louisiana. he says things like, we have africans in a place all around us, and every day, they are bardering away their duties and positions. he says anything, even violent insurrection, is better than the insanity that seems to prevail. >> we will also be hearing about justice miller. you wrote the book about him. you said in the book historians have long considered miller one of the court's most justices. can you tell us why? >> one is because of the slaughterhouse cases. it has a tremendous impact on the 14th amendment, that anyone who issued that opinion is going to get credit as an important justice. he's also a force. miller is this big, burly, john go goodman like figure, who prides himself on cutting through the bs. when lawyers go on and on, miller says, get to the point! in the one case, the guy says, what point? he says, any point. some point. everything who dealt wi everyone who dealt with him on the court throughout the age, he was a force of nature when he entered the room. >> so p

caller inis our next louisiana. caller: i would like to ask michael white so many of these originated in louisiana. michael: new orleans and louisiana are central to the reconstruction story. you not only have the afro creoles, who make reconstruction working the best chance of new orleans, but you have 10,000 former slaves that move into the city and all of these extra confederates. most of the south was destroyed and they all moved to new orleans as well. incrediblyis tumultuous place where you have this very proud class of african-americans that will be litigating their new rights and that will lead to the plessy decision. trying tother people deny them. louisiana will have the democratic arm of the party. this, three of the greatest of the 14th amendment cases emerge. this question -- you said earlier that justice campbell argued in the slaughterhouse cases and i may have misunderstood you about how many justices did that. my recollection is one argued a case before the supreme court. he represented puerto rico

and louisiana. we are looking at a ballot box from about 1875. it is important, not only because it is a unique object, but also because of what it represents. voting rights in louisiana during reconstruction. after the civil war, and you -- a new group of people were able to vote for the first time. mainly african americans, who changed the composition of the state legislature. you're looking at a poster that shows african-americans elected into the legislature doing radical reconstruction. the louisiana state legislature that passed the act consisted of about one third african americans. one of the most interesting figures in this picture is oxford dunn, the first man of african descent elected lieutenant governor of the state. he served for several years. he was eventually replaced by pb henchback, but went on to serve for 35 days as the governor of louisiana the first , african-american to serve as governor of a state. he served from 1872 to 1873. about three months later, the supreme court hand

and so will louisiana. and betsy, long gone. after 16 days and 3,000 miles, bristling out through the woods of northern louisiana, arkansas, tennessee, to die next day in a simple whirl of dust. the danger over at last. till the next one comes along. >>> american history tv on c-sp3

the louisiana purchase, he is involved. the war of 1812, he just gets his hand in so many moments in the first 40-50 years of the country. interviewer: why does he have a global view of the world? cassandra good: he was sent on his first diplomatic appointment very early on. he was not educated abroad, but he was sent to france by george washington and that was his first experience -- and then sent back to europe later traveling to several different countries. i think that that really impacted his idea about foreign policy. when he was secretary of state and president. interviewer: what was he like as a man? cassandra good: i think the description we see most often is that he was a really nice guy. his personal papers do not survive for the most part, his wife's papers are gone, so we don't have much insight into him as a person, but he was well-liked, we know that. he was somebody who had integrity and people respected that about him. he is not known as the smartest, but very capable. interviewer: was he an influential pre

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to address the problem louisiana allowed only one government-run slaughter house. crescent city, to operate in the city direct and the other houses took them to court. follow the slaughterhouse cases of 1873. >>> we're joined by paul clement former solicor general and mike the ross, author of the book "justice of shattered dreams" to help tell the history of the time period in the south, the personal stories of the butchers and the state of things in new orleans as well as attorneys and supreme court justices involved in the close decision. be sure to join the conversation as we take your calls, tweets and facebook comments during the program using #landmarkcases live tonight on c-span, c-span 3 and c-span radio. for background, order your copy of the "landmark cases" companion book available for $8.95 plus shipping. >>> in 2012 the supreme court deemed unconstitutional life sentences without parole for juveniles. this week the justices heard oral argument on whether that ruling applies retroactively to sentences handed down prior to the decision. this is an hour a

really, louisiana? on a saturday? yes. okay. october 24th, next saturday, is election day in louisiana to pick a new governor. the republican favorite in that race is this man, louisiana senator david vitter, who is the only person in the u.s. senate who competes with ted cruz for the least liked person in the whole institution among his colleagues. but there are three republicans running in louisiana to succeed bobby jindal as governor. senator david vitter polls the best among them. but the democrat in that louisiana race also has a pretty good chance of winning. he's a democratic state representative named john belle edwards. not to be confused with the other john not bel edwards. but that louisiana governor's race, that is not some-2016 race that we're looking ahead to for next year. this is a 2015 race. that louisiana governor's race is next week. and then right after that it's the other big 2015 governor's race, which happens in the great state of kentucky. and kentucky we think of as a reddish state. kentucky's at least i

southern louisiana is hot and swampy...so constant soil erosion and sediment displacement, as well as the fact -in some places, new orleans' is up to 800 feet below sea level, is why this city is so naturally prone to flooding. >> at 1,000 feet flying from the outskirts of new orleans it becomes very obvious how a large surge of water would have caused the devastation that we saw during hurricane katrina. >> most of south louisiana is new land there's no stones down here it's all sediment. >> foster creppel's family has lived on this delta for generations. about 50 miles outside new orleans in port sulphur, they've seen their share of flooding..especially during katrina. >> the delta is 85 percent organic it's plant growth and decay. >> try to build a sound structure on that. but foster creppel did anyway. he bought the old woodlands plantation from auction. and turned it into a bed and breakfast. woolands is also outside the army corp's new storm risk reduction system ...and foster is actually glad. his common sense approach to flooding may seem radical to some...but foster creppel i

here in louisiana officials are now confirming the heavy rains were not only dangerous but also deadly. driving in downpours like these police confirming a man died when he lost control of his car during the storm. streets still swamped monday morning, 20 children needed to be rescued from their flooded school bus. more than eight inches of rain falling from new orleans to baton rouge, leading to power outages and flooding around louisiana state university. in some spots the water feet deep, turning even l.s.u. football players into good samaritans. >> i didn't expect to see cars on the water over there. >> it was a very unfortunate situation and i feel like everybody needs to pay more attention to the barricades and the signs. reporter: in texas residents are still reeling after taking a beating from mother nature over

that's next. >> a debate over sex education in schools is brewing in louisiana. the state does not require it and efforts to change that continue to meet resistance. jonathan martin reports. >> you guys know what this class is about right? >>reporter: seventh grade students in new orleans are getting a lesson about sex. >> we cover hive, other sexually transmitted infections. >>reporter: but classes like this are rare. the state leaves it up to local school boards to decide whether to teach sex education and if they do they're required to emphasize abstinence. efforts to widen the sex education curriculum have repeatedly failed. >> i think it's crucial and vitally important. >>reporter: for the past five years, wesley bishop has sponsored bills that would but louisiana in line with 22 other states that mandate some type of sex education. he's pushing for a comprehensive curriculum in middle and high schools. most recently, he narrowed his proposal to just include his new orleans district. that too was rejected. >> we're doing a very poor job of providing informat

. >>> a debate over sex education in louisiana is heating up. reports from new orleans. >> you know what this class is about, right? >> reporter: these students in new orleans are getting a lesson about sex. >> we cover hiv, other infections, we also cover contraceptive methods, safer sex practices. >> reporter: but classes like this are rare in louisiana's public schools. the state leaves it up to local school boards to decide whether to teach sex education. even with the state's hiv infection rate triple the national average, and teen pregnancy among the highest in the country, efforts to widen the curriculum have repeatedly failed. >> i think it's vitally important. >> reporter: this state representative has sponsored bills that would put louisiana in line with 22 other states that mandate some type of sex education. bishop is pushing for a comprehensive curriculum in middle and high schools. most recently he narrowed his proposal to just include his new orleans district. in that too was rejected. >> we're doing a very poor job of providing i

that is how my family came to south louisiana. years later after emancipation in 1865, he would tell his children his earliest memory of his mother teaching him to say his prayers at night, telling him when freedom comes as it surely would, to go on a quest, you are not a harris. you are a christoph, she would say. if you ever get free, go back to kentucky, look for your family, christoph. he never did. the story of his descendants is the story of a parade, sometimes a mournful dirge, sometimes a raucous start. from being symbolically own by the bayou to and owning a piece of it. and treated as no more important than the man they worked as a slave exiled becoming masters of themselves. which would become in the full list sense of the word, home. why am i telling you this? i would not be a man, the man i am today if my ancestors had not been the men and women they were. in southern culture, family and land where everything especially to african-americans as families were broken by slavery and liberty left with little or nothing. in

in solitary confinement, and the state of louisiana releases mr. ford with a $20 gift card. >> cox: you're trying to portray the state of louisiana as some i got him out of jail as quickly as i could. >> whitaker: and that's the end of the state's obligation? >> cox: as far as i'm concerned. >> whitaker: what about compassion? have you no compassion for what mr. ford has been through? >> cox: well, you don't know me at all, do you? but you have no problem asking that question. >> whitaker: no, i'm... i'm asking because i'm seeking an answer. >> cox: i'm not in the compassion business, none of us lawyers are in the compassion business. i... i think the ministry is in the compassion business. we're in the legal business. so to suggest that somehow what has happened to glenn ford is abhorrent, yes, it's unfair. but it's not illegal. and it's not even immoral. it just doesn't fit your perception of fairness. >> whitaker: i would say, in this case, many, many, many >> cox: i agree. i can't disagree with that. >> whitaker: for his part, marty stroud says

here flooding in neighboring louisiana. power outages forced businesses to close. others get big on candle light. baz zi kanakanani, abc news, washington. >> no reported weather-related deaths. less sonned learned from the storms in may kept drivers out of danger. >> we turn to justin povick, accuweather meteorologist. justin, good morning to you. you. a welcome break for eastern texas. no additional heavy rain. now we turn to areas further east. throughout alabama, georgia, from new orleans to mobile, the threat here for gusty thunderstorms and flash flooding. all this rain, eventually, has it sights set on the tennessee valley and then midweek for the norris east. reena and kennedysdis, let's toss it back to you. >>> mexico survived the worst hurricane ever. patricia barreled ashore on friday as a category 5. mountains. nearly 3,000 homes were damaged. puerto vallarta and other resort areas were spared. >>> breaking overnight, a deadly whale-watching accident. a boat carrying 27 people went down in calm what person the boat was called "the leviathan ii." at least

. >> louisiana getting the worst of the rain this mornining. you can see how much moisture there is there. we get the latatest right new from abc's bazi kanani. >> reporter: the lone star state over parts of texas. >> we've got the boat over there right now. >> reporter: emergency crews going in with boats and humvees. to reach stranded residents. a close call for the more than 70 rescued south of dallas. is man and his dog pulled from their flooded truck. another n stuck when he waded in to find his submerged vehicle. >> i just stood there and watched my car slowly disappear. >> reporter: when flood waters derailed this freight train, the two people on board swam to safety. a cow needed help getting back on solid ground. in san antonio, rescuers m managed to reach a man swept more than a mile through a storm drain. >> you can imagine crashing along the walls in there. it's an amazing story. it was a wild ride for him. >> reporter: the storms swept in with damaging winds, two reported tornadoes. >> i looked out the window. and all you saw was a

in solitary confinement, and the state of louisiana releases mr.with a $20 gift card. >> cox: you're trying to portray the state of louisiana as some kind of monster. i got him out of jail as quickly kind of monster. i got him out of jail as quickly as i could. kind of monster. i was going to the libraryuickly to do my homework. it was a little bit of a walk to get to the bus stop. i had to wait in line to use the computer. took a lot of juggling to keep it all together. what's possible when you have high-speed internet at home? the library never closes. it makes it so much better to do homework when you're at home. internet essentials from comcast. helping to bridge the digital divide. i can't disagree with that. >> whitaker: for his part, marty stroud says glenn ford deserves every penny owed him. he went to see ford to apologize. how do you apologize to someone for taking 30 years of his life from him? >> stroud: well, there's no books you can read to do that. i just went in and apologized. >> whitaker: do you forgive him? >> ford: no. he didn't

the extreme weather system that dumped nearly two feet of rain on texas and louisiana. the human toll and the new storm threatening the flood zone. >> new this half hour, the fireworks explosion lighting up the skies overnight. with blast after blast, the dangerous scene for firefighters and the latest on the injuries. >> and later in the skinny, the royals and movie stars at the premier of 007's "spectre." daniel craig is asked again would he return to his role as james bond. his latest answer on this tuesday, october 27th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning on this incredibly busy tuesday. i'm reena ninan. >> i'm kendis gibson. it is busy for so many different reasons. we have politics, we have weather that we're covering and, of course, covering "spectre," as well which is opening up. >> one of my favorite stories. >> let's begin with that political take-down, donald trump, ben carson making big strides ahead of the third gop debate. >>> the third poll in a row is showing trump losing to carson in iowa now by 14 points. but trump isn't buying

here flooding in neighboring louisiana. to close. others getting by on candle light. washington. >> no reported weather-related deaths. lessons flernd the deadly storms that hit texas in may seemed to keep drivers out of danger. >> we turn to justin povick, accuweather meteorologist. morning. justin, good morning to you. you. a welcome break for eastern texas. we're not dealing with any more now we turn to areas further east. throughout alabama, georgia, more specifically from new orleans to mobile. the threat here for gusty thunderstorms and flash flooding. all this rain, eventually, has it sights set on the tennessee valley and then midweek for the forth east. reena and kendis, let's toss it back to you. >> justin, thank you. >>> mexico survived the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the western hemisphere. patricia barreled ashore on friday as a category 5. it weakened as it hit the mountains. more than 3,000 homes were damaged. along with nearly 10,000 acres of farmland. areas were spared. >>> breaking overnight, a deadly w

in the middle of the month, the louisiana book festival in baton rouge. at the end of november, we are in florida for the miami book fair international. and the international book awards from new york city. >> in 2012, the supreme court deemed life sentences for juveniles to be unconstitutional. this week, the justices have a normal argument on whether it would apply retroactively to courts prior to the court's decision. this is one hour and 15 minutes. >> your argument first this 280,ng in case 14 montgomery versus louisiana. >> the issue is whether to decide there is wrecked activity in this case or the federal hate be as case such as johnson v. mannus number 15 -- one on today's docket. there is no jurisdiction on the question because the point of it is to enforce the supremacy clause. the supremacy clause states that "when the law applies, the judges -- keywords -- in every state shall be bound thereby." asre is no such thing separate federal law that depends on whether a particular state voluntarily makes federal precedent finding. that, or thes stat

and that threat will transition into more of a louisiana threat and four to seven inches of rain is possible and we'll see the moisture streaming to the south and because of that most of the flash flood watches are across central and southern louisiana. they extend into mississippi and alabama and even the panhandle of florida and as we go through the day today and into tonight we will see it move into mississippi and into alabama especially as we go into monday, but we are looking at the potential of five to seven inches across parts of louisiana and that will start to spread to the east and you have to remember that these rain showers are drop dal intropical in match you are and that's what can lead to the flash flooding. >> as dylan mentioned some of those pounding rains in texas being driven by the monster gabe gutierrez is in one of the hardest-hit areas near the resort town of manzanillo. how's it looking. >> reporter: the worst of patricia in sparse and populated areas and remarkably, no deaths have been reported, but for many coastal towns it was a very close call and some l

out toward louisiana later on today. reports of tornadoes yesterday as you can see from this part of texas. and as far as rainfall totals, these are just over the past 24 hours. yesterday picked up more. saturday morning to sunday morning over six inches of rain in galveston. the marion focus will be moving into louisiana later on today. look at bright yellows and reds. we could be talking about rainfall in eight to ten inches. improving weather for texas. it looks like we have extreme rainfall rates for parts of louisiana as we head into in afternoon or monday. here in the bay area you. some showers. >> and some of the activity on the radar. there is a chance in the short-term, we could be damage dodging a few sprinkles. a few light somehowers across parts of the bay area. the weak system moves in. current numbers showing you some 50s and a few low 60s. santa rosa one of the school spots. forty-nine. san francisco is checking in at 56 degrees. for today, hospitals of clouds for this morning. another shun/cloud mix for i

louisiana is covered in rain. it's across that region. we are looking at warnings in effect from eastern texas to central parts of louisiana, dangerous situations, we are looking at flood warnings and flash flood watches in effect for large portions for much of the south. all the way over, towards alabama and into parts of florida. in the next 72 hours we'll see heavy rain, still some in eastern texas, we do think it will be for parts of the mississippi, all the way down into parts of overtowards jackson. over 10 inches of rain. we'll see that rain starting to move towards the east as we go to the beginning of the week. new orleans, rain not until we get past tuesday there. and the rain will make a problem as we go here towards tuesday. it will make its way to the river valley. houston. as you can see. we are looking at better conditions. >> the mexican government vows to rebuild in the wake of hurricane patricia. no lives were lost. it made landfall. densely populated areas were spared. mistaken small villages and towns were not as lucky

he's the governor of the great state of louisiana.. >> great to see you, sir. >> i appreciate your fight. i wish we had the same fight in congress over planned parenthood and immigration, et cetera, obama care. you don't have that fight. >> i couldn't agree with you more. the republicans in d.c. have become the surrender caucus. they can't defund planned parenthood, they can't stop amnesty, can't stop obamacare. >> they can't or they won't? >> both. the reality is they need a backbone transplant. i don't like what pelosi and reid are doing for our country, but at least they fight for their principles. i'm proud of this lawsuit, quite frankly. look, the obamas' attorneys might as well get comfortable in baton rouge. we're not backing down from this fight. i know there are a lot of republicans in d.c. that like to talk. time for them to act. including a lot of these republicans running for president. a lot of these senators, whether it's cruz or rube yes or graham or paul. we need folks to actually act on the front lines. i hope every g

he's the governor of the great state of louisiana.ndal. >> great to see you, sir. >> i appreciate your fight. i wish we had the same fight in congress over planned parenthood and immigration, et cetera, obama care. y don't have that fight. >> i couldn't agree with you more. the republicans in d.c. have become the surrender caucus. they can't defund planned parenthood, they can't stop amnesty, can't stop obamacare. >> they can't or they won't? >> both. they need a back bone transplant. i don't like what transplant. i don't like what pelosi and reid are doing but at least they fight for their principles. we're going to fight to owe protect innocent human life. there are a lot of republicans running for president. a lot of the senators, we need folks to act on the front lines. i hope every governor will defund planned parenthood. they can't sue us all. they can't come after us all. >> why do you think your campaign hasn't broken out until this point? is it too much noise in the room? people don't want any politicians? >> we're top five i

jonathan tell us about this ruling. >> reporter: the federal judge ruled that louisiana must continuend planned parenthood at least for the next two weeks. but the decision here did not seem to stop the state of texas in moving forward its plan to defund the organization. texas announced monday it will cut medicaid funding to planned parenthood clinics. this comes months after a group released undercover videos claiming to show that planned parenthood illegally sells fetal tissue for profit. one of the videos was recorded at a houstons that illty, the governor said: planned parenthood has said the videos were heavily edited and misleading. >> the allegation that planned parenthood profits in any way from tissue donation is not true. >> reporter: this comes on the same day a louisiana judge ruled the state must continue providing money to planned parenthood for the next 14 days while he continues to review the case. planned parenthood sued louisiana after the governor ordered the state to block funding for the organization. in a statement monday, planned parenthood called the judge's r

the storm moved into louisiana, caused the same type of damage there.rs and roads flooded. again, the water is receding now. the rain has stopped and all is well here in texas. leah, back to you. >> thanks, dan. >>> the controversial black bear hunt ending after two days. calling it off after 295 bears were killed. the limit, 320 bears. the hunt was supposed to last all week. the controversial bear hunt was the state's first bear hunt in 21 years. the commission hopes that it would help control population and stop an upswing in bear attacks. >>> check this out. incredible video of a plane flying just above a cameraman. whoa. this video shows a jet taking off from princess julianna airport in st. maarten. the belly of the plane and the landing gather hovering above the photographer's head there. it has one of the shortest runways giving them an up close view of the takeoff and landing. that's a little too close for me. >> who you going to call, leah? >> when it's time to put the halloween decorations up. >> who you going to call? >> ghostbusters! >> you

and more flooding in neighboring louisiana. power outages forced businesses to close. others getting by on candle light. bazi kanani, abc news, washington. >> no reported weather-related deaths. lessons learned from the deadly storms that hit texas in may seemed to keep drivers out of danger. >> and as the storm moves north and east, we turn to accuweather meteorologist justin povick, tracking it all for thus morning. justin, good morning to you. >> reena and kendis, thanks. good morning to you. a welcome break for eastern texas. we're not dealing with any more additional heavy rain. now we turn to areas further east. throughout alabama, georgia, more specifically from new orleans to mobile. the threat here for gusty thunderstorms and flash flooding. all this rain, eventually, has it sights set on the tennessee valley and then midweek for the northeast. reena and kendis, let's toss it back to you. >> justin, thank you. >>> mexico survived the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the western hemisphere. with remarkably very little destruction. hurricane patricia bar

next saturday recovery events from the louisiana book festival in baton rouge. it includes doctor talks on african-american history, hurricane katrina, the deep water horizon oil spill and much more. look for our coverage of the louisiana book festival to air the weekend of november 14th and fifteenth. that is look at the other programs booktv will be covering this coming week, many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> one thing that struck me when i was researching the book was that the north has a very complicated racial history that has been in some places almost completely buried. there is little willingness to engage with the history of slavery for example, one of the places they talk about in portsmouth, new hampshire which actually had a slave burial site under the downtown and that site was unknown to most of the people who lived there until they're needed to be construction on one of the water main, the backhoes went in and started digging and started finding people's remains. that horr

and the rain is mfing east towards louisiana where we are feeling it tonight. nearly 85% of the bayou state is under a flash flood watch and that alert extends along the gulf coast affecting more than 6 million people. >> glor: david begnaud, thank you. the iowa caucuses are the 9 days away. dn did -- did 99 day as way. a new poll shows ben carson in a tie with done and trump in iowa. on the democratic side hillary clinton is three points ahead of bernie sanders, nancy cordes is in des moines. >> let's give our democratic presidential candidates another round. >> reporter: in a des moines arena the candidates went head-to-head and their supporters did too. >> we want, we want bernie. >> reporter: on stage, sanders showed a sharper side calling out the frontrunner, though not by name. >> i will not abandon any segment of american society, whether you're gay or black or latino, poor, working class. just because it is politically expedient at a given time. >> reporter: he highlighted his longtime support for same saks marriage and opposition to the iraq war. a lin

that's worked in louisiana. we have the highest per capita income rankings. more people working than ever before earning a higher income than ever before. that'll work in d.c. we've gotta cut our federal budget, not slow its growth rate, but actually cut the federal spending. ght now we've got a stagnant american economy, 2% growth, stagnant middle classages, record number of americans on food stamps, record, record low participation right in the workforce. the american dream's not to have government take care of you. the american dream's to have an opportunity to get a great, to get a great education.n.hat's what we've gotta work to restore in our nation's capitol. the accountability is the voters. founding fathers trusted the american people. the left doesn't trust the american people. they want government to run our lives. we trust the american people. >>sabrina: okay. let's talk a little bit about the criticism that you received this week in your home state. motor vehicle debt collection notices being sent out to cover some budget holes is what the critic

we also cover contraceptive methods. >> classes like this are rare in louisiana's public schools. the sait leaves it up to local school boards, whether to teach sex education. if they do, they're required to offer abstinence. triple the national average and teen pregnancy highest in the country, efforts to widen the curriculum has failed. >> it's crucially and vitally important. >> state representative wesley bishop is pushing for a comprehensive curriculum in middle and high schools. that includes ways to prevent pregnancy and avoid sexually transmitted infection. most recently he flair owed his proposal to include only his new orleans district. that too was rejected. >> young people left to their own devices are making bad choices. >> powerful conservative and catholic groups in louisiana feel schools should only teach abstinence. others believe schools have no business teaching anything about sex. >> it is my right, it is my right as a parent to decide when my child is old enough to handle that information. >> while there's no sex ed mandate in louisiana schools are allowed to

thousands of homes are without power in western louisiana where the storm hit overnight. arkansas is expecting several inches of rain today. >>> a woman who police say killed four people when she drove into a parade in oklahoma will go before a judge today. she has been charged with second-degree murder. witnesses say she drove her car into a crowd gathered at oklahoma state university for the homecoming game. at least 50 people were injured in the accident, five critically. they suspect she was drunk, although her lawyer denies that and says they're concerned about her mental state. >>> the "world health organization" say that processed meats are likely car seasongenic. >> we've been hearing messages like this for years. >> eat more above beef. it's amazing. >> but one of the harshest stances against red and processed meat such as bacon, hot dogs and sausages. they believe that beef, pork and lamb probably cause cancer, too. the american institute for cancer research said that for years we have been recommending that americans reduce the amount of red meat in their diets

we also cover contraceptive methods, safer sex practices. >> classes like this are rare in louisiana's public schools. the state leaves it up to local school boards whether to teach sex education and require they teach abstinence. with the h.i.v. triple the national average and teen rates the highest in the country, efforts to widen the sex education curriculum have failed. >> i think it's crucial. >> for the past five years, wesley bishop sponsored bills that would put louisiana in line with other states that mandate sex education, pushing for a comprehensive crick lineup in middle and high schools that include ways to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. he narrowed his proposal to include just his new orleans district. that, too was rejected. >> we're doing a poor job providing information to our young people and they are left to their own devices and making bad choices. >> i resistance has come from catholic groups. >> i firmly believe that that's the parents' job and it's my right, and it's my right as a parent to decide when my child is old enough to handle that i

henry montgomery was 17 when he killed a louisiana deputy sheriff. mr. montgomery served more than 50 years in prison so far. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> we'll hear argument first in case 14-280, montgomery versus louisiana. mr. bernstein? >> mr. chief justice and may it please the court, the issue is whether to decide the retroactivity in this case or in a federal case as in 15-1 on this court's docket. there's no jurisdiction over that question because the point of section 1257 is to enforce the supremacy laws and when that applies, the judges -- these are key words -- in every state shall be bound thereby. there is no such thing as supreme federal law that depends on whether a particular state voluntarily makes federal precedence binding. when a state does that, when a state voluntarily adopts nonbinding federal precedence, that creates no right under federal law, which is what 1257 requires, and michigan versus long does not apply. >> how would you describe the adequate and independent state ground on which this decision rested? >> i would say

gulf states and flooded the area such as texas and louisiana. it is widespread damage and flooding due to hurricane patricia in louisiana. 180 millimeters have fallen since late saturday. about 22,000 people were without power in new orleans on sunday, and a tornado touched down in the state. luckily, there's no serious damage reported just yet. people are still recovering right now. unfortunately, there's going to be more additional rainfall. this is still hugging the coastal area. you can see gusty conditions because they are tight to each you see the rainfall crawling up the mid atlantic states pulling the humid air from the gulf of mexico. we have another system pulling from the pacific northwest. this is a heavy snow maker. 10 centimeters of snow will fall over the northern rockies. expect slick road conditions as well as reduced visibility. it could be very dangerous to be driving out there this system will then be merging eventually with ex-patricia. that will make for a widespread rainfall and some snows at higher elevations into the nex