i am the founder of the dental aid society in chattanooga. one of the reasons why this organization was founded was because there has been a great deal of staff in the united states -- death in the united states due to lack of coverage for dental. when will we be talking about these issues? we have invited the president to come to chattanooga to address the issue of access to care in the area of dental. all over the country we have seen deplorable health [no audio] host: are you still there? we got the point. comments? guest: if you look at the condition of america's dental health, there is no question that we have much improved over the last century, but to the greater point, do you want health insurance? what is insurance? many conservatives believe that insurance should cover catastrophic events. cancer, you break your leg, and expensive procedure. one of the problems with the direction we're going is that we are covering things that are not expensive. things like going for a dental checkup, that should be paid out of pocket. if you do tha

i am the founder of the dental aid society in chattanooga. one of the reasons why this organization was founded was because there has been a great deal of staff in the united states -- death in the united states due to lack of coverage for dental. when will we be talking about these issues? we have invited the president to come to chattanooga to address the issue of access to care in the area of dental. all over the country we have seen deplorable health [no audio] host: are you still there? we got the point. comments? guest: if you look at the condition of america's dental health, there is no question that we have much improved over the last century, but to the greater point, do you want health insurance? what is insurance? many conservatives believe that insurance should cover catastrophic events. cancer, you break your leg, and expensive procedure. one of the problems with the direction we're going is that we are covering things that are not expensive. things like going for a dental checkup, that should be paid out of pocket. if you do tha

they are getting a respite but this area from i would say the tennessee river valley, chattanooga to huntsville in to new orleans and southeast texas, this area could get another one to three inches of rain today. we have a tropical connection down here. our winds in the upper levels of the atmosphere have shifted off the gulf of mexico. that's pushing all of the rain up this side of the 57lations. a warmer humid air mass and it is on top of us. so we can feel the humidity. we don't have any triggers in the atmosphere to dump the rain on us. that's a good thing. we are getting by with a humid sky but not necessarily the torrential rain. good job today pinpointing the rain across the eastern side of virginia. that's the target, taking it in to delmarva, later today northern neck. as we show you the forecast, throughout the day today, mostly cloudy and in to tomorrow, again, clouds around. a stray shower is possible. but toward the end of this time period look at what happens as we head in to friday. this clearing line comes down from the north. that's the trend for the friday forecast

near chattanooga, 120 people were evacuated from this senior center. an oklahoma woman tried to drive around barriers on a closed road, a mistake she realize too old late. >> they just told me my roof washed away. >> reporter: around atlanta, hardest hit, evacuees wondered how to start over. >> we lost everything. i got eight garbage bags of stuff and that's all we got. >> reporter: through their tears the patels know they were lucky. they just never dreamed water could rise so fast. this is a financial disaster, too, for many of these victims. many of their neighborhoods have never been underwater before and so they never even dreamed of buying flood insurance. katie? >> couric: mark, what a terrible mess. but it looks pretty sunny there now. do you know what the forecast is for the next few days? >> about a 40% chance of rain tomorrow, katie, just like today and again just like today they could really use a break from the weather tomorrow. >> couric: absolutely. mark strassmann. mark, thanks so much. meanwhile, here in new york today security was not

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it is based in chattanooga. he has also won the nathan's hot dog eating contest as well.he second place winner emerged with a paltry 81 burgers. if you live in the northeast, especially around york, you do not eat it with mustard on it. if you go to mcdonald's, a little cheeseburger comes with a pack of -- pickles, chicken -- pickles, ketchup, and mustard. i thought about mounting a revolt. i want to tell you about this widescreen thing. if you have an old television set, we will look a little different today, almost as if you were watching a movie in the letter box. that is basically what this is. for a long time, we have been sending out to feed. if you are watching this in standard definition, we were sending out two things with two sets of equipment. the people watching on an older television set were missing. now it is 1 feet with all new graphics. everything fits on the screen better. he will notice the little fox news channel thing that's been around. it is smaller. there is mourn room for information. information.

and another man is presumed to have drowned and fast-moving waters in chattanooga, tennessee. >> look at those pictures, it is incredible. >> and rain pretty much all week there. >> last week. >> and still raining there. >> yes. and decab had about six inches of rain and peachtree, five inches. so what we always say? with the water in the streets? you can't cross them. >> and they had evacuations, too. >> we're looking at kind of a split day. east of town, it was actually pretty nice. west of tawn, it was not so nice. here is the forecast for us. i think the clouds tomorrow will catch up with everyone. and mostly cloudy, a few breaks, and i have a drop up there, but that is just for west of town. and is so out to i-81 and west. and then wednesday, it gets warmer but then showers and thunderstorms are possible in the afternoon, and thursday, stays warm, but more showers and thunderstorms are also possible, and highs both of those days back into the lower 80s. pretty nice. for tonight, becoming mostly cloudy, and still comfortable, and a 58 to 66 downtown and winds southeasterly at 10.

some of the worst weather is from nashville to chattanooga, birmingham to atlanta. that's where you have kind of a soggy saturday. that's part of your 25% that does not have an ideal weekend forecast. a lot of wet weather this entire week and it's going to continue saturday, even into sunday down there, especially from tennessee to georgia. the other story tonight, this is the first time of the year the freeze warnings are out for northern new england, and that means it's going to be the first cold, chilly night. temperatures in the upper 30s to low 40s throughout all of new england. so, it will be a chill when you go grab that paper early tomorrow morning. so, your saturday forecast, as alex mentioned, beautiful minneapolis to chicago. denver's perfect today. many areas out west are fantastic, too. get a sneak peek at your sunday. not a lot changes, alex. really, it's just down there in poor old atlanta that's going to have kind of rainy weekend. >> what's your favorite season? >> spring. it's my birthday month, so, april. >> oh, that's nice. that's nice. okay, tha

natalie elder, principal in chattanooga, tennessee. and steve barr, a founder and chairman of green dot's public- school. pelletier from our witnesses. -- let's now hear from our witnesses. >> good morning. i am with the maryland state department of education. but i think it is important dialogue that we need to have as we look forward to the present -- to the future. maryland's turnaround began a long time ago at the governor's commission in 1989 that established a school intervention program. by 1996, we had identified low performing schools. we had 73 schools statewide and we transition them into the no accountability program. we're now up to 200 19 schools -- we're now up to 219 schools. of all those schools, about half have been in some stage of the school improvement process for five years or more. and number of them have been languishing for more than a decade. close to two decades of our work, we've done some things that represent all the tools on the table, from replacement of staff and the replacement of curriculum and bringi

rescuers are searching for a chattanooga man who witnesses say he bragged he could swim a flooded ditchbably have to go up another two feet. >> that house next door is not build to withstand it but that's built a long time ago. now you're required to build basically build it as though it were many venice. so the river can flow underneath the lower level without hurting the living quarters. >> trees are down. the lights are out in the western part of north carolina. forecasters have also issued flood alerts for that area as well as parts of tennessee and alabama. >>> a man wanted for questioning in connection with killings of his wife and their five children is in police custody in haiti. florida police are scheduled to hold a news conference on this case in about 30 minutes. we'll have it for you. according to police mesac damas boarded a flight on friday from miami to haiti where he does have family. meanwhile, saturday, police responding to a missing person's report entered the home in naples, florida, found the bodies. according to state records, a child welfare worker visited the wo

north southern has cancelled operations between chattanooga and atlanta and birmingham and atlanta ands heavy rain is set to continue. back to you. >> lots of rain to talk about. thank you. >> to the war in afghanistan. the military commander president obama put in place to win that war says he can't do it without more troops. in a report leaked to the media, general stanley mcchrystal says the situation is deteriorating. he says he's fighting the insurgency and the results of a failed afghan government and he can't do either without more resources. >> if the general officer doesn't believe that strategy can succeed, his moral dilemma is it's awful difficult for him to ask soldiers to die for that strategy. >> president obama could order additional troops keeping his campaign promise of giving the afghanistan campaign the resources it deserves or he could change the mission all together. >> this morning three men arrested as part of a terror investigation remain behind bars after preliminary hearings in new york and denver. now officials say they are urgently looking for a possible bom

lee robertson in chattanooga that we were with, they just will never leave my mind or my hear they meant so very, very much to me and i know they did to you jack. >> oh rexella, we had some great times with some of these ministers and by the way, we held 800 local church csades, a week a pce, and then we held over 120 united crusades with all the churches coming together and 10 million attending. but i remember these were church crusades and they were two of the first mega churches in ouray and dr. mcgee had thousands attending there and wh we had a crusade with him in los angeles, during the greatest flu epidemic in history, we didn't know where to put the people. and he gave me the that title, the belgian bible bombshell. i've been called, as i said earlier, the walking bible before that. but then we were with adrian rogers and you know he and dr. criswell were the two men in the southern baptist convention, for both of them had been presidents, who brought in the teaching of the rapture and the tribulation and christ's return to the earth and i thk god for these men. and when we were

we could line 300 miles of mountaintops from chattanooga, tennessee, to bristol, virginia, with wind turbines and still only produce one-quarter the electricity we get from one reactor on one square mile at the tennessee valley authority's wattsbar nuclear plant. the 1,000-square mile solar plant proposed by mr. salazar would generate on a continuous basis 35,000 megawatts of electricity. you could get the same output from 30 new nuclear reactors that would fit comfortably on existing nuclear sites. and that doesn't count the thousands of miles of transmission lines that will be needed to carry the newly generated solar power through and to population centers. there's one more consideration. solar collectors must be washed down once a month or they collect too much dirt to be effective. they also need to be cooled by water. where amid the desert of the scrub land will we find all that water? no wonder the wildlife conservancy and other environmentalists are already opposing solar projects on some western lands. madam president, renewable energy is not a free lunch. it is an unprecede

. >> a week of rains and flooding in the southeast claimed eight lives and a chattanooga man is missing more storms are on the way. meteorologist rob marciano is very much in it in austell georgia west of atlanta. hi, rob. >> reporter: the sun is shining. we haven't seen that in seemingly weeks in atlanta and the folks in this neighborhood, it's of little consolation i suppose after what happened to them yesterday. this entire subdivision under water. 30 to 40 homes buried. 6:00 a.m. yesterday this river started coming up. it's just a little creek that goes around the backside of this thing. normally it flows at about a foot high. it grew to at least 14 feet high last night. this scene echoed across much of the state of georgia. check out these pictures down the road. six flags that huge amusement park west of atlanta, it floods every once in a while, sure. nothing, nothing, like this. dramatic stuff there. that entire amusement park buried in water. not sure the ramifications of that. i-20 which you take to get to that particular area and take to get to austell, georgia here. i-20 shut

there's your showers across parts of chattanooga, maybe even moving into atlanta, georgia, we will seehmond and eastward, all the way into the southern delmarva. and into indiana, some of these showers could be a little bit stronger today. you could kind of get some wind damage, but this is not really a severe weather day by any means. >>> it's not a road that you want to travel down, the main road from kabul to kandahar is one of the most dangerous places in afghanistan. but we're going to take a ride down this taliban highway anyway. gels... release medicine fast. so you can stop headaches... and feel better fast. the rest of the body is a no brainer. doesn't your whole body deserve excedrin strength relief? excedrin back & body. excedrin. what ache? bonus on every single purchase. what you do with it is up to you. what will you get back with your cash back? now more than ever, it pays to discover. it doesn't cover everything. and what it doesn't cover can cost you some money. that's why you should consider... an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan... insured by united healthcare

as a matter of fact, this video a couple of nights ago out of chattanooga. a familiar scene across the southeast with just streets flooding in major metropolitan areas. and with that sort of action, you know, it gets a little bit wet at times. check out some of the numbers. these are storm totals for armina, arkansas, over a foot. even pensacola, florida, and monroe, louisiana, seeing similar numbers. so very impressive, no doubt about that. and st it's just going to keep on coming. showers and thunderstorms that will fill in from memphis south down i-55. and there are areas that are not under flash flood watches through tomorrow, but also flash flood warnings. the brighter colors indicate warnings. that's beginning to spread out as well. take a look what's going on in nashville right now. that's where they're seeing -- they've seen quite a bit of rainfall, especially south and east of nashville. wkrn, and it just doesn't look that sunny. sunshine not going to shine in nashville, memphis, or atlanta for several days to come, i don't believe. charlotte, you'r

some friends of my family are back here from chattanooga. >> how are you? >> see?ody migrates around the south. i have folks in kentucky, tennessee. also, my parents now in texas. don't look m up, cuomo. let's get to the boards. got one or two things going on we want to talk about. by the way, we haven't really chatted too much about this outbreak of cold air that's all the way around the great lakes today. this is going to stay chilly for a while. look at duluth, at about 55 degrees today. it's comfortably beautiful in the deep south. quick look at the national temperatures all around the nation, just to give you an idea of where you stack up. >> right now, there is a breeze sprinkle moving through frederick. temperatures in the upper 50's. frederick. temperatures in the upper 50's. we got a crowd. i'm using this mic tied to my tie here. birthday wishes to conner pickle, from san diego, who is 2 years old today. here's a great picture of konnor. here's why konnor's mother sent it in. they're in san diego. they have family in arlington and areas of texas. they have

kind of near chattanooga. and in austin, texas, we had more rain. this is welcome in austin. even though it's causing the flooding, they are in a desperate drought situation. we find a dry spot over atlanta and georgia today. most of the heavy rain around jackson, mississippi, into birmingham. nashville, and the west tennessee area. some cases, two inches of additional rain. in the west coast, a big deal in the heat. portland, about 89 degrees and 97 there. in the southwest, this heat will stay. there's a lot of active fire there's. 6,000 acres burning around los angeles. we'll deal with that the next half hour. robin? >> all right, sam. you're going to want to see this. >>> an unbelievable brush with disaster, caught on tape. a little girl, blessed to be alive this morning, after narrowly missing being crushed by a car. neal karlinsky has more. >> reporter: it's a scene any parent can relate to. walking out of a store, child in tow. when, suddenly, watch the 6-year-old girl, right there, trailing behind. hard as it is to believe, the car went right over her. she survived wit

natalie elder, principal in chattanooga, tennessee. steve barr, a founder and chairman of green dot's public- school. pelletier from o witnesses. -- let's now hear from our witnesses. >> good morning. i am with the maryland state department of education. but i think it is important dialogue that we need to have as we look forward to the present -- to the future. maryland's turnaround began a long time ago at the governor's commission in 1989 that established a school intervention program. by 1996, we had identified low performing schools. we had 73 schools statewide and we transitn them into the no accountability program. w're now up to 200 19 schools -- we're now up to 9 schools. of all those schools, about half have been in some stage of the school improvement process for five years or more. and number of them have been languishing for more than a decade. close to two decades of our work, we've done some things that represent all the tools on the table, from replacement of staff and the replacement of curriculum and bringing staff de

so yeah, more rain this week specifically in atlanta, knoxville, chattanooga all going to see heavy rain. look at the rain now. heavy at times. especially when you get in towards the houston area just over to the west and north. we'll see more thunderstorms develop this afternoon, dallas and towards houston, too. you can see the rain right around arkansas and stretching in towards missouri. that's the heaviest rain, but you can see the way it looks in memphis. scattered showers around, but with a little daytime heating, we'll get more thunderstorms out there. if you're doing traveling in western tennessee today, once the sun comes up, you'll see it's mostly cloudy. rain showers in the forecast. about half an inch of rain possible, even more if you're near memphis. a solid sheet of rain in jefferson city. covered up with heavy rain. all this action moving up towards the north but falls apart before it hits chicago. i think you'll be dry in chicago for most of the day. more of that coming up in just a bit. >> all right, thanks, bob. >>> the community organizing group acorn isn't going down

i am the founder of the dental aid society in chattanooga.one of the reasons why this organization was founded was because there has been a great deal of staff in the united states -- death in the united states due to lack of coverage for dental. when will we be talking about these issues? we have invited the president to come to chattanooga to address the issue of access to care in the area of dental. all over the country we have seen deplorable health [no audio] host: are you still there? we got the point. comments? guest: if you look at the condition of america's dental health, there is no question that we have much improved over the last century, but to the greater point, do you want health insurance? what is insurance? many conservatives believe that insurance should cover catastrophic events. cancer, you break your leg, and expensive procedure. one of the problems with the direction we're going is that we are covering things that are not expensive. things like going for a dental checkup, that should be paid out of pocket. if you do that

natalie elder, principal, hardy elementary school, chattanooga, tennessee. and steve barr, founder and chairman green dot public schools, los angeles, california. thank you ladies and gentlemen. let's not hear from our witnesses. >> good morning. my name is ron pifer. i would like to thank the aspen institute for holding these hearings. i think it's a very important dialogue that we need as we look forward to the president and congress having these discussions about where we go ne with no child left behind. maryland turnaround work began actually add a very long time ago on the governor's commission in 1989 that established a school intervention program for mold forming schools. by 1996, we identified twoow performing schools. by 2003, when no child left behind and interplay, we had 73 schools statewide and we transitioned them into no child left behind into a new academy program. by 2008, we are nowp to 219 schools that are low performing out of 1450 schools statewide. and that represents about 15% of the total schools in our state. of all those schools abo

meacham, you see a lot of guys taking their shirts off, being kissed, does that happen a lot in chattanoogaary ridge near braxton headquarters, there was a lot of that, and suwanee. >> up in the woods. >> time to do -- >> it would be terrible. >>> a look at today's top stories as we've been telling you about a rare prime time address to congress this evening, president obama will lay out in that address his prescription to overall the nation's health care system. according to this morning's "wall street journal" the president will press for a government-run insurance option an issue that divided members of his own party. >> as the president has said and i listened to him very carefully, he believes that the public option is the best way to keep the insurance companies honest, and to increase competition, but, he said, if you have a better idea, put it on the table. and so if somebody has a better idea of how to do that, put it on the table. for the moment, however, as far as our house members are concerned, the overwhelming majority of them support a public option. >> we're going to get a p

i am the principal at an elementary school in chattanooga, tennessee. i will focus on the challenges, status of turnaround, and improvent efforts at party elementary school. the motto of party elementary school is "excellence, not average per " this is significant -- this is part of my philosophy in a predominantly working-class and poor student body. the majority of my students are african-american, with the remaining minority composed of asian and caucasian peoples. the majority of my students confront the challenges of being disadvantaged and are lacking the means to acquire adequate out of school support for the pursuit of intellectual activities. they also face the challenge of not having expressive language skills. 75% of the kindergartners get to school with some notable academic deficiencies. given this context, the party elementary spirit is characterized as one that has a number of challenges as a result of inequality in amecan life. while it is the responsibility of schools to provide an education, it becomes extremely difficult when your stu

high water in the chattanooga area prompted a rooftop evacuation at a motel.the station's robotic arm to grab a cargo carrier as it floated in orbit nearby. until now all supply ships docked at the space station. the carrier was launch add week ago from japan. it was loaded with food, laptop computers, atmospheric studies and a robotic hand. the hand will supplement the robotic arm that helped pluck the supply ship from orbit. >>> police today have arrest add lab technician in the killing of yale grad student annie le. they are still not saying why they think he did it, though. this man, raymond clark's bond set at $3 million. he was taken into custody at a hotel near campus. he did not enter a plea. he's the only suspect in the murder. they compared dna from hair, fingernails and saliva to 250 pieces of evidence collected at the crime scene. the investigator said 24-year-old le was strangled to death. while the chief wouldn't comment on a motive, he did rule out some possibilities. >>ening it's important to note this is not about urban crime, university crime

let's get to chattanooga. tiffany on the phone.let it die off so we can focus on others. >> let me ask you, though, did you stop to listen to his logic at all? i'm not saying i agree one way or another, did you stop to think at all, or did you immediately reacted because pandas are so cute? >> caller: i immediately reacted because i'm an animal lover and love every kind of animal and i don't think we should decide to kill off one species or let it die off because we're losing funding. and i think it's important for our kids to be able to see what we can do as taking care of the species that we have left. i mean, it won't be fair to them whenever they get to be my age, i'm 22, and they won't get to see anything like that. like mindy said, she's 43 and still hasn't seen a panda. >> think it's our responsibility, regardless of the cost, it's our responsibility. >> it is our responsibility, because we are getting -- we're moving into their territory. and it's only right that we take the responsibility to take care of them. because they