but down in greensboro, alabama, you can build a bike with an innovative new design.'t we check it out? deep in the heart of rowe, alabama, the once thriving town of greensboro is struggling. a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line. the catfish capital is struggling to keep its head above water. >> what happened when you came here? >> about 75% of the shops shut down. >> there was one thing they had plenty of. >> we have a lot of bamboo. you have to have something you're making out of it. >> pandor became somewhat of a one woman stimulus plan for governor'sboro, running the hero foundation, she tapped into the town's most unwanted resource to do it. bamboo bicycles aren't exactly a new idea. they have been around since the first one was introduced back in 1894. and now they are gaining popularity in small bike shops like this one. but none of them are like the bikes you finder here at hero bike shop. that's thanks to an industrial designer who took the time to get his hands dirty and develop a new innovative design. >> it's like walking through the wo

. >> this is the greensboro lunch counter from greensboro, north carolina. which four students sat down on february 1st 1960 and they sat down to sit down for their rights. they wanted to be served. the counter we have is just a section of it. it's an eight foot section. >> all original? >> all original. the counter actually sat about 16 people and so when woolworth was closing up they knew we were interested in the counter. for them, it was a lunch counter. for us it was an artifact of american history, a poignant one at that. when they closed up they got in touch with us very accommodating, and they let us take a section of the lunch counter. we also took some pertinences of the behind the counter, and we are really document the time. now understand, at that time in 1960 in greensboro, north carolina, african-americans could come in buy at the woolworth, they could take takeout, get a takeout meal but they could not sit down and these students again, it was a time of some moments, but again, the beginning of the civil rights movement in the country, and th

and greensboro is about to get hit and raleigh later on this afternoon for a second round.ut the good news is no one's at work or trying to get home from work during the next day. so it should be quite a bit easier. and we've also retrieved and made sure there is no one stranded. there was no one stranded that we know of over the night in any of our major metro areas. we made sure of that. >> i want to do -- >> -- in the past two weeks. >> i wanted to ask you and i don't know if you have this information because it's all sort of coming in on the live lines, but there are two deaths now being attributed to this storm in your state. i don't know whether they're traffic-related. i'm not sure if you've been briefed on it yet. >> we've had two traffic-related deaths and also a death from a falling branch in one of our rural counties. and that's the only concern we have right now is the public's safety. and we're expecting more power outages tonight. and that is a very big concern because as this new wave of snow and ice comes down on our state, across literally 500-some miles, w

all the way down here this would be greensboro and back down to charlotte, which is right there. it. asheville, greenville. going to see some very heavy snowfall on the backside of this developing storm. >> i know there's been all sorts of travel problems as a result of this storm, flights canceled, delayed, certainly we've got pictures of traffic cameras all over the place showing really disastrous situations unfolding. take a look at this picture showing our viewers right now from raleigh e, north carolina. this is charlotte, north carolina. these are live pictures coming in from traffic cameras. fortunately not a whole lot of people on the street there. but other part -- there are plenty of abandoned cars. looks like some of the folks in north carolina are going through today, chad, what you guys in atlanta went through two weeks ago. >> absolutely p same scenario. even though in the raleigh-durham area, schools were closed today, people still thought they could do things in the early part of the day and this is what sigalert, traffic.com, you can go to google, all these red r

and i am so thrilled to say that we have whitney thor via skype from greensboro "right this minute."his is such a wonderful issue that you are tackling. how did this movement start for you? >> i gruf ew up being a perfect healthy 125-pound girl and even since i was 10 years old i internalized a lot of shame about my body and i gained 200 pounds in two years. so, my life changed overnight and i was shocked to see how differently society and everyone treated me when i was fat versus when i was thin. but what was funny was that inside i always felt kind of bad and fat anyway and i've just had a rapid journey into self-love and it feels really freaking awesome. >> so your goal isn't to lose weight, then? >> i would like to lose about 100 pounds just because i can't damage the way i want to, there's a lot of things i can't do physically i want to do but i don't have any interest in being the societal definition of thin ever again. >> your blog is really brilliant because not only are you encouraging self-love but you're also trying to educate the people who try to shame others? >> i think

stephanie. >> jonathan martin reporting from greensboro, north carolina.rica farari is at new york's laguardia airport and tracking delays and cancellations across the country. good morning, erica. >> reporter: good morning, stephanie, there are few airports along the east coast that have not felt the impacts of yesterday's storm. some 6,500 flights were cancelled yesterday. today that number has gone down significantly to about 1300 flights but there are still massive delays. now here at laguardia airport in new york there is some movement happening and flights are getting off the ground. last i looked at the big board there were about ten cans -- cancellations and delays and flights are taking off and it was a very different story yesterday when there were a lot of unhappy passengers across the country who were stranded. >> horrible and it's valentine's weekend and i came here on a business trip and leaving to go home. >> you have to deal with that. it could be worse. >> i feel frustrated and feel disappointed about what i can do. and the airline company

. >> we have suppliers in cary, suppliers in carrboro, high point, greensboro, hickory, charlotte, conoverord and gastonia. >> anthan leather is one of the companies in high point. >> as long as we have the leather in stock we can turn around pretty fast. >> i can either get the product that day, i can get it the next day. >> the company sells stitch the leather it needs based on demand. >> we can order one hide or 5,000 hides. it allows us to react to market pretty quick, too. that's been so key for us to be able to buy small quantities we can manage our inventory, we can manage our capital. >> supplies from high point fabrics are also delivered fast. at the start, terry bishop and charlie walked around the warehouse trying to figure out which liner would be best for the golf club covers. >> the fabric that we deal with is made here in north carolina. so, that's very important to us to keep it as much local as we can. >> as a business owner who used to deal mainly with the furniture industry, having someone like charlie knock on terry's door was a welcome change. >> a lot of times you don

justis sandwich shop since eat from the greensboro silver line station. they want the delays to end, and the station to open. >> it will help our we can resist -- weekend is this tremendously. it will make a big difference . >> this was supposed to open in the summer, but problems with the tracking software put off that date. also eager, so it can diminish congestion. >> we can use the money, so if they could get their act together pretty soon. >> the airport authority has asked the dulles transit partners to give them a date and plant as wood to win they will get those outstanding issues figured out. until then, metro cannot take control of this newly construct and public transit line. >> thank you. let's turn to the weather. we had a beautiful weekend, but unfortunately the cold has returned. doug hill is standing by in the weather center with what to expect in the week coming. clear blueay with skies and sunshine. outside the weather center right at, we are taking a peek chesapeake beach. a beautiful sunrise, and if you watch there, just a few high thi

it happened about 40 miles north of greensboro. a stormwater pipe ruptured at a duke energy facility. and out spilled enough goop to fill 30 olympic-sized swimming pools. the leak has been plugged, for now. so far, north carolina officials haven't issued any warnings about the water supply. the recent security breach at target has been traced to a small contractor near pittsburgh. the refrigeration vendor, fazio mechanical services, says hackers got access to target's computers through their network using a "data connection" used for electronic billing. fazio has worked with target since 2006 - installing refrigerators in stores. they have direct access to target's computer system. investigators believe that is how hackers got access to debit and credit card information for forty million customers. a school's attempt to celebrate black history month included some racial stereotypes. students at a high school in california were preparing a special menu for february. it included fried chicken, corn bread and watermelon. administrator

. >> well, that is up to you, but would you have made this argument in greensboro, north carolina, when college black youths went to woolworth and sat at the counter where they were not wanted, and said i want lunch. they were american heroes because they didn't get up and say i'm not wanted here, i'll go somewhere else. what happened was, within a day a few more people came in, then a few more, a few more and that turned the civil rights around in large part. that is why you shouldn't just go to another place. >> there are many people who lived through the civil rights movement. i cannot speak to that, obviously, that not being my personal experience. many of them held a press conference this week, african-american pastors who said we lived through that, we felt the pain of that and for us we do not appreciate this particular fight being equated to our civil rights fight. i mean, some of them find that objectionable. >> well, that is their call, i happen to disagree with them. in the 1960s, the argument was, state's rights. we don't have to serve anybody we don't want to serve. i opene

greensboro, winston salem, very thick ice. raleigh/durh raleigh/durham, it hit with vengeance. fayetteville got hit early, and then on the coast, all the way to nags head, this was quite a storm. but i'm pleased to report that we have no one stranded in their cars overnight. we did a great rescue and our roads are looking pretty good except for a few jackknifed trucks toward the mountains. but we've lost three people due to the storm and we don't want anymore fatalities as we recover. >> are you getting help from any other states? are they sending you plows? is there any sort of national effort for help? some states aren't particularly ready for the horrible snow because you don't always get them. >> well, actually, about every southeastern state where we would have typically got help has been hit. it is the utilities also north and south carolina, the main concern we have is power outages. especially out west and in the mon mountain its. we have over 100,000 people without power so that is our major concern in addition for the black ice. i did not want anyone spending the nigh

what's happening is just like in the 1960s when four boys sat down in greensboro and a movement spreadpread to georgia, spreading to florida, they're talking about march the 3rd, alabama, south carolina, virginia because people of all different race, creeds, colors and parties recognize we have an option in this country. we can take the road to destruction, the road of extremism or the pathway to higher ground. >> i love what you're doing, reverend, and i hope we continue to see more people getting involved in the movement and i hope that it means more people turn out to vote this fall so we can get some real change. thank you so much, reverend barber. >> thank you. we've only just begun to fight. >> that does it for me. thanks so much for joining us. please don't forget to share your thoughts. i'll see you right back here tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 p.m. eastern. ♪ [ male announcer ] to truck guys, the truck is everything. and when you put them in charge of making an unbeatable truck, good things happen. this is the ram 1500. the 2014 motor trend truck of the year. ♪ and first ever bac

metropolitan areas across the state, from the mountains to the piedmont to the coast, charlotte, greensboroo wilmington, even nagshead was hit with a terrible ice and snowstorm. but the raleigh-durham area got hit real hard in the afternoon, and we had some four-to-five-hour backups. we're double-checking any abandoned cars to make sure people aren't still left out on the highways and we just want to make sure there's no further loss of life. we've lost two people across the state in the past 24 hours in accidents and right now the concern is the safety because of potential more outages of power. >> i want to ask you about the power outages. the statistic we shared earlier is it only takes a quarter inch of ice to bring down power lines. you have parts of your state that are significantly worse than that. i don't know the exact numbers. i know it's well over 100,000 people could be without power in this kind of weather. are you worried, are you confident you can get power back to these people? what about these people who don't have power at home? >> we have several hundred thousand people w

children's defense fund said -- north carolina is facing a major spill from a shuttered coal plant near greensboro up to 82,000 tons of coal ash and 27 million gallons of polluted water leak into the river after a pipe rupture beneath a coal ash pond owned by duke energy. the ash contains toxic metals that could threaten drinking water, including arsenic, mercury, lead, and boron. duke says the leak has been stopped for now. a new congressional study says president obama's health care law will likely result in less americans working full-time jobs. the congressional budget office says around 2 million workers will choose to work fewer hours because of the expanded access to health insurance under the new law. republicans have seized on the report to bolster their claims the health care law will hurt the economy. but democrats say the report shows the law will give workers greater choices and freeing them up to avoid full-time jobs just for the sake of obtaining coverage. the banking giant morgan stanley has agreed to pay a $1.25 billion fine for selling toxic the federally backed fannie mae and fr

they both volunteer with the program in greensboro, north carolina that provides clean needles and other addicts. >> she seemed to be pretty unresponsive and we were noticing a blueing of the lips, lack of oxygen. her breathing became quite shallow. >> once someone's not responding to any sort of stimulus, you give them breaths and at that time, i usually administer nalaoxen. >> watch what happens next. >> we gave her about 60 units of nar can. >> nar can can reverse an overdose from heroin and other drugs like ox he codeine. another sternal rub, another shot of narcan. >> give her more nar can. >> giving her the rest. 12 ccs. >> and finally, liz begins to come to. >> liz, you okay? you went out. bringing you out. we're giving you some narcan. you overdosed. can you sit up? >> yes. >> all right, come on. >> you want a glass of water? >> i can tell you, i got a chance to meet liz you're looking at there. she's doing very well today. this drug naloxone has been used for years in emergency rooms but the push now is to get it in the hands of first line responders, emts and also potentially p

but here in the upstate from greenville to charlotte, up towards greensboro and into d.c.st, it will be primarily thouprim primarily snow. 6 to 10 inches. but down state, columbia, a augusta, parts of atlanta, we'll have a big ice storm. again, not all of atlanta will have an ice storm and not all of atlanta will lose power. we don't want to give you in a impression. but parts of the city especially south and east will have more ice, north of town more of a sleet, frizing rain situation. so a real mess down south. and you guys in new york city, thursday, forget about it. i'd check into a hotel room tomorrow night and again thursday night. because it will be another big storm. and then next week, a big warm-up for most of the country. we're looking at temperatures to down here in the 60s to near 70 and even up this new york city, we'll have a big warm-up over to chicago, many of these areas that have been in the snow and ice for way too long. a lot of people ready for milder weather come next week and the following weekend. >> all right, well, we will definitely look forwar

roanoke, greensboro, asheville, big cities with big snowfall totals with all of these warnings all thexas. it's going to be a mess in atlanta, not so much tonight, but by wednesday morning, there won't be one plane, i don't believe that takes out of hartsfield jackson airport. they may cancel them all. you get a quarter of an inch of ice on a plane, it's not going to fly. >> that's a major hub, atlanta, it could affect travel all over the country. >> no question about it. so many flights through here, i think they're not even going to take planes and put them here on tuesday at all, especially tuesday night. they move them south or move them north because they don't want them encased in this ice. this ice could be here for a week. there will be people without power for a week or more. you get that many millions without power, it takes a while for the lines to get back up. what a winter it's been. >>> two members of congress have a special message for the nfl. if the washington redskins don't change their, quote, racially offensive name, we might hit you where it really hurts, your pock

goodest news for me is my friends to make cheese in the small place of greensboro, vermont, they were on the menu last night. they didn't even know about it. that was the big news for me in the state dinner. washington does not shut down. the french flags are still flying all over the city. a good event and a rare one. boehnerevent of john walking away from his own party. let me cut to the chase. is speaker boehner's job threatened? as he once again abandoned his core constituency? >> i think the exact opposite. he is probably strengthened by this. the fact even brought this bill to the floor gives you a sense of how confident he feels in his own position right now and he basically has gone the conservatives, the tea party folks, he has given them a break, if you will. they will not be blamed for another crisis situation. foreans the prospects republicans doing better in this midterm election just improved. there is no crisis they will be blamed for. they get to focus on things like obama and the midterm elections. >> they can go back to being on the offensive with obamacare, but now

say wastewater containing unsafe levels of arsenic, is pouring into the dan river not far from greensboroe river is contaminated by a pipe collapse after a ash dump. they say the plant is leaking contaminated water. they say the drinking water downstream is still safe. not sure how people will feel about that. the plant is ordered to stop the flow. bill: meanwhile now an update on this story. volkswagen's top labor representative threatening today to block further investments in south in the u.s. if there are workers there not unionized. this after employees at a plant in chattanooga voted against last week for union representation. that vote was on friday. republican senator bob corker out of tennessee is my guest now here in new york. nice to see you again. you are intimately connected to this story. former mayor of chattanooga, you helped bring volkswagen to tennessee. what did you think of the comments out of berlin today saying that, you know, they're going to fight any effort to expand auto plants in the south? >> yeah. i look, there is a lot of tempers right now. big vote. didn't c

host: julian, greensboro, north carolina.aller: it is your responsible to invest in infrastructure as the government. if you look back in the industrial revolution, the technological advances in transportation would have been impossible without the investment of private investors. the government has not been one to advance the technology. it is up to private investors to put that money out. if you look at your report card, 3.6 trillion is needed in order to help american infrastructure. his amounts would cut the initial amounts of energy programs. he is having a lot of his prime programs in order to focus on infrastructure. the private sector should be focusing on this. this is what "the washington times" says. anotherident announced 600 million dollars in competitive grant funding through the federal transportation department to pay for construction and repair projects in states. of thehe latest round transportation investment generating economic recovery program, which began as part of obama's 2009 stimulus package. should