the floods have forced several hundred people to evacuate their homes near memphis and memphis, policeay, many streets are impassable because of the high waters. at least five people have died in central tennessee, in/around the nashville area. >>> memphis, looked bad, but video coming in from near nashville is really just incredible. let's check in now with cnn's jacqui jeras for an update. >> don, it's actually really bad all across tennessee. since this morning, some locations have had more than a fast rainfall. there you can see video. this is from i-24 in nashville, and 70 vehicles were submerged in this area and there you can see, an annex building which was washed away in the river, and then just crumbled apart as it hit up against this bridge and into these vehicles. we do know at a minimum three people have lost their lives in the flooding today across the state of tennessee, and unfortunately, it is situation continues to compound and will get worse, we think, throughout the weekend as more rain is in the forecast. now this is very widespread. it's just not memphis and not ju

as they spend the day relaxes on the beach at the world of waterfowl exhibit at the memphis zoo. that's your "early today" event of the day, thomas. i wonder how they stand on one foot. >>> well, now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. "shrek forever after" won at the box office. the fourth and presumably final film in the series had the weakest debut of them all. just over $73 million. that's nothing to sneeze at but the major betting in hollywood was whether it would be over or under 100 million bucks. experts see shrek hanging around for the summer and earning easily over $200 million. >>> the other, "tanked" with mcgruber opened in sixth place with under 4 million bucks. >> elsewhere the chicago sun times and others have reported that things have gone sour in the tiger woods divorce talks. wife elin now wants 750 million the dollar, no confidentality agreement and no child custody. and finally lindsay lohan's big day in an l.a. courtroom finally arrives. if she makes it, it is supposed to be there. there is connell fir nation she's back from can

and the confluence of forces that brought king to memphis. my father was a lawyer. and he worked for the law firm that represented king when he came on behalf of the garbage workers who went on strike in the fall of -- excuse me, the spring of 1968. but i got kind of captivated by james earl ray. and this story really became not so much as the story of the assassination but how the fbi tracked down james earl ray, the largest manhunt in american history at that time, $2 million, 6,000 agents, four different countries. he was finally caught by scotland yard in london two months after the assassination as he was in route to become a mercenary soldier in rhodesia. somewhat like bonnie and clyde, ray has his own mythology and ray has his own self-conscious qualities, you know, trying to be kind of a folk hero, i guess. a very -- a very dark character. someone who i guess in a way is a consummate villain in this story. the villain becomes the protagonist because it's how he gets out of these different situations. how he assumes different identitie

. >> reporter: it looks like the scene from a movie, the police officers running to the west memphis wal-mart with pistols and guns drawn. you can hear the gunshots. the officers surround the van of the two men who shot and killed two west memphis police officers earlier in the day. once the smoke clears, two more officers are shot. the county sheriff was shot in the shoulder and they were air lifted to the hospital. the suspects were killed. it happened after two officers were shot during a routine traffic stop. she was walking and heard the shots. >> we heard all of the shots. we took a few minutes to determine if it was shots or fire crackers and we saw the cop car and then there was a white looking car in front and then that car took off. >> the police wouldn't reveal details about the suspects but they don't believe anyone else was involved. >>> it's been a horrible week on wall street and would the trend continue on friday? >>> well, the dow was down at the start and up at the end. jumping 100 points in the final hour. the dow finishs up 126 points and s&p up 16 and nasdaq up 2

memphis, 82, oklahoma city, 79. all of tennessee will be dry today after the big floods this weekend. lynn, it will cool off even in the east, but it's going to take a couple of days. i'll let you know when we come back. >>> euro wors pound the mar connects, oil slides and who's football's oi official beer. your early morning headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus the case of a fi philandering husband goes forward. >>> the sharks need overtime and if dad says don't do it, don't do it. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry, and here are some of your top headlines this morning. the floodwaters in nashville, tennessee, have begun to recede following deadly weekend storms that killed 30 people in the south. the damage assessment there is just beginning. up to six feet of water flooded the famed muse stage, the grand ole onry, forcing shows to with moved to other opera halls. >>> more fiery remarks from iran's president. threatened that a new round of u.n. sanction

memphis alone is expecting over a foot in rainfall today. increasing the floodwaters have led to more shelters opening up statewide. this is as the heavy rain comes after a sting of devastated tornadoes that hit the mississippi river valley earlier in week. watches, warnings, threats of severe flooding. here to break it all down is chief meteorologist rick reichmuth. hello, rick. >> hey, brian. yeah, such a rough time. memphis saw the foot of rain yesterday and they won't see as heavy rain today. it will move up toward the east. anywhere you see the burgundy counties, that is flash flooding going on right now. flash flood warnings. flood warning in the green and then the lighter green, flood watches in effect, as the storm will pull east, albeit slowly. that's why we're seeing such flooding concerns. the pictures coming out of areas of tennessee and kentucky are absolutely devastating. and we're going to see more of that. we have threat for severe weather, tornado watch box in tennessee and mississippi. we have that threat. i have to tell yo

then we have 70s everywhere else. 81 in memphis that is all moving in our direction. cold front is going to come through, maybe some early thundershowers for tomorrow. for the most part we are dry in front of it. we're going to stay in the 80s. temperatures aren't going to take much of a hit as a result. the only real dealings we're going to have with that. that will be tomorrow. it moves on out of here. high pressure comes in for friday. another chance for rain or saturday. that will knock our temperatures back just in time for mother's day on sunday. there are no adviseys on the bay. nice and warm with plenty of sunshine today. 80 for our daytime high. rain chance is bleeding into tomorrow. 83, just another nice day heading into friday. >>> still to come, medication recall, the latest on the investigation where we call children's medicine was manufactured. >>> for constant updates of all >>> for constant updates of all this dayy news you want to get a great looking lawn like this, but trying to grow grass from seed in tough areas like deep shade, along the driveway,

chicago, 84, memphis, 87. right now with the heat pump over the nation, the midsection, right of the mississippi river. the hot air will mark up and over into eastern canada and then by wednesday, into thursday, that warm air will push southward on to our region so it is actually going to be a role reversal, sort of a backward weather pattern will get into wednesday and thursday. our hot air will actually come from the north, rather than the south. partial sunshine by tomorrow afternoon, near 80 degrees. then well into the '80s, the upper 80's by wednesday and thursday with the northerly wind -- kind of odd to say -- increasing heat and humidity. but a unique situation. >> ok, sounds good. you liked "lost cause " but you did not see the finale. are you going to? we will talk about. six years in the making. millions finally learned the fate of the castaways. did the end of all looked up to the hype? we will see how fans are reacting today. >> as long as you are watching, why don't you join us? >> after six year

parts of interstate 40, a big connector between nashville and memphis, closed. keep in mind this is a very dangerous situation. it only takes about 6 inches of water for a person to drown. the nashville mayor at a press conference saying this is the worst rain event nashville has seen. it came down hard, it came down quickly and the majority of the rain continues to fall. national guard has been dispatched for rescue efforts. any other fatalities, we will keep you updated. julie? >> it's jamie. thank you, elizabeth. have a great day. thank you so much. >> can you believe it? it is election time again. in just two days, primaries in indiana, ohio and north carolina kick off an intense eight weeks of contested election there's. both parties keeping a close eye especially on indiana. that is where you may recall senator evan bayh unexpectedly stepped down. joining us is the political editor for the washington examiner. chris, what should we look forward to, two days from now? >> the battle of party establishments versus outsiders, people pushing in. indigo is one o

. >> and if you're flying today, expect airport delays in seattle, chicago, memphis and atlanta. >>> some medical news this morning. scientists in maryland have achieved a major breakthrough, creating the first living cell from nonliving parts. they call it a synthetic cell. first, they took a bacteria cell and removed its dna. then, they created a different set of dna from scratch. and the cell booted up and started growing. although it's not a new lifeform, it raises some thorny issues. >> like any great scientific innovation, this has enormous promise and enormous peril. this may allow us to make more virulent viruses. this could unleash bacterium on the world that has properties we didn't expect that could cause great disease or ecological damage. >> it could be used to produce vaccines within a year and eventually produce energy or clean up oil spills. president obama's commission on bioethical issues is looking into it. >>> optimistic news in the fight against one of the deadliest forms of cancer in women. researchers are saying simple blood tests, followed up with ultrasound e

. >>> if you're flying today you can expect airport delays in seattle, minneapolis, chicago, memphis,ami. >>> well, the duchess of york, sarah ferguson is no stranger to tabloid headlines often as the target of unkind attacks. >> this time ferguson may have only herself to blame after she was caught on camera offering up access to her ex-husband for a price. sonia gallego joins us with more. good morning, sonia. >> reporter: good morning. an excruciating weekend for sarah ferguson as the tabloid papers continue to pore over the details of that story. she's being labeled as an outcast following the publication of those tapes showing her cutting a deal for access to her ex-spouse prince andrew. the duchess pictured in front of $40,000 given to her by a reporter posing as a businessman ostensibly cutting her deal with her for an introduction to her former husband prince andrew. >> yeah, okay, but then if we want to do a big deal with andrew, i do, of course, okay. no, of course. so you need 500,000. >> but that's in wire transfer. >> reporter: words she would come to regret. the fallout

and secretary locke of commerce have been to memphis and nashville and other. others have been there. i had fema officials at my town hall meeting on saturday. they have let people know that the federal government is there to help. the people have been very responsive and our local governments were responsive. when i went to millington on monday and toured some of the damage there, the people in the neighborhood said the shelby county officials had been outstanding in their response. they now feel the federal government officials have been outstanding. secretaries locke and donovan visited the community center that's now a shelter. they visited with millington, also. the people in the midtown, the heart of my district, who had great flooding damage. people know now to call 1-800-621-fema to lodge their notice of their damages and to get on a list to start to have inspectors come out, which they are doing, to assess the damages and as certain which individuals are qualified for the $29,900 in recovery funds that can be had for the damages to their residential or

waste tocqueville got a terrible fever they had to spend one week in a log cabin and finally got to memphis, tennessee was still frozen and to spend one week shootings parakeets now that is probably the extinction of the parakeet that no longer exist. and here is a person from serendipity. just as the capt. tries to make up his mind what to do with the beating of drums the bedraggled men come emerging from the forest one of the very first installments of the infamous trail of tears been deported to oklahoma so the captain except the wages to take these people aboard they're almost dying of cold and tokyo is appalled and fascinated by the spectacle. are read wonder two sentences of his description estimate the era of destruction something that felt like a final furrow of no return in one could not look without a polling of the heart. the indians were somber and silent one of the new english rice and wire them the being their country? he said to be free but i could not get him to say anything more. it was a coincidence that prada is here to witness the expulsion follow last remnants of one of

to some 20 inches of rain causing devastating flooding from an area around nashville back towards memphis. we'll see a little bit of severe weather from this, but in general, it will be a flooding story as we move through the next 24 hours. in is a radar estimate picture i just pulled out. where you see the white areas, that right there is nashville. that is jackson, tennessee. that is about 160-mile stretch. when you see the white, that is 15-20 inches of rain that has fallen. this is ten inches, that is a large area seeing ten inches of rain. take a look at some of the pictures that is coming out mostly out of nashville area. i was looking at one report from a river gauge station, the water rose by up to 40 feet in around 6-hour period. that water causes pictures like this. people completely caught unaware on freeways, i believe that interstate 24. you have a house that was floating along the interstate, ran into a big rig and then begins to break apart. you have people still trying to get into the water to the other side. civil emergency officials are saying do not get into any water a

you see a thunderstorm popping up in western portions of kentucky and right around memphis. get one storm here and one storm there. just creates other storms as they start to spread out. hot and humid down there. we're talking about 90s. in is our guy, the easterly flow. bringing that here to washington. still, most of the showers and the storms south associated with the upper level disturbance. but we're still looking at just a few light showers coming our way. they are dying out as they hit that northern part of the bay. but that's when they have a small chance of rain of the forecast here in washington. especially for heating those temperatures up to 80 into the lower 80s as we go near tuesday's forecast. here it is. take a look at our zone outlook. you might see a shower in the blue ridge and beyond. cumberland, cloudy skies. and they could hit an 82 down towards culpepper. washington and southern maryland, back out to the eastern shore. that's the upper 70s to the mid- 70s and maybe even lower 70s right on the eastern shore of the east breeze coming in. seven-day foreca

significant issues in west tennessee and around outside of memphis and so on as well. we have shelters across the state. a few hundred people in shelters starting to return to their homes as it goes down. you have all these unexpected costs. you may have to stay in a shelter, get out there and put gas in your car. feeling a little bit helpless. >> absolutely. >> i have to say, though, this is -- the way in which neighbors have responded, it makes you feel good about america. i mean, it's just so many neighbors have done things like you just described, rescued people. i know -- a person i know in a county near here actually died in the process of trying to get to another person here. but the help has been great. >> governor, let me ask you quickly, we're almost out of time. have you seen flooding like this before? you see video of nashville, opry land, people evacuated. have you seen anything like this in recent memory? >> i certainly have not. this is an extraordinary event. this is probably in terms of flooding more than a 100-year event here. we're surviving. we'll g

if you'll come down to the university of memphis and bring your showdown to the fogleman business schoolt to dinner at b.b. king's place down on beale street. >> are you listening, ms. executive producer? because where do i want to go? you know i want to go there. and what season do i want to go there in? hit me! >> caller: anytime will be fine. anytime will be fine. >> thank you very much for the invite. i'm going to pressure my executive producer, who doesn't seem to want to go anywhere other than englewood cliffs. what have you got? >> caller: r.i.g. transocean. >> rig. that's a tough one. rig is a darn good company. i know no one wants to say that other than me. and why do i say that? because i think first of all this tragedy occurred -- i'm not going to make any judgments about what happened except a lot of people died and that's terrible. i think transocean's a very good company. i think global santa fe's a very good company. and they bought them. i do prefer schlumberger and most importantly i prefer weatherford. more levered to iraq and international. but transocean, we'll hear w

>> right now i live in memphis, tennessee. i've been teaching at the university and faculty for 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, colorado. i moved around a lot. >> why biology? what interested you about biology? >> i was pre-vet, so i was one of those kids who was completely obsessed with animals and from the time that i was five i was going to be a veterinarian. so i was very one track about it. for me, i was always interested in science and medicine but it was very much part of the end goal of being a vet. >> do you feel like henrietta lacks is a friend of yours? >> i feel like she is definitely a huge part of my life, and gal, there is is the sense in which particularly henrietta's daughter believes she is very much out there and she has been guiding my life. she would study science and study writing, and a lot of what happens in my life is-- and so henrietta is this constant presence in my

if you don't know where it is, we're about 30 miles north of memphis. behind me is the charles w. baker airport. i want to step out of the way and let you have a look at this. we're actually about 300 yards from the river. that river has overflowed its banks and flooded out the airport. we're on a road known as raleigh millington road and you have two neighborhoods on this road. one about 1/2 mile north of usment us. south of us we have the rest of the roadway flooded out and a neighborhood there having problems. we want to let you know that some 300 people have been evacuated and are currently in shelters including the first united methodist church in millington and the baker community center. we also understand that another 300 will be evacuated around the waverly farms community in this area. the river we're told has been raising at the rate of about a foot an hour. and as for flooding, we understand the big creek area and the millington area, that flooding has been controlled somewhat. we want to let you know, also, if you're looking for a place to s stay in the millington are

and secondly, it's my understanding that the cities of memphis and st. louis, because this occurred so long ago, are not really that readily earth quake prepared in their building codes. guest: very good question. and i'm glad that you brought it up. we're coming up on the 200th anniversary of the new mad rid sequence. these occurred in december, january, and february of 18 2011, 1812. they were very large, located in that tennessee, kentucky, missouri area along the bit of destruction in the area. there are quite a number of written accounts of it. and putting that, the written accounts together with jeelogic evidence which comes from sand blows, these sand volcanos caused by the severe shaking of the ground that are still visible to this day around the region, gee ologists have put together a pretty good study for those earthquakes. we don't know how big they were. they were probably at least magnitude 7 each of them. some estimates they were quite a bit higher than that. we also can look back in the geologic record and see those sand volcanos from pri

could have a competitive advantage for the next centuriment host: on our republican line estelle from memphis, tennessee. you are on the air. caller: good morning. with all due respect, mr. guttierrez, i must disagree with you. i think it is people like you that don't understand the system. i work directly with the illegal problem. [inaudible] i'm a banker and i have people to come in. what they were doing is getting social security numbers from people who were deceased. [inaudible] they sat in there, couldn't speak english. they always had somebody to bring them in. i also -- -- [inaudible]. now [inaudible] works for the social security office. she is upset and other people. this is the system. you give illegals a social security number. they apply for a green card. when the green card gets approved, do you know that these people, who are illegal, breaking the law, go into the social security administration, then they tell them i was working under this number, now i have my green card. i want all of my credits transferred over to my legal number. believe it or not, they change it. and they a

memphis, tennessee has one of the highest premature an infant mortality rates in the entire nation.impacts our neighborhoods and our state. we know the impact it has here in our country. to many mothers do not have the information that they need and the educational resources to keep their babies healthy. dhs has stated that children of mothers that receive no prenatal care are more likely to be born and a love for freight and more likely to die than those that are born to mothers that get that necessary prenatal care. the earlier this year, a memphis newspaper reported that a premature birth and love birthrates heart sharing coincidences' in those low birth rates. this is an area where we have watched this very closely. we were focused on this concern with this infant mortality rate. we have some great work that is being done to address this. we have programs. we have a partnership that we are doing in the public not-for- profit sector. we have a grant of $1.7 million they are working see you expand. we hope to reduce those rates. we look forward to your testimony. we look forward t

racial profi profiling, when you go to mexico -- i'm sorry, when you go to arizona and places like memphispeople looking for work. how come they don't apply for work or use a social security number. those people are illegal immigrants for the most part. so those people are taking out of my pocket, out of american people's pockets. >> gavino, what do you say to people who will say to you, look, we need immigration reform and the arizona law may not be absolutely perfect but for a lot of people, particularly people in arizona, 70% by some polls, it is a step in the right direction. >> okay. well, what i would say to them is, yes, i agree. we do need immigration reform, but the way arizona is going about it is all wrong. and you cannot make, you know, allow state by state to make their own immigration laws up and try to pass them. i mean, that has to be sent to the federal government. you know, a higher supreme court. and back to what the other i-reporter was saying, you know, many immigrants in this world, in the country need work. they come here for a better life, the land of opportunity, y

host: memphis, tennessee, go ahead, delores on the democratic line. caller: good morning, i was calling in to ask him about our national security. how in the world can we stop someone who is willing to blowup themselves and willing to hurt others. you don't know when it's going to happen. it's people out there ready to destroy us. and there a reason, i want to know why everyone hurts americans. you know why? america is stepping in everyone's business trying to control other countries. people in their country like like it and when they explain insurgents. they are the angry people over there like the black people are angry how they were treated in the 60's. and we need to stop these iraqi, pakistan people, innocent people are getting killed by our so-called drones. that's the reason the people are angry. guest: there is obviously a lot of anger in the countries. i think we have to recognize the reason we are in afghanistan, because afghanistan under the taliban was a safe haven for al-qaeda. and they mounted the attack on 9/11 that killed 3000 people i

memphis on hear from the democrat line. caller: i think bush let his friends on wall street still money. there are all kinds of exuberant prices for gas. obama is trying to get us out of this hole than the bush put us in. obama is trying to help the people. and all of these people against obama are racist. obama is trying to help all of the people. the things he is trying to pass, people need these things themselves. these people are nothing but the coup clucks clans. -- kkk. host: here is a twitter message on all of this. back to "usa today." lots of political stories in the papers today. the veteran democrat story. manhattan, n.y., independent line. caller: thanks for c-span. winston churchill had a saying. everybody that calls on the republican line -- given the titanic, and it is sinking, and they handed over to obama and say, do your best. he is doing his best. the republicans are going to stop him every step of the way in fight him. i do not think he is doing too much, he is just trying to get things accomplished. an

. >> memphis, tennessee, good morning to you. >> thank you c-span.uong resman, i heard about a year ago at least. mit announced that they had a product that would soak up oil but would not absorb water. the inventor said that he had taken his inspiration from the lilly pad and i believe the most important action that could happen right now is to make sure that the liability would not be limited. there are rumors that the liability will be capped at 75 million. the numbers they are throwing out there is $10 billion. >> you know, with congress, we can do almost anything if we have the will to do it. i'm sure with the impact of this oil spill, there will be the political will to pass a law. the second issue we have to push for is the excell operation of the revenue sharing for louisiana we will need all of the money that will be available from tax revenues and revenue sharing in order to restore our eek owe system and economy. >> so the u.s. congress would need to approve a revenue sharing plan? guest: they have already. right now it is at 37.5%. you ar

originally signed with arizona by mike ribzle for $1,000 out of the university of memphis, dan ugglatimes now. couldn't stop his swing there. and the marlins. >> rob: their visit awful tonight. the way we like it. olsen has to make a pitch, he makes a pitch. >> rob: he's been a very nice surprise. if he can continue on and give us another inning or two, three out of four outings he's been very solid coming off of shoulder surgery. >> bob: low 80s on his pitch count. >> bob: scott's career record 34-42. this is his 116th career start. fourth against the marlins, who he's never beaten. i'mexing it. that's changing tonight. >> rob: that's okay. he's got to hook the fish. that was number one on the list. hook him. he had never beaten the dodgers. he's got that on his resume now. he got a win there. boy, what a change from chicago to here though as far as temperature and humidity. nice to play baseball in this kind of weather. >> bob: and swing. >> rob: and he got it. >> bob: pudge had to come right back up and had to sell it to back to gorman. >> catchers will tell you it either stays in

all kind of destruction and damage that pains me to see to my -- the gulf coast which is close to memphis. it's part of our world but the lives that were lost and i just express my condolences to you. >> sheila jackson lee. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i may be the only one on the panel that comes from oil country. at least as i can recognize who has lived in a community that has based its economic independence and contributions to this nation on the energy industry. maybe the only former oil and gas lawyer who worked for entities that range from oil to farrell gas to pipeline and to larger multinational oil companies. but i have a heart. and, frankly, i first want to thank the chairman for his qu k quickness in moving forward on this hearing, second, i want to say that $75 million is a joke. it is a sad state of affairs as we begin to listen to the testimony of which we will remain open-minded that we're in this dilemma. to all of the families that have lost their loved ones and those that remain injured our deepest sympathy and our apology for we are all in this together. and t

host: memphis, tenn., jasper on the line for democrats. caller: they supreme court -- the supreme court -- for all the right wing's to politicize this about the supreme court, they are the reason the supreme court is closing the doors. there's no way that -- host: what do you do for a living? do you belong to a union? caller: no, i am independent. i run a small truckline. believe me, is tough out here. most of the laws are coming directly from the supreme court -- host: what decisions specifically? about caller: eight years ago, they made a decision to wear all the money we get for fuel, that will come directly to the truck driver. the court decided that we will just get a piece of it. those are things and really hurt the independent operators out here. host: how closely do you watch the court's? caller: i watch it real close. ever since i was 17. host: have you ever visited? caller: i never had interest in seeing the court's. the court has never been for the working class and the taxpayers of this country. they have always been for the sp

quite frankly undert two administrations so far get efforts haven't been up to theco task.nt >> host: memphis tennessee.adni go ahead. on the democrats' line. b >> caller: good morning? >> host: you are on, go ahead.t, >> caller: okay. i was callingd, to ask about th: national security. how in the world can we stoput someone who is willing to blow up themselves and eckert others? you don't know when it is going to happen. who w people arnge out there ready to destroy us and there is the reason. itwould like to know why would anybody heard americans? america is stepping inus everybody's business trying to control other countries.why? people in the country called leggitt and when they call the service explaining to some step americans what they are the tir angry people of donner like white count people are angry abn with a retreat in the 60's and back in the 1920's. we need to stop this insurgent, those are all iraqis, pakistanis, afghanistan people. people over there, innocent people are getting killed by ou so-called rule. that is the reason the peopleir, are angry. >> guest: there is obvious

memphis, tennessee, is next. chris on our democrats' line. caller: hi. i just wanted to ask a question. how many civilian jobs put their life on the line 24/7, have to be on call 24/7? my son is now in his third tour in iraq. he's national guard. he had to stopped his education three times. he's had to quit his job three times. his wife has to rely on his pay. i'm a veteran myself. pay isn't across the board it depends on what rank you have. if you're an e-1 or e-2 you make different pay than an e-5 or e-7 and certainly less pay than any officer. so when you speak about what the government puts us through and asks us to do on a 24/7 basis, and put our life on the line, i don't think we're getting paid enough. i don't think my son's getting paid enough, especially with the sacrifices he's had to make in his education and in his civilian jobs. and he's just national guard. he's now over in iraq and he went be back until the end of the year. he doesn't even know if his old job will rehire him again for the third time. and he has to restart his education. he

host: memphis, tenn., jasper on the line for democrats. caller: they supreme court -- the supreme court -- for all the right wing's to politicize this about the supreme court, they are the reason the supreme court is closing the doors. there's no way that -- host: what do you do for a living? do you belong to a union? caller: no, i am independent. i run a small truckline. believe me, is tough out here. most of the laws are coming directly from the supreme court -- host: what decisions specifically? about caller: eight years ago, they made a decision to wear all the money we get for fuel, that will come directly to the truck driver. the court decided that we will just get a piece of it. those are things and really hurt the independent operators out here. host: how closely do you watch the court's? caller: i watch it real close. ever since i was 17. host: have you ever visited? caller: i never had interest in seeing the court's. the court has never been for the working class and the taxpayers of this country. they have always been for the sp

and my wonderful district that goes from memphis to nashville and all the way to the kentucky border, of course, right now we're fighting floods and so many of our residents have been -- are suffering the adverse effects of all of those floods. and they -- we remember them every day and want to pay -- let them know that we're thinking about them. i'm glad that we're talking about the budget issue because budgets are supposed to lay out the priorities of the federal government, and they are defined for our taxpayers and our constituents where this money is going to be spent. and as the gentleman just said, it is our responsibility. this is supposed to be done. congress is charged with having control of the purse of the federal government. and we are to do this as the gentleman said by april 15 every year. now what some of my constituents are asking me as we talk about fiscal responsibility is, why aren't they doing a budget this year? what are they afraid of? and why -- what is the reason that they would choose not to do a budget? because budgets are to outline those priorities and the

total savings for patience and this is an llosa this is per your not per month some of the papers in memphis journal feature per month savings and take into account. some of the savings vary across the settings that show and that you do save money. all of that goes back to the dividing point that we had in the white house and the administration. and if you don't take the criteria and the guidance for the providers and systems with consideration to the financial piece of this then you are really going to be unable to generalize this and that was something that we thought as authors with an important point to make. i will skip over this to briefly tell you what we thought were some of the challenges for the future and certainly it's easy. there's so much to celebrate and to be proud of and what we've accomplished but as somebody who's very kind of concerned about the implementation and what this means all i will say that it's terrifying to think how much work there is to do for the future and we do think that looking heavily as we did at the features across the board it really is important to

host: memphis, tennessee, go ahead, delores on the democratic line. caller: good morning, i was calling in to ask him about our national security. how in the world can we stop someone who is willing to blowup themselves and willing to hurt others. you don't know when it's going to happen. it's people out there ready to destroy us. and there a reason, i want to know why everyone hurts americans. you know why? america is stepping in everyone's business trying to control other countries. people in their country like like it and when they explain insurgents. they are the angry people over there like the black people are angry how they were treated in the 60's. and need to stop these iraqi, pakistan people, innocent people are getting killed by our so-called drones. that's the reason the people are angry. guest: there is obviously a lot of anger in the countries. i think we have to recognize the reason we are in afghanistan, because afghanistan under the taliban was a safe haven for al-qaeda. and they mounted the attack on 9/11 that killed 3000 people in t

the entire united states of america will be affected by this but particularly memphis, new orleans, like a sister city, we consider the gulf coast as part of our world. part of all of our worlds. we need to be concerned. if i ask questions that have been asked before, i apologize. first, mr. mckay and mr. newman, this dome that you all came up with that you brought down after about three or four weeks and failed, when did you all come up with that concept? >> that particular coffer dam was used in prior spills in shallow water. >> so it was not a unique process, it was just that the depth -- >> the depth is different, and the issue with it in terms of why it didn't work on first try was that hydrates formed. >> it froze. water got in there. why didn't have you some study done or done some research to see if it would have worked or prag since you have wells at that depth and many more deeper. what was done to make sure that would work? >> of course we don't know the specific fluid until the well is drilled and we're still learning about the fluids. so that particular fluid is a very uniqu

. >> host: memphis, tennessee. go ahead. deloris on our democrats line. >> caller: good morning? >> host: you're on, go ahead. >> caller: okay. i was calling him to ask him about our national security. how in the world can we stop someone who is willing to blow up their self and hurt others? you don't know when it is going to happen. people are out there ready to destroy us. and there's a reason. i would like to know why do everybody hate americans? you know why? america is stepping in everybody's business, trying to control other countries. people in their country don't like it. they call people insurgents. explain to some americans what insurgents r they are angry people like there like black people angry the way they was treated back in the '60s and back in the 1920s. we need to stop saying insurgents. those are iraqis, pakistans and afghan people. innocent people getting killed by our so-called drones. that is the reason these people are angry. >> host: leave it there. >> guest: well, it's, there is obviously a lot of anger in these countries. i think though we have to recogn

of our ireporters in tennessee said leaving her house and getting to her daughter's graduation in memphiseasy task. kimberly smith joins us on the phone. i am glad you are safe and able to talk to us. how are you? >> i'm fine now. >> good. good. i'm glad to hear it. we're looking at some of the pictures here that you were basically the image that you were seeing out your front windshield as i see it. describe what it was like trying to get through that. >> it was kind of terrifying to say the least. my daughter was trying to get to graduation and was nervous. she couldn't grab her cell so she asked me to attempt to drive. and we did. and i was just, you know, focused on getting her there. it was an important day for her. and so we just began getting on road after road trying to find the easiest way to get -- >> easiest route? >> yeah. i wanted to ask, some of the pictures we're seeing. did you travel through on those roads or did you turn around and go back and find another way? >> some of the roads we have to turn around. there was just no way the water was moving so fast. highway 51 whe