the laurel native was killed two years ago in macon georgia where she just feninished law school. her former classmate is awaiting trial in the case. >> you don't want the focus to be on lauren's death. she had 27 years of amazingness. >> friends say she loved playing softball and many on the field today are former teammates. >> i think it's representative of how many people are out here of how great she was loved, how much she was loved and how many people are still thinking of her and wishing her well. >> the mascot, modeled after lauren's dog. proceeds will be donated to the foundation. the city of laurel provided their emergency response trailer to be used as a food truck. >> we go out of our way to make sure we take care of our own. this will continue every year for years to we look forward to that here in the city. >> this is the second annual tournament. last year a total of $15,000 was raised. organizers are hoping for similar numbers going forward >> there were expenses due to the investigation and so far, only part of giddings' remains have been recovered. >> we just got

host: let's go to macon, georgia. al, democrats line. i am a disabled veteran.gree with obama 100%. i am a disabled veteran, and i agree 100%, and i think we should leave this in the hands of the military and the veteran to know what to do and how to do it. why military over a diplomatic approach? because i think this is the situation right here. guest: and that is why americans are great. leave it to the military. the military is not making this decision. let's be very clear. the testimony, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff follows orders. he is directed to come up with target lists and parameters. it is not his call. he may advise, but it is not his call. it is the commander-in-chief, barack obama, hopefully with concurrence, whether we go now or in the future, without congress. that should be enough that it does not happen. it is still unclear, and they floated this repeatedly. no, he may still do it. i think it is a lack of being persuaded based on what we have been given, taking military action. firing missiles and who knows what else, bombs, whatev

thank you very much for joining us today from macon, georgia.ly. >> you may be the ceo. >> every sibling has their place. i'm the boss hog. >> who is the boss at home? >> let her an. >> yeah. >> steve: you don't want to miss what happened when we hung out with "duck dynasty." first on this day in 2006, justin timberlake "sexy back" was the number one song. still running in morng? . ♪ >> brian: the answer to the of a plaque trivia question. molly shannon, the winner is jeff gallagher from milwaukee, wisconsin. good job. >> steve: superstar! >> brian: 7 minutes before the top of the hour. we'll show the "duck dynasty" pack annual in the next hour. let me just tell you a little bit about what's happening in sports. yesterday the matchup, the manning brothers meeting for the third time in new york. the giants and the broncos. this one lop sided in the second half. eli intercepted four times. denver won 41-23. payton undefeated against eli so far in his career. maybe they'll have a rematch in the super bowl. >>> joe flacco's ravens were about to play

and my younger brother is in macon, georgia. >> what were they afraid of? >> i think they were just afraid of the reaction that it was going to be so hostile. that they might suffer reprisals. >> hostile for what reason? >> because i name ames in the book, and it's a pretty unforgiving looat a lot of people that we know. as it turns out, most of the really bad people from the book are dead. i have gotten some sort of sad reaction from the name sakes of some of the people named in the book who were really upset about it. my uncle has been dissing me in the paper there. >> there is your uncle hobert? >> yeah. what is his story? >> he was the guy who carried on the family name. a prominent lawyer in town, and sort of the country club wit, and efrling, and he's still -- he still is very much part of the community and ver visible part of the community. so he -- >> what do you think of him? >> he's vey close -- i am very close to him. he was sort of a surrogate father to me, so i was a little hurt when he told the birmingham news that diane has written an effecti

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the working with the city of make on, georgia, they're doing it as well. * macon. the smaller cities are taking advantage of easily reusable solution thextion, right, so open source technologies that make it easy for them to make a data catalog, and they're bag borrowing and stealing whatever they can from the bigger cities. whenever we get the chief data job description up, we should put that online and the city can take that. you can see cities sharing resources so that way even if they don't have the resources themselves, they can work together and pool those resources. >> maybe just to add one more thing to that, when we passed our legislation in 2009, we actually documented and shared our best practices for how we laid forth this program for other cities to use as well. >> great. so, i think we've actually already gone significantly over what i was hoping. i was hoping to [speaker not understood] also. we're going to wrap it up. thanks to all our panelists and the hatchery for hosting us. anything else you need to say before we wrap up? okay, wrap up. (applaus