the malls and office buildings along birmingham's ex he is continuing southern belt line. opponents of the new road saying spending billions of new highway projects to spur this kind of development is a thing of the past. >> birmingham had one of the finest points in america. >> reporter: kathy is a real estate developer, who great grandfather laid the foundation of berming hang's economy by building the new steel mill. she has built neighborhoods and abandoned factories. >> we've renovated them to be mixed use, we have restaurants and shops and galleries, there's a theater here. >> the market demand is for walkable urban living. you can't get that on a belt line. you can't get that, it doesn't exist. and i think that it's important that people remember to follow the market and that's where the market is now. >> reporter: this isn't just a local fight, because the northern belt line is a federal project, which means it will be paid for by taxpayers all across the country. alabama republican senator richard shelby added authorization for it to a 2004 bill. he added the road

, and it created the opportunity for king to galvanize the movement, to build on the victory in birmingham suggest that it was not a local matter specific to the cell. it was a national matter that concerns the rights of not just african-americans but all americans. the moment was significant. rhetorically, the answer is that absent the last 11 minutes of the speech, which were improvised, in which king departed from his prepared text, we would remember the speech as a significant speech, in part because of the success of the march itself and because of the enormous audience that king was able to speak to on television and elsewhere. we perhaps would not remember it as the dream speech because the cadences from which that derived, king decided extemporaneously to deliver. we would not remember it for its commanding portrait of the united states as a series of mountain ranges from which freedom should ring, to even stone down in georgia. we would not have found keying calling from this deep reservoir of materials he had been cultivating since his student days, and certainly as minister over

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. >> birmingham's mayor offering people arrested during the civil rights movement a refund and a pardon. why some people are saying, no, thank you. >>> good sunday to you. you're watching hln. hope you're having a great weekend so far. i'm susan hendricks. our top story is a tropical storm warning for parts of florida. it was just issued a few hours ago. meanwhile tropical storms anna and bill keep moving across the atlantic. let's get the latest from reynolds. >> we're talking about two systems. two is company, three is a crowd, anna and bill and tropical depression which may become one before the day is out. first you see it here off the coast of tampa. you see the counterclockwise flow. this is a system expected to gain strength, expected to make landfall around midnight around apalachicola and alabama and flash flooding could be a possibility. two other systems, of course, you've got bill right over here. then of course you've got anna. anna not nearly as impressive of as we put this in motion, anna would be the first to go. the path of the national hurricane center showing right ov

goes back to birmingham. slams into the left side of the line. again, no touchdown for carolina as the young raven defenders start to build a brick ball and set up a fourth and goal. >> stan: the offensive linemen recreate the line of scrimmage. >> gerry: a year ago the ravens in the red zone, second best in the nfl, held opponent to touchdowns on fewer than 36% of the trips in the red zone. now we are going to see a red flag challenge by john fox. i got to tell you if i were going to challenge a play, it would have been the play before. decori brirmingham looked like he may have on the goal line. 17-3, ravens lead 4th quarter. >> gerry: the 0-9 cheerleader calendar is on sale now featuring the cheerleaders on location in bahamas. on gamedays and cheerleader parents for $14.99 before they are gone. 11:38 in the ball game. jeff has been under the hood after john fox challenged the third and goal carry by decori brirmingham. >> stan: the play bive thought he might have a challenge. this one, i don't know. it looks like he might have gotten end. >>

he represents jefferson county which includes birmingham and he joins us live from birmingham. is the sheriff on this? he wants to call in the national guard? what do you think about that idea? >> well, if it gets to that point where we need protection, of course we need the national guard and anybody else we can bring in to help police this city, county and state. >> let me cut you off there with all due respect. how did this county get into this mess? there are counties and municipalities all over the country dealing with this recession and financial crisis. how did you guys get into this mess if. >> you got to go back to the bond swaps, the economy, the whole shooting match. bad business deals. you got a county commission who can't find its way out of a paper bag. one gets out the top they're pulled back down. they don't want any help. they don't know where the credit cards are. they don't know who owes them. they missed collecting taxes about $20 million of taxes. they have an $84 million reserve. they don't have to do this. they have $84 million in reserve. i think they're

. >> trees in this area, the lapped just outsidof birmingham for more tn a ctury. >> this,e have kept as a pasture. we had cattle foreveral years a then after the boys left, w din't want cattle any more. >> reporter: she movedhere more than 7 years ag when she was n years old. r husband, berna, joined h just after wod war ii. but the cawfords timen this land may beoming to an end. their home wi be demolished to make room for an interange on the new silane interstate ghway, according to a p prered by alabama's dertment of transportatio >> here's the two northernbelt line lanes. there's our hou right there. >> reporter: basically where we're siing right this second there will a highway 15 feet above us. >> yes, exactly. >> porter: and this road is going to be moved back, you se that tis is a four-laneoad ck there. the off ramps g on t this. >> reporter: the roadup there now wil be right through your garen bacally. >> exaly. >> reporter: the new ghway, known as the northern belt line, will connectfour interstates that passhrough bmingham with a 52 mile arc though the hills north ofown. a

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our birmingham affiliate wbma reports. >> reporter: 70 something-year-old robbie smith remembers good63. like it was yesterday. the first time she was arrested on the streets of birmingham in civil disobedience. >> it wasn't a bad time, it really wasn't. and just to think that we could do something to make this city better. >> reporter: fast forward 46 years later and birmingham is announcing it will pardon any civil rights protestors who wants it but some, like smith, see their arrest as a badge of honor. >> i want that to be forever. >> reporter: more than anhing, the mayor says this move is an official apology confirming their fight was a just one. but why hasn't it happened before? >> you can't talk about race in birmingham without somebody getting bent out of shape about it. >> reporter: for those questioning the mayor's motive? >> tell him i say -- >> that's kevin stuart from wbma in bmingham. apparently they passed the rosa park act that would allow anybody charged in a non-violent act of civil unrest to have their record cleared but so far nobody has taken them up on it. >> no

birmingham is an area that has, of course, the city of birmingham. they have their police department and there are 27 other police departments. but i cover the unincorporated areas and assist the smaller police departments, really and truly, there are a lot of police departments that turn the lights out and go home at night. the sheriff covers that -- >> now your -- >> but -- >> go ahead, i'm sorry. >> i just believe governor riley who has deployed the national guardsmen in natural disasters, even though this is an unnatural disaster created by the jefferson county commission, i really believe he will partner with the citizens of jefferson county, alabama, and i believe we'll get some help with him. i really believe that. he wants me to call him today after meeting with the commission. >> meanwhile, you are getting creative. you are taking drug money, about $700,000. you think you'll be able to do that and keep salaries going? >> i have about $1.5 million of condemnation money, state condemnation money, and some seizure money that's under my control

we went to jail for the right -- not just the right of those in birmingham, but birmingham's movementis whole world, and the whole world recognized that. and for us to say, well, we accept a pardon, it would be like a soldier saying, well, let me give back my purple heart. we can't do that. i refuse to do it. we used to sing a song, we ain't going to let nobody turn us around, and i can't allow anyone to have me to say, well, please forgive me for what i did right. i cannot and i shall not say that. >> well, mr. mayor, i know you have certainly heard some of the criticism before. you knew some of this was happening. a lot of people take your word that it's a good gesture. i want people to hear a good thing. you've got a question about it being a pmt r. stunt. i want to play what your response was when you got this question. let's take a lesson. >> so many people who are happy being unhappy, so tell them i say -- >> mr. mayor, i'm sure you remember that there. explain that to me and certainly follow up here with some of the criticism you've been hearing that maybe this is kind of a stu

take a look at the line outside the courthouse in birmingham.e are told folks looking to do business, normal business like renew car tags had to wait for hours. state lawmakers, including alabama's governor bob reilly say they are working on ways to try to gix this situation. -- fix this situation. in the fight over health care reform the message is the weapon. try to change the system seem to be losing control of that message. all out blitz aimed at various plans for reform seems to be making an impression. lawmakers headed home for the august recess are getting an earful from voters who say they do not like some of the ideas coming out of congress or that they just don't understand them. shannon bream is live on capitol hill tonight. shannon, now that they ventured outside of washington, what are some of these lawmakers finding out? >> shepard, it's not all hugs and kisses. you know, i have heard from republicans and democrats here on the hill. they are getting a lot of push back from constituents. this weekend it seemed to hit hardest for dem

i went to medical school at the university of alabama in birmingham. >> when did the hard part of thisoming to your life -- the heart part of this come into your life? >> jon kirkland was one of the world's greatest cardiac surgeons. party hacks surgery -- cardiac surgery was where i got to see heart surgery for the first time and when i began my surgery training, i did an internship. one thing i rotated through was cardiac surgery and dr. kirkland was my mentor. it was a brutal six weeks of very little sleep and hard work. but when you finished it, you felt like you were going through marine boot camp, you are proud of what you did. when i finished, dr. kirkland put his arm around my shoulder and said that you ought to consider doing this. from that moment on, even though my stepfather was a general surgeon and we always talk about me doing that, after that, i was cardiac all the way. >> win was the first time -- when was the first time you open the chest and where was it? >> it takes a long time to be a surgeon and it takes even longer to be a heart surgeon. it is not like you wake u

and ended up in the birmingham riots burned down about a dozen houses around birmingham. he managed to escape but never really felt safe again in england. and so in 7094, he set sail for america. and in doing that, he really cannot be rated one of the great amazing tradition of the american experts which was that he was kind of art first great scientist accepted he was the first kind of dissident scientist who decided to come to america to find a country where his ideas would be allowed to develop unfettered by angry mobs and the state and the king. and so he got here and was greeted as a hero. you develop a friendship with adams when adams was in london. and he's been an lot of time in adams. is a funny sidenote were all the major founders kind of buy to get priestly to move to their part of the country. adams was like all the intellectuals live in boston. jefferson was like monticello, the climate is a would've a. to go back and forth. eventually decide to live in rural pennsylvania. which is an odd choice. he had his vision of kind of a utopian society that he was goin

i went to embrae university for undergraduate, and medical school at university of alabama, in birmingham. >> when did you heart part of this get in your life? >> the medical school at alabama had a strong cardiac surgery program, lead by a man named john kirkland, that's one of the world's greatest cardiac surgeons. and cardiac surgery was highly visible even to medical students. and that's where i saw heart surgery for the first time. and then in surgery training, i did an internship, and one thing that i rotated through was cardiar surgery. and dr. kirkland was my mentor, it was a brutal six weeks, very little sleep and hard work. but when you finished it, you felt like you had been through marine boot camp. and i remember that dr. kirkland had put his arm around my shoulder, and said, you should consider doing this. and from that moment on, and even though my stepfather was a foot surgeon, after that i was cardiac all the way. >> when was the first time that you opened the chest, and where was it? when was it? you are on your own, you are your boss. >> it takes a long time to be a sur

in atlanta for undergraduate and then i went to medical school at the university of alabama in birmingham. >> where did the hard part get into your life? >> medical school in alabama had a strong cardiac surgery program led by a man named john kirkland, one of the world's greatest? surgeons. -- one of the world's greatest cardiac surgeons. that is sort of where i got to see a heart surgery for the first time. when i began my surgery training, i did an internship, and one of the things i rotated through was cardiac surgery, and doctor kirkland was my mentor. it was a very brutal six weeks of very little sleep and hard work and -- but when you finished it, you felt like you had been through marine boot camp, you were part of what you did. i remember when i finished, doctor kirkland but his arm around my shoulder and in an uncharacteristic way said, "you ought to consider doing this." from that point on, even though my stepfather was a general surgeon and had talked about me doing that, after that i was cardiac all the way. >> when was the first time you did an actual part operation when you

this is going all the way up to atlanta, up towards the birmingham area.he heaviest rainfall around apalachicola. you can get a better idea of where the center of this storm is. we're estimating right now it's somewhere in this vicinity. it's moving to the north. we're anticipating landfall to likely be somewhere near destin-ish. could be a little west of there, could be a little bit east of there. our biggest concern is these bands come in, they're going to bring in that heavy rain and threat of tornados. we could see anywhere between maybe 3 to 6 inches of rainfall with locally heavier amounts. the wind reports have been very heavy. these are sustained winds as opposed to the gusts. it looks like we're starting to lose some of our data over here. appalachia cola had 47 miles per hour for one of those gusts. this is a beach cam from panama city beach, the holiday inn sunspree has a nice rooftop cam. you can see the waves. the threat of rip currents high. you don't want to get out into this water if you don't have to. we're expecting landfall a few hours f

if you have flight problems tomorrow that will bring you to atlanta, birmingham, pensacola or mobile, flights they be impacted. from pensacola to the very tip, the southernmost extent, you can see on the infrared satellite imagery a compact circulation with the storm moving other far central and western parts of the florida panhandle. this storm packing a lot of rain. apalachicola. over about the next 12 to 24 hours this storm will go inland leaving a lot of wind and rain in its wake. hard hit will be southern alabama, southwestern georgia and southeastern ssissippi. the latest on our weather and the forecast track for bill coming up in main weather. >>> from day one, president obama said fixing health care would be his top domestic prior to. he's been out west the past few days sightseeing with his family and peddling his health care plan. looks like the president is ready to compromise on what many consider the most contingent part of the plan. the president's western adventure continued day. the first family's stop at the grand canyon was, perhaps, the perfect metaphor as president

bingo players went running for cover when a man started shooting up the lucky day bingo parlor in birmingham, alabama, this weekend. >> armed with a shotgun and handgun, the suspect fired into the ceiling several different times saying everybody get out, this is a robbery. the suspect immediately went to the cashier's cages, fired a round into the locked mechanism to gain entry into where the tellers were at. >> i don't support the bingo at all. i feel more secure now with them havg security guards. >> reporter: security officers confronted the robber. when he pointed a shotgun at him they opened firing killing him. the suspect died on the scene. there were nearly 50 people in the bingo parlor at the time of the shooting. >>> tax increases topped sunday talks this morning. obama administration officials refuse to rule out raising taxes to reduce a trillion dollars deficit and fund an overhaul of the health care system. treasury secretary tim geithner said the deficit will have to be reduced for the country to prosper long-term. the president's economic team also says the administration will

jefferson county, includes birmingham.he sheriff, asking the governor again to call in the national guard to help with basic policing, and it's all because of budget cuts. state and local governments all across america are looking at very tough choices, like cutting basic services like cops, because so many americans are out of work, the taxes just aren't coming in. so just something to think ab t about, if you hear about your local community saying that maybe they need higher taxes. you want to find out. maybe they need it to pay for police. >>> eve an small fender bender can be a big hit to the your wallet, depending on what you drive. the insurance institute was testing mid-size cars at this time. looking at low-speed crashes. three miles an hour sometimes. like could happen in a parking lot, and that could cost you nearly $3,000. can you imagine that? that is if you drive a pontiac. none of the cars tested, though, got as good rating in this category. you can feel better if you drive one of these cars on the list. hond

. >> host: refreshing take, text messages from a birmingham jail, are you walking on sacred ground here. >> guest: i don't think so. you know? that was one of the first titles that came to my head, when i was thinking of doing a piece. it was one of the hardest ones to write but i felt it was really a kind of hit right in the middle of the target zone in terms of hysterical title. >> host: larry wilmore is or guest, we're on the c-span bus here at "the l.a. times" festival of books, first call for him from buffalo, new york. go ahead. >> caller: hi, larry, how are you this afternoon. >> guest: good, how are you. >> caller: listen, since -- when i seen that barack obama was probably going to become president, i got pretty serious about calling it -- into c-span, exclusively, requesting that he address the issue of reparations for the slave descendants and i have to follow-up on that, how do you feel about that, personally? >> guest: well, in the book, i am -- have a chapter called give us the super bowman where i insist -- you know, a lot of people want reparations and the argument is sl

birmingham will get the carry and he'll be stopped. he ran into nada. they see a scoring opportunity turned into a field goal try. >> stan: i think they did that so they didn't get themselves out of field goal range. a sack would lite might put them out of field goal range while a run keeps them in field goal range. they felt they had a chance of getting out of field goal range. >> gerry: john kasey will attempt a 38-yarder. kasey delivers. the panthers first on the board tonight in carolina. 2:02 to play in the 1st quarter. - i won! - we won a trip! - ( screams ) - we're going to the show! - i won! i won! - ( shouting ) ( shouting continues ) play the game millions have won -- scrabble at subway! you could win $100,000 jackpots or exclusive prizes... like prius cars, beaches vacations, cash and live nation vip concert access. play scrabble at subway... where winners eat. ♪ ♪ ♪ (announcer) it's right here, it's easy... ♪ i always feel like ♪ ...it's the money you could be saving with geico. ♪ somebody's watching me. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ who's watching? ♪ ♪ tell me w

. >> having grown up in birmingham, and having seen what the kennedys did to help all children. what we see today is that legacy. >> reporter: umbc will pay special [ overlapping dialogue ] during a program at the school's shriver center. >> what we want our children in america to understand is just how much senator kennedy and others in his family did for civil rights of all people. taught us that we ecould have the courage to speak for those who could not speak for themselves. >> like the kennedys, the doctor said those of who are fortunate in life have a responsibility to help children and all people in need. >> i'm sure a lot of people over the course of this week have been talking about his legacy. >> oh, all this week, you know. >> thanks, terry. you will be able to watch the entire funeral service and burial tomorrow right here on abc 2. president obama will be giving the eulogy. he has already arrived in boston. here is the tv schedule, which of course is subject to change. the abc special report remembering ted kennedy will start at 10 a.m. with the funeral in boston. t

east, we're also seeing showers and thunderstorms in the metro atlanta area, specifically in the birminghamk to athens, georgia. and that's moving to north carolina and south carolina for severe weather. washington, d.c., also rain, stretching into roanoke, virginia. they had plenty of rainfall back into michigan over the weekend. about five inches of rainfall. this is not too far from the flint area. more than five inches fell over the weekend, and they have floodwaters. they do not have any rain in the forecast until tuesday of next week, so they are very grateful to get a chance to dry out. robin? >> thank you. >>> a man is facing six months in jail for yawning -- okay, he stretched out and yaund inside an illinois courtroom. he has been behind bars since july 23. that's when a judge said he was in contempt of court for yawning while his cousin was being sentenced. a prosecutor called the yawn loud and boisterous. he could get out tomorrow if a judge accepts his apology. yawning! >>> people crying out about health care reforms were pretty respectful, but a guard had to be called in on th

that rain moving to birmingham. we'll see scattered showers and thunderstorms around atlanta.cross the heart of the country, denver, kansas city, st. louis. that stretches from indianapolis to detroit as well as chicago. showers and thunderstorms expected today. probably the biggest delay is in chicago. >>> we've got one storm heading across the southeastern united states. there is another one losing steam and one big enough to be called a hurricane is still brewing there. >>> plus, michael vick is back on the practice field, so how is the arm looking? >>> good morning. we have just learned that claudette has been weakened to a tropical depression. it came a shore as a tropical storm near fort walton beach, florida overnight. the first named storm to hit the u.s. mainland this season is heading into southern alabama now. bill is the atlantic season's first hurricane. it is way out there, though. see that? ana has been downgraded to a tropical depression in st. croix. so we're watching all three of those storms. >>> tiger held the lead until sunday. he was a bear and then somet

he told me he believed she was pregnant smacking of the victim, birmingham started in the personal sheshe have a partner to give them actually used about with roberto rodriguez. but then >> geraldo: in the chaos, i restraining order put on him. >> in the chaos and amount dr. michael diamond in boston has a microphone on neck wear here two mankind as an amateur deliver a baby like this. she killed woman, straddler then -- how do you do that you can only keep baby alive to get. >> first have to make sure that mom doesn't resist, by attacking the mother out somehow. but back in caesar's time called the cesarean section, because back in caesar's time it would do a caesareans section and mcbeth, shakespeare used the same sections as an important part of -- connected dysfunctional 33-year-old woman in a homeless >> is it that low tech? >> it is low tech. >> i'm sorry to interrupt, geraldo. you know, ms. corey is a woman who has had between five and six kids herself and she told people prior to. >> geraldo: wait a second, she has had five or six children and kills a woman and steals her baby?

but the rains still are coming into birmingham, alabama, and there's quite a bit of offshore, heavy rains. the circulation, it was really a minor, minor tropical system. it's now in eastern pas - -sis. look at one of the spots i tapped into. pensacola, florida, has had from the storm total 11 inches of rain. the positive of all of these tropical systems, they do bring needed rains to the gulf area. there is what is claudette. there is anna, which is really just a depression. you can see bill. i'll show you more of the track of bill. but it is a long, long way away. everything indicates it will safely be staying out to sea. and not a -- any threat to any of the east coast of the united states. tell you more about that when i join you downstairs, as well as any needed rains of our own. we've been on a dry pattern with the heat and humidity. >> thank you. >>> an investigation tonight into a disturbing incident. the death of a 2-year-old foster child inontgomery county. it happened last week in montgomery village. police tell us the child was strangled in his bedroom by the cord of a venetian

. >> reporter: the county including birmingham is in crisis.et cuts mean more than 3 hub of the 800 sheriff department employees will be out of work, off the streets and officers are fearful that crime will skyrocket. the people you talk to, are they really scared? >> they are terrified. you have elderly people living out here, living alone. they rely on us to have their back. if we're taken away. >> reporter: to avoid what officers call open season for criminals, sheriff is urging the governor to consider sending the national guard to alabama's most populous county. hale has been told he may have to cut his budget up to 50% next year from $61 million to $31 million. >> what i'll have left after furlough is enough to work the jail and a small group to work five or six areas in the county. >> reporter: the big problem, the county instantly lost about $70 million or 25% its annual budget from an occupational tax on income it collected since the 1980s, even though law makers repealed it about a decade ago, courts only recently mandated the county

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. >> we have somebody on the phone, yolanda from birmingham, alabama. >> i have an 83-year-old elderlyfather that's suffering from a bout with depression and his diet is very poor. mainly junk food and milk. what role does diet play in depression of the elderly? >> it's interesting that you even mention your dad's age. a lot of our dads, as they get older, life seems to be slipping away. they lose their interest with foods. they don't eat as well. so if you don't have good nutrition, your brain doesn't work as well. and i think the elderly and depression have probably been the most skipped part of society. there are antidepressants, yolanda, that your daddy should talk to a doctor about that don't have the big side effects of some of the other ones. but people in their 80s who suddenly don't sleep well, have the blues, don't see the real purpose to life, real reason to get help. great question, yolanda. >> thanks for the great e-mail questions we got as well. dr. nancy, great information. >>> still to come here on "today," the scottos are back to show you how to cook up the freshest pr

it is where the city of birmingham is located.oday, the latest -- at least 1/4 of the county's employees are on unpaid leave. other workers are cutting back hours. road crews are also seeking cutbacks. even regular core business will see big delays. the news is not all bad. two of the county's biggest agencies -- the sheriff's office and a hospital -- will be spent. jefferson county, alabama, in big trouble. disney tv sales are growing, but profits are dropping. now, it is about to get more expensive to hang out in the happiest place on earth. the price for a one-day, 1-park ticket for an adult just jumped to $79 up some $75. the same ticket for a child 3 years old to nine years old -- a huge discount. that is only $68. but some $63. thank you. prices for a multiple park tickets will go up as well. this went into effect just yesterday. we are tracking h1n1. yes, we are. the first day of school just many weeks away for many districts. down south, they will be starting before labor day. health officials say they are getting ready fo

and while he was in birmingham he worked with the movement there working with fred shuttlesworth. and the alabama christian movement for human rights. and when he returns in 1960 he's talking to people and trying to get them interested in of voter registration campaign. focusing, you know, it's too dangerous, too risky. in 1955 he is able to get a couple people to go down with him. and he serves eventually as the chairperson of the local movement organization. and as the chair person of the lowndes county freedom organization, the independent political party. he doesn't run for office in 1966, but in 1970 he is actually elected as the first african american sheriff in lowndes county. the book talked about, what is the trajectory of black politics from that moment forward? well, the movement doesn't have any without him. at least it doesn't have to end the way that it does without john hulett. >> in 1966 did the lowndes county freedom organization have electoral success? >> no. >> why not? >> for a couple reasons. in the november election they run seven african american candidates

feeling the impacts of this across the southeast with heavy showers and storms even towards the birmingham area. two other storms we want to mention real quickly. we have been talking about ana for a little while. this is a very weak storm, but it's important still because even though it's not going to do much over the next couple of days, it could eventually make its way towards the gulf of mexico, and if it does that, that could be a real problem for the united states, and then bill, that's been intensifying throughout the day today. now 65-mile-per-hour winds. this will likely become a hurricane late tonight or early tomorrow, don, and right now it's still well a week away if it would even have an impact on the u.s. >> jacqui, thanks very much. let's go to troy kincy of our affiliate bay news 9. what is it like along the gulf coast? are you seeing any flooding? >> reporter: none so far, don. we're in kind of a lull right now. coming to you from apalachicola and that land mass basically along the panhandle that dumps out into the gulf. we're on the eastern side of that about 20 to 25 mil

feeling the impacts of this across the southeast with heavy showers and storms even towards the birminghama. two other storms we want to mention real quickly. we have been talking about ana for a little while. this is a very weak storm, but it's important still because even though it's not going to do much over the next couple of days, it could eventually make its way towards the gulf of mexico, and if it does that, that could be a real problem for the united states, and then bill, that's been intensifying throughout the day today. now 65-mile-per-hour winds. this will likely become a hurricane late tonight or early tomorrow, don, and right now it's still well a week away if it would even have an impact on the u.s. >> jacqui, thanks very much. let's go to troy kincy of our affiliate bay news 9. he's right in the thick of it tonight. what is it like along the gulf coast? are you seeing any flooding? >> reporter: none so far, don. we're in kind of a lull right now. coming to you from apalachicola and that land mass basically along the panhandle that dumps out into the gulf. we're on the east

based in birmingham, alabama. reported a disaster of a quarter last week. but take a look at stock today. jpmorgan updwragd the stock to an overweight. the firm's feeling more optimistic that things are going to look better in the back half of 2009. most importantly, jpmorgan is talking about sales. they're saying they're looking like they've really turned a corner here. and remember, folks, sales are the make or break ahead for retailers. a lot have come out and said they cut costs, that's good for profitability, but really the question for the future is can they turn a corner on the top line growth horizon? jpmorgan sthiz that hibbette has. goldman sachs, need hham, they downgraded dick's but investors going with the group, that's up 3%. the optimism also expanding to the greater universe of sporting goods stores. cabela's, big 5. two key unknowns for these retailers, the impact of the big box discounters, we're talking about target, walmart, even costco, they all play in the sports space. plus the overall health of the consumer. that is the big unknown o

showers and thunderstorms from atlanta to birmingham on down to orlando.ought continues in south texas. >> it's 92 in dallas, 89 in new orleans, 91 in miami. a high of 85 in new york, 75 in boston, 70 in chicago and 73 in omaha. salt lake city 93, seattle 87. >> when we come back, hometown coverage of kennedy's legacy. >> you're watching "world news now." now." house, faster and easier well now you can, introducing the new... powerful... lightweight... oreck xl platinum vacuum. you don't vacuum open floors, you vacuum rooms filled with furniture. and the xl platinum makes cleaning under, around, and behind them, fast and easy! so take advantage of this limited time no-payments-no-interest-for-one- full-year offer and order your new oreck xl platinum today! also send you the powerful oreck handheld vacuum-- hi, i'm david oreck, and this is my new platinum upright vacuum. i want you to try it risk free for 30 days. you'll also receive a year's supply of filter bags free, plus this incredible steam iron, a $130 value, yours free just for trying the xl platinu

i am from birmingham and grown up in the south, i have a sense of the 79 and the southern defensiveness with regard to outsiders and now here i am a reporter from the new york times assuming the outsider role again parachuting in this little town to try to report on its but i had a hunch that this is going to be interesting. i was not disappointed if so that is sort of how this story in my reporting started and then like to talk for a moment about some thematic issues that came out of my reporting in some things that i learned from my reporting. one of the most poignant parts of this reporting on refugees that come to this country is to get a sense of how our country looks for a fresh eyes, higher society lives through fresh eyes in it that day after day somebody would say something for gimme some insight then gave the reconsideration how i lived my life. we also were going through the motions of living of lives and rarely do we stop to consider the mundane aspects are live and a simple example would be out frequently come from the york and stop at the avis counter at the airport and dr

irreal examine is the birmingham -- a real example is the birmingham public school system where they teaching filipinos to teach basic math and science to public-school students. please ask him to comment on the differences, we are no longer competitive. guest: that is right. that is the product of this disinvestment, this zeal we have had in terms of our political class in reducing the investment in schools and health care, which are related in terms of people's training. all these things which goes towards production. c i. hile -- i talked about chile earlier and how they started doubling the money they spent on education. at the same time, the rest of latin america was cutting in half. chile basically prepared their work force to produce things and be middle class. that is the failure of the american economy over the last 30 years. we have not prepared our work force to be middle-class, to produce the things that will actually create wealth for a wider class of people. host: is that because in the u.s. there might be what is perceived as a rush to go from the lower class to the up

as a matter of fact, already seeing some showers developing across alabama, say from birmingham areatching up into huntsville. nashville, you will see rain today. and all this streaming back up across kentucky. so just a lot of moisture being pulled up from the gulf of mexico. thanks to this cold front right here. and its on the bottom side of this cold front, back across oklahoma where we're seeing strong showers and thunderstorms, and we'll see the potential for severe weather as we head throughout the day today. so oklahoma city, you will see strong showers and thunderstorms, back up across kansas, you've seen heavy rainfall over the past few days. as a matter of fact, we could see several more inches of rainfall. in our map, it shows us anywhere you see yellow, going to be about two inches going to be possible across parts of oklahoma, back down into kansas. meanwhile, that cold front is helping to trigger some showers. not a lot of activity right now. we expect it to pick up as we go throughout the day today across back up into leave cland and pittsburgh, and cincinnati. if if y

joe scarborough is with us now from birmingham, alabama. joe? >> good morning, mika.rds from bobby kennedy that she made as much difference as president and senators and attorney generals and the family. that is a remarkable compliment coming from bobby. >> it sure is. we're following the story now as they say good-bye to eunice kennedy shriver. chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of msnbc's "andrea mitchell reports," andrea mitchell. andrea, good morning. what is in store today? i take it friends and family must be coming from all over the world. >> reporter: well, it's quite a celebration here today, a celebration of a great life, a life that changed the lives of millions of people around the world and as you and joe were just saying, even more so than the political figures in the kennedy clan. the kennedy family will gather brothers. ted kennedy will not be here. his wife, victoria, will be representing him. he is really clearly not well enough to be here, to be surrounded by so many people especially as he continues his cancer treatments for brain cancer.

then i went to the university of alabama in birmingham for medical school and it seemed like it was about 10 per year. >> how many years was that? >> four years. then i started training in surgery and in those days we made about $14,000 a year and slept in the hospital every other night. but what they used to say, it's better than nothing. the guys would have said you didn't have to pay us anything. but when i finished, it took me -- it was like a mortgage. it took me a decade to pay that off and i was lucky to pay it off. no regrets. >> we learned your wife is a pediatrician. you're a cardiac surgeon. what's the difference in your malpractice insurance rates? >> it's huge. it's -- my rates are greater than my wife's. i would say probably 50 times more than she pays. >> is there a doctor anymore that has not been sued? >> i think there are doctors. personally in my entire career, i was sued one time and it was dropped. ok? but that still doesn't change the fear that's engrained in all of us. we just do things a little more over the top to decrease the possibility that someone might say, w

. >>> in birmingham, alabama, last hour, a blanket pardon for civil rights protesters in the city duringavid anner naythy, his son accepted on his behalf. he was arrested to many times to count. the pardon was possible under a recent alabama law designed for civil rights protesters. it's called the civil rights protester act. our t.j. holmes spoke with larry langford as well as a civil rights protester who said no, thanks, she doesn't want a pardon. >> reporter: do you want a pardon? >> why, that's exactly why i for one and several others i've had an opportunity to speak with and especially a 92-year-old man who said, no, we do not want a pardon. i don't want one. to say give me a pardon or for me to take a pardon, it would say that we as children and others, that we had done something wrong. we did no wrong. now, the pardon should go to those who wronged us, but everything that we did was right, fighting for freedom and going to jail to be able to par miss participate. >> you're offering people a pardon is saying you did something wrong and we're going to forgive you for it versus the c

that is a town the size of baton rouge, louisiana, and birmingham, alabama.was just in july and that is people taken out of the home. they are gone. it is foreclosed on. it is over, finished. the 360,000 foreclosure was notices. that is people who are going to be pushed out of those homes in the months to come. one million every 12 weeks. we have never seen a before. bill: thank you, stu. you will be back next hour. don't go far. we are on line ready for your questions about the news. megyn: one ar of health care reform you didn't hear the white house talking about is tort reform. how much exactly are frivolous lawsuits costing our healthcare system? numbers just in from do we sue 'em and how. bill: thanks for that. there is new video of a midair collision last saturday in the hudson river in new york. what the two pilots were doing at the time of collision. how this new evidence will lead investigators to hopefully find a resolution. megyn: you can go to fox news.com and click on the story to find out more about close calls over the river's air space. (annou