. >>> troy 5, arkansas - little rock 2, as we play again. has 6 assists. and asked as can be. -- solid as can be. rowell is retired and now it the house house, ball 1. tyler ray, 7 innings. that is exactly what the troy coaches wanted, and a threw a 4-hitter over 7. >> they were hoping for 7. they got to 7. he lads the game -- lead it is game with the lead, so they are in good shape. >>> and bryant take that is spinner and passes it other the knees of ditthardt. 2 outs as houston is retired for the 3rd straight time. now, here is tyson parks. he is 2-3. he has had a couple of good innings. >> a good day today for parks. troy would love to be able to hold on to a victory without having to bring in chase whitley. he is an outstanding closer, went 2.23 last night. would love to give him a day off completely and bring him back tomorrow. >>> and tyson parks, singled for the 3rd time. that was a nice throw as they went down for the breaking ball and swings it the other way. compact swing. >> when you have a pitch on the outer half, especially a breaking ball, if

gentlemen, let's talk about arkansas. david, what does blanche lincoln's predictment say about democrat and republican races around the country in. >> well, it is a national, it is a couple of national trends here. one, the movements, like moveon.organize and the labor unions on the left or club for growth on the right f they can knock off somebody like blanche lincoln a moderate from in their own party they enhars their power in washington and partyor docks. so they have an incentive that may be bad for the democrats in the long-term, they have a short term thee logically to knock off moderates so is there is that anti-moderate trend and the second trend which is also national, the candidates don't matter as much, the national trends matter. which is it's just a horrible year to be a democrat in a state mccain carried or district mccain carried. i democratic party favorable rating dropped 22% a year. they had a party advantage that is entirely gone it is a bad year. those two things are happening. one against the center

people of arkansas. i would appreciate your votes in support in this election. >> thank you. >> d.c. morrison. >> thank you for hosting this. i am honored to be here tonight to visit with you. when i decided i would run for this office, i began by going all over arkansas, door-to-door, to meet people face to face but to see if they felt the same way i do. they are dissatisfied with the national government but it time and time again, people have never seen it before and their lives and they invited me into their homes -- excuse me -- and i found that their concerns are the same as mine. one thing they are concerned about is jobs. i have some ideas that i think can help our country rebuild our jobs. one of the things i would like to work on is the passage of the fair tax. it is supported by 82 current members of congress. it would abolish the irs and appealed the 16th amendment. you pay the tax on consumption and not on income. this would encourage businesses to invest in the united states insists sending

arkansas tuition free. that has been an ideal and go for democrats for years, to provide that educational opportunity so we can live up to our potential. >> i am glad to see that he is back on his a positive campaign. we would like to agree with him. it is very important to have this tax credits. i join the governor and fort smith. we noted the mitsubishi plants coming in. making sure that we are working to provide those kind of tax incentives to keep jobs in america and not send them overseas. i already work with president obama. i already know him. i work well with them. healthcare was a big issue. i feel proud about what we did. bill thinks the reconciliation was very essential. i did not think it was essential. i think we did a good job with the health care bill. i voted for it on christmas eve. i did join the president in the signing ceremony. i believe we have made a good effort. we are making sure that people could not be denied because of an illness or be dropped because of an illness and not to men

arkansas tuition free.that has been an ideal and go for democrats for years, to provide that educational opportunity so we can live up to our potential. >> i am glad to see that he is back on his a positive campaign. we would like to agree with him. it is very important to have this tax credits. i join the governor and fort smith. we noted the mitsubishi plants coming in. making sure that we are working to provide those kind of tax incentives to keep jobs in america and not send them overseas. i already work with president obama. i already know him. i work well with them. healthcare was a big issue. i feel proud about what we did. bill thinks the reconciliation was very essential. i did not think it was essential. i think we did a good job with the health care bill. i voted for it on christmas eve. i did join the president in the signing ceremony. i believe we have made a good effort. we are making sure that people could not be denied because of an illness or be dropped because of an illness and not to ment

arkansas tuition free. that has been an ideal and go for democrats for years, to provide that educational opportunity so we can live up to our potential. >> i am glad to see that he is back on his a positive campaign. we would like to agree with him. it is very important to have this tax credits. i join the governor and fort smith. we noted the mitsubishi plants coming in. making sure that we are working to provide those kind of tax incentives to keep jobs in america and not send them overseas. i already work with president obama. i already know him. i work well with them. healthcare was a big issue. i feel proud about what we did. bill thinks the reconciliation was very essential. i did not think it was essential. i think we did a good job with the health care bill. i voted for it on christmas eve. i did join the president in the signing ceremony. i believe we have made a good effort. we are making sure that people could not be denied because of an illness or be dropped because of an illness and not to men

the gentleman from arkansas. mr. boozman: i yield such time as he might desire to the gentleman from new jersey. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. lobiondo: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to particularly thank chairman oberstar for his continued leadership and for moving so very quickly on this important legislation. i'd also like to thank chairwoman eddie bernice johnson and mr. mica and mr. boozman for their help on this important issue as well. and finally, i like to thank mr. bishop for his leadership and once again allowing me to join me on an issue that we both find important and that we can make a difference with on a critical bill to keep our waters clean and to do this for future generations. as we have heard, the bill would authorize the national estuary program for another five years, allow the program to expand protections to other watersheds and provide -- and i think this is very important -- greater accountability on how taxpayer money is spent. something that we should be do

by dad was from kentucky, so i loved being in arkansas. it was like seeing all of my aunts and uncles and spending time with folks. but, it is very much a small town sort of place and until you wrap yourself around that you don't understand where it all goes. what ultimately was the problem in my view wasn't that the clintons were involved in criminal wrongdoing with respect to whitewater. i mean, there were lots of issues, was this person telling the truth about reconstructing this fact. but they were tied up with this guy, who end up having extraordinary problems in terms of unorthodox business practices who ended up a pauper and a convicted felon and this was bill clinton's business partner. that was a problem. and, with -- you can't understand the story -- and some people who a trust very much on both sides said you cannot understand this story unless you understand where it starts with whitewater and they were right. >> there is a magnetism strangely about jim mcdougall that maybe explains why president clinton became a partner. clear

that ray has hit a arkansas - little rock batter. right here, trying to run to the plate. we will see if the little rock is getting a little aggressive on the base pass, if this happened via the steal or what not. kind of quiet other that be the one solo homer in the 1-sst. offensively really have not threatened, at all. >>> and feldmann lead from 1st. lifted into shallow right center field and steven felix makes the catch out there for out number 2. what i am seeing from ray, he plunked feldmann with a fastball. he is not throwing it down the middle. outside corner. he is making these ualr hitters make a good pitch. i am sure you might hit somebody will you make a pitch from outside, but the benefits are outwavinged. and feldmann has been a good base stealer this year, although he has run infrequently, 6-7 right now. and that is the second highest base-stealing total among the starters today. 2 outs for casey mccollum, as tyler ray is settling in very well. allowing a 2-run to houston in the 1st. fastball, strike. >> feldmann would

leads the arkansas - little rock by 2 as we play in the bottom of the 3rd. it is our pleasure to be joined by the coach, nor more in the arkansas - little rock dugout. how important is the series to your club as you try to establish a winning season early in the sunbelt conference this year? >> it is very important. we need to show we start playing with the guys in the top of the conference year in and year out. troy is one of those guys i hope we will see doing better. >> and kind of what was the point of that. >> >> you have to make adjustments and a short term memory to play the game well. if you can could that well, tough learn to do it quick and we have to learn to do it wick. let's not wait to the 6th, but let's do it now. >>> coach, thank you for stopping by and good luck the rest of the way. >> thank you. >>> coach nor gives a lot of -- scott norwood gives a lot of energy to the arkansas - little rock dugout. try to infuse a new commitment to baseball and basically to play for effectively. you heard him say that. >> yes, the reason he got on the team

i answer to arkansas. >> apparently arkansas' being picked off by bankers. i didn't realize this., her opposition to cap and trade and assertions of political independence democrats, most upset with her split health care votes. you'll recall she voted for the main bill but was 1 of 3 senate democrats who voted against the reconciliation fixes that win with it. and you thought that washington politicians were two-faced. democratic lieutenant governor bill halter is mounting a primary challenge for blanche lincoln's senate seat. he joins us now from little rock, arkansas. what makes you think that she's vulnerable from the left from the democratic side of the aisle. >> i think that she's vulnerable to an arkansas democratic who will sound on the side of hard working arkansas families. and you know, what dylan, it's working. the fact is we're closing these polls. the enthusiasm, the excitement out there is palpable and it's -- you know we've got a head of steam on us and we're looking forward to the primary on may 18th. >> what is your point of view on, for instance, the bank bailout

arkansas - little rock has gone to bullpen. and garret graziano is on for his complete inning of relief. will face with derrick and whitley. that is somewhere we are now. >> the best pitch of the day so far. right here. excellent pitch, especially with 2 strikes on a hitter. started out and dropped all the way down. >>> troy has been making contact today. that is the first strikeout by the arkansas - little rock pitching staff. and graziano seems to be on to something with the breaking ball. gets in and out front of ditthardt. ryan has been a good hitter all season long. 1-3 today. 6 homers, 22 driven in. and with his 37 hits, he is at the top of the trojans list. 1-1. and bore in on him. did he swing? it is a strike. >> take a look right here. now, he checked it. i think he did go around. we will see. did they call a strike? >>> they did. >> it did start to point toward 2nd base, and that is all that has to happen. >>> behind the gag. the long throw is a good one from mccollum. 2 outs. take a look right here. that is a difficu

much of arkansas, louisiana, and then tonight spreading into mississippi. but watch out everywhere in the middle of the country for strong storms. that includes kansas, st. louis, dallas early this morning, oklahoma city as i speak. east coast is fantastic today but then these storms move to the southeast with dangerous weather on saturday and then the east coast on sunday. >>> well if you're watching us on wvtm nbc 13 in birmingham, blaem, have lunch with one of the tallest mammals on the planet at the giraffe feeding event at the birmingham zoo. that's your "early today" event of the day, lynn. i've fed giraffes. it's a lot of fun. their slimy long tongues. >> it sounds fun, bill. don't oversell it. >> it's worth it. >>> well, now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. this weekend's box office champ, jennifer lopez. they provided lopez with her more successful film roles and that's what she's got here with the "backup plan" of course after being artificially insim nated does she fall in love. if they show up, backup plan has a

former arkansas governor huckabee joins us live. good evening. before we get to these polls.lorida, what is with that? >> just so that my wife and i will split our time between no, florida and arkansas and try to enjoy a little bit of finding our travel connecting up so we might even see each other a little more the course of week. >> greta: is it a political reason or tax avoidance reason? i don't know what the state taxes are in arkansas versus florida a lot of people move there for tax avoidance. >> this is not a political decision it is a personal one. it has been fun watchingzwzç people try to interpret it as something that i wasn't aware of. it is interesting to be the last person to know why you are doing something in your own personal life. we'll continue to maintain a house in arkansas where we have both grown-up and have many friends. maybe i will get closer to some of the excitement that is going on in that state regarding that senate race because it is heating up to be certain. >> greta: indeed. let's go to these polls. "the new york times" today about the people

tornadoes reported in arkansas, alabama. domenica davis is live for us with the latest. >> the storm is moving off to the east, but it's not done. we have had significant lines, and you can see the biggest line here is now starting to push in the nashville area, so tennessee, kentucky, you're under the gun for the next several hours. back behind this front we are looking at some severe weather now that pushing on missouri and into illinois. so the severe weather stays active. not only through the early part of the evening, but it looks through the better part of the evening with the tornado watches and the threat not really starting to decreas decrease until 10:00. right now the active warnings are to the forth through illinois. we had a warning around the nashville area that expired but we are still looking at fasty cells that are moving through carrying a lot of rain and large hail. look at the tornado watch boxes. they extend east as the line continues to push off to the east as well. so 10:00, 11:00, the system will star

-- centered blanche lincoln from arkansas. -- senator blanche lincoln from arkansas. caller: she has done nothing, and this will not stop. i have been in health care my entire life. professionalize, excuse me. one of my mba's is in accounting and finance. with the proposals that have been made, what they are doing is setting up wall street to do the same thing that they did before. i also happen to be privileged to live in the chicago area for more than one year, in the last decade. and there were a lot of my relatives, people in my employee who worked and they knew barack obama and his wife. she was working in a different hospital in that area. and this was extremely interesting because all of the funding from the first day, when he was, from the time that he was working with the administration, in chicago, they came from the banking industry. nothing is going to change. and then i saw he was surrounding himself with. host: this was at the speech, yesterday? you said that he was surrounding himself -- caller: when he decided to run for office in chicago, and then he

in the 1980's, two of my personal friends were murdered in arkansas.oordinator in a rural county in northeast arkansas because he was charged with working with federal officials to lead the effort to capture a tax protester who had moved from idaho to northeast arkansas and was extremely well armed. in the shootout, he killed my friend. there was a young african- american state trooper who just by accident, doing his job stopped a man in a van and had an entire arsenal in the van and he did not want to be apprehended, so he killed this young man who buy new. -- whom i knew. not long before i took office, there was the incident at ruby ridge. in 1993, shortly after i took office, with the first world trade center bombing which involved people from other countries, but also some legal immigrants and it was our first experience of international terror on our soil. then we had we go -- then we had waco. there is no question that david koresh believes he had the right to create an army encampment and use violence against the government will and do things in

florida's got shower activity along with arkansas this morning. a sneak peek at your tuesday shows more of the same, just some showery type weather heading through the northeast, overall the beginning of the week is quiet, the end of the week is stormy in many locations. if you're watching us on whdh tv 7 in boston, have your little one dig, tunnel and build at a kid sized world at construction zone at the boston children's museum. that's your "early today" event of the day, lynn. >> all right, bill. thank you. >>> now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. at the box office this weekend it was another tight race, but at the academy of country music awards last night in las vegas there was no doubt about the big winner. carrie underwood made history becoming the first woman ever to win entertainer of the year twice. underwood who won the show's top honor last year beat out taylor swift, kenny chesney, the zac brown band, toby keith, brad paisley, george strait and keith urban for this year's top honors. numbers wise lad

. >> from arizona to arkansas.ator branch lincoln considered one of the most vulnerable senators is facing a pierce primary challenge from two candidates. ment three squared off in a debate in little block and this is where our good friend james rosen in. it is good to have you in here bright and early. >> don't give me that, you know where to me if you want me. >> we couldn't find me. >> what is going on down there? >> it is all forgiven and forgotten and greetings from little rock, arkansas. it was not exactly lincoln douglas, but the debate proved far more civil than the race to date has been with the attack ads on tv and huge spending by outside groups. but senator lincoln's primary challenger went on the attack portraying the senator as a flip flopper and unprisled for the recent of compain from goldman sachs. for her part lincoln kept her focus on the audience and pausing once to happen capper as a flip flopper on the security issue. >> i asked senator lincoln to give back the contribution goldman sachs made

i agree with everything your caller from arkansas had to say earlier. that guy has a nail. the only thing the two parties agree upon is that there should only be two parties. and that tells you everything you need to know. host: all right, hagerstown, md., on the republican line, ted. caller: good morning. i live in the maryland, but have been following the senatorial campaigns in other states and have been donating to those. only four people i think in the whole system are worth supporting right now. that is ron paul, his son, kirkesh and the one in mexico. i think they have our country's best interest in mind. if we really want to repair our federal government, we have to start paying attention across state lines and left -- and elect the candidates that really represent the constitution. host: michele on the democratic line, good morning. what do you think? are you making political donations? caller: this will be the first time that i believe that i will make contributions. i am unemployed. it will be hard. but think that i will. i feel that finally, and i agree with the

tornadoes have also been reported in louisiana, arkansas and alabama. sandra hughes has more on the story. >> reporter: deadly tornadoes tore through several counties in western mississippi saturday. >> the wind blew me from one room to the next room. we got on the floor, grabbed my son. next time i know the roof came off. all the windows were blown out. >> reporter: his family's home will have to be demolished. >> this beam used to be straight. >> reporter: the tornadoes leveled many buildings and trees. the biggest twister was three quarters of a mile wide. the state's governor says there was utter oblitterration. >> it did not go into the central part of the city or most populated. however, it went through the southern edge and the eastern edge of town. >> reporter: parts of louisiana, arkansas and alabama were also hit by the system that then headed east. sandra hughes, cbc news. >>> quarterback jason campbell heading west. sara walsh is here with the changes and reaction from jason campbell. >> bruce, the player only gets drafted once but jason cam

as the daughter of a very pragmatic seventh generation arkansas family, i find myself in the senate committee on agriculture when hundred 84 years with the first arkansans to ever serve as chairman of that committee and i'm proud of the work that's gone into the product we bring along with the banking bill would to this process. our committee was tasked with putting an end to the reckless behavior that put our financial system in jeopardy. specifically bringing regulation into over-the-counter derivatives market. reforming who this is at the heart of financial regulatory reform. within a decade mr. president at this market exploded to $600 trillion in an additional value and is today and completely unregulated. last week the senate agriculture committee took a critical step toward bringing transparency and accountability to this market to passing to wall street transparency and accountability tax with bipartisan support. with the major provisions of this bill are included in this substitute i've offered with senator dodd. i appreciate the work of my colleague senator dodd in the senate bankin

that could make the difference in arkansas?g her, but not because of a health care bill. it's a number of issues. when she was not with us on the stimulus bill, and on jobs creation and collective bargaining. a number of different things on her record. in the past things were moderate and then veered to the right significantly, and this was one time we could not go along and we would do what we could to help holter get elected in arkansas. >> anybody try to talk you out of going after a democrat? >> no. i know who they support, and they know who we support. that's the way it is. >> there is another race where you have got -- in pennsylvania, you have got an incumbent congressman who you are withholding support from, and what goes into your calculation there? >> we do a number of things. those endorsements are made at the local level. our local people in pennsylvania will make the local endorsements in pennsylvania. and we will take all the votes that affect working people. the health care vote will have a higher priority. that

i wish i could say the same for parts of tennessee, arkansas and louisiana.are looking at severe weather for today in this part of the country, natasha, and we are really looking at rough weather there. >> it is just something else today. very busy friday for weather anyway. >>> for years there's been speculation that heavy cell phone use could cause health problems and now major research is under way to see just how true that may be. >>> and a court fight over a brain-damaged woman's children is heating up. what the case could mean for the rights of mentally disabled patients. [ female announcer ] sometimes you need tomorrow to finish what you started today. for the aches and sleeplessness in between, there's new motrin pm. no other medicine, not even advil pm, is more effective for pain and sleeplessness. new motrin pm. is more effective for pain and sleeplessness. hi, i need to start saving on car insurance. money a bit tight? yeah, i've had to cut back, sell some stuff. like his watch. oh. we can help you save. because we instantly compare your progressiv

that's looking back from mississippi into arkansas, chico county. the next county over, ashley county, is under a tornado watch right now. all the storms are missing us in this part of the mississippi delta, coming out of louisiana into southeastern arkansas and moving northeast. storms are moving at 50 to 60 miles an hour. even if you don't get a tornado, there's a likelihood some of you today will get straight line wind damage. those are winds that come down to the ground. we had wind gusts to 09 miles an hour in eastern texas. the severe weather indices are through the roof today. this is the most dangerous day we've seen all season. we've had a late start to the severe weather season. the jet stream was so far north in march and april, thus all the warm air in chicago, cleveland, new york city, the warmest april on record so far. with the jet stream that far north you don't get the wind energy. that's changed. it's dipping south. we have gulf of mexico moisture, a low coming out of the mississippi valley. we have twisting and turning with the wi

let's go to bonnie in arkansas. bonnie? >> caller: hey, mr. cramer, how in the world are you?ank you, i'm darn good. how about you? >> caller: i'm great. listen, before i ask my question, i would like to invite you, yours and even tim to mountain home, arkansas. >> what do you got there whitewater rafting? >> caller: we got everything, two big lakes and rivers. buffalo river, the white. norfolk and bull shows lake. it's beautiful. >> my buddy joe, one of my favorite waiters at roots just came back from arkansas. he said it was a sportsman paradise, no offense to louisiana. so let's make some money together. >> caller: mountain home is beautiful. you need to come up there. >> all right. i accept the invite i'm going to work with my friend regina. we'll go down to arizona, regina. razorback country, you know that school has loved our show. and i've got a big football from razorback. >> caller: wonderful. listen, i'm going to ask my question. >> go ahead. >> caller: i would like your opinion on eldorado. >> ego, ego, you know that's one of our favorite gold stocks. that said, is

my dad was from kentucky so i loved being in our arkansas.was like spending time with aunts and uncles and folks bid is a very much small towns or of place and until you got yourself around that, you don't understand where it goes. what ultimately was the problem in my view wasn't that the clintons were involved in criminal wrongdoing with respect to whitewater. there were lots of issues, was this person telling the truth about reconstructing this fact that they were tied up with this guy who ended up having extraordinary problems in terms of unorthodox business practices who ended up a pauper and convicted felon is a problem and you can't understand the story and some people i trust very much on both sides said you cannot understand this story unless you understand where it starts with whitewater and they were right. >> host: there's a magnetism strangely about jam that explains why president clinton became a partner, clearly a smart man and clearly will read, clearly loving the limelight. what was about jim mcdougal attracted the clintons d

jane: want to take you to little rock, arkansas.little rock where there is a hotly contested race for the u.s. senate. senator blanche lincoln facing stiff competition. hours to go before this contest's first televised debate. james rosen is on the ground for us there. james? >> reporter: well, good afternoon to you, jane. as you say, we're just hours from this televised debate. polls show senator lincoln maintaining a fairly solid lead over her most serious democratic primary challenger, but this debate is crucial to both camps. the youngest woman ever elected to the u.s. senate, lincoln hopes to secure a third term by playing up her chairmanship of the senate agriculture committee and push for tighter regulation of the derivatives industry. her opponent has criticized her from taking money from goldman sachs. lincoln capped herself as a kind of maverick, someone who answers to her state, not to wall street or to the democratic party. >> if you look at the amount of money that outside interest groups are spending coming into the st

the first democratic primary debate for the arkansas senate seat. your story for the associated press have this headline. blanche lincoln says that she will not take the money from goldman sachs. guest: this is an issue that has been raised and we expect to hear about this tonight. and there will be another debate on saturday. i expect to hear about this message on friday and saturday. even though she is working on derivatives legislation, she has received money from goldman sachs. on january 1, she received $4,500 in contributions from the political action committee. another web site reported that she had a fund-raiser at their headquarters planned for monday. she had canceled this. the campaign says that they did not have anything scheduled but they had been discussing abor. but they now say it -- because of the charges against goldman sachs, her campaign would not take any contributions from goldman sachs or the employees, or schedule anything related to the campaign. this was a change from what she had said before. but one thing is that alter --

acorn arkansas is now arkansas community organizations. louisiana acorn, yeah, community voice.nesota acorn, minnesota neighborhood organizing for change. missouri acorn is now missouriens organizing for reform and empowerment. pennsylvania acorn is now pennsylvania communities organizing for change. washington acorn is now organization united for reform. acorn is on the verge of bankruptcy. they announced that april 1. acorn has been dissolved. sad to see them go, but here is the good news. they didn't actually go away. you see, you will still be able to get your free tax evasion advice. the business card is the only thing that is really changing. change. isn't that great? it's interesting to me, because i wonder if the new organization will be able to get federal funding. the new organizations they're not acorn. huh-uh. it's also interesting to me that the president is seeking advice from or surrounding himself with people and groups who seem to succeed at nothing besides running companies in to the ground. acorn, not really efficiently run. unions, the seiu pension funds. loo

denise nu of arkansas said her son was posting things on his account that would make your eyes pop out. he says he wrote things about driving in his car at nearly 100 miles an hour. one day when he did not log off mama posted things on his account then changed the password. the boy who lives with his grandmother decided to file a complaint. now his mom's been charged with harassment. yeah. and she talked about it on hln's "prime news." listen. >> we had a very good relationship. we were very, very close. he tells me -- or told me things about himself that most parents only dream that their kids would tell them. you know -- >> when was the last time you spoke with him? >> i haven't spoken to him in probably two weeks. maybe. maybe three. >> if you could speak to him right now, what would you say to your 16-year-old son who's filed this complaint against you? >> oh, i was so afraid you were going to ask me that. i just want him to know that i love him. and i do care about him and i know he doesn't understand right now and i'm not doing this to hurt him in any way or, you know, make him l

little rock, arkansas, facing intense weather now with intense thunderstorms. on this picture now you can see the frequent lightning strikes happening across the area due to this widespread severe weather outbreak. birmingham hit hard with heavy rain and also a lot of rain working its way across the border now even into alabama and georgia. now, to the south in alabama i want to show you what mobile looks like. definitely looking at wet and stormy conditions there. mobile is part of our area that is under a tornado watch. and that will concentrate into the afternoon and evening hour. you can see the watch also extends further off to the west, including the city of new orleans. however, the two watchboxes you see here for memphis and nashville and tennessee, for jackson, mississippi, birmingham, alabama. it's even more serious. that's right. this is classified as a particularly dangerous situation, or a pds watch. rarely issued. when they are, take notice. it means if a tornado breaks out in this vicinity with this particular complex what we're looking at in ter

. >> tornadoes were reported in four states from arkansas east to alabama. >>> the environmental fallout from the massive oil rig explosion off the coast of louisiana could be worse than first thought. we now know oil is leaking from the well at the rate of 42,000 gallons a day. that's much faster than first reported. yesterday the coast guard discovered the oil 5,000 feet underwater. >> the potential is catastrophic, you know. this things, if they don't get a handle on it and it continues to spew tens of thousands of gallons of product a day, and the winds push it inland, we could have some real challenges in the fishing community. >> 11 rig workers are still missing. bad weather continues to delay the cleanup effort. >>> a movement to punish arizona for passing a controversial new immigration law is actually gaining steam from within arizona. congressman raul grijalva says he wants to organize a boycott of his state's lucrative convention business. grijalva says organizing a boycott is just the beginning. >> it's about economic consequences to the extremists that put this law together.

next month, primary fights in pennsylvania, kentucky, and arkansas will determine candidates for botharties. am lists saying the results will help gauge how people feel about d.c. and that's important because while democrats are said to be ahead in fundraising efforts, republicans say they believe angry voters will give them the real advantage in november. our caroline shively has the latest now from washington. caroline? >> harris, the big question every pollster in america wants to know from voters, what is it that you want? we should finally get some answers six weeks from now on what some are calling defacto super tuesday, may 18th when three potentially bellwether states go to the polls, arkansas, kentucky, and pennsylvania. in fact, 8 different states will vote next month. these are primary races. democrats against democrats and republicans against republicans. so we won't know which party has the upper hand. but it will demonstrate how the nation feels about establishment candidates versus challengers. incumbents those chosen by the party have the money name recognition to stom

if you're watching us on akrk news in little rock, arkansas, get a look at the creepy crawlers at the bug zoo. that's your early event. >>> and now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. >>> tiger woods is paying it at home for his adult affairs wu also his bank accounts. while he paid some hundreds of thousands and others nothing he reached a settlement with rachel uchitel. >>> rapper l.l. cool jai and toby keith were blindsided by a fox news special. they never met host sarah palin and it turns out fox was using old interviews. after l.l. complains, they pulled his intervunld wished him luck in his, quote, fledgling acting career. >>> remember we told you yesterday high dimon tag and spencer pratt gave themselves indian names, white wolf and running bear to become more spiritual? well a tribe has lashed out saying, quote, continued stereotyping such as this by people ignorant of our ways is very disrespectful. >> okay. i'll have to agree with that. it was a bad idea from the start. >> i know we were shocked by that too. >> well, i mean, what do they reall

let's start with arkansas. and the race there. senate primary that will occur and what your thoughts are on that, you have a pretty good track record, i have to say. >> well, so factors we hope it continues, you know, it is easter and i guess is appropriate to say it will take at least a minor miracle, for senator blanche lincoln to be reelected. she is losing to literally even the unknown republicans in the g.o.p. primary, coming up in may. she of course is the democrat, she has a strong primary challenger in the lieutenant governor, bill halter. and i think she'll survive the primary, although an upset is not impossible but she's likely to lose in november, at least as it appears in april. >> jamie: will that be a message to washington? >> well, i think one of the reasons why she's in trouble, is because president obama is very unpopular in arkansas. and, the new health care plan is unpopular in arkansas. >> jamie: what about kentucky? the g.o.p. senate race there, i was looking at it this morning, and it is an open seat primary

bill: have fun in arkansas. martha: guess how much you personally paid for pork projects or earmarks? it kinds of depends on who you ask, which one they are, but we're keeping an eye on your money and how it breaks down for each one of us because it's all your money and we have an amazing way to show you this. also britney spears like you've never seen her before. i'll show you what i mean, after this. bill: we mentioned this yesterday -- mentioned this yet, toyota pulling the plug on the gx460 after consumer reports issued a rare do not buy rating, that concern about a rollover problem, dealers are asked to temporarily suspend sales of suv just hours after the report went public, this follows the recent recall of more than eighthole cars and trucks around the world for toyota. martha: well, uncle sam wants his cut, you know, and he wants it tomorrow, folks. today and all this week, we're keeping an eye on your money for you because you know, the government doesn't actually have any of its own money. all the mon

i see my colleague from arkansas here, the chairman of the agriculture committee. i don't know if she shares that view but it would be helpful if people have ideas, the earlier we know about them, the better we are to respond them, possibly accept them, modify them in some ways so they are acceptable. so i hope that senators would take advantage of that offer that the chairperson of the agriculture committee, myself, senator shelby and i presume senator chambliss would share that view as well, to let us see these amendments early on so we can try and be helpful to our colleagues, if at all possible. but with that, let me yield the floor and i see my friend and colleague from arkansas and i commend her on her work as the chairperson of the agriculture committee. she's taken over that job in the last number of months and done a great job at it, i might add, as well. and so i'm looking forward to working with you in the hopefully next week or two on this bill as well. mrs. lincoln mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator i from arkansas is recognized. mrs. li

arkansas derby. got to love the horses. watch the start by-line of david on the outside.ght out of the gate, line of david sprints out to the front of the pack. along the outside there. he was 17-1 odds -- those were the odds for line of david. building a two-length lead on the second turn. down the stretch. line of david on the inside, super sabre making a charge. it is not enough. line of david holds on to win the arkansas derby. a heavy, heavy dose of pucks on espnews. panthers and lightning. steven stamkos entered saturday's game third in the nhl with 48 goals -- check that. 49. lightning up 1-0. second period. tied at 1-1. on the power play. stamkos, his 50th goal tying alex o for the nhl lead. we go to the shootout. stamkos kicking off the shootout with the backhanded go test test test in terms of the analysis. not to mention showing you how everything has gone down round by round. that will not change on sunday. post-tournament news conferences will be here on espnews. e

leave your bags at home when you travel around the globe at the passport to the world exhibit at the arkansas museum of discovery. and that's your "early today" event of the day, lynn. >>> all right, bill. thanks so much. >>> well, now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. a lot of actors would actually want to be on the other side of the cameras directing and eventually jennifer aniston is one of them. inspired by drew barrymore's recent debut as a director, aniston has her own in the works, telling the "national enquirer", quote, it's getting to a time where creatively i want to turn in a different direction. >>> and kate gosselin who got booted off dancing of the stars last night took the kids to disneyland last weekend and were loudly booed by people who were waiting for hours to get on rides, but disney personnel whisked thes go license to the front of every line. not fair, right? >>> and, finally, kim kardashian says she's sorry she posed nude in "playboy". she said she was uncomfortable and she actually blamed her mother for talking her into it. she quotes

psycho talk" tonight, we have a psychocampaign commercial courtesy of senator blanche lincoln of arkansas when senator blanche lincoln help helped with the health care law, she hung tough and made it happen, fighting for arkansas's families. >> that's what i like about blanche lincoln. >> that's where our president barack obama stands with language lincoln, she helped pass health care reform. >> hold it. stop right there. she helped pass health care reform, she made it happen? not only did blanche lincoln not make health care happen, she fought it tooth and nail and threatened to join the republican filibuster if the bill included a public option. >> blanche lincoln is not just talking about it, working supporting the senate's plan to expand health care access to half a million kansas and 30 million americans and even passed one of the senate votes. >> she voted for the original senate bill. that was back in december. the ad conveniently leaves out the part where lincoln -- let me say that again, she voted against the fix-it bill to improve the legislation. >> blanche lincoln wants to low

that's the biggest message we want to send to everyone, all our friends in louisiana, arkansas, tennesseeissippi, alabama, later on tonight into georgia. those are the areas where tornado sirens could be going off at any time now right through this evening. thankfully we haven't heard of any reports of any damage from tornadoes so far. the weather map is very chaotic, not very organized right now. thunderstorms are popping up all over the place. the area of red and white is the greatest risk of seeing strong thunderstorms today. if you're going to see tornadoes, it is most likely going to happen in the area of red or white. i have the tornado outbreak pointed to mississippi and alabama and now it looks like that threat has expanded into southern portions of tennessee. if you get some sunshine an live in those areas today, that means the storms will be that much worse later on. we do have some tornado warnings out there this morning, one to the west side of meridian, between meridian and jackson and another small cell in the very rural areas of alabama. when we hear about tornadoes on the

low pressure, there's the next storm system coming through iowa down through arkansas. could be producing severe weather there late friday. that will be the system that could give us a flew clouds early sunday morning. highs tomorrow will be in the mid and upper 70s across the area though. i think a lot of locations, southern maryland and down through central virginia will hit 80 degrees. tomorrow morning, season will start. 39 to 48. a big range in temperatures. a gorgeous day coming up tomorrow. we'll get close to 80. same thing friday and saturday. loads of sunshine and close to 80 degrees, if not around that. 77 expected on sunday. easter sunday is looking dry and opening day with a few passing clouds looking dry, as well. perfect weather for spring break. jim and doreen, perfect weather for the holiday back to you. >> sounds wonderful. >>> coming up tonight, we'll tell you about a guy who has been listening too closely to a mcdonald's commercial. >> a live fish falls out of the sk >>> celebrate. >> why not? >> there's never been a happier group. >> the streak ended

. >> reporter: the storms ripped a path of destruction from missouri to louisiana arkansas to alabamailling nearly a dozen people including three children one of them a 3-month-old. hundreds of buildings are destroyed and hard hit mississippi. as rescuers look for anyone unaccounted for. >> we worked for something for 44 years and just in a matter of a minute or two and it's all gone. >> reporter: residents now focus on cleanup as the national guard patrols from the ground and the air. in a helicopter, mississippi governor haley barbour toured the devastation. the images of a ravaged county is one he takes pearlly he viebd what he saw as utter obliteration. because of the sheer magnitude, the national weather service says it may not understand the full scope of the deadly storms until tuesday. in new york, terrell brown, wjz "eyewitness news." >>> and first warning weather coverage continues once again with meteorologist bernette woods with the intensity of the twisters that touched down this weekend. hello, again, bern. >> hello, i want to show outef scale because it's official it's

for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas rise? mr. boozman: ask permission to address the house for one minute and revise and stepped my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. boozman: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor mitch mc cork le who is retiring after 50 years of serving. mitch has demonstrated his ability to innovate time and time again by building fire trucks that are uniquely suited to the landscape of northwest arkansas. the longest serving fire chief, mitch was a visionary in terms of what can be done with a volunteer department. mitch's pride in doing his job and serving his community is an example to be followed and has made west fork a better place. west fork will be losing a fire chief and i commend mitch his service as the fire chief for west fork, his passion for protecting our citizens and continued commitment to our safety. i wish him continued success in his endeavors and i ask my colleagues to join me in honoring mitch, a fire chief whose continued devotion to the 3rd district of arka

weather that went through here and spawned a lot of tornados, not only in mississippi but probably in arkansasana, and alabama as well. but we've got the resources to help our people. we're putting the national guard on the ground tonight for security. >> the governor of mississippi there. one of the buildings heavily damaged was a church. it had been damaged by fire some time ago and rebuilt. now it will have to be rebuilt again. >> i went in the sanctuary and got on the pulpit table, and the whole building fell around me. three little scratches. lord blessed. and he put me under that table. because if you'll see this right here, it's the kitchen, and i started to go in there, and the lord directed me in that sanctuary. >> amazing people lived through that. where is the storm now? where is it headed? meteorologist ivan cabrera standing by at the international weather center with a look at it. ivan. >> yeah, and unfortunately, some folks did not live through it as we've been reporting, up to ten fatalities. but without warnings, we would have had a lot more with this extraordinary event across

but i understand your real claim to fame is that you are from mountain home, arkansas. >> [inaudible] >> there you go. and we can talk about that more in a few minutes, but that is great. our second is tom frost, in charge of special investigation at home and security. he has served as a -- an officer since 1976 in a variety of innovative and protective leadership roles. our third today is james tomsheck, a former deputy assistant director of the office of investigations at the united states secret service as well as former to be assistant director of the got the -- of the office of government and public affairs. he has developed a comprehensive and integrity strategy designed to investigate all threats to the integrity of the cvp. with that, i would like to call on mr. perkins. if you could limit your comments to five minutes. understand that we will put your written record -- your written statements into the record. >> i am pleased to be here today to discuss the fbi's efforts to corruption. the fbi is dedicated to providing democracy, bridging our borders and securing communities.

satellite picture radar combined a monster storm now in much of arkansas pushing in to missouri and eventually illinois and also tremendous storms in mississippi. again, same system heading our way. we will be popping the warm sector on sunday and we will be in trouble. the meantime tonight we are dry with a few clouds. next seven days, 64 tomorrow. showers late and then showers and rain on sunday morning and then afternoon thunderstorms on sunday. back in the 70s. evening or afternoon showers on monday and tuesday. the storm won't leave us alone and then morning showers on wednesday and temperatures go back in the low 70s by next week. >> don't like the forecast so to the weird news. robots. you can never go wrong with robots. let's get to china where a farmer is already famous over there for his home brewed mechanical dudes made from scrap wire and screws. he has been building these bad boys since 1986 and invented 47 robots that can walk, maybe pour you a glass of tea and paint pictures and get in the guy had only an elementary school education. now he is working on a robot that will give m