arkansas has a wealth of stories and there's a wealth of storytellers in arkansas. and i think if i were a movie producer, i would come to this part of the land because it's so unique and there's so much beauty here, so many personalities. it really is america. i would welcome interest from, you know, a movie guy. but at the same time i think they should come here, whether it's my book or somewhere else. i think arkansas is a great place. >> webb, you served the city of little rock as mayor and the state as chief justice of the state supreme court. most of the publicity about you was with the clinton administration, but i'm wondering have you reflected on what you are really pleased with and accomplishments as mayor or as chief justice? and as any of that come into play in the book? >> thank you, roger. it does and i think a lot of the stories are really more from that time period. i'll give you a couple examples i can without revealing, and then i want to make one other comment. one is we are seeing it today. when i was mayor was when we first started developing th

mayor of little rock, arkansas. he said, ''now, when you get down to stamps, look up-'' and he gave me the name of a lawyer. he said, "he's a good old boy, he will look after your property." i went down expecting a middle-aged black man. a young white man leapt to his feet. he said, "miss angelou, i'm just delighted to meet you. you, why don't you understand, mr. bussey called me today, mr. bussey is the most powerful black man in the state of arkansas, but more important than that, he's a noble man. because of mr. bussey, i am who i am today." i said, "let me sit down first." he said, "i was an only child of a blind mother, and when i was eleven years old, mr. bussey got hold to me and made me love to learn, and i'm now in the state legislature." that which lives after us. i look back at uncle willie, crippled, black, poor, unexposed to the worlds of great ideas, who left for our generation and generations to come a legacy so rich. so i wrote a song for miss roberta flack. you may have heard it. it says: willie was

home, i mean central arkansas. that being said, i was born in little rock. actually my father was working in north little rock building the power plant in 1948. that's why we're in little rock at the time. we lived in government houses. that's how i was here, do we move back your and i went to high school. and enjoyed myself thoroughly. it's so good to every time i come back, unlike the character in the book, if you haven't read the book yet, and i probably should ask who has read the book and who hasn't read the book

he was from arkansas as well. from just outside little rock in the town called jacksonville, arkansas. so, those two local men, these two native sons of arkansas, they were standing together outside the recruiting center in little rock when this man drove up in a pickup truck and shot at them. opened fire with a .22 caliber semiautomatic rifle. police were able to find him moments later. found the rifle he used in the shooting. found other weapons in the vehicle. found more ammunition in his truck. they took him into custody. the 23-year-old private william long, young man from conway, arkansas, was killed in the shooting. 18-year-old private, young man from jacksonville, arkansas, private quinton ezeagwula, he was wounded but survived. the young man who shot at the soldiers was ultimately convicted of capital murder in that case. he will never get out of prison. he's serving 12 life sentences. he was born in memphis, tennessee, with the name carlos bledsoe. in college, he converted to islam and at some point beca

down arkansas a thousand miles from texas. down the mississippi. rouge, v vixberg, memphis, a thousand miles down the leavlevy. 38 feet at baton rouge, river isaac, river rising, herum, river rising, a thousand miles to go. a thousand miles of levy to hold. coast guard patrol needed at paducka. 200 boats wanted at hickman. 200 boats wanted at hickman. levy patrol, men to blitheville. 2,000 men wanted at carou. 2,000 men wanted at carou. 100,000 men to fight the old river. we sent every branch of the service down the river to help the sleepless engineers fight a battle on a 2,000 mile front. the army and navy, the coast guard and marine corp, the ccc and wpa, the red cross and the health service fought night and day to hold the old river off the valley. ♪ ♪ food and water needed at louisville. 500 dead, 5,000 ill. food and water needed at cincinnati. food and medicine needed at laurenville. 55,000 homeless in evansville. last time we held the levy but the mississippi backed into tennessee and arkansas and illinois and missouri. she spread her arms o

so, we talked about my childhood in marshall, texas, and hers in stamps, arkansas. born marguerite johnson in st. louis, she was sent to stamps to live with her grandmother and hadn't returned for years. let's go back together, i said. she wouldn't have it. too many demons, she said. a dozen years later, for a series on "creativity," and searching for what it is in a person that touches the strings of that mysterious instrument, i called maya and said, "let's go home. i want to meet those ghosts." this time she said yes. here, as a simple act of remembrance, is a brief excerpt of that film, produced with my long-time colleague, david grubin. >> in my memory, stamps is a place of light, shadow, sounds, and entrancing odors. the earth smell was pungent, spiced with the odor of cattle manure, the yellowish acid of the ponds and rivers, the deep pots of greens and beans cooking for hours with smoked or cured pork. flowers added their heavy aroma. and above all, the atmosphere was pressed down with the smell of old fears, and hates, and guilt." i am a writer and stamps m

arkansas has become a very red state in national elections. pryor is among the most vulnerable democratic incumbents running this year. he announced he sees the act as partly an asset and not a liability sets up a test. now that the law is implemented are the politics of obama care changing especially in red state america? is pryor creating a template here that other vulnerable democrats might turn to as the party fights to hang on to the senate this fall? here to discuss this is david ramsey the associate editor of "the arkansas times." david, thanks for joining us. i want to set this up by showing a couple statistics here. since the decline in the rate of uninsurance in number states between 2013 and 2014, you can see arkansas is doing the best of any of these states on the list. this is basically showing how the implementation of the affordable care act, expansion of medicaid is going. arkansas is right there, the uninsured rate basically dropping in half in just one year. just statistically when you look at it that way you'd say this law s

the rate has dropped 10.1% in arkansas.e question is, do the positives of obamacare, insurance coverage, trump the hatered of president obama in a red state like arkansaarkansas. >> the state program is very popular, the obamacare law but being through the state and people find is very good, governor is doing well. if she picks that up and says these are the kind of things we can do if we keep a democratic senate in washington, that could be interesting to see if that could help her. so far she hasn't jumped full force onto it. if pryor doesn't get hurt, you could see her potentially trying to use that. >> she has -- this week has been talking more about parts of the affordable care act and other thing the democrats in red states have done successfully is put republicans on defense in states where governors have not expanded medicaid. that is a real world problem that pour residents tangably emotionally understand. the guys next door have coverage and we don't because our governor is deciding not to. >> i think that will be

of the 4 h and the omega and the million and a half club in arkansas and today, you know, i thank god, but, the office of complaints and i really need to be there with you, since you have been there in 82 and for the police department, and mission, and when i hear you talk about the thc who is working on the sro, and here in the mission and here in the tender loin and we don't have that and i remember going to the mission when you are all supposed to work about lgbt issues and that has not been done yet. but also, then i hear you talk about safe and how great that is. and when i think about this school, i went to school, and i took yoga here and i learned a degree here at this school at city college, and the last meeting with that and i learned ak you puncture there and i learned about the police investigation at the city college and the campus and i know that today at the wind and you know as the present and the huge, 53 on the august 4th and we are the same age and i know when mr. brady died on that day, it was a fan for us and i would love for the police to join us in most of the s

>> we caught up with his town in arkansas where he was looking at the oil spill. here is some just off the top of the water. it's sticky. it's extremely sticky. it smells awful. >> in march, 2013, a shallow underground pipeline owned by exxon runs down the residential street as you see in this video. >> the smell is unbelievable. look, there is oil. >> the oil flowed down the street through a drainage ditch. the crews had come from alberta, canada, thousands of miles away. >> what are they for? >> they are to soak in the oil. they are supposed to. they are supposed to soak in water. >> steyer had come to mayflower together ammunition for what may be the biggest fight of his life, trying to stop the pipeline from being built. he worries more leaks like this one could happen. the proposed by blind would stretch from the canadian border across the u.s. to the existing pipeline that carries oil to the refinery. >> it is not going to the united states. it is going to be more oil not from the middle east. that is true, but it just means there is more oil not from the mi

arkansas with senator mark pryor. north carolina with kay hagan.urther west, an open seat in iowa, incumbent mark udall in colorado, and mark begich in alaska. you're polling for landrieu, udall, and begich. how confident are you for the incumbents holding on in those states? >> i think they're going to hold on to them. >> all six of them? >> yes. they're going to be tough, close races. we have deep roots in the states, lackluster republican opponents, and the republican brand is in tatters in those states and across the country. the democrats with the deep routes, done a lot for their states -- >> the real clear republican averages, they're leading in those states, in some, the democratic incumbent is leading, but by a narrow margin. bill, your read? >> i don't want to be a democrat in the south in 2014. i think senator landrieu is -- >> in louisiana. >> in louisiana. i think she's an impressive political figure, but in louisiana, arkansas, georgia, north carolina, the president's job approval is literally in the low 20% among white voters. i work

missouri, kentucky, west virginia, tennessee, arkansas, and ohio. forget about florida. it gore had won any wone of thoe states, he would have been president. the recount wouldn't have mattered. that's what a lot of democrats saw when they looked at the 2000 map. the idea that gun control had cost them in those states, that it had cost them the white house. it was why they were stuck, why the country was stuck with george w. bush. now you can argue whether that conclusion was right or not, but it is the conclusion that has shaped how a lot of democrats have looked at the issue for the last decade plus through one horrific gun tragedy, one ghastly mass shooting after another. just before the 2000 election, there was columbine. then there was the virginia tech shooting rampage in april of 2007. there was the shooting in tucson, arizona, where congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot. there was the aurora movie theater shooting. terrible, devastating tragedies that everyone bemoaned, but that produced from washington no real response. no legislation. no new laws. one attem

. >>> a much different scene in parts of arkansas. severe storms zrenched the little rock area yesterday, triggering flooding up to the doorsteps at an apartment complex. residents were forced to evacuate. thousands of people lost pouwer. >>> and time for today's weather. heavy rain from florida up into the ohio valley with more showers for the upper midwest. and a band of thunderstorms that stretches from the texas gulf coast up into the colorado rockies. >>> temperatures today. it's looking a lot more like august across the country in the 80s and 90s. up and into the triple digits in the southwest. but only the 70s in new england and the great lakes. >>> holiday hours in august? the major retailer that's already keeping its doors open much later. >>> and more than a dozen children taken to the hospital after taking a swim in a hotel pool. >>> and walk off winner, a dramatic win in the little league world series. >>> welcome back. we start with target and the new open late policy. the retailer says it's going to start keeping its doo

>> we caught up with steyer in the tiny town of mayflower, arkansas, where he was getting a look at the cleanup site from an estimated 5000 barrel oil spill. >> here is some just off the top of the water. it's sticky. it's extremely sticky. >> very sticky. >> it smells awful. >> in march 2013, a shallow underground pipeline owned by exxonmobil burst, sending oil running down a mayflower residential street, as can be seen in this video. >> the smell is unbelievable. i mean, look. there's oil. >> the oil flowed down the street through a drainage ditch and emptied into a marshy area. the heavy crude had come from alberta, canada, thousands of miles away. >> what are the booms for? >> they are to soak in the oil. they are supposed to -- >> literally? >> yeah. literally -- >> that's what they're for? >> they're supposed to repel water and soak in oil. >> steyer had come to mayflower to gather ammunition for what may be the biggest fight of his life -- trying to stop the keystone pipeline from being built. steyer worries more leaks like this one in mayflower could happen. the proposed keyston

he served with joe robinson of arkansas. now barkley was a strong new dealer and a loyal lieutenant of robinson's. the kentuckian even supported franklin roosevelt's court packing plan, a scheme to exand if supreme court so roosevelt could tilt the balance more to his liking. this was a center piece of roosevelt's agenda after his landslide reelection in 1936. its boldness reflecting the huge, huge democratic majority returned in both houses after the election of 1936. listen to this, my friends, when the 75th congress began in 1937, the democrats held a whopping 76 of 96 seats. there were only 48 states then. 76 of 96 seats. if you've ever been to the senate, you know there is an aisle down the middle and the republicans sit on one side and the democrats is it on the -- sit on the other. there were so many democrats after the election of 1936, they couldn't get them all on one side of the chamber. so they brought them over on the republican side in the back and they called at this time cherokee strip. they said they were of

scaffe and his team called this the arkansas project.avid brock was the young, ambitious, conservative reporter going to go out and get richard scaffe and american spectator the big juice gy scandal. he had gun one to arkansas and r state troopers to say they arranged extramarital encounters for clinton when he had been the state's governor. the story caused a bit of a stir. it wasn't huge news. by that point people knew bill clinton hadn't maybe always been faithful to his marriage. it got bigger. the story mentioned one of the women any first names. paula. and the real paula got upset about this. decided she wanted to come forward. and some well-connected conservatives wanted her to come forward too. this is how the world met paula corbin jones, 1994, publicly accused clinton and sued him for sexual harassment. a question of whether she could do that, sue a president over something like that. fortunately for paula jenz she got help from a legal team, with deep connections to richard mellen scaffe. so she got to go forward with her laws

arkansas, mark pryor, wonderful senator. tremendous human being. they started spending money against him last march. he is still ahead. he is running ads in arkansas touting obamacare. let's see where we have a shot in georgia. kentucky. we are concerned about south carolina and montana because of the bad break we had with the general there. that is going to be the first test. i believe there are things that we can do dealing with infrastructure. some of the things that i have talked about with getting middle-class a fair shot is certainly important. corporate profits have gone up since 2009 by 300%. the working men and women of this country are lagging behind. we have to recognize we have a new world facing us. some compare it to the industrial revolution with changes in the workplace technologically. i am excited about the next two years. i'm excited about what we are going to work on before the election. i have excited about the lame duck. the last lame-duck, this is the time after the elections until a new congress started. it was extremely suc

and in arkansas. >> arkansas is fascinating.ave the incumbent senator mark pryor running against a respectable congressman, tom cotton. harry reid really wants to hold this seat. his senatorial pack has put $3.6 million in pryor's campaign. >> not saying nice things. >> they had an ad this week saying cotton is going to cut through social security payments. they ran an ad saying he voted against pandemic prevention. evil. >> congressman from ebola. >> thun with is very close. you have 13% of independents undecided. 6% undecided. but obama's approval rating down there among independents is 13%. this thing should cut for tom cotton, but it's going to be close. >> al franken, the democratic incumbent from minnesota is challenged by michael mcfadden, a businessman. franken is running a low key race. you go out there. where's al? you can't find him. he was on tv all those years. now he's hiding out, trying to go under the radar. obama is not as popular in minnesota as you would think. if he can get any momentum, he has a chance to me

wright was born in mountain home, arkansas in the ozarks, went to college in arkansas and memphis, andives now in rhode island. her books of poetry include one inspired by visits to louisiana state prisons. she once said, "poetry is a necessity of life. it is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free and declare them so." >> lake echo, dear. is the woman in the pool of light really reading, or just staring at what is written? is the man walking in the soft rain naked, or is it the rain that makes his shirt transparent? the boy in the iron cot, is he asleep, or still fingering the springs underneath? did you honestly believe three lives could be complete? the bottle of green liquid on the sill, is it real? the bottle on the peeling sill, is it filled with green, or is the liquid an illusion of fullness? how summer's children turn into fish and rain softens men. how the elements of summer nights bid us to get down with each other on the unplaned floor. and this feels painfully beautiful whether or not it will change the world one drop. ( applause ) thank you

. >> former arkansas governor mike huckabee joined the christian leadership conference in support ofhigher u.s. academic standards particularly for students of color. his is about half an hour. >> it's not the calendar i sense in terms of tifmente it's fall break or this time of year with labor day looming, it's not the start of arkansas football. it's back to school. for back to school, i think 15 years ago when i'd been b standing in front of a classroom of students. there are a couple of trends that impact of the classroom then that are relevant to our discussion now as well. i noticed students come into the classroom are part of what was later dubbed the browning of america. they had beautiful skin. i noticed another trend. this is much more disturbing. the students were not prepared for what i was attempting to teach them. they had come to the classroom less and less prepared. there were these moments in the classroom they would look at me and i would think the same thing they were. part of me as a christian, i felt the lord was impressing on me. these are your children. if they

>>> two crew members are dead after a fiery freight train crash in arkansas.ins collided head on early yesterday morning, shooting plumes of smoke into the air. both were carrying toxic chemicals. the crash forced the evacuation of nearby homes as a precaution, but everyone has been allowed to return this morning. >>> and on the "cbs money watch," fed chair janet yellen gets ready to speak. and ninja turtles fight for the top of the box office. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. >> reporter: good morning. the federal reserve is expected to be patient. that's says what many analysts believe fed chair janet yellen will announce this week. she'll be speaking at a meeting in jackson hole, wyoming, on friday. economists say the fed will keep an eye on the unemployment rate before changing policy. investors this morning are looking for a repeat performance on wall street. there were gains across the board last week. the dow added 109 points. the nasdaq gained 93, and the s&p finished up 23 points. >>> wireless company sprint is looking

drove down to arkansas and did the performance. to "the swan."thing about yo-yo at the time, and it turned out to be a beautiful outcome and the kids loved it. in awe. their face was just glowing, and you could hear it all on the camera. they saw the video actually his wife, heather watts, saw the video and thought it was amazing and showed damien and they both thought it was incredible and were already working with yo-yo ma at the time, because they have these things calmed the art strikes. they go out and get the arts into different school, the arts and education and push it out. with the president's committee on arts and humanity. damien and yo-yo ma had already started a relationship and thought it would be crazy to have a collaboration with a street dancer. damien actually reached out to me on facebook. actually, through facebook. and told me he loved my style and that he wanted to get me and yo-yo together, and i looked up yo-yo. who's this yo-yo guy? never heard of a guy named yo-yo. >> a guy named yo-yo. exactly. yeah. >> and yo-yo in mid

right now it's basically a dead heat. >> and in arkansas. >> yeah, arkansas is fascinating. the incumbent senator mark pryor running against a pretty respectable republican congressman tom cotton. harry reid really wants to hold this seat. his senatorial pac has put $3.6 million into pryor's campaign. >> not saying nice thing bz pryor. >> they had an ad out say cotton 0 is going to cut your social security payments, even ran an ad saying cotton voted against pandemic prevention. ebo ebola. they're throwing everything at him. >> the congressman from ebola. >> this one is very close. you've got 13% of independents undecided. 6% undecided. but obama's approval rating down there among independents is 13%. this thing should cut for tom cotton. it will be close. >> i've got a dark horse, al franken, the democratic incumbent from minnesota being challenged by michael mcfadden, a businessman. franken is running a low-key ad. he was on tv, now he's hiding out trying to go under the radar. mcfadden -- obama is not as popular in minnesota as you think. if mcfadden can get some momentum

it also includes arkansas which has developed a private auction allowing people to enter the private insurance market with medicaid dollars. premium cost. states within and without the south are trying to find a third way to address some of the likets involved in medicaid expansion. approaches modeled along the arkansas model provide political cover but they also provide some reassurance that states will not overextended creating new systems or in scrambling to find providers accepting payments that might be lower. beyond partisanship and politics, state opposition or reluctens to embrace the a.c.a. may be rooted in preexisting circumstances related to past policy practices and experiences. this is evident in the case of medicaid expansion. to be risk averse is not tantamount to be an obstruction nist. states with restricted medicaid in the past may be cautious about expanding the program. with time we are seeing oppositional stances modified as state leaders search for alternative mechanisms such as a private options. let's talk about markets and demographics, another factor influen

what age did he first become governor of arkansas?nt is just 32 years old when he became governor of arkansas in 1978. he was the youngest governor in the nation. you have to watch for that. multiple occasions host of like that will come to parts of the fact >> look at the radar. we can give you a really good look at this. look at the height of the thunderheads. cumin and this cost. they call to 47,000 ft.. to conceive of it has affected an area from lutheran in near north side right down to the southern suburbs. a means it could be gusting to produce strong wind and some man. looks like these clusters blow up. just kind of scattered. intend to concentrate near a jet stream. this is the set up this afternoon at 4:00. they fade out and the coolness of the night. scattered afternoon showers may develop. the real heat and humidity starts in too few in these things. look at the temperatures here. going to the mid-80s during the day tomorrow. . what could be the year's largest hot spell. 91 to retain 92 friday and we think something called

it's not the start of arkansas football. it's actually rigback to school for back to school, i think 15 years ago, i would be standing in front of a classroom of steward events, maybe not that different from this group here, teaching them english, and there were a couple of trends that impacted the classroom then that are relevant to our discussion today as well. one trend was i noticed that the students coming in the classroom were part of what was later dubbed the browning of america and more and more students walked through the door had beautiful skin, the color of my cuban father, something like the cafe leches he would drink in the morning. i notice add trend, the first one not disturbing. these students were not prepared for what i was attempting to teach them. they had come to the classroom seemingly less and less repaired for the rigors for the classroom and the rigors of what i was hoping to teach them. there were these moments when i would think the same thing they were and they would think, doctor, i am not going

believe was that if you can change mississippi, you can then change arkansas and texas and georgia. as a city without a doubt was the place where there was the greatest risk. as you know, in that summer, the freedom summer, always immediately after began, there was this horrible murder where two of the volunteers from the north and one mississippi native , james chaney, andrew goodman -- were killed. they were taken by a sheriff and held until the clan could gather together. they were released, the clan came and killed him. they disappeared. this became the great fear for all the people who worked in mississippi, because they knew that this could happen. so it is a really painful moment. inspires thoseth who were in mississippi to keep registering, but it also puts national attention on philadelphia and mississippi. was not very supportive of the civil rights movement, had to find out what happened to these three civil rights workers. ultimately, when that was found out, that sense of anger again stimulated more people to come from the north, white and black, to be part of this. in

racism, hatred, of pain, and the belief was that if you can change mississippi, you can then change arkansas and texas and georgia. mississippi without a doubt was the place where they were at the greatest risk, and as you know in the summer, freedom summer, almost immediately after began there was this horrible murder where two of the volunteers from the north and one mississippi native, james chaney, andrew goodman and mike schwerner basically were killed. they were taken by a sheriff, and they were held until the klan could gather together. they were released, and the klan killed them. this became the great fear. they knew that this could happen, and so it was a really painful moment, and what it does is it inspires those who were in mississippi to keep registering, but also again puts national attention on philadelphia and mississippi. the fbi, which often was not very supportive of the civil rights movement had to find out what happens to these civil rights workers, and ultimately when that was found out, that sense of anger again stimulated more people to come from the north, white and