they named don benton chairman of the selective service. he's now the man who runs the military draft for the i'm not sure. he's the first director in the history of the selective service who has never himself served in the military. he has no rest of it subject matter expertise whatsoever. he's never running larger than the trump campaign while billing for his wife and son's time in addition to his own time. now he's in charge of 120 employees and many $25 million budget and the nation's military draft. at home in the washington state press, this time in the news tribune of tacoma, they absolutely cannot believe it. quote, the every green state is nothing if not generation. look at the gift we just gave to the other washington. nonother than former state senator don benton, our best and brightsest. his political career read like the story of scuffy the tug boat, the heroic misunderstood evil twin. so happy monday. nobody really thinks they're going to bring back the draft, at least not anytime soon. but if they do bring back the draft, the

nonother than former state senator don benton, our best and brightsest. his political career read like the story of scuffy the tug boat, the heroic misunderstood evil twin. and so happy monday. nobody really thinks they're going to bring back the draft, at least not anytime soon. but if they do bring back the draft, the effort will be led and coordinated by scuffy the tug boat's misunderstood evil twin. and that may end up being an important microcosm for what's going on in the administration in american politics right now with this new white house, with this new administration. that's just one personnel story. but it turns out to be kind of the personnel story of what they're doing. on friday night with just hours to spare, congress agreed on a bill to fund the government for one week, thus avoiding a potential shutdown of the federal government friday night a minute past midnight. the last time the federal government shut down was in 2013. hundreds of thousands of federal employees got furloughed, more than a million people had to work without knowing i

like it and so thomas hart benton doesn't like it so he and his brother jessie benton are roaming thetreets of nashville looking for jackson. jackson and his friends go down to downtown nashville, they bump into each other, there are some words exchanged and a gunfight ensues. jackson is shot, falls down a set of stairs and is bedridden. and what's really interesting about that episode is that it occurs in the middle of the war of 1812. jackson had already gone to battle one time and had come back. he's bedridden from this -- from this brawl but he summons again his fortitude, he summons that fortitude to recover and then to go and fight the majority of the war of 1812 against the creek indians and against the british. brian: were they able to take those bullets out of him? mark: the one in 1813 they eventually did extract and jackson gave it to thomas hart benton as a souvenir of their former relationship once they had reconciled. brian: so when he ran in 1824 for the presidency, the first time, did the public know about the fact he was walking around with a bullet near his heart? ma

benton does not like it, so thomas does not like it. so he and his brother, jesse benton, are roaming the streets of nashville, looking for jackson. jackson and his friends go down to downtown nashville, bump into each other, there are words exchanged, and a gunfight ensues. jackson is shot,. a set of stairs, and is bedridden. it occurs in the middle of the war of 1812. jackson had already gone to battle one time. he is bedridden from this brawl, but he summons again his fortitude to recover and go and fight the majority of the word of 1812 against the creek indians and the british. host: were they able to take the bullets out of him? guest: the one in 1813 they did eventually extract. jackson gave it to thomas benton as a souvenir of their former relationship once they had reconciled. host: so when he ran in 1824 for the presidency, the first time, did the public know about the fact that he was walking around with a bullet near his heart? guest: i'm sure they did because it was well recorded in the newspapers, at least in the nashville

let's see. # tanel padar, dave benton and 2xl - see. # tanel padar, dave benton and 2xl — everybody.be able to ask steve a question about vladimir putin's foreign policy again, without thinking of eurovision! the russians don't know what they are missing this year, they just don't what they are missing this year, theyjust don't know. our correspondence have hidden talents. i look forward to seeing chris mason playing his oboe at some stage. you can watch the second semi—final and eurovision song contest final on the bbc. and steve will be there covering it for us, as well. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news. ambulances not turning up and calls going unanswered are just some of the complaints from patients relying on a new hospital transport service in hertfordshire. the company, private ambulance, was awarded the contract to take people to and from mount vernon hospital, but many who use the service aren't happy. you need to know that your transport‘s there, with a friendly face, that someone's going to pick you up, talk to y

. >> a delaware trooper was involved in a collision at 8:45 at silver side road and benton court. the trooper was not injured. >> this is the scene of a medical helicopter that crashed behind the post office in new castle delaware. this is what it looked like in flames at 11:55 this morning when it went down killing the pilot onboard. dann cuellar is in the satellite center. it's up to investigators to determine what went wrong. >> that's right, jim. from those that knew him, the pilot was safety minded and they can't imagine what went wrong. >> the pilot is identified as michael murphey, a 37-year-old father of one child with his wife expecting another. >> the horrible mangled wreckage was to be examined by the ntsb. >> we are here to examine, collect perishable evidence. overall we are looking into the man, machine and environment. >> the thick smoke and flames of the crash seen at an industrial center north of the new castle airport. >> i witnessed the black cloud and said, something's going on. >> i heard a loud noise. i ducked and saw it nose dive a hundred yards from he. fir

on silver side road at benton court. two other cars were involved. they suffered non-life threatening injuries, the trooper was not hurt. >>> federal investigators have determined what likely caused a leer jet to crash in new jersey last week. ntsb states that the plane turned too late and banked hard before slamming into the ground. it does not say why it started the language turn less than a mile from the runway. planes typically start the turn four miles out. the crash killed both crew members on board. >>> british police arrested a 9th man with the deadly concert attack in manchester. police carried out new raids on the town where suicide bomber salman abedi lived. investigators are trying to piece together as travels and potential terror network. 16 of the 22 people killed in the bombing at the end of the concert on monday have been identified many were children and add adolescence. >>> a woman who lost the lower half of her body in the buildings collapse in philadelphia, she was buried beneath the rubble for 13 hours. the injuries were so sever

. >> reporter: another family survived after the tree fell on their house in benton, arkansas. >> it is by the grace of god we are standing here now.>> reporter: the neighbors are helping each other to cleanup. >> when they get home hopefully we can get the tree out of the driveway. >> reporter: more rain on the way for many in these affected areas.>>> it is for 10 am. >>> -- for tea and a.m. -- 4:10 am. >>> it looks like they have reached a budget deal in washington and they will be spending more money, and we will have the details just ahead. >>> we have received some decent news that northbound i8 80 in san leandro, the lanes have reopened. on the east shore freeway, looking good in both directions.>>> the weather budget came in and we will increase it, temperature-wise that he is, 90s with the usual suspects. you said you wanted to feel better about your cereal. general mills big g cereals hear you. that's why we say "yes" to whole grains as our first ingredient. and "no way" to high fructose corn syrup. ♪ in every honey nut "o". every lucky charms spoonful. and every cinnamon to

in arkansas both benton and washington counties, they would declare disaster areas as severe weather and damaged homes. meanwhile residents in east texas are recovering after multiple deadly tornadoes tore through the region. >> we as texans, especially the folks here in east texas, we come together and we respond to challenges like this. we will help our neighbors. now is the time for us texans to come together and help our fellow texans rebuild their lives. >> reporter: the national weather service is reporting at least four tornadoes touched down. one of those blasting a 40-mile path of destruction. >> i went into a storm shelter today. you could feel the winds and you could just feel the temperatures and the winds and it hit so hard so fast. and it just kept moving. i have never seen anything like it after 22 years of living here. >> reporter: in canton will carr fox news. >>> back in california now the national oceanic and atmospheric administration today said higher temperatures this week are expected to rapidly melt california's record snow pack. forecasters are expecting the

under the benton county, washington, mosquito control district, $37,000 in permit costs and paperwork, they have spent. benton county who treated almost ,600 acres for mosquito abatement or pay for three seasonal workers. they spend three weeks a year tabulating and documenting seasonal applications relating to oversight and california's vector control districts estimated it costs them $3 million for mpes permit. they also spend 20% of their operating fwounlt maintain computer software relating to the unnecessary permit. as a result, mosquito districts and state and local governments lawsuits. frivolous fines for paperwork violations which i obviously -- which obviously don't have any effect on the veerment can be as much as $50,000 a day. in jim county, idaho, they were forced to spend $450,000 to resolve a lawsuit. in my home state of ohio, the mosquito control district for toledo, currently embroiled in a lawsuit from simple paperwork violation. west nile operate proves costs are hindering the ability to protect the public. the first year of permitting requirement from the court ca

.>> another family survived after a tree fell on the home in benton, arkansas. >> it is by the graceare still standing here. >> reporter: the neighbors are helping each other to clean up.>> they are not home yet and when they get home hopefully we can have the tree out of their driveway. >> reporter: there could be more rain on the way wednesday for many of the affected areas.>>> it is 6:25 am. >>> a famous mountain climbers killed in an accident and ueli steck was killed yesterday at the camp near mount everest after reportedly falling nearly 3200 feet down the mountain. his body was recovered and flown to a nearby town by helicopter. he had planned on climbing mount everest next month. at 40 years old, ueli steck was one of the best-known mountaineers of his generation. >>> it is 6:25 am. >>> if you live in alameda county you will have to start ringing your own bag just about everywhere and starting today the plastic bag ban is expanding . >>> good morning. the strike has been averted in sunnyvale where hundreds of 80 employees were planning on walking off the job for one day as th

that is why truman would love the painter thomas hart benton who would do portraits and murals of american history, and that is someone without a college degree. john f. kennedy read "guns of august," which was a warning about how big war can happen by a strange little event that seemed minor. a chain event can lead to something horrific. the behavior of the kaiser wilhelm, the fecklessness that took over europe. that was important for the kennedy years. he read that at the time of something like the cuban missile crisis. being a reader mattered. i recently found out in 1962 rachel carson published the book "silent spring," which gave birth to the environmental movement and kennedy read her articles in new york and at a press conference was asked and said i'm going to get in investigation, and he started backing racial carson's attacks on pesticides. previously he read her books or at least two of the three of the sea trilogy about the oceans she wrote in the 1950's. rachel carson went to jackie kennedy at georgetown and new frontier people talked about look. when kennedy comes in he has r

. >> reporter: another family survived after a tree fell on their home in benton, arkansas. >> it is by the grace of god we are standing here now. >> reporter: the neighbors are helping each other to clean up. >> they are not even home yet hopefully when they get home we will have the tree out of their driveway. >> reporter: there's more rain expected on wednesday for many of the affected areas. >>> the city of san francisco is considering a plan to address the mental health need of homeless people with the fleet of mobile wellness vans. they want to reduce the number of ambulance and hospital stays for the psychiatric issues among the homeless in the city, and the proposal will call for five, 24 hour, seven days a week mobile bands -- vans to provide them with mental health services. >>> the plastic bag ban is expanding and now where the shoppers will have to bring their own bags, more than the grocery store.>>> avoiding the government shutdown for now, and coming up we have the plans that donald trump had to give up. >>> so far, so good for the morning commute. no major committee o

dana benton may still do it with wikileaks. trump, again, it feels very nixonian. way he survives them if he does, is to try to badmouth the press and make himself into the victim. i don't think that is going to work this time around. i do suspect he will continue to ratchet up efforts against the press -- except to the degree that the people who would prosecute it really are rooting for the press here, not for donald trump. that is not necessarily a good luck. but look, everyone at fbi come i conduct thee to investigations there currently conducting, wherever they are. they are doing to be less interested in donald trump's which i against journalists -- which fight against journalists, knknowing that all the way the i gets to conduct their investigation is to have stuff like that coming out in the press -- at this point, it is like in every 10 minutes basis. amy: marcy wheeler, thank you for being with us, independent journalist who covers national secured and civil liberties, runs the website emptywheel.net. we will link to your new post "the scope of the special

. >> rose: there was always this, fai benton, who you knew well, a good friend of yours told me a story once that he took dimaggio and williams to the white house. i think it was to see george bush 41. >> uh-huh. >> rose: but maybe someone else. and that the president was delayed. and so he sat there with these two guys talking. i said what did they talk about. he said it was a lot about things like bat size, 34 inch, what was the bad side, things about the game that they loved. just the sense of ted wa, do you think about this, that was the conversation. >> well, they loved baseball. their life was about baseball. >> rose: and they were great at it. having a person as a moderator like fai vincent is no short order. he had an unbelievable understanding and appreciation for the game of baseball. so i remember fai telling me very frondly about that as well as joe that they were heading, i believes to. all-star game in toronto, that was the year that was the 50th anniversary of the 56 game-hitting streak and ted hitting over 400. so yeah, that was always quite a memorable occasion. but not

. >> the nominees for best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical are denay benton,eat comet of 1812". patty lapone. >> and jane krakowski. sorry. the nominees for best revival of a play are august "jitney". little foxes. present laughter. six degrees of separation. >> nominees for best revival of a musical is falsetto, "hellow dolly" and miss saigon. >> best play doll's house. oslo, "sweat". >>> the nominees for best musical are, "come from away". "dear evan hansen". "groundhog day" the musical. "natasha, pierre and the great comet of 1812". there are few more nominations to get to this morning but for all of you watching "cbs this morning" we're going to send it back to charlie, gayle and norah. >> thank you guys >> thank you. >>> that was very nice. right back to us. actor play wright and cbs morning contributor jamie wax joins us at the table. hello. last year hamilton dominated 16 nominations. do you think it's better when there's not a dominant play >> i've been here at the table with you for four years now. i spend my life working in the theater. this is one o