my particular tribe, the cherokee, are completely different than our cousins out in oklahoma, the cherokeeion of oklahoma. within our reservation in north carolina, we have seven individual communities and each of those communities is completely different. we're a collective people, but we're all individualized in our communities. and how do they differ in terms of service delivery, for example, when you have to address their addiction issues? it comes down to developing that level of trust. some of our communities, it seems to be the communities that are closest to the center of the reservation are more apt to seek services as opposed to some of our more isolated communities, especially up in the mountain regions. very good. john, in your line of work you deal mostly with lgbt communities and i know you have experience with the disability sector as well. can you talk to us about particular idiosyncrasies within these that need to be addressed as opposed to the rest of the population? yes, certainly. the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community has a variety of idiosyncrasies, but i'd

there are a number of stories about the cherokees, dred scott decision. guys, look at me. right here. bob, thank you. there are a lot of good stories about the cherokees and dred scott and the little rock school desegregation. well worth reading. thank you for coming in today. appreciate it. stay there. wait a moment. coming up, our sunday panel on the tax cut compromise and the very public fight between the president and his own party. >>> i think it's tempting not to negotiate with hostage-takers, unless the hostage gets harmed. then people will question the wisdom of the strategy. >> chris: president obama explaining the choice he faced compromising with republicans. time for the sunday group. bill kristol of "the weekly standard." mara liasson of national public radio. fox news digital politics editor chris stirewalt. and fox news political analyst, juan williams. so, president obama -- we just showed that, but he fired at all sides at the news conference this week, comparing republicans to hostage-takers for insisting if they didn't get the tax cut extension for the w

14-year-old courtney harris and her younger sister had just fallen to sleep in this mangled jeep cherokee. when the 14-year-old woke up in the hospital, she had one question. i'm like, where is jasmine? >> their mother was in the front seat. she was also in the hospital when her brother came in with the news. >> i said, you're lying, you're lying. i got to find my baby. he said, no, i'm not lying. when he started crying, i was like, you're not lying. he said, no. she just closed her eyes. >> 10-year-old jasmine killed by a drunk driver. michael eaton of fairfax had 17 coronas and about three shots in five hours in this bar. then he hopped into his range recove rover and headed south. he slammed into them and pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident involving injury. now they also want to punish the bar that served him that night. >> they didn't try to stop him, they didn't call a taxi, they didn't suggest somebodyick him up. >> they claim that the dogfish alehouse should be held responsible for jasmine's death. it's a long shot because maryland is one of the eight states in the

when the 2011 jeep grand cherokee drives off road, the quadro lift air suspension raises the vehicle,ing it more capable, off road. and if you happen to be driving on road, it lowers it for better handling and fuel efficiency, on road. >> couric: with the holidays here, president obama's top counter-terrorism advisor tried to reassure the public today it is safe to travel. john brennan said law enforcement and intelligence agencies are doing all they can to prevent a terror attack. more and more often, the seeds of terror are being planted right here. so tonight, we put home-grown terror in focus. >> three, two, one! ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: it's the day after thanksgiving in portland, oregon, and you have upwards of 10,000 people packed into the city's main square. you have families. you have little kids. people are singing christmas carols. what they don't know is that someone actually planned to blow the event up. his goal is to either kill or injure every single person there >> couric: a covert f.b.i. sting operation may have foiled the plot to bomb downtown portland,

the cherokee drug court, what happens is when you have a graduate, they come back and become a mentor to the rest of the defendants. and being in a small community like my reservation, chances are they used together. so when the one that is new into the court sees their party buddy being clean and sober, working a good job, clean, it works. they go how did you do it? well, i'll tell you about it, this is how i did it. and it's sort of like that peer networking. dr. clark, you wanted to add something? yes, and that becomes important. the criminal justice system, law enforcement, the judges, we need to see them as an integral part of the community ethos and the mores of the community so that we get all aspects of the community working together in harmony, that ecosystem again. because if the community is not safe, then you'll find attitudes in the community are really negative toward the individuals in the community who have a alcohol and drug problem. so we want to make sure that it's not only a good public health message, but a good public safety message. and the drug courts are a goo

apple has pioneered with cherokee tribe to provide software written in their language the tribe sayst's been working with apple for several years to make it accessible, the goal is to spread the use of the cherokee language to tech savvy children. nine years old, was the best chess players already in america samuel said beyond is the national master agreement and this hours of practice before competing against mostly grown ups. he won the competition in san francisco this month making him the yen as champion in history. these sets of the mathematical strategy that allows the most. i the chemists, i find the best one is hard to explain, it's a to go fight. >> you play against adults is that i >> her? >> no >> if there low-rated i don't care. speakpad it is pretty hard to watch a kid sitting there for five-six hours flying at these games. you see all the emotions. but, the end result it's rewarding. as i as he enters the game is good. >> similar hopes to be a grand master one of these days putting him on the high international level he only has a couple years because the youngest perso

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steeper the obstacle it can go over. [ crunching ] guess where we put the wheels on the jeep grand cherokee. ♪ visit jeep at youtube.com. >>> folks, it can always be worse. our snowstorm nowhere near the mess canadians are dealing with in ontario. cars and trucks trapped for hours on end. rescue operations underway to remove hundreds of drivers. police in say the blizzard conditions are unlike any they've ever seen. that part of the country is a disaster area. >> that is the storm that we were talking about last week. because we didn't get the snow in the area a lot of folks thought this term used is we hyped it. this storm has been produced heavy snows over tens of thousands of square miles. this is just its latest ramification. the folks in indiana were picked out of cars yesterday after all the rescue efforts there. we've got amazing pictures. we may not have gotten the snow but folks west and east of us. this is westville, indiana. comes from matt there. joe from la laport, indiana there. and pat in union mills, indiana captured these shots. look at these drifts here. car-sized drifts.

cherokee county, especially hard hit last night and this morning. hundreds of accidents around the atlanta metro area and even a few onramps and off ramps and overpasses closed this morning but temperatures are rising quickly. scary stuff. all right. let's go over the maps and show you where the moisture is and what the temperatures are because that's the key. already into the mid-40s in atlanta. rapid warm-up. shallow a layer of cold air in the deep freeze this morning but the threat is over. little bit further to the north here, you go north of the tennessee-north carolina border and temps won't warm up much. freezing in louisville. nashville, lower 50s. so huge difference there. and again, south of that line, stay warm. north of the line, stay cold. the winter weather now reaching out towards the virginias and the mid-atlantic. and winter storm warnings posted for richmond seeing three to potentially six inches of snow with this system. d.c. could see a couple of inches, too. no snow expected in new york or boston. at least with this one. but the

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