we have a report from louisiana public broadcasting's shauna sanford. it's part of a collaboration with our "american graduate team," a public media initiative funded by the corporation for public broadcasting. >> reporter: 17-year-old christian myers in louisiana looks like a typical high school student but his english classroom is considerably different than most. it's his family's kitchen table. christian is home-schooled and had been studying nathaniel hawthorn's classic novel "the scarl elt letter" with his teacher and mother beth. when she looks at her child, what bothers her? >> reporter: beth is a former english and literature teacher and last year they both decided home-schooling was the best way to get him ready for college. >> i never thought about home-schooling before, in fact i had a negative view of it as a teacher because a lot of times the kids who came into my classroom who had been home-schooled were generally two to three years behind. >> meyers said she changed her mind after louisiana along with the rest of the country adopted and

. >> i looked at slaves from louisiana who escaped to spanish texas in the aftermath of the louisiana purchase. my project continues to look at fugitive slaves who from texas escaped into mexico. between theborder spanish territory and the united states and mexico and united states. the reason why it ends in 1865 is because of the emancipation of slaves and their is no reason for them to escape into mexico. >> what have you learned? >> i have learned that the mexican government protected fugitive slaves in many ways, such as refusing to return slaves to their owners. in doing so, it really creates tense relations between the u.s. and mexico. >> this is something that we might have studied them abut how did this work and how was this different than what he saw as many of the slaves moved to the north? >> typically, when people think about the underground railroad, they think about slaves in the south escape into the north but as slavery expanded farther south and eventually westward, the southern underground railroad is a byproduct of that. the slaves used the southern underground rail

i have been to louisiana, louisiana state university archives as well. >> often when you were doing this type of research, you have more questions than answers. what questions you have at the moment, what do you want to find out? >> i want to find out more about the fugitive slaves from louisiana escaping into spanish texas. what is in spanish texas like echo what are they escaping to? as i mentioned, i want to find out more when texas slaves escape to mexico, what does it mean for them to integrate into mexican society, and how do they do this with the threat of recapture from slave hunters and the barriers that exist for them , particularly language barriers? >> at this moment, how far along you think you are in your research? >> i am beginning to polish chapter four, but it is a bit of so i'm hopings, to read it over and do things that i have learned. there is a recent scholarship about fugitive slaves in mexico, two articles that i want to incorporate into my larger project. >> have you been able to find any descendents of these fugitive slave? >> i have not yet, but that is one of m

and it's amazing. >> the gun was traced to shreveport, louisiana.s gerald mason's, as was the thumbprint on the steering wheel of the car. >> i didn't realize i ran a red light. and i got out of the car, walked back to their car. my feelings were that what i had done was going to cause me to go to death row. so when the officer turned away from me, i shot both officers. >> to avoid a public trial, gerald mason pleaded guilty to the murder of the two police officers and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison. >> he only admitted the crime because it was in his best interest to do so. so that his family, his wife, his grandchildren, would not hear how he raped a teenager. he traded the lives of two on-duty police officers to avoid capture. >> it is impossible to express to so many people how sorry i am about that night. i do not understand why i did this. it is contrary to everything. it does not fit in my life. it is not the person i know. i detest these crimes. >> what people would say about him being at 24 years old and committing th

he signed that legislation today in a church in monroe, louisiana.nd yes, in case you're wondering, yes, there will be lawsuits. "first look" is up next. >>> good friday morning. right now on first first, breaking overnight, bowe bergdahl is now back on u.s. soil. his care can continues and so does the investigation. >>> with iraq falling to jihadist, president obama threatens military strikes while promise i promising no boots on the ground. >>> immigration emergency. waves of children are pouring over the u.s. border at alarming rates. >>> plus the heat are outhustled and outplayed by the spurs. >>> happy friday the 13th. we want to begin with breaking news. sergeant bowe bergdahl is back in the united states. the freed taliban prisoner of war was flown from germany to the brook army medical center

i yield to my colleague from louisiana. the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. ms. landrieu: mr. president, let me just join my colleague in asking for unanimous consent for this particular and individual bill to pass by unanimous consent. it would be lovely if we could do this today because of the timing of d-day tomorrow. for information from colleagues that have other bills pending that are called lands bills, we're still working on a smaller package in addition to this. but we just felt like this was of such significant importance and so timely for today that it would really be important for us to do this. so i hope that our staffs can clear this on both sides and we could get this done, you know, before close of business today. and thank the senator from ohio. mr. portman: i thank my colleague from louisiana. look forward to being back with her on the floor shortly to be able to ask for that unanimous consent request and pass this legislation and do so prior to this momentous 70th anniversary tomorrow. yield back my time. i note the absence of a quorum, mr. pre

second largest city in louisiana is baton rouge, 230,000 people. the population centers in the town of monroe, louisiana, at a church, governor bobby jindal signed a new law that will close all the abortion clinics in new orleans and baton rouge. for that whole state with a population of almost 5 million people, the law that bobby jindal signed today is expected to close every clinic in the state except for one maybe two. neither of them in the state's two largest cities. the louisiana bill uses the same language used in texas to close clinics there. that same language has just been put into law in oklahoma as well. expected to close all but one clinic in oklahoma. same language put into law in alabama. and also in mississippi. the one last place in mississippi where women can get an abortion is now fighting to try to stay open. the state tries to shut it down. and now today, in louisiana, governor jindal signed the same law to start shutting down that state's clinics as well. and, state-by-state, across the american south, that is how the anti-abo

across the river was louisiana in liberia, settled by free slaves in louisiana.re was a georgia, virginia, kentucky, maryland county. all of those people came from those states in the u.s. and literarytory life of jackson, mississippi, on c-span3. first military burial at arlington national cemetery took place 150 years ago on may 13, 1864. we visit the cemetery with the author of "on hallowed ground." we hear stories from his book about the final resting place for some 400,000 americans. >> we are in section 27 of arlington national cemetery. this is one of the oldest sections of the military cemetery at arlington. it is where the story of arlington national cemetery begins. historyn has so much tied up in the civil war. cemetery wasof the 1864, reallyof before there was a cemetery. how did that happen? in 1864, the civil war have been going on for several years. washington was hospital city at that time. there were as many as 50,000 soldiers and sailors in the hospitals of washington, temporary hospitals set up all over town. those people started dying. they ha

my parents had been to louisiana -- my parents had never met anybody who had been to louisiana. but they had an unshakable faith that if you get there and work hard and get a great education, you can provide your children with a better quality of life. they knew the american dream was alive and well. they came nearly 50 years ago so that my mom could study at lsu. my dad -- he did not know anybody. book,ned up the phone went through the yellow pages and started calling company after company after company looking for a job. i don't know how many people turned him down or how many people laughed in his face or slammed the phone down, but after hours, days -- i don't know, maybe even after weeks of finallyhone calls, he convinced a guide to take a chance on him. there was a guy at a railroad company that said, "you can start on monday." what i love about the rest of the story is you have to meet my dad to understand it. he had not even met his new job. he tells his boss who he has "that's great. i'll start monday. i don't have a car. i don't have a drivers license. you have to pick

: for now, louisiana has the upper hand.our crawfish. i tell everybody when the season starts eat them quick before they ship them out of state. >> reporter: balk at theck at the world's largest crawfish boil they raised enough money to provide 112,000 meals for charity. >> you think our fathers ever imagined when they were stirring crawfish in a beer keg -- >> they had no concept. absolutely none. >> once people begin to eat our crawfish, they'll never get enough. >> there's one more factor in play here. new orleans celebrity chefs like emral emeril are becoming household names. that's making americans realize just how bland some of their food is. >> and it makes new orleans a great place to go. >> it was a tough assignment. >> i've had crawfish but peeling a lot of those -- >> it's very easy. people from louisiana are happy to teach you. you see multi-generational peeling going on there. >> i just want to work that hard to eat. i don't want my nose to run. i like a good old beignet. >> a beignet in the morning. >>> photos

i'm bill cassidy, louisiana congressman and also adopt her. i have worked for 25 years caring for the uninsured, which i still do. patients know i am a congressman. often they would rather talk about problems in washington --m problem with her out problems with their health. i say, time out. let's talk about you. but they are concerned with ignored.nse solutions they have trouble paying bills, losingfor gas, some their homes. i agree -- we can do better. the declaration of independence speaks of our right to pursue happiness. the american dream for us, our children, our grandchildren. my dad is an example. he never went to college. he worked hard to sell insurance. my dad's dream was for is children to have a better life. he is so proud that his son is a congressman who happens to be running for the united states senate. i wish my dad could see his dream fulfilled. we have dreams. fulfilling dreams begins with opportunity. republicans believe there could be greater opportunity. working americans have employed iny been energy, manufacturing, an

louisiana. louisiana defines a colored person as all persons with any mixture of negro blood. good old mississippi. mississippi -- the word white under section 207 means a member of the caucasian race and the word colored includes not only negroes, but persons of mixed blood having any appreciable amount of negro blood. moving on. tennessee. the word negro includes mulattos, mestizos, and their descendents having any african blood in their veins. they shall be known as persons of color. ok. ok. and then virginia has an interesting one. because they make a distinction between people living on native american reservations as well. but i read to you some of the synopses of these laws that had to do with race and color. what do we get from them? we got something from them. they should be a little confusing. what do you take from them? ms. martinez. >> they kind of say the same thing about what a negro was, a colored person was, but they define in different ways. however, a white person -- >> the berbers? >> yeah. >> the berbers are interesting, too. ms. martinez is on the right tr

president obama has not done well in louisiana but the republican governor of louisiana, bobby jindalin the same polling territory as obama right now. how much of an opportunity does bobby jindal, do bobby jindal's struggles present to democrats. it's a senate race, you're talking about federal issues, federal election it doesn't technically involve the governor. do you think there's an opportunity with jindal's struggles for democrats to benefit in the senate election? >> i don't think jindal will play that much of a role in the senate race. i think that obama and his unpopularity in this state will probably be a lot more determinative in the november election. than jindal's popularity. >> what is the the path then for somebody like mary landrieu? if an unpopular rrn governor you don't think will matter that much and president obama's struggles in the state. mary land rrieu has a shot at this. what is path for her to survive in a state like louisiana? >> if the path exists at all and there is some question if it does exist any more, think it will come from getting people who traditio

he had recently in december just been released from louisiana prison for aggravated sexual assault.hat's all the caller said, and they hung up. >> taylor, only 20 years old, lived with his mother just two blocks from where the murder took place. and police learned that taylor worked at a fast-food restaurant that used the dry cleaner to launder the employees' uniforms. investigators called the manager and asked if taylor was the one who took the clothes to the dry cleaners. >> they said, no, paul taylor would not have brought the clothing over there. however, he just quit his job 15 minutes ago and was planning on going to louisiana. [ sirens ] >> police rushed to paul taylor's house. >> and when they arrived, paul taylor told them that he had just gotten home from work. one of the officers confronted him with the fact that you didn't just get home from work. the manager just told us you went over there and quit your job, that you were going back to louisiana. >> when questioned, taylor denied any involvement in the murder. taylor's grandmother provided an alibi. she said paul was a

and he might still be free if it weren't for the local fingerprint databases in louisiana and california and the investigators who knew where to look. >> you just don't know sometime how just a little clue, just a little fingerprint and, will, will lead you right directly to the killer. >> they wouldn't have been able to find brown without those forensics. that fingerprint was the thing that nailed the nail in the coffin for him. i mean, without that, after over a year, i don't know how that could have, how anything could have evolved out of that. >>> a brutal murder, lots of suspects and conflicting evidence. but the forensics were clear on one thing. the killer knew his victim. and that alone gave investigators a head start. for many young women, the allure of the stage, theater and the arts is difficult to ignore. 19 year old heather stigliano thought she might have what it takes to succeed. >> she liked to pose and model and be on-stage. and she had a beautiful voice. >> after high school heather planned to pursue her dreams but put them on hold for ar

. >> he supported common core and louisiana implemented voluntary education standard. they were agreed to by dozens of states, including louisiana and the knor's association. now the gor s says there's too much federal overreach. >> the federal governor would like to assert control and rush implementation of sa one size fits all set of standards raising concerns. >> we are alarmed about choice taken away from parents and educators. instead of focussing on high standards, common core is a one size fits all prime that does not make sense for the state. >> the maths and reading standards outline what students are expected to learn as a way to prepare them for colleges and the workforce. if others want to allow the federal government to dickate to them, they have every right to make the choice. >> reporter: it is a divisive issue. several states are backing out. republican governors have signed legislation to withdraw from common core. in states like alabama. it is expected to be the key issue. >> it dictates what children will larn in classrooms. the obama administration

. >>> venice, louisiana, like its namesake in italy, is a place where life revolves around the water. the small town marks the spot where the mississippi river empties into the gulf of mexico. locals call it the end of the world. >> everybody knows everybody's business pretty much, good and bad, and some people like it and some people don't. i tend to like it. >> many people in venice make their money trawling for shrimp. it's hard, dangerous work. the sea can either be friend or foe. >> it's rough, and the people there are rough. it's not a genteel community. there's friction there. there's friction there between the pleasure fishermen and the work-a-day fishermen that do it for a living. >> in july of 2000, a storm battered the louisiana coast while the fishing boats were still at sea. all the boats somehow made it back safely, all except one. captain raymond leiker, otherwise known as tinky, and his deckhand alvin latham were missing along with their shrimp boat named "the bandit." the coast guard was notified. they searched the area in the gulf where tinky had made his last radio

those blood sports are no longer attractive in louisiana.'m not a fan of cock fighting, but i'd love to go and watch some chicken boxing. >> you just said "chicken boxing"? >> yes, chicken boxing in louisiana is still not legal, but we're fighting to make it legal. >> you meant to say chicken boxing? >> i meant to say chicken boxing. human beings put governors on and box. chickens can put gloves on and box. >> right. he's trying to legalize chicken boxing, which is totally different than cockfighting. wait. maybe that is cockfighting. all right. switch 'em around. that's chicken boxing and that's cockfighting? >> we're talking about chicken boxing. >> what? what are these? >> these are chicken boxing gloves. >> so cockfighting vicious? >> many people say some. >> but this, adorable. >> absolute legislature sport, family sport. >> so no cockfighting and no chicken boxing. what's next, no chicken wrestling? if it were up to people like j.b., the chicken wouldn't have any fun. >> it doesn't matter what you arm them with, two chickens going into

my parents had been to louisiana -- my parents had never met anybody who had been to louisiana. but they had an unshakable faith that if you get there and work hard and get a great education, you can provide your children with a better quality of life. they knew the american dream was alive and well. they came nearly 50 years ago so that my mom could study at lsu. my dad -- he did not know anybody. book,ned up the phone went through the yellow pages and started calling company after company after company looking for a job. i don't know how many people turned him down or how many people laughed in his face or slammed the phone down, but after hours, days -- i don't know, maybe even after weeks of finallyhone calls, he convinced a guide to take a chance on him. there was a guy at a railroad company that said, "you can start on monday." what i love about the rest of the story is you have to meet my dad to understand it. he had not even met his new job. he tells his boss who he has "that's great. i'll start monday. i don't have a car. i don't have a drivers license. you have to pick

new orleans and louisiana show this very well.louisiana is the 50th out of 50 states to be a woman. it has a 20% poverty rate. there is only a 10% chance that a child that is born in the lower five percent will ever get to the highest five percent. i agree with the mayor. ideas matter and issues matter. it is possible to build strong, multiracial coalitions out of the basic bread and butter economic issues that workers and their families are facing. the importance of dignity at work. the importance of a strong safety net that catches workers in long periods of unemployment. the importance of building some kind of economic coalition in the labor market that can change a city and the state. i would say that in terms of the freedom summer applied now, we are up against more than we have been up against in the past. there is collectively billions of dollars of tax breaks being given to corporations for job creation and louisiana. if you look at the proportions of tax break hours to the portion of jobs created, close to $8 million per

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louis, which already had existed by 40 years by the time the louisiana purchase was made when thomas jefferson authorized lewis and clark to go into the west. immediately after the louisiana purchase, lewis and clark made a famous journey of exploration to the west coast. they opened a new era in american history where there was an idea that the government would have explorers, mostly people in the military, go into the west and tried to identify important things that were located in that area. it was something that the 18th-century mind of thomas jefferson felt was important. it became a legacy, so even after jefferson was long gone, there were groups of explorers going into the west. there were whole sections of the army founded in the 1830's with a specific goal of trying to map and described the entire geographical area of what the united states considered to be its territory. the exploration kept going on through the 1870's and 1880's. there were explorers trying to qualify and quantify everything they were seeing. whether that needed to happen before people went out to settle o

louis, which already had existed for 40 years by the time the louisiana purchase was made when thomas jefferson authorized louis and clark to go into the west. immediately after the louisiana wentase, lewis and clarke on their famous journey of exploration out to the west and they opened a new era in american history, where there was an idea that the government -- had explorers, mostly people who were in the military, go into the west and tried to identify important things that were located in that area. it was something that the 18th mind of thomas jefferson felt was important. it became a legacy so even after jefferson was long gone, there were still groups of explorers who were officially going into the west. there was a whole section of the army, the topographical core, that was founded in the 1830's with the specific goal of trying describe the entire geographical area of what the united states considered to be its territory. the exploration just kept going on right up through the 1870's and 1880's. there were still explorers going out and trying to quantify and qualify everythin

this is where we're drawing the line in louisiana. >> louisiana set up standards four years ago, agreedo by dozens of states, including louisiana and the national governor's association. now the governor said there's too much federal overreach. >> the federal government would like to assert control of our education system and rush a one size fits all set of standards that raises a lot of serious concerns. we're alarmed about choice and local control over crick come taken from our parents and educators. instead of focusing on high standards and giving the states the freedom to set the policies and reach those standards, common core has become a one size fits all program that does not make sense for our state. >> the new outlines show what should be learned at all grade levels. >> if other states want the federal government to dictate to them, they have every right to make the choice. >> common core is a bitterly divisive issue. several states, including louisiana are backing out. republican governors in indiana, oak he can and south carolina signed legislation to withdraw from common cor

and across the river was louisiana. and liberia which was settled by free slaves from louisiana, georgia, virginia, kentucky, maryland county, and all those people came from those states in the u.s.. >> explore the history of literary life of jackson, mississippi, next weekend on c-span2's booktv and american history tv on c-span3. >> now on booktv, theresa payton and theodore claypoole talk about the positives and negatives of digital surveillance and discuss what individuals can do to protect their privacy and the privacy of their children. during a book party held at the capitol hill club in washington d.c.. >> are you guys ready? awesome. everyone has a glass of wine to settle in, perfect. >> good evening, i am melissa halfway. my great honor to be here this evening to introduce the authors of privacy in the age -- "privacy in the age of big data". who would have thought when the internet began with its first transmission on october 29, 1969, and we moved forward here today in may of 2014, each one of us would have

today, 1 in 7 americans rely on food stamps to keep from going hungry and in louisiana, a whopping 1 in 5 depend on the progr program. have you applied for assistance before? >> no, i have not. >> and what brought you in today, and what is the deciding facto factor? >> well, things are just getting tough, man. i haven't been working in a while, and i stay at home, and i take care of our son. and it has been this way now for a little bit over a year, ant it does not work, man, you know what i mean? >> why so hard for you to find work? >> my job as a bricklayer in the union evaporated. it was just gone. there was no more. i had a job making $25/hour, and i had a nice suburb and a nice residential setting, and i just lost it all. >> it is easy to tell after talking to john after a few minutes that things have gotten desperate. food stamps could help, but what would help him even more is a job. so i am second him over to lawyer winfield in employment services where i will be helping out for the rest of the afternoon with ms. cindy monroe. held hilo, h -- hello, how are ? >> hello, morgan

and then it waned some, and with the help of congressman bill cassidy from the state of louisiana --which is where you are from. >> which is where i'm from. they started that back up and as we speak, today there are several congressmen and senators taking pictures for us. >> tell us about the history of the actual fabric. we will get to haspel in a second. where is the seersucker made? >> seersucker is the weave of the cotton fabric that helps keep it off of your skin. it is an indian word for milk and sugar. it is the sweet spot. >> they would use this on a regular basis as workwear. >> my great grandfather, joseph haspel, decided to take this cloth that they were using for laborers suits and make it into gentlemen's clothing. and decided to start making seersucker suits. he popularized it. it started out in 1909 and now haspel is not only doing tailored clothing, but seersucker t-shirts as well. >> i'm going to get to that expansion, but in terms of the history, because of course, air-conditioning is something for the modern era, but it was not installed everywhere. you had to wear

that bill passed the louisiana senate. then it sailed through the louisiana house last week.by a margin of 88-5. with zero debate. same bill also expected to close three if not four of the state's five remaining abortion clinics. using the same kind of targeted regulation that has shut down clinics across the country. the bill, sitting on the governor's desk. after the legislation passed the governor was looking forward to sign it and a signing ceremony expected sometime soon. this idea of making lists of abortion providers, making public details about where they work, phone numbers, photos of who they are and how they can be found. it is not a new idea. it has long been a tactic of anti-abortion extremist groups. people who were to do harm to doctors who perform abortions or at least to intimidate and scare them. the lists were frequently made in the form of old-fashioned wanted posters. this for example is the wanted poster for wichita doctor, george tiller, giving his home and office address where he can be found. the wanted poster was before he was shot by an anti-abortio

. >> he is from the first district of louisiana, he is a disciple of the governor of louisiana.hat is his support within the tea party? let's be direct. is he a key party type? >> -- tea party type? >> i don't think he is part of the group that wants to burn the whole thing down. he has been head of the republican study committee, which is the core conservative group in the house. he has worked well with leadership, particularly over the last year. he worked very well with eric cantor. this idea that he is the kind of guy who was going to shut the government down -- is he more in line with them ideologically? yes, but he is a worker and he understands that things do need to go forward. i don't think this idea that he is majorly problematic is an accurate one. >> i think you are dead on, phil. what fascinates me is a roman catholic from louisiana in a party within evangelical fascination -- foundation. look, i think it all goes down to retail with steve scalise. he has not been in the house very long. his ability over the last nine days to get people behind him -- he pulled all o

beginning of august when eric cantor steps down and the new majority whip will be steve scalise of louisiana. russell berman of the hill comments, tweets scalise, red state conservative in g.o.p. leadership for the first time since hensarling. those leaders should be coming to the microphones soon. >> we're waiting to hear from house republican leadership and opening our phone lines to hear what you think about the newly elect leadership. 585-3886 for mocrats and all others 202-585-2887. the new leaders, kevin mccarthy of california will assume the majority leader position in early august. as eric cantor steps down and elected new majority whip, representative steve scalise, four-term republican out of the first district in louisiana. he will likewise assume that position in the early days of august. let's hear from donna, who is in bloomington, illinois, on the republican line as we wait to hear from the leadership. donna, you're on the air government ahead. caller: i am. well, i'm a staunch republican and i wanted to thank and congratulate representative scalise. i must tell you we're so,

. >> you know, ryan, louisiana senator david vitter has been opposed from the start. but now he is running for governor and he seems open to the medicaid expansion. listen to this. >> we need to improve and reform medicaid. and i want to look at everything that could be brought to bear to do that. now, could more federal resources help to do that? they could if it is done right. >> now, ryan, louisiana's current governor -- medicaid expansion. >> he is not running for president and he knows with his scandal, that will never happen. he says if i'm elected governor, that's the last political office i will run for. people in louisiana of course would like to have more federal money than less federal money. every state agrees with that. there is a very kind of conservative taxpayer that said we should get our tax money back. it is almost perverse to say, we want to pay taxes to the federal government but let it return to the state. that's not a very conservative argument at all. so vitter is actually on very solid ground if he want s to mae the argument to the right. >> i

new orleans and louisiana show this very well.louisiana is the 50th out of 50 states to be a woman. it has a 20% poverty rate. there is only a 10% chance that a child that is born in the lower five percent will ever get to the highest five percent. i agree with the mayor. ideas matter and issues matter. it is possible to build strong, multiracial coalitions out of the basic bread and butter economic issues that workers and their families are facing. the importance of dignity at work. the importance of a strong safety net that catches workers in long periods of unemployment. the importance of building some kind of economic coalition in the labor market that can change a city and the state. i would say that in terms of the freedom summer applied now, we are up against more than we have been up against in the past. there is collectively billions of dollars of tax breaks being given to corporations for job creation and louisiana. if you look at the proportions of tax break hours to the portion of jobs created, close to $8 million per

so we're thinking, how could she be in east texas grieving and her atm card is being used in louisiana at a gambling casino? >> and even more bizarre, not long after bruce was killed, janice married husband number three, bart hall. >> bart hall, nice guy. he said, i felt so strong for janice and for her welfare that after we got married, i took out a $100,000 life insurance policy on myself just to make sure if something happened to me, she was well taken care of. with that, dave says, you don't hunt, do you? bulldog: [yawning] it's finally morning! i can't wait to get to mattress discounters because the tempur-pedic bonus event is ending soon. i'll have first pick from the huge selection of tempur-pedic mattresses. then, i'll get to choose $300 in pillows, sheets, and other free gifts. on top of that, up to 48 months interest-free financing. it's a beautiful day for mattress discounters' tempur-pedic bonus event. mmm, some alarm clock you turned out to be. ♪ mattress discounters >>> janice dodson denied any involvement in her husband bruce's murder. so did her ex-husband, j.c. lee, wh

that's what you look out for if you ride in louisiana, sometimes there's gators in the road. >> nothing like taking a picture with the gators on swamp road. >>> a huge neighborhood fiasco caught on camera. watch where it starts out. a black mercedes in the driveway. watch what it does when it tries to leave the house. >> oh, my god, oh, my! oh! oh, my god! oh! >> appears to smash into two cars, almost looks like it's on purpose, and then you realize this is on purpose because watch what happens after the first two crashes. >> oh! not my car! not my car! >> smashes into the explorer of the woman who is recording this video, and then goes on down the street to hit another car. >> oh! >> eventually, that car comes to rest past the last car it crashed into. >> what's wrong with this person? who gets in a car and purposely plays bumper cars with real vehicles? >> hard to say what happened. in the beginning of the vehicle, looks like someone's chasing the car. some people in the video speculating that the man behind the wheel could be on some sort of drug or not on the right drugs. after the

in the 1600s baton rouge and louisiana got its name from french settlers and meant red stick. to this day, baton rouge is one of the most racially diverse cities in the country. pam kinamore new the town's history well by birth and by profession. pam operated an antiques store. >> pam loved life. every day she couldn't wait to do all the things that she wanted to do. she was fun. she was exuberant. she was enthused. she was intelligent. >> shortly before midnight on a friday in july, 2002, pam's husband byron called police to report his wife missing. he said when he got home the front door was wide open. his wife's keys were there. but pam was gone. strangely, the bathtub was full of water. >> it looked like she had been taking a bath and also there was some blood on a rug under the bed in the bedroom. that hadn't been there before. forensic testing revealed the blood on the carpet was pam's. it appeared that she left her keys in the door inadvertently and an intruder walked in while pam was in the bathtub. the couple's son was sleeping overnight at a friend's house and couldn

or he was out all oil city louisiana sixty one eighty five and we ran the once closed off it's very complicated and he ran it had a quick release and i didn't like he could have gone the n.f.l. . if he would have wanted to if he had been as devoted and had the passion for football as he does for hunting back then because he would show up always he was always late and he always were t. shirt always had blood on it our feather our squirrel guts he's all in there were socks he always wore deducing crame levi blue jeans and a white t. shirt that have a beard he did not is a black top clean shaven he was the guy that nicknamed me the blond bomber be the great guy and i used to go fishing with a muslim out fact he put a sack over my head made me lay down in the bottom of a boat because he knew if we caught fish that i'd come back the next day in my boat and go to the same spot he would make me put a sack on and lay the bottom of the boat and that's where i'd stay till we got to we were going where we were drafted i was the first player first player picked so you back them up for a couple

new orleans and louisiana show this very well.louisiana is the 50th out of 50 states to be a woman. it has a 20% poverty rate. there is only a 10% chance that a child that is born in the lower five percent will ever get to the highest five percent. i agree with the mayor. ideas matter and issues matter. it is possible to build strong, multiracial coalitions out of the basic bread and butter economic issues that workers and their families are facing. the importance of dignity at work. the importance of a strong safety net that catches workers in long periods of unemployment. the importance of building some kind of economic coalition in the labor market that can change a city and the state. i would say that in terms of the freedom summer applied now, we are up against more than we have been up against in the past. there is collectively billions of dollars of tax breaks being given to corporations for job creation and louisiana. if you look at the proportions of tax break hours to the portion of jobs created, close to $8 million per