what mississippi is doing is a waste of time.ues like education and health care they should be handling. >> thanks for playing today. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> always a pleasure. >>> on the subject of fast food, could a craving or could addiction to a taco save america? the taco craze that helped -- that's helping to boost the american economy. we'll talk about that, next. >>> i'm thinking about a neon orange meat filled miracle taco wrapped in a nacho cheese dorito shell. thanks a lot daily beast. i cannot get that image out of my head now or this daily beast headline "can this taco save america?" it's no joke. according to the daily beast last year taco bell sold 1 million dorito locos tacos a day. it's hired 15,000 workers to handle the madness. talk about success. >> wow. >> wow. >> wow. >> wow. >> wow. >> wow. >> wow. so, since we love that daily beast headline, can a taco really save america, we want to talk about that? joining us now our business guru alison kosik and lynn johnson, director of digital and social s

makes you feel bad for some place like mississippi.ime it opens its mouth because of its reputation you are like please don't say the n word, please don't say the n word. why have they had such a bad remember. we'll look back at a classic episode of "the daily show" with tonight's segment 19th century news. ♪ hello. greetings and salutations. my name is jon stewart and given the times i'm obviously neither jewish nor on television. [laughter] our top story this day in the 1865 is that the state of georgia has voted to ratified -- we had over the shoulders in 1965 in? the -- 1865? the state of georgia has voted to ratify the 13th amendment. delightful. being the 27th state to so vote the amendment is national adopted and slavery is abolished in these united states. oh, bully. of course, there still remain a few stragglers who have yet to rat fight the amendment, -- ratify the amendment i'm looking at magnolia state. how much longer will you wait? 148 years would be ridiculous, wouldn't it? >> after 148 years the state of mississippi has

this is how they tried to convince voters in mississippi to legally block any woman in mississippi froming an abortion ever, under any circumstances, even if she got pregnant because she was raped. the conceived in rape tour was their argument for that abortion ban. their argument was that forcing rape victims to bear their rapist child against their will was a benefit of the law. it's not a bug, it's a feature. look what this would do! this was the argument they campaigned on. shockingly, it did not work. mississippi was not psyched about this prospect. mississippi voters said no to that abortion ban by a double-digit margin. now, the mississippi vote was not the first loss for personhood usa. they lost in colorado as well in 2008, when voters said no to the same kind of ban by nearly a three-to-one margin. they tried again in colorado two years later in 2010 and again they were defeated by a 40-point margin. they could not get it done. they had never been able to get it done. turns out voters aren't swayed by the conceived in rape idea. turns out voters do not want to ban all abortion

here's my impression of him mailing mississippi's 13th amendment ratification to the federal registrarglad we did this. that's really nice. let me just put this in the mailbox." oh, what fun! let me explain what we did just there. we used the gentleman by the name of dick molfuss largely because his name was dick molfuss as an avitar for casual bigotry forgetting that perhaps dick molfuss is a real person with a real record on civil rights. you may be thinking to yourself, couldn't you just look that up? yeah, we could have. or, or we could have remained smugly satisfied with the funny name. we went with b mainly because i am a made 12-year-old boy trapped in a 75-year-old man's body. so as it turns out dick molfuss -- don't get tickled by the name, johnny boy -- it turns out dick molfuss has a long and distinguished record of speaking out for civil rights in mississippi. he's an honorable and good man. who in the '90s led the charge on big voting rights reforms there. in 1989 he spoke at a 25th anniversary memorial for the three civil rights activists murdered outside philadelphia mis

within the bit we had very witty fun concerning mississippi's just recently ratifying the 13th amendment. agreeing to end slavery, a mere 148 years after. after the rest of us. as many of you know, if i am bringing up something that we did on the show last week, i'm probably about to apologize for it. maybe i'm apologizing to mississippi as painting it to some kind of reluctant entrant to modern morality. yes, no. it concerns a former mississippi secretary of state who presided over a 1995 attempt to ratify the 13th amendment. it failed due to a bureaucratic snafu >> their former secretary of state failed to send a copy of the resolution to the federal registrar. >> jon: classic. here's my impression of him mailing mississippi's 13th amendment ratification to the federal registrar. "so glad we did this. that's really nice. let me just put this in the mailbox." oh, what fun! let me explain what we did just there. we used the gentleman by the name of dick molfuss largely because his name was dick molfuss as an avitar for casual bigotry forgetting that perhaps dick molfuss is a real person

but we're working hard in mississippi.of the deep south that would be a great example to set. >> bill: laura is calling from sea breeze florida. >> caller: good morning. my comment is right now in sea brink, there issing only one doctor that accepts medicaid. what happens when this goes through, do more doctors have to come aboard -- if you have a certain problem, you have to drive like a hundred miles just to go -- go to tampa to get a doctor that will cover you. >> bill: that's a good question, martha, do you know? >> it is a good question. it is a problem across rural america and certainly in the deep south. our belief is with medicaid expansion, with federal dollars coming in to really treat and care for more people that's going to help with that -- that issue. we -- our senior state economist did a study and showed that 9,000 jobs are likely to come out of medicaid expansion in mississippi. those are all health care industry jobs. >> bill: uh-huh. who is the clientele here? who are some of the people that don't have m

so mississippi is doing good things. i don't think we need more government involvement in an industry like a food services industry to be the whipping stock of the nation. >> geraldo: what about the argument that a fat person is really particularly because so often obesity and poverty run hand in hand, that is person that you are going to have to pay for and why not restrict the color intake if it is possible? why not try to mandate good rules? >> i could agree with you on that. here is what our bill says. we are going to reserve that authority to the state legislature. we don't want a hodgepodge of resumes and regulations so you would have no consistency whatsoever. we believe it's the best interests of the people of mississippi to control that from the state level. if there is regulations that need to be implemented let's get with the trade organizations and the heart association and we'll work together to form these regulations and have something that is consistent throughout our state. >> geraldo: with me here in new

i got 20%-something mississippi from the blacks in mississippi, and i would like to think partially because i had a good record, but also because i tried. if we talk about me getting 27% of the hispanic vote after saying effectively we want your grandmother to self-support, i want to know who that 27% of the hispanic voters who voted for him. the truth of the matter is, not only is it easier to vote for somebody if you like them, it is easier to vote for somebody if you think they like you. this is a real -- this became more than about latinos, became about color. when asian-americans were both for democrats, then that says to me at all those chinese-americans who came here as republicans, because they were fleeing communism, all those vietnamese-americans, all those indian doctors and businessmen who were showing off -- who were taxpayers and they voted for a democrat, a left-wing democrat, by the way, a far shift to the left compared to bill clinton -- that has to be in a lot of voters' minds is about color, about more than immigration policy, and what should republican do? go out and see

now lawmakers looking on from mississippi are saying, not in our state.ed a measure known as the anti-bloomberg bill. and it is now on the governor's desk. joining us now, dr. sandra moore from the moore house school of medicine and on the phone with us now, greg holloway, the legislator who ushered this bill through the mississippi house. so greg, you first, why have this piece of legislation? >> well, first of all, senate bill 2687 states that mississippi legislature retains the authority to make decisions about regulation on food, and mississippi municipalities would not experiment with regulatory bans and restrictions of food products. we believe that food is already highly regulated to ensure safety by four different regulatory agencies. the usda, the afda and the state department, the health, and the mississippi department of agriculture and commerce. and we just believe that this will take away individual freedoms. >> so in a state that has very high numbers of obesity, you're nervous about an effort to try to restrict, i guess, sugary drin drinks,

well, mississippi state senator tony smith joins us.ir. >> thank you greta for having me. >> what is the bill you're passing or tell me exactly what it is? >> well, actually senate bill 2687 simply states that the mississippi legislature will retain control when it comes to food regulations across our state. we don't want a hodgepodge of different rules and regulations that are spread out across our state and you have all of these different municipalities doing their own thing and we think it needs to be consistent state wide. >> greta: were there any sort of efforts to pass a law in some community in mississippi that in any way was remotely like what mayor bloomberg wants to do in new york? >> happening in new york and like might be best to be preemptive. and so, we came up with this bill, also, melanie sojornor helped me co-author this. and-- >> i'm not familiar with the balance of power within your state. do you have both house and senate are republican? >> say that one more time, greta, i'm sorry the connection is-- >> i'm not famil

. >>> send it on over to mississippi. all right. something very cool here.e true for a freshman at vanderbilt university. he was there for billy joel's appearance at a event. >> when michael pollock got his chance he asked joel if they could perform "new york's state of mind" together and billy said sure. ♪ i'm in a new york state of mind ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ i've seen all the movie stars their fancy cars and their limousines ♪ >> well, pollack is from long island, new york, just like billy joel himself. he called their duet probably the greatest moment of his life so far. that is very cool that billy did that and sometimes you have to go for it. you don't know until you ask and the kid went for it and billy was cool and there you had that moment. i love it. >> i do want to clarify why i said mississippi because i know i'll get a lot of hate for that but mississippi lawmakers have determined they want to create -- a law called the anti-michael bloomberg which means no posting of calories and there was something else, oh, people can drink as much sugar

randall pinkston, cbs news, jackson, mississippi. >>> a swift recovery for queen elizabeth.onarch seems to be in good spirits as she left a london hospital monday. she had been there since sunday being treated for a stomach infection. >>> also in england, a real-life caped crusader. yes, that is batman or at least a guy in a bad-fitting costume. he went old school, the '50s tv version. officials just released these surveillance pictures last month. the wannabe super hero walked into a police station and turned in a man who was wanted for burglary and then disappeared. according to "the telegraph," he's friends with the suspect and gave the man a lift to the police station to turn himself in. the crusader had been wearing the costume at a soccer game. hmm. >>> more coming up this morning. basketball great shaquille o'neal. i'm anne-marie green, this is the "cbs morning news." great shaquille o'neal. i'm anne-marie green, this is the "cbs morning news." lies face we understand. our financial advice is geared specifically to current and former military members and their familie

i would talk about hunger because people were starving in mississippi and malnourished, and there were babies with bloated bodies, and for whatever reason i started talking about the problems that were going on in the delta. the mississippi officials were changing over from free food commodities to food stamps and charging two dollars per person and people had no income and they were being pushed off the plantation. >> hinojosa: right. but i'm still stuck on the fact that you, as a young black woman, just were saying, "i'm going to... i like this man, and i think i might even marry this man," which you ended up doing. and then you ended up giving birth to three boys. >> three wonderful boys. >> hinojosa: who are jewish african-american from the south. >> that's right. >> hinojosa: and for you, this relationship as a mother to impart to them that you are products of a jewish background and of an african-american background, and you've written about this, the fact that these are oppressed people. talk a little bit about how you manage that, you know, being in the center of the public eye

certainly there is, and in mississippi as well.as been a lot of soul searching that's been done. but part of the problem is because we don't know the true motive behind the murder, it's hard to be outraged without knowing what, in fact happened. >> michael: yes, and that's true. i guess its sadness before it's outrage, and when the story comes out, it may develop into that. emily le coz covering this story for the jackson clarion-ledger. thank you for coming into "the war room" tonight. coming up here, more in the war room. rand paul's semi epic stand up. granted there were no pee breaks in greek mythology, but still he talked about the same thing for what seemed like an eternity. many senate colleagues were quick to remind, hey that's our job. and then the hillary clinton demarcation zone. that's the period of time we get to reflect on her time as secretary of state before we go on to treat her as candidate for president. and then later not a bad time to bet a couple of hundred bucks on the cardinals. we'll get you the intrigue on

they are the talk show version of the entire state of mississippi. they are reacting ridiculously on one side of the argument and mississippi, last i checked, are reacting ridiculously on don't do what bloomburg is doing to new york. a, we didn't ask you. b, you are by far the fattest state in the united states. so if anyone is talking about what people should be drinking or not drinking it shouldn't be you because you are eating yourselves bankrupt. 203069 -- in 2030, 69% will be obese. they can't walk to the gym much less sweat it off. shut up. maybe you should try it. and i know you stuck it to the yanks in the north, but the last sip of moonshine you will have you will be face down in a pool of your own grits. a, moonshine is for the rich. >> i pace myself with the grits. >> and if i were a frat boy i would say wow, he said 69%. >> you did by using the word if i >>- q. i saw lute -- >> i saw lute mississippi for having the guts to do what they did. here and what bothers me president bolton, there is an industry that employs millions of people. i

and a small mississippi county. one of the cases was closed until cnn started asking questions. >>> also, he wants to be a pope of the people. the new pontiff breaking with tradition. what he's going to do next. today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. >>> police arrested a man suspected of killing american tourist sierra. the suspect was captured today in the southern part of turkey where he has family. the victim was a 33-year-old mother and photographer from staten island, new york. her body was found last month near ancient stone walls in istanbul. police suspect she was killed at a different location. >>> china's new leader spoke out today as they closed a meeting of the national pe

thank you both for joining us. >> straight ahead, cases in mississippi county.ne of the cases was closed until cnn started asking questions. [ anouncer ] ihop's new griddle melts... made fresh and hot! hand crafted just for you. it's like a sexy sandwich. [ anouncer ] compare new griddle melts yourself. just $4.99. it's an epic breakfast sandwich. britta olsen is my patient. i spend long hours with her checking her heart rate, administering her medication, and just making her comfortable. one night britta told me about a tradition in denmark, "when a person dies," she said, "someone must open the window so the soul can depart." i smiled and squeezed her hand. "not tonight, britta. not tonight." [ female announcer ] to nurses everywhere, thank you, from johnson & johnson. ...and we inspected his brakes for free. -free is good. -free is very good. [ male announcer ] now get 50% off brake pads and shoes at meineke. >>> there's been a huge development on a story we brought you last week, the troubling story of the hit and run death of a black man in mississippi near

the mississippi case is really interesting.t's about the conservative argument for a really long time has been about state's rights versus -- these states, districts, counties, cannot take action to limit state's, citizens con simgs of fatty foods. at the end of the day, taxpayers are going to be footed with the bill. this is the problem for the republican party on a number of issues. it's about the long view versus the short view. the republican party can actually paint themselves into a corner on this on any number of arguments. >> can the government stop people from getting fat? >> actually, it can. not any individual, but public policy has consequences if it's properly structured. look at how we've cut the consumption of cigarettes. by taxing something and regulating it, you can change behaviors. significantly. i don't think that the debate is focused enough are the costs. everybody pays when somebody overweight, obese, goes to the hospital with diabetes. and this is the major cost that we face as a society. it's at the roo

the clinic in mississippi, i believe, has a bit of a stay of execution. but it still could close at any time, is my understanding. north dakota i don't think is quite as far awe long, but they're -- along, but they're getting there. i think, i know the center for reproductive right in mississippi has been mounting the legal challenge that i believe -- >> [inaudible] >> on the state level. i know they've been going to, working within the state to try and keep the clinic open. my suspicion is that this is an anti-choice tactic to try and bring an abortion case before the supreme court, so even if mississippi ruling goes one way, it'll be appealed and so on and so forth. which is good news, i suppose, for the clinic, because i believe that as long as the law is not -- is tied up in the courts, it can't be enforced. it's a bit sketchier when you think about if it comes to the court what the ruling could be right now with the justices that are currently seated. in terms of what individuals can do, i know -- i think probably one of the best things is being awar

mississippi governor expected to sign the measure into law.ssippi is the nation's most obese state in the country. enough government regulation. if the customer wants a super cy something, including themselves, they have to figure out how to do it. well, ther is no telling what vice-president joe biden will say when he goes of script as usually is. unfortunately forhe vice president he may wish she hadn't this week, just this morning unveiling a new domestic violence reduction initiative in maryland. you can tell it as something to do with guns. his choice of words may have downplayed a type of domestic abuse. >> we have learned that certain behavior is on the part of the abuser pretend much more damage and other behaviors. for example, if the abuser has attempted to strangle his victim , if he has threatened to shooter, if he is sexually assaulting her, there are a number of other signs. these are telltale signs to say, this is not your garden variety slap across the face, which is totally unacceptable and of itself. lou: if you are taking no

. >>> mississippi lawmakers say they don't want to be like mike.y have passed and sent to the governor a so-called anti-bloomberg bill that won't allow any municipalities to act as so-called food police. if the governor signs it, no one at the local level in mississippi will be allowed to control portion size, calorie counts or take the toys out of kids' meals. critics point out the cdc ranks mississippi number one in the nation in obesity. >>> another sinkhole in the news. this one swallowed up a guy on the golf course in waterloo, illinois. out of nowhere on a fairway as you see of parched grass, it took him 18 feet down. he was rescued with a rope and suffered a dislocated shoulder. >>> and prepare for the possibility of another bush in politics. george p. bush, that's son of jeb, nephew of george w., grandson of george h.w., is in the running for texas land commissioner. it's his first run for elective office. he's 36 now. but a lot of americans got their first real glimpse of him when he led the pledge at the '88 gop convention. >>> when we co

also accused of killing a fellow marine from mississippi. the shooting may have stemmed from a romantic entanglement. >> the under the circumstances us supreme court will begin hearing arguments in two same-sex marriage case that's could have an impact across the country ai. woman and her lesbian partner will be sitting in reserved seats in court courtesy of her cousin chief justice roberts. they are first cousins. >> the question of same-sex marriage is now before the supreme court on tuesday, wednesday, justices hear oral arguments in two cases. first up a challenge. the ballot that amendmented a constitution toin clud a ban on same-sex marriage. the justices could decide whether the couples have a

things could change. >> i like mississippi.pard smith is from mississippi. >> despite that. >> bill: does he not say that every night? does smith not say that every night he is from mississippi? hey, we know it factor tip of the day about your personal appearance. ties right in with the theme of the show tonight. the tip, 60 seconds away. today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. >> the factor tip of the day about your personal appearance in a moment, but first the to mail. nolan from texas. i hope i'm saying that right, probably am not. mr. o'reilly even though i'm only ten years old i would like to be heard. tax money spent on mars, food menus and a stupid prom video game is dumb. do i not want to

we are going to go to mississippi. >> jimmy: why is that? why mississippi?identified as the least healthy state in the united states. and in the past few years the obesity rate for children has declined by 13%. so -- [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: really? >> yeah. >> jimmy: congratulations, that is great. good job, mississippi. >> good job, mississippi, and we want to highlight that because the governor and the first lady of that state, they really stepped up making changes. there's still work to do, but we are so proud of their accomplishments, and they are a model for other states -- especially in that region. so we're going to go and check it out and highlight what they are doing. >> jimmy: i love that. >> so, very proud. >> jimmy: very good that you chose to do this. i know when i visited the white house for the first time was for 4th of july. you had a beautiful picnic -- a barbeque for veterans and i went there and i performed stand-up. i was very nervous to meet you guys then, as well. but i saw that you had installed the playground for sasha and m

things could change. >> i like mississippi. every night? does smith not say that every night he is from mississippi? hey, we know it factor tip of the day about your personal appearance. ties right in with the theme of the show tonight. the tip, 60 seconds away. >> the factor tip of the day about your personal appearance in a moment, but first the to mail. nolan from texas. i hope i'm saying that right, probably am not. mr. o'reilly even though i'm only ten years old i would like to be heard. tax money spent on mars, food menus and a stupid prom video game is dumb. do i not want to pay for these things when i'm done. you're correct. and donna from pennsylvania. the government needs to cut waste and fraud out of the budget, but the washington hacks lack the will to do it. not all. senator coburn is looking out for us exposing the cons and many others as well. and from colorado, what's insane is that the obama administration believes deficit spending will grow the economy. if that were true, we had 'd ha the greatest economic boo

will not proceed i'm equally disturbed to find out some other related news you see lawmakers in mississippi have recently taken the initiative to make absolutely certain their own local officials don't try to implement a similar initiative so they've actually voted through a bill that would prevent any mississippi county from passing laws to address obesity it's called the anti bloomberg bill and it would bar cities from acting rules requiring calorie counts to be posted or portion sizes to be kept here's the irony mississippi actually does have a serious obesity epidemic holding the title of the fattest state in the country in fact about one in three adults there's at least thirty pounds heavier than a healthy weight it's saying to me to watch one extreme state measure to the next let's go break that set. him up. for a never seen anything like that. this year marks half a century.

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tonight the snow moves into parts of the mississippi valley. 5 inches of snow is likely from eastern montana to the mountains of colorado. and it will be mostly dry and quiet in the northeast and south. >>> in sports now, a woman kicked her way into football history. on sunday 28-year-old lauren silverman became the first female to ever try out for an nfl team. she tried out for kicker, but had never kicked a football in a competitive game. she did play some soccer in college though. but an injury limited her to just two kicks. neither went more than 20 yards. >> you know, i had -- i suffered probably a quad injury, and i tried staying off it and waited for today. i didn't even take kicks in warmup. >> well, to get into the tryouts silverman paid a registration fee of $275. >>> in hockey now, the blackhawks keep on winning. in the third period, patrick kane scores the tying goal against the red wings, and then in the shoot-out, he scores the only goal. chicago over detroit, 2-1 for their ninth straight win. and the blackhawks have now earned at

at the time of his death, he was running for mayor of clarksdale, mississippi.lan's family says he was gay, but they weren't aware how many other people knew. police are exploring whether his sexual orientation may have been a factor in his death. we're back after this.  >>> before we end the program tonight, we do have some breaking news we want to pass along to you. don lemon joins us by phone from puerto rico where, don, you're celebrating your birthday, right? >> i am celebrating my birthday. i can barely hear you, though. >> i know why you're on the phone. we're going to discuss someone who is near and dear to us. jenny cook, who has been our fearless leader, and i know the executive producer of your program and someone who has been at cnn for 15 years, tell us about jenny, the person. >> oh, where do i start? when jenny came to the show, all i was thinking about and what i was going to say tonight is that song, jenny, general i who can i turn to? so i turn to jenny to lead the show and the direction. i was very excited when she came aboard. she has pro

believe they have effectively killing a girl born with the disease in mississippi. the key to recovery could lie in the early treatment she received. it is a story that could have far reaching complications -- implications. >> in three decades in the battle against the virth

marco mcmillan was found dead near a levee near the mississippi river.king for him after his car was found wet by another driver. he wasn't in the car. that is the only person of interest they have right now his name is lawrence reed as a suspect. >> mcmillen's body was found capping an anxious 24 hours where he was reported missing and his s.u.v. demolished by another man. he moved back to clarksdale opening to make his mark running for mayor. >> he wanted to come back to his hometown and make a difference here. i think he would have done that. >> those dreams now for a reason no one here can figure out. >> he was the epitome of a good guy. >> as tragic as it is, you almost hope that it isn't the extra things involved, which could be the historic nature of who he could have been effect elected in this town. >> as of right now, they are not looking at it as a hate crime which is what you are talking about, right? but anytime anyone dice, it's tragic. it's particularly sad in this case because it's a black gay man trying to run in mississippi and a viable

[laughter] oh, i know, it must have been when they made slavery illegal in mississippi all the way back in four weeks ago. [laughter] [ applause ] in fact, we're living in such a post-racial utopia that we couldn't suppress black votes even if we wanted to! which we definitely don't. [laughter] luckily conservative stalwart and justice-the-hutt antonin scalia knows that the courts have to decide this, because even though racism is over, america's elected representatives lack the bicameral ball sack to vote against this thing. >> i am fairly confident it will be reenacted in perpetuity unless-- unless a court can say it does not comport with the constitution. it's-- it's a concern that this is not the kind of a question you can leave to congress. even the name of it is wonderful: the voting rights act. who is going to vote against that in the future? >> stephen: yes, you'd have to be an a-hole to vote against that in the future! luckily, we've got an a-hole who will vote against it in the present. [laughter] the point is, the voting rights [cheers and applause] -- the voting rights act i

mississippi. >> yes, mr. chief justice. but congress recognized that expressly in the findings when it reauthorized the act in 2006. it said that the first generation problems had been largely dealt with, but there persisted significant -- >> which state has the greatest disparity in registration between white and african american? >> i do not know that. >> massachusetts. third is mississippi, where again the african american registration rate is higher than the white registration rate. >> but when congress -- the choice congress faced when it -- congress wasn't writing on a blank slate in 2006, mr. chief justice. it faced a choice. and the choice was whether the conditions were such that it could confidently conclude that this deterrence and this constraint was no longer needed, and in view of the record of continuing need and in view of that history, which we acknowledge is not sufficient on its own to justify reenactment, but it's certainly relevant to the judgment congress made, because it justifies congress having made

scientists say a mississippi toddler born with hiv has been cured.ears old. only the second person in 32 years to be cured of the virus that causes aids. she received relatively high doses of hiv drugs within 30 hours after birth instead of the usual low doses of one or two drugs. >>> cardinals meeting at the vatican. they will meet again as they plan the conclave to pick the next pope. we could see a new pontiff by march 16th. giving us a week to prepare for the next mass palm sunday. >>> three massachusetts men will be arraigned on firearms charges this story has an unusual twist. police in essex, massachusetts, fired a gun yesterday and ditched it in a snow bank. and that canine search dog was sent to search for the weapon and the dog was searching with his paw in the snow bank when the gun discharged. >> i have been in this a long time, seen a lot of canines locate weapons, this is the first time where the gun discharged. imagine the dog was startled. but the dogs that make it through the training are courageous animals and they are the best of t

. >> it does, but there's a place in mississippi called oxford, mississippi, and that's where it wasounded. >> stephen: faulkner, right? >> fawmer in country, right. >> stephen: are you going for a fawmer in vibe here? does the magazine come with cliff notes because -- >> we can arrange that. >> stephen: too many names. >> there are a lot of names. the idea was to explore and celebrate and really get lost nm southern culture. >> stephen: i'm a southern boy. >> you are? >> stephen: i'm from charleston, south carolina. >> which is north from where we sit [audience boos] >> stephen: sir, all roads lead north from charleston. where are you from? >> del rio, texas. >> stephen: no mean to burst your bubble but texas is a great place, but if you are from the real south -- [cheers and applause] -- texas is texas. ask someone from texas they'll tell you from texas. they'll say i'm from texas not the south it's true. >> it's true. >> stephen: it is true. i accept your apology. >> texas is unique and most southerners would like to expel texas from the south. i understand why because texas is in