most notably gary gilmore in 977. the south may be in for rough weather tonight.atches up through mississippi. this follows tornado sitings yesterday, including texas where a pair of storm chasers got a very close look at one. despite the scary pictures, this april has been pretty quiet with only 19 tornados in the u.s. the average for this month is close to 200. and in alaska today state troopers honored a modern-day rin tin tin named buddy. with a chemical fire raging in a workshop, buddy's owner said "g.e.d. help." the five-year-old german shepherd got the attention of a state trooper who was responding to the scene but was lost. acting on a hunch, he followed buddy straight to the fire. today bull di was presented with a silver bowl for saving the family home. and coming up next, how did we ever live without it? youtube turns five. presenting miracle-gro liquafeed. the only garden feeder... that works with ready-to-use liquid miracle-gro. it's a revolutionary way to grow a great garden. liquafeed makes feeding as easy as watering. no measuring, mixing or guess

. >> reporter: so far, three students this week have been suspended here at gilmore. but some parents say the school administration is not taking bullying seriously. 8-year-old shania's shania's mother days bullying pushed her child to the extreme. >> my daughter said she wanted to jump out the window. >> shania, who has cerebral palsy, says she has been bullied since she was 6. >> you can't just put a band aid on it and think it's going to go away. you can't keep pacifying it. and that's what make mease angry. -- makes me angry. >> reporter: so far, 17 students at gillmor have been suspended. three this week for shania's abuse. school investigators are launching an investigation into the problem. >> any time have you even one student that is distracting themselves and other students from work is cause for concern and it's something we want to address. >> reporter: mayor stephanie rawlings-blake calls bullying problems serious. and encourages parents, students and teachers to use the bullying tipline. >> my hope is that people will use the resources that are available

even governor jim gilmore saw the need to call slavery what it was. this governor made an egregious mistake. it is insulting for you to say it was an omission. >> you wouldn't have supported the con federal proclamation even if he put the reference in. this is political. >> i don't support celebrating of terrorists. >> this is political, mr. martin. >> i don't support somebody celebrating nazi soldiers by simply saying they were only doing their job. i.e. kuwait the two the same. >> i hate to tell you but the confederate soldier was hardly a nazi. he's been the main fighting force for the united states in every war we ever fought as a southerner. >> brad, do you then disagree -- brad, do you disagree with what the governor has now done -- >> no. >> in the new statement in the new proclamation, he seems to disagree with you, you said slavery had nothing to do with virginia and the war. >> i disagree with the fact he said it was the reason and it wasn't. but he's been pushed into this by people like mr. martin. this is an a political opposition to rober

gilmore included this, quote, our recognition of confederate history also recognizes that slavery wasf the causes of the war, slavery is abhorred and condemned by virginians and was ended by this war. right. this time around, governor mcdonnell cut that part out. made no mention of slavery at all. criticized for that, the new moderate seeming face of the republican party said that he did not think slavery was an important enough issue to include in a proclamation on the confederacy. he told "the washington post," quote, there were any number of aspects to that conflict between the states, obviously it involved slavery. it involved other issues. but i focused on the ones i thought were most significant for virginia. see, slavery just wasn't significant enough to mention. the civil war? any number of things going on there. slavery? whatever. a spokesman for governor mcdonnell later had to clarify that comment, telling the website talking points memo today, quote, the governor knows that slavery is a significant part of virginia's history. turns out that clarification was not quite good

think that it's appropriate to talk about the sacrifices virginian's made, but just like governor gilmorers ago you've got to mention slavery and you've got to mention the wrongs that were committed. >> cenk? >> the part i love about this is that mcdonnell said he had a great business plan for bringing more business into virginia, and his great plan is redneck tourism? i mean who could have come to this? i mean that's ridiculous. he said slavery was not included in the commemoration because it was insignificant. >> the next money is green too i bet the governor would tell you. >> a lot of folks in this country i think would probably take umbrage to the notion that it's redneck tourism. >> if you haven't taken umbrage into this show you're not watching. >> i'm offended. >> listen umbrage is taken across the board. cenk, real quick, something off of your chest. >> he said that slavery was not significant and that's why did not include in the commemoration. basically hanging up a sign saying, i am for white people. and he's obviously appealing to his base, every political analyst agrees and