people who need to cross the ohio river in louisville, kentucky. on friday unexpectedly the state of indiana shut down the sherman-minton bridge, the sherman-minton brej idge connects the town of new albany in southern indiana to louisville, kentucky. indiana is in charge of the bridge that spans the two states. the bridge was not shut down in this case because of some big storm like hurricane irene. the bridge was shut down in this case because it was deemed too dangerous to be kept open. inspection crews found a crack in a load bearing part of this 50-year-old bridge and decided they need to close down this bridge for at least three weeks for further diagnosis. every day 80,000 vehicles use that bridge to cross the ohio river. those commuters are being die verts verted to two other bridges, making a 20-minute commute a two-hour commute and adding to the aging process of the other two bridges to which traffic is being diverted. the mayor of jeffersonville, indiana, is urging motorists who need to go to downtown louisville from southern indiana to

in louisville, i noted their version of carmageddon came with no warning and is indefinite. nobody knows how major the needed repairs are going to be to this bridge. nobody knows where the money is going to come from, particularly if kentucky's home state senator mitch mcconnell is now against fixing bridges. but when the sherman minton's bridge occasions a version of carmageddon. had i been as smart as two louisville-important engineer brothers, i would realize this it disaster over the ohio river should not be called carmageddon but should be called shermageddon. there's a web site, a t-shirt, a travel mug, a bumper sticker and natull

and so from new york to louisville tonight, tips to get to the front of that line. tonight, a retail reality check for the hundreds of thousands of americans who count on these holiday jobs. just 67% of retailers say they even plan to hire the same number of holiday workers as last year. and a full quarter, 25%, flat out say they are going to hire far less. it's overwhelming. >> it is. it's frustrating. >> reporter: we found this woman today, looking for one of those holiday jobs. she already has a job, but in this economy, it is not enough. so, you count on that end of the year -- >> oh, totally. yes, i do. >> reporter: but like so many, she's staring at those same numbers, that best buy headline, 15,000 seasonal workers, but that's half what they hired last year. toys "r" us, 40,000, but that's down 5,000 from last year. so, today, we were determined to find a place where they're hiring more than last year. >> hello. >> reporter: sending our cameras all the way to this holiday job fair in louisville, kentucky. and right there in the mix, mike moore. two kids and a

in louisville, kentucky, today, treasury secretary timothy geithner pushing the president's job plans but aware of a looming global crisis nearly 6,000 miles away. greece facing bankruptcy after a generation of lax government spending, and if greece collapses, it could take down other european economies and leave american banks with 41 billion in losses. and because of the worries, the average american 401(k) at more than $109,000 lost $7,000 in just the last week. $7,000. that's a huge loss. >> very directly very quickly when stock prices fall their pensions fall. >> reporter: do you believe time is running out? >> i think they have time but not very much time. >> reporter: he is pushing world leaders to act quickly aware our economy still hasn't recovered. the last time we were in recession it was a good year into it before many acknowledged that we were in one. as you sit across from me today, can you assure us that we're not in another recession already? >> well, i think for most americans they feel like we've been in a recession the entire time and it still feels very hard and th

alicestyne turely is a professor at the university of louisville. tell us about that. >> we were colleagues at georgetown college, where i teach history right now. they are very close. >> when your colleagues, did to debate a lot? >> we did. it is hard to the day someone like james cotter. he is definitely a scholar on kentucky history. i try to keep up. >> 25 years as state historian. what does that job entail? >> it is a self-defined job. it involves writing the history of the state. i try to do that. i tried to help those who write about history, offering advice and suggestions. it also entails going around and giving talks and things like that to tell the story of the state and the people who live here. >> avery malone is with us. she is the director of toure operations here at ashland. tell us about how many people come to this place every year and how it is financed. >> it varies by season how many people you will find here. the tourists come when the leaves change, at christmas, and throughout the summer. we have somewhere around 15,000 per y

what i have learned is, i have written biographies, bingham family of louisville. we take a letter of a piece of evidence, there is a ah-huh, this anger daughter wrote a letter to her father. my grandfather working away in san antonio then adored this daughter, book dedicated to him. she was then gone up to new york and going to school at columbia. he wrote her a furious letter. >> your grandfather? >> yes. you have broken your promise and haven't been putting yourself full time, although the book would you say in the front of "new york times". he pulled the carpet on her. that kind of thing. you could leap on that and say, well that says it all, doesn't it? one of the things i learned about writing about family is there aren't answers to so many questions. it is a mistake in a family to think every question has an answer. one of the questions i had going into the book was, do we pass sibling relationships down? was the fact that my father had such a difficult relationship with his older sister, was that the thing? going into writing this book i would say there it

what i have learned is, i have written biographies, bingham family of louisville. we take a letter of a piece of evidence, there is a ah-huh, this anger daughter wrote a letter to her

and another wet day around milwaukee, detroit, chicago, cleveland, louisville.acific northwest. >> mild 64, seattle. 81, salt lake city. 100 in phoenix. 80, fargo, omaha, kansas city. 79 in baltimore. >>> well, it is wednesday morning. that means another celebrity from "dancing with the stars" has time on her hands. >> david arquette or elisabetta canalis. >> it was arrivederci to canalis. george clooney's ex gets the boot. >> yes, she does. that is a surprise. canalis' quick step was good enough to finish third. votes were not there. ciao. she is not that well known. she is italian. >> but chaz bono had a rough night early this week. thought he was susceptible to leaving. as a controversial figure. >> a lot of people are big fans. they're going to call in. >> the mirror ball trophy turns. >> call in for us too. support us. we'll be right back with more "world news now." r ball trophy turns. >> call in for us too. support us. we'll be right back with more "world news now." >> call unfor in for us too. support us. we'll be right back with more "world news now." >

closer to the north, we have had some heavy showers towards louisville. there have been a couple water rescues reported this morning. be careful commuting from central kentucky back up to ohio. rainfall chances will be increasing even over towards cleveland, cincinnati already in those showers. you can see the lightning strikes as well. not a great set up for severe weather, but chicago, you're still in it. that upper level low spinning across the region will be there through tuesday and wednesday before that slowly lifts off to the north and east. temperatures on the cooler side, especially south of the great lakes. denver, 61. 64 in billings now. new york city, d.c., better chances for showers, d.c. and south coastal edge of the carolinas, that's part of the frontal boundary. so we're in between two systems. we'll see some better chance for showers towards philly and new york city as we work our way into tomorrow. veronica? >> not good news, thanks, todd. >>> wall street licks its wounds, wall street tumbles and boeing's dreams finally come true. your "

pablo sandoval gave the louisville slugger good talking to today in san diego. slumber. it worked. first at bat. he turns on the breaking ball. towards rate center. that is gone. solo shot. no. 17 for the panned a.4th inning. giants now up 2-1. sandoval again not fooled by the change up. see you. another solo homer. wilson impressed. madison brilliant in the last start. 11 striking out. gets no. 11 today in the eighth. cameron looking. jesus number fell. career high and in the 9th orlando hudson swing and myself. 13 striking outs. guess 8 and third and gave up 2 runs. giants win it 7-2 but still 7 back arizona win over colorado. monday matinee on this labor today and got the royal flush for a's. 3 run home interthe second. gave oakland a lead. but butler 2 home runs 3 rbi. the one tied it at 6 in the sixth. he got all that one. royals crank out 15 hits. gordon untie it in the 9th. this rbi double in the city ends the a's 4 game win streak with 11-6 victory. federer has quietly advanced to the 30th straight major quarter final tonight. kind of a practice session

nation's infrastructure is crumbling the sherman minton bridge for example spans the ohio river in louisville kentucky was shut down last friday do safety concerns after cracks were discovered in the bridges load bearing parts sherman minton bridge is just one of several bridges in danger of collapsing as the american society of civil engineers points out thirty four percent of all the bridges in kentucky are considered structurally deficient and twelve percent of the bridges across the nation are in the same condition of disrepair there was president obama today on the importance of infrastructure spending and his american jobs act. we've got roads that need work all over the country our highways are backed up with traffic our airports are clogged and there are millions of unemployed construction workers who can rebuild them so let's pass this bill so road crews and diggers and pavers and workers they can all head back to the job site there's plenty of work to do this job this jobs bill will help them do it let's put them back to work what's best is go. to a study by the urban land institute

a starter at louisville. transferred, became a starter at georgia tech. he was drafted in the seventh round by baltimore. >> ref: false start, offense, number 76. kevin: 5-yard penalty. second down. kevin: that is on jah reid. third round pick, rookie out of central florida. flacco's numbers. second down and 12. a hard hit put on anthony allen. a gain of two. solomon: well, i guess joe flacco really did respond to the challenge from his head coach john harbaugh. we spoke with him yesterday, he said, look, joe flacco did not play well one week ago in nashville against the tennessee titans, but he's got to play much better tomorrow. he knew he had to push his quarterback to go out and play well today. joe flacco has responded and we've got to start giving joe flacco a lot more credit as being one of the top quarterbacks in our league. kevin: and the two-minute warning. so powerful, anything you download on your computer is available on your droid bionic, instantly, wirelessly, at verizon 4g lte speed. never sync with a cord again. the droid bionic by motoro

thunderstorms from the ohio valley, down to louisville, memphis, st. louis, little rock.rstorms for much fall-like in the midwest. still hot across the south. >> 99, dallas. 90, new orleans. 80s in the northeast. just 56 in minneapolis. 63, chicago. 68, detroit. 70s, salt lake city. albuquerque. phoenix, 91, boise, 87. >>> here is one that is really out of this world, but still very much a part of it. check out an alien statue known as carville. >> just 5 feet tall. believed he once belonged to radio talker rush limbaugh. limbaugh is said to have named him m after democratic politica pundit, james carville. >> over the yearhe made the rounds going to mardi gras, the super bowl, explains the beads the now after being rejected by one owner's family he landed in a museum in asheville, north carolina. >> can't find a home, i guess. >> no. >> they have him chained down in case someone wants to walk with him, he is so popular. >> carville is that popular. okay. >> he has been known to walk around on his own at night. >> uh-huh. we'll be back with more news right after the break

most of them in morning go into louisville, most of them in the afternoon go out of louisville in indiana. all that have traffic is being diverted onto i-65 we have a great centrally located community in lieuville, three interstates converge there. i-71, i-61 and i-64 and they all con verge in a pretty similar spot except now all that traffic that can no longer go on i-64 across the sherman-minton has to go across the i-65 bridge. that bridge is already taxed to its extreme, it's operating at 25% more than it was envisioned to hold. now, 90,000 more vehicles are going to be coming across that bridge every day. so we don't know yet what's going to transpire with that sherman-minton bridge, whether it can be repaired, whether it's going to be to have to be condemned and rebuild. but we do know that if we had been making the kinds of investments in keeping our infrastructure current and modern and in making those investments over time, we would have had many, many thousands more people at work and we probably would have avoided this situation. so now this is both a very serious commercial an

alicestyne turely is a history professor at the university of louisville. welcome to our discussion of henry clay. before we get into the area where you spent a lot of your scholarship, which is slavery in that time, talk to meet in a general sense about your impressions of henry clay. what are your views of this man? >> i take the view of him as a rock star. and popular candidate, it is very impressive. he is a lightning rod. he seems to be able to get people fired up, either for or against him. he has the ability to inspire, and even on the abolitionist issues, he takes more heat than senators who were actually more -- john c. calhoun, for instance. henry clay is more talk about, written about, focused upon that some of the more prominent political figures. >> we spent time talking about his basics and have not really delve into his position about slavery. explain to us what his philosophical and political positions were about slavery. >> philosophically he was against the idea of slavery. for his time, he would of been -- would have been considered extre

>> louisville, kentucky. >> robin tweeted that you guys are here.detroit. >> which is -- what city is the game in? >> detroit. no. new york. new york. >> and so, we think there's a little chance of showers. but mostly dry and cool. are you guys okay with that? >> yeah. >> all right. let's get to the boards. one or two things going on this morning as you step outside your doors. we'll show you our look live in new orleans this morning. sure, it's humid now. it's been hot and humid for a while. but down comes the cold front. and by tonight, out goes the humidity. it feels so much better. look at the numbers. 76 on sunday. the biggest change, just the drop in humidity. all the way to orlando, that front will go. that's a good sign. 96 in vegas. 81 in atlantic city. it's beautiful right here i arounde highs today 73-77 degrees and a cold front move through later this but noon at a few clouds rain. the best chance for showers is after midnight tonight and 40'sratures fall into the tonight and tomorrow, the highs in the upper 50's. at the extended average

. >> reporter: this is louisville high school playing walsh jes wes jesuit.6-year-old catches what appeared to be the game winning touchdown. there he is right there. clearly his teammates all come over, they celebrate and then alex school lee pumps his chest one time and points his finger to the air. the ref flags him right there. megyn: that was it. >> reporter: excessive celebrating. that's it right there, you see the finger? that's excessive celebrating, that's unsportsmanlike conduct, satisfactory yard penalty. what the ref didn't know is that the buy's best friend had been killed in a car crash that last week. before he put his football uniform on he took his suit off because he was a ball bearer. they had the 15-yard penalty. and allowed the other team to kick a field goal. >> he had no idea nor he would have. i don't think officials can bring in that type of emotion to what they call on the field. they have to call the game as they see it. >> reporter: that's the athletic director. the head coach didn't feel like that. he said it was the worse call he

. >>> plenty of job seekers in louisville, kentucky.terday ge discontinued taking applications after 6,000 people applied in less than an hour. >>> privacy issues to dog facebook and the latest uproar has reached all the way to capitol hill. ed markey and joe barton asked to investigate the site's practicing, specifically its tracking of people's web use even after they logged out of facebook itself. the site insists it hasn't used or stored any information improperly. well, facebook's 800 million users are all a twitter, i guess you could say, over the site's latest evolution. some changes were introduced last week, but the biggies still yet to come. just to give you a little preview, here you go. on the left, the cnn ireport facebook page, a familiar layout. more text than graphics and on the right is what your new profile page will look like once the timeline format rolls out. christina warson the entertainment editor and these are facebook's most radical changes yet. we've seen the side by side. explain in more detail the difference

paul douglas peters has been held in a kentucky jail since being arrested in louisville last month.rities say peters broke into the home of a millionaire. then attached a fake bomb to the neck of his 18-year-old daughter. it was a standoff with police that lasted ten hours. but that teenager was later freed and no bomb was found. >>> closing arguments started today in the amanda knox appeals case in italy. knox is hoping to have her 2009 murder conl vix for the -- conviction for the death of her british roommate overturned. most of the d.n.a. evidence used to convict knox in her original trial is now in doubt after the court ordered a review. a verdict in the appeals case could come at the beginning of october. >>> 19 minutes now before 9:00. first it was fire. now there's a water crisis in texas. the state has now declared a drought emergency. more than one million texans will soon face mandatory water restrictions. there have been record high temperatures and very little rain in texas this year. the drought has played a role in the summer's wildfires which have been the worst in t

dean moore joins us now from louisville. thank you for coming on to talk about this. those are some pretty strong words that you wrote there. >> well, it is a grievous thing to hear a christian leader spike in this way when according to the christian scriptures, marriage is a picture of the gospel of jesus christ. this is a repudiation of everything that we are about. a man is to love his wife, the bible says, as christ loves the church. and that includes in weakness, that includes in those times of sickness. so this is horrifying. and this doesn't speak for christians. >> whatever happened to death do we part and for better or for worse? >> well, i think that you'll find that the majority of bible-believing christians are holding fast to those words and holding faithfully to those words. caring for one another and caring for spouses who are harmed and who are injured and who are sick. that's exactly what christianity is about. christianity isn't about power. it is not about loving someone who is useful to you. it's about what jesus has done for us in the gospel which

a viewer tweets this -- another call from louisville. this is ron, a democrat. caller: unfortunately in america this is a new norm. this will be like this for the next 10-20 years. we are not paying attention to what we are doing. the concept that small businesses cannot invest because they are concerned about anything other than clients is nonsense. people run their businesses based on demand. all of this of the talk about what the government may are not do is just fun and light to -- unenlightened thinking. host: next call is from north carolina. good morning, charlotte. you are on. caller: i do not think people are realizing that these banks and lending institutions have done it to me. they have sabotaged my business to the story my business and to push me into a financial bind and to push me into foreclosure, and not one time. i am going through this many times. they are doing it so they can take my property. for example, giving us loans and and sabotaging. this is just one -- i owed them $200,000 and they were calling my business telling my employees that i

and did his undergraduate work and graduated with honors, and can then he went to the seminary in louisville, kentucky, and began to take his place as one more baptist preacher in america. but he was a gifted person. he was a person who was fiercely ambitious, he was the perpetual or the prototypical, i should say, young man in a hurry. and he caught the notice of some big denominational leaders in the southern baptist world which was a big orbit even back then. and at a young age was tasked because of his writing skills with being the editor of a major baptist periodical in the country that is still publishing today called "the baptist standard," or "the texas baptist standard." and it's during this particular time that he develops a flair for public controversy. he decides to write a series of articles against race track gambling in dallas and in fort worth. and he's credited for leading the way to see gambling banned in most of texas for the next 20-30 years. and he likes that crusading kind of stuff. well, he becomes the pastor of a church that was a celebrated church called the first ba

showers around detroit, cincinnati and louisville. thunderstorms could be heavy at times from houston to birmingham. pop-up showers from savannah to miami. scattered showers in the southwest. thunderstorms from caspar to bismarck. >> 58 in seattle. 77 in salt lake city and 87 in colorado springs. mostly 70s across the midwest. dallas, a warm 86. atlanta, 74. and boston, a fall-like 63 degrees. >> cincinnati hosted north america's largest oktoberfest celebration over the weekend, even though it's still just september. and, really, what would a big oktoberfest celebration be without a bratwurst eating competition. >> it just wouldn't. the ten competitors, all men, by the way, put away 170 brats in just ten minutes. and the winner was -- linsey? >> the winner was none other than joey chestnut, who we all know from the famous fourth of july hot dog eating contest here in new york. he gobbled down 35 bratwurst and won $2,000. according to my calculations, that's about $57 a brat. >> wow. >> that's not too bad. >> not bad at all. cincinnati

is joe, founder and owner of the blog, barefoot and progressive and staff writer at "the leo" in louisville, kentucky. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me on, rachel. >> is it resonating in kentucky after last week's pipeline rupture and everything, is it resonating in kentucky that rand paul is holding up the pipeline safety bill here? >> well, the "ap" broke the news on tuesday and people are just now starting to realize what rand paul is doing. but that's basically what his tea party base wants. the tea party has a really strong base in kentucky and they elected rand paul to come in and dismantle government and shrink it as much as possible and that's exactly what he's doing this week, even on this pipeline safety bill which even the industry, itself, has no problem with and thinks it's reasonable. >> so you don't -- rand paul absolutely campaigned as an anti-government candidate. i had a very long awkward interview with him in which he was so anti-government he wouldn't say that he thought that government intervening in terms of civil rights laws even was necessarily a good t

still weeks away and fixing the problem months away, the sherman-minton bridge is looking like the louisville region's version of carmageddon. one that looks like at least for the time being to be an indefinite challenge. congressman, thanks very much for joining us tonight. i appreciate your time, sir. >> great to be with you, rachel. >> give me an update on how people are coping in your district with this infrastructure challenge that arose out of nowhere. that decision to close that bridge on friday happened fast and without warning. >> it did, and it's -- i guess it's as close as you could have to a disaster. certainly every bit as much a disaster as the flooding in new england that we saw the last couple of weeks. a couple hundred thousand people at least are inconvenienced by this. we've seen commutes go from 15 minutes to two hours. commerce has been disrupted throughout the region. we have the intersection of three different interstates in the community, i-64 from norfolk to st. louis. this is part of the i-64 artery. we have i-65 and i-71. they all come together there. we have an inc

they won a race and the organization i have run out of louisville called u.s.a. cares organ runs in conjunction. all i know is that kid walked across the room and he is not looking for it but you see that thing and it's emblematic. every one of these kids who goes into those rat holes and give us the life we have i was just i went up to him a bit of a goof ball. i didn't know quite what to say to him he was just a kid. >> can i give you a real quick bumper sticker for next election. >> cain vs. unable. you will see that the in next debate. i know it dennis miller, everybody. >> miller would like me to remind you that on october 29th you can see us in the bolder fresher show at the mohican show in connecticut. great to be in the nutmeg state. i will signing pin killing lincoln and pinheads and patriots before the show. hope you can get there. details on bill o'reilly.com for future sites. michael moore ambushed at anti-capitalism rally in new york city. >> [cheers] >> there is a god in heaven. >> >> bill: did you see that? michael moore running over the place prom

my business community in louisville, kentucky, is very clear. they think the government has a very important role to play in investing in the future of this country and creating jobs. as long as it's kind of we don't need the government, the government has no role, then i think we're going to have a tough time. i don't think the american people believe that and i certainly don't think my business community thinks that. and so we've got -- we're going to have a tough negotiating process but again, i think the congressional republicans, particularly in the house, are very much out of touch with many of their own supporters, and that's what i'm hearing from my people back home. >> kentucky democrat john yarmuth, thank you for your time. appreciate you. folks, don't forget, you can watch the president's address to congress 7:00 eastern tonight right here on msnbc. >>> some big news today about bank of america, the largest bank in this country. i talked to a spokeswoman by phone who said they are, in fact, closing as many as 10% of their branches. th

louisville, kentucky. caller: i have a statement any question. there are some people for the rich and there are some people for the poor. americans are hurting. we have to remember some of those coal miner wars we used to have back in history. euthanizing -- unionizing those coal miners and those people who were against coal mining. that exists today. people for the rich, people for the poor. host: gregory in north carolina. hi, gregory. caller: i do support president obama. what i was listening for was something that he initially brought forward, which is when the one for president in the for splice-- renewable fuel and shifting the paradigm from fossil fuels to renewable. the other thing that i guess nobody will bring up except for me, in my estimation, teachers are important, doctors are important. police, i don't think so, especially with the division of motor vehicles. for every job in a given a cop, that is what they will focus on. riot act, homeland security -- there is a lot of money there. you can give the corporations their tax cuts and

one girl in louisville, kentucky, has sacked that stereotype.on her middle school team. whas's mike columbo reports. >> reporter: this isn't your typical team and this isn't your typical quarterback. this is hanna lee. >> the guys shut up and listen to her. she works hard just like anybody else. >> reporter: hanna, a 12-year-old seventh grader, says an announcement at school sparked her interest. >> they didn't say any boy who wanted to play. they just said any student. so, i'm a student and i was interested, so i just thought, why not? >> reporter: through spring and summer practices, hanna battled on when even her own family doubted her. >> we would give her outs. we would say, are you sure you want to stick with this? are you sure you want to do it? she would come out of practice sweaty and say, mom, i love it. >> reporter: now this quarterback will have her shot to make history. >> she's earned the right to start and lead our football program in this game saturday. >> down, set, go! >> reporter: her coaches believe hanna will be the first fe

. >> reporter: sending our cameras all the way to this holiday job fair in louisville, kentucky.moore, two kids and wife who works, but his job vanished in this economy. mike desperately wants one of the 3,000 jobs at zappos, the shoe and clothing retailer. if all goes well, the retailer might bump that number up to 4,500 fill their kentucky warehouses this holiday. we went looking for secrets. job expert tory johnson says, first, don't wait. where to start, favorite retailers. she says tell them they're your favorite. >> go into the places where you shop. when you are familiar, know the lay of the land, know the merchandise. there is less of a learning curve. >> reporter: another tip. make a simple offer. say you will work nights even if it is not ideal. we know a lot of work behind the scenes at these places, at night, if you say you are willing, even though you really don't want it, but if you're willing, it helps to move you to the top? >> absolutely. get in there, show somebody once you are on the job you are dependable, reliable, a chance you can move into a favorable time

in the middle of the country, cloudy skies from milwaukee, to chicago to louisville. all of the temperatures, the 60s will stay through the weekend. >> and we are live in hawaii this morning. and by the way, george is right. say hello to the autumnal equinox. and say good-bye to summer. at 5:04 this morning, we had to enter fall. george? i want to get around josh to see sam. >> hi, i see you. >>> now, to a rare turn in the spotlight for chelsea clinton. growing up in the white house, she rarely spoke in public. at her five-star wedding, chelsea was seen in these photos, not heard. but yesterday, she shared the stage of president clinton's global initiative with her mom, the secretary of state. here's abc's dan harris with something we've never seen before. >> reporter: there they were, together on the stage. the secretary of state and her daughter, chelsea. >> we're now going to proceed to have a conversation between the secretary of state and her daughter. >> thank you, dad. and thank you all for joining us this afternoon. >> reporter: whose voice we heard so rarely,

that time he did his undergraduate work and graduated with honors in many which the seminary in louisville kentucky and began to take its place as one more baptist preacher in america. but he was a gifted person. he was a person who is fiercely ambitious. he was a perpetual -- are prototypical young man in a hurry. he called the notices something nomination are leaders in the southern part to spread. at a young age, was passed because of his writing skills to the editor of a major baptist periodical that is still publishing today called the baptist standard. and it's during this particular time he develops a flyer for a public controversy and he decides to write a series of articles against racetrack gambling in dallas and fort worth and is credited for leading the way to see gambling banned in most of texas for the next 20 to 30 years. and he likes that crusading kind of stuff. he becomes a pastor of a church that was a celebrated church called the first baptist church in fort worth texas in 1909, one of the wealthiest congregations in texas woman known as the turk of the church of the ca

host: a democrat from louisville, ky. caller: i would like to say that everyone seems to be focusing on different squares of a chessboard and most people do not even note chess is the game we are playing. what is going lawn, of the societies like a free nation -- freemasons and be christian identity groups like the kkk run this country and they work at levels on the city and state government for globalization, which is just another day -- thing as saying they are colonizing the united states and contrary to popular opinion it is not outsourcing to third world countries that is losing jobs, it is prison slave labor. that is the primary source of outsourcing. host: democrat caller from kentucky. coming up about 45 minutes we will turn our attention to regulations and jobs. house republicans promised to take up several regulations. but up next, we will turn our attention to terrorist threats to the united states and we will have the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. >> an election marred by moral stand -- sca