welcome to mississippi.kland,bo bro. >> mississippi is really bad at all the stuff you want to be really good at look number 50 in health care, number 49 in economy and number 48 in infrastructure. if you've got all those issues, why the hell are you screwing up sex ed? you have big are fish to fry. and you like frying fish. sex laws in mississippi mandate a lot of things. first, they separate the kid by gender, as if will's only two genders. plus, in the me-too era, shouldn't we all be in the same room talking about this stuff? >> after the groups are separated, all they're allowed to talk about is abstinence or abstinence plus. abstinence is what it sounds like. kids don't have sex. and because it's mississippi, they throw god in there. kids don't have sex because god said so. and absence plusses, didn't we just say god said don't have sex? the plus also means they're allowed to talk about contraception. >> the condom is wrapped in a crinkly paper. >> just talk about it. can't tell you how to use it and no

"the mississippi river will be a great theater of war. it is horrible to contemplate, but cannot be avoided. were it not for the physical geography of the country, it might be the people can consent to divide and separate in peace, but the mississippi is too grand an element to be divided. extents that -- at all of its extent, it must be under one government." backdrop,is strategic samuel clemens would be making a valuable contribution to the war effort of which ever side he aligned himself with. if he would only join up as a pilot, as his mentor did. bixby served as pilot of the uss benton, flagship of the mississippi river squadron. samuel clemens did not join up. the fact that he did not should tell us something important. instead of joining up, he had a adventure with young missourians who called themselves the marion rangers and aligned themselves with the confederacy. 20 years after the war, twain contributed "a private history of a campaign that failed to the same battles and leaders." published by century magazine and featured the

that's not mississippi. >> that's why i don't want anyone to think this is just mississippi. i don't want anyone to watch your show and think this is just the south. >> 35-year-old dre is the mother of three boys. her first two were delivered by c-section which involved difficult recoveries. so in 2011 she was determined to have her third naturally through vbac. >> she talked to her doctors about it on board. she goes in to have it because these are different doctors like no, no, no, we want you to have a c-section, i don't want it. they literally tie her down and cut her open and puncture her bladder. i know, that was -- when i heard this i was like where am i? [ laughter ] >> where am i? i'm in the united states. i'm in the united states. >> walking to the cell. >> what are we turning into? >> is that what we're thinking about? we have to think about what is wrong with us as a whole. where did we get broken? >> that's what followed me to this work, not just abortion but the ways in which i can be impacted by this ideology of women are supposed to put aside everything and co

that's not mississippi. >> that's why i don't want anyone to think this is just mississippi. don't want someone to think this is just the south. >> she's the mother of three boys. her first two were delivered by cesarean section which involves difficult recovery. so in 2011, she was determined to have him naturally through a procedure called vaginal birth after cesarean or v-back. >> she talked to the doctors about it. all on board. goes in to have it. because these are different doctors, no, we want you to have a cesarean surgery. she says i don't want it. they go back and forth. they literally, tie her down. they cut her open and they puncture her bladder. i know, that was -- when i heard this i was like where am i? oh i'm in the united states. i'm in the united states. >> did i just walk into the handma handmade's tale. >> what is wrong with us as a whole? where did we get broken? >> it's not just like abortion, but the ways in which i can be impacted by this ideology of women are supposed to put aside everything and constitutionally if you think about our constitution and

the changeable mess of the mississippi is infamous. it was a problem for the young pilot then and it is still a problem today. according to a recent story in the washington post. the mississippi is so forceful it eats away at its banks, it can shift hundreds of feet a year. since the 1930's, the corps of engineers has shored up the river bed with concrete to prevent it from shifting. so the shifting of the mississippi river is a literal, practical, logistical problem. but i want to suggest that in twain 's capable hands, it is also persistently figurative. it is also a metaphor for the fickle typography of history and imagination and memory. we may think that the course of civil war history is set and stable, but what twain seems to be suggesting is that our own imagination and memories, both individually in our own lives, and collectively across the increasing number of postwar years, keep eating away at the banks of the past and changing the course of what we choose to remember. at this point, we might recall rootthe etymological of

call teen help mississippi.state capital to draft a new bill they hope becomes a law and they are modelling it after california. my home state has to show the nation how it's done. remember when we smoked in restaurants? >> in my school, there was an abstinence only class. our pe teacher yelling about sex is bad. there wasn't anything about lgbt education or anything like that. that alienated me. are they going to do the same to me? >> had i had training about healthy relationships, consent, what is a good healthy relationship between two people in a relationship romantically, it would have changed the course of my and my peers' life. >> we are talking about the physical nature of sex and so much is about the value of a healthy relationship versus the negative value. >> we leave that out using abstinence only. >> it's not something that you talk about at home with your parents and it's left in the space of there can only be negative things about sex. it's nothing positive. a poster on the wall is circle of emoti

a pen name and separable from piloting on the mississippi. -- inseparable from piloting on the mississippi. his new name proclaimed a lifelong identity with that job and that river. more than 20 years later, after his antebellum days as a pilot, narrated in the first part of life on the mississippi, twain returned to the river, now as established writer, partly to engage in imagining and in a secondthe war life on the mississippi. turning now to his imagining and remembering the war, i want to point to a motif that runs through life on the mississippi, and that motif is the changeable-ness of the mississippi. look at number eight. again, hitting the bolds. afterward, changed its course -- part of the course reversing -- the river running up four or five miles instead of down. the change of the mississippi is infamous. for the youngem couple that piloted in 1858 and 1859, and is still a problem today, according to a recent story in the washington post. "the mississippi is so forceful that it eats away at the bank, it could shift hundreds of feet per year." since the 1930's, the u.s. army co

we're drying out nicely in texas and louisiana and also into mississippi. there is still the lingering strong-to-severe thunderstorm threat from florida up through the carolinas. now, as meg just mentioned, still dealing with heavy rain across parts of the northeast. it will be a somewhat miserable night for rain, showers, breezy, chilly temperatures in the 40s. a bit of a break tomorrow morning for a morning commute in the big cities, however, next system moves in during the afternoon and evening and another round of showers, some heavy rain, and it stays in the 40s for a lot of folks. here's the good news, looking at the water vapor loop, it measures how much moisture is in the at position -- atmosphere. much drier air will move in from coast to coast as we head through the upcoming middle of the week. so drier times are moving in. david. >> begnaud: good deal. thank you, jeff. well, the white house today says it does expect china to retaliate over new tariffs. president trump is warning beijing to act now on a trade deal, tweeting it will be far worse fo

we're drying out nicely in texas, louisiana and also mississippi.g lingering thunderstorm threat up through carolina. still dealing with heavy rain across parts of the northeast. shower showers, breezy temperatures in the 40s. the next system moves in during the afternoon and evening and another round round of showers. looking at the water vapors, you can see the cold front's going to push humidity out and dryer air from coast to coast through the upcoming middle of the week. >> the white house said today they expect to retaliate. president trump is warning beijing to act now, tweeting it will be far worse for them in his second term. mr. trump altso >> president trump stay under doors on a soggy sunday lashing out over the mueller probe. on twitter he called it a sick and unlawful investigation. claimed his campaign was seriously spied upon by intel agents. then can declared this must never be allowed to happen again. >> i think it's fair to say we're look at a crisis not only of confidence but a constitutional crisis. dprrs >> democrats sounded th

he defeated two armies in mississippi in 1862. he provided a badly needed and bloody victory on january 2. 1863 at stones river near murphys road, tennessee. let me say, stones river is the reverse gettysburg. gettysburg has become more important to us than it was at the time, i would argue if you read the sources and the political leaders in the newspapers, this was a very big deal at the time. it was a very hard point in the war for the union. it was a much needed victory, even if it was not as big as the ones as general grant. he also captured the important railway hub of chattanooga. he even got general james long street to agree to this, as well. so, whatever he could do to furnish reputation. he was a billion -- an engineer, devout christian. but he was not without his flaws. as i am the first to admit as his future biographer, he was very easy to hate. he had a bad temper, smoked incessantly, slept too little, blamed others for his mistakes, arrogant, and unforgiving. worst of all, his self-righteousness made him temperamen

contes brewer as you saw is in rock island. >> reporter: it's quiet on the mississippi. no barges moving at the locks so this is aim crucial for shipping for the nation's farmers. >> one reason why farmers located in the middle of the country like davenport, iowa, are interna onal entrepreneu is because they have ae ater way to mickly. >> reporter: not so this spring. the winter stormno massive melt and rain have inundated the farm fields, overflowed levies and had record breaking flood. >> normally the water would not be quite so far up on these gates. we are inin flo condition right now. >> reporter: earlier this month the locks flooded. high water has shut down multiple locks for months and there are no detour around a closed lock. so though a barge may move short diances on the mississippi, it can't run the length of the river. >> we wouldxp haveted in a normal year all of the fertilizer for all of the farm fields in wisconsin, minnesota, iowa, illinois, missouri should be up here by now and actually on the fields. >> reporter: the mississippi river is an important r

around them.t starting in 1890 was something called the mississippi plan.ate constitutions, which then unfolded over 16 years in each of the former confederate states, and that is when they established poll taxes, literacy test, comprehensiv comprehension testt only a law professor could understand. and you want to know how to radically affected state constitutional inventions conventione ? louisiana, in 1888, before their 100e convention ha 38 black men to vote. the new constitution was ratified in 1898. by 1904, that number of 130,000 black men registered to vote had been reduced to 1342. there were 2000 black men elected to office during the reconstruction period. the last reconstruction, congressman, george henry white, bid farewell to congress in 1901, and there would not be another black man is elected to the congress until 1929, when oscar duprees from chicago is elected to congress. how is he elected to congress? because all of those black people took part in the great migration, went from mississippi particularly to chicago, mississippi and the oth

you served as governor of mississippi.u have another gubernatorial election coming up there. when they go to the polls to vote for governor, will voters be concerned with national issues, or is it much more local for mississippi? haley: well, the economy transcends localism versus nationalism, because it is the same general economy. , the economyates does not grow as fast generally as other states. in other states in grows faster generally than the nation as a whole. the economy really, really matters. but also, the way government has been run. if you look today and look at the 50 governors, the 10 most highly regarded governors are all republicans. that helps them running for reelection. that will help the two republican governors running this year in mississippi and kentucky. i said that wrong. in mississippi, it is the lieutenant governor and governor. it will help him, that people think state government has been run right, and is taking advantage of what is happening nationally. david: thank you, governor haley barbour

a federal judge temporarily blocks a heart beat abortion law in mississippi.aying it infrings on a woman's rights. the law would ban the abortion procedure after about 6 weeks of pregnancy. the state is expected to appeal. this as a growing number of conservative states passed new laws restricting access to abortion. antiabortion advocates hope those state victory will prompght prompt the supreme court to reconsider roe versus wade. president trump begin asset to japan to visit abe president and first lady melania trump arrived in japan overnight besides trade, u.s. and japanese leaders are expected to discuss the threat from north korea. this comes after national security advisor john boldin said recent short range missile tests by pyongyang were in violation of the u.n. security counsel resolution. john roberts is live in tokyo now with more. john. >> jon good morning to you it is just now turning 7:00 here in tokyo beautiful day, president trump is up and ready to go for the day. i know because he just called me to say hello he's got an interesting day ahea

>>the mighty mississippi river is flooding into towns all across illinois, iowa and missouri look atthe river is rising due to a combination of the melting snow and heavy rain, kristen holmes has the latest. >>the mississippi river sending floodwaters into riverside communities in iowa, illinois and missouri. in davenport, iowa, downtown streets turned into rivers tuesday after the river broke through a temporary barrier i heard him you know the levee broke. >>the water was about 4 feet deep the back door was open and they saw the water much in through the building first responders using boats to help evacuate people from cars and rooftops. >>after the surge i had an amazing family and helped us today. >>so just making sure they were all accounted for vehicles are accounted for and we grabbed what little possessions are handy and kind of land. >>city workers scrambling to reinforce the barriers between the river and the city in fear of more rain. >>we have more water on the way mother nature can be fairly this river is is a very surreal saying to watch just how quickly it's come up.

the upper mississippi mineral agency had effectively closed shop. from that point we move further north into michigan, specifically they keweenaw peninsula. there is a thames were made to revive the system in upper mississippi after the united largely moved to lake superior 1840's. the copper deposits on the keweenaw peninsula entered u.s. ownership in 1842 and like the upper mississippi minds quickly attracted the attention of perspective minors. given the issues in upper mississippi, they changed tactics to maintain and establish control over the copper regions. among the office's first decisions was to issue permits and leases for larger areas, nine square miles, in an effort to keep the number lessees manageable. experiencedn civilian agent to attend the opening of the copper mines, walter cunningham an employee of the revived over mississippi agency. most importantly, the war counternt concluded to potential squatters and unlicensed miners with a force.nt military during the summer of 1844, companies of the u.s. army's fifth and 5th if began fo

. >>> after days of torrential rain the mighty mississippi river is bursting its banks.ad flooding throughout the south and that's making it impossible for thousands of farmers to plant their summer crops. david begnaud has the story from water-logged louisiana. >> reporter: severe weather in garner, north carolina brought golf-sized hail that shattered windshields and damaged cars. that same system flooded the city that sits below sea level, new orleans. it happened saturday with 2 inches of rain falling per hour. neighborhoods flooded and public transportation was halted. just outside new orleans, the bonnie carre spillway has been opened in order to stop the mighty mississippi river from overflowing levees and flooding the crescent city. today marks the 200th day that the mississippi river has been at flood stage in south louisiana. 41% of the country's water is drained through here and into the gulf of mexico. colonel michael clancy is with the u.s. army corps of engineers. >> mississippi river were to flow into the superdome it would fill the superdome up in about t

the law in mississippi, redefining what fetus viability.you cannot have an abortion after six weeks. as you indicated in mississippi and alabama, stating that even in the cases of rape and incest, making abortion in those cases illegal in those states. and all of this is being done for the sole purpose of getting a case before the supreme court, with the thought being to overturn roe v. wade. that's made abortion legal. has affirmed that abortion is a part of a right to privacy, a right that's embedded in the constitution. we see the attack on women's right to privacy. not just in mississippi, but alabama, missouri and ohio and others. passing these anti-abortion laws. >> right. of course, critics say these abortion bans are unconstitutional, as you point out. that's what this is all about. the anti-abortion states want to get these anti-abortion laws before the supreme court and they'll do that by triggering the fact -- the trigger is that they're unconstitutional. once that happens, talk to us about what this judge in mississippi is likel

flash flood watches from texas through mississippi. abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano here with more. >> reporter: tonight, parts of the gulf coast, saturated and bracing for more rain. in southern mississippi, more than two dozen cars of this freight train derailing, after more than a half foot of rain fell overnight in the area. pearl river county officials warning that flooding is making some roads impassible, urging residents to limit their travel. severe weather across the region packing dangerous lightning all week. a home security camera capturing lightning striking a tree outside this houston home. more than 100,000 customers in the area without power at one point. in louisiana, the governor declaring a state of emergency amid relentless rounds of storms. west of new orleans, the mississippi river rising above flood stage to relieve stress on the city's levees. the army corp of engineers opening this spillway for an unprecedented second time this year. >> and we are still keeping a close eye on all of that water. rob marc

chicago, went from mississippi and the other southern states north.nd because of the 15th amendment, they had the right to vote. so they vote a northerner in to the congress. >> you can watch this and other american history programs on our website, where all our video is archived. that's c-span.org/history. >>> this year marks the 75th anniversary of the june 6th, 1944 d-day invasion of nazi-occupied france. normandy, the airborne invasion of fortress europe, is an hour-long documentary produced by the u.s. army air forces. the film details the planning, training, combat operations, and after-battle summaries of the airborne forces with an emphasis on more than 500 gliders that were dropped behind enemy lines on the morning of june 6th. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the picture you're about to see is as informative a film document as made by the army air force. it reveals operations of gliders in the invasion of normandy, gliders which we helped to manufacture. you will not soon forget this picture. you may even be able to recognize gliders which you bui

daday marks the 200th day that the mississippi river has been at flood stage in south louisiana. 41%the country's water is drained through here and into the gulf of mexico. colonel michael clancy is with the u.s. army corps of engineers. >> if the mississippi river were to flow into the superdome, it would fill up the superdome in matter of minutes. >> to live here is to live with water and to live with risk. >> reporter: mark davis is a liter policy expert at tulane wiversity. what does opening bonnie carre spillway mean to the rest of the country along the mississippi river? >> opening bonnie carre is keeps essentially the chemical corridor, the port of new orleans, all of the population centers here in business. >> reporter: bonnie carre was tenstructed after the great ofssissippi flood of 1927. om homas the most destructive let me show you what's happening right now. loe million gallons of water is flowing through the spillway every single second from the mississippi through here into lake pontchartrain and then into the gulf essentially just being rerouted around new orleans. jo

he is currently completing a book on the history and memory of the 1964 mississippi summer project and he is certainly one of our most distinguished historians here at stanford, please welcome james campbell. [ applause ] >> thank you very much for those remarks. one of the problems teaching at a place like this is one often feels quite fraudulent and i tell you as we talk on the subject for the same program is richard white, not to mention others who are not here today who've worked on this project, i can pretty much say i'm the person who knows least about the transcontinental railroad on your program. but, when they asked me to be in the program, the first thing i said was why me? and when they asked me for a title i said without a moment's thought western railroad revisited. i've spent a lot of the last couple weeks what was i thinking when i gave that suggestion. but after this morning, i've come to believe it might be exactly the title that i wanted. for those of you who are familiar with it, there was a reference to a 1947 story by nathaniel hawthorne entitled the railroad that

both louisiana state and mississippi are under states of emergency. a tornado touched down in virginia over the weekend. several businesses and homes reported damage. severe thunderstorms also downed trees and damaged buildings in alabama and florida. in stone county, mississippi, flash floods trapped more than a dozen people in an r.v. park. >> the water was going down and all of a sudden it rose and overtook the park. there was nothing more we could do. we all evacuated and got out. >> i lost everything. >> flash flooding in new orleans led to more than 200 calls to forecasters say more than 500 inches of rain fell between saturday night and sunday morning. >>> and a pilot is being credited for saving lives. he landed his plane only on rear wheels after the front landing gears failed. it was hended from yangon to myanmar yesterday. everyone onboard survived. roxana saberi has the dramatic landing. >> reporter: in this video posted online, the mean mall national airplane lands on its rear wheels, but then its nose touches down setting sparks for seve

no puedes hacer lo mismo con uno aquÍ en florida que el mississippi. esto es extraÑo.sas tomÓ una canciÓn en itunes, un accesorio para el pelo, dos tijeras, una taza de cafÉ... eso sucede en algunos estados porqueno equivale lo mismo en algunos que en otros. segÚn datos de la oficina de anÁlisis econÓmicos en los estados mÁs pobres del paÍs como mississippi un dÓlar rinde mÁs y equivale a 1,16, y en arkansas 1,15. todo gracias a que el servicio de agua, luz y viviendas son menos costosospara residentes con ingresos bajos. en hawai, el estado mÁs caro para vivir, un dÓlar equivale sÓlo a 0,84$. por ejemplos y en alabama puedes comprar una taza de cafÉ y un chorrito mÁs en hawai con un dÓlar no compras una casa completa. el costo de vida de una familia de dos personas en hawai es de 112.000 al aÑopero el ingreso promedio es de 72.000. nueva york, california y new jersey tambiÉn estar en esta lista. solamente en cuatro de los 50, long island, florida y de la huerta 1 dÓlar solamente equivale a un dÓlar. aquÍ sí nos funciona. carolina: cambiando de tema, una mujer sorprend

and in mississippi in particular like over 90% of the women in mississippi live in a county a abortiono abortion providers in the state. the abortion rate is a third of the national level. one third of the women of child bearing age in mississippi if they want an abortion nef to travel 25 miles each way. mississippi requires an ultrasound. requires counseling. it requires a waiting period. those are all things that if you care about a woman's right to choose you should be marching in the streets about knows as well. i mean, it's -- it's in some ways you know it's ka that is rightic to see the fight about the extreme bills but there is a part of me that feels like those fiemts might not last very long. i don't think the supreme court is going to go in that direction. instead what i think is a longer term problem is the chipping away at roe. as i'm sure you know there is no affirmative right to reproductive justice. it's just implied. and so it's hard to protect. >> and it's happening in state after state. there are upward of 30 states that have imposed restrictions they don't look like

-- granizo desde y pi hacia arkansas -- desde mississippi hasta arkansas. borja: atraÍdo tanta agua en oklahoma que familias completas con niÑos tuvieron que ser rescatadas por bomberos en botes. parte de la interestatal 40 tuvo que ser cerrada y el distrito escolar cancelÓ las clases. carolina: una mujer y un hombre quedaron aferrados a un Árbol y momentos despuÉs los equipos de volviendo a tejas, aqui las iamgenes de otro poderoso tornado en odessa. por fortuna, las autoridades -no han reportaron lesionados... las imagenes han sido compartidas en twitter y llevan mas de 26 mil reproducciones... y uno mas cerca de un aeropuerto en mangum, oklahoma...en estas imagenes--- se ve claramente la destruccion de una residencia... alli un complejo de apartamentos quedo sin techo, ademas de otros daqos... el dÍa de hoy aumenten los tornados en esa zona y hablamos de 40 millones de personas que amanecen bajo amenazas de tornados o de lluvias intensas. borja: como recordamos tres estados han tenido que lidiar con otros tornados con mal tiempo asÍ que como dice el refr

and lower mississippi river valley. the radar is starting to clear out. that's the good news here. we have a dry pattern setting up into the rest of the weekend, and into early parts of next week. thunderstorms enter into the forecast once again for next week. we have major flooding taking place at 34 river gauges at the moment. and well over 250 river gauges repo reporting some sort of flooding taking place across the entire central parts of the u.s. look at this. rainfall accumulation again shifting eastward, away from the hardest hit areas. that doesn't negate what is still coming and that is the cresting of the rivers as that water eventually pours southward into the gulf of mexico. this is a slow motion disaster. >> all right. thanks. >> after spending terrifying days in captivity, four hostages are safe, three of them arriving in france saturday. now we're hearing more about why the rescuers had to act fast to get them all out. what was behind it all. >>> and u.s. presidential hopefuls hit the campaign trails and

west alton, missouri is surrounded by the swollen missouri, mississippi and illinois rivers. they're all above flood stage and still rising. >> the levees are tired, plain and simple. >> reporter: as kansas and missouri now join oklahoma activating national guard units. >> prepare for the worst case scenario that we've had in our history at the city. >> reporter: tonight in arkansas, the water got so high, it spilled over the tops of some levees now here in oklahoma, the fear is the same could happen, resulting in more homes and businesses flooded just like this savannah >> all right, kerry, thank you and that brings us to al roker al, 13 straight days of tornadoes. that's nearly unheard of and the mississippi flooding the worst since the great flood of 1927 this is hard to get your head around >> that's right. and we're not done yet, savannah look what's going on tonight we are talking about tornado watches, severe thunderstorm watches in the northeast and into the midwest, and then they stretch back into the plains midwest all the way down into texas. we are looking at, thi

rob: adam klotz tracking the latest storm. >> some of the flooding rivers in mississippi right not getk to normal levels until sometime in june, there's been so much rain, more rain on the way, what's in the middle of the country, pretty warm temperatures, 73-degrees in dallas, 51 in kansas city, warm air in middle of the country, round of early morning storm, several days worth of storms this week, more rain on areas that they are water load. it's not huge area but absolute downpour and severe thunderstorms, very strong winds with this running closer to oklahoma and closer to mississippi, already at high levels, severe weather warnings stretching back in plain states, this afternoon to overnight hours, eastern texas for tomorrow and we start to look at that chance in east texas for form -- tomorrow, all the way into friday and saturday, guys, it just continues to be very, very soggy. rob: all right, thank you so much. the manager of the boston red sox will not celebrate his team's world series win at the white house on thursday, alex cora, native of puerto rico citing response on hurr

and late yesterday afternoon, the waters from the mississippi river pushed through a temporary levee parts of downtown davenport, iowa. >> excessive rain, along with excessive snow pack, has led to a situation along the mississippi river. >> reporter: this is the wettest year in davenport since july of 1993. flood stage here is 15 feet. right now, floodwaters have reached over 22 feet. the river spilled into parking lots, covering cars and forcing evacuations. rick harris, who owns a winery business, says he was at work when the levee broke. >> as the water came at me, it was just like a horror movie. >>ere was a wall of water. >> reporter: i can tell you, the water is slightly higher than it was this morning, and there's still a chance that the mississippi river could crest above its current record of 22.6 feet. erff, emergency management officials say that it could still be up to a month before all of this water clears out. >> glor: wow. all right, jericka duncan, thank you very much. the white house today asked congress for $4.5 billion in emergency border funding. most of that wo

toni in mississippi, harold in colorado. and when toni was finally able to move west to be with harold -- >> they suffered a lot of fertility issues and had miscarriages. it was a sadness to her. >> reporter: back in mississippi, toni's brother todd and sister-in-law rhonda were also struggling to have a baby. but then after years of disappointment for both couples, all their prayers were answered. >> we both ended up pregnant at the same time. >> reporter: that must have been a really happy time given what you went through to get there. >> absolutely. >> all of sudden, you know, good news here, good news here, and, you know, get ready because, you know, you're going to have a houseful. >> reporter: in june of 2005, toni and harold welcomed their baby girl, haley. by then, todd and rhonda already had anna kate. when the girls were a little over a year old, the henthorns came to mississippi and the who cousins got to meet. >> it was a very happy occasion. and i do remember toni just being so happy to have haley, so -- and so

book on theting a mississippi summer project. he is one of our most distinguished historians at stanford. please welcome james campbell. [applause] prof. campbell: thank you very much for those are marks. one of them feels quite fraudulent. on the same program as richard that thet to mention that worked on the extraordinary chinese railroad workers project. -- i say i am the person can assure you i am the person that knows least about the transcontinental railroad on your program. when they asked me to be on the program. and i said without a moments , it would be revisited. i spent a lot of the last couple of weeks thinking, what was i thinking when i gave that suggestion? i came to believe it might be that kind of title. a 24/7 story by nathaniel hawthorne entitled the celestial railroad. there is obviously a riff on the greatest of all christian texts. they do not plot the path to the celestial city. plotting beneath the huge burden. his baggage no longer born on his shoulder. it is an attentive railroad staff like prince beelz

it ensured the entire mississippi drainage, basically virtually the entire united states, the rest ofthe route east of the rocky mountains, was now integrated into one steam driven market. and here is actually a slide of traffic on the illinois and michigan canal. economic historian has argued that the entire railroad terms was superfluous in of explaining american economic growth, arguing counter factually that much the same could have been accomplished if the country had simply continued to build canals. i am not sure that is true. in any event, it is not what happened. the canals would be displaced by the railroads. thegnificant coincidence, completion of the illinois-michigan canal coincided with two singular developments. appearance of the mechanical reaper of cyrus mccormick, which enabled two men and a horse to harvest as much as 10 men day previously could in a week. 1848 also saw the completion of the first 10 miles of railroad moving west-northwest out of the city of chicago, what would become the galena and illinois united designed to connect farmers in chicago's northwest

the mississippi law on hold but that ban in missouri, how soon does that go into effect? >> reporter: tom, not until the end of august. between then and now there are likely to be legal challenges that could temporarily halt that ban. tom? >> mary bruce, thank you. >>> we head to capitol hill with the war of words with the prump and house speaker nancy pelosi. the president tweeting a video that makes pelosi appear to speak incoherently. what the president said when jon karl asked him about the personal attacks. >> reporter: before taking off on a trip to japan, president trump defended his increasingly personal war of words with nancy pelosi. mr. president, what do you want to accomplish with your personal attacks on the speaker? you're saying she's lost it, you're saying she's -- >> excuse me. this just shows how fake you and the news are. >> reporter: you haven't personally attacked the speaker? >> when you say -- when you say a personal attack. did you hear what she said about me long before i went after her? did you hear? >> reporter: yes, i did. she attacked you as

, other than in illinois the workers are free and in mississippi the workers are slaves. the economy is almost identical. stevens correctly says the cornerstone of the confederacy is slavery and -- this is the part people do not want to talk about -- and the believes that african-americans are genetically inferior to white people and therefore should always be slaves. this is the first war, this is the first country graded clearly and openly on the basis of a racial ideology. we have to understand the war is about slavery. s understand this because they start running away immediately. remember, the war begins in april. by may slaves are running away two camps. a lawyer figures out there is a legal way to do this, begins the ending of slavery. congress passes the first confiscation act in july, the west time congress has said have the right is a government to take slaves away from people and free those slaves, and so it goes, the confiscation act, congress demanding the integration of streetcars in the district of columbia, congress creating schools for blacks. for the fir

a lot more rain to go through.st heavieain falling across southern mississippi but also a line of heavy storms from dallas extending back towards west and central taxes. we're goi texas. moving towards houston again. more heavy rain in the houston area. flash flood watching in effect for most of the gulf coast and a threat of severe storms, large hail and damaging windsly especialacross central and southern mississippi into most of louisiana and parts of southeast texas, too. so it's all because of this stalled front, and waves of low pressure that ride along this front reinforcing the heavier pockets of . this continues to move to the east coast as we go into tomorrow pushing the teat of steer storms no the northeast and unsettled across the mid-atlantic and the northeast as were el. tomorr, the best chance of severe storms with winds in excess of 60 miles an hour, isolated tornadoes across the carolinas extending back into georgia and parts of alabama. that will be the zone we're watching for mother's day. peter? >> dylan, thanks. >>> your national forecast in a moment. >>> now to tha

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the mississippi and missouri rivers, this is a year ago, this just yesterday.at the flooding and how expansive it is. it lines the entire mississippi river valley all the way to the gulf coast. >> a huge difference. >> it really is. >>> okay. colonies on mars and the moon. they would have been pure science fiction just a few years ago, but ambitious billionaires hope to make them a reality. we'll have that next. >>> it is the final frontier, and the billionaire space race to capitalize is on. >> it is time to go back to the moon, this time to stay. >> there you go. you can move there. amazon founder jeff bezos unveiling his plans to build a base on the moon, his space company blue origin has quietly been designing and testing rocket technologies for two decades. he has been a busy entrepreneur. then there is richard branson. >> it is tremendous what jeff and his team are doing. and yeah, incredibly exciting. i think the exciting thing for the world now is that you have jeff, you have elon, you have ourselves creating, you know, different approaches to take peop

, and tommy to the university of southern mississippi. what did you expect? kerry sanders, nbc news. >> both boys got scholarship money. jimmy got a little bit more. that's "nightly news" for this thursday >>> right now at six o'clock. opening a parking lot to people living in rvs and cars. the move mountain view is making and the growing concern in the neighborhood. plus. >>> i don't -- >> our interview with the a victim in sunny vail hit by a car. the driver accused of intentionally plowing into him. also. >> all of the patrol officers have the photograph. >> a pop accused of terrorizing a community. and the new technology that officers are using to catch her. >> we begin with breakingtempd . >> we have been tracking this story for an hour. police sources tell us that three armed men wearing body armor stormed into this vietnamese calf fair on center road. these are live pictures. this is near the golf course. you see the shopping center. someone inside that cafe shot at lt would be robbers. triggering this gunfight. several people have

. >> reporter: in mississippi tonight, a law that would make abortions illegal is now on hold. a federal judge ruling that the ban, "threatens immediate harm to women's rights, especially considering most women do not seek abortion services until after six weeks." but while the mississippi ban is being blocked for now, in missouri, the governor today signed one of the most restrictive laws in the country. it outlaws abortions after eight weeks, even in cases of rape or incest. >> i believe in two months you can make a decision. i believe that. that can be done. but in two months' time, i also believe that that child has rights. >> mary joins us now. the mississippi law on hold tonight but the ban in mour, how soon does it go into effect. >> reporter: tom, not until the end of august. between then and now there are likely to be legal challenges that could temp rarply halt that ban. tom? >> mary bruce, thank you. >>> we head to capitol hill with the war of words with the prump and nancy pel lose sitd. what the president said when jon karl asked him about the personal attacks. >>

senator for mississippi, this quote, there is no use to equivocate or lie about the matter. mississippi's constitutional convention was held for no other purpose than to eliminate the n word from politics, not the ignorant but the n word. end quote, so it was very clear when these states and the state conventions met, the focus was to eliminate the black voter. so by the time we get to 1896 and plessy versus ferguson and the u.s. supreme court decides that homer plessy had no right, that would allow him to sit in the car he wanted to sit in, because he was only to sit in the car designated for people of african descent. and so it lessie versus ferguson in 1896, separate but equal doctrine's is now the law of the land. and to give you an idea how this affected the country, politically in the black community, in louisiana, the site of the plessy versus ferguson case, there were hundred and 30,000 black registered voters, in 1896. the year of the decision. by 18, by 1900, there are less than 6000. so from 130,000 in 1896, to less than 6000 black registered voters in 1900. was t

>>the mississippi river sending floodwaters into riverside communities in iowa, illinois and missouri. in davenport, iowa, downtn streets turned into rivers tuesday after the river broke through a temporary barrier i heard him you know the levee broke. >>the water was about 4 feet deep the back door was open and they saw the water much in through the building first responders using boats to help evacuate people from cars and rooftops. >>after the surge i had an amazing family and helped us today. >>so just making sure they were all accounted for vehicles are accounted for and we grabbed what little possessions are handy and kind of land. >>city workers scrambling to reinforce the barriers between the river and the city in fear of more rain. >>we have more water on the way mother nature can be fairly this river is is a very surreal saying to watch just how quickly it's come up. >>the river is foreca to crest wednesday in davenport at 22.4 feet more than 4 feet higher than what is considered major flood stage for the town and nobody expects a levee breach so you know. >>when that happen

he reasons the state of mississippi. what percentage of his voters could possibly agree with this standard? 10%? probably too high an estimate. probably more like 2% agree with roger wicker on this. yet somehow, wicker still holds his senate seat. how is that? people are starting to figure out the scam that is neo-conservativism. one news account this week

and starting in 1890 was something called the mississippi plan. 16 years and each of the former confederate states, and if that is when they established testsaxes, comprehension that only a law professor could possibly understand. effectiveo know how these estate constitutional conventions were? louisiana, one of the majority beforetates, in 1898, their convention they had 130,000 black men register to vote. and the new constitution was ratified in 1898 and by 1904, that number of 130,000 black men registered to vote had been 1342.d to officeack men elected to during the reconstruction period. the last reconstruction congressman, george henry white, d farewell to the congress in 1901 and there would not be another black man elected to the congress until 1929, when oscar depriest from chicago is elected to congress. how is he elected? because all those black people took part in the great migration, went from mississippi, particularly to chicago, from mississippi and other southern states to the north. and because of the 15th amendment, they had the