i'm grateful to have the members of the mississippi supreme court and mississippi court of appeals here with us. i have had the rare privilege of appointing such fine jurists as judge donald bean and judge james maxwell to the supreme court. i have appointed harvard law graduate jack wilson and former u.s. attorney jim greenlee to the court of appeals. tonight we are all honored by the court's presence. let me say congratulations to all of the members here tonight, particularly of those who have or will be selected as committee chairman. i can assure you the leadership weighs every appointment with extreme deliberation and attention. and i'm certain you will do no less than the consideration of your important duties as committee chairmen and chairwomen. 25 years ago, i took the only of office as a member of the house of representatives. it was a wonderful day and has been a beautiful journey. but all along the way, i have remembered the pride and excitement i felt becoming a representative of this body and a humbled public servant. my goal then as it is today was to do the most good. i

as lyndon johnson once said, there's america, the south, and then mississippi. -- dorothy and mississippi the posters went up in churches, on trees, and along rotting walls of one from schoolhouses all over the mississippi delta. peopleed to the colored and written in large letters, as the coloredcing people. dr. dorothy ferebee and her staff of trained colored assistance who would treat the sick of their race. the mississippi health product was coming to town and lord knows, the colored people of oliver county needed all the help they could get in the summer of 1936. but the rest of the population clawed their way out of the hadt depression that engulfed a decade, blacks in the delta still suffer the same miserable this and they always had with no end insight. most african-americans in the tenantorked the land as farmers or sharecroppers, i can to modern-day slavery. a grandamilies aren't sum of $50 a year, sometimes less. the farm workers lived on the most fertile ground on earth, but their diet contained almost no fruits or vegetables, because the land owners refused to allow them to u

this is dixiecrat mississippi. this is where the united states senator for a long time was as a eastland and he stood barrier to any progressive civil rights legislation. his father actually led a lynch party and he lashed one of his own sharecroppers. a woman who was his girlfriend, torturing both of them and making sure the man had to watch as his loved one died first. it must have been awful because he actually stood trial for it which was almost unheard of. he of course got acquitted. as lyndon johnson once said there is america, there is this self, and that -- there is the south, and then there is mississippi. the posters went up, and churches, on crate myrtle trees and a long rotting walls of one-room school houses all over the mississippi delta, addressed to the colored people, written in large letters as if my a huckster announcing the arrival of the traveling circus. notice, colored people. come to a clinic for health advice. the anonymous author promised a genuine lady doctor from washington dc. dorothy f

whistling at a white woman in mississippi. snake. >> what did you tell him? >> we didn't have time to tell him anything. our reaction told him everything. we ran to the car and got out of town as fast as we could. >> did you figure there would be disaster. >> i thought if they caught us they'd whip us, but murder never crossed my mind. never thought he would be kill. >> the boys ran into the fields to hide. trouble didn't follow that day or three days after. by saturday the boys all but forgot their fear. until late in the night, pounding at the door woke them from a sound sleep. when i opened my eyes, i saw two white men. i recognised one. the guy with the gun. he ordered me to lay back down. and made emmett get up and put his clothes on. and his mother came in he begged and pleaded. offering money. >> she offered money. >> yes, to leave them alone. >> he hesitated. but he didn't. >> he wasn't going to. him. >> the men took emmett away down the dark road. what were you thinking, your you? >> they said they were going to bring him back. i lay there in shock a

then you went on to spies in mississippi.n: i was shooting for "spies in mississippi" and i read there was one clinic left in the state. as a person who is pro-choice and who, i feel like i'm politically aware, i had no idea about the attacks on abortion clinics across america. i found dr. willie parker and clinic owners willing to let me spend time with them. i had no idea at the time that the case would end up before the supreme court. the timing of the film is fantastic. it amplifies the legal restrictions that nancy is speaking of. it's a complicated issue to explain to people. regulations that feel on their face as if they are reasonable are actually intended to shut down clinics. and as the center argues, the question before the court is whether that is constitutional. amy: we are going to go to a break. when we come back, you are going to be joined by two health care providers, the owner of one of the only independent abortion clinics in alabama. we are going to be speaking with an abortionarker, provider at the last s

biloxi mississippi. might want to the al shaaab video? >> brianna, the campaign has not responded to comment when it came to this video. you don't actually know, obviously as you know quite well, whether donald trump is going to respond to one thing or another. so far, his fwiter feed, the often preferred mode of -- hillary clinton and jeb bus has remained silent on this video. as you noted, one of the interesting elements, bringing this type of thing up in the debate in december. at that time, there was no evidence that any type of recruiting videos actually existed. what this creates is that concrete evidence with him in this video, or being used in this video, it's almost certain this will be coming up in the weeks ahead. something he will likely have to address. >> so you're there in in mississippi. how is he resonating with people there? >> you know, it's interesting. mississippi for the most part in presidential campaigns is not a place candidates play a lot of attention to. it's later in primary calendar.

mississippi health care solutions institute. it is received the support of the mississippi board of medical licenses led by dr. virginia crawford. please join me in thanking these physicians to the contributions of the state's medical profession. thank you doctr. crawford, than you. [ applause ] >> a great deal of effort has gone into the economic counsel. our state's chamber of commerce. this independent analysis of highways and bridges was not left to a government agency but a group of business leaders. the man steering this noble effort is not in the asphalt or cement or the construction business. he is one of our state's most respected industrialests and his company is a national leader in the poultry business. he's a sponsor of the sanderson farms championship, our pga tour golf tournament. he is with us tonight and we should all thank my friend joe sanderson. joe, thank you. [ applause ] >> so now we have a decision to make. how do we generate revenues to ma maintain and not place an undue burden among the working people o

it ends up in the mississippi river. whether it comes from missouri river, arkansas or even the ohio rivers, they all at some point funnel back into the mississippi. st. louis crested yesterday, which is good news. the water has started to recede. it's a different story, a little bit farther south. cape girardeau. kayry not expected to crest until january 4th. miller city on the east side of the mississippi river that's south of cape, it's possible we could see more levies over the next several days. again, as we notice, a lot of these areas aren't expected to crest for several more days. greenville not for another 10 to 14 days. the problem with that, any rain fall that we get the next 10 to 14 days could make these crests even higher, depending on that amount of water. one good news is we do expect the spillway alleviate some of the problems downstream in new orleans. >> allison chinchar, thank you so much for that. ahead this hour, a manhunt underway for this man. the gun man who walked into a pub and opened fire. we

mississippi, we will lose mississippi. and grant said, i can do that. i can send troops and save mississippi. if i do that, we will lose ohio. he is saying public opinion in the north is no longer going to support intervention in the south. mississippi was taken over by democrats, but the republicans keep ohio. hayes is elected, but hayes is not a reconstruction guy. he is much more connected with the so-called reform weighing of -- public and reporting republican party, which is turn its backs on reconstruction. even if hayes had won a big victory, reconstruction was going to pretty much come to an end anyway. >> that is the tacit deal made. some is disputed, it has parallels to the year 2000 when returns were disputed. what if a state says -- sends in two returns? who decides who actually carried that state? they set up an electoral commission, which was completely beyond the constitution. there is nothing in the constitution saying an electoral commission, with five members of the house and senate and supreme court, and

. >> another levee in illinois holding back the mississippi river failed. massive flooding is cutting off several towns. the governor says it's the worst he has ever seen. >>> donald trump back on the campaign trial promise is his word -- your "new day" starts right now. >> good morning, everyone. i'm alison kosik in for christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you this morning. >>> a firearmstorm of protests in saudi arabia. in iran. [ screaming ] >> in iran, dozens of demonstrators attacked the saudi embassy in tehran throwing fire bombs and smashing windows and furniture. riot police have been called in and 40 people have been rested. >> some of the women turned out to protest a death in saudi arabia, ba rhrain, all the way india. let's bring in becky anderson. why is this causing among the 47 people who were executed, so much backlash. >> reporter: victor, this is a disturbi ining development that could have wide ranging ramification for this region and beyond, in fact. >>> al nimr was outspoken shiite cleric and in the shia dominated east

roof after roof peaking from the swollen mississippi. tonight the floods is growing. in illinois, authorities recovering the second body of two teenagers whose truck was swallow last week by rising waters. 3 still missing. 25 lives lost and more than 100 homes destroyed. hardest hit this weekend, alexander county , illinois where the ohio river and the missisippi now meet. the ohio has already crested?. the mississippi now threatening sot :gov bruce rauner: "here in alexander county it's the worst that we've seen.." indra bridge: the mississippi is 4 miles in that direction across what should be corn fields and today it is lapping against this house for many here it's a traumatic flashback to the record floods of 1993- some of the same families dislocated more than 20 years ago -- now manning pumps to defend their homes all over again the reynolds family manning a boat to check on their mother: mother's home flooded "my mum is elderly this is where she wants to stay and we are going to do what we can to make that happen map gfx: v/o the mississippi floodwaters surging

you talk mississippi, if it's four, five, six inches, that is a significant snowfall. south of that, that's the northern part of the state, the southern part could have tornadoes today. we have snow reports from south dakota into arkansas with this system. some places, you're more used to that snow, but it gets farther south and we are not. the severe side of this especially along the gulf coast, louisiana through about alabama, watch that very closely. it does include a risk for tornadoes through today. this is just a very potent system. then on the other side of the

first, let's hear her story. >> girls trip from mississippi, very exciting. and you were pointing at deb. tell me why she deserves this. >> well, 2015 was a hard year for her. she's been through a divorce and had to move back in with her mom. so she's just had some issues this year. we're excited because it's a makeover and a new start for 2016. >> sounds like you truly deserve this. do you feel up for it? >> yes. i'm so excited. we love her. >> all right, she is here with her friends lea and liz and joanna. let's take one last look at debby before and bring out debby foster. wow.

especially in cities downstream from the mississippi river. shelters from all over florida are taking the animals-- including one in marion county. in all, 8 organizations in florida helped to place those animals. turning now to sports-- it was a big weekend for the n-f-l-- as teams gear up for the divisional playoffs. shadoff has your sportszone report. coming up next-- police in italy now death of an american woman... who is florida native. why investigators believe she was murdered! plus-- a 3 year-old boy goes on a wild ride! investigators say he was found driving on a busy road... in a toy car, we'll tell you about it. you're watching fox 35 good day orlando. it's we'll be right back. the "galaxy far, far away" continues to dominate the box hershey' s miniatures. we pass ' em! we pick ' em! delicious fun for everyone. hershey' s miniatures are office. "star wars: the force awakens" held onto the top spot during its fourth weekend in theaters-- earning more than forty-one million dollars. "the revenant"-- starring leonardo dicaprio-- came

script: roof after roof peaking from the swollen mississippi. tonight the toll from these devastating floods is growing. in illinois, authorities recovering the second body of two teenagers whose truck was swallow last week by rising waters. 3 still missing. 25 lives lost and more than 100 homes destroyed. hardest hit this weekend, alexander county , illinois where the ohio river and the missisippi now meet. the mississippi now threatening sot :gov bruce rauner: "here in alexander county it's the worst that we've seen.." indra bridge: the mississippi is 4 miles in that direction across what should be corn fields and today it is lapping against this house for many here it's a traumatic flashback to the record floods of 1993- some of the same families dislocated more than 20 years ago -- now manning pumps to defend their homes all over again the reynolds family manning a boat to check on their mother: sot dawn reynolds olsen mother's home flooded "my mum is elderly this is where she wants to stay and we are going to do what we can to make that hap

roof after roof peaking from the swollen mississippi. tonight the toll from these devastating floods is growing. in illinois, authorities recovering swallow last week by rising waters. 3 still missing. 25 lives lost and more than 100 homes destroyed. hardest hit this weekend, alexander county , illinois where the ohio river and the missisippi now meet. the ohio has already crested?. the mississippi now threatening sot :gov bruce rauner: "here in alexander county it's the worst that we've seen.." indra bridge: the mississippi is 4 miles in that direction across what should be corn fields and today it is lapping against this house for many here it's a traumatic flashback to the record floods of 1993- some of the same families dislocated more than 20 years ago -- now manning pumps to defend their homes all over again the reynolds family manning a boat to check on their mother: sot dawn reynolds olsen mother's home flooded "my mum is elderly this is where she wants to stay and we in rural oregon, the new year is off to an unsettling start. a

the mississippi river is at his front door. it looks like you built this in the middle of a lake. >> 30 years ago this didn't happen. >> reporter: after a flood in 2011, willis was one of the people living in a flood zone who accepted a state buyout and agreed to leave. when did they offer you the buyout? >> right after the floodwater went down. >> reporter: in 2011. >> yes. >> reporter: and you took it. >> yes. >> reporter: have you gotten your money? >> nope. four years, seven months, probably. haven't heard a word. >> reporter: he had the money to move away and wait for the state to reimburse him. retired truck driver richard johnson turned down the offer. >> i told my wife, we can't afford to move. you can't just up and move like that. >> reporter: johnson says he doesn't have the money to start over. the median income in alexander county is just under $27,000 per year, less than half of the state's median income. as for david willis, whether or not he gets his money, he's made think you'll ever come back? >> nope. >> repor

>>> the mighty mississippi river continues to swell, wiping out leave vies and homes and experts say it will get worse before it gets better. first, here, that four letter word you asked santa for snow, you may end up seeing it next week. howard bernstein to see what he has to say? >> a little bit of snow next week, monday is the day for flurries and snow shower, today was a beautiful day, a lot of sunshine, we had a lot f it today. clouds way up to the north in pennsylvania, new york state. it is a little chilly out here. down to 44 in town. 30ss in the suburb, but it will be a nice night by january standards. but here's the future cast, tonight will be quiet, tomorrow morning, we'll start with upper 30s and low 20s. sunday afternoon, temperatures will rise to the mid and upper 40s, flirting with 50 degrees. monday, that's when an arctic air mass arrives, by monday morning, notice 27 in cumberland, 28 in manassas. towards midday, a little blue on the map here, snow showers, temperatures only low to mid 30s. they don't get much hire than that by 1:00 o'clock, this is a model, it coul

the snow is still wet, but good shots of the barges on the mississippi river. then we went farther south down to northern mississippi and oxford and it was still rain there. but we do expect oxford to pick up a couple inches later on this morning. in our sky, clouds, they came through in waves today. they cleared out and another batch moved in. we'll deal with in overnight, probably through tomorrow as well, and more clouds expected on saturday which could give us a slight chance for rain. it's 45 at pahrump valley high school. they're more humid there in the valley the humidity drops. every neighbor in town in the 40s. the canyon at 37 degrees. outside the valley, it's a little chilly, 30s on the mountain, 30s in lincoln county. our high temperature today was normal, at least the high was, 59 degrees for the 21st of january. 41 was our morning low, making this barely an above normal day. tomorrow we'll start in the 40 ohs, fine our way to the mid 50s. somewhat by the clouds rolling in. not going to have too much wind, that should stay less than 10 miles per ho

the mississippi river at record levels. the deadly and rare wintertime flooding. the property damage and the relief in the forecast. >>> and later, airline hero. the pilot who didn't have to turn the entire plane around in the terminal who missed his flight, but he did make a u-turn and he really saved the day. it's friday, january 1st. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> good morning on this new year's day. i'm lauren lifter. >> i'm phillip mena. happy new year. >> happy new year to you. >> we spent there new year's hanging out at work. >> we have the party favors to prove it. we should ring in the new year with 2016. >> did not stop celebrations and it won't stop the celebrations us being here at work. >> let's keep it going. i'm sure there are plenty of people that had a wonderful new year still wanting to enjoy a little fun and some news. >> if you just came home from partying, happy new year everyone. down in times square, we could hear the fireworks going off when it hit midnight. >> you have good ears. could you really? >> absolutely,

: the mississippi is four miles away, across what is typically corn fields. but today, that overflow is backed up right against this home. for many, it's a traumatic flashback to the record floods of 1993. the reynolds family taking a boat to check on their mother's home. >> my mom, she's older, and this is where she lives, and this is where she wants to stay. so we're going to do everything we can to make that happen. >> reporter: the mississippi floodwater surging south expected to crest near memphis thursday and approaching greenville and vicksburg, mississippi as well as baton rouge, louisiana in the next two weeks. a rare winter scare for the communities in the south dreading what's coming their way. residents will be closely monitoring the level of both of these rivers overnight hoping for the best. indra petersons, abc news, olive branch, illinois. >> stocks plunged so much on the chinese stock market this morning that trading was halted. a new rule that went into effect today sends traders home if stocks are off 7% or more and they were. the chinese s

and overflowing of the mississippi. we'll have the latest. >> puerto rico is expected to default on its death. $37billion is due today. the governor said that they don't have the money and the situation is not going to change any time soon. >> the beautiful island of puerto rico is starting 2016 in debt. just the way they began 2015. they're expected to default today on a $1 billion payment of which most of that money they will pay, but there is interest they say is not guaranteed, a and they're not going to release those funds. indeed, the second default. the first one was in august of 2015. the governor said that the island has done everything they can to stop the bleeding here. let's tick down a few of the things they they have done. they've delayed tax refunds. they've slashed healthcare. they've let go of 30,000 public workers and close 100 schools and increased the sales tax by 50% and another increase is expected this spring. the governor said the only issue, the only way forward is if congress acts, speaker of t

today, you can see it's coming out of the mississippi and head out of the mississippi and threatening a local power substation. now the race to protect property and save lives. the basketball team in full force filling sandbags all around the community center. how do people feel? >> they're in shock. it's reached its highest since 1993, i think. >> reporter: residents in boats morning, everyone's fine, and they come home eight hours later, and we had water rise four feet. >> reporter: here, you can see the waters topping fencing, scaling street signs claiming real estate as it moves. this was matt's home before the flood's hit. here, it's parentally submerged and finally swept away by the waters. >> living on the river, you expect floods. but you put stuff high. the river goes down, you wash stuff and carry on. you never expect your house to float away. >> reporter: but you guys are safe. everybody did get out? >>y. yes. everyone got out. the dog is out. important things. >> reporter: it is amazing with all the devastation in the area, i continue to be impressed by the residents here.

mississippi is four miles away, across what is typically corn fields. today, this overflow is backed up against this home. it's a flashback to the record floods of 1993. >> my mom, she's older, and this is where she lives, and this is where she wants to stay. so we're going to do everything we can to make that happen. >> reporter: a rare winter scare for the communities in the south, dreading what's coming their way. residents will be closely monitoring the river level today, hoping for the best. if you look at the map, the south. memphis expecting to see all of the water cresting in the area. tonight, they're at the add a week to that, greenville, way. starting from a huge rain event at this point in time, it will be a month prior, will be in the and it's hard to believe that weather. the temperatures by monday and tuesday, the jet stream dropping out there. teens and even single digits is northeast by the time you wake up on tuesday morning. tom? indra, thank you. >>> next, to an oklahoma neighborhood shattered by a neighborhood shattered by a powerfu

mayor flaggs points out the flood marker next to the mississippi river. the white mark from 2011 stands out showing the water rose 57 feet. the river is expected to crest in vicksburg january 16 rising to 54 feet. (mayor george flaggs/vicksburg:49 -1:00 ) "we've done this before and guys are experts at it. we are corps of engineers for our professional help. we are working with the emergency management department. for now mayor george flaggs says it's important for everyone to remain vigilant and be prepared for what lies ahead. (mayor george flaggs/vicksburg 1:07-1:11 ) "we are doing everything we can and i feel confident as mayor of this city that we are being prepared as best we can." >> heavy rain last weekend is now blamed for 24 deaths in missouri and illinois. a man that fell through the ice on an a-t-v near norfolk, nebraska on saturday has died. the incident happened shortly after 4:00 p.m. yesterday. authorities say a man drove an atv onto a rural pond just south of norfolk when the ice broke. fire officials deployed their ice rescue team. the u

the mississippi river now on track to crest at the famous arch in downtown st. louis some 21 feet above flood stage. all the rivers that feed this area, the illinois river, the upper mississippi and the missouri are all coming with their flood crests right here today. so that's what's made this flood so large. >> reporter: the overflowing rivers already flooded hundreds of homes and hundreds of authorities are still warning residents to stay away from the water. the swollen merrimack now being blamed for breaching another wastewater treatment plant in st. louis county pouring raw sewage into the river. so far, nine levees have been toppled, nearly a dozen more threatened. and missouri not the only flooded state. from illinois to north carolina -- >> it was raining hard and coming up fast. >> reporter: this rare winter flooding is also wreaking havoc. >> it's really mind boggling. to see it coming by with the strength it has and to imagine what it can do to our surroundings is powerful. >> reporter: right now in some communities there is a boil water advisory in

that is the strength of mississippi. the people who come together to help each other in times of need. i cannot begin to imagine the sense of loss felt by the families affected. we ask our colleagues to join us in continuing to lift them up in prayer. i ask for a moment of silence, mr. speaker, and with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. mr. thompson: thank you very much, mr. speaker. as the previous speaker has indicated, mississippi was hit very hard with tornados. 11 deaths, significant damage, and we received disaster declaration. the one thing i wanted to pay special tribute to is our system of disaster response worked. federal, state and local officials came together, responded, just like the textbook said they should. nowhere have we received any complaints about help not being available. so if there's any good that we can talk about coming from such a disaster is this is a system congress put together for government to respond to it

especially in cities downstream from the mississippi river. shelters from all over florida are taking the animals-- including one in marion county. in all, 8 organizations in florida helped to place those animals. new at five-- uum fury on full display... as the kilauea volcano in hawaii exploded. volcano watchers say it all started when rocks fell into the volcano's lava lake on friday. scientists say explosions like this only happen when the lake level is relatively high. thankfully--the blast is not risk to since "kilauea" has been erupting since the early 19-80's. you decide 2016-- for all of the focus on the republican presidential primary, there is some real drama playing out now among democrats. senator bernie sanders has made significant headway and is now drawing even with hillary clinton in some critical early states. fox's doug luzader is live in washington d-c with more. good morning doug. what could this mean for the democratic nomination? were to win the nomination... how do fare against the republicans? stephanie -- winter toss

while not expected to be as bad, those living along the mississippi river in tennessee, mississippi, arkansas and other southern states are bracing for the rising waters. the latest projections now show that the river will crest lower and earlier than previously thought. sabrina: the third thing you need to know before you walk out the door... sabrina: in southeast oregon protestors and milita men have taken over a federal building... and are threatening violence in support of what they say are rancher rights. the protest is in support of a family convicted of arson after what they say was a controlled burn that got out of hand on their ranch. one protestor has urged patriot groups to 'rise up' over this dispute. elias: number four... elias: the president is preparing to begin 20-16 with a big push for gun control in the u-s. today, president obama meets with attorney general loretta lynch to discuss options for tougher gun restrictions. then tomorrow, he is expected to announce executive actions he will take on to try and curb gun violence. sabrina: and finally in the top five... an