but there's so many different things that are the life and blood of the mississippi delta that people from all over the world want to come and see and experience. a quick example. there's an area right outside -- how many people know where tune kay, mississippi are? not just casinos. a lot of hands. [laughter] tunica, mississippi a couple years ago was the most impoverished place in mississippi. 2340u you go and there's 15 casinos up and down the highway. but someone came up with an ingenious idea to put these little shot gun houses as a hotel for people to come and stay in t gnu ica, mississippi. so you can go and the little shog house looks like something from where i grew up. but it's a little one-room-style house complete with newspaper on the wall. complete with the little rod beds. people come and spend $100 a night to sleep in a shog house. [laughter] baffles my mind. but there's a uniqueness. we have to capture and understand what makes us who we are and then allow and really encourage the innovateness of our people such that they can capitalize on their own uniqueness. and th

she is a true daughter of the mississippi delta, born and raised in greenville, mississippi. she was elected mayor in 2003 and reelected for a second term in 2007. she serves as the first african- american and first female to serve in her position, and she is honored to be one of the youngest mayors within the national conference of black mayors. to her left is our major from st. paul, minnesota, whose notes i have here somewhere. mayor christopher coleman took office in 2006 and was 45 mayor of st. paul, bringing a wealth of experience to the office as an attorney, community and neighborhood leader, investment adviser, and city council member. he has been guided as his experience of a lifelong resident of st. paul. his family has deep roots in the community. he has been bridging the education gap at the core of his agenda. to his immediate left is my mayor, tom menino, who is a political colossus. he has been reelected to his fifth consecutive four-year term, breaking the all-time record for continuous service as mayor. as i mentioned a moment ago, he has reshaped the city i

difference" report, and it comes from one of the most needy and underserved parts of our nation, the mississippi delta. our story comes from a small town there in need of the basic service of medical care. but as nbc's thanh truong reports from tutwiler, mississippi, tonight, one doctor has dedicated her life to helping the poor and hearing the call of a higher power. >> reporter: the tiny town of tutwiler, mississippi, is the place, as the sign suggests, where the blues were born. it's also a place of profound poverty and home to the t ucht twiler clinic. >> medically we see people who are in some cases very ill and haven't had care. >> reporter: for nearly three decades, dr. ann brooks and the staff have provided desperately needed health care to a rural population that used to go without. loretta phillips recently lost her job and needs medication. the clinic is the only option she and many others can afford. payment here is welcomed, but not a requirement for care. >> i just thank god. i really do. because i was very, very concerned. >> reporter: before brooks reopened the clinic, it had been shut

one is the mississippi delta of mars. one is a lake with calm steady water for many centuries, has the oldest exposed rocks or have not been changed maybe 4 billion years period you cannot find those rocks on earth anymore because the rain and wind have watched the evidence away but they still exist. last one is a giant crater that has a 5-kilometer mount in the middle of a different layers showing the entire history which means the rover would have to drive over to this but then basically call-up the amount over two or three years and study the layers in great detail. here is a perspective on the driver chided it is unique to sell from the public outreach standpoint. ms. worked in the past. you can see 99% of the energy comes out with the parachute and heat shield but that last bit on the bridle and there are rocket power that will be the exciting part. with the heat shield the size of it is quite impressive. there is the size of the parachute. here is a few pitchers. you can follow this for about two more months with th

have approved a deep water drilling permit in the gulf of mexico southeast of louisiana's mississippi river delta. it is in 6500 feet of water, deeper than the bp well that caused last year's disaster. >>> in southern brazil, disturbing video of a driver running down dozens of cyclists. the car barreled through the activists who were riding slowly down a street friday. no one was killed, but about 40 people were hurt. the driver may be charged with attempted murder. >>> on the cbs "moneywatch," stocks in asia spiked higher again this morning. ashley morrison is here in new york with the latest on that. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, asian markets got a boost from foreign investors. the nikkei rose more than 1% while the hang seng added a fraction. today wall street gets february auto sales numbers and hears from ben bernanke on capitol hill. on monday, stocks finished higher after oil prices stabilized. the dow gained 96 points while the nasdaq added 1. >>> those gains closed out the third straight up month for stocks pushed higher by strong corporate earnings and a string of merg

everyone estelle officially invited to the mississippi delta blues festival in greeneville, mississippie are at generation all levels of having to deal with the same problems over and over and over again. i hate to say get, but a recession is nothing new to us. our life is a recession. the levels of poverty, the level of mist education, the level of economic development we have dealt with in our communities and we deal with in communities across our area are something that we have unfortunately large debt to the resilience against. as a mayor, it is troubling that my constituents and put me into a position to say that we trust you are going to listen to what we have to say and take that in order to develop good resources in order to help us bring commerce to the next level. in the meantime, we will do what we have always done. if we will keep on getting by. [applause] >> all ask you what your top priority is and what you are trying to do about it at the moment. mayor menino, i will call when you first. it is education. you are in charge, unlike many mayors. you played a major role in pa

i work in the -- i started in the delta region of arkansas, mississippi, and louisiana. have grown over the years to expand into the greater memphis, into new new orleans, and statee throughout my region. in the past few years, we have been active in oil spills, recovery, and businesses. you don't see software and media companies. you see biofuels, health care, you see elderly care growth, you see tourism and recreation, we finance both manufacturers that have grown and done well, rebuilding housing -- >> i'm going to ask you. i'm going to just interpret you a minute and ask you, you have done this quite successfully in the region. you are providing a lot of capital. when you see the medium-growth companies, what is it that they are looking for and why -- how have you gotten access to that capital? what are the programs that are really working that we ought to think about expanding or accelerating? >> well, i have to take my hat off to this administration for -- >> i was hoping that you'd say that. >> but it's true. i think i started meeting with rosy during the transiti

the flooding of the mississippi river distributed every spring, flood water and sentiment over the delta building the coastal wetlands, the most fertile home for seafood and other creatures of the environment. when you leveed the river began starving the wetlands and they begin shrinking and you have the first ingredient in the longer disaster involving southern louisiana, the erosion of the coastal wetlands. why is that important aside from if you like shrimper i remind all of what lands between the gulf of mexico and the city of new orleans backs down hurricane ferocity by an unknown quantity, the wind coming over water as the wind over the land they lose energy, they lose the wetlands and one of our major protections. furious been a questioner asks how has the community responded to the documentary? >> iso people in new orleans knew this stuff. so i was startled. the picture was supposed to play for one night and played for weeks and the major local radio talk-show host, i saw him and watching the movie the first night and he couldn't sit down steam was coming out of his years. you're

but the flooding of the mississippi river distributed every spring flood water and sentiment over the deltabuilding the coast with land of louisiana, the most for a while home for seafood and other creatures of the environment of the entire north american continent. when you live either river you begin starving the wetlands and the begin shrinking and you have the first ingredient in the long term slow-motion disaster to the entel in southern louisiana. the erosion of the coastal wetlands. why is that important aside from if you like shrimp? every mile of the wetlands between the gulf of mexico and the city of new orleans backs down the hurricane ferocity by the known quantity. the wind coming over the water pick up energy as the wind goes over the land they lose energy. we lose the wetlands and one of our major protections. >> the questionnaire asks how has the local new orleans community responded to the documentary? >> it wasn't a for new orleans. i assume people of new orleans' new this stuff, so i was startled. the picture was supposed to play for one night and it leave for weeks and t