the factory in chattanooga tenn. -- chattanooga, tenn. reuse manufacturing -- reduce manufacturing their after a several-decade hiatus. >> volkswagen wants to reposition itself in the u.s. as a local manufacturer. it was obvious the country's national anthem had to feature prominently at the new plan. it has adapted its sedan for u.s. drivers, making it bigger and cheaper than the u.s. model -- and then the eu model. >> we promised to bring a new first class for volkswagen to the states, a car made in america for america, a car with engineering for everyone, a true leader in technology and sustainability. >> books and has big plans for the u.s. it wants to triple sales there by 2018, which means 1 million cars per year. it is determined to get the things right to this time. 23 years ago, volkswagen lost billions when it had to close a plant in pennsylvania ave a faster-than-expected turnaround, they have announced plans to repay $7.5 billion in u.s. and canadian government loans from the bailout against -- ahead of schedule. until the yea

transit shelter at 21 and chattanooga in my district. and it's currently boarded up. it was a thorn in the side of the neighborhood for a long time in terms of the on-and-off homeless encampment, syringes, it was just a real problem for a long time. i know muni eventually as a quote/unquote solution sealed it up so people riding the j church inbound at that location no longer have a transit shelter. has m.t.a. considered replacing shelter with one of those more modern standards? >> primarily, as you know, shelters are there to support the operation and delivery of our service. having them be functional and be at appropriate locations is the key to mandate. when it comes to features like this location, fwates more challenging because providing maintenance and keeping them up is a funding issue as well as if they were to be made accessible, some of our challenges are do we spend the money to make them a.d.a. accessible if we're changing the route or ones that are high-activity areas. this location, the -- the shelters have been boarded up because of some of the concerns

as i said to those who i sauteed in chattanooga, north of -- who i saw today in chattanooga, north of chattanooga, there is a local number to call for help, there is a fema number to call-1-800-681-fema. we found in a flooding a year ago from nashville to memphis that that was a big help to many tennesseans. i hope the same will be true in east tennessee and across our state today. a year ago, tennesseans distinguished themselves by not looting and complaining but by cleaning up and helping one another. i saw that again today in hamilton county. the sheriff told me that within a few hours after the devastation, there were 500 or so men with chain saws out clearing debris and trees from the roads and from the yards, helping one another. so, mr. president, i speak today on behalf of all members of the senate in expressing to those in tennessee our concern and our willingness to continue to do all we can to help. i ask unanimous consent to place in the record following these remarks a summary of the actions that we are taking and the events that are happening in tennessee as well as two

the school is lookout valley elementary in chattanooga. so you could see where the tornado had destroyed trees, had destroyed homes. i mean, there were -- there was debris all over the place. and we thought that that was the major extent of the storm until we ventured out past the school and it was even more devastating. so a lot of these pictures that you see, these images, are from just past the school. >> what was the reaction of a lot of the children once the storm had passed and had quieted down, but there is that kind of eerie quiet that takes place? >> exactly. it was so -- you know, a lot of the kids were still sort of emotional wrecks after the -- after the storm. but i think the interesting thing was parents ran to the school because, you know, a lot of parents, i think, didn't want to seem like they were not caring parents. but it was actually safer for the kids to be at school than in some of the homes there. >> incredible. no one injured? >> no one injured. nothing. we had probably about five or six families that lost everythi

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we spent a day a few weeks ago at vw's billion dollar plant in chattanooga, tennessee. 2,000 workers for the plant alone. 11,000 jobs in chattanooga are going to be created just because of this one plant. i want you to take a listen to some of the employees we had a chance to talk to. these are people that weren't auto workers who have a whole new career now because of this plant. take a listen. >> the economy, it had went down for so long, but this boosted it up so much. i was even thinking of relocating before i got this job. >> really? >> yes. it made me feel like i had something to be here for. >> what do you have to say to those folks who say the auto industry's dead? >> for me, it's awesome we have this opportunity to say to people. we are manufacturing in america. >> so, i think for all the nay sayers out there who say we're not manufacturing in america, think again. the south is becoming a very attractive place to build cars. vw there, hyundai, mercedes. they're spending billions there and hiring thousands of workers. >> when you look at best buy hiring 13,000 p

stretching eastward towards lexington and chattanooga and maybe even atlanta could see severe weather as well as we head overnight. and we're not done. turn the page on towards your monday. once again towards the afternoon, the evening hours we see severe weather explode again stretching from central texas all the way through the southern plains, back into the midwest and the ohio valley. even as far east as pittsburgh could see more severe weather as we head on towards monday, including the risk of more tornadoes. not to mention heavy rain and flash flooding a huge concern. lester? >> all right, paul, thank you. >>> overseas, a lot of people are keeping a sharp eye on what's going on in iceland where the country's most active volcano has been erupting since last night. already there are worries of another air travel nightmare like the one last year when another volcano erupted. transatlantic planes including president obama's flight to ireland tonight on "air force one" are being instructed to steer clear of iceland. we get the latest tonight from nbc's tazin ahmed. >> reporter: plum

wdef in chattanooga, tennessee put together this video of the invasion of 2011. >> i heard them the firstey came. >> 4 years old. >> like they're coming to take over the earth. >> aliens. >> little aliens crawling over you. >> they're scary, very scary. >> interesting noise. >> they make that funny sound. >> it comes in waves. [ humming ] >> scared me half to death. i was saying while ago, man, i got attacked. i just dropped everything. >> these creatures have this black body. they've got big red eyes. >> creepy. >> they've been underground feeding on the sap of tree roots for 13 years and they're completing their life cycle now. they're emerging, molting their skin one more time, this time they have wings and finding a mate, lay eggs, and then the process starts all over again. >> they keep flying around and they came out of nowhere. >> you have to be very careful. you had your mouth wide open, they'll fly in your mouth too. >> the cicadas must be up in some of the trees here. >> they do sound like aliens, though. why do they sound like that? you know what i'm saying? >> the male have a

this picture of nick and stacey was found 267 miles away in chattanooga, tennessee. once these photos would have been lost forever, but in the age of facebook, they are finding their way back home. >> i actually got on facebook right after the storms went through and a friend of mine posted it was raining pictures in her yard. >> so patty got the idea to create an online lost and found. so far she's posted dozens of images. >> a lot of the pictures that are put on there are baby pictures, pictures from birthdays. personal memories. they can't replace those. the only way they can get those back if someone finds them and returns them to them. >> reporter: dan harris, abc news, tuscaloosa, alabama. >> one woman's work. we thank dan. he'll be back on "gma" in the region in the morning. >>> we turn to washington. members of congress who during a visit home were bombarded with constituents who said hands off my medicare. here's david kerley tonight. >> reporter: republican members of congress got an earful. in florida. >> congressman why did you vote for a budget to privat

but this morning the city of chattanooga says it is helping the cause with the birth of two new femalefspring of a 7-year-old female and 6-year-old male at the chattanooga nature center and now part of a population of only about 300 red wolves on earth. >> look at how shaky he is. so cute. >> wow. >> come on, rob. >> you're trying to win me over. an endless battle with you, i know. >> do you feel anything like a little warmness in your heart, at all? >> i admit, they're cute. don't want one but i admit they're cute. >> oh, boy. start you out with the goldfish. >> something. >> i like catfish. >> more "world news now." want one of a kind eyes? individualize with the covergirl exact eyelights collection. green eyes -- heres the look for you. blues, hazels, and browns ave their look too. individualeyes! with exact eyelights from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl. >>> here's an amazing stat and kind of sad as well. 17% of u.s. youngsters are obese. that is three times more than just a generation ago. >> huge, huge problem here in our country, so several schools are taking another step to b

he teaches autistic kids in chattanooga, tennessee. idea, what happened when trying to help a number of kids deal with this threat of tornadoes coming through? we're talking about children who have a very difficult time with a lot of change. >> exactly. >> and sudden, you know, occurrences as it is. >> exactly. and students with autism, i'm an autism specialist for the county. students with autism really have a difficult -- have challenges with change. and -- but they also -- on thunderstorms. it was sort of weird that -- that some of the students were able to cope through the -- through the initial storm. but it was also sort of interesting how some of them were able to -- really had challenges. i guess maybe around 9:00 a.m. we started out with the power outage. after the power outage, we

really at the national cemetery, whether you are talking about arlington or even in my hometown of chattanoogaou want to pay respects to the men and women who have done so much to bring his men to justice, you can just -- to bring this man to justice, you can just go to the tomb of the unknown soldier. host: abu muqawama -- what does that mean? guest: it started as a joke. i was studying in lebanon, and it means "father of resistance." i've spent most of my life fighting in non-state actors on the battlefield. host: miami, florida, independent- line. caller: thank you, great appreciation to andrew and his service. i commend the way that the united states and the cia kept everything under wraps and waited until everything was just done. i understand we have to have allies and the certain things that the secretary has to say as far as political chatter, but just, my hat is off to these guys. so many years, and just thinking about those poor people burning in the towers, jumping out of windows, the way that -- when i found out, it was late. i woke up my mother and brother. i remember being in the

really at the national cemetery, whether you are talking about arlington or even in my hometown of chattanooga if you want to pay respects to the men and women who have done so much to bring his men to justice, you can just -- to bring this man to justice, you can just go to the tomb of the unknown soldier. host: abu muqawama -- what does that mean? guest: it started as a joke. i was studying in lebanon, and it means "father of resistance." i've spent most of my life fighting in non-state actors on the battlefield. host: miami, florida, independent- line. caller: thank you, great appreciation to andrew and his service. i commend the way that the united states and the cia kept everything under wraps and waited until everything was just done. i understand we have to have allies and the certain things that the secretary has to say as far as political chatter, but just, my hat is off to these guys. so many years, and just thinking about those poor people burning in the towers, jumping out of windows, the way that -- when i found out, it was late. i woke up my mother and brother. i remember being i

we spent a day down in chattanooga, tennessee.ot know this, but vw has invested a million dollars to give all of these folks jobs and it has really turned around this economy. so take a listen to some of the employees that we have talked to. a man and woman who have never worked in the auto industry but now they have good paying solid jobs. >> the economy went down for so long but this boosted it up so much. i was even thinking of relocating before i got this job. >> really? >> yes. it made me feel like i had something to be here for. >> what do you say to those folks who say that the job industry is dead in the u.s.? >> it's awesome that we have this opportunity to say to people, we are manufacturing in america. >> so, brooke, to all of the naysayers who say we don't build anything in america, it's not exactly true. you just heard from ben edwards and cat treen yeah. ben worked in the housing industry and now he's in the auto industry. you're seeing this influx from overseas, foreign automakers, hyundai, vw, pouring money into th

watch the dad at the chool chattanooga lookout game.> and a kid in the other? >> bare handed, no less. >> you know, if that kid would've got beat by that ball, he would have been beat by that mom. >> this is the difference between men and women. not every catch goes so well. check this one out. jeff francoeur tries to toss the ball into the crowd to a fan. he's trying to be nice. this is the end of the inning. one fan got in the way of a woman. that's not nice. >> that's a bad catch. he should be embarrassed. >> you're supposed to catch and takes the woman out in the face. he's like, i didn't mean to. sorry. >>> finally, how do you know -- you know athletes from certain sports, they will talk about abstaining from sex before the big game. apparently pro tennis players, not among them. frie francesco schiavone says for a woman, sex before a match is not only allowed, it is fantastic. it raises your hormone levels and brings advantages to all of on your points. >> do you do it before the match or -- >> she's an expert because she won the

and chattanooga, tennessee, all reporting very, very high allergy medications or prescriptions per patiente of this. but really anywhere in the country people are suffering. >> in terms of relief, what do you recommend? what are doctors recommending? >> there's a couple levels that you think about this. first of all if it's severe, yes, you have to go to a doctor and go the medication and prescription route. but there's a lot of things you can do on your own just starting with reducing your exposure. obviously you want to wash your hair and clothing well. those are the things that come into contact with this pollen just when we step outside. keep your pets groomed well, because, again, it can land on their hair. keep your windows and doors closed as much as possible with that air conditioning on. that will keep your home environment relatively pure. and lastly, when you do go outside, shield your eyes, sunglasses, so that it doesn't directly get into your eyes. >> so if you're running or on a bike? >> absolutely. >> now for more allergy help let's join erica. >> take a look at some natural

increased by 12.9 cents per gallon in my hometown of chat knew ga, tennessee, in the last month -- of chattanooga, tennessee, in the last month alone. we know that increased oil and natural gas production will drive down gas prices. we should have theable to access our vast resources at home. mr. chairman, we have the means to provide relief for our growing energy deficit and passage of this bill will be a step toward providing these means for our country. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. holt: i continue to reserve. the chair: the gentleman continues to reserve. the gentleman from alaska. mr. young: i yield two minutes to mr. berg of north dakota. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. berg: thank you, mr. chairman. my home state of north dakota is rich in natural resources. we've seen tremendous economic opportunity from the bachen field. through empower north dakota, we were able to adopt a long-term energy plan in our state. it encouraged new energy development and it created high-paying, high-quality jobs in the energ

wilfred mcclay, professor of history at the university of tennessee at chattanooga and senior fellowt the ethics and public policy center, paul singer, founder of elliott associates, juan williams, journalist and fox news political analyst, diana schaub, professor of political science at loyola college in maryland and co-editor of the new volume. our conversation will be guided by diana's two other editors and two great teachers for decades at the university of chicago and now with us in washington, amy kass at the hudson institute and leon kass the american surprise institute. without further ado, amy kass. [applause] >> thank you. n everybody hear me? at one point in his essay, theodore roosevelt asserts that americans who choose to live in europe never really become europeans, only cease becoming americans and become nothing. over a century later i a class at the university of chicago, i saw roosevelt's assertion turned upside down. st a few weeks after 9/11, on the first day of my course on human being and citizen, i began by asking the 28 eager freshman to identify themselves by

tennessee floods which stretched from nashville to memphis, and as i saw in hamilton county near chattanooga, tennesseans know how to respond to this kind of tragedy. they are doing it again by helping one another and helping to clean up rather than complaining and looting. it is an impressive sight. bob nations, who is the director of the shelby county emergency management agency, presides over daily meetings of maybe 50 or 60 people from a variety of volunteer and governmental sources who are carefully coordinated to deal with everything from watching the levees to looking for sand boils to helping people evacuate, to dealing with utilities that may be threatened by flooding. he's doing a tremendous job. colonel vernie rischling was there on friday. he has had a tough couple of weeks. he was the one who had to make the decision to blow up a levee in missouri, which hurt families in that area, but saved towns -- whole towns that are downriver in the mississippi river from irreparable damage in northwest tennessee and also in missouri. he was there providing us with the latest information an