look at birmingham. reason why kennedy was worried about what happened in birmingham was not just , and form but the fear that fear to be realized, they were making that happen. they very much responded to king and said, let's do birmingham here, and that put a real sort of real spin on kennedy's fear. want tothese, i do not save bit players, because everyone is important, but you cannot really understand that story until you understand the role he played, but at the same time, guys who were very much in washington, part of washington, but who were representing the whoment, clarence mitchell, was the super lobbyist. he is remembered as being one of the greatest lobbyists of all time. he was the head lobbyist of the naacp. he could go in, a black man, into the office richard russell, the most stalwart segregationist, head of the southern democrats, sit down and have a conversation, and they respected each other and disagreed, and i am sure at the end of the day, mitchell did not like him, but they could t

people here in birmingham are told get off the streets, hunker down. live in a manufactured home, get out of it, get to sturdy shelter. the streets here, not many people moving around. and those who do are advised to get inside pretty soon. as you can see, the wind is starting to kick up here. we're feeling some rain a little bit. a tornado warning just north of here in athens, alabama, a short time ago. it is moving toward us very, very fast, wolf. >> do you have a safe area for you and the crew, brian? >> reporter: we do. there's a parking garage here to my right. we can actually show this to you, we can hunker down here if we have to. the emergency management agency underground facility is right there. we can bang on the door and we think they'll let us in. we have a place to go. we're going to stay safe, but will also be out here monitoring the storms. >> brian todd watching the situation for us, and it is an awful situation. a major, major city like birmingham, alabama, potentially at risk right now. as we've been reporting, up to 50 million ameri

al roker starting us off from birmingham tonight. al, thanks. we're just beginning see the full scope of damage done by dozens of tornados in the first wave of this storm from the midwest on into the south. one of them a mile wide tornado, another carving a path 100 miles long across the state of arkansas. lester holt is in hard hit mayflower, arkansas tonight north of little rock. lester, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. look at this tattered twisted landscape behind me, pieces of homes and businesses and vehicles swept off i-40 about 200 yards from where i'm standing. in some cases, pull peopled from the wreckage of these vehicles. that tornado tore through faulkner county where i am. the bore the worst of it. 14 people died in arkansas. many others saying if not for a miracle, they wouldn't be around today. >> get in the car! >> reporter: the first significant tornado outbreak of the season. setting off warning sirens and tearing through as many as seven states stretching from nebraska and iowa down to mississippi. in mayflower

the kimberly church of god 15 miles north of birmingham, alabama lays in rubble. this is the old chapel. you can see there's a building right next to it still standing, but without a roof. just down the street, the kimberly fire department received significant damage. but, emblemmatic of the resiliency of the people of alabama, the church said they will still have a service on sunday. there were several firefighters inside when the storm struck. they were all able to get out and they are all accounted for. there's a lot we don't know right now because a lot of the storms hit after the sun went down. there's a lot of police and sheriff's officials blocking roads keeping people from intruding and looting so they can assess the damage and check on their loved ones on tuesday morning. in kimberly, alabama, i'm chris womack. >> this is what the storm system looks like from a nasa satellite. you can see the development of the movement of the weather pattern including the explosive outbreak of tornadoes. 34 tornadoes reported in at least six states. another twister repor

i can think of two wonderful examples, everyone would be familiar with the letter from the birmingham jail by dr. king which is not only briton for the new york times also a pamphlet by christian groups, civil rights groups with the intent of changing public perception about the urgency or the need of civil rights protests and civil rights revolution in the country. did these people are agitators', they don't understand how difficult it is to change this culture, why do they foment these confrontations that lead to violence. so with king in much the way of any pamphleteer throughout history sort of nailing his letter to the church door and appealing to for a shift in the way americans thought about race and it would prove highly effective. the second example i would cite to you quickly comes from experience i recently had. it is in "eyes on the prize" but i went through an experience recently where a group of congressmen and women went south, 50 years, next year will be 50 years after the freedom ride and all that, and after freedom summit, went to mississippi, and one of the places w

so the distance between birmingham and boise is 2.ases. these statistics get at the large-scale structure of the network, but what about small-scale properties, the sort of "clumpiness" of the network? one way to measure these properties is to show, for any given node, what fraction of nodes in the graph it's connected to. another way is to ask, "what is the probability that it's connected to any other node?" a node connected to a large proportion of the graph is a hub, like an airline hub, which is on average connected directly to more cities than non-hubs. this is a simple notion of clustering, but there are more subtle notions inspired by the considerations of social networks. there, instead of asking how likely it is that i'm friends with a random person in the world, we ask how likely is it that two of my friends are themselves friends? in network lingo, we're asking how likely is it that two nodes connected directly to me are themselves connected, that our three little nodes complete a triangle? it turns out that in social netwo

we are in a small town just north of birmingham. and i want you to take a look behind me because this is the church or at least it was a church, and at one point throughout the night, there were people trapped beneath it in the basement. amazingly, they got out, but, boy, it was a wild night in alabama. lightning tears through the skies near birmingham. the storm's fury menacing towns all across the south. [ sirens ] >> reporter: sirens blaring. that ominous warning in alabama that a deadly tornado was on the way. this is the same storm that we're seeing here. this is the same storm that was in tuscaloosa. that tornado on the ground moving towards birmingham. we're going to go down and get shelter right now. we're on top of a hotel. it's just too dangerous up here. >> there's like two tornadoes over there. >> reporter: 13 tornadoes touching down across alabama just in the last 24 hours responsible for at least two deaths. and now reports that a 21-year-old in tuscaloosa died after doing the right thing, going into his basement. but

we have another very dangerous storm right outside of birmingham.he north and east of this particular storm we have another one. it is on its heels. it is going to cross over 635. the sirens have been going off in birmingham over the last hour or so. a very dangerous situation there. we have possibly two, maybe three confirmed tornados on the ground between tuscaloosa and just to the north of birmingham. this is also an area we need to watch closely around gardendale. we have reports of tornados on the ground heading in your direction. so a very, very volatile situation right here. it is going to be fluid for the next couple hours. tornado warnings from south of huntsville south of tuscaloosa. if you are on the south side of tuscaloosa all the way up to birmingham be on the lookout. get in your safe spot. these tornados, it's nighttime. you won't be able to see them and they are rain wrapped as well. heed the warnings and get in your safe spot. >> we saw what happened overnight. a number of people died because of these tornados. it is indeed a prior

the only goes in birmingham is his holy ghost. proving and moving in and out of things.and it just blew my mind. he used to say what about malcolm and this and that a nice and yeah, you know it but i said that they go on in the south and it was a regional problem and that was part of what puts on the culture to resurrect the archetype that shows the rebelliousness of the black masses of the country. and another thing is the long hot summers when they fight all over this country. >> we have a question. [applause] >> thank you. >> when we were putting this panel together, i wanted the audience to experience the exchange that i experienced when i went to the panel and saw all of the umber poets and people from the black arts movement coming together and talking and it's really been interesting and exciting. i expected to see a little but more fighting. >> it was very conscientious. and i would like you to comment on do you see any contemporary black artist we can say or influence by the umber movement and can you share your insights and thoughts on that? >> singing the prai

-- they have never murdered little girls as was done in birmingham, had never at any time been guilty of initiating any aggressive acts entire 33e during the years or more that mohammed has been teaching us. thatharge of violence comes from the guilt complex that exists in the conscious and subconscious minds of most white people in this country. they know that they have been violent in their brutality against negroes. they feel that someday they will wake up and try to do unto them as they have done onto the whites as the whites have done under us. taught by mohammed to be -- obey the law, respect everyone who respects us, show courtesy, people like. we are also taught anyone in any 62 inflicts or tsolence on us -- or inflic violence upon us, we are within our religious right to retaliate. >> from october, 1963, an interview with malcolm x. sunday on american history tv's ica" on c-span3. was the lastauss u.s. ambassador to the soviet union and the first russia. he died on march 19 at the age of 95. he held several other positions and politics, including democratic chairman and speci

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this covers birmingham and 34 other cities in this area.line of storms which is entering alabama now. two counties southwest of here have a tornado warning. public works and law enforcement officials here coordinating with others like them in the general area. they're monitoring that track of storms on the map right there. you can see that track is coming right toward where birmingham is. birmingham is the gray spotted area in the middle. these storms are coming right here. they're monitoring road conditions. they're bracing for this line of storms. i'm here with alan, emergency management director for jefferson county. what you tells people right now to do as this approaching? >> have a safety plan. go to your place of safety when the warns comes. helmet, portab battery, flashlight and have a safety plan and place to go. >> reporter: what's the most common mistake people make in these situations? >> they run outside and want to see the storm. they don't go to their place of safety. >> reporter: thanks so much. food luck throughout the nigh

so it's not only birmingham, jackson, mississippi, but also atlanta, charlotte, and tallahassee. so what has started out as a very slow year in terms of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes specifically has really ramped up. we'll be under the gun until at least wednesday. >> and we'll be watching. jim cantore, thanks. >>> there is new fallout tonight involving those disparaging comments about african americans allegedly made by the owner of the los angeles clippers basketball team. more of what was said in that conversation has now emerged. we get the latest from nbc's joe fryer in oakland, california, where the clippers made a play-off appearance this afternoon. joe? >> reporter: good evening, lester. in the wake of this controversy, clippers owner donald sterling did not show up at the arena today as his team loses a tough play-off game. heading into the game, it wasn't clear how the controversy would impact players. some of the clippers made a silent but powerful statement by removing their branded warm-ups and leaving them center court, wearing their gear inside out. >> this i

we have this report from birmingham. >> birmingham is home to one of the britain's largest muslim populations. it's communities like that where counterterrorism projects are being put. programs like this, after school, engaging the community. >> the main aim is to steer kids away from the possibility of being radicalized. >> the british government says it's prevent program is designed to stop people becoming terrorists. many british muslims in communities like this one say it's nothing more than a surveillance program in which they are being unfairly targeted. recently they started offering mandatory training. on how to identify extremists and report them to authorities. it's policies like this that cause the public to lose trust. a nurse from the national health service talked to al jazeera, on condition that we disguise her voice. >> we were told to look up the characteristics of someone that may be vulnerable to radicalizition. al jazeera obtained copies, listing symptoms that should be looked out for. >> offering the training, it's almost as if we are becoming government reporters. >> i a

columbus, to birmingham to huntsville, you'll see the storms over you. as far as the severe weather risk, a slight risk for tusk lou is a, birmingham, knoxville. we don't have the tornado threat like yesterday. wind damage will be the biggest problem during the day today. >> what of a relief. >> i would say we got lucky no fatalities. >>> declassified. we will get the first look into a senate report on post 9/11 cia interrogation methods. tracy pots live in washington. some have called the report shoging. >> reporter: that's what diane feinstein called. she's part of the committee that wants to release it. it's not new. they approved it more than a year ago. but the public hasn't seen it yet. did the cia cross the line using water and other techniques to interrogate terror suspects after 9/11? did it work? is this how the u.s. tracked down bin laden? and prevented other attacks? we may soon know. the senate intelligence committee voted 11-3 thursday to give the pub lake look at the summary of the 6200 page report. >> the results, i think, were shocking.

that's the birmingham fire department making rescues. those are cars that are submerged. the whole apartment complex, they had to rescue everyone out of the apartment, everyone is safe, but all the bottom floors are flooded out. we wish them the best in their slow recovery as the waters recede. out in the west, as quiet can be. light showers over the weekend. a tenth to two ten. >>> of an inch of rain. a warm weather pattern through this week with high pressure system centered right over the west. your forecast for your monday, 88 in phoenix. we're starting to head towards 90. vegas, 81. 86 in l.a. san francisco, 71. medford, 78. the west is best. that's your national forecast. >>> as you know, once the warm season usually sets up, it is very difficult to get any additional rain in there. so we may be done. >> all right, thank you, bill karins. >>> secretary of defense hagel preparing to view china's first military aircraft carrier. plus, new details on the spring break party that had over 100 arrests and dozens taken to the hospital. "early today" is back in two. . at hi

birmingham city council are currently investigating a document that makes allegations about the so-called operation trojan horse now it alleges that there was a plot by some muslim members of the educational community here to effectively takeover some of the schools and run them by islamic principles if you will centricity is the lesser is unknown the firming him city council has since launched investigations into twenty five schools in the area department of education has described the allegations as very serious and instructed the country's official watchdog to inspect fifteen schools despite the official response and the column inches the lesser gains the allegations are not new r.t. spoke to a former teacher at parkview academy he says he first raised concerns more than two decades ago called trojan horse letter actually describes what has gone on certainly three schools to my knowledge and the local authority knew about it nothing to say school become a prisoner within the local community. language with just basically what's at the time but his accusations were not looked into at the

mississippi up through birmingham alabama. that's the elevated risk. anywhere in orange you saw in steve's piece, even north carolina could see still tonight. the threat stays with us tomorrow. not as big. but it is not to be ignored. tomorrow from north florida all the way through the midatlantic. that's the risk area. what i wanted to tell you was the next answer to the natural question. why is this happening? something called a cut off low. winds leave this thing behind. it gets stuck there and it sits and it spins and turns so that violent storms keep happening in the same exact place and that's the problem here tonight as so many people take their safe places, i wanted to mention before the thing gets kicked out by the midweek and beyond as you saw in the graphic, grab this, a helmet because you never know when you're in that safe place you could have debris flying and your head would be more safe with this. >> great advice. we want to say something else we saw we saw. survivors raising the american flag above the wreckage. an echo of ewagema as f

we had to fly into birmingham, alabama, driving northwest. ran into a semi that had turned over on the road. we were backed up. it was basically a parking lot in the pouring rain for an hour. and now, trying to get around in tupelo overnight, a lot of the roads are closed. we see a lot of downed trees and such. we know when the sun comes up and this community tries to survey what's happened here, it's going to be pretty ugly and pretty tough to look at. >> all right. going to be a long couple of days for the community there. scott goldberg, live from tupelo, mississippi. thank you. >>> all right. well, things got tense for a mississippi television station in the severe weather. >> during a live broadcast, the chief meteorologist at wtva forced the crew to evacuate the studio and head to the basement. >> basement, now. >> go. >> go. now. >> what? >> now. >> the station later tweeted out that everyone was safe. >> wow. that's dramatic stuff. >>> the national weather service is calling this storm a multiday event. >> and it says the tornado thre

the slight risk moves farther east, birmingham and even new orleans looking for that threat for severe weather today. you can see the current watch boxes already out this morning, tornado watch boxes in the red, and yellow severe thunderstorm watch boxes. so, definitely, that threat is moving farther east. just watch the system as it progresses far to the east and look how unique this is at this time of year. not only the heavy rain spreading east, but on the back side, look at this, still talking about snow. looks like winter is returning and all this cold air coming in from canada once again will be filling in behind it. this is key. first, let's talk about the rain, heavy rain along with severe weather, heavy thunderstorms, as much as 3 1/2 inches, even flooding concerns into the southeast up to the northeast the next couple days, an inch and a half of rain. then there's the cold air, right? so, on the back side, we're talking about snow, guys. albany, 3 inches of snow, trace in through chicago today and kind of overnight into new york city. tomorrow night even looking for a chance

lightning struck it just as it approached the airport in birmingham, england. a man on the ground captured the moment with her phone, passengers say it sounded like the engine had blown up. the pilot waited until they landed smoothly before announcing that they had been hit by lightning. >>> workers have found several more bodies at the site of the devastating mudslide in washington state. the death tollow stands at 24 thoughnly 18 of them have been officially identified. but there's been another decline in the number of missing now down to 22 and the governor asked for federal aid to offset losses to individuals now totaling $10 million. >>> a note on the war in afghanistan for the first time in more than seven years a full calendar month has passed without an american service member being killed in combat. it's only the third time that's happened. two coalition soldiers died there last month but their deaths are considered noncombat casualties. >>> there are new reports this morning the u.s. may release convicted israeli spy to jump-start the faltering mideas

one i think everyone here would be familiar with is the letter from the birmingham jail by dr. king, which is not only written for "the new york times." it appears as an op-ed in "the new york times," but also distributed as a pamphlet by christian groups, civil rights groups, with the intent of changing public perception about the urgency or the need of civil rights protests and civil rights revolution in the country. the argument had been that, gosh, these people are agitators, impatient. they don't understand that -- how difficult it is to change this culture. why do they foment these confrontations that lead to violence? here with king, in much the way of any pamphleteer, throughout all history, sort of failing his letter to the church door. and appealing for a shift in the way that americans thought about race, and it would prove highly effective. he second example i would cite for you quickly, comes from experience i recently had. it's in "eyes on the prize" but i just went through the experience recently where a group of congressmen and women went down south, this being

i said that at the age of 16, i turned around and turned on the tv, and there were children in birmingham marching into dogs and fire hoses, singing the songs i sang in sunday school and not running from the dogs and fire hoses and not waiting until they were 30 or had the advances that i had growing up middle class in thrans, and it was so stupefying to me it changed the direction of my life's interest against my will. where did that come from? it was their activity, this stupidity, when the movement about to go down the tubes, condemned by every political figure in the united states from george wallace to kennedy to malcome x to use small children in those demonstrations as young as 8 and 6 years old by the thousands when they could only get the conditions in birmingham so intimidating to black adults they only got ten or 12, and with the greatest speech in the church that got 10 adults. they were terrified, but they got 1,000 kids to march and another thousand on may 3rd, and it melted the emotional resistance to dealing with the fundamental issues of american freedom presented by race

great scenary the best fondness for the quick and easy takeaway ought to but in this particular birmingham suburbs there are eight fast food takeaways within one hundred yards of each other they take up twenty two percent of the overall shopping area and according to the city how solve this abundance of junk food is putting people's lives at risk waistlines are expanding across the u.k. almost two thirds of adults and one third of children are tipping the scales the chief medical officer is so worried that being overweight is being normalized that she wants a tax on sugar here in britain second biggest city your thirties have a fight on their hands in the battle of the bulge we have roughly one hole through takeaway for every thousand people live in the city we don't want or neighborhood shopping centers to be. five different charges so we decided to it was reasonable i believe for us to search a threshold of ten percent that's right safety plan is a putting the streets on a strict diet turning away potential takeaways from even opening up but fitness guru suspect there's more to it than a

now, we are about 20 minutes from birmingham, alabama. the tornado didn't touch the downtown, but these outer lying areas took the hit, downed trees, downed power lines, roof damage, structural damage. we just talked to the police chief and he said so far no reports of injuries in this immediate area, which is great news. this has been a deadly string of tornadoes, so any news that people escaped without injury is very welcome right now. >> sarah, you mentioned the power outages, how widespread are they and when will power be restored across that region? >> it's a huge, huge project, thousands right now without power. it is not a simple task. if you take this road behind me like we did earlier this morning, you don't have to drive too far before you come across countless power lines together on the ground, trailing across the asphalt into people's yards. it's not an easy fix. you got to work on one at a time before you get to the next one. some people can't get out of their homes, everyone being very, very careful. some schools closed in

i'm happy to look at the -- ifi you look last week, we got 8000 jobs from birmingham city airport, over a thousand jobs. what was j big is businesses wanting to locate in britain, take people on in britain. >> in 1967, the term limit was set at 28 weeks. in 1990 it was reduced to 24 weeks. given in 2014, given recent break throughs in neo natalnd n carry. does the prime minster agree it is now time to reduce the abortion term limits to 22 weeks? >> i had an opportunity to votei on this issue.e it's always open to members of parliament to bring forward legislation and for the house to debate this. >> does the prime minster or any member of his cabinet have the members to resign? >> she took her own decision. it was communicated that decision in a letter. any member should respect that decision. >> i can -- it is important, despite the difficulties faces, the government should dothat everything it can went rules tor look at whether there's health and assistance we can give. i'm being kept up to date with it.e fo >> [inaudible] >> my view it is an entirelyu positive one. what wehi can achi

they have never murdered anyone to girls, as was done in birmingham. they have never lynched anybody. they have never been guilty of initiating any sort of aggressive act of violence. during the entire 33 years or more that mohammed has been teaching. stemsarge of violence from the guilt complex that conscience of most white people in this country. they know that they have been violent. they have had brutality against negroes. they feel that someday the negro will wake up and do want to them as they have done -- do want to the whites as they have done to them. taught by alicia -- elijah mohammed to respect everyone who respects us. we must display courtesy and be polite. we are also taught that if at any time, anyone, in any way us, we areolence on within our religious right to retaliate in self-defense to the maximum degree of possibility. >> from october 1963, an interview with malcolm x. atday on american history tv 4:00 p.m. eastern on c-span three. robert strauss was the last u.s. ambassador to the soviet union and the first to russia. he died on

the focus around birmingham and north of mobile. as we mentioned, this is an expansive area with a slight risk today. another 73 million people today looking for a slight risk. remember a slight risk does not mean you cannot still have a very strong tornado. that risk is still there for major cities, virginia, cleveland, charlotte, even tallahassee eveb bln going thro the afternoon. still a tornado watch box in panama city. watching this convective nature intensify through the morning. left the sun in there. talking about this day after day. see the low sitting off the coast in the northeast? this guy is parked here bringing rain to the northeast. since it's parked there it is blocking the system behind it from bringing in, or moving farther to the east. here it is again. that cold front. all the moisture coming off the southeast. all of this blows up you can see going through the afternoon. that's the concern as we go through the day again today. then through tomorrow, such a slow-moving system. we're still looking at a severe weat

birmingham is dried up, but now towards atlanta, a lot of rain.or another couple hours. that will clear out this afternoon. as far as rain goes, 2 inches in atlanta, birmingham about 4 and a quarter. south of there, mobile, less than that. you get the idea. it's very soggy. and this was one of the images i got last night too from bailey collins of the fire department arriving in boats to get the people out of those homes. as far as the tornado threat goes, the watch continues for another hour or two. we haven't had any tornadoes since about mid morning or should say about my mid morning. it was about 4:00 a.m. or so. that was just in the areas of mississippi. and that tornado did damage a church heavily. it was a big tornado, but thankfully temperature movesly over rural areas. later on this afternoon, still a threat of severe weather, eastern north carolina, eastern south carolina to north florida, all the way through much of the state of georgia. these storms will get a little stronger through the afternoon. as far as the west coast goes, you're

including birmingham and just north of mobile. that's 2 1/2 million of you today under the gun for moderate risk. even a slight risk today including 73 million of you. detroit to virginia beach back through tallahassee today. this concern is huge. remember, slight risk does not mean you cannot still get a very large tornado in its path. today, warnings and watches. here's the watch box including atlanta and panama city beach and asheville. it's the afternoon when you get the sunlight in there you start to see these things explode. that's the reason to see them pick up toward the afternoon and evening hours. why are we still dealing with this? a huge system blocking it. this guy is bringing you rain in the northeast. this is blocking this system from moving forward. same cold front bringing all that enhanced weather down to the southeast. not moving fast. the key thing is though, any tornadoes that pop up those cells are moving very fast. 50 miles per hour. in through tomorrow, risk in d.c. back in through florida. a threat nowhere

he turned on a dime when the march on washington and those birmingham demonstrations made it obvious that in the future, overt segregation and talking overtly about race was no longer going to be respectable. he switched his message adroitly. he said he was running only to restore local government against big government by bureaucrats, to radical judges and tax-and-spend legislators. and that he had never denigrated the race of any person or group of people in history, and people wanted to believe it and that's the beginning of this remembered history and that's the beginning of the book category of modern politics. and if you don't believe that big government opposition today and that the notion that what makes me say -- safe and free as not all that painstaking guys that we built up over two centuries of democracy for oregon and for our politics, but the pistol that i carry into starbucks, if you don't believe that that's not driven -- [applause] -- by race, ask yourself why is it that big government is only a slogan and never analyzed. what part of big government? big government a

be familiar with. [ chanting ] >> reporter: you've heard of the marches in selma, the clashes in birminghamand the lunch counter sit-ins in greensboro. but do you know what happened here in san francisco? >> this building is one of the most important site in civil rights history. >> reporter: and it happened 50 years ago today. >> this event had a very significant but unrecognized impact on history. >> reporter: by the spring of 1964, the bay area's civil rights movement had enough momentum to mount its first large protest. a massive demonstration at the palace hotel one of the many san francisco businesses that refused to hire african- americans. and it worked. >> so after the palace hotel, the next stop was cadillac. and what they did, they just came in and they basically got in the way. >> reporter: and once again, it worked. >> the entire auto industry entered into agreements to hire more african-americans. >> reporter: a historian says photographs from that day reveal the secret to the movement's success. >> you remember in '63, they got dogs and fire hoses in birmingham. in san franci

you can probably see the plur kiness of the morning here in birmingham. can feel the pollution in the back of your throat. we've been here for a couple hours. my nose is starting to run, my eyes feel watery. it's a very tangible thing. it's all caused by a saharan dust blown in along with pollution from main land europe. it's creating a bit of a perfect storm. not a great deal of wind to blow that pollution away. at the same time there's high pressure sitting on top which is trapping the pollutants. it makes for a pretty unpleasant few days for many people in many parts of the country. i want to introduce you to professor rob mckenzie, an atmosphere scientists. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> reporter: how concerned should people be about this? >> i think those people in vulnerable categories. that's people who have a pre-existing respiratory problem and the elderly should be paying heed to the advice going out across the media today. >> talk about solutions. is this something that can be tackled by individual countries or realistically we're loo

not just nash vol to the north but teethes, birmingham, montgomery, alabama, and this looks like in thesippi area, there's a tornado on the ground with that storm as well. >> we believe it's inside the big pink cell. here's he new watches and warning, greenwood, grenada, and tupelo, and those towns that are just to the north of there on highway 45, you know who you are. if you're in that area, this is as serious a storm system i have scene for that area. we'll be right back. honestly, i'm pouring everything i have into this place. that's why i got a new windows 2 in 1. it has exactly what i need for half of what i thought i'd pay. and i don't need to be online for it to work. it runs office, so i can do schedules and budgets and even menu changes. but it's fun, too -- with touch, and tons of great apps for stuff like music, 'cause a good playlist is good for business. i need the boss's signature for this. i'm the boss. ♪ honestly ♪ i wanna see you be brave >>> continuing coverage of what is call the worst storm outbreak of the year. this cell at tupelo, mississippi, continues to grow. t

it does release commuter traffic on birmingham himself.ou have to look at what is happening with the concentration of business in the south. that has continued and continues to increase. we need to see something to attract business back to the north, particularly major companies. approximately three years. i don't dispute that parliament has the authority to review and rigorously debate this. as i said, time is money. we could really use a lot of time, or we could well gain many

about 2.5 million of you are in the area, including birmingham and north of mobile, but a good 73 million people today have a slight risk for tornadoes, also severe weather. still, even with a slight risk, you can get a very strong tornado. do not confuse the two. what are we looking at right now? still tornado watches even at this hour, really seeing all this energy still farther down into the southeast. what are we looking for? look what we saw just the last day or so. we're talking about 70 reports of tornado damage. unfortunately, that severe weather is still in the forecast as we go through the afternoon, especially today. why are we still dealing with this? look at this huge low hanging out offshore in the northeast. this guy's pretty much blocking this system behind it, so we're looking at the second one almost in place from where it was 48 hours ago, the same storm threat triggering energy into the southeast. that is the reason we'll still be talking about this for days to come. we're still talking even in through tomorrow looking at another severe weather threat, this time farthe

down in birmingham, sirens sounded 8:00 p.m. they continue well past might night. here's the damage we're seeing, winds shearing off a portion of the roof in an apartment complex, that looks dangerous but it's what you can't see that's the most dangerous. a gas leak. they had to be evacuated as that was repaired. the medical center lost power last night and had to operate on emergency generators but were able to keep the doors open. an area near here, you have more problems, downed power lines, downed trees, huge trees pulled up at the roots and laid across the road in people's driveways. we saw a garage blown into a bit of a gult. it was a bit of a scary night for people. tornados came through when it was dark. you couldn't see very well. you could hear the eerie call of the sirens and you knew there's a chance something was headed to you. in birmingham they evacuated people from the higher floors of tall buildings, hotels putting their guests in their tornado shelters. we are expecting more bad weather today. already you can see it's really gray, really cloudy. w

but fitness curry suspect there's more to it than a giant pathway of junk food outlets making birmingham's mouths water deprivation plays a major part having access to facilities and having access to one hot meal a day of healthy foods and also fruits of that nature of the same and everything but here in the project is this not even some of those feeding the high fat appetites agree i think is the case of we have fun we have got seven or eight kids . and is that getting something like a chicken a cure for emerging or greed and they're probably used to you could just go out and get it rather than if they got why would you give them enough to cook it always costing them a lot more and it's the kids who are the biggest concern. one in four of all ten year olds is a base and we're entering in a row which children are going to top it before they get full by parents because if they were based timing in the hay pits cafe controlled diet will help it said if m.h. is a tough town as preston struggles with it each mission impossible. it's a pleasure having you with us today here when i see internati

today will be another day of tornado activity from birmingham back towards meridian and eastern jackson. moderate risk, not quite as bad as yesterday but we expect tornadoes and potentially damaging tornadoes today. >> what do you think is going to be the worst area? do you think -- arkansas and northern georgia out of the storm area now? >> it's not -- not northern georgia and not for alabama, moderate risk for northern and season tral alabama and southern mississippi and southern alabama as well as parts of georgia. but tonight this afternoon as a front comes down this will be the final assault as far as this big upper wave. we'll have tornadoes again starting southeastern jackson and marching across southeast mississippi into western and southern alabama, again, this afternoon after 4:00. we're going to have a lot of tornadoes again today. >> jeff, thanks very much for being with us today. this morning treasury secretary jack lieu is testifying and said sanctions are taking an economic toll. lew said the u.s. is prepared to take additional steps if russia doesn't change its ways. it

you can sit inside of a replica of a birmingham jail cell where dr.ing wrote his letter defending non-violent resistence. the montgomery bus featuring rosa park complete with statues of women outside. >> every day women who easily have been rosa parks wanting to have a seat on the bus. >> one of the primary new exhibits is about brown versus the board of education, the case that ended legal segregation in public schools. it takes you from inside the courtroom to inside the classroom where it shows that there were legal challenges happening all across the country in places like iowa and in michigan. curators added more 40 new videos and touch screens to appeal to younger visitors and create a more immersesive experience. >> we can't get away from it. it should never be forgotten. everybody must know what happened from generations on. >> reporter: the museums final chapter explores present day issues encouraging visitors not to be transported back in time, but to be part of today's movement. jonathan martin, al jazeera, memphis, tennessee. >> thank you

then came birmingham, helped to be organized by dr. king.nded americans who were wondering about civil rights were disgusted by those pictures of barking dogs attacking teenage civil rights activists down in birmingham and in the spring of 1965, very much the same, johnson was worried about sending a voting rights bill, as you said, it was selma that helped him to do is it. >> i wish we had more time. >> my pleasure. >> thank you so much, sir, for being here. >> always. >> i do want to go take us back to texas where a memorial service for the three victims killed at ft. hood last week is under way. president obama is set to speak shortly. we'll remind you 16 people were wounded when the suspect opened fire on the military base one week ago today. and joining me now, i think we are either just waiting for the president to start talking, so we are not going to actually talk, but we'll go for a moment with colonel jack jacobs an msnbc military analyst as well as former marine and grio contributor goldie taylor. we can quickly go to goldie and c

. >> by all accounts the picture perfect streets of birmingham, michigan are an ideal place to raise children. it's hometown usa. >> i was an irish catholic, middle class girl that lived in the suburbs. i had a nice family and went to church. i was a good kid. i did not party and i wasn't loose. i was just a normal, every day kid. >> back in 1981, teresa flores was a 15-year-old high school student. that's when her family relocated from a small, rural town to this upscale suburb outside of detroit. >> i think it was the hardest move that we made. >> teresa's family moved every year as her father, an executive, climbed the corporate ladder. in 1981 that meant a new house, new friends, and starting a new life in a new high school. unlike the small, rural high school she had attended, her new high school had thousands of kids who teresa considered exotic, including a junior named daniel. >> he was very flashy and wore like ralph lauren pants that were ironed and loafer shoes and lots of gold jewelry and nice-smelling cologne. and i was drawn to it. >> one day daniel offered teresa a rid

birmingham included in this. if you look at the numbers more than half a million people in the path of this devastating storm. this is one we will keep a close watch on. also watching the storm closer to birmingham. look to the north we have been watching the severe storms just to the north of the city. racing to the north and east and these are very powerful and then i want to take you to tennessee. we have with the storm prediction center is calling a particularly dangerous situation. the tornado warnings are heading toward the city of knox fill in that direction. if the soil together this could be potentially dangerous where there could be a confirmed tornado on the ground. we have seen confirmation of a couple of tornadoes on the ground in alabama and even in tennessee. barry dangerous situation. happening in the middle of the night which we know is the worst case scenario. get your safe spot as fast as you can. i want to plot this quickly and we can. it will show you which counties are effective. monroe incl

and operational advice to the british railway company high speed 2, planning to link cities like birmingham andaman chester. >> translator: this is the first step for us to gain a foothold in the british high speed rail project. >> the japanese railway firm aims to gain a contract for the $8.3 billion project by promoting its know-how in safe operations. >>> on to the markets. japan's benchmark stock index rose to a level we haven't seen in more than three weeks. nikkei average climbed .8%, finishing out 15,071, putting it above the 15,000 level since march 15th. other major forces in the asia pacific region did run into a bit of profit taking after a recent winning streak. beijing's announcement on stimulus measures wasn't enough to maintain the positive momentum across the region. the shanghai deposit god an additional boost, cutting taxes for smaller businesses, but the index did finish the day down .75%, 2,043 following two straight days of advances. traders on the tokyo stock exchange have pushed trading volumes to a record high. they were spurred along by the bank of japan's stimulus

for today, nashville, memphis, back toward birmingham and jackson, all of this, we could see a couple of tornados, perhaps a couple of long-track tornados, damaged wind gusts. for tuesday it's mississippi eastward over toward the carolinas. a little further to the east, greenville, columbia, and charlotte all in that risk zone. not just the severe storms but the amount of rainfall with the slow movement, locally 5 inches or more possible. the extra caution with flash flooding, the adage we always use, turn around, don't drown. i'm meteorologist eric fisher for cbs news. >>> this morning the australian prime minister announce thad the hunt for the missing malaysian jet will enter a new phase. the search will move away from the ocean surface and instead search, most material would have become waterlogged and sank. >> it could take eight months to cover the expanded search area. flight 370 disappeared march 8 with 239 passengers and crew. >>> the death toll from the sunken south korean ferry has risen to 188. it's believed more than 100 bodies remain trapped in the ferry. in just release