it's a town sort of on the cusp of french louisiana, english louisiana. of population of about 80,000. traditionally, it was a blue-collar town. it started as a cowboy town. through the lumbering industry, through petrochemical and now, ads to what we find wonderful mixed economy that includes a fair amount of gaming and recreation. >> should we see it? >> let's see it. this corner of louisiana was no man's land. it wasn't part of the louisiana purchase so for 50-60 years, that served as a buffer between the united states and the empire of spain. thatmeant this was an area has quite a bit of use as a refuge for scoundrels and pirates. -- knew most of the early senators. we're talking about the late 1700s, early 1800s, 1803. that's the period,. he was responsible for 25% of the trade in the mississippi valley. he would relocate people for money. he dealt with all sorts of commodities. it wasn't just the gold and silver. we're not talking about johnny depp here. we're on lakeshore drive. we're going to convert into kelsey drive. you're actually seeing the l

next, governors from louisiana, oklahoma and connecticut talk about what they've done in the states including reducing incarceration rates. [applause] >> let's have another round of applause for derek in the naacp. [applause] i'm joined today by incredible group of governors. they have accomplished a lot in their states. each of the states are unique geographically and very different parts of the country. each of your states basis challenges and approach him from different perspectives. but your vault succeeded in moving your states in the right direction. abner, i love to start with you. interstate part of what is so interesting as you've approached reform from so many different angles. your present preparation and you publication is at a 20 year low connecticut is poised to be potentially the first state to effectively cut 50. [applause] it would be wonderful if you could share us about how you would achieve that production imprison publish and what impact that had on public safety. >> i did approach it from a particular angle. i was a former prosecutor in new york city and i thought injust

. >> the governors of louisiana oklahoma, and connecticut sat on a panel about criminal justice reform at an event hosted by a variety and rolling stone magazine. talking about efforts to result -- reduce prison populations and increase public relation between the police and the public. this is 40 minutes. >> [ applause ] >> another round of applause for derek and the naacp? >> [ applause ] so, i am joined today by an incredible group of governors, who have accomplished a lot in their states, each of your states is unique, geographically and very different parts of the country, each of your states has faced criminal justice challenges and approach them from different perspectives. but, you have all succeeded in moving your states in the right direction. governor malloy we would love to start with you, in your state, what was so interesting about connecticut is that you have approached -- approached reform from many angles are prison population in jail population at a 20 year low, and connecticut is poised to be potentially the first state to effectively cut the prison population by 50%

we have the -- louisiana has the chemical association. the industry association, we have steveson disaster management institute. we have the critical infrastructure, one of the three energy providers, we have coleco at the table. just with the security clearance issue, find a way to do integration centers within louisiana. to try to build a place where we can collaborate and share information. you know, not everything has to be in a classified setting, when you look at indicators of compromise and things that are out there with persistent threats, you want to be able to share that so they can go and defend against that, without that happening to them. a lot of that is what we're doing right now within the commission. i think the best practice is to implement things in this framework or look at gaps within federal and state law to try to increase some of our cyber laws within the state that match the federal side, so we have a couple recommendations that we're working through the 2019 legislative planning session to do a couple resolution

louisiana wasn't one of them and that is how they were able to control louisiana as much as they did they were able to obtain people from going to vote in baton rouge and they were able to stop them once they got there from voting the way they were supposed to wor work and pledged to. deals were made largely between adams and crawford with the encouragement of jackson because jackson was strong in louisiana and so they used atoms and crawford and he was very much a longshot. it wasn't in the popular vote and so the tendency by the team 28 is they are even more is a part of the democratization project is a wonderful mechanism because it does prevent states from dictating to others, to the less popular states. it is the idea that the federal system imparts the sovereignty and importance to both large and small states that otherwise would be removed in the absence of that. this would be the recipe for division and ultimately this union. [inaudible] >> you have clay supporters, jackson supporters, crawford supporters and these people within the legislator for instance would vote for the

louisiana. >> nothing is more fun, he is the most awful human being just as crooked, cruel, corrupt, awful. but in his suit behind the bar, colorful, crooked and i would just say this about populism. there were plenty of people that knew he was a crook and voted for him anyway or support him anyway because they believe he was on their side. they didn't think he was a good guy he thought he was there bad guy. that is a powerful thing and i don't think donald trump would reflect this. a short colorful history of american populist political editor of fox news thanks for being with us in miami. i was going to miami because it's a wholele different categoy just going around talking with everybody.

, where munroe, louisiana is getting snow this morning. you can see hobs, houston has had snow. it's made it down to the deep south. it's not as many as yesterday by far. we'll have hazy sunshine, 2, 29, there's lake port and santa rosa, there are many 30s, low to mid, and 28 novato is 32, if you get to 1400, 1500 can have warmer temperatures. above the oakland zoo it's 52 degrees. it's warm air, it's the inversion trapping everything below it. >>> there's an easterly, soutmpent here. there's a little change for seattle if you're headed out there. nothing fresh yet, next week you'll have something to talk about. upper 60s and 70s, the 70s don't last long it, for a couple of hours, they'll be up there. i think we get a little westerly breeze, late in the week, early next week. >>> the time is 6:52, we'll tell you who plans to fly through sfo during the holidays. lets check in with gasia to find out what's coming up on "mornings on 2". >>> coming up in minutes as death toll continues to climb in the but fire, we're hearing harrowing stories

i drive so many hours the first day to sonora, texas, so i can be in louisiana the next. so i end up going to a plantation and then i ended up seeing my brother who is recently moved there and so i'm jumping at the morning i leave new orleans. the morning i leave i hear them before i see them. i'm packing the car win rattles and bells, shack beating drums, whistles and chanting and singing come from around the corner, group of people, in white, one of the men shaking a rattle is masked. the group moves down governor nichols street. the man with the mask and rat out in front, waving. i stand by the open trunk of my

i drive so many hours that first day so i can be in louisiana the next. and so i end up going to a plantation, and then i ended up seeing my brother who had recently moved there. i'm jumping to the morning i leave new orleans. the morning i leave, i hear them before i see them. i'm packing the car when rattles and bells, shaking tambourines, beating drums, chanting and singing come fromm around the corner. a group of people, all black dressed in white, men in white pants and shirts, some shirtless, one of the men shaking a rattle is masked. the group move down nichols street -- governor nichols street. i stand by the open trunk of my car.

steal moneyl out to from the louisiana he and's? no. there were good business opportunities to make money. every teacher who went south after the war was not coming down to indoctrinate southerners to the northern way of thinking. they were going down in many cases to help with those schools for the slaves. the slave children. the friedman schools were open to everyone. no white southerner would send his children to school with a former slave child at that point. there is some truth in that but is often truth different from what we learned. [applause] professor laver: thank you all. >> all right. thank you very much. that was terrific. >> interested in american history tv? visit our website, c-span.org/history. andcan view the tv schedule preview upcoming programs and watch college lectures, museum tours, archival films, and more. american history tv at c-span.org/history. >> tonight and q&a, -- >> seven years ago, the people of the united states set out upon what they thought was a great, liberal campaign. somewhere along the line, we

that's louisiana, everybody. that was in louisiana in november. very, very unusual. that an indication of exactly how crazy cold this air mass is compared to average. four things to know about the weather. the most serious thing we need to watch out for today is icing, freezing rain, especially along i-81 and through the shenandoah valley. in the d.c. metro ea, this is mostly going to be some combination of sleet and snow, changing over to heavy rain this afternoon. there's a chance for some flooding as well. the highest flood threat is for southern maryland. one to two inches of rain is a real possibility. good news for now, most everybody is still above f eezing. winchester onee lone spots down to the freezing mark, but as thee moistarts to rain down into this atmosphere, it will cool things down.l temperatures wover near the freezing mark much of the day. if this were just going to be rain, it would be a solid 1 to 2 inches of rain across the area. the opportunity to have s icing is what we're most concerned of. you can see the moisture coming on up. it may sta ou

new orleans, louisiana, 20th worst traffic in the nation. those are positions we don't deserve when you look at the population. and so i think that a lot of the community is just very frustrated that they're paying dollars and they're not seeing projects that are actually yielding results. whenever people come in and say i want more, i want more money to invest in projects, people say, no, i'm not going to give you more. we've got to do a better job helping to quantify, this is how much money you're spending in extra gasoline payments because of traffic. this is how much time you're wasting in traffic. this is how much those additional emissions are affecting our environment and community health. helping to quantify some of those costs today and then also demonstrating if you give us this much, we can build these five projects, which will then cut your extra gasoline payments in half, we'll give you back 30 hours a year in your time sitting in traffic and help improve the environment by this. we've got to help to reshape that discussion beca

know there's quite a bit that can go on you know with these kind of laws and like i said you have louisiana who's taking up this idea of meaning you know used to be you could have eight people on the jury say you know you did it go to jail for life and now and this really literally part of jim crow these were made to make african-americans disenfranchised from voting from being part of the community and the fact that it took us all twenty eight is a huge difference and i think florida is looking at a very different presidential election in two thousand and twenty because literally about ten percent. every single florida election comes down to one imagine another ten percent of earners your target you know one point four million new voters to this system even if even if you know by a vote of ours and stays home you're still talking about close to a million that's what actually in florida could change an election as we know if half of the people who have the right to half of those people half of those people show up you could literally change an election for a presidential election now wiscon

it's such an honor to represent louisiana in the united states senate. but my state is in trouble and i honestly don't know what i will do. i made a vow i'd make a decision by monday. i am going to do that. to the extent you are interested i'll let you know. >> harris: i am interested. always interested. senator kennedy, thank you for your time tonight from the great state of louisiana. >> thank you. >> harris: with signs the end may be near for the robert mueller russia investigation we have new details tonight about what the president said in his written answers to the special counsel. judge andrew napolitano takes a deep dive and surfaces with what we did not know until now. >> how concerned are you about the mueller investigation? >> i'm not. ♪ ♪ the greatest wish of all... is one that brings us together. the lincoln wish list event is here. sign and drive off in a new lincoln with $0 down, $0 due at signing, and a complimentary first month's payment. only at your lincoln dealer. and a complimentary first month's payment. if you have postmenopausal o

you can see right now the system is in louisiana and mississippi. are 20 parishes in louisiana. they're also seeing severe thunderstorms and rain. >>> a woman made her own delivery in a supermarket checkout line in russia. >> the ladyouto e here on the left wearing the red jacket is pregnant. while she's waiting to pay, she collapses to the floor when she realizes the baby was on the way. her cashier acted as a midwife. another worker and two other customers then stepped in to help. >> some of the customers actually just kept on going about their business. 11 minutes later the baby was born. paramedics arrived a few moments later. >> wow. >> yeah. that's -- i just love that the folks were still kind of going through -- >> got to get my milk and eggs. >> i've got dinner. this dinner won't cook itself. >> cleanup in aisle 5. >> exactly. the cashier says no one who helped out had any medical training. there was just no time to ask for a doctor. >> and mom and baby are said to be -- >> doing all right. >> just fine, right? >> healthy as ever. >>> coming

"" from his southeastern louisiana university lab, dr. allain even hacks >> you just made an external pacemaker out of paperclips. >> reporter: he saves the day crafting unconventional tools from everyday items. the doctor makes sure the hacks are plausible eryday life. the professor is the technical consultant. are interestedmaking a hat they connection to something that h i just got an email right. with this work, i would help them come up with all of the different hat. -- of the different hacks. >> the doctor even records online videos that people can do at home. >> i enjoy that so i am kind of sharing what i enjoy. >> macgyver attaches a car speaker to a broken payphone. the doctor shows me a similar concept using just a few items. >> if we run current, that makes a magnetic field and ins thema it will move back and forth. this will push the air and make sound. >> flip eat into the wires and put the cup on top of a strong magnet and plug the earphone cable into a laptop. >> i hear the macgyver theme. >> reporter: the doctor shows me t

just one of the pieces of information the next call is from louisiana. the independent line go ahead. >>caller:. >>. >> for over ten years i have been photographing chem trails in my backyard that you said the government is not manipulating the weather is a joke. climate engineering, geo- engineering, do some research that would be thech headline news that is better were further what they are doing to manipulate the weather. i have been watching chem trails for over ten years. >> host: you may have to expand on that. >> chem trails are not actually happening. i don't know where you get your resources from like nasa or know of some of the best scientific agencies in the world this is a great example of the product they produce with plenty of data echoing agencies from around the world. >> host: republicans from illinois go ahead. >>caller: i have a couple questions i would like you to answer them for y me. in the united states with climate change is that not very accurate anyone you should be using in russia is more accurate? and if not for the millions o

a louisiana couple doing their pre-thanksgiving chores.ttery ticket and little did they know it was a winning ticket. >> $1.8 million they just stumbled across it. they were doing their housecleaning, tidying up the house before the relatives arrived this week. they discovered the ticket. the lucky numbers were drawn back in june. timing is everything because the louisiana lottery ticket would have expired two weeks from now. >> we were that close. >> the moral of the story is, check your tickets. don't wait. >> that's incredible. the winning ticket on their nightstand abunch with other lottery tickets. the moral of the story, check those numbers, even if it's been sitting around. it cannot hurt. >> now you have a reason not to clear out your junk drawer. >>> coming up, we go live to fremont for our top story on this thanksgiving morning. frightening moments at a popular country western nightclub as police investigate a death there. "today in the bay's" thom jensen is there. >>> plus, thanksgiving is about giving and hundreds of volunteers

consider nominations for the third circuit court of appeals in district court vacancies in georgia, louisiana, indiana and pennsylvania. the confirmation hearing was chaired by iowa senator grassley and it's just over two hours. >> [inaudible conversations] chairman grassley, ranking member leahy and colleagues thanks for being here on a cold wet morning to allow me to voice my support for the louisiana native james came who's been nominated to be united states district judge for the western district of louisiana. a junior at the university of texas and a freshman at smu. he attended the state university in lakstate universityin lake cl scholarship where i think this is the most interesting thing he was roommates with future star james dumars. after getting his degree in finance he went on to attend law school at baton rouge where he graduated. he's had an outstanding week in career and clerked for the judge in the third circuit court of appeals and received valuable experience and she's been admitted to practice before the supreme court in the fifth circuit court of appeals as well as the ea

that unorganized territory was part of the louisiana purchase in 1803. and i legislation, the missouri compromise of 1820, all that unorganized territorys was going to be free of slaves. no slavery would be permitted in that an organized territory when it petitioned for statehood. that was the concern of southern politicians. the rail line stretches west, people will populate it, petition congress for statehood, and that will put more political power with the north and the anti-slavery cause, so this is the deal that stephen douglas had to work out. in congress, in the senate, the debates were pretty intense over the issue. was george badger here, a senator from north carolina. in making an argument about slavery in those territories, he said, if some southern gentleman wishes to take the old woman who nursed him in childhood, meaning a slave, into the new territories, why in the name of god should anyone prevent it? a slave was his property. why should anyone prevent a man from taking his property anywhere in the united states, he wandered. a different

between 1932 and 2016, louisiana lost more than 2,000 square miles of land. from my small state of rhode island, i'm not even going to talk about what 2,000 square miles means but it's a big deal and it's due in part to high rates of relative sea level rise. so getting the national flood insurance program right, gettin it reauthorized and adapting it so that people who are going to be swept off of their lands by sea level rise is really important. and i do want to commend senator kennedy for his persistence and leadership in trying to solve this problem. north carolina, according to an article published in the weather channel beach near east sea gull drive in nags head has been eroding about 6 feet back per year. if you're rereading at -- eroding at 6 feet per year, you're going to wipe out a lot of homes. we have to get the flood insurance program adapted to that. north carolina itself has predicted a rise of 1 meter of sea level rise by 2100 data compiled and analyzed by noaa shows the worst case potential at about twice that, 2 meters. south carolina acco

your cheapest gas in the country, survey says, louisiana, new orleans, louisiana.4301 louisa street. it is empire express, selling gas at $1.85 a gallon. pat dehaan tweeted to us. he has five stations, five stations at least under $2 a gallon. i know you love predictions, you can come back when they're wrong and chew the guy on the air. patrick dehaan predicts hundreds much stations around the country under $2 gas. i know you love it. stuart: patrick dehaan is the guy at gas buddy. my goodness, hundreds of stations below two bucks by thanksgiving. >> hundreds of stations. a lot of traders behind me we have bottom on oil. we may not go much lower. patrick dehaan says gas prices will continue to fall. stuart: that is a freight -- great headline, jeff. i love it. >>> chris zacarelli is with us. welcome to the show. >> thank you. stuart: why is cheap oil a problem for the stock market? i don't get it. tell me why. >> sure. in the past oil has been a large cost for consumers and businesses, that historically has been true. we've seen a real shift since the fracking and

adidi roy is in vil plat, louisiana. >> this spring richard planted 1,700 acres of soybeans on his farm. but come harvest time rainis poundedrops for days on end, damaging much of his crop. nearby grain elevators alreadyf lled up to near capacity because of the chinese tariffs on u.s. soybeans wouldn't accept his soybeans because they were too damaged. >> it's ati eal roller coaster. >> in the enthe fourth generati farmer was forced to let 60% of the crop rot in the field. >> ifme the cial elevators up river had no room to store it we could harvest it but no place trucks.the so we had to leave it out in the field. >> but bad weather is only one problem facing farmers across the u.s. u.s. soybe farmers usually export a quarter of the crop to china. that market has disappeared.us the glutd prices down from $9.84in a bushel dur planting to $8.60 at harvest. >> for in this operation itself we probably have about $8.50, $8.209 a bushel tied into making the crop. after discount we are selling it for 6.50 a bushel. >> as a result he will lose $300,000 this year and can't store the crop because

north louisiana. >> north louisiana. >> and your sign says -- >> we knew up in new orleans, louisianans. >> who dat. how about the saints. are you fired up? >> we are. so excited. >> thank you for coming. i miss louisiana and new orleans every, single day. it's good that y'all came here to spread some love. >> that's a heck of a sweater, jonathan. a heck of a sweater. >> thank you. >> thanks, guys. you are adorable. who dat? >> that's what you say. >>> coming up, catherine zeta-jones on her new role as a ruthless pageant coach. her marriage to michael douglas and so much more. >>> also, a special "steals & deals" holiday gift guide. this morning, santa's workshop has come to studio 1a filled with discounts on great gifts for our kids. this will be helpful. >>> we're going to cook up two pies. one is savory. one is sweet. both are delicious and great to share. >>> first, isn't dylan supposed to be out here? >> i am way down underneath you right now, in the control room because we are celebrating a huge birthday. she is turning 40. these balloons are really big. can we sing "happy birth

the louisiana lottery ticket would have expired in just two weeks. >> and we were that close. >> we were close. the moral of the story is check your tickets. don't wait. >> reporter: talk about a little extra gravy on thanksgiving. kerry sanders, nbc news. >>> up next, the duo marching in tomorrow's big parade inspiring america. stormranger is trackin rain right now. where it )s heading and the chances for a stronger storm behind it. plus, you suffered through fire-polluted air for nearly two weeks. should you be concerned about what )s in the rain? we gt answers. next >> announcer: "nbc nightly news." inspiring america is brought to you by alka seltzer plus power max gels. >>> along with family, food, and football, thanksgiving also means marching bands. some of the nation's best perform tomorrow in the macy's parade. two of the young musicians have a remarkable friendship, inspiring america. kristen dahlgren has their story, thanks to our dallas-ft. worth affiliate kxas. >> reporter: when the dallas-ft. worth marching band gets ready to take the field, kaley makes sure everybody is rea

he's a member of the bar association and the southwest louisiana bar association. he's served on the boards of st. louis catholic high school, our lady queen of heaven trust board and the crime stoppers and the mcnice alumni association board where he is the immediate past president. mr. cane share his passion for the legal profession by his involvement with the american ends of court where he mentors young attorneys and professionalism and practice. james cane is an excellent choice to fill his vacancy in the western state of louisiana and i recommend him to this committee without reservation and urge swift confirmation. thank you, mr. chair. >> i welcome everybody to this hearing, particularly don and the nominees and their families that are so proud to be here and i would like to briefly mention where we're holding a hearing on paul despite the two positive slips of home state senators and my policy is that unreturned or negative slips wouldn't preclude a hearing unless they failed to consult with home state senators and this is consistent with the policies of a

the louisiana lottery ticket would have expired in two weeks. >> we weret close. >> we were close. >>lose. >> the moral of the story is check your waickets. don'. >> reporter: talk about a little extra gravy on thanksgiving. kerry sanders, nbc news. >>> up next, the duo marching into tomorrow's big parade inspiring america. because there are options. like an "unjection™". xeljanz xr. a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma and other cancers have happened. don't start xeljanz xr if you have an infection. tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happened. your doctor should perform blood tests before you start and while taking xeljanz xr, and monitor certain liver tests. tell your doctor if you were in a region where fungal infections are common

if you remember the earlier side, at the border between texas and louisiana, the large is war. it was huge. we are certain that in that reservoir, pieces to the west landed there. and a couple of pieces landed eastward they went out fission. one of the boats almost got swamped by something really large and heavy. hit the water and almost swamped about. we never found it. i personally believe it was one of the pumps. the bits and pieces were landing all around it. they described it like a hailstorm. the debris coming into the lake. the typical view of very easy area to search.ai no victories, no thickets, it gives you an idea of what we did looking for the debris. you can imagine, these lines extended from here to dallas airport. then you extend that all the way from their to philadelphia and new york city is about the size that was searched on foot. every square foot. that wel search area walked, physically walked, was 10 miles wide and 120 miles long. think of that. 10 miles wide, 120 m miles long. it was walked from me to him. three months and all those 25000 people. the vict

so far, areas from louisiana across up to missouri have seen e heaviest amounts of early snowfall. conditions in mississippi claiming two lives in a tour bus crash. and as the storm heads further north to new england, those states can expect potentially paralyzing traffic and power hazards. logist bill karins is here. give us the latest. >> good morning. some headlines. three inches already reported in st. louis. indianapolis, less snow, more ice. you're an ice storm warning. could get as mh as auarter inch of ice there. now we're watching the heavy iin continuing. the flood threa areas of georgia up through the carolinas. so here's a map that just slws the winter weather advisories and warnings and watches that are still existing here. it's pretty much the ohio valley all the way through the northeast. the snowfall totals just a little bit more in st. louis through the north portion of the ohio valley. but the significant snows for the northeast will come as we go throughout the day today. it's now beginningn areas of northern and west virginia and then pennsylvania will get vever

the border between texas and louisiana. huge. we are certain that some of columbia is within that reservoir. a couple pieces landed east of the reservoir. some fishermen out there on the reservoir that morning saturday morning, go out fishing. one of their boats almost got swamped. we never found it. i personally believe it is one of those pumps. bits and pieces landing all around me. it was like a hailstorm of debris coming into the lake. a typical view of a very easy area to search. no thick trees, no thickets. it gives you an idea of what we did over three months of looking for the debris. >> these lines extending. you that all the way to philadelphia new york city. >> a final search area that we walked. 10 miles wide. 10 miles wide. 120 miles long was walk. for me to him. revealing the cause of the accident. we follow the safety boards to have two teams to study it. looking at the debris only. looking out what was left of it. another team at the johnson space center to look at all the data. all the pictures. everything that c

host: it highlights flooding in louisiana increasing from extreme rainfall. pulling hazardous reduction funds. that is one of the pieces of information in the report. the next call is from louisiana. daniel, go ahead. caller: hello. how are you doing? my question is for over 10 years i have been photographing cam trails and i backyard -- chem trails in my backyard. to say they are not manipulating the weather is a joke. climate engineering, geo-engineering. do some research. that should be headlined research. weather warfare. i have been watching chem trails for over 10 years. host: you may have to expand on that. guest: chem trails are not actually happening. i would suggest you look at where you get your resources from. one great places from nasa or noaa. some of the best scientific agencies in the world. this is a great example of the type of product they produced backed up by plenty of data and echoing research of other science agencies around the world. host: from the republican line, terry, you are on with our guest. caller: good morning. i have a coupl

the louisiana lottery ticket would have expired in just two weeks. >> we were that close. >> we werelose. e moral of the story is check your tickets. don't wait. >> reporter: talk about ltle extra gravy on thanksgiving. kerry sanders, nbc news. >> i don't have that problem. i want to know -- i check them every single time. >> rightaway? >> like three times. are you sure i didn't win?ll >>>ight. still ahead this morning, the chief justice takes a stand. >> what the president tweeted at made the supreme court's leader take the unprecedented step of a public rebuke. >>> plus, new footage of a wild crime. a truck smashes into a 7-eleven, but this would-be burglary didn't go as planned. nek. 4 today will be right b stay with us. fact: some of your favorite foods stain teeth. unlike ordinary whitening toothpaste, colgate optic white has hydrogen peroxide that goes below the tooth's surface r a smile that's 4 shadevisibly! colgate optic white. whitening that works. vi a working smoke alarm in your home more than doubles your chance of escape in case of a fire. smoke alarms can provide an ea

three more bribery accusations have since come to light, two involving louisiana inmates. in each of the cases, the charges and rewards that were offered in return for allegedly false testimony or other health that would implicate clay shaw. we will hear garrison comments later on in the broadcast. garrison in the meantime has went on to include jack ruby. garrison said that jack ruby's unlisted telephone number in 1963 appears in in an address book belonging to shaw and oswald. both books notice this dallas box and a complicated formula converts it to wh 15601. the louisiana senator appearing a few days later on face the nation explain how the code worked. >> you take the pen though and he will give you seven at oh six. if you at seven and six together, you get 30. then you take the 19106. so you put a because it comes ahead of e. then you put d behind c, and reconstruct the numbers, and you subtract 1300, and that will give you jack ruby's unlisted telephone number. >> a dallas businessman had that po box for a while in 1966. he said he did not know how i got in the addr

he's an excellent choice to fill the vacancy in the district of louisiana and they recommend hid to the committee without reservation. thank you, mr. chair. >> i welcome everybody to this hearing to honor the nominees and their families that are so proud of being there. my policy is on the return that wasn't necessarily preclude a hearing unless the white house failed to consult who extended thablue slip courtesies and the chairman ted kennedy and joe biden. only two chairmen have had strict policies requiring the return of the positive blue slips before holding a hearing. and obama judges to, and i agree that should have been in my statement. they blocked the slips when the democrats objections today are really about them the fact that the filibuster has been not used since 2015 and 61 votes they believe the senators shouldn't be able to block a nominee with majority support. that's why the blue slip shouldn't be abused for political or ideological reaso reasons. they reach out to the senators april and the white house made several extremely generous offers in an attempt to reach an ag

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now we've been dealing with overght tornadoes in louisiana. serious situation continues.hose storms are pushing into mississippi. ere's a huge amount o rain heading right along the ohio river into areas of southern alioy with 18 million people under a flash flood watco or watch all the way from tennessee, now even into nestern new yor buffalo. this region could pick up an easy two to three inches ofhe rainfall by time it's all said and done. that's a look at the big weather story of the day. here's a closer look at your day ahead. well, those storms are going tor keepolling through mississippi and louisiana ely this morning. then they'll be in areas of the panhandle of florida and southern portions of alabama as we go throughout this and areas of the northern plains still looking a little bit chilly. there's roughly 50,000 runners, including yours truly, prepared to run the new york city marathon. race officials and city leaders gathered for the blue line painting ceremony in central park. officials painted a colorful finish line. the blue line wilead racers through the e

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there is a severe weather threat building from louisiana through kentucky following these drenching rains in new england, that drone footage -- take a look at that -- of flooded roads outside boston made for treacherous driving and took down some trees, as well, our seen meteorologist rob marciano standing by with the new round of rough weather ahead including storms that could affect voting on tuesday in some key states. >> that's right, tom. it could be a dangerous situation starting as soon as tomorrow flight so let's get right to the areas of concern. here's the storm prediction center outlook for tomorrow. northern louisiana in through the ohio river valley but the highlighted area of memphis, tupelo and nashville is where we could see some tornadoes. it starts after sunset so more dangerous crossing the mississippi after 10:00 and then an explosion of convection east of there and then into tuesday morning in through pittsburgh and then tuesday afternoon through the carolinas and the i-95 corridor, so not the best of voting weather for election day. you go west of there and it is a l

louisiana senator long appearing on "face the nation" a few days later explained how the code works. >> so you take the p and the o and use a telephone dial, p gives you 7, o gives you 6, add 7 and 6 together you get 13. take the 19106, and you work on the abcdef basis so you put a, comes ahead of e, d behind c and reconstruct the numbers and then you subtract 1300 which you got from the p.o. and that gives you ruby's unlisted telephone number. >> a dallas businessman lee odom had that post office box for a while in 1966 and didn't know how the number got in oswald's address book but he could explain shaw's. he met shaw when he went to new orleans looking for a place to hold a bloodless bull fight. >> when i got to new orleans it was late and i wanted to see what new orleans -- my first trip to new orleans and i went to pat o'brien's. that's where i met mr. shaw. i was sitting drinking at the bar and he was sitting next to me and i got to talking to him about the -- he thought a bull fight might go over good in new orleans. he said that he thought it would and we introduced each othe