¿es este el caso con la ley de mississippi?mitiria a la policÍa verificar el estatus migratorio de la persona si Ésta ha sido detenida por una infracciÓn o violacion a la ley. vanessa: como la ley de arizona, la de mississippi dice que los oficiales deben tener una sospecha razonable de que una persona estÁ indocumentada en el paÍs para cuestionarla sobre su estatus migratorio. pero, ¿cuÁl serÍa una sospecha razonable para pensar que alguien estÁ indocumentado? >>no estÁ basada en el color de la piel o la raza de la persona. vanessa: entonces, ¿cuÁl serÍa? >>que no hable ni una palabra de inglÉs. vanessa: mucha gente en la comunidad latina que son ciudadanos, de pronto no hablan inglÉs como yo, o tienen un acento aÚn mÁs fuerte, pero son ciudadanos. ¿cÓmo garantizar que no habrÁ perfil racial? >>no puedo entrar en el corazÓn y la mente de cada oficial, pero yo escribÍ la ley. y la ley dice que es legal cuestionar a alguien sÓlo si hay otra razon que no sea la raza o color de la piel para sospechar que es un indocumentado. vanes

nos vamos al scocorazón de mississippi en jacksonville con vanessa. muy buenas tardes. josé básicamente lo que se vive en estos momentos en mississippi es la calma en la comunidad. sabemos que la comunidad vino hace muchos años para ayudar en la reconstrucción del paso del huracán katrina. ahora ante la posibilidad de que el proyecto de ley 2179 pase en el estado. están muy, muy asustados. la ley básicamente es una copia de la ley de arizona pero mucho, mucho más fuerte. yo tuve hoy día la oportunidad de hablar con el senador que escribió la ley el arquitecto de la ley. es un senador republicano y básicamente le pregunté como lo haré para garantizar que los oficiales de policía de cuestionar después que los detenga en una parada de tráfico no van a caer en el perfil racial y esto es lo que me contestó. >> ¿cuál sería la sospecha razonable para pensar que alguien está indocumentado? >> no está básico en el color de la piel o en la raza de la persona. >> ¿entonces cuál sería? >> que no hable ni una palabra de inglés. >>>vanessa: bueno, además de eso yo también le estaba p

mississippi club, there's the brookhaven mississippi clough, grenada mississippi glove, there are individual club is a mississippi represented in chicago and an los angeles there is safe lake charles louisiana club, monroe louisiana club, multiple clubs because it is so vague and there are many ways the catholics and baptists and there are many clubs as you can imagine and even in new york there are churches where everybody is from south carolina. [laughter] i interviewed more than 1200 people. i say i generally stopped counting after 1200 people. over the 18 months that i took to begin what i call a casting call, a kind of audition for the people who would ultimately be the protagonist in the book. there are many interesting things that happen along the road to finding people. i would show up at some of the senior centers and find that many people wanted to talk. lots of people wanted to talk. more people were interested in this ceremony being served up the time. there were all kind of things i ran into. in one case, i remember i would often be part of the program, you know, and have to get

to stay in mississippi because mississippi is the best place to build a successful career. because mississippi is the place with the most opportunities. and it is the place where you can enjoy this sweet land's quality of life. that's the dream of every mother and grandmother in mississippi. and it is we who with the right attitude and hard work, who can help make it a reality in this decade. that is what we've all been trying to strive for. thank you for all you have done to change our state for the better. and thanks for all you are going to do to make sure we keep moving forward together. thank you y'all. god bless you, and god bless america. [applause] [applause] >> lawmakers gathered on the house floor to pay tribute to the representative gabrielle giffords and the other representatives of the shooting in tucson. see what members said online. follow the comments of your congressman, track daily thymelines and read transcripts of every house and senate session. >> this weekend on c-span 3 american history tv, historians discuss the importance of pop culture in boston. o

nueva batalla contraparte de nuestra comunidad ahora la batalla en estos momentos se centra en mississippido de aquí y la ley s b 2179 prohíben la contracción de jornaleros en las calles, permitiría multan a quienes los contraten y confiscar de quienes transporte a indocumentados pero quienes son y qué tienen en común las propuestas. fue el senador republicano russellapoyados por el tea party y la medida de no o tr to la ciudadanía automática a hijos de indocumentado nuests en esto país, ambos coinciden que este tipo de medidas son necesarias por la falta de liderazgo por parte del gobierno federal y ahora nos vamos a jackson mississippi y ahí está vanessa hauc quien fue en busca de respuesta al capitolio y ha mro chabló con el principal au tr de autor medida. >>>vanessa: llegamos al capitolio porque aprobaron la s b 2179. fuimos en busca del arquitecto y creador de la ordenanza. sfa l esta ley es ma pareciuy parecid ley de arizona es el caso de la ley de mississippi. >>> no a quit la ley le permitiría a la policía verificar el estatus migratorio de las personas y sí estas haciendo detenid

i went from tuskegee to mississippi to jackson mississippi to serve as a volunteer for an effort that sncc had, the student nonviolent coordinating committtee had in getting out the vote in jackson, mississippi. i came back and i eventually became a member of sncc and left to work full time. this subject is, indeed, one that is near and dear to my heart. this book, hands on the freedom plow, is a compilation of the works of many different women, 52 women who were members of sncc movement seven, number, black, white, latino, a latina. the book itself has have 15 -- someone said 16 years in the making. it really has been a labor of love on the part of the people who use the year, some of whom, the majority of whom were editors and some were contributors. this is the very first time that you have had -- that we have the assemblage of women's stories from sncc in this matter. this is a very, very meaningful work, and i think that you will enjoy hearing from the people here. without further ado i would like to get started and first introduced you to read gene smith young who is a child psy

to stay in mississippi because mississippi is the best place to build a successful career. because mississippi is the place with the most opportunities and it is the place you can enjoy this sweet land quality-of-life. that is the dream of every mother and grandmother in mississippi. and it is we, with the right attitude and hard work who can help make it a reality in this decade. that is what we have all been trying to strive for. thank you for all you've done to change our state for the better. and thanks for all you're going to do to make sure we keep moving toward together. thank you. god bless you and god bless america. [applause] [applause] >>> iowa governor terry branstad was sworn in for a fifth term today at the hy-vee hall in des moines. in his inaugural address governor branstad voted to increase the judicial system. from iowa public television, this is 25 minutes. ♪ ♪ god bless america ♪ stand beside her and guide her ♪ ♪ ♪ god bless america my home sweet home ♪ god bless america ♪ my home sweethome ♪ [applause] >> thank you heartland collier directed by mr. jim

on the playing field at mississippi state. blake was a standout on the state's undistinguished football team of the 1950's and the leading receiver in 1959 with a total of six passes caught in the era of game and strong defense. for while he played ball in canada before resettling in the delta as a former. sometime in the 1960's he became prosperous acquiring loans to buy property while assuming a semblance of importance in greenwood as an officer in east one's army. like his patron, blake worked in the background. when the legislature was in session he could be seen patrolling the holes in the state capital or treating messages after hours with officials in the jackson lounges. he didn't seek public office, he did not openly support candidates. the general public had no idea that pla represented power behind the scenes, yet politicians knew he was one of the most important go to guys in the state. when david, a young adult politician was a harvard degree he decided to run for congress in 1972 he was told blake's approval was

calles de mississippi, cientos de familias hispana tienen miedo de salir a la calle. dejar el estado. >>> luis entrega personalmente los diarios que el mismo edita. >>> un buen amigo es el señor israel mar israel. >>> aquí están sus diarios. >>> israel solo tiene 25 años, es dueño de dos negocios en mississippi. >>> quedamaqu aquí damos clases español, tambiarreglamos computadoras. >>> esta le daría el derecho a los policías actuar como oficiales de inmigración. >>> las cosas podrían ser peor. >>> ya estuve en la cárcel. >>> espera que un juez decida su futura. >>> ella es dueña de esta tienda en mississippi hace cuatro años. >>> cuando viene el cliente lo tratamos bien. >>> en los últimos meses ha perdido el 30 por ciento de la gente que va. >>> por cualquier motivo la paran y inmediatamente se va a juez de inmigración. >>> hemos batallado mucho pero estamos trabajando. >>> ella no pierde la fe. >>> un milagro para poder seguir acá. lo único que tendría que hacer es irme. >>> todos estaban de acuerdo en una cosa, sus negocios se han visto afectados. ahora regreso con

greenwood, mississippi, club. there's a grenada, mississippi, club. there are individual clubs for all of the tiny little towns in mississippi represented in chicago. and in los angeles there is, there's a lake charles, louisiana, club; the monroe, louisiana, club; multiple new orleans clubs because it's so big. there are multiple texas clubs as you can imagine, and even in new york there are churches where everybody is from south carolina. [laughter] i interviewed more than 1200 people. i say i just generally stopped counting after 1200 people. over the 18 months that i took to begin what i call a casting call, a kind of audition for the people who would ultimately be the protagonists in this book. and there are many interesting things that happened along the road to finding the people. i would show up at some of the senior centers and find that many people wanted to talk, lots of people wanted to talk. some people were more interested in the sirloin that was being served at the time. [laughter] therethere were all kinds of ths that i ran into. in on

¿es este el caso con la ley de mississippi?>no, aquÍ la ley le permitiria a la policÍa verificar el estatus migratorio de la persona si Ésta ha sido detenida por una infracciÓn o violacion a la ley. vanessa: como la ley de arizona, la de mississippi dice que los oficiales deben tener una sospecha razonable de que una persona estÁ indocumentada en el paÍs para cuestionarla sobre su estatus migratorio. pero, ¿cuÁl serÍa una sospecha razonable para pensar que alguien estÁ indocumentado? >>no estÁ basada en el color de la piel o la raza de la persona. vanessa: entonces, ¿cuÁl serÍa? >>que no hable ni una palabra de inglÉs. vanessa: mucha gente en la comunidad latina que son ciudadanos, de pronto no hablan

. >> en mississippi el número de hispanos apenas llegaba a 30 mil y la cifra casi se duplicó representanel 3% de la fuerza laboral de este estado, la mayoría de los inmigrantes indocumentados son latinos y asiáticos, si estos fueron expulsados del estado se estima que se perderían más de 4500 empleos y más de 500 millones de dólares en aporte a la economía y esto es precisamente lo que está manteniendo muy candente este debate tras la propuesta de varios legisladores que intentan cerrar las puertas del estado a los indocumentados. >> angie sandoval tiene todos los detalles. >> muy bien estuvo todo y considera . >> y si aprueban esta ley van a estar sin ningún motivo porque parecen mexicano, porque pareces hispano. >> y esta tarde el senado aprobó este proyecto de ley 34 contra 15 va debate a la cámara baja la legislatura de mississippi tiene hasta abril para aprobar o rechazar esta ley, hay mucha controversia ya que este proyecto de ley que tengo en mis manos josé pudiera dividir este rebote este año que recién ha comenzado. >> así es la segunda parte. >> gracias angie sandoval que no cr

. >>> in mississippi today, two sisters walked out of prison after 16 years. their life sentences for a petty robbery set aside under unusual circumstances. the governor, haley barbour, agreed to the release only if the healthy sister donates a kidney to the other. steve osunsami was there. >> reporter: after 16 years in a mississippi prison -- >> we're free! we're free! >> reporter: today, gladys and jamie scott walked outside, smelled the fresh air and felt the sunshine as free women. >> it's a great day that justice has finally come to a place where it seldom comes. >> i haven't woke up, it's been a dream. it's been a dream to me and i'm so grateful. god knows i am so grateful. >> reporter: they were serving double life sentences, extra hard time, for their role in a robbery that yielded just $11. the three others who actually stole the money testified against them and served less than three years. >> they did their time. more than their time. >> reporter: the governor, whose office did not return phone calls today, has explained that he's only releasing th

mississippi, california. everybody makes them a little different. texas. if you look in here, texas has these nice little tamales here. >> i thought everything was big in texas. >> i know. the only little thing in texas is their tamale. and in colorado, they wrap their tamale in a tortilla. >> our secret judge called them burritos they're that big. >> they're called tomacos. i think they should be called a tomoritta. these are like the tamales you normally see. these are from new mexico. they're made from hatched chi chilies. these are wrapped in banana leaves. and these tamales are actually interesting. i broke one. they're wrapping in parchment. there's a company that makes deer meat tamales and goat tamales. one is telling us he's cooking up sweet tamales for next year and some are wrapping them for next year. >> my mom brings ash tamales. they're very dry, very bland. the aztecs eat them. they're not for me. >> right now we're going to irwin. they're tasting all-vegetarian first. there's some great vegetarian tamales this year, really good ones. you al

. >>> now we go to mississippi, and a story tonight about a new beginning. we've been reporting in recent days about the case of two sisters being released from life prison sentences in an unusual medical bargain. well, today they walked free, but their future is still uncertain. their story tonight from nbc's thanh truong. >> reporter: locked up for 16 years -- >> we're free! >> reporter: sisters gladys and jamie scott were released from prison this morning. one of the first stops, a surprise visit to gloria's kitchen. >> i'm feeling good, i'm feeling great. >> reporter: the restaurant and its patrons, long-time supporters of the sisters who they say were unfairly punished. >> i love macaroni. 16 years! free at last, free at last, thank god i'm free at last. >> reporter: sentenced to life in prison for their role in a 1993 armed robbery that yielded only a handful of cash, they were released on the condition that gladys donate a kidney to jamie, who is suffering from kidney failure. >> i never thought this day would come when i would be on the outside of th

partido más adelante josé estaremos con un líder comunitario que conoce la realidad hispano en mississippisé: vanessa tú sigue llamando porque jan ha recibido muchas llamadas. para contactar a los gobier gobernadores pueden hacerlo en nuestra pantalla. y conestados de la nación

. >> reporter: back in 1997 he was not yet a teenager growing up in jackson, mississippi, a variety of interests outside of basketball. >> i was 12. playing in mud and eating mud pies at that time so nothing

. >>> now we go to mississippi, and a story tonight about a new

i was in mississippi. there was something called the mississippi freedom summer.ssippi in 1964 was hardly part of america if you were black; it was an awful, brutal, repressive place... you couldn't vote... they found that if white people were mistreated the way black people were, the rest of america paid attention in ways they didn't when the black people were, so they asked for some volunteers. a couple hundred of us went down. then i went back to graduate school and realized i didn't have the temperament to be a professor. i have a very short attention span. a short attention span is an asset if you're in politics, because you have to switch gears all the time. a short attention span is not helpful in writing a ph.d. thesis. (autumn) out of the years you've been working in politics, what do you consider your biggest successes and what do-- there's no way to talk about that without sounding very boastful, so i can't do that. [laughter] (liz) so what was it that got you into politics in the first place. i don't know. how do you know that? by high school, politics

two sisters in mississippi serving life for an armed robbery. today the governor of that state set them free, but as kelly cobiella reports, there was one condition. >> reporter: after 16 years behind bars, sisters gladys and jamie scott left state prison with a shout: "we're free!" how did it feel to drive away from that prison? >> oh, i feel so blessed. >> reporter: the sisters were convicted of armed robbery in 1994. jamie was 22, gladys 20. both were sentenced to two life terms. both insisted they were innocent. >> i never thought this day would come when i would be on the outside of the walls, when i've been so bound on the inside of the walls. >> it's been a long, hard road but we made it. there was times when we wanted to give up, but i told my sister i said "we're gonna make it. we're coming up out of here, we're not going to die." >> free the scott sisters! >> reporter: their case became the focus of a grass-roots campaign. thousands protested and signed petitions, arguing that their punishment was too harsh for a robbery that netted no

mississippi. every one will fund education. better than the 8th richest. every one of our children deserve this. we aren't walking the talk. the reality is, we talk a good line. but we don't walk the talk. this public, all the citizens. not only in san francisco, but in california better start standing up for our kids. we are not funding it. let's start getting behind and forcing the politicians to say, the most important thing is our children. >> all right. okay. so that is actually an excellent segway. we have approximately 7 minutes. so i am going to try to squeeze in 2 questions. i want to discuss what we're working with right now. we are working with and schools incorporating school based programs. they don't have the funding or resources. with that being said, what are some of the barriers of working with the community based organizations to be able to work in an effective manner with the schools. i would like to refer to bianca. i know she worked with united players. to talk about a successful working with the program at a community based organizati

snoop doggy dogg, his family migrated from mississippi to los angeles. john combs family migrated from new york so tupac is one of the best-known people of the iconic people of this generation that is a descendent of that migration also from north carolina to new york so i think that it takes time for people to recognize the connection and that is the reason why we want to record history because maybe people are not ready for it now but one day they will be and i have a friend, i'd bought it for her 5-year-old and she can't read it now but one day she will be able to and i think that is beautiful. >> we have time for one more question. >> i won't tell my story even though i would like to very much, but do you guys have any sense of what that migration has done for the south itself, for people who are still there, how may be the culture reverberated a little bit and change things or made things better there? >> it is my contention that the great migration helped to accelerate the drive for civil rights and for the end of the caste system for which the peo

mutual interest between the immigrants, our newest citizens who are flowing out to the westward mississippid the great cities on the seaboard. so if we look at this map in a little more detail, we can see some of what captured his imagination. here's the ohio river to come berlin to tennessee. these are the great commercial arteries of this region and of course also the mohawk in the area where those yorkers were going to beat the virginians by opening the erie canal before the potomac project never came to fruition. and again, the maps and a sense of geography were constantly and play as he tried to keep the country together against external threats. now the british were hanging on at the northern border of the country. now this blind that you see, this brown line because of the center of the lakes indicates a new border the united states. and there were seven military posts that were clearly inside the american terrain on american soil. yet the british refused to give them up, even as promised during the treaty. they would keep them until 1796 and they were a thorn in the side of washingt

now for an early look at some of the stories we'll follow throughout the day here on nbc -- two mississippi sisters will be freed on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other who is suffering kidney failure. last week, mississippi's governor suspended their life sentences for armed robbery. >>> after this morning's release november's unemployment report, president obama will announce his pick to replace larry summers as his top economic adviser. gene sterling is expected to be chose ena veteran of the clinton administration. >>> and in pittsburgh, the american dialect society will hold its annual meeting and vote on the word of the year for 2010. 2009's word of the year was tweet. one of my favorites. >>> all day long, you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with nbc "nightly news." >>> and, finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. in an nbc news exclusive, brian williams goes one-on-one with the new house speaker, republican john bo

this is mississippi river, the actual flow at saint louis. the data comes from the armed corporation to around the year 2000, to 2001. if you draw a straight line here, the straight red line is basically the flood risk, assume this record is stationary that the climate is not changing. in fact, statistically, if you ⌜"at this record, it's not stationary. average flow in the mississippi river seems to be going on. i don't know if it's climate change but its the kind of thing that makes long-term planning managers nervous. one is the model you plan for the average flood over the last historical record or potentially the tree ring record or whether you assume climate is not stationary and in which case, the model of what you do and the assumptions, and the conclusions of what you do will all be different. so what has been done? well, i don't think a whole lot. a lot of the thinking and a lot of things have been done in modeling and planning but in terms of on ground action, not much is done. i know city of san francisco is re-evaluating storm wa

and with washington's collection coming here is the detail showing the old southwest along the mississippiand what was called the strip between and the chattahoochee and the river -- yazoo river that feeds into the mississippi and this is where the spanish now controlled west florida had similar trouble by farming good cherokees and the chickasaw and pit them against the sellers from georgia who were trying to move last and come into conflict broke her washington had a fire to deal with down here. in this case, he managed to stay out of four and invited 30 of the chiefs to come to new york and wind and dined them and part of the genius was to balance the forces and for the most part, avoid the conflict which he knew too well. unfortunately aside from slavery the other great tragedy was the removal of the tribes from the west and washington tried his best to abide by the new treaties and wanted the administration to be honorable that the same time when you read deeply into his writing and letters to congress as he advise them before he became president, he basically said it is a tough game

interest between the immigrants, our newest citizens who are flowing out to the west toward the mississippind the easterners in the great cities on the seaboard. and so if we look at these mcmurray map in a little more detail, we can see some of what captured his imagination. here the ohio river, the cumberland, the tennessee. these are the great commercial arteries of this region, and, of course, also the mohawk and the area where those yorkers were going to beat the virginians by opening the -- by opening the erie canal before his potomac project really never came to fruition. and, again, the maps and his sense of geography were constantly in play as he tried to keep the country against external threats -- country together against external threats. now, the british were hanging on at the northern border of the country. now, this line that you see, this brown line that cuts through the center of the lakes indicates the new northern border of the united states. and there were seven military posts that were, clearly, inside the american terrain, on american soil. yet the british refused to g

the treatments were costing the state of mississippi nearly $200,000 a year. sisters are still not sure gladys is a donor match. >> we're going to get them to medical facilities where treatment for jamie is going to take place immediately. then the doctors have to tell us how long it takes to test. we're not absolutely sure but we don't expect it to take a long time. >> the sisters are headed to florida where they have family but still stay under supervision. >> san francisco zoo has a large new resident. this male hippopotamus met the public for the first time. the 3700 pound hippo arrived wednesday from topeka, kansas. he was in need of a new home. >> he came from topeka, kansas. they had a help poe birth over there and didn't have enough room for him and we had an exhibit that needed a hippo so it was a per effect marriage. >> this is the first hippo in san francisco for three years because the exhibit was being renovated. the animal doesn't have a name yet. they plan to have the public pick one in the near future. >> a much smaller animal is our perfect pe

a plan to release two sisters from prison in mississippi after one sister pledged to donate a kidney to the other. even though the sisters came up with the plan to donate the kidney, should the state sanction it as a condition for their release? here's nbc's justice correspondent pete williams. >> reporter: the proposed transplant of a kidney has touched off an ethical debate after a decision by mississippi's governor. haley barbour ordered the release of two sisters serving life sentences for armed robbery, saying they're no longer a danger to society. and one of them, jamie scott, will die without a kidney transplant. he said her sister, gladys, should be released too after agreeing to be the kidney donor. their mother told nbc's "today" program that it was gladys who suggested nilt the first place. >> my daughter gladys stated in january, when my daughter jamie's kidneys first shut down, that she would be willing to give her sister a kidney. >> reporter: experts on medical ethics say despite the sister's generosity, a decision to donate a kidney should be entirely voluntary, with

wolverines and mississippi state in the gator bowl. perfect pass by owens.ng 14-10 after the first quarter. looking good for michigan but then all bulldogs. on 4th and 10. hit michael carr for the third touchdown pass of the game. mississippi state scored 42 unanswered points and blew the doors off michigan. 52-14 to win the gator bowl. wolverines worst bowl loss in school history. >>> pretty sure this guy will not be wearing the spartans head gear back on the flight to east lansing. alabama scoring a touchdown on their first four possessions. mark inngram with. winning the capitol one bowl. big 10 went 0-5 today and really struggled against the sec losing all three match ups by an average of 30 points. the three schools forcing eight turnovers. >>> mike hayward was fired after just two weeks after coaching. he was arrested at home domestic violence. >>> while jim loves to talk about preparing for the hokies he is not as comfortable talking about his future. >> has anyone contacted you about the 49ers position? anyone contacted you. >> we will talk about the

and i had gone to a county in mississippi and i got there because there had been a front page story staying county was suing the state saying it didn't have enough money to defend the poor. so i get to court and i'm expecting to see lines of people coming out the door like i did in georgia but when i get there there were only eight people. and was sort of perplexed. where was everybody? was thereto not a lot of crime in this place? i start giving out my cards trying to learn about this place. my cell phone starts ringing off the hook. everybody has got a story. at the library, the librarian leans across the desk and says my home was broken into three different types in one week. they came and they interviewed me. they said they knew who the guy was but the case never went anywhere. so i had all of these stories and went to the clerk to have court and she is a woman named miss wiggs. she has a helmet of white hair and bright blue eyes and a plain talking way of speaking. i said what is going on here and she said you want to know what's going on? i'll tell you. she points to this list above h

this storm has dumped a lot of snow and ice in mississippi as well. dennis turner of our memphis station wreg is in batesville, mississippi. good morning to you. >> good morning, jeff. we know that y'all northerners are used to this. we in the south, this boy from miami has never seen this before. we have about seven inches of snow here in batesville, mississippi. the problem is it's nice dry snow like that. it's easy to drive on. once you drive on it, it turns into this. ice. so people are slip >>> thank you. our forecast for this morning, we do have some patchy fog and some patchy fog because we got cold temperatures, a lookout this morning from our camera mount vacca, sunrise 7:25 a.m. this morning, take a look at those cold temperatures they will greet you. 29 degrees liver more, 32 san jose and the lower 50s later on this afternoon rain showers tomorrow >>> thanks so much. that's your latest weather. now over to erica in tucson. >> marysol, thanks. just ahead on "the early show" we'll take an in-depth look at alleged killer jared loughner's troub

by law in mississippi, the prosecutor has to give every case to the grand jury and the prosecutor can say there is not a lot of evidence in this case and this case has resolved itself, i don't think you should indict but it is people who have to decide what gets to court and what doesn't get to court. she said here i have 80 people on this list and when we came to court on the other day there was almost nobody there. people call me all the time and tell me horrible things that have happened to them and their children. their kids were molested. they were beaten up. someone was arrested yet the crime never goes anywhere. i asked her if i could use the list as a road map to see what was going on in the county. so i copied it and started going through and getting all the case files and what i found was that when there was a big, important case like there was a big murder and some people from outside the county came in and murdered an entire family and lit the house on fire, then the d.a. would go full hog and would prosecute the case to the nth degree. but when cases affected regular peop

on i. 20, from east texas to shreveport and jackson, mississippi. lake-effect snow on detroit. >> and if you're flying today, expect just a few airport delays in seattle, houston and new orleans. >>> wildlife experts now say the huge flock of birds that fell from the sky over central arkansas probably died of massive trauma. they say as many as 5,000 block birds happened to fly over the town of bebe during a fireworks show. and that the noise from the show likely caused the birds extensive internal bleeding. >>> now, there's a new bird mystery. tests are under way to determine how they may have died. >>> the body of a military expert who served under president reagan and both presidents bush has been found dumped in a delaware landfill. john wheeler iii was said to be on an amtrak train from washington to wilmington last tuesday. the body was found on new year's eve. it was emptied from a garbage truck. investigators have ruled wheeler's death a homicide. but so far, they have no leads. >>> a long judge begins hearing testimony in a manslaughter kag

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later today, scattered rain, snow and freezing rain showers will fall in the mississippi river valley. in the northeast a very cold air mass is causing temperatures to dip down into the single digits. the southwest is warm and the northwest is mild with rain on the coast and snow further inland. >>> in sports, it will be the steelers against the packers in super bowl xlv. pittsburgh advanced to their third super bowl in six years by getting out to a big first half lead 24-3 over the jets. and they hung on to stop the jets 24-19 in the afc championship game. steeler coach mike tomlin praised his team. >> 32 teams that start this journey, and there's two left, and we're fortunate enough to be one of them. >> the steelers have won a record six super bowls in seven previous trips to the big game. >>> in the nfc title game, green bay defeated chicago. after quarterback aaron rodgers ran for a touchdown and a strong green bay defense helped beat the bears 21-14. packers coach mike mccarthy sounding optimistic. >> you know, we've always felt that we're a very good football team. now we have

. >>> it is pretty good for a mississippi boy. one of the omega -- mega-million winners stepping forward and his reaction to wing. it left his wife fearing the joorls and the john edwards snub. how elizabeth edwards managed to get back at her estranged husband even after her passing. >>> and telling a tale through tears. the impact that a woman's tears can have on men. >>> and the pair ramedic recoun the hectic ride to the hospital in michael jacks's final moments. >> and i'm jeff raneri. patchy fog in the's bay and north bay. we'll talk about the cold night ahead and who could see freezing fog coming up. ac my second diagnosis-- i was told to go home, retire, and enjoy the time i had left. to say it was a shock is just a complete understatement. i mean, i don't think there are words. she had put up a really good fight, but it was her time. you... don't have a choice of getting breast cancer. i had no choice. i wanted to do something bigger than myself. that 3-day gave me that opportunity. and i can actually do something to help.

i would think my friend from mississippi, the senator from mississippi, would be very concerned about this one. we didn't do a budget last year. the one way we can really impact -- if you talk about fiscal responsibility and you talk about keeping the government under control and guiding it in the right direction, the one thing you want to do is a budget. you want to pass a budget and set some outlines there. well, we didn't do a budget last year because we were in a constant filibuster, threat of a filibuster. and the story goes on and on. and so senator harkin, we're in the question phase right now. i'm going to yield the floor. i'm sure there's time still on the other side. but i think the question is not as senator alexander raised, what is a filibuster? the real question out there, when senator alexander returns, is what impact has the threat of a filibuster had on this institution we love of the united states senate? i yield the floor. mr. harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: briefly, i know the senator from mississippi wants to speak

his name is calvin, migrated from mississippi to los angeles. and his family migrated from north carolina to new york. hip-hop was one of the best known people of the iconic people of this generation. and the descendant of that migration from north carolina. it takes time for people to recognize the correction. that is why we want to record history. maybe people are not ready for it now but one day they will be. i had a friend who bought it for a 5-year-old who wants to design it but one day she will be able to read it. that is beautiful. >> we have time for one more question. >> i want to tell my story even though i would like to very much. do you guys have any sense of what that migration has done for the south itself for people who are still fare? how the culture reverberated all little bit and change things? have you seen any of that? >> it is my contention the great migration accelerated the drive toward civil rights and the end of what the people were fleeing. it showed that first of all, this cash system, the people being underpaid workin