troopers charging the demonstrators but to have somebody remember that as an 11 year-old girl as she thought they were monsters because they have masks on their faces. i love those details as a jou

alabama. with help from our comcast cable partners for the next hour we will explore the history and literary life of this port city with local authors. >> the wonderful thing about the gulf coast is it is, i think, so underappreciated which is good because there's a lot to write about. >> new york, sentences go, chicago, the cities and places are also well known. extraordinarily rich subject. of course launched the invasion and confiscation of all this land which immediately after the war was over the reid there would not have been settled if it had not been for this war. >> we will begin our special look of mobile with a conversation with novelist and nonfiction author best known for his work forest gump. >> i enjoy writing about things. i mean, i think the problem sometimes with some books is that the writer has been teaching the subject. he does not come at it with a fresh eye. i grew up in mobile, alabama. i was born in washington d.c. second world war. my father was a lawyer with jagged

joining me now susan watson from the aclu in alabama.hat does it mean to have one of the most authoritative figures in alabama have jurp to the first amendment. >> it is cause for concern. i wonder if everybody that appeared before him would be treated equally and fairly in the court. i'm astonished that he so frequently is out in the public making dispa rajjing remarks about people of religion. earlier this year he was weighing in on marriage equality for same sex marriage. he is a sitting justice in the alabama supreme court. >> he will have cases of people who are muslim, hindu, all faiths come before him. >> absolutely. >> and cases that involve the separation of church and state or establishment clause yishs. you have to wonder if you can expect a fair shake from a person given authority by the state to render judgment over you. >> i wouldn't feel comfortable appearing before him at all. >> here's my other question. how did he get back in the state supreme court? i thought we turned the page on the oi moore chapter of alabama histor

he is in alabama by the early 1850's. this man has a knack for our meeting important people and using these people. in 1854 there is a strange request. you must is this young man translate a famous work into english. this book was written by a man named arthur and france. employes host hand to touch translate this book they read a racial account the talks about how races are inherently unequal and can never be equaled. why that is important, and the south people will love the idea to take hold. only 20 years old. translates the book the basically hijacks the book. he writes an introduction of his own that is over 100 pages in all its this and man puts his own ideas about racial issues and put his own spin on racial issues. on for a young man like this, but that kind of introduces odes to more people in mobile. he starts to move and is more influential circles, if you will. this translation, the more intellectual diversity, comes to mobile in 1856. after the translation comes out to make such reviews he then goes into a lo

all of alabama's executions are carried out here.rison was originally built to house 540 inmates. today, that population is nearly doubled, and most inmates, including serious felons, live in one of five open dormitories. >> i've been locked up 12 years, and it's not getting any better around here. instead, they try to pile us in and pile us in more and more. >> at holman, 630 beds are dedicated to general population. 200 accommodate inmates in administrative segregation, and 172 are set aside for death row inmates. >> you have anything from a property offender here all the way to self-proclaimed serial killers. >> because of a lot of difficult inmates or inmates that other camps can't contain, they will send them to us, and we take them, and we deal with them. >> you'll be out in 30 damn seconds. [ pounding ] >> people can get tied up. people can get shot up, you know. people can get stabbed up. >> wrong place, wrong time. you might get hurt. >> so it's up to you to maintain and weave. you know what i'm saying? if you can't weave, t

are you ready to pull us back moby alabama firefighter called out as u.s. demand trip to a flood water. there have been more than 200 rescue's since. is a clear set of emergency and say things may set bad for a while the storm system is moving very slowly. >> : ilka training in reining in manning we never thought this would happen a a flood is going to lock out. but the fish river and alabama as clear there's now a lottery for more rain. across the region some bridges are washed out and roads are gone that is why emergency officials are urging businesses to stay close in people to stay home. >> : you can't go any for the

he knew alabama quite well.nd he said something to the fact that, you, he said you have created one of the few heroes we have around here lately. and i said, well, what do you mean? he said, well, we don't have heroes anymore. we have antiheroes. been nearest one i can think of, hero, to have a national hero in this country is forrest gump, and he's an idiot. and he said that to the newspapers afterwards somewhere out there, someone interviewed him and i got a little clip from the "los angeles times," i stayed out there for a while and i keep it in a little folder when i make a speech. sometimes i'll take it out and read it. but it was very profound that we don't. we look at heroes in movies and they are all fraud. it's something that drives us to have flawed heroes. i think we haven't had real heroes since the old westerns. they are we releasing a movie this fall, it will be interesting. but they came from actually, i was living in new york, and during the winters are come down and see my father. hitting quite

in northern alabama, shirley's family the thomases wanted to be happy for her.ut they could not. >> i didn't like him at all. i just have to admit that. >> reporter: shirley was sold on her new man. dr. mike as he was called worked much of his life as a chiropractor. adjusting grateful patients' backs in the nearby florida panhandle. smiling handsomely in health care ads in the newspaper and online. but money trouble plagued the chiropractor like a crooked spine and his financial problems troubled shirley's family because shirley had $1 million in the bank. >> were you worried about her money? >> yes, i was worried about her money. he came into her life with the clothes on her back. >> he come into the marriage with a wore out pick up truck and a bunch of debt. >> her engagement ring from dr. mike, the wedding rings, the house they lived in, the family says, shirley paid it all. four years into the marriage something is wrong with shirley. months later, in a recorded interview obtained by "20/20," dr. michael would tell investigators shirley had been ill for wee

that's three times the population growth of the entire state of alabama.he atlanta regional commission estimates another three million people will move to the metro area by 2040, but notes that uncertainty surrounding the water supply represent a significant challenge to the city's future. joining me now is an award-winning author, charles fishman. he wrote the book on this literally, "the big thirst, secret life and turbulent future of water." as i noted, when we cover water issues nationally, we mostly focus on the fight basically between california internally, the fight with each other but also nevada -- >> colorado river. >> colorado river basin and all that stuff. but this issue in georgia, which is uniquely situated in a way that it doesn't have as much water supply as florida and alabama. >> well, it's interesting, georgia doesn't have a single natural lake and you said atlanta added a million people from 2000 to 2010. they added more than two million people from 1990 to 2010 and they didn't add one new drop of water to their water supply. so that's

bessemer and alabama.obile got more than 11 inches of rain and dramatic video shows one man being rescued from swift moving waters. they got him a flotation device and got him out of there safely. brian todd, cnn, kimberly, alabama. >> we'll take a short break and be back in two minutes. >> stay with us. while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. celebrex can be taken with or without food. and it's not a narcotic. you and your doctor should balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids, like celebrex, ibuprofen, naproxen and meloxicam have the same cardiovascular warning. they all

the rafflesia an english professor at the university of alabama who wrote a short story collection. and it turned out he played drive -- plagiarized from an older book the who was down from the ivy league dan roche very eloquently. this young professor i believe plagiarized in all innocence. like of post-modern typewriter that was far away from earlier writings and to the head is explanations were garbled and model to say something about where modern english scholarship is but i thought how to make this grave of a mistake? >> but despite the fact do was innocent but this to be was the worst day. that iconic seen where he breaks off the insignia so this young man unfortunately really did suffer that fate and was fired from where he was teaching at that time in boltzmann they went abroad to teach english as a second language there. some people really regretted the way that had played out that perhaps to give leniency from church says prospective they wanted to protect themselves from copyright violation. i was not down on the professor but a lesson to give credit where it is due in re

hundreds of people being arrested in mobile, alabama.his elderly woman carried by firefighters after her car is stranded on a flooded street. maria molina is tracking the latest in the weather center for us. >> good morning, heather. by the way the tornado has been classified as an ef 4. that particular tornado the ef 4 classification could have had winds of up to 200 miles an hour across the area. that's why we saw the devastating images from the states. we have the storm system continuing on the move. you mentioned extreme flooding across parts of the florida panhandle and parts of alabama. two feet of rain coming down in 24-hours. at one point it was across this area and parts of alabama and off to florida. some information as well as areas picking up over 6 inches of rain. they have been over carolina, georgia and most of the areas across tennessee. that is because the storm system is on the move and we have quieter weather. we are looking at storms across the eastern sea board. some could move the isolated weather. >> good news to a

alabama were in favor of 5% of white people in alabama were in favor. it's a very decisive issue. i think the moral claim continues to be made. the reason why we continue to hear about reparation there is are decades- long, centuries long of asi racial subordination through law. the question is how can we take that legacy and move forward in a positive way. a lot of things that people have thought in terms of reparation is a renewed great society. this was lyndon johnson's program to raise up everybody, but particularly african-american. >> but the stop along the way has been to age knowledge. when american presidents have visited places like sierra lyon but stopping well short of actually putting anything material in play but giving some acknowledgment. does it help? does it accomplish anything? >> no, i don't think so so. i think it feeds into the tendency to ground into political discussions in psycho discussions in sigh babbling discourse that might be more worthy of oprah. what is to acknowledge? everybody knows that it happened. no,s the kind of t

in alabama. i tried it. >> you can't grow lettuce? >> collard green. i don't see it, that's what i tell you. i ain't jesus christ. look what i told you. >> warden culliver is currently planning upgrades to the softball field to raise morale and lower tension. >> it has to be backed. this time of the year the softball field, that's your premiere event. in the afternoons the guys get out here and play softball, really don't have any problems out of them, keeps tension down. >> they get tired, go in, take a shower and go to bed. >> go to bed. no fights. it's the overall process of trying to improve the facility. >> though there's plenty of room for improvement, the inmates at holman get maximum use out of their softball field in its current condition. >> that's one. my percentage just went up. if you were able to transpose, imagine them in uniforms, take the wire away from the fence, just from the attitude of the guys, right, it would be any other male softball league in any small town america or usa, doing what they do after they've had a hard day's work

oh, it's alabama.n behind a multimillion dollar global & fashion brand but there's a good chance you have never even heard of him. that's because he does things his own way including where he runs his business. jan crawford sat down with billy raed and joins us from one of his stores in washington. good morning. >> reporter: this is really a story of second chances. after gut wrenching disappointment and failure, finding success by embracing who you are and where you come from. his clothes combine big city cool with laid back southern charm, classics with a modern twist, a formula that's made billy reid one of fashion's hottest design ersers. and he's doing it all here in this small north alabama town. you must hear people say florence alabama? >> yep, we hear that. >> not florence italy. >> they do confuse that sometimes. when they look at a business card. oh, that's alabama. not international shipping. >> reporter: it's a world away from manhattan and for reid that's made all the difference. he almos

when i was growing up, i was in alabama, 50 miles from montgomery. i had an aunt. she lived in what we call a shotgun house. here at ole miss -- here in the state of mississippi, here in the american south, you have never seen a shotgun house. you don't even know what i'm talking about. she did not have a green, manicured lawn. the lawn is beautiful here. she had a dirt yard. this old shotgun house, you could look up at night through the roof, the tin roof, and count the stars. when it rained, we got a pail to catch the rainwater. from time to time, she would walk out into the woods and put these branches together. tie these branches together to make a broom. she would sweep this yard clean. especially on friday or saturday. she wanted it to look good during the weekend. for those of you who do not know what a shotgun house is, it is an old house, one way in and one way out. you can bounce a basketball through the front door. one afternoon, a group of my brothers and sisters and a few of my first cousins -- about 12 or 15 of us young children, were playing in the y

so that person would then go to alabama, and then the husband would follow. okay.hen there was a third strategy. people who had been deported to mississippi, let's say, then would walk back to maryland or north carolina. and each time at the end of the road, they would stay in the woods because that was the only place where they@d@p9 could be h their family, even if the family stayed on the plantation. and that was the only way they had to keep their families together. >> that's very entering. i mean, it -- very interesting. i mean, it suggests and your book shows, of course, and the way you've been describing it we shouldn't think of a sharp, youç know, rigid distinction between maroons living away from then people who are slaves on farms and plantations. they seem to intersect with eacç other, communicate with each other. presumably, maroons got some kind of assistance from slaves who were living within slavery, maybe food, maybe information -- >> yes, absolutely. and, you know, this continued relation where the links were continued. just to give you an example -

i patty stanton and a board member with a dog rescue and one of the four agencies on alabama street. we are headquartered in one of the san francisco sfspca and they're next door and down the street is the shelter, acc, and we have been working together from a year and a half to get more animals adopted so thank you so much for having this deem come true and naming the street "rescue row" and we i think it will bring more to the area and first in the nation and we are happy about it. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. supervisor campos' office. >> hi. i am carolyn. >> we rifted a little bit. >>i was watching -- sorry. i am running late. >> it's quite all right. >> as you know the resolution before you today to add the honorary name of "rescue row" to alabama street between 15th and 16th streets in recognition much the groups on the block and sf animal care and control. these organizations work to improvelet lives of animals in need. they provide the care that makes the difference between nurturing and health and a loving home and generally improving the life for animals and

. >>> en alabama esta anciana tuvo mÁs suerte, los bomberos la rescataron antes que fuera demasiado tarde amanecieron con advertencia de tornada, nada se compara con el destrozo que dejaron estos conos de viento, donde ni las autoridades creÍan esto. se reportaron mÁs de 130 tornados desde el domingo que convirtieron en escombro todo. >>> el viento rugia, es como si

mike seidel in alabama tonight. mike, thanks. so that's the situation in the east, and now out west. just as we were leaving los angeles last night, we felt the santa ana winds kicking up. today that meant fast and dangerous spread of wildfire. day one in the new season. live in san bernardino, rancho cucamonga. >> reporter: the weather is right for disaster. all of southern california in a fire threat. it's over 90 degrees with this fire and winds gusting to over 70 miles an hour, and this fire is burning through an area that has been drought-stricken for years. the winds are so powerful, the smoke blowing sideways, not billowing straight up, nearly a thousand acres have been charred so far, but it's the potential, the threat this fire poses that has crews so worried. schools have been evacuated, thousands forced from their homes. this blaze is threatening to take down power lines. the nearby ontario airport had to divert flights because of gusting wind and thick, blinding smoke. a red flag in effect for most of southern califor

these rains also hit parts of alabama. according to the national weather service, it is the worst flooding to hit alabama since 1997. as we go back to the maps here, here's a look at the cold front that is responsible for the heavy flooding earlier this week with tornadoes. what's going to happen is it is eventually going to slide toward the east. but it looks like the tail end of the system, plenty of moisture associated with this. so it looks like that there may be another chance for some heavy rainfall for portions of florida. also the low pressure system is still located in the great lakes. it is slowly pushing toward the east. so anywhere from the great lakes eastward into parts of canada and also into the new england states. you're also going to be dealing with a lot of rain. you can see here that the front is going to take another day. we may be dealing with some thunderstorms all along the eastern coast as we go through thursday. and then by friday i think we'll be able to clear this out of the area. meanwhile, bac

in mobile, alabama, an elderly woman was carried by firefighters after her car got stuck. another woman killed after driving though high water. after four days of tornadoes and thunderstorms causing all this damage, meteorologists say the system will head out to sea later today. tahman bradley, abc news, washington. >> man, oh, man. >>> one more flooding incident to show you. this one from philadelphia. look closely. you'll see three people trapped on top of a commuter bus. >> the bus got stuck in floodwaters off of the schuylkill river. and the driver and two passengers were pulled off of that roof and brought to safety. luckily no one was hurt. >>> strong winds and high temperatures on the west coast are helping to fuel a dangerous fire burning east of los angeles. crews worked through the night trying to get a fire line around the flames at rancho cucamonga.

in wisconsin seeks to define legally personhood as the moment of conception and fertilization in alabama republican lawmaker clay scofield introduced a bill that would make all of the mandatory for all women seeking abortions and doctors who fail to provide those ultrasounds could face up to ten years in prison and a fifteen thousand dollars fine meanwhile in tennessee republicans of approved legislation that would allow almost side and assault charges to be filed against any woman who has a miscarriage during the first eight weeks of pregnancy and in kansas republicans have introduced a bill that would put a six point five percent sales tax on all abortion procedures additionally republicans worked in other ways to disempower women in america opposing the will lead better pay fair pay act cutting funny funding of family planning programs cutting funding to programs that help low income single mothers provide for their families and a host of other things or republicans may not be burning towns and kidnapping schoolgirls it's pretty clear that they're just as afraid of educated and powerf

a small line which operates between dothan, alabama, and panama city, florida. a tank car carrying poisonous chlorine gas was ruptured in the wreck. a deadly mist of gas spread from the tank car. motorists who were driving at night alongside the tracks were caught by surprise. most of the victim who is died were found in their cars along u.s. highway 231. >> people killed by poison gas, like they were on a battlefield in world war i or something instead of just driving their cars along a u.s. highway. amazing. after that, rail car accident in florida, and another one that same day in tennessee. and the other one that happened in waverly, tennessee, two days before that. federal investigators starting to look into whether this was maybe more than a coincidence. maybe there was some sort of systemic problem at hand. >> one after another, around the country, trains have been running off the tracks, turning

in tuscaloosa, alabama, well inland, low-lying areas were swamped. >> i've never seen this much water in my life. i mean, i know i'm young but this is a lot of flooding for alabama. >> ifill: some parts of the state saw up to 26 inches of rain in 24 hours alone, more than some hurricanes bring. the slow-moving system also brought powerful thunder and lightning storms overnight, knocking out power to thousands. the heavy rain also reached to the atlantic. llewellyn jones lives in wilson, north carolina. her basement was flooded when a nearby creek overran its banks. >> we had about four and a half feet of water in our driveway. it was over the hoods of both our cars. probably a good three feet in the house that turned our freezer over, washer, dryer. >> ifill: from there, the storm system pushed north, dumping as much as five inches of rain across parts of the mid-atlantic and into the northeast. >> ifill: for more on the flooding, we spoke a short time ago on the phone with ashton hayward, the mayor of pensacola, florida. welcome, mayor. as of 6:00 p.m. eastern time, we're hearing tha

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commandments monument from the alabama judicial building back in 2003.s keep coming. earlier this year, moore suggested the first amendment really only applies to christians. >> everybody to include the united states has been deceived as to one little word in the first amendment called religion. they can't define it. they can't define it the way mason, madison and even the way the united states supreme court defined it. the duty wes owe to the creator in the manner of discharging it. we don't want to do that because that acknowledges the creator god. buddha didn't create u.s. mohammed didn't create us. it's the god of the holy scriptures. they didn't bring a koran over on the pilgrim ship may flower. let's get real. let's go back and learn our history. let's stop playing games. >> if you need further proof of the dangers of religious favoritism, there's always louis gohmert. >> like john adam said, this was intended to govern moral and religious groups, it's not fit for governing any others. it's only people who lay claim to their god and their guns. >>

i brought it to alabama, thinking i might sell it. when i came in to alabama, people sought and they were lined up along the canal. they were cheering us on as we came in. someone put it on facebook. the community came together and formed a foundation and raise half $1 million to sink the ship. jimmy buffett's sister has a restaurant and she put up most of the money. they named it "the lulu." a partner with lulu buffett, weekly advance on a bar. and as since we do not use explosives to sink our ships because it might damage see life, we allowed everybody to get up close and personal. we were able to sink it. >> thank you for sharing your story. david walter, walter marine. ♪ this is "taking stock." a look at the market moving headlines. >> thank you pimm. donald sterling has agreed to let his wife take over the club. bank of america has been retained to handle the sale. that is according to people with direct knowledge of the situation. selling the club was going to lead to a potential legal battle with the nba. pimco said that an exe

my family still owns the land today in rural alabama.on this farm, we raise a lot of cotton and corn, peanuts, chickens. it was my responsibility to care for the chickens. i fell in love with raising chickens like no one else could. i know a lot of you here in the state of mississippi know a lot about that. popeye's, church's, chick-fil-a. but you do not know a lot about raising chickens. i would wait for three long weeks for the chicks to hatch. some of you may ask, why do you mark those first ones with a pencil? well, from time to time, another hen would get on the same nest and there would be more eggs. you had to differentiate from the eggs that were already sitting there. do you follow me? these chicks would hatch. i would take these chicks and give them to another hen and put them in a box with a lantern and raise them on their own. get some more fresh eggs, mark them with a pencil, and sit for another three weeks. what i look back, it was not the right thing to do. not the moral thing, not the most loving thing to do. it was not t

alabama rove was smarter than washington, d.c. rove. he always did this as a whisper campaign.ody was able to pin it on him and go to him and say, defend these charges you have made. what he did yesterday with the comments about hillary clinton backfired. yes, we are talking about whether or not she has brain damage which is sad and embarrassing but the onus isn't on clinton to defend herself. it's on karl rove to back up the charges he made. as we saw in the fox news clip he's not willing or able to do it. >> he got defensive about when he was asked why did you say this. it was like, no, no, i was just floating it. it's something she'll have to deal with. and karl rove will be a player in 20 the 16. he's not watching from are the sidelines. his group crossroads is raising money. karl rove will put his stamp on the campaign one way or another. joshua green, thank you. >> good to be with you. >>> what does it take to disqualify someone from being a serious candidate for office? how about climate change denial? w.m.d. trutherism. and a low sex drive, i had to do something. i saw

rogers of alabama.i am proud to report that our subcommittee has achieved remarkable consensus on these very tough issues involving the nuclear stockpile and our space assets. our colleagues will be pleased. there will be remarkably few amendments that will be debated and voted on. most of them have been worked out on block and i would like to pay tribute to our able staffer, leona tumero who's work miracles in this regard. it is easy in a mark like this to lose the forest for the trees. i am worried in a subcommittee that we're some $700 million over the president's request. there is no obvious way to find that money other than through, for example, the readiness accounts which is a ranking member smith pointed out at the beginning of the market are already $1,500,000 before the president's request. use the subcommittee process it is very difficult to reconcile these amounts in a coherent fashion. it is simply no one's fault but we need do it nonetheless. i will be offering later a couple of amendments

pat white saying he's glad he turned down that offer after alabama running back derek henry posted thisto of his new car on instagram. alabama coach nick saban not happy when a reporter asked him about it. >> i didn't even know it happened. so i can't comment on that. didn't even know it happened. >> okay. >> is that the best thing we can talk about? >> that where we are. >> [ bleep ]. >> well, white claims alabama has been giving players cars for years. but there is no evidence of that. >>> kentucky's department of agriculture in court today launching a suit to get hemp seeds back from the feds. and both republican senators, rand paul and mitch mcconnell, are on board. the government is being sued for 250 pounds of hemp seeds. they're for it to be settled before june 1st. garrett has more on this saga. why did the government seize the seeds to begin with? >> well, even though you can't get high off of hemp, the d.e.a. says kentucky still needs special permits in order to import the seeds. earlier this year, president obama signed the 2014 farm bill, part of which allows universities an

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the battle continues in piedmont, alabama. the guy shooting this video is reportedly a man named keith maddox. he's not happy he's having to share the road. >> look right there. look at him. going to run him in the ditch. going to get it done. get him in the ditch. >> he is saying that these cyclists were backing up traffic, causing problems, keep watching. this isn't the only video. >> well, i want you to look again. ain't nobody making it work because you got this little piece of -- lord have mercy. lord. cuss, cuss. cuss, cuss. see? >> why would somebody yell cuss? >> he's not realizing how dangerous it is to be recording while he's trying to drive a big truck. >> the cyclist too is following the rules of the road. >> keith maddux posted these videos on facebook and people from cyclist organizations and cyclists in general were really upset. this comes just after the league of american bicycles ranked alabama as last in bicycle friendliness in the entire u.s. so they feel that a video like this basically proves their point.

." >> this weekend, booktv is in mobile, alabama, with the help of our local cable partner, come cast. in the we sit down with author greg was selikoff to discuss the fort misdemeanor massacre and the red stick war from 1813 to 1814. >> we're at fort mims park, little five acre park in the southern end of alabama, the location of a major battle between the americans and creek indians in 1813. the fort itself was full of all kinds of folks taking shelter from impending indian attack, included indians that were allied with the americans, local settlers, militias from the mississippi territory and lots of slaves. about 500 people inside the fort, and in august -- on august 30, 1813, a faction of the creeks that was quite upset with the american policy toward indians, attacked the fort and there was a long battle and at the end some 250 to 300 people inside the fort were killed. and it's largely known as the fort mims massacre in most older history backs. that's how i first learned about it in fifth grade when i read about the fort mims massacre. but there's more to the story. the creeks,

but down in greensboro, alabama, you can build a bike with an innovative new design.e check it out? deep in the heart of rowe, alabama, the once thriving town of greensboro is struggling. a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line. the catfish capital is struggling to keep its head above water. >> what happened when you came here? >> about 75% of the shops shut down. >> there was one thing they had plenty of. >> we have a lot of bamboo. you have to have something you're making out of it. >> pandor became somewhat of a one woman stimulus plan for governor'sboro, running the hero foundation, she tapped into the town's most unwanted resource to do it. bamboo bicycles aren't exactly a new idea. they have been around since the first one was introduced back in 1894. and now they are gaining popularity in small bike shops like this one. but none of them are like the bikes you finder here at hero bike shop. that's thanks to an industrial designer who took the time to get his hands dirty and develop a new innovative design. woods. >> it is. >> university of kansa

parts of minnesota, also into alabama. this will continue over the next several days. we have a number of flash flood watches into luis you over parts of the panhandle. the heavy rain will move eastward, parts of florida would be seeing rain as well, too. that will be a concern for flooding out across those states. otherwise take a look at the high temperatures across the center of the country. in rapid city you are looking at high temperature of 90. upper 80s in dallas. >> doesn't sound too bad. >> thank you, maria. >> he is officially out of the u.s. open. the golfer still recovering from the back surgery back in march. it will be the 6th major he missed because of injuries. no word on when tiger woods will be back on the golf course. >> miya angelou was an inspiring writer and that made her a legend. she was just as poetic in 140 characters on-line than in print. the last tweet was a fitting final message. she said "listen to yourself and in that quiet you might hear the voice of god." angelo died at her home at wake forest university. she was 86 years old. >> it is

here. >> are you born and raised here in alabama?yes, born and raised. i do not farm on the scale that i did at one time for the simple reason that i am getting older. taco is the nickname of my latino worker. it is a friendship and he works with me. i would rather say he works with me than for me. if i go to his house, his three children hug me like my grandkids, and hug me. son among thettle youngest. latinos are scared. if they are here illegally, they are scared. if they are here legally, they have family members they are scared for. in adea that i have paco vehicle with me, i'm liable also and can be arrested. that is telling me, the state of alabama, telling me who my friend can be. i'm a conservative and a hard-core republican but i do not agree with them on this. i think you have an immigration problem. >> farmer lawrence calvert in the film "documented: a film by an undocumented american" as we wrap up how his views fit into the national picture here and where we are headed. republican can have a conversation with lawrence c