confederates now reeling from losses at forth henry and donelson, having abandoned kentucky and middle tennessee and the forces pushed back into north mississippi and west tennessee concentrated to defend the railroads. and the point of concentration selected was corinth, mississippi, where the railroads junctioned. thus you can see the interplay of railroads and the river, which in 1862 was a viable interstate highway. armies of the united states under the command of ulysses grant and don carlos buhl both forming a junction on the river and the confederate force under albert sydney johnston concentrating now in and around corinth to hold the railroads for the purpose of holding the valley, defending the valley. and that's what brings in all of this activity here at this location in the early spring of 1862. what you would have seen here is ships, steamboats coming in, off-loading personnel, as well as all of the elements of what it takes to wage war, all of their equipment, all of their food, tents, you name it. so it would have been very noisy as this massive off-loading of personnel, animals

middle tennessee, lost. western tennessee, pretty much gone after that very quickly because the confederates couldn't hold it. they just withdrew without firing a shot. eastern tennessee wasn't nice to the confederate army either, so in one swoop all of tennessee is gone in essentially a two-week campaign. again, is there any other civil war battle that is so decisive, with such short loss and so dramatic if effect? i'll pose this as no. so, it does make me sad in a way that ft. donelson does not get the recognition that it does. this is a critical event here. 150 years ago, happening right here at ft. donelson, ft. henry, and ft. hyman over that way. so, something else ft. donelson will do for the union side, you've heard earlier they read george grant's orders. general grant in 1864 was a brigadier general and charged with illinois. it's back water then, it's back water now too. but he's just a lonely guy, unknown. yeah, he was a captain in the mexican war. he faded from the army very quickly after that. th

the south and west georgia tech mississippi state university of arizona university of colorado middle tennessee so these are schools that are strong engineering schools in general that are that are adapting this and for good reasons there's going to be jobs using this technology in the years to come and they're training young people to do it where i'll have many jobs i mean are there any estimates out there for you know just how big this new field is going to be the industry is talking about twenty three thousand creating twenty three thousand new jobs over the next ten years and if you look at possible uses in commercial civil i think that's you know that's not an unrealistic estimate at all but how much of the funding you know you're right about this too is actually coming from the military from these big defense contractors like lockheed martin for these programs. i mean there's not it's hard to break out figures of how much is going into a mandated nation as opposed to aerospace in general you can't really do that but. it's a lot and most of the schools i looked at there was some pentagon f

unmanned aerial vehicles will someday be controlled if they're not already by smartphones and at middle tennessee state university there are several programs offered in unmanned aircraft systems students there focus on the role of drones in civilian life and this is an all of the f. the electronic frontier foundation has been looking into this for a while they found that the f.a.a. the federal aviation administration has already approved twenty five universities to fly drones in its airspace it also appears some universities have already purchased those drones and the u.s. may be fitting the bill earlier i asked this very question to amy's tapan of it with the electronic privacy information center and take a listen to her answer. it is actually there are grants from the department of defense the department of homeland security that are being used and being given not only to universities but the private companies into law enforcement to encourage them and enable them to purchase drones that they might not have been able to afford on their own in order to experiment to see what they can do with the

at middle tennessee state university there are several programs offered an unmanned aircraft systems and students there focus on the role of drones in civilian life. now this is not the electronic frontier foundation has been looking into this and found that the f.c.c. the federal aviation administration has already approved twenty five universities to fly drones in its air space so something is going on here and we want to talk about just what that might be a means to plan of it as part of the national security council team at epic and is here with us now i mean from what i understand some of these universities have already purchased drones and it sounds to me that in many cases the u.s. military is footing the bill it is actually there are grants from the department of defense to the department of homeland security that are being used and being given not only to universities but to private companies and to law enforcement to encourage them and enable them to purchase drones that they might not have been able to afford on their own in order to experiment to see what they can do with

beautiful, gorgeous day in so many sections of the country today including the middle of the nation, ohio valley, tennessee valley all the way up to the northeast, enjoy it you deserve it after a couple wet days in a row. around charleston area, bad thunderstorms and much of florida will be in and out of the rain during the day. worst of it near fort lauderdale. florida will be dealing with hit and miss showers and storms. if you're watching us on whdh, 7 news in boston, see two types of seadragons with 25 other creatures that co-exist with them at the seadragon exhibit at new england aquarium. that is the "early today" event of the day. >>> bill, thanks so much. >>> an early look at headlines in entertainment, amid rumors she is about to leave "american idol," jennifer lopez finds herself at the height of her powers. she tops this year's forbes celebrity 100 list with $52 million in earnings, massive amounts of media spotlight. i'm surprised beyonce didn't get that. she beats out oprah in second, 18-year-old justin bieber took third. >> holding up there. >> rihanna in fourth, lady gaga slipped to fifth. w

tennessee. they were brushing up on their presentation. >> these middle schoolers are practicing their presentationsfor the destination imagination tournament. >> the program is about creative problem solving. it is an educational program, clubs the offer for children all over the world. >> the student select a challenge at the beginning of the school year and work to create a creative solution. they chose to create a movie trailer about a cultural conflict. they're using the dead american struggle with the settlers. >> we decided to do the shadow box. we did that because we wanted to show how the native americans were boxed in and we want to do something powerful. >> the students competed and were chosen to represent maryland in the global competition next week in knoxville. >> this is a day come true. >> the best part is you can see these new ideas. >> it will give their presentation and compete in instant challenges they have to solve. they are charged on teamwork and creativity. the students learn valuable skills. >> i have to overcome my fears and become more confident. i stayed because it is f

system in totman handle of texas with rain through the middle of the country, lingering system with rain there. the storm system over the tennessee valley and this could be a slow mover with scattered showers over the gulf coast and thunderstorms. schooler, chilly air for much of the north. back with the longer range forecast in the . >>> my goodness the grain industry has gotten our collective shorts in a knot over the expanded trading hours at major exchanges. while the world hasn't ground to a halt we are struggling with what the change means. i realize the new schedule will require adjustments by farmers and the industry but some of the warnings being offered are way over blown in my opinion. most of these dire predictions are onto possible release of u.s.d.a. reports while trading is going on. the concern is it'll make markets even more volatil. first how can we tell? we have been dealing unprecedented swings since 2007. aren't these the same reports traders have been carping about ininaccurate? the lame complaint is our industry need raise time out to digest the numbers because our reports are so complex. really? have you g

tennessee. one out of every three cans sold overseas. in fact, they changed the flavors to cater to the chinese middle-class. soft-shell crab, grilled shrimp, seaweed pringles. even coca-cola in the game. these taste testers in auburn dale, florida, they're drinking hopi, it's like orange juice, only sweeter. the oranges picked from these groves in florida. how are they received 11,000 miles away? and it's hardly just food. look at this. flight attendants, putting on their lipstick, much of the makeup in china, with american labels. which is why oscar is making his pitch, traveling from city to city. selling his american products, american entrepreneurs back in the states have also discovered another way to china. so you think this american flag is worth something in china? >> absolutely. >> they just started shipping their product over and having it listed and sold on a sort of amazon.com in china. >> you can see all the boxes just waiting to be shipped to china. they're aware of an exploding middle class and they think they're on to something. >> reporter: look at these images. you can see the yarn has arr

tennessee state university. the next hearing is the middle of june. what happens. >> thank you for having me. >> a ronner blind-folded and secretly taken into al qaeda's home base in yemen. we'll tell you what he discovered while he was risking his life. >>> regis philbin and david letterman, and why letterman didn't want to go back on the air after 9/11. here's tom petty "i won't back down." ♪ >>> so someone a master of morning television, the other a legend of late night tv filling in for piers morgan last night, regis philbin scored a rare interview with david letterman. >> i have been guilty of appearing to be playing partisan politics. however, i'd just like to say that for the record i am a registered independent. you go where the material takes you. poor bill clinton, no president that i'm aware of got hammered harder than bill president, bill clinton over the monica lewinsky situation. we beat up on him. we still use him as a reference. and then we were desperate, we thought well, this was so easy, and then we got george bush and within a matt

middle-class families. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr.and the courtesies of the chairman and i recognize his leadership in these subjects. he asked the question who can -- connected health care to student loans. it was the democrats who connected health care to student loans. think about this. here we are debating a health care law, a few years ago, and what happens? the democrats, the majority, say, well, while we're at it, while we're supposedly fixing health care, we're going to take over the entire student loan program. we're going to make arne duncan, a terrific secretary of education, make him banker of the year, banker of the century, in charge of making $100 billion of new loans to students all america. as a part of the health care law, they got rid of the student loan program, most of which was handled by people you would expect to be making loans, that's banks, and put it into the government. they did that on the theory the banks were making too much money. it reminds me of people who think if you can find it in the yellow pages

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tennessee, an at&t subcontractor, that meant one thing. >> work. lots of work. >> smith: but to get that work, phoenix had to go through a middle man. >> we don't deal direct with at&t. we do work for the vendors, the turf vendors. >> smith: turf vendors are large firms, like general dynamics or bechtel, that at&t relies on to manage work on thousands of tower sites across the country. the turf vendors in turn subcontract to companies like phoenix. and in 2008, phoenix also sent much of its work to a smaller affiliate, a company called all around towers. >> i would make the phone calls, open the door. once i got them in, they pretty much took it from there. >> and then all around towers hired their own crew members, their own people. it didn't matter if they had experience or not. >> smith: like jay guilford. he kicked around between part-time jobs. he was a mover, he delivered pizzas. but after his second child was born, he needed something better. all around towers was offering a full-time job at $10 an hour. >> that's when he filled out the application, came back out, said he had a job and they gave him a $600 check and had a plane ticket for him

tennessee, new york. >> that's a fair question, brother. i think one thing you don't do in the middle great recession, but it's really a depression when it comes to the poor and working people, it really is, that you don't cut education. you don't cut arts programs. you don't cut research and development. you don't cut investment in infrastructure. because those are the very things that's going to produce the growth long-term. not short-term, but long-term. then the question becomes, where do you target? i would say education would be fundamental but in the end it's really about jobs with a living wage. >> infrastructure building. your support of that and a believer that drives growth and investment in communities? >> oh, yes. the last chapter in the book lays out 12 ideas. we don't have a monopoly on the truth, but these are 12 ideas that we come up with that we believe we have to embrace now if we're going to be serious about reducing and eradicating poverty. jobs with a living wage. there's great debate about this. but i'm all for raising the minimum wage to at least $10 an hour. w

tennessee. caller: i would like to suggest that the root problem and the mcaleese is the continual war between -- in the middleast is the continual war between israel and its neighbors. unfortunately america continues to defend israel to oppose a solution. those two opposing forces will never agree. and russia and china, france and england, have to be involved in this. talking about both parties. they get a lot of political contributions from agencies that you create and fund, and you do not like the situation where you have to continually run for office. guest: let me push back a little bit. i did not know of any government agency that gives any member of congress or president any money. that is not how the system works. israel, i am pretty straightforward. everybody old testement god he will bless those of less is rouse occurs those occurs as rouse so i take god at his word. i am not willing to mandate to a sovereign people. we cannot dictate israel -- to is what is a bit. we should work with the palestinians to agree the two- state solution. but the other side has to come to the table as well and i don't se