the owner of good records on lower greenville says he understands some people's reactionut the performancewas artistic. others say it was all part of a bigger plan. >> you want somebody who is thinking outside the box and gives you a means to escape. >> i think it's a publicity stunt, albeit a well-timed one. >> reporter: badu will stop by saturday to sign albums for fans. >> we are going to have an offduty police office here. >> reporter: the fine could cost her $500. she can fight it in court or just mail it here to downtown dallas. >>> pope benedict continues to remain silent regarding the church sex scandal. he made no mention of it during good friday activities today. a worldwide outcry is growing over what some say is a cover-up by catholic leaders. a cover-up of abuse by priests. the pope's personal preacher made a plea in his defense. he compared the attacks on pope benedict to the persecution of the jews during world war ii. vatican has distanced itself from those comments. in vatican city today, life-long catholics expressed their frustration. >> i think the pope could be more pr

. >> james hill, from greenville, south carolina. i agree. it is an honor for you to be here today. thank you. to springboard from what you're saying, how long do think it will take to have more hybrid vehicles on the road than gas vehicles and what would it take? >> we have already seen a huge spike in the purchase of hybrid vehicles. if you think about it, just two years ago if you found out somebody had a hybrid vehicle, that was a pretty big deal. you wanted to test it out. you wanted to see how it works. now, it is pretty common. everybody here knows somebody that has a hybrid. the have probably tried it out. it is kind of cool one to back it out and it is quiet. -- when you back it out and it is quiet. i think that is the future. consumers will naturally gravitate in that direction. we're just talking about oil. not only do we produce 2% and use 20%, but countries around the world -- everybody is starting to use more oil. think about it. china. if they get even half the number of cars per capita per population that we have right now, there are a lot of folks in china. there ar

greenville. same front that came through our region last night. and they aren't sure if this storm did produce any tornadoes there. keeping an eye on that this afternoon. for us, look at that wind coming down the river. you can see the chop on the potomac river. live picture from the city camera. right now at reagan national airport, a cool 58 degrees. record low for tomorrow morning, 28. back in 1997, yes, still can get below freeze thing time of the year. it won't be tonight but it may be in the shenandoah valley. by tomorrow morning where the temperatures there are now are just 50 degrees. east of the blue ridge, in the upper 50s. mid to upper 50s in prince george's, arlington, fairfax counties. this is beneficial rain. .7 to .8 inches of rain. gusts 30 miles per hour. frost advisory in effect overnight. counties in blue in the shenandoah valley including rockingham, augusta, shenandoah, page county. cities of waynesboro and harrisburg because of perhaps near freezing temperatures there. the pollen count has been reduced. still very high. still

weather channel's mike seidel is in greenville, mississippi. he's joining us live. i see the sun has risen a little bit. there's a lot of dark ominous clouds, mike. >> reporter: there are. that's looking back from mississippi into arkansas, chico county. the next county over, ashley county, is under a tornado watch right now. all the storms are missing us in this part of the mississippi delta, coming out of louisiana into southeastern arkansas and moving northeast. storms are moving at 50 to 60 miles an hour. even if you don't get a tornado, there's a likelihood some of you today will get straight line wind damage. those are winds that come down to the ground. we had wind gusts to 09 miles an hour in eastern texas. the severe weather indices are through the roof today. this is the most dangerous day we've seen all season. we've had a late start to the severe weather season. the jet stream was so far north in march and april, thus all the warm air in chicago, cleveland, new york city, the warmest april on record so far. with the jet stream that far north you don't ge

for the latest on all this, i'm joined by the weather channel's mike seidel who's live in greenville,ssippi. so, this check of things, how's it looking? >> well, you just showed that lightning strike from the golf tournament, the pga tour stop in new orleans hitting that tree on the course. they didn't even get the second round in yesterday. today's nation ride series race in talladega will likely get rained out. people are out there camping. one place you don't want to be is in a camper. this is a very dangerous day. this is the most severe day we've seen as far as the indices we use to forecast severe weather this season. a late start because the position of the jet stream. now the jet stream is digging down, a front's coming in and a lot of moisture's coming out of the gulf of mexico. as we are showing you on the radar this morning, we've got a lot of boxes out, watch areas. the latest one coming over from the right side of your screen, northern and central alabama, into tennessee. nashville, you're in the danger zone. tuscaloosa, birmingham. these storms are moving east-northeast

joe in greenville, north carolina, a democrats line. you're first up. good morning. >> caller: yeah, i'd like to ask jason how old is he? . >> host: how old are you? >> caller: oh, 26. these young people who voted for obama have been through 8 years of bush. 8 years is nothing when you're young. i would say, you know, that's probably the influence -- the largest influence was 8 years of two wars and everything that went wrong -- i just thought i would throw that at you. >> guest: well, bill the caller is right. george w. bush -- there was a lot of fatigue with his administration. certainly the reckless spending that was happening and i'm no apologist for the republican party. i'm a conservative first. what's interesting barack obama in a year and a half has spent -- has racked up more deficits than george w. bush did in his entire eight years. office. i mean, my generation is going to have to pay for this and that's why i wrote "obama zombies" to hopefully zoel many of these zombies from their slumber. >> host: do you have to get candidates out there --

good morning, a greenville, north carolina. caller: i am sorry for the feedback. i wanted to say this is more complicated than people wanting to go to work or not wanting to go to work. there are a lot of people looking for such a long time. he then they get a sense of entitlement when they get unemployment benefits provided to them and then there are people like single mothers who decide to go back to school. my little sister is one of them. she decided she would go back to school full-time. then the idea of whether or not it should be extended month to month to month, i don't think so. but at the same time, it is like any other household with a budget. when you have a crisis coming up, you have to pull money and pay for a write-down because it will not go away and if you do not fix it it will make things worse. after you fix that, you have to see what bill you have to pull money from to take care of the thing you had to fix because you could not do anything but take care of it right then. so, i think there is some psychological thing with people being unemployed

. -- greenville, south carolina.ler: i am just getting involved in the political process for the first time in my life and i consider myself an independent. i see what is happening in washington and i don't like it. and everyone i speak with feels -- seems to feel the same way. our politicians don't listen to us. and they think they know what is best for us. the other thing going for the people, and doing the people's will. the politicians' work for the people and they should consider our will when making long and not that best for us -- no best for us. i don't like the way -- where our country is going. the constitution is being tread upon. we are spending money we don't have pared -- we don't have. you could not run a household and not go bankrupt, but the government is spending money we don't have and it just cannot sustain what it is doing. it is not going to work. and our politicians are not listening to us and i think the tea party is the nerve of the nation, this is what most people feel. and the thing that is

. >> greenville, michigan. rebecca on the democratic line. guest: good morning. i just wanted to call in and put in my vote flint, mich., democrats line. good morning caller:, i wanted to call in caller: and good morning, i wanted to call in and put my vote in for jennifer granholm. she was the attorney general here in michigan before she was governor. what is amazing about that is that this really is a republican state, especially over on the west side. she managed to get those republican votes. host: does that bode well for her in a confirmation process? guest: if she is good at getting those votes, she would not need any republican votes to get confirmed. one peculiarity is that any of these people could get confirmed if the president really wanted to drive them through. there probably will not be a filibuster and if there was, it would get broken pretty quickly. democrats are nervous because they are afraid that at a time when they are on the defensive after a fairly popular health care bill passed and there looking toward an election where they are expecting

host: we'll move on to greenville, south carolina, on the democratic line. go ahead. good morning, you need to turn down that television. caller: good morning. i wanted to say that i think this is more complicated than people wanting to go to work or not wanting to go to work. there are people looking for such a long time and then they get this entitlement when they get unemployment benefits provided to them and there are people like single mothers who decide to go back to school. my little sister is one of them and decided to go back to school full-time. and then the idea of whether or not she would be extended month to month to month, i don't think so. but at the same time, it's like any other household with a budget. when you have a crisis come up, you have to pull money and pay for it because it's not going to go away and don't fix it, and after you fix it, you have to see what bill you have to pull money from that thing you have to fix because you were in a clutch and couldn't do anything but take care of it right then. there is some psychological things. some pe