also, he gets stuff done in arkansas.ast night on the show we reported about a new bill passed yesterday by the arkansas senate that would effectively ban abortion in the state. the bill was sponsored by jason rapert, the fiddler there. a legislator pointed out to him if his bill becomes law, doctors would need to do an internal vaginal ultrasound in order to determine which very few arkansas women would be eligible for their constitutional rights anymore. the senator asked him, quote, can you imagine what kind of feeling that would cause inserted into a woman? quote, no, rapert replied. according to the local "times" newspaper, "no, i can't imagine what kind of feeling that would cause." and then they voted for his bill. so that was arkansas, just so far this week. but then today, hmm, newly uncovered video of the same senator, jason rapert from 2011. >> i wonder sometimes when they invited all the muslims to come into the white house and had a little ramadan supper, when our president could not take the time to go atten

after they seceded from the union, they joined the confederacy in 1861. >> arkansas withdrew from the union during the civil war, but it was a state divided. >> at that time, 60,000 people sided with the confederacy. however, 15,000 people from the state chose to stick with the union. >> nowadays, arkansans are united in their pride -- pride for their state's natural beauty and for their diamonds. in fact, tourists are welcome to hunt for the gems at crater of diamonds state park. with "flag facts," i'm libby. >> here's a great way to improve your math skills. the next time you shop for groceries, try guessing what everything in your cart will cost. it's called "estimating," and experts say it's a valuable technique for problem-solving. the more you practice, the more you'll be able to make good math guesses. just don't try and guess your way through your homework. >> injuries happen. when they do, we'll show you what you should do. >> knowing what to do in case of an emergency is important. that's why we're working with the american red cross to bring you this special series on first

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coming to the arkansas program is going to give them, arkansas, a lot of money. they are going to examine and cross-examine to make sure there are no deals under the table. to make sure there was no type of pressure, undue pressure or duress put on this young man. he is a minor. these parents are not married. jon, what will be looked at what are the rules in the state of florida regarding guardians of a minor and who has control over making this final decision? jon: well, fred, give us your jurisprudence on this. >> first thing i tell you i knew it. i knew it. she shipment have called johnnie cochran. should have called arthur aidala. she has much better chance with arthur. jon i would make a joke, she says she wants him to stay in florida. i could he can jo jokes all see was would get a trans am because he went to arkansas. you know how old i am. and wants the escalade that florida and miami parents get. here is what bothers me about this thing. what a terrible, terrible lesson to tell the young man. he signs a contract. the man's word is his bond. his father si

northern arkansas, the pink is winter storm warnings. again pretty much four states of the bull's-eye, and denver, too, they'll be getting snow, plenty cold. kansas city, st. louis, chicago, des moines. what comes down from the sky is going to be frozen. not guaranteed to be all snow, there will be sleet, too. the latest models predicting, 6 to 12 bull's-eye over kansas. a little less for st. louis to chicago but still enough to cause a lot of travel concerns. and the highest snowfalls expected to be right around kansas city, omaha and wichita. a lot of shoveling. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. well, we have this storm, as it moves to the north and to the northeast, we'll have plenty of cold air to work with. there will be periods in indiana and illinois, probably start off as a period of snow and then mixing over to sleet and ice. for the east coast, this storm doesn't necessarily head to the east coast. there's still another weekend storm for new england we're going to hav

louis, big thunderstorm into arkansas, a severe thunderstorm watch covering western sections of arkansas that might be moved to cover west sections of tennessee. so not as cold tonight. we might get through the morning rush hour dry. tomorrow there's a mix possible mainly north and west and the mountain have all the advisories. milder with showers in the afternoon. the wilder air will win out. by 8:00 in the morning some clouds, yes, but no green blobs around the immediate metro area. you'll be dry, but up toward cumberland and oakland you've got rain and a mix. 9:30 in the morning we have showers frederick, leesburg and manassas. we advance it to 11:00, close to return time you're going to get some showers essentially all up and down i-95 down to fredericksburg up through frederick and it's still green. it's rain showers in the metro. by noon pay lot of showers across the board, nothing heavy. it's just green. we get a little heavier yellow over toward the bay and we clear out quickly behind it. increasing cloudiness late tonight, not as coal, lows 30 to 35, winds -- cold, lows 30 to 35

icing over arkansas, parts of missouri. this will be incredibly dangerous as well moving across the ohio river valley. the other side of this storm if you can believe it hail damaging winds across texas, indiana, mississippi up towards arkansas. let's track it for you as we get into later on today thursday evening. still watching that twirny mix-up towards st. louis. snow flying across portions of the upper midwest. even chicago has several inches of snow. their heist snowfall totals they have seen all year. if i could make mention the cold front across the southeast. what if i told you some of that moisture could develop into a nor' easter this weekend? yes, we are going to be tracking the potential for a coastal event that could bring a foot of snow to new england over the same area that got 2-3 feet a couple weeks ago. >> man, another nor' easter. >> yes, ma'am. >> i am okay with that. thank you so much. talk to you later. >>> time now to entertain this american idol throwing yet another twist the added 40 remaining cont

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also right now in arkansas today the democratic governor of alaska, mike beebe decided to ban an abortion ban that dominated both chambers in his state. lsd in indiana today, the senate there passed a new forced vaginal ultrasound bill. this had been the bill where they were going to force indiana women to have two vaginal ultrasounds at the order of the state government, but they pared it down to just one forced ultrasound and passed it today. it's part of a larger bill to try to force indiana abortion clinics to close all together, or to stop them from being able to provide abortion services. next door to indiana in illinois, we just had polls close an hour ago. in the first congressional election since the presidential, this is a heavily democratic district in illinois that used to be represented by jesse jackson jr. until he resigned. today in the primary to replace him, gun reform played a huge role in the race. we're going to have results and

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. >> seth: duke blown out at arkansas, better than losinga the miami. >> doug: a nine-point game at the end of the game. >> seth: a blowout. >> doug: 27 points is a blowout. >> seth: duke beats miami at home and does well enough in the a.c.c. tournament they're not a number one seed? >> doug: i'm willing to say there is a possibility but it's not like florida still doesn't have the opportunity to go in to missouri a team they've blown out and beat them, a team like michigan i don't think is of the will caber of the other one seed, we have miami, michigan state as well as indiana as our one seed. >> seth: michigan right now. >> doug: it's they have michigan state and indiana at home. if they win those games, they win out, they could be a one seed as well, why not the zags 9-1 in true road games. looking at the bubble. that's what everyone wants to know. who is in, who is out. we have north carolina in. >> seth: yes, we do. >> doug: we have kentucky out. >> seth: not barely. >> doug: nova. >> seth: nova i have in. let's look at the three bubble teams. this is where you and i disagree

he said i think i could have made a difference in arkansas. he said because i understood what the nra was doing down there and i thought i would have been able to go down there, you know, and size that up. do you believe he was right? >> well, i will have to go back and check the history on that. because my memory is that he actually did go to arkansas for me. and arkansas in all recent elections has been the same as it was. >> rose: but he thought the nra was a powerful force, for example. >> yeah, i don't blame it on the gun issue as much as he has, really. he has made that case. and he's such a great political analyst among other things, i hesitate to disagree with him. but, and it certainly had an impact but i'm not sure that was the major impact. certainly the positions that we took in favor of gun regulation, you know, i made speeches regularly where i said no more columbines. and we have had six school shootings this year and it's still january. >> rose: but do you think that because of what happened in newtown that there is a new urgen

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arkansas authorities say it the 37-year-old killed herself and her home. of the at the top country charts before personal career,.railed her her longtime boyfriend recently himself. investigators are looking for the driver of a car that hit and killed a man near the noma- metro station in northeast. old donald ross was crossing m street and the .rosswalk the car kept going. a young girl killed in a house fire. the four-year-old was one of people rescued from the early sundayome morning. was arrested threatenedtacked and to kill the girl's mother. >> chicago police are two people in the shootingth death of an 18-year-old woman. 14-year-old sisters sat on stage behind president obama earlier and push for gun control legislation. she was shot in the head. was the mother of a 3-month- old. there was a in rhode island that deaths. in survivors and family members gathered outside the side of the blaze to remember those killed. attack next four the band great as a -- the fire occurred pyrotechnics. >> a 10-year-old boy was found streets. naked streets. neighbors

arkansas. in arkansas breast cancer survivor lisa lindsay was thrown in jail because she didn't pay a two hundred eighty dollars medical bill which was charged to her by mistake debtors prisons haven't officially been used in america since before the civil war but today a third of the states in the country allow debt collectors to use the public court system to go after people who owed the money is even a lot arkansas that allows landlords to throw tenants in jail if they're late on their rent so in a roundabout way the debtors prisons have returned to america. this is a huge problem because economies depend upon consumers people like you and me spending money before in debt up to our eyeballs and being thrown in prison for that debt we can't spend more money to stimulate the economy this is what economist steve keen told me on my radio show this week. that's why you run across as this is the thing. i'm going to do in the trying to get this through to people it's the dynamics of profit did it r

two thousand and twelve alone almost states handle late payments and evictions of civil matters arkansas' new use of the failure to vacate law could put you in jail for being as little as ten days behind on your rent one woman interviewed by human rights watch said she was only three days behind when her order landlord order to move out and threaten to have her arrested as was clearly a revival of debtors prisons in america something that we outlawed in this country in one nine hundred thirty three thanks to the republican great recession more americans than ever are finding themselves struggling they are behind on bills behind in their mortgages and rather than providing help for these hard working americans republicans want to throw them in debtors prison why well because the private prison industry gives the republicans big bucks there write laws that lead to more people going to jail which then means more profits for private prisons this is predatory capitalism at work in america folks. just. it's the good the bad in the very very dips of tisha slee ugly the good the american people

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police in arkansas report a country music star named mindy mccready, who famously linked he was to the baseball great roger clemens, apparently shot herself in the head. this came after more than a decade of very public highs and very lows, which started with her huge '90s hit, "guys do it all the time." ♪ shep. she behind the smiles in public, friends say she was dealing with all sort0s personal problems. drug abuse, arrests, even attempted suicide. then last month her boyfriend apparently killed himself. police say they found that singer's body in the same spot where the boyfriend died. the pair had a baby boy just ten months old. machine dimccready grabbed headlines in '08 when she claimed to have a long-time relationship've roger chem -- clemens. they met when she was 15 and he was married. he denied any relationship. we're live in the texas newsroom this afternoon. she also had some public disputes over custody of her kids. >> she did, and it all went back to the same thing. these drug and alcohol addiction stories we have heard in 2011, she got into some pretty hot water when she

another storm system is expected to move into arkansas late tomorrow night. -->> they have been feeling the pain. they will have a snow maker in the central plains on thursday. and will not get here until friday or saturday. it does not look terribly exciting for snow lovers. what is exciting, if you are not next to your television set, this is my favorite time lapse of all times so far. beautiful sunrise from this morning with clouds peeking through. i love it. then the clouds and then the rain. we did get some nice sun rises in d.c. before the rain. this was sent in to us from angela in falls church. we have another photograph to share with you from leesburg from glynnis. thanks for sharing those photographs with us. it's 41 degrees right now with a wind chill of 33. we still have light rain coming down in washington. the wintry mix has come to an end. maybe a little hovering along the mason-dixon line. that's about all. we're watching plenty of rain pushing east of 95. that will come to an end by mid to late afternoon. dusts body showers here or there is all we will have left as long

he had a martini and saved for two hours. >>> a couple in arkansas are enjoying the profit. a whopper of a fishing trip. lottery officials say the couple bought two lottery tickets, both winners. one ticket for $50,000 was bought on the way to fishing. the second ticket bought on wait home was ace $1 million jackpot. congratulations. >>> in health news now, a new japanese study says chewing gum can boost alertness, upwards of 10%. they say average reaction time is faster with gum chewers improving temporary blood flow to the train. >>> the busiest day of the record for one company. mcgraw hill tumbled 14% air civil lawsuit against the ratings agency over alleged wrongdoing. >>> overseas this morning, bp beat fourth quarter earnings estimates. and keep an eye on yum brands. after the bell, pizza hut and kfc traded weak. >>> microdell is a $14 billion to take his pc company private. >>> boeing has formally filed a request with the faa to allow the company to resume test flights at three minors. it was grounded for a global investigation into battery fires. >>> goldman sachs an

arkansas, you're under the gun for an ice storm tomorrow. very dangerous, but let's go over the winter weather advisories again, parts of california into the four corners and here we're seeing one to two feet in the mountains and then our main storm which we're going to be talking about tomorrow through friday. bringing us the potential for two feet of snow and then ice accumulations on order of 1/2 an inch on the roads and the power lines, that could be a disaster through parts of arkansas and missouri and see that peak there, that's solid ice, we're expecting major accumulations of ice here, not only snow, ice and rain, severe weather, we could see a severe weather outbreak tomorrow, into tomorrow evening, as well this evening, we'll talk about that in just a second, but you can see where we're going to see the bulk of the snow, one to two feet possible here and there's the ice, that dangerous icy mix. as we get into thursday and friday, severe weather, including the tornados, that starts tonight. a little pocket here in parts of texas thr

travel is not recommended if you don't have to, especially kansas, missouri, portions of northern arkansasrthern oklahoma. eventually up to nebraska and iowa. the storm itself will impact everyone. the worst of it, right now, don't be on i-35 in kansas, the kind of snow you get where cars get stranded and stuck. we have thundersnow covering much of southern kansas. producing snow, about 2 inches an hour right now from arkansas border all of the way back over to oklahoma, to southern portions of kansas, this will be up in kansas city right during the peak of the morning rush hour. further to the south, thunderstorms will go through the dallas/ft. worth area. again, gusty winds, probably the worst of that. so, how much snow in is the bull's eye is going to be from i-35, what wichita to topeka. as far as the big cities go, the worst of it will be omaha, des moines, wichita. a minor snow event from minneapolis to chicago, milwaukee, des moines and further to the south. here's some specifics for the big cities. again, kansas city, best chance of getting up to a foot. but omaha and wichita, defi

it's very unlikely to change and certainly that's how it was in russellville, arkansas.ere a first impression hardened like a patch of serjts about her and also for worse, about the young man accused of killing her. >> the boyfriend who found the body. >> the boyfriend who found the body. >> first impressions die hard, including first impressions of murder and seven years later in this small southern town, we have to ask, can they ever change? of course, that question is quite obvious now to kevin jones, but seven years ago he didn't give a fig whom he impressed or didn't. all he knew was this, he was going places. he was from a good family, lived near a wonderful city called russellville and was well liked. oh, and was adored by one girl in particular, his high school sweetheart nona dirksmeyer. so she was kind of like a soulmate, i suppose. >> i was closer to her than anybody else. >> he was going marry her some day. she was, after all, about the prettiest girl in town. local beauty pageant judges were wowed by her looks and poise and had already crowned her as such, b