river however the glaciers came through and pushed the ancient mississippi, the original mississippi riverbed over to 100 miles west of its present-day location one just has to think that with the major cities on the mississippi like the twin cities of minnesota, st. louis, memphis and new orleans that peoria might have been there too have the mississippi continued in its original position. the illinois river has actually filled in the riverbed of the mississippi and that's where peoria is today. our first source was charles. he is a historian from memphis tennessee first and he had talked about all the possibilities of the automotive industry here, the airline industry, he had heard where lindbergh had first come to peoria for sponsorship of this famous flight across the atlantic. peoria would have been a very, very good town for him to try a trial balloon, so he would have have -- of course peoria is smaller and in the 20s had a very strong community. he would not waste a lot of time and with all his marbles in st. louis, all his contacts were there, so he would have, if he didn't

the book unfolds as a trip down the mississippi river, and the mississippi river, it's the third largest river in the world. it's the -- it's only outsized by the amazon and the congo. we who live in flyover country, i think, overlook its significance. it's the center of the american story in almost every imaginable way. it carries a million tons of silt and clay in it every day, or it did before we reengineered it. it's called the big muddy for a reason, and that mud built the american continent,al of land -- all of the land from missouri to louisiana. it built the rich heartland soils that our food supply depends on, its own delta that and those wetlands that are just about half of the marshland in the united states and an absolutely critical ecosystem. it's been absolutely critical to american history, the geography of the watershed matches perfectly with the louisiana purchase which thomas jefferson foresaw would determine the -- [inaudible] of the republic. mark twain called it the body of the nation. ian frazier said in one of his essays in "hog's wild" which is also a wonderful co

those rogers clark won battles along the mississippi.n peoria became an american outpost, it was a fort named for clark -- fort clark. it was designed by general long. when the americans moved in in the war of 1812, which some people call the second american revolution, our territorial governor brought troops up and burned the french village. he chose to not only burn the village, burn the church, burn the warehouse, he erected all of the men and left the women and children to fend for themselves in the wilderness. villagean chief who is was at the north end of this lake saw the fire, he heard the commotion. the french women and children, loaded them into canoes, and took them to st. louis where they could be reunited with their husbands. i tell you the story because the french land claims were tied up in court for more than 50 years. even abraham lincoln as a young lawyer played a role in the french land claims, where finally the original french were paid reparations because the americans had illegally destroyed their village and claime

i have the distinct memory of that but my mother from mississippi from mississippi state university houghand my father from columbus must point. om the heart of jim-crow and dixie's i grew up with stories my mother would say don't tell me nothing about mississippi. i would hear stories about having to get off of the sidewalk because whites were coming down the sidewalk. these four stories. i have to say i was very nervous about going to mississippi and i still have relatives there i have never met because of nervousness i was there a few weeks ago i haven't visited mississippi as often as i should hopper although warburg that is unrealistic pet attitude but still i did is still buried in my consciousness. but my father was a truck driver as a member of the teamsters union. as part of the largest union not only the united states but the county. i used to read those publications mailed to the house. and subsequently, ims fascinated with the st. louis because they had a very interesting leadership. the teamsters understandably and justifiably known as corruption. but st. louis was different

so race as a national problem and what is happening in mississippi are colliding. and black mississippians have just as much to say about urban riots or northern racism as any northern white liberal would have to say about mississippi. and it's remarkable and it is eye-opening. we would not have that but for these larger connections. like in that case i'm thankful they're white liberals at stanford who is so invested in this company spent all summer collecting interviews. >> they instructed the earlier that 10 minutes to the hour we're supposed to shut down. we are, if you like, to talk to the authors individually before we leave the room. we're also going to move up to the war memorial auditorium for a book signing. but again i would like to thank the authors, both, if you would give them a round of applause. [applause] >> thank you all for coming to this session. again, we are here for a few minutes if you'd like to come to speak to either patrick or if you want to do that, before we leave here thank you. >> thanks for coming, everybody. [inaudible conversations]

the world was agasped and in the mississippi it was palpable. at age 33 mistress of rainbow plantation four miles south of sumner would find things strange. a curtain of silence fell. most everyone she knew felt resentful about the incredible amount of international attention and vindictive spotlight on her town and a greed undercurrent arroas that the whole procedure was unfair. after all the murder take place in lafloor but not tallahassee. but the river between the two counties. she got a press pass to the trial for herself and a good friend, a good colleague friend named florence mars. she had never attended the trial. in 1955 it was an all male domain, white women could vote but by law they were excluded from jury duty. as the two women were about to enter the black door of the courthouse, an old family friend, esm sheriff of county stopped betty. you shouldn't be going to do this. you will be hearing things that no white lady should hear. a backdrop to her life. walking into the county courthouse on that historic day in 1955 betty bobo pea

so there are no restrictions right now mississippi as you get to santa fe. 25 and arapahoe, northbound i- 25 has reopened there. and we opened as well under i-25 this morning. across the metro, we have a lot of green out there. nasty accident there. >>> that was breaking news overnight and that man died after crashing into a pole near santa fe and mississippi. this is a look at the scene that just happened a couple of hours ago. we believe the roads are back >>> denver police are looking for a shooting suspect from last night. police say they are looking for a man in his 20s in a dark hoodie and light colored pants. >>> four people died during a theme park ride accident in australia. officials say a malfunction caused two of the victims to be ejected and the two others quote, caught inside the ride. it was a river rapids ride and the park is now closed for that investigation. >>> developing now, a broncos fan fell at least five stories at mile high stadium last night. we know the victim was taken to the hospital. we'll update you once we know more. >>> a denver family wants to know if

now to that disturbing incident at a mississippi high school. parents of one student say another student pranked him by putting the noose around his neck! more disturbing details -- ahead. student involving a noose. abc's steve osunsami with the fallout in mississippi where one student has been disciplined. families at stone high school in wiggins mississippi are furious, after hearing that a black teammate. derrick johnson, naacp: no child should be walking down the hall or in the locker room and be accosted by a noose around their neck the teams coach, who happens to be the schools first black head football coach ever, threw the white player off the team, and says the focus should now be on the vicitm. jean feaster, stone high head football coach: i just feel terrible for him and this staff feels terrible for him and his teammates. an attorney for the district... where an about 75 percent of students are white?confirms that one student has been discipln wants more. they's calling for the student to be expelled, for a federal hate crime investi

and mississippi state and looked at it with dread. what's the worst thing that could happen to me on one of the trips. on his mind, it was shot and killed. around one of the small southern towns or on the court during the game and he still had the courage to persevere and try to play a basketball game like anybody else. he said the three types of treatment, being treated well, treated poorly or not treated at all. it was the third way, not treated at all that was the most difficult for him. it wasn't the physical and verbal abuse he took, it was the sense of isolation that he felt on the vanderbilt campus. it was the most difficult for him. this is at a time when the greek system dominated the social scene on campus completely, but the frats and sororities were all white. there weren't black fraternities and sororities as an alternative to those. no student center. you'd walk, an african-american classmate would notice as she would sit around there were no other black students-- white students wouldn't sit next to her in that row or i

traffic is moving on mississippi and northbound santa fe. so no delays. take a look at the map, one issue to the north side where there was overnight construction on arapahoe and i-25. some time tonight, the northbound side is going to be closed down. they're going month move a big crane in there. they're going to use the onramps and off ramps to get you around it. it's the northbound side only for a time here as they're there at i-25 and arapahoe road. the drive to dia looks good and the dia wait time running at 16 minutes. >> thanks jason. >>> turning now to health news, the american accdemy of pediatrics just released new recommendations to keep babies safe from sids. the group suggests that babies and parents sleep in the same room for the child's first year in order to prevent sudden infant death symptoms. they say room sharing can reduce the risk of 50%. they're remm room, not sleeping in the same bed. >>> bad news for health care marketplace subscribers, a government report says health care premiums under "the affordable care act" will jump 22% for

in the mississippi valley camps have the best records. so john eaton is an abolitionist chaplain -- >> just to follow up -- [ inaudible ] >> yes. so this is where -- this is the birth of different bureaucracies. the superintendent of contraband, that's not a military role, but chaplains, they often gave this role to chaplains. so they become the assistant superintendent. what you have kind of among -- they choose different people and become teachers. this is how you have the first teachers. this is why you have so many women. even if you read the home wars of different politicians, their fives were helping them read the paper, because they got this education in these camps. and that's where you start seeing the kind of improvised leadership structure among those female missionaries and also the superintendents. >> david rosen from alexandria, virginia. i was struck by your comment about the penchant of refugees to have their own land and homestead. is there anything to be said about what happened subsequently between the former refugees a

out of mississippi delta and mississippi state university. we're a team, b.b.orary chair along with dr. maya angelo. currently we have dr. bobby rush who is a the honorary chair, but i would love to have professor horne's scholarship or opinion about the need to have a monument such as our historic fight that speaks to the significance of cotton in the america of the south or the american economy overall. >> host: calling in from san francisco. >> guest: well, first of all, i say right on to the idea of monuments to those who picked the cotton as i'm sure the caller knows more than most, slavery was not a side show in terms of the antebellum u.s. economy. slavery was the main event. that's where capital was flowing. as a matter of fact, one of the thesis i'm going to develop this association of meeting enrichment i make reference to, we need need a redefinition of imperialism to take into account slavery in the export of capital as not only being banking capital exported from new york to the americas, but seeing capital in hume bodies being exported from the af

when she made a call to a mississippi reporter.tay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: we turn now to what's been described d as the oldldest prosecution of a serial killer suspect in u.s. history. late last month, 77-year-old felix vail was sentenced to life in prison for killing his first wife, mary horton vail, who died on a fishing trip in 1962 with vail. 11 years after mary died, felix's new wife sharon hensley mysteriously disappeared. then 11 years later in 1984, felix's new wife annette craver vail disappeared. she was just 17 years old. sharon and annette were never heard from again. all three women n were last seen with felix vail, but felix was never charged in any of the cases. but that changed after the mississippi clarion ledger ran a multi-part series reexamining the life sentences and disappearances. amy: and democracy now! plays a small part in the story. the lead reporter on the series was the prize winning inve

outrage in a mississippi community after a black high school student was put in a noose by as many as four white students at school. the president of the mississippi naacp is demanding the launch of a federal hate crime investigation into the incident. it reportedly earlier this month. the sophomore football player says during a break in practice, the students put a noose around his neck and yanked it backwards. the victim involved is now back in school team. one of the alleged students involved has been kicked off the football team but no students have faced disciplinary action. the n-t-s-b continues its investigation into one of the deadliest wrecks in california history. a tour bus rear ended a slow-moving tractor-trailer early sunday morning near palm springs. 13 people were killed, including the bus driver. 31 other people were injured. the bus was heading back to los angeles from a casino southeast of there when the accident happened. no indication that the bus driver applied the brakes. happening today.. a federal judge must decide whether to approve the 15 billion dollar settl

devastated parts of louisiana, mississippi and alabama. americans poured out their hearts in the form of donations and ex-presidents george h.w. bush and bill clinton joined lands. >> the millions who donated and00's of tusands of poor people deserve to have a fl discrepa accounting. >>elmeo "full measure." i'm sryattkisson. in the past three years affordable ce or obama care has expanded health innce it paying for millions more taay expense.but it no secret hers pre skyrocketed and benefit declined as. this week the obama ministtion rled premiums will rise an average of 22% next year in arizona the cost ofome plan will incrse 116%. with 2017 bennintuesday we investigat and found that obama ca isn critical conditioleaving inrance system. >> vginia hlth insurance broker helps match customers with the right policies. >> it is not working. >> a task that isuch toughe unr oba care. >> your average person who makes $30,000 to $35,000 can't afford a $10,000 deductible and out of pocket higher. it is not sustainable or affordable. especially hard

surveyor along the mississippi river, missouri, that area. he came to peoria to do just that. he was going to survey some of the land for the newly plot of land here along the river. but at the time, it was the 1820s, peoria county government have just established themselves, and they had just had their first what was going to be there first trial case. it ended up being a murder case involving an indian who would just come to town and he had reportedly stabbed a frenchman. they had the first trial case in peoria, and the first murder case. what they did have at the time with someone who could represent the accused. but there happened to be a survey in town was also a lawyer. so william hamilton became the lawyer for the accused indian in the first trial case in peoria county. it ended up being the first conviction, the first indictment and then the first conviction and ended up being the first appeal. .. >> there is a hamilton boulevard on the north side of county courthouse today. towns can influence people and people can influence towns, a

and that connected the mississippi river to lake michigan. the illinois and michigan canal was open, the size of chicago more than tripled in one decade. which is absolutely phenomenal. and at the same time, it telegraphs came and that allowed us to grow as well. there was such demand for transportation that another system had to be developed. so an initiative was started just before the start of the 20th century. to reverse the flow of the chicago river. unprecedented. and i don't think it would have happened except for a scare. you know how the public can be scared and that move things along. there were a lot of cholera outbreaks in chicago because of sanitation problems. and the fear of another outbreak gave the project enough push to dam off the rivers. they chicago river flowing into lake michigan. river --kelly might river flowed into lake michigan. and the public drinking supply came from there. so they reverse the flow. and they created the shipping canal. and that connected lake michigan to the river. and it sent all of the waste dow

this one happened at mississippi. crews knows the fire started in the basement and they say the owner possibly had a pot grow operation down there. >>> lisa joins us right now with another gorgeous day yesterday. last night at the game, it was warm. do we get any fall weather anytime soon? >> not this week. we're well above normal. >> we're getting near 68. it's going to last through the first if you're sending the kids out the door. more cloud cover this morning and highs this afternoon will be in the low 70s. so still very mild. a chance for -- for a few showers mid morning to early afternoon. you'll notice this morning, wet conditions west of the divide. getting closer to grand junction, there in glenwood, palisade, you have a few showers. here in town right now, it's just some cloud cover, early on with a better chance for a few light showers through the early afternoon. it's a slim chance we're going to see much though which is unfortunate. very warm, very dry. red flag warningssnoo in place, but fire danger is h

. >> in 2005 hurricane katrina devastated parts of louisiana, mississippi and alabama. americans poured out their hearts in the form of donations and ex-presidents george h.w. bush and bill clinton joined lands. >> the idea there are discrepancies. >> the millions who donated and00's of thousands of poor people deserve to have a full discrepancies. >> the accounting. >> welcome to "full measure." past three years affordable care or obama care has expanded health insurance it millions of low income and paying for millions more at taxpayer expense. but it is no secret for many others premiums have skyrocketed and benefit declined as. this week the obama administration revealed premiums will rise an average of 22% next year in arizona the cost of some plans will increase 116%. with enrollm 2017 beginning tuesday we investigated and found that obama care is in critical condition leaving a dire outlook for the nation's health insurance system. >> virginia health insurance broker helps match customers with the right policies. >> it is not working. >> a task that is much tough

mississippi and alabama. americans paourtd their hearts in the form donations and george w. bush and bill clinton joined to raise funds. >> the best way to help now is to make a cash donation. >> what most people don't know is bush clinton katrina fund had not been set up as nonprofit under i.r.s. temporarily differeded them and held them in their own existing charities. president bush's greater houston foundation and the clinton foundation. three months after the storm in december of 2005, president clint announced more than $110 million were raised and money still coming in. but when the official katrina fund was set up ledgers show the president's charities transferred less than $80 million. about half that from the clinton foundation. $27.4 million. that is over $30 million short of what clinton said had been raised. the bush charity said that is because a lot of donations had not been collected more than four months after they were announced. the charities haven't released records showing how much came in and from home citing donor privacy. a tax expert and former senio

santa fe is reopen at mississippi this morning... after a driver hit a paisley park -- considering a plan to euthanize more animals-- to help boost the dwindling deer populations. when a final decision on the plan could be made. then some schools are banning clown costumes this year in the wake of creepy sightings around the country. what parents need to know.. that's going to do it for 9news at 4:30... but we have a lot more news and a less than friendly homecoming for former bronco brock osweiler. and it didn't go up from there for the q-b. then two teens accused of killing a well-known chef are charged with murder. what police say happened... before the shooting. remember that prohibits taking selfies with a filled out ballot? one colorado state senator says it's not fair. so he's filed a lawsuit to get rid of the selfie ban. good morning. we're seeing a brief break from this dry weather. meteorologist marty coniglio joins us. marty- you're tracking some light rain off and on

i grew up in belleville, illinois, across the mississippi river from east st. louis. east st. louis figured heavily in the gangster history of

eric johnson in mississippi. my brother in texas and others state movements in the old confederacy and how it is tied to the modern era. >> that is a worthwhile project. i would encourage anyone who embarks on the project to pick careful attention of how they have dealt with foreign-policy. the scholar in madison wisconsin and her most recent book talks about support in the highest ranks for the war in vietnam for example. as i have already noted there has been a certain kind of circumspection if you like of leaders about all of these pressing crisis is. some of which might be

she said it happened last year when lisa mccombs was about to board a flight from kansas to mississippi with her dog. she says airline employees verbally assaulted her with questions about her disability, and ultimately denied her flight twice over a few days. the lawsuit accuses the airline of discrimination and also violating the americans with disabilities act. >> a crazy, obnoxious situation took place, arguing back and forth, humiliation, harassment. and ultimately my flight was denied. the whole situation perpetuateed my disability, sent me into crisis mode. >> during the third attempt, she says airline staffers came with a wheelchair, loudly announced they were there for a disabled veteran, and insisted on escorting her. american airlines reportedly has reached out to her, acknowledging the mistake and says they want to make things right. >>> in case you missed it, there is one less section of

look at all that red behind that accident near mississippi. of course out to i-70 this morning, just a tough drive. southbound along i-225 typically tough this me accident northbound direction of i-25 at arapahoe road, slowing southbound coming into town westbound along i-76. up north, earlier accident near meade. this is at the berthoud exit. backed up to highway 66. you can see that direction long line of cars, that's northbound i-25 approaching meade. >> ashton, more traditional october weather, right? >> will feel more like fall than the last couple of days. surprise. we always get something. >> some sort of snow or -- >> don't see snow in denver, at least the next couple of days. ,,,, and coffman tried to redefine rape to mean only forcible rape. in coffman's bill, victims who were drugged, even minors, victims of statutory rape, would not be considered rape victims. coffman and trump are too dangerous for colorado. spective, we feel that often washington is removed from what we need. senator bennet is different. michael bennet has been a

and that connected the mississippi river to lake michigan. after the illinois and michigan canal was open, the size of chicago more than tripled in one decade. which is absolutely phenomenal. and at the same time, it telegraphs came and that allowed us to grow as well. there was such demand for transportation that another system had to be developed. so an initiative was started just before the start of the 20th century. to reverse the flow of the chicago river. unprecedented. and i don't think it would have happened except for a scare. you know how the public can be scared and that move things along. there were a lot of cholera outbreaks in chicago because of sanitation problems. and the fear of another outbreak gave the project enough push to do him off the rivers. they chicago river flowing into lake michigan. the taliban river flowed into lake michigan. supply public drinking came from there. so they reverse the flow. the shippingted canal. and that connected lake michigan to the river. waste sent all of the downriver. unfortunately, it we

sustained hurricane force winds on the coast of mississippi for 17 hours. it spawned 11 tornadoes, produced a 28-foot storm surge, destroyed tens of thousands of homes and killed hundreds of people in my state. some of their bodies have not been recovered. some of their families had nothing to bury. and matthew is expected to be stronger and last longer than katrina. you see what i'm saying? it's hitting a much more populated area. maybe it will stay offshore. maybe florida will get lucky. it's a very big maybe. and it's not a gamble you can take. if they've warned you to evacuate, do it now. or risk death on a freeway in a traffic jam from hell later. as florida's governor has warned repeatedly, this storm will kill you. it will kill your children. it will kill your pets and everyone you know who wants to mess with it. unless you get lucky. here's a look at where matthew is now. today, it brought winds of 125-mile-an-hour to the bahamas. the forecasters say the hurricane is getting stronger and if as it makes its way towards the united states, it will cont

indianola, mississippi. in the mississippi valley state university.m of people was our honorary chair. currently dr. bobby rush who is the honorary chair. i would love to have the professor and the scholarship about the need to have a monument for a historic site that speaks to the significance of cotton. >> for civil i would say right onto that deal of monument. to those that pick the cotton. slavery was not a slide show. it was the main event. one of the associations. keep making refuge too. to take into account sleepily. -- to make into account the slavery. but seen them be sported from the african continent as the precursor of imperialism. with regard to cotton a new book. i'm sure they just put those phrases into a book. in terms of that one of the points that i've now come to is that in my own research if you look in the cotton industry what is in part happening is that after the u.s. civil war you see the lives of slave trade in melanesia they look just like me. this of course leads directly to help include those steps. in the incorporation. in

my little office in south haven, mississippi, on state line road. >> i had a hard time saying no to people in trouble. i really had a hard time. just because folks needed help. when you do that as a young lawyer it's hard to make a buck. >> to make an extra buck, grisham started writing. it? >> i didn't know if i could do it. i knew i was going to try. i used to walk in a book store reich this see all of these books on the walls i would say, who wants to hear from "what do i have to add to all this. >> where did that bug come from? you hadn't really been writing before. >> i had never written anything. i had never studied writing. i had a great story. >> simple as the story. i fictionalized that became "a time to kill." >> it would take him three years during which time he was also serving in the mississippi state legislature. were you a good legislator? >> i was terrible. i had the highest absentee rate of any freshman legislator. i got sick of the job. i wrote of a lot of "a time to kill" at the state capitol in jackson, mississippi, hiding in little committee rooms killing come to the f

time to kill." >> it would take him three years during which time he was also serving in the mississippi state legislature. were you a good legislator? >> i was terrible. i had the highest absentee rate of any freshman legislator. i got sick of the job. i wrote of a lot of "a time to kill" at the state capitol in jackson, mississippi, hiding in little committee rooms killing time waiting for legislation blockbuster when it comes out. >> a total flop. they printed 5,000 hard back copies. i bought a thousand. we couldn't give them away. i sold them out of the trunk of my car for several months at libraries just trying to unload the books to pay the invoice. >> what made you go back and write another one? >> well, i had a great idea. or an idea that i liked a lot. >> keep each other's secrets. >> i like that. >> "the firm" the story of a associates are murdered. went on to sell seven million copies. >> had a little chat with the fbi. >> even before the tom cruise film was released in 1993, grisham quit politics and the law to write full time. >> it changed my life. everything was different

this is just before you get to mississippi. most of the activities have been pushed to the right side. can see we had traffic backed up before mississippi. another another trouble spot developing in the denver tech center. you can see from the dry creek camera, some of the lower traffic. there's a new rash that happened at arapahoe hoe and the left lane blocked and that's going to back you up through the denver tech center. up through parker road, there was not action near 6th and colfax and that got everything started. it started slowing down traffic. people not paying attention and g crashes on the highway. the other big trouble spot, they're picking up the cones on northbound i-25. coming up from longmont through mead. take a look at the camera, we had the late consttuction with one lane opened as of a few moments ago, but a four car crash. traffic is moving better here. you can see the flashing lighting right back in there. that's where they're picking up the last of the combs and it's going to take time to go to the north.

he picked his spot to make a stand at spot because it was a narrow spot between the mississippi river right over there and the swamps right over there and he felt if he had this narrow point he could build a rampart and set up a barricade and stop the british right here " we fired our guns and the british kept a-comin' there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago we fired once more and they began to runnin' on down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico although the americans were outnumbered two to one, two hours and the young nation won the last major battle of the war of 1812. jimmy horton's song hit number 1 in 1959. the details of the battle, put to music, are still catchy lyrics today. ("the briars and the brambles are really something that factored into the battle when you think about the british coming here they didn't expect the landscape or the wetscape to be like it was yeah they ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles and they ran through the bushes where a catch 'em on down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico hile it's not the birthplace of the nat

in 1927 is really the watermark, the time when you start to see this change, the terrible mississippi flood, between 250 and 1000 americans die in this flood. president coolidge is in the white house. he does have his conception of limited government ethics the federal government should be to involve any worse but the constitutional president of getting involved also under outside pressure. and, in fact, will rogers of the comedian tells of this joke that colleges low response to this disaster is in the hopes that most of the people died in the meantime so we will not have to do anything about it. not exactly quite as sharp as a late-night comedians would you today but it's not that dissimilar from a joke jay leno made about the katrina disaster when he said bush is i listening troops to the gulf because he found that there's oil in louisiana. so did the same kind of sense of the joke, although i think it had sharper comedy writers in the more moderate air. there's this outside pressure and also the internal pressure in the form of the secretary of commerce, herbert hoover, who was ni

we did wake up to a crash at mississippi and santa fe with a closure. that has been wrapped up and there are no delays whatsoever. town. that did you include your drive across downtown. getting into the south side, it's a 15-minute commute. overall the views outside look similar to this. speeds near 70 in central park. less than 10 minutes across that stretch. and 6th avenue commuters less than 10 between golden and i- 25. >>> this morning, visibility is not an issue despite the fact that we're cloudyev front range. our friends on the plains not so much. get east of the border, especially into nebraska and northwestern kansas,s havability -- we have visibility of less than a mile in that region. for us today, mid morning to early morning showers. then we clear it out later in the day. wind anticipated to kick up junkins fire area. difficult, difficult fire fighting conditions with humidity levels that will be slightly higher during the day. but i think the wind will offset that little advantage. >> hope they can hold their ground on that 50% containment

mississippi high school football, female players have kicked field goals and extra points. but before friday night, a female player had never scored a touchdown. on september 8, 19-74, evel knievel climbed into a steam-powered "rocket cycle" and blasted off a cliff over idaho's snake river. he failed to reach the other side. now 42-years later a hollywood stuntman is paying late knievel by making the jump himself. fox's trace gallagher has the story. <