delta fragment is the story of my personal childhood journey growing up in the mississippi delta town of greenwood. first, a note about the delta. the mississippi delta is located in the north western portion of the state. you have land that is enrichedded by the overflowing of the rivers over our number of years depositing silt and thus yielding land that is flat and rich, the perfect soil for growing app abundance of cotton. the delta is also known for its blues and lately cat fish. it is also a place of great poverty. it is known for casinoings that dot the land scape. in the story, there's five significant moments which i detail in the book. first is my early life only the plantation as a son of sharecroppers. there is my attendance in segregated schools. there's the impact of inmaterial, and in august of 1955. i think of the influence of the black church on development and talk about participation on the civil rights movement although that participation lasted not much more than a summer, the summer of 1962. the book is comprised of 32 # stories or fragments. there's two segments

this storm is just around 400 miles to the south of mississippi, just south of the mississippi delta and moving to the north, northwest at about 12 miles per hour. it's going to strengthen to potentially a category 1 hurricane before making land fall. then those remnants will start to move in our general direction. we will get all the moisture. we certainly need the rain. what we will not get is the death and destruction that comes with a tropical storm. that is expected to be here early to mid next week. tuesday into wednesday we will start to see the moisture get lifted into the region. bob will talk about the timing more and how long these temperatures will stick around coming up in your complete first warning weather forecast. tim williams, sending it back to television hill. >> thank you. >>> a u.s. navy blimp over hovering over baltimore will continue to fly. it's been in flight over the city since last week. a contractor on board is testing its sensors to see how well they work for mapping. since the contractors has already been paid the blimp will stay up until the job is fin

he talked about appalachia and the mississippi delta. he talked about certain native american reservations and he said here's where poverty is concentrated. if you go around america today yes there are still hotspots. if you go deep into the mississippi delta there or are extraordinary levels of poverty. you go to some of the reservations of the colonials in the southwest and again you sea levels of poverty that are almost unfathomable but the poverty is also in new york. there's a lot of talk this week about the scale of poverty. almost half of new york residents are struggling to pay their bills. you go to suburban los angeles. you can find people who had jobs they lost their jobs and now they have jobs again but those jobs pay 1/2 to one third that they used to get paid and they don't come with benefits. i think when you talk about poverty in this country what we are talking about as modern-day america. we think of ourselves as socially mobile and it's fundamental to our self-image as a country. we are upwardly moral book -- mobile op

another fighter, another leader from the delta of mississippi. >> host: he got me involved. >> host:brief synopsis of your life. tell us what you have been doing since 1964. >> in 63-64, i came to california in 1965. as a matter of fact i have been working with the group john talked about, taking kids to college, ten days through black college, recruit black college students so i try to work with through the system for 28 years and just retired. i am about four years younger than john. >> guest: >> host: sorry, i thought you finished. >> guest: thank you for your work over the years. the >> host: warren, please go ahead. >> i want to thank you so much. you put your life on the line for what you believed in. i know that is like. i called richard butler at a legislative hearing a was testifying at, a bigot to his face and got a lot of press but as you can hear i am still alive. i was at the stanford deal where al sharpton was parking, 30,000 people. i was so excited. less than 50 white. where i am disappointed in the civil rights movement is this year in february, the 100th birth day o

like the work on the samoa but of course everything was known to every 10-years-old and the mississippi delta the country was that separate that people didn't realize what was going on. in 1892, the ellis island immigration processing center opened in new york harbor and the federal government took over from the states to process screening immigrants for health and ability to support themselves. it's actually immigration laws in large part 19th century regulated by the state authorities in massachusetts and new york and pennsylvania. right around that you're in 1892 in a time of economic distress, immigration to europe shifted from northwest europe from ireland, britain, germany, scandinavia to the southern and eastern europe. ellis island were mostly people that were second or third cast citizens in a multi-ethnic states, southern italians from italy, the poles and jews in the russian and the austro-hungarian empires. the prospect of equal citizenship attracted in america, but the cultural customs, language differences led many americans feel that they couldn't be assimilated. as i said this

we are seeing light rain showers and across the delta, mississippi and also around southern areas of louisiana, not the heavy rain we had to deal with earlier this morning around houston where we are still in line for some scattered activity for the remainder of the evening. as far as temperatures go, we are in the mid 60s around atlanta and 67 in birmingham. now, 62 in charlotte, 6 i can't in savannah and 73 in new orleans. temperatures are running 5, upwards to nearly 20 degrees warmer than where we were at this time yesterday. a nice warm-up will continue as we go through the day and really, the next couple of days ahead. across the northwest, we will have temperatures in the '50s across much of the northwest and really feeling that heat here in the southwest up to 91 degrees in phoenix, but here is a look at the northwest. the next storm system taking shape, light rain showers across washington, northern areas of idaho but look at that pink shading waiting where we are starting to see a little bit of a rain/snow mix moving down into northern areas of montana where conditions are

i'm driving the mississippi delta. i said what's there? she said nothing. it's 6 and 7 and 8.s a delta. >> there was. a sponsor of the delta hut tamale festival. it was beautiful. thank you. >> cotton fields and gorgeous. your parents were unbelievable. this was the second annual. >> over 50 in the century. are we on tv yet? >> first we have the opening event. the second annual hot tamale festival. the unofficial mayor of greenville. and brought to you by the garden gun and it was all beautiful. it was in benoit, mississippi. >> the baby doghouse where carol becker was lying around in the crib and the night gown and stuff. >> speaking of babies. >> tell us about how you are shirking your duties. >> speaking of babies. i want this baby. >> he has his first cold. >> that's a good-looking baby. >> tell us about sam. >> sam is the most unbelievable thing that happened to me and the reason i may not make sense because i haven't slept for a month. >> he's so cute. >> he follows your instagram feed and found out he had a cold and your wife called you what? >> a bastard. because i sle

was born in mississippi, in the heart of the delta. he attended moorehouse college in atlanta, undergrad, and then his divinity degree from howard university in washington, dc. i met him when i was attending college in nashville. he was a great orator, wonderful, wonderful minister. he was pastor -- the first baptist church in downtown nashville. the church was old red brick building, with overlapping roof, and the membership came out of the back of the white church. the church has existed since the days of slavery in tennessee. it was located less than a block from the state capitol. it was one of the meeting places during the height of the movement. you go down here, talk about someone preaching the social gospel. this man did. his sirons were -- sermons were short, son-in-law to 12 minutes, but when you heard him speak, you were ready to get up and move your feet. he became a -- with martin luther king, jr. he was tall, handsome, he spoke with authority. he believed what he was saying. and he lived it. he was concerned about all of

spent a lot of time traveling all across the south going to arkansas, southwest georgia, to delta, mississippi, and to louisiana and north carolina, south carolina. but atlanta presented me with an opportunity to be the place not just to be there, but to come to washington to meet with members of congress, to come and meet with president kennedy, with martin luther king jr. and others. a few weeks after i'd been elected chair of the student nonviolent coordinating committee, i was in washington in the white house with president kennedy, and i will never forget that first meeting with the president and then getting on a flight, flying from washington back to atlanta and preparing for the march on washington. that was 50 years ago. >> host: who are the big six? >> guest: the big six was the head of the major civil rights organization. you had a man by the name of a. philip randolph. mr. randolph was considered the dean of black randolph who organized the brotherhood of dhaka car supporters rather than the man working on the railroad when you come to washington and work through the union station,

>> we're hearing for the first time from the father of the mississippi 9-year-old who managed to stow away on the flight to las vegas. >> delta has a new promotion. kids 9 and under fly free, no questions asked. >> they rally outside the capitol building. >> not only are they jumping off bridges. they're jumping out of hot air balloons. >> all that -- >> they're moving along to the american league championship. >> some controversy in the motor city. the fans reach out over the railing. >> -- and all that matters -- >> the obama care. >> it's the law. >> unconstitutional. >> even though the supreme court deemed it constitutional. >> they still don't know what's in the bill. >> the supreme court didn't read the bill. i feel the same way. >> -- on "cbs this morning." >> starbucks released a new hybrid dessert. >> if you eat enough of them you get a combination of diabetes and heart disease. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" is brought to you by toyota. let's go places. captioning funded by cbs >>> welcome to "cbs this morning." good morning, norah. >> good morning to you, charlie. i'm starting to wonder how long this shu