joseph's hospital here in memphis.nd oddly enough, it is the exact same hospital where james meredith was taken after he was wounded. i'm told that's not correct, i'm sorry, i'd heard that earlier. this is st. joseph's, though, where dr. king was taken, and he died at 6:13 p.m. central time tonight here at the hospital. >> a look back at our special events coverage back from 1968. . there is a medicare benefit that may qualify you for a new power chair or scooter at little to no cost to you. stay tuned for this important medicare benefit information and free scooter guarantee. imagine... one scooter or power chair that could improve your may entitle you to pay little to nothing to own it. one company that can make it all happen ... your power chair will be paid in full. the scooter store. why should you call the scooter store today? because their mobility experts are also medicare experts. and that means the scooter store is your best shot at qualifying for a scooter that costs you little to nothing. hi i'm doug harris

hooks insisted that i come to memphis to preach at greater middle baptist.e insisted that i preach the kingdom to a sermon. he told me when we talked on the phone, he said, brother flowers, you have so much of dr. king's spirit in you, he said i want you to come and preach for the king celebration at greater middle. little did i know that that would be the last time i would see him alive. and i thank god that day, as he struggled to get here, the greater middle baptist on that day, i watched him as he reflected upon the life of dr. king. he said, brother flowers, i am only here because you are preaching. he said i would have stayed home because i've on dialysis, i am in bed, but i had to get here to hear you preach one more time. i am so glad that he got there. i am so glad that i had a chance to talk about my mentor and my friend, dr. king, in honor of dr. hooks. so glad that my late adopted mother, coretta scott king, dr. hooks had a special bond. i am so glad today that we had a special relationship. he told me, he said, you are my pastor, and you are my

a close-up of the memphis radar here, the storms moving into the memphis area.se storm have the potential to create tornadoes, large hail and gusty winds. we'll be watching these over the next hour or so. tornado watch in effect for memphis, into new orleans and the early afternoon. the good news is, we have nice weather in the northeast. sunshine in new york city, but the rain moves into the northeast tomorrow. alex? >> okay. thank you for that. raphael miranda. >>> for all your latest weather alerts, be sure to check in with weather.com. >>> good news for the economy this week. the dow jones industrial average is in the middle of its longest winning streak in more than six years. finishing up for eight weeks in a row now. and after record lows in february, new home sales climbed 27% in march, according to the commerce department. that's the biggest one-month gain in 47 years and a good sign that investors are gaining confidence. but it's not all good news, of course, the fdic shut down seven more banks in illinois which makes for a total of 57 failed banks in

a serious threat of tornadoes actually in memphis and other major city.e'll find out where the biggest we'll find out where the biggest danger might be. >>> updating top stories, a serious tornado outbreak in the south. highest risk areas as follows -- mississippi, alabama, parts of tennessee. now you're looking at live pictures out of nashville. clearly, very damp. you see the water on the lens there. let's find out with our bonnie schneider what the potential is for nashville, memphis, and so many other cities. >> very high, fredricka. already seeing tornado warnings breaking out across mississippi into alabama. unconfirmed reports of tornadoes in alabama from fire officials in the city of ward. i'm checking on that right now. alities getting reports of trees down and some damage to homes in meridian, mississippi, due a possible tornado. unconfirmed at this time. the warnings, you can see, xaft right where the quell is going through. on into tennessee. the bigger picture, speaking of tennessee, shows that memphis and nashville are und atornado watch per

[applause] >> i first moved to memphis in 1959. and they just took me in and treated me like family. and i shall never forget that. i used to go down to the courthouse after his appointment and just sit in the back of the room and he would ask me is anything wrong? noisette no, just want to see you preside. those days they would not give ben hooks vote he was the lawyer of -- they never called him at turney hooks. they called him ben, old ben. and i would watch that, lawyers, judges, they simply would just not use courtesy title. and after the appointment i would go in the back and i would get charged i tell you to see the same lawyers having to say if it pleases the court, your honor, may i approach the bench. [laughter] [applause] he went down over the library to get the students out who were arrested for giving to the library and put in jail to those who were down to get them out. and the same library is now named after -- [applause] what a remarkable individual. and what a great help he had with frances. we are moving along wel

he began practicing law in memphis in 1949, one of the few african-americans practicing law in memphisin 1954 he appeared on a roundtable with late justice thurgood marshall, then attorney thurgood marshall, and other southern african-american attorneys to formulate a possible litigation strategy before the supreme court in brown v. board of education of topeka, the landmark case that ended separate but equal and ended segregation in our nation. he was public defender in shelby county from 1961 to 1965 and was then appointed by the governor to be criminal court judge in shelby county, and he became the first african-american criminal court judge in the state of tennessee. in 1956 while serving in the baptist ministry at greater middle baptist in memphis, he joined the southern christian leadership conference with dr. martin luther king at the time he was starting the boycotts of the downtown stores in montgomery and working with rosa parks and boycotting the buses leading the great civil rights uprising movement in the south and made our nation a more perfect union. president nixon apo

the cougars at 2-1 in conference usa they are in a four way tie for first with two lane uab and memphish taking two out of three from ucf. while the rice owls with 1-2 and a four way tie for fifth with southern miss, ucf and marshall after losing two out of three from memphis. a shocking series loss with the rice owls teams. rattily takes a strike. >> michael goodnight needs an oak economical inning. >> matt: first outs. >> steve: a way to get him out. line drive. get him out of there. nice at bat by michael ratterree. >> matt: goodnight was the national baseball pitcher of the week. back in early march. with a 1-0 houston win on march 6th. met in the houston baseball classic played at minutemaid park. first time they had ever done with rendon at the plate behind 0-1. fast ball outside to anthony rendon. >> steve: goodnight very impressive. starts commanding that fast ball a little bit better. you see him dominating guys. you can understand why he was conference play of the year. he puts it together he has overpowering stuff. >> matt: rendon the most outstanding in the silver glove seri

was assassinated-- gunned down in memphis, tennessee. many of us still have the images etched in painful memory-- dr. king standing with colleagues on the balcony of the lorraine motel, the next day lying there mortally wounded, his aides pointing in the direction of the rifle shot. >> everybody wants freedom. >> moyers: then we remember the crowds of mourners slowly moving through the streets of atlanta on a hot sunny day, surrounding king's casket as it was carried on a mule-drawn farm wagon; and the riots that burned across the nation in the wake of his death; a stinging, misbegotten rebuke to his gospel of non-violence. we sanctify his memory now, name streets and schools after him, we've made his birthday a national holiday. but in april 1968, as martin luther king walked out on that motel balcony, his reputation was under assault. the glory days of the montgomery, alabama, bus boycott and the 1963 march on washington were behind him, his nobel peace prize already in the past. a year before, he had spoken out against the war in viet

flooding on i-40, from memphis so little rock. and i-10, from new orleans to houston. slippery in the mountains. and wet on i-5. >> expect airport delays in seattle, salt lake city and denver. also, kansas city, chicago, memphis, houston and new orleans. >>> as the president moves ahead to touch proposals on wall street, he may need to please the regulators. >> high-paid regulators at a federal agency, that were supposed to watch the financial system, had their eyes on something else. more now from abc's jonathan karl. >> reporter: some high level securities and exchange officials have spent more time viewing pornography than investigating ponzi schemes. a now report from abc news, reveals a staggering obsession with pornography. viewed for hours at a time on s.e.c. computers. the specifics are stunning. one senior attorney at s.e.c. headquarters in washington, spent up to eight hours a day accessing internet porn. an s.e.c. accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times in a 2-week period. she had 600 pornographic images on her government computer hard drive

and in fact, i was just in memphis last week and we were talking about that. twain always blamed himself for getting his brother a job on the river boat, and always felt badly about it. in fact, in his book, connecticut yankee and king arthur's court, the hero hank is -- his date of his execution is actually the anniversary of henry clemens' death in 1858. yes, ma'am? >> ok. considering mark twain's roam as a lecturer and story teller, who is the mark twain of today? >> oh, who is the mark twain of today. that's a good question. i was talking earlier, there was a writer, i don't know if you remember a southern writer named louis gresard, who wrote several books back in the 1980's. he actually died fairly young, unfortunately, he was -- i interviewed him when i was a newspaper reporter, and i guess the way mark twain probably was, he was just effortlessly funny individual, and if he had lived, he might very well have gone, you know, been considered that. i know louis gresard said mark twain said the coldest winter i ever spent was a summer in san francisco and

hooks died last thursday at his home in memphis after a long illness. he was 85. his funeral was held today. hooks was a lawyer. ordained minister. and the leader of the naacp for 15 years. he was remembered as a tenacious and committed leader. >> ben believed in his heart, believed in his soul, the impossible was possible. >> during the service today mourners also observed a moment of silence for another civil rights icon, dorothy heights, who died yesterday. >>> a d.c. reading program is making a difference in the lives of students and it is getting national recognition. the program teams students up with some of washington's biggest power brokers including senators and members of congress. children are paired up with a mentor that reads to them once a week. this session is taking place at brent elementary school in southeast. it is sponsored by everybody wins d.c. private lip funded nonprofit group. we will hear from some of the students and their mentors in a full report coming up on "in nightly news with brian williams" right after this newscast. >>> what hav

memphis i a very well-known music, place of sound for sure. so why so much of this area?itself is actually kind of large. one of the other problems is that it is right along the mississippi river. so all the soil next to the river is made up of sediments. it is really soft. so it allows the energy from earthquake waves to travel 20 times farther than it would in california. >> that's pretty amazing. like you said, it is like a hockey puck, that could help a building withstand 9.0. that's remarkable. thanks, interesting stuff. >>> a refreshing story about lost and found for one california lady after a futile search for her long lost $240. a sale-minded sa martyor i tan comes to the rescue. 6:00 >>> she had that southern charm but she could strike like a rattlesnake as well. actress, dixie carter, died over the weekend. you may remember her as julia sugarbaker on "designing women." her publicist says she died of complications related to cancer. she was married to hal holbrook. she was 70 years old. >>> did he do it snornt we will learn today if pittsburgh steelers quarterba

. >> we have congressman cohen joining us right now from memphis. thank you for joining us.sights right up front. i'm i'm a student of the tea party crowd. who are these people? how much is racial? how much is ideological and how much rooted in organizations like the no nothings, kkk, et cete cetera? >> i think there's a lot of it. on the health care vote i walked on the mall among the protesters at least a half hour. i took my congressional badge off, had shades on and walked around. it was a very homogenous group. almost 99% white. i saw a minimal number of african-americans, asians, native americans, they were so alike. after the hatred i saw exposed calling congressman john lewis, one of my heroes and congressman emanuel cleaver, another friend, the "n" word, and spitting on emmanuel cleaver just disgusted me. the names they used for barney frank, it showed a disregard. not all tea party think that way. when the leadership didn't say anything about it and object, the group for the harmful words and actions, comparing president obama to hitler and nazis. the party does lo

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this is a wonderful memphis date.he began her life in memphis, tennessee and we are proud of that. the speaker made some allusion to the fact that senators have a hard time speaking for one minute. senator john warner said that when he came to the united states senate, he really did not know what to do. he was sitting at his desk by himself wondering what a senator does, and one of the older senators put his arm around his shoulder and said, son, there's really nothing to it. all you have to do to the united states senator is to stand up, start talking, and eventually you will think of something to say. [laughter] so i am going to do something uncharacteristic of the united states senator. on the behalf of the united states senator, i salute the professionalism of the capitol hill press corps and i thank you for inviting us to dinner. [applause] >> i think i have a new co-host. it was brief. i liked it. that was great. you ought to learn something, joe, from him perhaps. just listen to an ending so nicely. congressman

and because i represent the university of memphis. and i'm here on behalf of the entire university of memphis community on behalf of our dr. daphne mcferrin who's the director of the hooks institute. and i'm here because i'm a friend of maxine smith. and i am here because i am a friend of mrs. hooks. francis. i want you to know that the university of memphis is privileged to be the place where the hooks papers are stored. [applause] >> and we have beside our honored name the honored name of the benjamin hooks institute for social justice. [applause] >> and i promise to all here who have spoken and sung his praises and preached his praises that we will keep alive the legacy of this giant of a man and a civil rights leader. and we will provide for posterity a place where scholars can study his papers and his great works. and we will keep alive what he meant in his life to so many of you who were pioneers in the civil rights movement. but let us also remember that at the university of memphis, he was a distinguished faculty member in the

hooks institute for social change at the university of memphis.in talking with some of the faculty members at this institute a few years ago, one of them said that ben hooks understands that our country was a work in progress. he'd seen the hard parts of it. he'd seen the injustice of it. when he -- before he died, he was still sad and angry about some of the injustice that exists today. but he had also seen the promise of it as well. and through his lifetime, he lived through the king days, the sit-ins, the days of the first black criminal court justice, where it was commonplace for african-americans to graduate from law school, the election of the first african-american president, the rise of the national -- of the naacp, ben hooks saw the great promise of american life. after he was awarded the medal of freedom in 2007 by the president, i hosted a -- a lunch for him in the senate dining room downstairs. those who come to the senators dining room are accustomed to seeing distinguished visitors. in fact, that's why most people go to the senators

this video by ireporter kathy just south of memphis, tennessee. she says the hail that fell in her town of southhaven, mississippi, a bit bigger than a golf ball and noisy and didn't feel threatening. >>> rescuers have suspended their search for 11 oil rig workers missing in the gulf of mexico. the coast guard says it is unreasonable at this point to expect that any of them survived. the search covered 5,200 square miles over 3 days. even though the search is suspended, the case is not closed. >> we have not 100% certainty accounted for all the lifeboats and we don't know what was launched from the rig and might still be the rig and that's going to be something that will continue to do as part of the casualty investigation and as captain trosson mentioned, we can also resurrect the search efforts if we feel there's a possibility that they're out there somewhere in a lifeboat but everything, all of the information we have this week leads us to believe that these 11 members were on the rig. >> more than 100 crew members did manage to make it off tha

>> i live in memphis, tennessee. having teaching at the university and the faculty of the creative writing program. i grew up in portland, oregon and have lived in lots of places. i was to undergraduate school in fort collins, colorado democrats going to birkenau lived in new york are at a moved around a lot. >> why biology class what interested you about biology class >> is actually free to the vast countryside is one of those kids was completely obsessed with the most time i was five i was going to be a veterinarian. so i was attack about that is as good as he you do for you if you are is that he is a good or if you have is that it is as good as he is to live in a universe with her. a lot of that has to do is because henrietta has

from pine bluff to memphis it will be cool and cloudy for you. also in florida we're seeing showery weather activity from orlando southwards down into the keys. this is the forecast in the next 48 hours. you notice from the mountainous areas to the east it doesn't look too bad. most areas remain dry. you look at your month forecast. beautiful. minneapolis looks good. the great lakes look cool. d.c., philly, baltimore to new york looks good. the wet weather on and off from orlando to tampa down to miami. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. not a bad day at all in the mid-atlantic, from raleigh to charlotte we should be sunny and beautiful. temperature near 70 degrees. new orleans not bad. we'll take it in columbus, ohio. 61 and sunny. chance of showers there in orlando. we'll take a look at that tuesday forecast coming up, lynn. >>> all right. thank you. also coming up we're going to tell you the two biggest issues facing investors on wall street. your early morning business headlines are

we're going to give you some live pictures right now from memphis, tennessee, where you're looking at the funeral for civil rights leader benjamin hooks. the 85-year-old former lawyer, judge and ncaa director died last week at his home. we'll let you know if someone significant takes to the pulpit and speaks there. >>> meantime, we'll take you right now to a missing ohio woman who suddenly turned up on surveillance video with a mystery man. the fbi has now joined the search for 31-year-old tiffany tehan. according to her husband she left home saturday to go shopping, hasn't been seen since. police have released surveillance pictures from a local store showing tiffany and a man her family says they do not know. police say he's 42-year-old tray mu hutchison of dayton, now a person of interest in the case. >> i can't imagine that tiffany would ever do anything like that. it does seem completely unlike her. she never did anything to give any indication that she might even be considering something like that. i mean, we had plans for the whole weekend, and she was excited about them. >> pol

louis today. 80 in memphis and 82 in atlanta, georgia. there is that system what's left of it well out to sea right now with clouds continuing to career across areas of massachusetts down to connecticut, as well. high pressure moving in allowing folks to dry out. here is how we wrap up the month of march with a deficit, only 0.4 here and six inches in new york and a surplus in boston. a monthly rainfall for cranston, rhode island, again record rainfall for the month of march, over 13 inches there. here our monthly rainfall, spots like frederick, maryland, closer to six inches which wasn't too bad either. big warm-up over the nation's midsection. that warmth will expand off to the east. we've got for the next 48 hours, nothing but high pressure here to talk about. dry conditions for us. last here our first 80 degree day we didn't have that until we got well into the month of april. this time coming a month early. low pressure, there's the next storm system coming through iowa down through arkansas. could be producing severe weather there l

boss atlanta, 72, memphis, 74 degrees as graceland. plenty of sunshine for today.sure centered up over western new york for now keeping a mostly north to northwesterly wind. gradually that will area of high pressure migrates towards the new england coastline bringing in more of a northeast wind off the water and that will bring clouds. so sunshine but cool weather for today. cooler than yesterday. with the gradual increase if clouds, a cans fur showers co coming back into the forecast for tomorrow afternoon. here's the way it goes in our model that, big center of high pressure over western new york gradually slowly inching its way towards th/ jersey shore as it heads up towards the coast of new england, that wind will bring the marine layer in off the ocean. as a result, clouds on the increase. this is at 8:00 tomorrow morning. go through another 12 hours and a little ripple of low pressure in the jet stream plus the wind is going to spell a chance for light rain showers around here. on average between noon tomorrow and about early morning time frame on wednesdazr

it will pose rain in memphis towards new orleans.f florida where the showers continue today. that will be an issue because we have something called the space shuttle trying to make a landing at 8:48 later on today. a rare descending node approach, meaning it will come across north america and make its way down, which means if you live in seattle, at 5:13 local time, you'll be able to see this thing streaking across the sky through st. louis and arriving down across the kennedy space center. but there are showers around so we'll have to watch this closely. if all goes according to plan, they'll be landing here on "american morning" towards the end of the show. >> sounds cool. thanks so much. this morning's top stories minutes away, including the great wait. close to 7 million travelers affected by the volcanic cloud over europe. will there be any relief today? we're watching the skies a look at how the volcano is forcing travelers to go at it the old fashioned way, ferries, ocean liners. >>> accused of profiting from your pain. goldma

the visitation runs through 8:30 at a church in his hometown of memphis. he died last week at 85. he led the naacp to prominence in 1970s and 1980s. >>> funeral arrangements have been set for former baltimore archbishop william borders. he died yesterday of colon cancer. he was 96 years old. a public viewing take place thursday at 10:30 at the cathedral of mary our queen located at 5200 north charles street. on friday, reverend borders funeral will begin at 1:00 p.m. >>> toyota dealers already dealing with several recalls now have got another problem to fix. toyota is recalling nearly 10,000 lexus gs460s. this is the sixth recall since november. abc 2 news don harrison has more on the impact on dealers right here in maryland. >> reporter: just as toyota agreed to pay a record $16 million fine, toyota announced it will recall 94 00 lex -- 9400 lexus vehicles. they need to change a computer glitch. >> no question they've had a number of things happen all at once. >> reporter: peter kits miller is the president of the maryland automobile dealers association and understands the diffic

baltimore and memphis today filed new federal lawsuits accusing the bank of giving african american borrowers expensive home mortgages that led to an epidemic of foreclosures. those empty homes cost the cities tax revenue and forced both to spend more on public safety. wells fargo says it stands by its lending practices, and wants to help homeowners in need. the suits were filed as the naacp dropped its lawsuit against the bank. as part of an agreement, wells fargo will let the civil rights group review its lending practices. >> tom: the texas banker accused of a $7 billion ponzi scheme, allen stanford, has added a big name to his legal defense team. harvard law professor alan dershowitz is now working to free the jailed businessman. stanford is accused of 21 counts of conspiracy and fraud. dershowitz says keeping stanford in jail is unconstitutional, and he'll argue his case all the way to the u.s. supreme court. >> susie: the deadline for filing your federal taxes is just one week away. if you haven't started work on your return, there's no time like the present. and kevin mccormally is her

>> right now live in memphis, tennessee. i've been teaching at the university the last three years in the creative writing program. i grew up in portland, oregon, and i have lived in lots of places. i went to undergraduate school in fort collins florida and in grad school in pittsburgh and lived in new york. i've moved around a lot. >> y buy ecology? what interested you about biology? >> it was actually i was pre-vet. i was on of those kids obsess with animals and by the time was 5i was going to be a veterinarian so i was very one who threw coatrack so i was interested in science and medicine but it was very much this in the goal of being a vet. >> do you feel like henrietta lacks is a friend of yours? >> i definitely feel like she is a huge part of my life and yeah, there is this sense in which deborah, her daughter, believes that henrietta lacks is out there and free much alive in the universe with these cells and she's been biding my life, like i am a pub it -- puppet. a lot of what happens in my life is because henrietta

host: memphis, tennessee, vivian, democrat. caller: good morning. i live in memphis.when i was growing up we had national harvester, armor all those companies and later on they went overseas. that left behind a lot of buildings here with a lot of people with good manufacturing skills in memphis. they would hope they would bring toes manufacturing jobs back. the furniture, cars. we didn't have that problem. the industry needs to bring toes jobs back. everybody is not equipped to work in high tech places. host: mr. challenger. guest: we've moved from a manufacturing base to a service and information based economy and the jobs of the future may not be these factory jobs that existed in the last era. so, many of the next generation children are going into service jobs. that may mean, say, in healthcare, which i think offers one of the biggest potential areas for job creation and growth the next decade in this country as the baby boomer population ages and more demand for home healthcare nurses and physical therapists and the like are created. host: phoenix, tim on the lin

i invited him wants to do a link and a speech in memphis, big lincoln day. and he agreed, went down there. i went with him on the plane and we did the speech. and when it was over, his condition had been he would go if i would let him go to beale street. he's a great music fan. and, of course, i agree. i rounded up a dozen people to take him. i wasn't going to go. but he went. and i was afraid he was going to come back because when it was time to leave the hotel, laid the peabody and goes to the airport to catch the plane back to washington, he was nowhere in sight. i was prepared to call the police and declare him a missing person. but then as i start to get on the plane, i saw at the head of the column of about 20 people, musicians, play their instruments and marching toward the plane. [laughter] >> well, after i got over my shock, or house embarrassment and i got on the plane and he got on and we flew back to washington. but he was very much independent person, and i don't remember, frankly, what is he was. i was so intimidated at the time. i don't rememb

. >> reporter: in a new gallup poll, hagerstown is sand wined between winston-salem and memphis, tennessee. how did the folk at gallup get this information. they called people up and asked them how much they weigh and how tall they are. as you know, nobody ever lies about their weight. >> i'm pretty sure they wouldn't have no rason to lie about it. >> reporter: donna bitner manages health way natural needs. >> we had the ugliest male. >> reporter: she's right, back in october, a web site claimed hagerstown had the ugliest guys in the country. >> i don't believe that. >> that is not true. >> no, i don't look at them. but i know they got some good- looking women. >> reporter: folks say there is a lot that looks good in hagerstown. >> it is beautiful country, has a lot of hit, good climate. >> i would say the crime rate is a lot lower. they can do all the studies and statistics an put them together. for right now, this is it for me. >> reporter: mary ann says it has been a long time six she felt this good. >> they have a good attitude there in hagerstown. if you would like to see that entire

he -- i advised him once to do a lincoln day speech in memphis. and he agreed, and went down there and i went with him on the plane and we did the speech and when it was over, his condition had been, he would go if i would let him go to beale street. he's a great music fan. and of course i agreed to that. and, rounded up a couple of -- a dozen people to take him to beale street. i wasn't going to go. but, he went. and i was afraid he wasn't going to come back, because when it was time to leave the hotel, leave the peabody and go to the airport, to catch the plane back to washington, he was nowhere in sight. i was prepared to call the police. and decollar him a missing person. but then as i started to get onto the plane, i saw him at the head of a column of about 20 people, musician, playing their instruments as -- and marching toward the plane. and after i got over my shock, and perhaps, embarrassment, i got on the plane and he got on and we flew back to washington! but, he was very much an independent person. and i don't remember, frankly, what h

it's not enough that the university of memphis works to carry on his legacy through the foundation of social change, but up to those of us who whose behalf he served to live his life in these words of his that i'm going to quote right now. he said, if anyone thinks we're going to stop agitating, they bet they are think again. if anyone thinks we are going to stop legitimating, they better close up the courts. if anyone thinks we aren't going to demonstrate and protest, they better roll up the squaks. the congressional black caucus and our legislative efforts here in congress live those words every day and proud to join naacp in taking up the torch he has passed to us with pride. let me say a few words about dr. height. this country is indebted to her for so many rights and privileges that we enjoy today, from her work opening doors at ymca' to her empowering of communities in mississippi and elsewhere, to her leadership in the struggles for women's rights and civil rights, her uplifting of the african-american families and enrichment and advancement of the national council of negro wo

and to the west, cincinnati down towards memphis and the state of mississippi, high risk across the deep south today, and that risk to severe weather comes our way tomorrow. and high pressure giving way today, and complex area of low pressure moving into the midwest. it will cut off in the main area of the jet stream. thunderstorm chances come our way through the day tomorrow. and the unsettled weather lasts all the way into next week as well. and here is the microcast hd by 8:00 this evening, one or two rain drops moving back in the area. and then 2:00 tomorrow morning, heavy rain showers moving through in the overnight hours tonight, and on average half an inch of rain expected across the area. >>> for today, cloudy, cooler, and rain likely today. have your rain plan ready to go. and clouds and showers, and a risk of a shower or thunderstorm throughout the afternoon tomorrow. and here is the all important extended forecast. cloudy and rainy chances for us all through the course of the day today. thunderstorm chances come in for tomorrow, and might have a rumble of thunderstorm tomorrow

it rained out nascar yesterday and little rock approaching memphis and yeah, that's why i think wednesday we will see some showers. the seven-day forecast, mid-60s today. tomorrow upper 60s. we are looking at mid-60s for wednesday with showers. can't rule out a sprinkle on thursday but friday is the pick of the week. mostly sunny near 70 and saturday and sunday, low 70s with a chance of a couple of showers or thunderstorms. it is 5:16. let's get a traffic info. >> you posted that info about earth day on your blog. >> come and check it out all week. we will add to it all week. >> know some people that may want to go out there. we want to show you live conditions on inbound new york avenue. no problems to report from the times building to bladensburg road to the third street tunnel. the outer loop in maryland is clear 95 to 270. we are checking on the maps, route 4, route 5, 301, tracking nothing but normal traffic on the roads. hello, virginia. making your way up from the prince william parkway to the fairfax county parkway not going to find incidents or accidents in the way. a report of a

a pioneer at the first african-american judge here in memphis. he was a pioneer as the first federal communications commission in washington and he may have been a little bit more of a pioneer than either you or i knew at least in some of his dreams. in 2007 when the president gave him the medal of honor i hosted a reception for him and for that was so what was so special. >> [inaudible] >> well, i was actually standing with my family and my agent and stuff. so i was getting different calls from different people, friends, media whoever, and so i was checking it, checking it, checking my phone. i figured, if they were going to call, it would be from my cell phone. it was 303. think i should answer? 303. he's like, yes, yes, answer it, answer it, answer it! okay. so i picked up the phone. he's like, hey, timmy, this is coach mcdaniels. i was trying to act real and cool. he small talked for a second before he told me. then he's like, we traded up and we're going to take you with this pick and we're just happy to have you as a bronco and just promise

hooks died last thursday in his memphis, ten, home after a long illness. family, friends, political leaders from across the country attended the service. hooks was a former attorney, judge, and direct oo oor of the naacp. many people credit him with reviving the civil rights organization. by the time he left the group in 1992 the membership had grown by thousands. benjamin hooks was 85 years old. >>> "news4 at 4:00" is just getting started this afternoon. coming up, auto anxiety. >> next at 4:15, major automaker on the road to recovery as a new poll is out on americans' opinions of foreign and u.s. cars. >>> at 4:positive, the desperate search now under way for nearly a dozen oil rig workers in the gulf after it >>> the washington caps are hoping to win their third straight playoff game tonight. they take on the montreal canadiens in game four of the series. the caps won game three on monday. taking the series lead. if they win tonight, the caps can finish it out here in washington friday night. >>> general motors says it is on the road to recovery. the au

some of the warmth, some of the heat in memphis, tennessee. some of that heat and some higher dew point temperatures, more moisture. one big system coming through the west. we will be producing some severe weather across the plains states this coming weekend. right now we have a few showers laying out in parts of pennsylvania. right through northern west virginia. that's associated with the weather front. it is a weak front but again moving away from our area. we will clear out later tonight and we will clear out and more sunshine tomorrow. one more dry day before we go into this pattern of wet weather across the area. there you can see some showers up around hagerstown. we had a few around fredericksburg. those are now gone. they made their way east and out of here. the big system that i talked about, look at this. producing snow showers, now some thunderstorms where some of that moisture is finally running north out of the gulf of mexico with drier air to the north and it will be producing more severe weather across the plains. let me take y

shot while standing on a balcony in the lorraine motel in memphis, he was to show support for a strikeand the sniper's name james earl ray. ray may have ended king's life, but not his dream 42 years ago today. now you know the news as fox reports this sunday, april 4th. happy easter. god bless you and your family. i'm harris falkner in for julie banderas, thanks forwa

now cities like memphis, toledo and los angeles trying to pinch pennies leaning on the unions.unions priced themselves out of a job in ask mark mix, president of the national right to work committee and charles payne ceo of wall street strategies and my colleague, contributor on the fox business network. charles, to you first. what is the problem? what is happening? what have governments just recognized about unions and their benefits and their pensions? >> they made promises they can't keep and if they keep them, all heck is going to break loose, because seriously, what we're talking about, judge, 90% of the -- you have all the people working for the government. they have the pensions. they'll retire 57, 60. people are going to have to pay the pensions, have to work until they're 60, 70 years old and have no pension. imagine this, you get up every morning and go to work and you don't have a pension. they're taking money out of your paycheck to pay someone else sitting on a beach who retired six years earlier. >> are these iron-clad contracts that governments stuck with them ca

heat to memphis, tennessee. more heat building on the nation's midsection with moisture, too. all that will come together. we hope spark storms that are going to be hitting the plains states and making their way eastward to the ten valley. here you can see the showers that have been popping across pennsylvania. western maryland, too. we had one or two around the area from this weak weather system that's dropping south through the area. got big areas of high pressure moving in behind it and we are going to be in the clear for tonight. in the clear without rain at the very least through the day tomorrow. those isolated showers, a few of them that have been showing up. mainly north of the area. around fredericksburg. those are moving east away from us. big storm system. that's what's headed this way. because it is going to be such a slow moving system we are going to be trapped with clouds and rain for a while. storms, same one, brought snow to the intermountain west. big storms over northern areas of missouri. right now it is coming through the plains. there will be more storms

maybe along i-30 later in the day heading towards memphis.howers. farrell dry in portions of td southeast. the rain and combination of snowfall up in parts of new england will stick around through a good part of the midday and afternoon and evening, it should fizzle out. out west, farrell dry in most spots. maybe snowfall in high spots of the central rockies. southern california, a chance of rain showers. central california, relatively dry. in terms of temperature, 69 degrees. in kansas city, 75. atlanta, 77. 50s and 60s in boston and new york. 86, las vegas. 68, san francisco. we wrap it up in los angeles with 73 degrees for a high temperature. that's a look at today's forecast. i am reynolds wochl flf for hln >>> the pictures are pretty spectacular. the effects of this val colcani eruption are being felt around the world. [ woman ] nine iron, it's almost tee-time. time for new zyrtec® liquid gels. they work fast. so i can get relief from the pollen that used to make me sneeze. with new zyrtec® liquid gels, i get allergy relief at liquid spe

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three-story brick covered frame house whose interior is reminiscent of graceland, elvis presley scottie memphistsons style kitchen of the future to the silver wallpaper and golden faucets in the master bathroom, the armstrong house looks like what it is, the residents of a poor boy who cast down his pocket and pulled it up overflowing. unlike graceland though, the house is neither oppressive nor embarrassing and as you stand in the small study whose decorations include a portrait of the artist painted by tony bennett, it is impossible not to be touched by the aspiration visible wherever you look. this it is clear was the home of a working man, bursting with a pride that came not from what he had but what he did. i never want to be anything more than i am and what i don't have i don't need armstrong said in his old age. my home is good but you don't see me and no biggest big estates and yachts. that ain't going to play your horn for you. in common with other self-made man, armstrong sometimes forgot that his success was due not solely to working, but also to the talent with which he had been bor

she was care flighted to a hospital in memphis. she suffered severe injuries to her head.e understand she was in the intensive care unit at one point, but she has been improving. she's now in fair but stable condition. as for little nyla's mother, who was holding on for to her, she was taken to a hospital in jackson, mississippi, and she suffered -- her fiancee tells with us, six broken bones in her back, a cracked rib, and also a punctured lung. >> ed lavendera, be safe out there. and if you're looking behind ed, you can see some of the rubble behind him. let's give you some of the raw data on how tornadoes stack up on wind speed and power. the enhanced fujita scale, an ef-1, winds up to 110 miles an hour and they can overturn a mobile home. at 2 or up to 135 miles an hour, cars a lifted up off the ground. ef-3s can topple a locomotivloc. ef-5 tornados have winds topping 200 miles per hour. that can topple anything like a car and hurl it the length of a football field. >>> up next, outrage plain and simple. how nearly two dozen people walked past a dying man and just kept

the middle of it and then it's eight years later and u you know, is he in baltimore and we are in memphisi don't know that there was this big sit-down thing. but, you know, there obviously had to be a conscious decision that you know, is this good or bad. but there never was one openly. and she is not really -- we vote, you know, sean jr. and i and collin has 49 and a.5%. we voted all the time. we never seem to win. >> mike: i know how that works. i'm married to a southern woman myself. >> exactly. >> mike: collins, i wanted to ask you, you and micah call were the same age. >> yes, sir. >> mike: you went to school with him. your when your mom said we are going to invite him home. how what was your reaction to this experience. >> it didn't go exactly like this. it wasn't a big sitdown moment that they made it out to be it was really gradual. michael and i had spent a lot of time with each other before him being a part of the family was an option. i cheered he played football. i did track and he did as well. we were already ache claim mated to knowing each other before the big push to move

hook's funeral was held today in his hometown of memphis, tennessee.e died last week at the age of 85. the former lawyer and judge led the naacp for 15 years and by the time he left that post, its membership had grown by several hundred thousand. to learn more about benjamin hooks and other civil rights leaders, go to wusa9.com. >>> a new era in journalism was launched today. the university of maryland dedicated the journalism building. it is over 53,000 square feet with lots of open space. symbolizing the transparency of good journalism. in addition to high-tech classrooms and labs, the school also honors one of channel 9's very own, the late chris houston. there is a room in the new building named in his honor. a graduate of the university of maryland, chris died of pancreatic cancer back in january of 2006. he was just 42 and we still miss him. >> coming up, a new york hospital celebrates more than 3,000 gifts of life. also ahead, president obama holds a high level meeting as he decides to nominate, or decides who to nominate as the next justice to