i'm very proud to have the support of the tea party movement in louisiana as a strong louisiana conservative. and i believe the tea party represents mainstream values in america, not extremism as my opponent has said. now, my opponent on several occasions has denigrated the tea party, quite frankly. he compared it to the far left activist group, moveon.org, which i believe is a real insult. he said during the debates over obamacare that people like that were fear mongering. >> what does it mean to say, we have come to take our country back? what does that mean? >> well, if i could continue, yes, and he also made comments similar to nancy pelosi saying these folks are un-american, i believe what a lot of american citizens, tea party members and others, what they mean by that is that, in the last few years, we have gone way to the left in policy out of this very liberal administration and very liberal congress, and it not only threatens our fiscal future, it also threatens our values, fundamental freedoms in america. >> thank you. mr. melancon? >> i've been endorsed in the past week by four ne

we in louisiana are smarter. we need to make sure we elect an independent expert louisiana offers that worries about the citizens of the state first and not his own career. i promise i will never embarrass you. >> thank you for tuning out. you listened and heard a lot. i bring those ideas to washington. i will continue to do that. your boats weor can have real checks and balances against the obama administration. we need to get our country back on the right track. we need to save our fundamental freedoms and our future for our children. i ask for your vote so i can continue to actively to do important work for the louisiana. coastal restoration, hurricane protection, highways, infrastructure. i've looked forward to doing that important work. >> thank you. thank you book. that concludes our program tonight. thank you to park panelists and candid this -- candidates. thank you and goodnight. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> that was t

he told them he was currently in louisiana at his elderly mother's.iously the new jersey detectives were eager to interview ates in person, so they flew to louisiana but by the time they had arrived, the one time father-in-law had already hired a lawyer and invoked his right not to talk. but the detectives did get in a few words with ates' sister, brenda, that night. she told them her brother had arrived at their mom's in louisiana on a tuesday evening, one day before the murder of paul duncsak. did you think she was telling the truth? >> i wasn't certain at that point. it was still very early on in the investigation. >> so the detectives kept looking into the ates family's possible involvement in the murder. roughly a month after the crime they obtained wiretaps on various ates phone lines. what they heard sounded to them like a classic coverup in the works. ed ates trying to make sure his family stayed on script when it came to that tuesday story, his alibi. >> you were there when i got there on tuesday. >> yes. >> okay. >> right. >> i just got to m

one of them is louisiana governor bobby jindal. bret talked with him today. >> hi, i talked to governor jindal in baton rouge today. he is one of the possible 2012 republican candidates for the series of reports we're working on right after the mid-term elections. we'll get to that in a minute. i have do want to set the stage here in louisiana for the mid-term races. louisiana republicans appear to be intensifying, despite the fact that the democrats had hoped to take out a big republican incumbent, david vitter, because of high-profile scandals surrounding vitter. democrats hoped his involvement with a prostitution scandal in d.c. and domestic abuse charges against one of his staffers would be enough to take out the incumbent senator. but the democratic challenger melancon is not getting traction in the poll. the spread is at 15.3 points in the latest poll. democrats are expected to

>>reporter: adding to the mess and driving down demand is louisiana seafood's tarnished image. >>smith: perception is our biggest challenge around the united states because people are just afraid to eat seafood from the gulf of mexico or louisiana right now. >>reporter: locally however, they've had no qualms about serving louisiana seafood throughout the crisis... >>brigtsen: it's really a matter of us educating people and the fact is the seafood's better than ever and saferthan ever because we're monitoring it just so closely. >>pausina: we've done thousands and thousands of tests. you know we started our testing programme may 9th. we test every week the whole entire coast of louisiana, all the different types of animals in the area... zero animals have been tainted or shown any ill effects. >>reporter: although any ill effects could take years to show up... >>overton: i'm cautiously optimistic that we won't see a lot of long term damage but we really won't know for several years. >>reporter: the cleanup has already cost bp over $9b and that figure rises some $90m daily... but

what about louisiana?want to again offer my deep, insere apologies. >> reporter: that's david vitter. >> i believe i receive forgiveness from god. >> reporter: god might not be the only one. because senator visitor, with a record that including opposition to illegal immigration, support of gun owner rights and types to hookers, is comfortably leading in his race for re-election. scandal? what scandal? >> the notions of shame are radically different than they used to be. there was once a time where shame meant that you were run out of the business. >> heck, even peter florec aka chris noth is doing fine in his election bid. >> i hope to become the state's attorney of cook county once again. >> reporter: by the way, "the good wife" airs at 10:00. so, what happened to political banishment? what happened to the days when a little monkey business derailed gary hart's career? what gives? >> i think that the steady drum beat of sex scandals makes people immune. >> i had an affair. >> reporter: really, what haven'

rain will be existing areas of southern louisiana.we have pollen near south florida and the ke in the next couple of days. we'll keep an eye on that storm system. most of the country looks really nice on wednesy. watch out new england, rainey, win weather on thursday and friday. if you're watching us on wmaq 5 ichicago, experience the studio at one big art studio during chicago artists month. that's your "early today" event of the day, thas. >> it's a beautiful ty, piec of art. thanks, bill. >>> now here's a look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. he major marriage of popular hollywood couple is coming to an end. courtney cox and david arquette are calling it quit the two remain friends and coparents to their 6-year-old daughter, coco. >>> esquire magazine has named its sexiest woman align. 36-year-old minka kelly stars on "parenthood." kelly's issue of esquire hits the stands november 19th. >>> and be sure to set your vrs for thursday night. you never know what wi happen on a live show. in this week's episode of "30 rock"

we in louisiana are smarter.we need to make sure we elect an independent expert louisiana offers that worries about the citizens of the state first and not his own career. i promise i will never embarrass you. >> thank you for tuning out. you listened and heard a lot. i bring those ideas to washington. i will continue to do that. your boats weor can have real checks and balances against the obama administration. we need to get our country back on the right track. we need to save our fundamental freedoms and our future for our children. i ask for your vote so i can continue to actively to do important work for the louisiana. coastal restoration, hurricane protection, highways, infrastructure. i've looked forward to doing that important work. >> thank you. thank you book. that concludes our program tonight. thank you to park panelists and candid this >> live coverage tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span to. the r, also on c-span2, a online news association which begins at 12:45 p.m. eastern. >> presidents do not

oysters going into the mixture and some good louisiana crawfish. to soak them in there for as you see, as quick as we can get them in and quick as we can get them out. they're going into the mix right here. then we're going to go over here to the fryer, drop them in, 350 degrees and get them going. all right. we're going to start off with our garlic infused rosemary oil. going to come in here with the fresh spinach. you can hear it sizzling. once you get that just wilted down just a little bit, we're going to come back with the taso. louisiana boston butt hall, smoked. one garlic clove. that's all you need. put them into our dish. secret recipe, i shouldn't be telling you. food to me means happiness. energy. soul. it's part of you. it's part of what makes you not only live, but it's part of your soul. we're going to pull the seafood up. pop it into the drainer. there we go. it's absolutely stunning. pop it in. while we're doing that, we're going to come back with the secret henry's cajun alfredo sauce. there we go. toss in the ooh la la. going to c

enjoy louisiana seafood and have a little louisiana for your next tailgate party. >> watch that catfishry up. >> find out more about tony's creole foods, log on. i always thought it was catchry. >> those texas people call it the -- as well. >> with more information on today's recipes check out wgntv.com/midday. kelly williams thank you for coming in. >> thank you so much. discover customersl are getting five percent cashback bonus at restaurants. it pays to switch, it pays to discover. >>> she is making me a sandwich right now. >> smells great. >> let's start with the answer to our trivia question today. what seasoned vegetables make up the trinity in cajun cooking? chef steve knows the answer. it's onion, bell pepper and celery. steve's momma cooked like that. >> she sure did. made some wonderful gumbo. >> some the best. >> that makes my mouth water right there. >> keep the warm up coming. >> it's kind of a nice slow thing. it's not going to get out of hand. but we can use a little warm weather after the cool spell we have been through here. 63 now but 79 at rapid city. so the warmer t

the hardest hit area remains louisiana's plaquemines perish. mississippi, alabama and florida mainly has tar balls. plaquemines perish, particularly bay jimmy, has that thick, gooey oil. just last week, they collected about 18,000 gallons of oil and water mix. can you imagine? that's six months after this happened. the seafood industry has been devastated. one of the backbones of louisiana's economy, shrimping, down some 52%. the shrimp catch, the first six months of this year compared to the first six months of last year. then you have the whole issue with the claims that $20 billion fund that's supposed to help everybody out. more than 220,000 claims have been filed, but only 76,000 have been approved and paid for a grand total of $1.5 billion. the majority of those claims have not been acted on and the people who have gotten checks say they haven't gotten nearly what they need to survive. still very difficult. >> the rest of the country goes on, we're talking about an election, this is life every day down there. >> and it's still happening.

>> new orleans, louisiana. >> new orleans, louisiana the yeah, let's hear it for the 504. how do you prepare for this whole darn thing here? >> practice. >> ok. that will get you to broadway but here you are in union square. ladies and gentlemen, two-time winner, mr. leonard oates. >> this is what i do every day. [ringing bells] >> leonard oates, ladies and gentlemen, reigning two-time champion mr. leonard oates. that completes the entire competition, ladies and gentlemen. let's hear it for everybody you heard today. the votes from the judges will now be tallied. that means up guys actually have to go to work now. we're going to name the tom three winners in the amateur and professional categories. the first place winner of the professional competition will take home a beautiful cable car bell with -- made by gilberto at the frens of the cable car museum. every year this man makes a beautiful cable car bell for this competition the mr. gad oy is pretty shy, he won't talk about his work but the craftsmanship speaks for itself the every bell every year is individually made b

. >> before writing the book you want to louisiana and did a lot of research. what reception did you get there? what obstacles did you find? well -- it depends on which decade you are talking about. i did research, actually starting in from the time i was very small. and we went back every summer even though i was born here in berkeley, as a matter of fact we went back every summer to louisiana and i was always interested and did a lot of -- um -- both formal and informal research. starting in the 50's and the 60's. and i will tell you that when i first startd that research and a lot of the research i did in that time period was i was largely unaided by any official source. i would go to the courthouse and i would ask for records. they would not give them to me. it was just -- it was very clearly -- it was very clear they were not going to give them to me. >> what records were you asking for? >> i was looking for land records. i was looking for records of the fredues. the concept was there were black fredues and white fredues and there was not an acceptance of

changing around the world i'm joined by john hamilton in baton rouge he is a professor of journalism at louisiana state university and author of the recent book journalism's roving eye history of american foreign reporting in atlanta we go to shawn powers he's an assistant professor at georgia state university and in new york we cross to peter hart the activism director at fairness and accuracy in reporting and another member of our cross talk team and the hunger all right if i can go to you sean first why are the two things are going on here obviously there are new global english language stations coming on line r.t. came on line five years ago or less than that was al jazeera press t.v.'s out there right now the chinese are going to be importing an enormous amount of money into an english lobel english language station but at the same time there are people that are afraid of these stations in the united states so some people want more news a different perspective and other people appear to be afraid of that perspective

we in louisiana are smarter. we need to make sure we elect an independent expert louisiana offers that worries about the citizens of the state first and not his own career. i promise i will never embarrass you. >> thank you for tuning out. -- thank you. now mr. vitter. >> thank you for tuning in. you listened and heard a lot. i have listened and i have heard you. i bring those ideas to washington. i will continue to do that. i humbly ask for your boats we -- vote for two reasons. first, so that we can have real checks and balances against the obama administration. we need to get our country back on the right track. we need to save our fundamental freedoms and our future for our children. i ask for your vote so i can continue to actively to do -- continue effectively to do important work for the louisiana. coastal restoration, hurricane protection, highways, infrastructure. i've looked forward to doing that important work. >> thank you. thank you, both. that concludes our program tonight. thank you to our panelist

there's a lake charles, louisiana, club in los angeles. there's a greenwood, mississippi club in chicago. a greenville, mississippi, club in chicago. a brook haven and newton, mississippi, club and, of course they meet separately and have nothing to do with the others. it's just a beautiful reincarnation or a reclaiming of this... of the southern experience in these cities. >> rose: were they anxious to tell these stories or have they been reluctant to tell these stories? >> one reason i ended up talking to over 1,200 people is because i got varying responses from where i went. one reason why the story hadn't been told in the way that it has is because a lot of people didn't talk about it after they left. when they left they left for good, they didn't look back. many people changed their names, they melted into the new world that happened to be in. they put it behind them and didn't tell their children. part of it is they didn't want their children to be burden by what they had experienced, by the pain of it. sometimes it was too difficult

the congressman has represented louisiana's district since 2004. more live coverage at 8:00 eastern with the candidates to be the next governor of oklahoma. a republican congresswoman and a democratic state the tonight governor. this race marks the fourth time in u.s. history that two women have faced each other for the governor's seat. one hour later, the illinois senate race. that is followed by two more governor's races in new hampshire and minnesota. >> with just days until election day, follow the key races and candidates on c-span. go online to view archived debates at the c-span the library. this weekend, see jon stewart / steven colbert rallied live on c-span. follow election coverage right through election day. >> we have alive the louisiana senate debate coming up. the huffington post, writing about an ad running it in the state, a louisiana representative mickey remains stuck behind david vitter , but is closing his campaign on the same message he has maintained throughout. the messages that his opponent was a prostitute. here is at at,

in much worse off louisiana, shrimp alone is down 80%. but at pensacola popular fishouse restaurant attitudes are changing. jim from texas ordered the local mahi mahi. >> it does not taste like petroleum. the only oil i was con earned about is to live oil. >> the industry will come back. will it do it this year? no. hopefully next year it will. >> if this year of the oil spill, the sales are down 50%. he's not alone. in pensacola, florida, phil keating, fox news. >> chris: don't forget about our text to vote poll. here is tonight's question. what should congress have dealt with before leaving? you can text your answer to 36288. type sr1 for holding ethics hearings. sr2 for spending cuts. sr3 for school nutrition bill. or sr4 for tax cuts. we'll have the results later. grapevine is next. ñ÷ >> announcer: here's a special free offer for men who are losing their hair. >> my hair always looks great, and i feel great. >> if you want to look better and if you want to feel better about yourself, hair club is the way to go. >> announcer: men, you

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you shouldn't have to send money back to louisiana, to nebraska. you shouldn't have to exempt certain states because you need a senator's vote. shouldn't this bill had been strong enough, on its own that it could have passed on its own? >> this is a strong bill. and it is a bill that -- >> sean: that's not my question. >> well, the fact is that every one of these negotiated agreements, had to do with dealing with constituencys. had to deal with dealing with problems in -- in particular states problems that other parts of the country do not have. >> sean: done you have a problem with the process when the person people aren't given the opportunity to read the bill? only after the bill passed the infamous comment now nancy pelosi, we gotta pass the bill to find out what's in the bill. something is so dramatic -- and i am a student of history and there were people after the civil rights act and the voting rights act, they ran on their votes. they didn't run for cover during the next election cycle on those votes. >> those votes were even more controver

one back in louisiana remember he's that family values guy into the kinky stuff like wearing diapers so now we find out that he's not only hypocrites he's also a bigot david vitter is tonight's tool time winner. r us unions powerless in other parts of the world labor unions will put up a fight for the sake of the working class but here in the u.s. the capitalism mentality has taken over the country leaving many union leaders and effective parties kalen for shows as how american workers have been left to fend for themselves. through many causes draw americans out in the streets we're here to take our country back i understand they don't want to hear that our god given inalienable. natural liberty except for their rights as workers. in greece organized labor drove twenty thousand to the streets to push back against government austerity measures. in france militant unions protests cuts in pensions and increased retirement age across the world the trade unions are a force to be reckoned with at the polls and in the streets in the u.s. however they're increasingly silent. this is the head

then the one that's least known about and which i really enjoyed writing about was the one from louisiana and texas to california and the entire west coast. tavis: you tell this wonderful story through the individual stories of three people which i'll get to in just a second. but i'm curious at the outset what made you devote so much time and attention to this particular subject matter. >> well, i'm a daughter of a great migration, as really the majority of african-americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the great migration. it's that massive. and many of us owe our very existence to the fabt that people migrated. and my own family's case, my mother migrated from georgia, from rome, georgia, to washington, d.c., and my father migrated from southern virginia to washington, d.c., where they met, married and here i am. and had it not been for the great migration i wouldn't exist. and yet i felt that the story wasn't really being told from the perspective of the people who had lived this. we didn't know why they left or how they made the decision to leave. what were thei

hal louisiana tui -- hallucination tory. has us working with conservatives. name me when anybody said that the president or members of the administration says you are an tie hispanic if you are against immigration. they make up their own quotes and argue against themselves. no one ever spends that. the president never said that. he got in trouble with some black leaders for not dealing with a lot of race issues. they create these strong men and divide the country. i tell you name me one quote the president ever said about white folks. >> they would say charles what are you smoking. >> t >> in the black community throws always been this perception that there are good white people and bad white people and he has perpetuated the bad white people. >> how? >> listen. the name -- let me tell you one thing. first of all that is something that probably -- >> 5 seconds. >> he should have stopped them from throwing the tea party racist. racist. >> we will be right back.÷÷xxxxú ♪w reic xx÷÷÷÷xñ racist. >> we will be right back.÷÷xxxxú

hope you enjoyed it, and we want to thank the asian shaft -- chef association, offering the best louisiana on the bay area, and to help me find them, i would like to call upon the mayor's office of neighborhood services office manager, and she is going to say a special thank you. where is francis? claudine? is she coming? is francis here? yes, well, you can help me thank them. >> we want to say a special thanks to the shaft -- chef. francis was going to make this presentation, but it is on behalf of the chef, the owner and executive chef and also peter wong. here we are. come on, everybody. they did a great job. >> the chef will be the incoming chair person of the chef association. it will be with us every year catering and contributing to our community. we want to express our appreciation, and thank you so much. [applause] >> we are all about good food and pictures, of course. we would love for you to say a few words. >> good evening. it is such an honor for us to be here tonight. in the partner of the asian chef association , and in the founder of -- i am the founder of chefs without bor