john january, from illinois, remembered, i was captured between macon and atlanta, georgia, august 1st, 1864. i was taken to andersonville, but before entering the stockade, i was stripped and searched five times. everything was taken from me. except an old blouse, pants, and horse blankets. i had no idea what kind of place i was going to or i would have risked my life to escape. being taken to the stockade, i was three days without food. the capture is the beginning of a journey. a transportation to camp, often movement from one camp to another camp. a member of the 111th united states colored troops, he's a white, noncommissioned officer. along with other prisoners from alabama, they are moved eastward in the late fall of 1864 as concern over sherman's presence is creating massive disruptions. -- disruptions in the southern prison system. being transported in train cars, 60-100 in a car, he reflects, facing a journey with an uncertain destination. left columbus at 5:00. nothing worthy of note. until we reached fort valley where the road heading to andersonville intersected the columb

a daily allows you to play every single day even if you lose yesterday, today you macon instruct a better team and win. >> and save ziron, it doesn't depend on the outcome of an actual game. >> fantasy sports is just betting by another name. adam civil had to write this op-ed for "the new york times" after the nba took that unprecedented step in buying a stake in fan duel and it had to explain why the nba was taking this step and what the nba had in mind for the future. $400million in gambling money that pro leagues don't get their take. crudely, that's what it's about. they want a piece of the action since the action is done on their dime and on the sweat of their players. and adam silver has shown whether it's about gambling or he's floating the idea of putting ads on the uniforms of players that he's about monetizing this league within an inch of its life, and gambling is just one part of that magic. >> has las vegas been the beneficiary of the narrow range of sports betting legal options. as long as you keep it in short supply does the vegas book flourish? >> we've had an exclusive he

one near macon, georgia, an ef-1 with winds of 105 miles per hour. in alabama, pat mclaughlin's trailer home flipped completely over. >> when i started smelling smoke, i crawled through the debris and then the door is upside down, so i felt and felt and felt how to get the door t, up the three feet of snow headed this way. you can feel the winds picking up here. and the snow will wallop the coast. and we're hearing warnings to stay off the roads. >> let's get right to ginger zee, tracking the cold that's fueling all this. >> that cold is plenty cold. tomorrow morning, on the map, the numbers pop up, you go, oh no! it's worse than last week. 2 below in wisconsin. michigan, buffalo, watertown, more than a foot in some places. that's after 50% of the country covered. this time last year, 12.5%. >>> to ferguson, missouri, and the state of emergency declared. the national guard deployed. families bracing. as the grand jury decides whether or not to charge a white police officer in the shooting of michael brown. and steve osunsami is there tonight. >> we s

we're going to watch that and the tornado watch is continuing from macon, georgia, southward to north florida until 2:00 east coast time today. another couple of hours of watching those dangerous storms. the other story, of course, the continuation of the cold, and it settled right now over the top of the northern rockies. it is spilled into the pacific northwest. chilly morning in medford. the windchill that was in the 20s in the big cities, single digits this morning in boise. cold, negative numbers from colorado, wyoming. only warm spot out there, once again, the fire danger will be high again. weak santa ana wind events. winds gusty, relative low humidity, fire danger high today in southern california. that's the only weather story out there. we have until wednesday when the storms will be allowed to head to the west moderating a little bit, especially along the coast. so as i mentioned, the next chance of rain on wednesday for the west coast. i'll let you know who will get that rain. >> thank you, bill. >>> would you know if a tv personality wore the same suit every day for a yea

. ♪ >> you macon fuse this place with an art gallery.n mccoy originally from upper darby thought he may have wandered into an apple store. but look a little closer. you'll see they're not selling smart phones. >> wow! never thought i'd see the day. ♪ >> that day was january 1st when recreational marijuana in colorado became legal for anyone 21 and over. since then, the pot industry has been smoking. >> i'm about to take you into one of the first recreational pot shops in denver. ♪ >> this is the 3d cannabis center one of more than 340 marijuana dispensaries that have popped up in denver alone. after flashing my id, i was welcomed by billy, a bud tender. a pot connoisseur, if you will. >> there's smells, flavors. >> he's not talking wine, but weed. >> it's all full bud. >> high grade marijuana. each with a different name. >> we call it the presidential k u.s. h. >> and different effect on the body. >> it's a called owens curb this will be a very is he day tiff high for the body. that's a late afternoon early evening high. >> have you been

data gathering and intend to support this legislation i think the basic amendment i'm planning on macon page 13 on line 3 just asking that the advisor board have a consideration within 6 months we add in the advisory board within 6 months to simultaneously finds out the implementation process that is not the legislation noted preclude that from happening i want to make sure this is being implemented by the board of supervisors they they have a chance to provide feedback that maybe possible and again, i the say i don't appreciate my miss characterization it is an important issue i support and simply want to make it better and smooth process when it's implemented so with that, i make a motion. >> i neglected when supervisor campos asked for a second is there a second supervisor kim colleagues any discussion on supervisor campos amendment we'll take that without objection. that is adapt and supervisor tang a second second by supervisor kim any discussion with regards to them we'll take that without objection. that is adapted supervisor kim. >> thank you just want to again thank supervisor

. ♪ >> you macon fuse this place with an art gallery.mccoy originally from upper darby thought he may have wandered into an apple store. but look a little closer. you'll see they're not selling smart phones. >> wow! never thought i'd see the day. ♪ >> that day was january 1st when recreational marijuana in colorado became legal for anyone 21

one near macon, georgia, an ef-1 with winds of 105 miles per hour. in alabama, pat mclaughlin's trailer home flipped completely over. >> when i started smelling smoke, i crawled through the debris and then the door is upside down, so i felt and felt and felt how to get the door open, and then i just jumped out. >> reporter: in florida, cars at a local prison, upended. at least two guards injured. nursery school children, huddled in hallways. now all eyes on the great lakes, up to three feet of snow headed this way. tonight here, lake erie just behind me. you can feel the winds picking up here. and the snow will wallop the coast. from ohio all the way up to upstate new york. and we're hearing warnings to stay off the roads. >> that's lake effect country. let's get right to ginger zee, tracking the cold that's fueling all this. >> that cold is plenty cold. tomorrow morning, on the map, the numbers pop up, you go, oh no! could it be? it's worse than last week. it will feel like two below in california. michigan, buffalo, watertown, more than a foot in s

the low was 16 in charlotte, north carolina, 17 in may -- macon, georgia. a freeze warning is up tonight for all of georgia. today nbc canceled plans for a bill cosby sitcom, this after netflix postponed a cosby special indefinitely. in a matter of days, the comedy icon has been brought low by accusations of sexual assault from years, even decades ago. here's don dahler. >> reporter: both the nbc and netflix projects were shelved after three women over the last week accused bill cosby of rapes that happened decades ago. the most recent, janice dickinson, said on "entertainment tonight" she was assaulted after having dinner with cosby in 1982. >> the next morning i woke up and i wasn't wearing my pajamas. i remember before i passed out that i had been sexually assaulted by this man. >> reporter: "costa concordia's" lawyer called the former model's statement a complete lie. we requested an interview with dickinson, but her representative said she wanted to be paid. despite years of similar allegation, cosby has never been charged. a sexual assault lawsuit was

he's a professor at randolph's macon college. he goes off against democrat jack trammel. the seventh district runs from the west end to parts of fredricksburg. in west virginia, the winner of the u.s. senate race will make history. either candidate will become the first woman elected to represent west virginia in the u.s. senate. both are trying to fill the seat from senator jay rockefeller who is retire this year. poll in west virginia close at 7:30 tonight. aaron gilchrist breaks down which ones could change the balance in congress. >> there are 36 seats in 33 states up for grabs. seven in states where democrats are retiring and president obama lost in 2012. wf is the one closest to us. shelly is the favorite to win there and become that state's first republican senator many more than 50 years. in order for democrats to win, they'll have to hold off republicans in new hampshire, north carolina and a majority of the other eight battleground states you see in purple. if it's close, they have a built-in advantage, too. the two independents in congress, currently caucus wit

but in macon county, illinois, there is an award that's givener year to a public official who has doneght thing when it was hard to do the right thing. that award is the integrity award. her legacy still looms really large in that state. and it's not because of her role in barack obama's political life, right in the start of his political career, his first year in elected office, it else e it's not because of that. had breast cancer not killed her in her mid 40s, who knows where she would have ended up by now. but the thing to know now is what was never known about her in her whole career, in her whole life. last november, 15 years after penny died, illinois moved a mar anxious bill. it was introduced by a state rep named anne williams. and in introducing that marriage bill in illinois in november, anne williams broke some news. >> one of the greatest love stories i have ever heard played out right here under our beautiful dome. but it was a secret. why? because it happened over 20 years ago involved a state senator, the late penny sutterns and one of my dearest friends, a woman named

went on to win the election in the 7th district as well by beating a fellow professor from randolph maconge. >> another big upset winner in our area, larry hogan will talk about his transition into office. they will announce a new senior member this afternoon. we were not told who that person will be. the announcement will company this afternoon in annapolis. >>> ferguson, missouri bracing for more trouble as residents wait to hear whether a white police officer will face charges in the death of an unarmed black man. police have been boarding up businesses and pleading with the the media to appeal for calm. they are worried about a repeat of the clashes. >>> a father and daughter who survived a deadly house fire in arlington are talking about what happened that morning. a fire killed a mother and daughter last week. 11-year-old sarah survived and is now in the hospital with burns to both arms. sarah's father managed to grab a ladder and rescue here. he tried to go back in and save his wife and other daughter but the fire was too intense. >> i almost didn't make the out of the house. if he

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. >> gregory macon is serving 40 years for murder. he's been at stateville since 1985. he remembers when the prison had regular programs including theatrical and musical performances that used to take place here in the now long abandoned prison auditorium. >> the musical program was a great thing because of the fact we would have competition against other penitentiaries. and stateville was always number one. in here it's like a cage of awaiting execution because there's nothing for a man to do and no programs or nothing. you're just sitting here like a commodity. you know, a price tag on your forehead with nothing to do. >> rehabilitation, what's that? what's that? they erased that out of the dictionary here. there's no such thing as rehabilitation. it's about money. it's all about money. if they can keep a number on you and keep you in here, they get their check and that's it. this is a new cattle drive. >> this is not the place where we want to do services to inmates to get them reintegrated back into society. stateville's not that place. we don't have all those thing

he went on to win the election in the seventh district by beating a fellow professor from randolph macon college. >>> right now, congress is back at work for the first time since the midterm election. topping the ambitious agenda, this afternoon, the senate will hold a hearing on the handling of the ebola crisis. this is the first hearing in the senate since the first u.s. case of ebola was diagnose signatured in dallas. >>> both the senate and house are back in session for the first time in weeks. for more on that, we're joined by mark murray nbc political editor. expecting to get anything done at all? >> there are some things that can get done but probably not as much as the previous lame duck after the republican had their big win in 2010. the chief items, one, just keeping the government open. they still have to pass something. so -- or the government will shut down. >> they used to do it for a whole year but in the last few terms we've seen it only for a few months, right? >> this thing of either a continuing resolution or do you end up passing one final omnibus legislation that put

one near macon, georgia, an ef-1 with winds of 105 miles an hour. mcloughlin's trailer home flipped completely over. >> when i started smelling smoke, i crawled through the debris. the door is upside down. i just jumped out. >> reporter: now all eyes on the great lakes. three feet of snow headed this way. lake erie behind me. you can feel the winds picking up here. the snow will wallop the coast from ohio to upstate new york. that's where there are so many warnings to stay off the road. gio benitez, abc news, erie, pennsylvania. >>> snow falling up to two inches an hour. it will be difficult for plows to keep up. >> with snow covering half the nation, let's track the latest storm with accuweather's jim dickey. >> good morning, reena and t.j. we have a brutally cold air mass pushing over the great lakes being drawn in by strong gusty winds. you know that means lake effect snow and significant lake effect snow. as is always the case, very much localized. where those bands set up, we're talking significant snowfall. whiteout conditions, road closures.

boat are professors at randolph- macon. >> if they will legalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana? >> now if it's approved d.c. would follow in the footsteps of washington state can colorado. the city -- and colorado. the city council voted to decriminalize marijuana this year. that means people who are caught with small apartments of pot -- amounts of pot face a fine instead of a 8:00 charge. >> this other key decision has to do with who will run the city for the next few years. >> bruce john man has a look -- johnson has a look. >> reporter: hello, key to the d.c. mayoral race is now the turnout. muriel bowser is still the favorite and a democratic new mexico knee in a town -- nominee from a town where eight out of ten registered voters are democrats. she gets 65% of the democratic vote and probably wins. the guy close a half million dollars in the -- to a half million dollars in the bank where they ned to be. and independent david catania has less money and his get out the vote effort will be driven mostly by volunteers, he's counting on independent voters, republicans and he n

both are professors at randolph macon college. district runs from the west end of richmond, north, including culpeper. >>> our decision 2014 coverage is just getting started here on nbc 4 and nbcwashington.com. we'll be cutting in throughout the evening as the results come in, and don't miss a special one-hour edition of news4 at 11:00. >>> saw some clouds today. what's the night hold, veronica? >> it's going to be dry, but we're talking about that transition already as we go from jackets this week to umbrellas toward the end of the week, and, yes, back to coats again. the roller coaster ride conditions. so a cloudy sunset for us as we look forward again, rain toward the end of the week, and another cool to cold weekend for us. first thing tomorrow morning, what to wear as the kids go back to school. a lot of them that had a couple days off here, just a light jacket in order for tomorrow. but again, talking about plenty of cloud cover still across the area. here's a look at high temperatures across the area for your wednesday goin

we have right now the macon island those are the two big, i guess them -- she is on a deployment well over eight months. when sequestration hit us it was sudden. we stopped work on some of the projects in the ship yards. the bush just got back and she had a fairly long deployment. when you stopped work like you did then, those on deployment stood to watch, we are trying to get these guys up and in the ship yards. they are up there on watch. they come home and now it is tear turn to go on deployments. theirs a longer while we get these guys back in. this is taking about two years. that's the kind of impact you have that has second and third order effects. it effects the nuclear carriers also. those are the public ship yards. those are the federal employees we hire. when you don't have a predictable budget when you do negotiations for the big deck with the private ship yards, they are not going to -- if you will, spool up to be ready in time. you don't have the work orders done. this is all slowed down. we have another year. vincent will be out there about 8 1/2 months. of this longer d

for the past 18 years dave has been a faculty member at randolph macon college where he served as the chair of the department of economics. dave is also a strong family man and with his wife laura has two children. mr. speaker, it is my pleasure to welcome dave to the united states house of representatives. joining us today are fellow members the virginia delegation who welcome you and look forward to working with you. i yield to the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott for his , remarks. welcome, congressman brad to , the people's house and to the virginia delegation. our delegation has a long history of working together. our former long time dean senator john warner set the manner for working together. while we may not always agree on every issue we will always try , to work together for what is best for virgini nation. it is the virginia way. dave will be replacing majority leader eric cantor and at end of the congress our delegation will lose two of its more senior members, frank wolf and jim moran. with their departure, our delegation's clout may wane a bit but will be reinvigorate

these colleges we are looking at, tulane university, rochester, my all mma mater, keene, tom randolph-maconrs is a tough one. >> mine? something happened after the storm -- they really made a change at tulane. what is driving this from the parents and the applicants in? ofwere just looking at video the leafy, beautiful video at cambridge. what is driving the increased panic about getting their/ -- getting there? >> students want to get that great college education, they are thinking by the r.o.i., return on investment's, they are thinking what the job market and what is happening after that. as you were saying earlier, it matters what you are doing when you're in school and then how you make the most of the career services, and that alumni network once you get out of school. we teach students that. driven.is financially colleges have to justify the $50,000 a year. increasingly private high schools, have to justify the 35,000 dollars a year. how much are we on a financial treadmill? >> this is one of the problems with higher education, especially the cost, going up something like three times

years dave has been a faculty member at randolph macon ledge where he served as the chair of the department of economics. family mano a strong and with his wife laura has two children. mr. speaker, it is my pleasure dave to the united states house of representatives. joining us today are fellow members the virginia delegation welcome you and look forward to working with you. i yield to the gentleman from virginia exploration scott for opening remarks fly rise today to welcome congressman brat to the people's house and virginia delegation. our delegation has a long history of working together. long time teen senator john warner set the together. working while we may not always agree on every issue we will always try to work together for what is for virginia and our nation. it is the virginia way. majority be replacing leader eric cantor and at end of delegation will lose two of its more senior jimers, frank wolf and moran. with the departure the wane a bitcloud may but will be reinvigorated by new workingcommitted to together for the commonwealth. dave comes to congress after a career as an

this would have been my 19th year at randolph-macon, i ran a program here called the moral foundations of capitalism. let's work on the moral foundations of capitalism and get this economy going again. the logic in this answer is the same as in the past. the american dream is in question. we need to send an economist up to washington to congress to do what? restore confidence in our basic american institutions and principles, and values. i've done research on this for the past 20 years. one of the economists i follow has a simple thesis, if you want growth you better speak in moral terms that are positive. say business is good. i don't see that theme coming out of our administration. hillary clinton just said this week businesses don't create jobs. i don't know. business is not the bad guy. business is the good guy. the first economic growth took off in modern history, the usual answers are not correct. it is not capital accumulation, not private property rights. it is when for the first time in human history we started calling businesspeople morally good. that is a shocking thesis. i

this would have at randolphhis yea 19th year macon. i ran a program called the moral foundations of capitalism program. i would tell students is let's work on the moral foundations of capitalism and economy going again. and so basically the logic in ins answer is the same as the past. the american dream is in question. this is why i said we need to send an economist up to washington and to congress to do what? to restore confidence. in when? institutionsrican and principles and values. i have done research on this for years.t 20 one of the economists i follow isa very simple thesis, that if you want economic growth, you better speak in moral terms that positive. you better say business is good. i don't see that theme coming administration right now. clinton just to score political points last week said businesses don't create jobs. right? i don't know, right, because something wrong with business. business is not the bad guys. business is the good guys. and the first time economic took off in modern surveys 26idre chapters, i won't bor

subcommittee can submit their opening remarks for the record and i yield myself as much time as i macon sum to present my opening statement. good afternoon and welcome to this, the second hearing that i've convened on the humanitarian crisis that resulted from thousands of unaccompanied minors showing up at our southern border. i've been engaged on this issue from the beginning. not only as the chairman of the subcommittee but also as a member of the speaker's working group on the unaccompanied alien child crisis. i travelled with several of my colleagues to the region and saw first the insecurity and poverty that plagues the region. while the administration has cited drops in the total number of children traveling north since our first hearing on the topic back in june, the fact is that the conditions in el salvador, honduras and guatemala continue to be very grave. i convened this second hearing because my colleagues and i are mindful of the high levels of gang violence and the lack of opportunity right here in our hemisphere. not only does it affect the lives of millions in central a

we have right now the macon island, an amphibious ready group. those are the two big kind of the -- they're not -- i guess i will call them anecdotes. they're fallouts from this sequestration issue. and i will tell you what i mean. she is on a deployment which is well over eight months. when sequestration hit us, remember, it was sudden. when that occurred we because of the sudden loss of operating money and maintenance money we stopped work on some of the projects in the shipyards. the vinson we slowed down dramatically, the reagan and the george herbert walker bush. she just got back, fair loy long deployment between eight and nine months. those on deployment stood the watch. when we finally got squared away and got the money going again and got the ship yards out again people out of the furloughs the hiring freeze lifted overtime restored we're trying to catch these guys up, get them through the shipyards and out on deployment. they're out there on watch longer deployments. they finally come home and now it's their turn to go on deloims. their

we have right now the macon island, that's an amphibious ready group, and those are the two big kind of -- they're not -- i guess i'll call them anecdotes. they're fallouts from this sequestration issue, and i'll tell you what i mean in just a minute. she's on a deployment which is well over eight months. when we had -- when sequestration hit us, remember, it was sudden. and when that occurred, we -- because of the sudden loss of operating money and may maintene money, we stopped work on some of the projects in the shipyards, the vin center, the reagan and the george herbert walker bush. the bush just got back, and she had a fairly long deployment, between eight and nine months. when you stopped work like you did then, those that were on deployment stood the watch. when we finally got squared away and got the money going again, got the shipyards up again, people out of furloughs, over time restored, we're trying to get these guys caught up. their out there -- they're out there on watch, longer deployments. they finally come home, and now it's their turn to go on deployments. theirs i

dave comes to congress after a career as an economics professor at randolph macon college, he's been appointed to state boards and commissions by several virginia governors including the joint advisory board of economists. i know he'll put these experiences to good use. i welcome dave and hi family to congress and look forward to working with him on issues critical to the richmond region and the entire commonwealth of virginia. i yield the balance of our time to our newest colleague, the gentleman from virginia, mr. rat. mr. brat: mr. speaker, thank you very much. thank you to my new colleagues and thank you to the people of virginia's seventh district who have entrusted me with the honor of serving as their representative and many of them are with us tonight in the gallery. thank you for coming. we are proud that the seventh district is the home of the father of the constitution, james madison. and the voice of the revolution, patrick henry. it's been a long road and very few gave me a chance when the journey began. i want to thank my wife, laura, and my children, jonathan and sofia

birmingham, atlanta, macon, some of our southern states, alabama and georgia, very chilly for you.elow normal this morning. we'll warm up nicely, though, temperatures in the mid-60s this afternoon in atlanta with lots of sunshine. d.c., up to 53 today. 62 by monday. and then look at these areas to the north. 40 today, 39 on sunday, 30 on monday in minneapolis. we're going to have very chilly football games this weekend. >> good point. enjoy the 40s while you have them. >> yes. it's only going down from there. >> that doesn't sound promising. thank you, jennifer. >> a lesson of life. >>> i don't know, have you seen this? obviously we take pictures all the time. think of them back in the 1800s been photography was in the early stages. >> look closely. what do you see? this is believed the first known photograph featuring a person. the person is on the bottom left. it appears it's a man getting his boots cleaned. taken back in 1838 in the city of paris. >> what's interesting here is that the man even if he appears to be alone, that's not the case. there were other people and horse-dra

just south of atlanta, around macon, you're included in this as well. current temperatures outside.around 32 in charleston, 25 in little rock. 35 in shreveport. and panhandle at freezing. pensacola, 32. here's the forecast, you are going to see more snow throughout the midwest as we go through the next 24 to 48 hours. that does include you, minneapolis. chicago could pick up a little bit of snow. for the southeast, though, it's mainly going to be rain. south louisiana picking up a lot of rain this weekend. north of atlanta, through tennessee, also portions of kentucky, the ohio valley seeing a little bit of rain. as far as snowfall amounts. we're going to see anywhere from 2 to 4 inches, 4 to 6 outside of siouxfalls. 1 to 2 in minneapolis. grand rapids you've got lake-effect snow and that's going to continue throughout the weekend. high temperature, single digits in rapid city. 9 degrees today. year going to see the temperatures stay below freezing in minneapolis. you started this trend of below freezing temperatures on monday. it could be another week before your temperatures get a

a place like atlanta, likely to see cold macon, georgia, 26.t weekend looks warm for a lot of the country, so we'll go back in the right direction. >> wait a second, that sounds like good news but until then we're sitting with these temperatures? >> i buried the lead there, yes. it's going to be cold until next weekend. >> keith, how warm are we talking, just so i know? >> depends where you are at. we'll see 50s to 60s up to the east coast. a change in the pattern from this arctic trough to back normal stuff. >> i like your glasses half full there. i'll take that. >> it's a week away. things can change in a week. that's nice. that's the problem. >>> we'll talk about washington news for a moment. confirmation this morning that the graphic isis propaganda video surfacing this weekend is authent authentic. a third american hostage is beheaded. could this lead to ground troops in iraq? john harwick is joining us from washington and a lot more. what is your take? >> they could. general martin dempsey, the head of the joint chiefs has held open that