the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. mr. harper: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. duffy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. duffy: i thank the gentleman from mississippi for yielding. let me be very clear. this is about following the law. we negotiate, we vote and pass laws and the president signs them and they should be enforced. that's what this conversation is about, madam speaker. stem express has thumbed its nose against the investigative panel and obstructed our efforts to bring light to the fetal tissue procurement industry. nearly a year ago, the panel requested information from stem express regarding where they procure their fetal tissue, who they distribute it to. any communications instructing company employ quees to produce fetal tissue and all accounting and bank records related to fetal tissue. stem express, in response to that request have given us none, zero, no documents. so we compelled stem express to provide the panel with this information. the panel should

that's it." 150 in louisiana and mississippi weren't as lucky. another 100 were killed in virginia when the storm moved inland and caused flash flooding. "we're all tired. in fact, i stayed up all night picking up the dead people on this street in that corner, you know. we picked up three live ones on the ramp. we picked up two dead girls. we picked up a dead man at the broussard residence and we picked a little five year old girl. the only survivor in the water." "my little daughter. she's the one that's alive. she floated in on a piece of board. she just went to sleep. the one that was alive, right. she just went to sleep, i guess, the way she said it. when the tide went down she got cold and she ran for a house for shelter." "the walls just fell apart. they went out rushing with the water. they went out with the water." "to people returning to their homes, what they saw was shocking. some of the homes were still standing but for the most part the refugees found little remaining. gulf port officials said their city had been demolished. the civi

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]

why should a school in mississippi be integrated? the professor who was from the north was so impressed, he called betty in and he said, can i submit it to the rosenthalcompetition ? which the winner will be awarded a full scholarship to columbia school or graduate school in new york city, columbia university and she said sure and she didn't really think that much more about it. six weeks later, professor calder called her into his office and said betty, you have won the scholarship. you can go to columbia graduate school. she was ecstatic. she could hardly wait to get home to clarksdale to tell her parents and she ran into her daddy's insurance office and said daddy, guess what? i won a scholarship and she said no daughter of mine is going to new york city. well, she was devastated. they argued, they fought, she cried, she slammed doors but the family loyalty was really strong and she couldn't defy her father and turned down the scholarship. but she had to figure out some way to show her daddy that she was a grown-up person and so s

this is 1942, by disclosing mississippi should be integrated.well, the professor who was from the north was so impressed he called that he had been said i submitted to the rosenthal competition, which the winner will win -- will be awarded a full scholarship to columbia's graduate school in new york city. columbia university. she didn't really think much more about it. about six weeks later the professor called her into his office inside you have won a scholarship. you can go to columbia writers who. she was ecstatic. she could hardly wait to get home to clarksdale to tell her parents and she ran into her daddy's insurance office and said daddy, daddy, guess what i won a scholarship and he said no daughter of mine is going to yankee land for new york city. wow, she was devastated. they argued, fought, cried come as indoors. the family loyalty was really to use on and she couldn't define her father that she turned down a scholarship. but she had to figure out some way to show her daddy that she was a grown-up person. she brought her mother's car

from mississippi across the south but this range of options, defunding headstart, railroading a local young civil rights worker, sending him off to vietnam, terrorism, intimidation, police harassment. these tools had always been on the table and this range of options had always been around and it always propped up the system. the violence had always reinforced the system of economic expectation, politicalcontrol and we see this most at moments of crisis . when is the status quo threatened? it was threatened in 1918, threatened in the world war i era because of mobility and migration, the support of northern migration in northern city. and in the world war i upsurge in civil rights activism and a black protests that ended diplomatic imperatives and the pressures of entering into global war, supposedly for democracy. specifically to this hanging bridge case, this was one of the first times that walter white who would later become head of the and aa cp for two decades, he's just gone to work for the naacp. it was a former insurance salesman from atlanta. he was it a light skinned son of

and mississippi all the way.aylen was changing converting to islam, changing her dress. then began introducing mo to the online brand of islam she had been learning about. >> this happen sod fast. >> it did. maybe got a little too fast. >> you were in love? >> yes. yeah. >> and she was coming to you right? >> yeah. you know, that love can ultimately blind-outyour intelligence. >> the federal bureau of prisons rarely grants access to convicted felons like mo. this is an exception. an agreement between the department of justice, cnn and mohamed ducklala himself for all to understand just how powerful isis' online propaganda can be. his girlfriend jaelyn young showed mo the videos. the videos did the rest. >> so when she showed me that video i think it's kind of like brought a tenseness in her. i felt those same things i guess just because she was feeling it. >> that progressed? >> yeah. it progressed to the point that -- my mind wasn't thinking straight. >> mo, what were you going to do? drop your entire life and r

to caro, illinois, and from the mississippi river to the tennessee river. memphis alone at that time was one of the largest jewish communities in the south. but surprisingly, very few jews were actually expelled. some from the area around holly springs, mississippi, and others paducah,hall see, from kentucky. most jews, notwithstanding the order, remained unaffected for a long time. i wondered why. the answer lies buried in the 130 massive volumes known as the official record of the war of the rebellion. the title hints at which side produced that official record. [laughter] there we learn that less than 72 hours after issuing general orders number 11, grant's forces at holly springs were surprised by 3500 confederate raiders led by major general earl van dohrn. grant himself was far from the scene when the raid happened, and the commanding officer -- a man named robert c. murphy -- was, according to the official record, quote, out at some entertainment which made him a trifle overbold. that's a nice way of saying that he was stone drunk. [laughter] the res

until at mississippi state university in his senior year he met and fell head over heels for a mississippite cheerleader named jalen young. >> yes. she was beautiful and things like that. >> she's american too. and mississippi all the way. but within months mo says jay lynn was changing. converting to islam. changing her dress. then began introducing mo to the online brand of islam she had been learning about. >> this happened so fast. >> it did. maybe we were going a little too fast. you know. >> but you were in love. yes. yeah. >> and she was coming to you, right? >> yeah. and, you know, that love can ultimately, you know, blind out your intelligence. >> the federal bureau of prisons rarely grants access to convicted felons like mo. this is an exception. an agreement wean the department of justice, cnn and muhamed himself, perhaps for all to understand just how powerful isis's online propaganda can be. his girlfriend jay lynn young merely showed mo the videos. the videos did the rest. >> when she showed me that video i think it just kind of brought a tenseness in her. you know, i felt th

the twisters touchdown down in alabama, louisiana, mississippi and tennessee from tuesday into wednesday. devastation, and tears. search and rescue teams spanned out across parts of the southeast into the night. >> we got crews out doing home searches making sure everybody is okay. >> reporter: as residents in alabama took stock of the devastation around them. in the small town of rosalie yesterday, a tornado ripped apart homes and businesses and killed three people waiting out the storm inside their mobile home. jim smith knew one of them. >> it was a friend of mine's it's no big deal. i'll get it altogether and restart. >> reporter: 100 miles north, mark faulk junior and a firefighter were killed when an ef-4 tornado struck polk county in tennessee. >> i loved the five department and loved what it represented and loved to work with the neighborhoods and the kids. >> reporter: at least five other counties in the state were also hit. the mayor of one of them was moved to tears, sharing the story of a family who the worst. >> a baby was born at the local hospital and that family's house h

in full force. >> they've done it again, mississippi state!cial teams have come through! >> that wild ending at the st. petersburg bowl has mississippi winning 17-16. >>> the s.e.c. not as lucky in the independence bowl. willie geist will not want to watch this one, sorry my friend. his vanderbilt commodores taking on nc state. vandy draws first blood going up 3. the wolfpack score early and often. interception leads to nc state's first td of the night. then wide receiver jalen samuels does it again, going 55 yards for his second score of the game. when all is said and done he ends up with three touchdown catches on the night. but vandy mounts a comeback cutting it to 28-17. then the dagger. heinz goes the distance on a breakaway kickoff return, going yes, 100 yards. nc state just too much for vanderbilt. 41-17. >>> finally, let's have a little nba basketball. the lowly brooklyn nets, 7-22, looking to stop the hornets who are on a three-game winning streak. it's back and forth the whole second half. hornets come storming back. center cody zell

southeast louisiana and coastal mississippi. less than one month later hurricane rita slammed into southwest louisiana as another one of the most intense hurricanes in history. with senatork landrieu and the rest of our louisiana delegation as well as some good friends to secure the necessary disaster recovery assistance and also to make reforms the army corps of engineers to better protect our families and communities from future naturalists disasters. louisiana has survived other major disasters including hurricane gustav in 2008, year, camen the same isaac, the red river flood in northern and central louisiana and the thousand year flood event and greater 10 roush this

mississippi state football. around here, everybody loves the bulldogs. and bulldog is an apt description of the man who runs economic development for the area. joe max higgins. he considered job creation a >> the only way we win any deal is to tear off everybody else's face. we got to kill everybody to win the deal. >> ferocity is a job requirement. during the recession, unemployment in some parts of the triangle got as the high as 20%. >> we are going to come up with a program. >> at 6%, unemployment is now just above the national average and a lot of people here credit joe max higgins. advanced industry. including this mill run by steel dynamics. it is one of the most high-tech steel mills in the country. he got his helicopter factory up and running. truck maker packard used to build engines in europe and opened the first u.s. plant in the triangle. >> companies were moving around. offshoring. they were going to -- countries where everything was cheaper. wasn't as great as they thought it was or portrayed to be. many of the companies said, hey if it is

it is just like mississippi. i predict things are going to grow worse. in fact, i think policeman are going to be dead before this situation is over. announcer: during the summers of 1964 and 1965, the demonstrations became riots. finally, and aiding in the worst race riot in this nation's history in the watts district of los angeles. across the united states, law enforcement officers were dead and negroes did die in the streets and the situation was far from over. after the writing broke out in watts, a new newspaper started publication. the voice of all of the oppressed and exploited, calling for the workers of the world to unite, this new voice of the people declared that all of the

philadelphia, mississippi. home to brandi's blues and mouth-watering barbecue. >> wow, that is beautiful. we ain't in new jersey no more. >> reporter: meet the searcher in case number three. amanda holdiness, who is searching for her dad, her biological father that she has never known. >> where am i? hi, honey. how are you? >> doing good. >> i've always wanted to be a daddy's girl. >> reporter: amanda's mother told her she was not married when she got pregnant, and when she told the man, he left. the absence really hit home in one of the most important moments of amanda's life. her wedding day. >> i've always seen ladies walk down the aisle with their father, and i never got it. >> reporter: amanda finally confronts her mother, and she finally tells her the name of the man she thinks is her father. amanda gives that information to pam slaton. >> all i did was give her

did not ratify the 13th amendment until 2013. >> yes, the state of mississippi finally got around to ratifying the 13th amendment which abolished slavery in 2013. they said it was an oversight. >> well, you know, the really difficult pieces in here and i want to say thank you for telling the story, which i had only recently learned about, but i think being a witness to hert story is so important is so powerful.to i read the book for the ferguson readings on race broke, also. it's such a great group. i was really diligent about reading it and i had to put it down sometimes and it was so difficult and painful, so my question is, was it that-- was it like that for you writing it? i mean, it had to be so much more difficult to write and research it. >> it too was tough. one of the things-- but i have been through this before in the first book, eyes off the prize. i had to deal with a lot of the lynchings that happened after the second world war, you know, so i'm dealing with a blowtorch lynching and talking about hisg blood boiling so hard that his eyeballs popped out of his head and i'm

were part of an onslaught of severe weather that also plagued parts of georgia, louisiana, and mississippi...where powerful winds flipped cars and even containing a deadly wildfire that destroyed hundreds of structures in two resort towns. dolly parton, who has a theme park in the affected area, plans to give one-thousand dollars a month to families who lost their homes. ((kirsten joyce)) >>> two of the biggest hotel companies on the strip have plans in place to charge for parking. but....will other properties follow? mgm made the move earlier this year... tuesday night.. caesars says it bringing the total number of hotels to charge for parking to 22. however it's leaving locals and tourists divided on if it's the right decision. ((beth messick/visitor: "i think they should. it's a good opportunity for them to make money." )) (( "i think they're making a lot of money the way it is. i don't think they should do it.")) ((kirsten joyce)) >> m-g-m will keep it's free parking for those with nevada i-d's until december 29th. then they'll have to pay if you don't have a certain m life rewards car

but 2004, mississippi governor haley barbour, the chair of the republican national committee and 37 other powerful politicians had all attended try see events in the 21st century earl holt, the chair of the try see gave $65000 to republican campaign funds in recent years including donations to the 2016 presidential campaign of rand paul, rick santorum and ted cruz. the try see enjoyed precisely the cachet of respectability that racism required to achieve its own goals within american society. its website of hatred and lies provided the self-serving education dylan roof so desperately craved. he drank the poison of its message, got into his car, drove to charleston, entered a manual ame church and landed in a bible study with a group of african-americans who were the very model of respectability. he prayed with them, read the bible with them, thought they were so nice and then he shot them dead. he left just one woman alive so that she could tell the world what he had done and why. you are taking over our country, he said, and he knew this to be true. not even a full month after dyla

the twisters were part of a system that also tore through georgia, louisiana, and mississippi. look at this waterspout caught on camera in destin. areas in northern florida were under a tornado watch when this video was taken. annie belter shot the video. she said it was taken along the chocta-whatchee bay. those storms tore through just as crews in tennessee were getting a deadly wildfire under control. at least seven people have been killed. the fires, which spread in gatlinburg and pigeon forge monday, charred thousands of acres and destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings. more than 14 thousand have been forced to leave know how many people are unaccounted for. right now, crews are battling a massive fire at a rec center in tampa. the winston park recreation center is on destin drive, west of the selmon expressway near south 76th steet. details are still coming in, but take a look at this picture from hillsborough county rescue. you can see just how massive this fire is. an investigation is underway to find out what caused it, according to our news partners with the tampa

winter storm warnings from dodge co border and south of there, west all the way to the mississippi river. this snow goes all the way back to the dakotas. that's how much snow we're going to see and how long a prolonged period of snow we'll feel. from wisconsin back to the center of central north dakota or central south dakota, southern north dakota and through minnesota. this is going to continue on in our neck of the woods for a through. darker bands are the heavier snow bands. burlington has picked up two inches of snow. everyone between one and two inches on the ground already. lake geneva getting 2.3. you can see one moderate band went through. here's the second developing. right here north of waukesha county to dodge county. moderate bands move through and die out. another band generally we could see three to five inches on the ground by the morning hours. and another three to five after that. going to the packer games at 3:25, there'll be a lot of snow on the way up there. we'll see for tailgating snow and 27 degrees at 1:00 and light snow from kickoff through the 4th quarter might

paÍs los grandes lagos continÚan nevadas incluso lluvias de texas que se desplazan para luciana, mississippiciones para el sur de california. les muestro para terminar la semana incluso para terminar el 2016, estaremos apreciando mucho frÍo para el norte del pais. lluvias para el sur de texas. la florida excelentes condiciones en el rango de los 70 grados y le damos la bienvenida al 2017 con temperaturas frÍas, mÁs nevadas hacia el noroeste del paÍs y continÚan posibilidades de nieve inundaciones que pueden ser bastante peligrosas desde lousia lousiana mississippi y alabama. al sur de california excelentes condiciones. >>> a disfrutar este nuevo aÑo. >>> gracias miguel desde new york. >>> en el pas fronterizo de la red texas cientos de vehÍculos hacen filas y filas para cruzar el camino de mÉxico y llegar a tiempo a celebraciones de fin aÑo. >>> alguno las autoridades mexicanas en estas fechas 80 mil personas regresan desde estados unidos para compartir con fa familiares, abrazarlos, saludarlos. en fin, paola figueroa nos cuenta la historia completa. >>> el 2016 agoniza y con Él llegan miles

at least 13 twisters were reported in parts of louisiana, mississippi and tennessee. >>> your exclusive accuweather forecast with cory mccloskey on fox 10 news. >>> welcome back, cory. we missed you. >> yeah. >> a little bit, a smidge. >> like a duck full of hook worms? >> more than that. >> that's sort of my baseline. it's good to be back. did anything happen while i was gone? >> no. it was cold. >> freezing, it snowed a lot. >> yeah, i heard that as well. speaking of chilly, it's not too awesome out there. it's 35 in flagstaff, 38 at window rock, and, yeah, you get up into the high country, you're going to find some rather tiny numbers. now, the good news is we will warm up. you can see we have got a few thin clouds out there. but we have got the sunshine going, and that will be our story over the next few days, more sun, and by the time we hit the weekend, we ought to settle ourselves in for some pretty nice temperatures. now, the average would be about 69 or so. but the record we will not get to the average today. we'll be lucky to crawl our way into the 60s. it's going to be a long

mississippi, that's before becoming a full-flejd fledged tornado. where are recovering, they are grateful to have made it out alive. >>> it was like we were on a rollercoaster going side-to-side on this sand right here. it was horrible. >> i feel really lucky. i feel so sorry for the people. some houses are destroyed. i still have, you know, a roof, but it's leaking, but, you know i'm lucky, i really am. >> and initialep weather channel 'under the circumstances the total number of tornadoes in the last two days to 31. >>> i want to bring you some breaking news overnight, a tacoma washington police officer has died in the line of duty t. officer responding to a domestic violence calm was shot multiple times and later died at the hospital. police say the scene is still active. the neighborhood is on lockdown. police and community members gathered to pay their respects examiner's office took place. >> everyone on our police department knows everyone and, yes, everybody will feel it. >> officials have not identified the officer. he is the fourth tacoma

parts of the southeast are assessing the damage after more than a dozen twisters mississippi and tennessee from tuesday into wednesday. 3 at least 5 people are dead. roxana saberi has the latest on the severe weather. search and rescue teams fanned out across parts of the southeast into the night... (sot neil feist/ al firefighter) we got crews out and doing home searches, making sure everyone is okay ...as residents in alabama took stock of the devastation around them.in the small town of rosalie yesterday...a tornado ripped apart homes and businesses and killed three peoplewaiting out he inside their mobile home.jim smith knew one of them...(sot jim smith/ al businessowner wed0508) it was a friend of mine's daughter.//that's why my business is gone, no big deal. i'll get it all together and restart100 miles north...mark faulk junior, a georgia firefighter, and his wife saundra were killed...when an ef-3 tornado struck polk county in tennessee:(sot earnest grizzard/ bloomingdale city council) he loved the fire department, he loved what it representedat least five other counties in the sta

the volunteer firefighter and father from mississippi ran into a burning house searching for survivorshen the roof collapsed. >> you know daddy left one way, when i came back home i was a totally different person. >> reporter: he was lucky to survive but the fire robbed him of his scalp, ear, nose. his lips were also gone. his daughter alison was 6 at the time. >> i remember going out to the house and my mom and stepdad literally had to drag me in the house because i was scared. >> reporter: while his devastated family and friends adjusted over time, pat never could. he became withdrawn, depressed. doctors told him he would ultimately go blind. >> take off your ears for me for a second. >> reporter: desperation led him to dr. eduardo rodriguez at nyu's langdon medical center. >> the reality is we can make you much worse than you are now. if this were not to work, we've actually made you worse than you were before. so you completely understand this, right? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: willing to risk his life. >> it's in god's hands. it will happen when he's ready for it to happen. >> repo

this is from mississippi as they captured lightning strikes? as well as high winds and heavy rain and flying debris. this gives you a sense of ??how bad these systems were. all of it responsible for at least five deaths so far. and they are ??still searching for some victims. >>> terrible situation there. and here at home, we are coldest air. >> no, not at all. though the cold air we have this morning is the still the same air ??that was brought in the front responsible for all the severe weather in the deep south, including in mississippi. 24 degrees the ??temperature right now in denver. sun will be up at 7:02 this morning. i want to quickly look at november, a review ??for you. wow, it was overall a very warm month. in fact, our tenth warmest november on record, anbhour records go back to the mid- 1800's. we end above ??normal, which may not stand like a lot, but from a climate standpoint that's ??big we are close to normal this morning. 21 at dia. 25 in boulder. 15 in greeley. there's not a lot of wind, ??bu enough that it makes a differenc

just 20 minutes away near the same town in biloxi, mississippi, another kid asked to meet roman as partm make a wish. caden, 12 years old, thought he was going bowling with dad. he had a much bigger surprise coming his way. >> do you need this trash taken out? >> oh! so cute. >> i mean, the shock on his face, caden is so stoked to have his wish come through. he couldn't have asked for a better surprise. >> of course they have some fun with caden as well, playing games, hanging out. >> those kids get to be with in one of his blogs. it's like the circle is complete. >> forever. what a highlight. >> super heart warming video. if you want to see the whole thing, go to rightthisminute.com or check it out using our mobile app. >> thanks for watching, everybody. we appreciate it. rightthisminute.com has a lot more great videos or you can catch us on the next episode of "rtm." of reach for far too long:s have health insurance.that's been out how? they enrolled through covered california. it's the health insurance marketplace where you'll find a range of plans from leading health insurance compa

my wonderful executive editor at mississippi state was helpful.ou talked about his remarkable horsemanship. you talked of the many conversations he had with the wranglers where he rode. ronald: i didn't realize that our physical education classes were horse riding. written -- ridden near south of tucson. about grante people and horseback riding. that is not our culture. when people of the 19 century understood grant as a horse was gentle to who horses. one was gentle to horses is a gentle person. i like his story as a horseman because is that a lot about his character. went,the places you people who are grand followers and don't travel much, give them one place to go? i would say pittsburgh. the topography is great. there were no trees at that time. fire zone.is this was the most complicated battle. it took the longest to win. it was very important because of the freedom of access. this was a masterstroke. lincoln andout grant. he wrote grant a letter after he won the battle of gettysburg. i said that when you decide to do this, i could not agree

in the 1930s and the 1940s we found out what town he was living in and it was a little town in mississippi. we knew his first name is donald but in the literature they only gave the initial of his last name which was. caren who is a superb investigative reporter but also had a dial telephone started going through the t's and you hit pay dirt one day. >> there were a number of donald's but not many in mississippi and one day i called then i got an answer, and answering machine and the machine picks up and says hello, and i hope you are having a happy spring and you should have a happy fall too and even a happy christmas. have a wonderful 2007. i hung up the phone and i called john and i said we have got it, i know it's him. >> this is our guy. >> and it was, no doubt. >> the story of donald t the beginning part of the story he was very very severely limited in his ability to communicate and his ability to relate to people. he was a little boy who didn't run to his mom or dad for attention. given a toy he would spin it and not use it in the way it was supposed to be used and his language is

of the golden triangle, it might be because of this: mississippi state football. around here, everybody loves the bulldogs, and bulldog is an apt description of the man who runs economic development for the area: joe max higgins. he considers job creation a >> joe max higgins: the only way we win any deal is to tear off everybody else's face. we c-- got to kill everybody to win the deal. >> whitaker: ferocity is a job requirement. during the recession, unemployment in some parts of the triangle got as high as 20%. >> higgins: we're going to come up with a program. >> whitaker: at 6.0%, unemployment is now just above the national average, and a lot of people here credit joe max higgins. he has attracted $6 billion of advanced industry, including this mill run by steel dynamics. it's one of the most hi-tech steel mills in the country. he got this helicopter factory up and running. truck maker paccar used to build engines only in europe-- it opened its first u.s. plant in the triangle. companies were moving around, this off-shoring. they were going to countries where

you had mississippi state playing miami ohio. and seven during the regular season and the rest of the teams that played today went six and six. that's what they do now. we reward teams and people for being average i'm just sick of it i know i'm about to send incentive right now but i don't care. this is the equivalent of giving kids participation awards. which is a joke also you get no love for losing being average or just participating. that's not how life is. that's now how sports works. you only get trophies and get to play in post season play for being a winner. you either win or take your butt home and get better. take the participation awards out of sports and get rid of these garbage bowl games. >> iain? >> all right, sean thank you. >>> actress cary fisher still in the hospital after what's being called a cardiac episode during a flight from long don to los angeles last week. fisher is now in stable condition. her mother debbie reynolds posted update on twitter asking everyone for their prayers. fisher best known for her

alabama, louisiana, mississippi, and tennessee. >>> well, it's likely that president obama will leave office without fulfilling one of his original campaign promises, to shut down guantanamo bay. dozens remain locked up there. margaret brennan got a rare look at the prison. >> reporter: these are the remnants of guantanamo's notorious camp x-ray where hundreds of suspected terrorists were caged in the panic aftermath of 9/11. the picture today is far the 60 remaining detainees whose faces we were not permitted to film, lounge in modern, open cell blocks, eating and praying regularly. over the past eight years, 180 detainees have been released from guantanamo, leaving most of the prison empty. donald trump has vowed to reverse course. >> and we are going to load it up with some bad dudes. believe me, we are going to load it up. >> reporter: admiral peter clark who commands the detention facility says there is room for hundreds of more prisoners but he vowed never to use harsh interrogation methods like waterboarding like trump has promised. >> there is no debate here because we are gro

look at this video in leesburg, mississippi. that's before it became a full floernlgd. many are just recovering, they are grateful to have made it out alive. >> it was like you were on a roller coaster going side-to-side on this sand right here. it was horrible. >> i feel really lucky and i feel so sorry for the people. some houses are destroyed. i still have, you know, a roof, but it's leaking, but you know i'm lucky, i really am. >> initial reports from the weather channel puts the total number of tornado in the last two days to 31. >>> i want to bring you breaking news, a tacoma police officer has died in the line of duty. the officer was shot multiple times and later died at the hospital. police say the scene is still active, the neighborhood is on lockdown. the suspect is believed to be barricaded inside a house with a gun. they are paying their respects as the procession took place. >> everyone on our police department knows everyone and, y yes, rev will feel it. >> officials have not identified the officer. he is the fourth tacoma officer in three decades to have

here's a look at scott county, mississippi, just outside jackson. it's one of several areas in four states struck by tornadoes. abc's phillip mena in the storm zone. >> tornado warning. >> reporter: a full-on tornado outbreak, hammering the south. this massive funnel cloud, caught north of miramar beach, florida. water spouts crashing ashore. in atlanta, tornado sirens sound the alarm, as residents shelter in place. >> you need to seek shelter immediately. >> this after more than two dozen reported twisters. >> it looks like a war zone. >> reporter: residents emerge from storm shelters to utter destruction. >> the damage here is absolutely awful. >> at least three killed in the tornado a massive ef-2, wind speeds over 110 miles an hour. this daycare in flat rock, flattened. you can see the toys among the wreckage. three adults and three children who took shelter here, seriously injured. the storms cutting a deadly path from mississippi. >> we're really lucky that nobody was hurt here. it could be the other way. >> reporter: to tennessee, where two o