. >> reporter: chattanooga, tennessee.come a manufacturing volkswagen opened a new plant last year promising to hire 2,000 work. the plant manager says they'll exceed that number by at least 1,000 due to surging sales in the u.s. >> in totals the project has become so successful, i think to some extent we expected that. but to some extent it's better than -- than we expected. >> reporter: volkswagen will business more than 150,000 cars at its plant here in chattanooga. most shipped to dealers around the united states. a small percentage will be loaded into rail cars, sent to a port and shipped overseas. logistical advantages from rail lines to the tennessee river to the close proximity of airports have convinced companies like amazon, which added a distribution center, to expand in chattanooga. so is alstom which makes gas turbines. it has plants around the world but is expanding here because of the lower dollar. >> just on the dollar exchange rate it's 30% more favorable to ship from the u.s. >> reporter: with alstom hiri

donelson to shilo, vicksburg, chattanooga, to atlanta to savannah up through the carolinas. these guys are going to be everywhere. and they're going to be leaving a trail of victories in their path. the army of the cumberland will be alongside them, but the army of the tennessee, if you -- rock hard, hitting, victorious type guys -- they had their setbacks, obviously, but this is where that army is going to be being born, right here at ft. donelson. and as i said before, the commanders as well. conversely on the southern side, the legacy here is going to be a little different. the guys that were sent here, ft. donelson to bolster their defense, ad-hoc, most came in from bowling green at the time. and even the guys that were stationed here up until that time at ft. henry, ft. donelson and ft. hyman, they spent most of their time digging. a little bit of drill. they were novice troops but they did very well for what training they had. they did very well. they made up for that lack of training with just bullheaded tenacity. but when the prisoners are taken from ft. donelson aft

they bought this down in chattanooga. and the disruption. they make wide turns. they obstruct traffic because if they have to make the right hand turn, the half of this is in the muni bus zone. you have noisy engines in the hills, and the tax deductibility. commuting is not tax-deductible but they take this as a tax deduction. we subsidize this as taxpayers. we have various operators with lux bus and royal coach tours from san jose. you have disruptions of traffic on guerrerro at 24th. the zone for three-ton limits. these buses stop on guerrero and disrupt traffic. this is an example of muni that occurs with the t.e.p. and muni. this was at 24th. the commuter bus goes in. at 24th street and castro. the commuter bus was in the bus zone. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you for coming out andy vsospeaking. let me ask if president chu or supervisor olague -- >> i appreciate you for saying this items. there are two -- we have discussion of this and i am supportivfe of dialog. i don't support a summit that would delay moving forward. we move this to

this one, but he's also a doer, and was until recently an interim pastor at the red bank church in chattanooga, tennessee. this is a man who's accomplished and a public resource and a pastor, he's also a man who holds a b.a. from princeton and from oxford. my guess is that nobody else besides richard lands holds degrees from princeton and oxford but also as he does a master december gree from the new orleans baptist theological seminary. richard? >> thank you. this sunday will be my last sunday as the interim pastor. they have a new pastor and they're very excited about it. sometimes people ask me, you preach every sunday in addition to everything else you do? i said that's the last thing i would give up. the thing i look forward to the most every week and the thing i find the most fulfilling every week is preaching to the same people and being in touch with a local body of christ. and that leads me to say i'm neither a physician nor a lawyer. i'm a baptist minister and an ethicist. and i do think there are unprecedented threats to our religious freedoms. 20 years ago, i was in debates with pe

we wanted chattanooga we will show them how to fight. mead comes down to brandi station miserable winter weather grant interviews mead. the first thing he does is say general grant grant, paraphrasparaphras ing, i know you want to replace your own commander but winning floor is more important than vanity. i will not argue and i will support you and granted decides that is the man he wants. he was dealing with mclaren and the huge ego. mead is a patriot. self-deprecating, they don't have a perfect relationship but they are a good team. grant wants to attack had on that has massive casualties. mead is more calculating and a little more wary. it works out about to write.

was western confederate railroads, principally the memphis and charleston line which linked to chattanooga and from there points to the atlantic seaboard. extremely important railroad for the confederate states of america. it intersected with the north-south known as the mobile and the ohio railroad, which ran from kentucky to the ohio river basin to the gulf of mexico at mobile. secretary of war leroy pope walker of the confederate states called these two railroads the vertebrae of the confederacy. and they intersected, they junctioned just 2 land ward miles to the southwest of pittsburgh landing here in west tennessee. hence the alreadies were viable military targets for the united states force news attempting to put down what they styled a rebellion, which had been the succession of 11 confederate states formally of the united states of america. we were barely less than a year into the war when union forces reacquired the lower tennessee valley by seizing donelson in the northern portion of the state between february 6th and 16th of 1862. that opened up the entire lower tennessee to uni

and high clouds in chattanooga. they were so great when i was down there doing hang gliding.nd the news director sent that picture in. a nice little city. >> i love tennessee. >> like rosetta stone up in here. with all of the french going on. thank you, ladies. >>> now, to one of the strangest political showdowns in memory. it's happening in north-central texas this weekend. the incumbent, roy brooks. and he is facing a challenger, her name, roy brooks. we're calling this, and i apologize in advance for this, the battle roy-ale. and linsey davis has the details. >> reporter: in the pantheon of famous roys. there's roy orbison. roy rogers. roy jones jr. and soon to join them, roy brooks. or is it this roy brooks? even though voters in tarrant county texas won't head to the polls until later in the month, we already know the name of the winner in this race. roy brooks is sure to win because roy brooks is running against roy brooks. in this battle, the challenger, roy laverne brooks. >> i'm not worried about confusion. >> reporter: versus the incumbent, roy charles brooks. >> th

inboard to battle rand and forced, shiloh, vicksburg and chattanooga the campaign that doomed the confederacy, jack hearst studies the battle between general grant and nathan bedford forest during the civil war. the supreme court justice antonin scalia and brian gardner, editor-in-chief, explain the process of judicial decisionmaking in reading law:interpretation of legal tests. these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and in booktv.org. >> next author interview at the campus of u.s. c is basketball great kareem abdul-jabbar his latest project is "what color is my world?: the lost history of african-american inventors". tell me about this project. >> the project started, in 1996. in one of the chapters, lois -- made the life of the invention. checking out what in vendors did in the nineteenth century made me aware of the fact there were a lot of black inventors people did know anything about. i got the germ of the idea from that experience. i would do a book on inventors related to children because they are unaware of these things. >>

he served as an interim pastor at a baptist church in chattanooga, tennessee. this is a man who is not only accomplished in a public resource and a pastor, he also holds a b.a. from princeton. i suspect we can use the word unprecedented about richard land in this respect, my guess is that nobody else holds degrees from princeton and oxford but also in masters from the baptist theological seminary -- seminary. richard. >> thank you. this sunday will be my last sunday as the interim pastor. they have a new pastor and they are very excited about it. sometimes people ask me, do you preach every sunday? i said that as the last thing i would give up. it is the thing i look forward to the most. it is the thing i find the most fulfilling every week, preaching to the same people and being in touch with the local body of christ. that leads me to say, i am not a lawyer. i am a baptist minister and an ethicist. i think there are unprecedented threats to our religious freedom today. 20 years ago, i was in debates with people in my own denomination and in american christiani

the 2 year old pit bull mix is caught on camera chomping away on the bumper of a chattanooga, tennesseelice car. >> this almost has his whole bumper ripped off. >> on march 14th, 2010 the naughty winston unlocks the gate from his home and ends up here where he discovers a new doggie treat. the police tried prying loose the 80-pound dog by moving the patrol car back and forth but winston just won't let go. >> do you want me to take action or just sit here and wait. >> hang on for a minute. do you have the video on recording this. >> that's correct. >> so what is it about this bumper that winston so thoroughly enjoys. is it the smell, the taste? it's neither according to the dog whisperer cesar millan. >> if he was smelling an animal he would be peeing on it or rubbing himself against it, not chewing. this is the smell of plastic that triggers fun to him. they're not born wanting to buy a tire. they just get encouraged. the dog learned to release his frustration on that object. >> from the sidelines other dogs seem to be cheering on winston. >> as you see, he's playing, he's not being agg

phil lebeau on the phone from chattanooga. phil. >> tyler, this is the monthly on time or late arrival data that comes from the department of transportation. and there's good news when it comes to how the airlines did in march. let's start with the first three. the top performing on time airlines, hawaiian, air tran, u.s. airways, they have traditionally been near the top of the reports and they were in march. 82% of the flights arrived on time in march for the industry and just 1% of the flights were canceled in march. here's the real news here, if you look at the first three months of this year, 84% of the flights were on time. that is the highest rating ever for the first quarter of the year when they've gone back and tracked this for the last 18 years. the bottom three for the month of march, united, virgin america, express jet, express jet just 74% of its flights arriving on time. and quickly as you take a look at the airline index, one other thing to keep in mind, tyler and sue, just three of the tarmac delays that we li

there in chattanooga they're putting more bodies on the mind because they're selling huge numbers of vw passats. the ftse was down. next is the home retail group down heavily after more disappointing data from this group. let's take a look at the currency. we've currently got the euro/dollar down half. the dollar/yen is trading up as we speak. the aussie yen is flat and the sterling is trading at 169.90. moving on, such a paltry market. spanish yield, 5.8%. italy, 5.10%. let's tell you what's coming up on this program. ubs shares jumping to the top of the market in zurich after a strong set of first quarter numbers. we're going to get detailers plus later we're going to speak to the cfo of the bank charter. that's coming up in 15 minutes' time on "worldwide exchange." in the first quarter. that's thanks to more than one billion swiss franc charged. that's down from 1.8 billion in the same period of 2011. ubs announced last year it was scaling back its investment banking business to focus on the banking side of the business. we're going to hear from the ceo sergio emotti. that's comin

in "born to battle," grant and forest, shiloh, vicksburg and chattanooga, the campaign that doomed the confederacy, jack hurst documents battles during the civil war. supreme court justice antonin scalia and brian garner, editor-in-chief of black's law dictionary, explain the process of judicial decision making in "reading law: the interpretation of legal texts." look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> the world's a big place, but certainly the most powerful additives are these huge corporations, corporations like goldman sachs, for instance. because i spent so much of my life in the developing world, places like africa, latin america and the middle east just to give you a small example, i saw what happened when commodity futures were bought up by corporations like goldman sachs and wheat, for instance, which it has in the last year increased by, its price increased by 100%. i saw the human consequences of that. the children who were malnourished and even in some cases died of starvation because t

. >> reporter: just one of those stories from chattanooga, tennessee, officer loren johnston was here stumbled upon a pawnshop robbery. the officer that he was with, sergeant tim chapin took far, ended up being killed in that exchange. but officer johnston put his body on top of the partner's body and protected him. moving stories in the rose garden today. >> indeed. thank you so much, mike viqueira. >>> a new report today suggests the u.s. is still an high alert because of that failed al qaeda plot to bomb a plane headed to the united states. officials say screeners might be able to detect another underwear bomb plot by al qaeda's terrorists in yemen. good to see you. >> nice to see you. >> do you expect more attempts to bomb airliners or other plots to be in the works right now? >> al qaeda's got a very talented bomb maker. we've seen his handiwork three times now. he's self-taught but he's really good. and he's savvy enough to know he's got a target on his back. so he's training other people to do the same thing he's been able to do. they have to be extremely vigilant. >> when we t

student gains gains wisdom initiatives in chattanooga and training assistance in central florida thatwill hear more about. i'm also encouraged by the positive reviews of connect to compete, through which chairman genachowski sees the power of relationships between community organizations and the people they serve. these on the ground and in the neighborhood preach the benefit of connectivity in ways that corporations and government cannot and they have become vital partners in our efforts to get lower income families and seniors on line. the urban league's on workforce training, education modernization and forward-looking ideas regarding economically distressed businesses are prudent and well received and i commend mr. morial once again and his incredible team on their attention and energy on these initiatives. further i want to also recognize time warner cable research program on digital communication that has supported this research and research on broadband. i had been and will continue to be a willing partner through the urban league in the smart approach to broadband adoption and

and was denied the right to vote even though she had a city of chattanooga police department i.d., thathe tennessee law. this is not about determining identity. if it were, we would -- that might be reasonable but this is about excluding people. when people who are fitted by this kind of law say this is going to exclude people. the koch brothers and their type say of course it is. that's why we're doing it. >> bill: right. they might as well say we want to get as many democrats off the voter rolls as we can. we were talking earlier about -- you mentioned ways in which they try to suppress the vote. you mentioned the voter i.d., a central one. they've also cut the early voting time in half. a lot of people, more and more people vote early. as long as they're voting once, it doesn't matter. >> right. >> bill: they have eliminated voting on the sunday before the election which, in a lot of black churches is -- >> souls to the polls. >> bill: it was tradition. exactly. in many other ways. in maine where you used to be able to register to vote on election day and why not? right? encouraging

acadny in chattanooga, tennessee, which provides additional education and there's direct applicationsith robotics and things like that. students are actually being able to put their skills to work and starting to address one of the challenges which is if you don't recognize the opportunities that a s.t.e.m. career affords and take the right course work at the right time in high school, you'll get to college and not even have the opportunity to pursue that career. so that's another example for that. anyone else want to take a quick -- >> i'm okay. >> okay. another question? yes. they're are going to bring the microphone. >> thank you for putting this on, i'm the president and executive director for the asian-american justice center. as i'm hearing about opportunities, i'm wondering if you all could share with us what are the meaningful ways that were creating conditions at the teacher teaching level, right? because we can give kids access to the equipment, we can do all kinds of wonderful stuff to give them the opportunities, but i also know the teachers that teach on a day-to-day basi

he recently was serving as an interim pastor at the red bank baptist church in chattanooga, tennessee. now, this is a man who's not only accomplish, and as i say, a public resource, and a pastor, he is also a man that holds a ba from princeton, and a degree from oxford. i suspect we can use the word unprecedented about richard land in this respect. my guess is that nobody else besides richard land has degrees from princeton and oxford, but also as he does, a degree from the new orleans baptist theological seminary. richard. >> thank you. this sunday will be my last sunday as the interim pastor at the red bank baptist church. we have a new pastor and they they're very excited about it. sometimes people ask me do you preach every sunday in addition to every thing else you do. and i say that is the last thing i would give up, is the thing i look forward to the most every week. it is the thing i find most compelling every week, preaching to the same people and being in touch with the local body of christ. that leaves me to say that i am neither a physician or a lawyer. i am a baptist mini