i'm from the mississippi delta. medgar evers was one of my heroes. when i was growing up in mississippi. in fact, i saw him shortly before he was killed. i want to say that i will always remember his service and the freedom struggle. i am grateful that the two of you are bringing his legacy and his living and the documents, we need the documents, that show his sacrifice. i just can't tell you how this anniversary is like an anniversary because this time in june so many years ago reminds me of the day that i learned that he had died. i will always, always remember that. and i just can't tell you how we mississippians benefited from his sacrifice. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> it is a fitting closure. medgar, and the only thing i would add to that, is actually medgar evers lives because as long as there's a struggle for justice, medgar is alive and well. and this book is a testament to his courage, to his dignity. it is his voice. it is his vision for the struggle for freedom. and it was an honor to work with myrlie to put this together so that a futu

coming into mississippi. for that, they don't know the terrain, they don't know the people. so stafford act, whether -- and the stafford act, by the way, has a lot of improvement that it needs. but the oil pollution act ought to be changed to say flatly, like the stafford act, it's supplemental to the states, and it doesn't usurp the state's authority. where this came into play was in our plan to defend the state's shoreline against oil. we developed a layered defense plan beginning outside the barrier islands, using the barrier islands to protect us, protecting the gaps between the barrier islands. the oil that got through to the sound, that would be our principle place to try to pick it up, steer it toward beaches, keep it out of marshlands. as it turned out, the coast guard approved that plan, never understood how to execute it. and after the second time that oil got to our barrier islands completely undetected, much less contested. undetected. we demanded that we be put in charge of this. and the coast gu

coming into mississippi. they're not trained for that, they don't know the terrain, they don't know the people. so stafford act, whether -- and the stafford act, by the way, has a lot of improvement that it needs. but the oil pollution act ought to be changed to say flatly, like the stafford act, it's supplemental to the states, and it doesn't usurp the state's authority. where this came into play was in our plan to defend the state's shoreline against oil. we developed a layered defense plan beginning outside the barrier islands, using the barrier islands to protect us, protecting the gaps between the barrier islands. the oil that got through to the sound, that would be our principle place to try to pick it up, steer it toward beaches, keep it out of marshlands. as it turned out, the coast guard approved that plan, never understood how to execute it. and after the second time that oil got to our barrier islands completely undetected, much less contested. undetected. we demanded that we be put in charge of th

are mississippi waters and are part of the outer continental shelf that is recognized as mississippi. so i'm not arguing with your point about the federal taxpayers. i just want to make sure that the state taxpayers get treated as royalty owners in the five states that allow this. it's not fair for the other 45 states that burned the oil that we have taken out of our outer continental shelf and they get treated the same way we do. >> well, i must speak that was a yes. >> i must state for the record though when chairman markey are ranking member markie has a bill on this that would corrected, and what came before congress early this year as an amendment, and several other amendments regretfully, chairman issa voted against it. and i feel the same as governor barbour, that they should be corrected, that the american taxpayer is entitled to the royalties for oil extracted from taxpayer owned federal and state owned property. and i hope that you will join with us in a bipartisan way to correct this going forward so that there is fair treatment to the states into the government, and basic

the gentleman from mississippi may resume. mr. harper: after two years of hearings, investigations and oversight the committee on house administration has identified not just the program but a federal agency we cannot justify to the taxpayers. that agency, the election assistance commission, should be eliminate. mr. speaker, while the house is going ton making some difficult spending decisions in the future, this is actually a clear and easy choice. the e.a.c. was created in 2002 by the help america vote act. it passed the house with a large bipartisan majority. 172 republicans voted for the bill that created the e.a.c. its creation was a bipartisan choice and so should be its termination. one of the primary reasons that the e.a.c. was created was to distribute money to states to update voting equipment and voter registration systems. the e.a.c. has accomplished that, paying out over $3 billion to states for those purposes. with our deep debt and deficit, there are almost certainly will be no more money for the e.a.c. to distribut

mississippi, louisiana, of course. host: what would you -- for macro impact of the flooding that occurred there recently, how would you describe it? guest: so, the industries that have been -- the first thing is that the numbers are still trickling in, because the flood waters have not yet receded completely. the damages are still being computed. in terms of industries in acted first, it would be cropland -- industries impacted, first it would be cropland. and then because you have the river, the river is an important form of transportation. farms in the midwest to down at the gulf port, where they are exported out of the u.s. traffic along the river, barge traffic, shipping, those industries have been affected at the hospitality industry, casinos along the river. host: have we seen an increase in commodity prices such as corn, etc., because of this massive flooding? guest: yes, there have been a supply effects, supply shortage, definitely, because crops have been damaged. in arkansas, for example, rice fields, and ten

don't want it in mississippi. and john sununu, as the governor of new hampshire o on behalf of george bush said we didn't want it in the granite formations. so the nuclear -- so it all happened on a political basis. i was here. you make a political decision you'll end up with big scientific problems at the end of the day. so congress actually -- this committee barred the department of energy from looking at any other site other than yucca mountain. we use political science, not real science to hand that nuclear queen of spades to nevada. that's the legacy this committee left. the problem is that yucca mountain has two fault lines running through it and is in an active earthquake zone. there have been more than 600 earthquakes within 50 miles of the site within the past 12 years. we jaw just how earthquakes can impact spent nuclear fuel in japan just a few months ago. oreover, in 1997,cientists found that plutonium from nuclear weapons tests that had been conducted just a few decades earlier had migrated a mile thr

coming into mississippi.hey're not trained for that, they don't know the terrain, they don't know the people. so stafford act, whether -- and the stafford act, by the way, has a lot of improvement that it needs. but the oil pollution act ought to be changed to say flatly, like the stafford act, it's supplemental to the states, and it doesn't usurp the state's authority. where this came into play was in our plan to defend the state's shoreline against oil. we developed a layered defense plan beginning outside the barrier islands, using the barrier islands to protect us, protecting the gaps between the barrier islands. the oil that got through to the sound, that would be our principle place to try to pick it up, steer it toward beaches, keep it out of marshlands. as it turned out, the coast guard approved that plan, never understood how to execute it. and after the second time that oil got to our barrier islands completely undetected, much less contested. undetected. we demanded that we be put in charge of this

then that does dump into the mississippi. by the way, the mississippi river still very high. we're still looking at major flood in places like baton rouge, marty. so water continues to be a big issue. this is more about the flow rate that's coming down. real concerned about a lot of these dams along the way because they were built before they've ever seen this much pressure from water before. so they're hoping there aren't going to be more of these breaches happening. that was in hamburg in southwestern parts of iowa right near the nebraska state line. we'll have to see if water makes its way downstream. >> with many of the officials i was talking to about the flooding of the mississippi, that was their concern. how long will the pressure be on the levees. we'll watch it. >>> expect to hear more expert testimony tomorrow when casey anthony's murder trial resuming in orlando. yesterday forensic scientists testified that hair taken from the trunk of the defendant's car was similar to that of anthony's daughter, caylee. she was reported missing, you'll remember, three years ago

and the massive flow behind me is a major reason why the mississippi could flood. some 700,000 gallons are pouring behind me every second. there's too much to hold back add the hreservoir above. surging and stelweeks from its crest, the missouri river is threatening to topple levees and break banks. in nebraska, they have declared this power plant to declare a low-level emergency. meantime, in the dakotas, 20,000 people have been asked to evacuate. steve kokas has lived along the river for 33 years. >> it's hard to take at my age. i'm 78. and i can't fight it anymore. >> reporter: in missouri and iowa, levee failures threatened to flood hundreds of homes and have driven more than a thousand to go to higher ground. the haul acheck family is on the move. >> trying not to get grouchy. it's not been done. >> reporter: with 400 members of the national guard flanks across the river, manpower and air support strengthing levees where they're week. half a million sandbags are laid every day. holding back the river, a monumental task. it's nearly 27 miles long, seven states

you saw the word from mississippi said that this had a personal effect on him and i wonder if you can address the issue that comes up with the victim's family often get satisfaction of some kind -- some relief because of the person that they understand has committed the crime and they are finally put to death. can you remark on this? >> let me say, i agree with everything that they have talked about. i cannot really speak for the families of the victims, only what i have observed to the execution process. this has an impact on everyone who is involved, including the staff. and of course the inmates' families. and the people who show up to watch this. and the whole show of people who are there for this. you cannot walk away from this without having been impacted. i want to talk about the war and has said, that these executions have been 7-10 years after the crime and we're not executing the same person. in california, everyone who has been executed has been 20 years after the crime and you are not executing the same person. people do change. from my observation of the victims' family m

. >> well, hurricane katrina was a natural disaster that overcame the, the mississippi gulf coast. >>ight. >> what happened in new orleans was, in the words of dr. bob bea of the center for emergency response in berkeley, uc berkeley, a manmade disaster. manmade. >> right. >> .the greatest manmade engineering catastrophe since chernobyl. chernobyl used to be a big deal until fukushima but still. >> right, reference point. >> .it's kind of a big deal. >> the reference points always get updated. >> that's right. >> but you've been adamant in the discussion of this film online and as you've presented it around the country. >> yeah. >> and saying do not talk about this as a film about the aftereffects of katrina. do not talk about this as a film about the natural disaster. this was something that had proper planning put in place, had more work been done in advance, could have been prevented. >> had proper engineering been done. >> yeah. >> .on a hurricane protection system that congress mandated in 1965. bob bea's partner, ray seed at uc berkeley said the worst that would have happened to

campaign and give a speech on states' rights and you know what happened in philadelphia mississippi you have you have three or four civil rights workers murdered there it's the only reason he went there and he gave the speech on civil rights it was he kicked off his presidential campaign by saying basically he was pitching to the to the to the racists in the south to the. i don't know who i'm being asked to defend here or why i'm being asked to develop them i'm not a member of justice is the attitude this is of of you know this is ronald reagan this is the antithesis of social justice as is dog whistle calls to to to bigots basically but what does this have to do with anything that i'm talking about well i think that you know fighting racism is part of the social justice thing and ronald reagan opened and i'm all for fighting racism head outside of the buzzword of social justice i mean the idea the idea of social justice it's a term that is frequently used by the left and it's generally used to mean things like pro-choice it's generally used to mean things like big government is gen

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

so the us attorney from mississippi, who reports to the us attorney general, can take that case on and prosecute it. and that was the real impact, saying that the united states isn't going to mess around with politics at the local level, which sometimes is what happens in these prosecutions. people have to get elected as a da, they don't want to prosecute it because, you know, "oh, it looks like ty're supportive of gay people." this is about fairness. and finally we have a law that will allow people to protect in a sort of negative rights way, because it's prosecuting people who have committed crimes, but protect the dignity of a community by making these go forward, these prosecutions go forward. >> hinojosa: so what, in your dream-o-vision, jarrett, when you say you want to reach the hearts and minds of americans, how do you do that? you said, "i want gay neighbors to kind of not just..." >> tell their stories. tell their stories to the neighborhood. you know... >> hinojosa: how about if you're not the gay neighbor, and you're not sure what to ask your neighbor, because you don't kno

i had left mississippi. probably due on my junior year because of the anger i had to call it out i needed to get out of mississippi are possible the same way. we came up here and then hop a mission here to work on the harvest and that work i couldn't do i couldn't make money at it so i came back and while i was in jackson i went to the adoption center there and signed up i believe i believe. i have to say i am pained you mean . this is a cotton mill and they were found textile mills and i want to run for about two months and looking for a job and finally one of the old neighborhood greats had been around for years and prerogative job in the cotton mill. i went straight to the army recruiter. the candidate to come. by griffin's report i grew up in a little small town called parrot land texas that's near galveston i remember sitting on a couch and watching. the first gulf war. two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait and watching it on the television seeing how quic

valley, we're looking at chances of storms here, especially arkansas and down towards mississippi looking at violent storms, just north of this, heavy rain will impact areas like missouri and illinois. now, flooding is still a concern up in montana here, river levels are starting to slowly recede but still pretty high and another round of rain here is really going to be increasing those flooding risks. down toward the southwest it stays very dry and windy here, so the strong wind gusts really not helping the fire fighting efforts going on. 26 degrees in los angeles today, 38, another hot day in houston, but up towards the northeast, new york city, much, much cooler at 19 degrees. now for europe, showers are going to be sweeping across the north, starting off in norway, eventually reaching sweden, looking quite blustery out here as well but instead, high pressure system will start to cover the british isles looking calmer and brigtder for your tuesday. central and western areas showers as well, and still looking at lots of thunderstorms to develop for italy, parts of the balkans especially

. >> the 2011 mississippi flood has georgia lynn and her staff of volunteers looking after a modern day noah's ark. goats, miniature horses, cats, dogs, chickens and cherokee, a sweet tea-swigging ma inin inin. >> how did this habit begin? >> she's one of the smartest animals in the world. >> georgia began taking them in for free. >> their lives get ripped apart. >> the same floods pushing pets into shelters are pushing wild animals into places they normally wouldn't be. the images can be startling and amazing. critters and creatures of all sorts just as scared as humans trying to get to high ground. to find out where the wild things are -- >> it's not graceful to get in there. i promise you, it's not. >> charles gross of mississippi wildlife and fisheries head out into the flood. >> a lot of the animals are very stressed out. >> it wasn't long before i was feeling some stress. >> some animals have never seen a human. they're curious. some are going to be afraid of us. there he goes. now, considering he's about average size. >> and then there are the snakes. >> we've been also telling p

part of the mississippi river levee reopened this weekend. the rest of it'll reopen later this week. it was closed may 13th in an anticipation of record rising waters, the water level has since fallen and the sandbags and other devices have been removed. >> water was very, very, very high and they needed to loose a lot of the water. >> this is something that is so extraordinary that just -- so we had to come. >> reporter: the army corp. of engineers closed 30 of 330 bays a spillway. they opened it last month to divert water from the river to protect new orleans. >> this week there will be a treat for sailboat races fans. starting tomorrow two black, 45- foot boats will face off for high speed test races on the bay. the races will run from one 3:30. >> and a water adventure of a different kind. it was the second dog day on the bay cruise, a fundraiser for the spca, for $125 the dogs and their human friends went on a party boat. there was champagne and plenty of water stations for the four leppinged friends. >> looks like we can look forward to

let's focus in on some counties in mississippi. in these counties in mississippi, people have shorter life expectancies than in honduras, peru, philippines, or brazil. when you look at the other countries, you probably think to yourself wow, i thought we had better healthcare in the united states than in some of those places, and while that might be true, here is the issue. take a look at this map. this is where obesity is highest in the united states. it is also where people have the shortest life span. so obesity and also access to healthcare are two big reasons why life expectancies are shorter in those areas. >> i will be back at the top of the hour with more live news. right now, time for the good doctor. >>> because she's cute, because she's smart, because she's strong, because she's so much fun. >> what you're listening to is a father's birthday message for his little girl. >> happy birthday to you. nice to sing that song to you. giovanna. >> a message for her that he doesn't think he will be able to deliver in person. >> al

the largest declines were in mississippi and oklahoma. reports. >> reporter: hamilton county, florida, is about a two and a half drive from jacksonville but the lifespan for women here is 7 1/2 years, less than women in libya, where the lifespan here is 80. >> i say i need to lose weight, i need to do this and that but i don't ever do it. so. >> reporter: and your daughter? >> same. >> reporter: sue thornberry is 34. she doesn't smoke but loves her fried southern food. >> i'm not active, other than working and home, that's it. i don't exercise much and i don't eat real healthy. >> reporter: hamilton county is one of 00 u.s. counties where the life expectancy for women declined, that's a quarter of the counties in the united states. >> progress for women has been worse for women than men. >> reporter: dr. christopher murry and his team looked for life expectancy for women, found wide disparities for women from county to county, even from state to state. >> for large parts of the u.s., for many, many counties, we are not achieving the impro

drenching rain spreads into mississippi. scorching heat across texas and arizona. showers along the pacific coast, from seattle to san francisco. >> 74 degrees in sacramento. 90s from boise to albuquerque. and phoenix heats up to 116 degrees. 79 in chicago. 81 in kansas city. 99 in dallas. mostly 80s in the northeast. baltimore climbs to 90. miami, 88. and new orleans, 93. >>> all right. coming up, the new nationwide ban on dangerous cribs. >>> also, new details about a boston mobster's 16 years in hiding. he's admitting he returned to the city during that time, fully armed. >>> and one major city's plans to ban all pet sales. >>> well, good news from europe is helping the financial markets. french banks are giving greece more time to pay off its debt. so, it appears that a widespread european debt crisis can be averted. that's boosting markets both overseas and in the u.s. but a general strike is under way in greece, protesting the government's budget cuts. >>> takingg look at the markets this morning, tokyo's nikkei average gained 71 points today. hong kong's han

it is west of the mississippi river and east of the mississippi tis a different story. the thunderstorms and low vis and we have arrival delays up to an hour or 45 minutes. >> this is producing the delays up to a half an hour of departures . scattered showers and reporting delays of half an hour to jfk. i will have details coming nupt accu-weather forecast. >> bay area home prices took a plunge last night. it was down nine percent from may of 2009 when it was 410,000. the data quick said sale was distressed or foreclosed home pulled down the median. >> san francisco board have had super visors gave approval of the redevelopment of treasure island. it is 140,000 square feet of the commercial space. they are making sure it is not too upscale . >> it affordable housing. it is something our city needs . and really an unprecedented number of units. it is infrastructure upgrades. it is expected to take 20 years. roughh day on wall street. an oakland company gave investors something to think about before the market turned. >> boy hood home of one of the biggest names hits the

but women in holmes county, mississippi, have one of the shortest life expectancies: 73.5 years. holmes is overwhelming african american with 48% below the poverty line. the decline in longevity comes despite significant gains in screening and treatment for women's diseases. researchers blame high rates of obesity, smoking, and other unhealthy lifestyle choices for the declines, but do not fully understand the reasons behind the disparities from place to place. researchers are hoping to use this county-by-county data to watch some public health problems individualized, catered for specific communities. but the idea of adding years to people's lives. scott. >> pelley: thanks, kelly. of course, there are many factors-- race, income, lifestyle, genetics-- that determine how long we live. ben tracy in los angeles found a program that is helping people improve their chances of living longer. >> reporter: with 26 fast food outlets in just six square miles baldwin park, california, has never topped anyone's list of healthy cities. >> healthy selection means anything that's on this area.

they're in the path of a historic flood on the mississippi river. could be damaged, ask one facility, a layer of protection has failed, but a spokesman says the plant was built with that kind of scenario in mind, and it is still protected. we'll talk more about this with rob marciano in a moment. and a look at the most covered murder trial in america right now. some kind of legal issue brought the casey anthony trial to a screeching halt. anthony's lawyer says he expects things to get going again today in orlando, florida. before the delay, he said the defense would rest wednesday or thursday. that may be delayed. anthony, as you have likely heard, is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter. >>> a murder suspect in oklahoma apparently didn't want to wait for his trial. he managed to overpower a couple of deputies and bust out of jail. authorities found him yesterday hiding in some weeds until a pond. he didn't put up a fight. he was allegedly arrested for killing his ex-girlfriend and her two children last year. an arrest warrant is issued for mu