one that began in the mississippi delta 60 years ago with a death here at the black bayou. thank you for joining us, i'm joie chen. the delta held secrets close. in the shadows. you can almost hear the whispers day. the truth of a young black man's mistake, and the horrific penalty he paid for it are trapped in the heat of a mississippi night. if these walls could talk, would they scream in terror? cry out in desperation? or would they fall silent in fear? they are the lost walls emmett till saw in the barn on the old sheraton plantation, a place that echos with the horror of a hot august night. where a kid from chicago funds himself facing the most brutal type of justice. his family called him bo bo, 14 years old, with a stutter. he begged his single mum to let him come to missouri in 1955 to visit his country cousins. >> he talked beside chicago. he told me stuff you didn't know about. riverview park. have you ever about there. mack me in the battlefields, listening to a story about amusement park. i couldn't believe that. >> emmett was a story steler, and a jokester. and

it's mississippi pond raised catfish, it comes out of the mississippi delta down here. it's a really, a really good product. molly: so how did you come to own taylor lynn: it was always a country store that sold catfish on the weekends. and this business belonged to a lady that i've known my entire life, and when she got ready to get out of the businesses she was kind enough to sell it to me. my vision was tables and cooking catfish and that is the direction we've went. we've been blessed, its worked well for us. molly: sounds like you're kind of the local watering hole for the town you grew up in, that's got to be quite an honor. lynn: it really does my heart with us. molly: i cant thank you enough for having us here, its an honor to meet you. lynn: yea it's good to have you guys, good to have you down here house of gamecock faithful will greet them. the athletic department says the game is sold out. this is the second meeting between the two teams. alabama won on its home court just over two weeks ago to give the gamecocks their first loss of the season. the game is s

got problems in the mid mississippi valley and plenty of moisture down in, along the gulf and mississippi delta getting rain as well. for us, the on shore flow and california getting some sprinkles tonight, boy, they could use that. the big story, though, very active pacific, a series of storms are going to come marching through this week. 's hard to put an exact timetable on it. we'll try on the seven-day, but just get the idea that we'll be under the gun monday through friday. there will probably be some breaks, though, in that perfect. there's plenty of moisture aloft. but i think by monday night it will be hitting the ground. freezing point for an overnight low in pahrump, 35 mesquite, 37 boulder city. we've been lower, in the 20s. clouds will help with the insulation. temperatures a few degrees warmer than today tomorrow over southern nevada. a bit chilly with the north win at 5 to 10 miles per hour. then about 5 degrees warmer than that will be nice, our normal is 57. so we may actually have a day above norm. 39 at 7:00 a.m., mid 50's noon and early evening. if you're heading to the mount

i worry about flooding in the mississippi delta. complicated issue. think things have to be done on a case-by-case basis. the edmund pettus bridge in alabama, should be named after john lewis. sometimes i think those changes are appropriate. go way too, people far. everyone to look like they did today. we have to sloth of that down some of theous on tearing down of statues and a renaming everything. in new orleans, i am an advocate that we need to do a statue for ruby bridges. people.onoring ruby bridges, being one of many. as a way to outrace the confederate memorials. tearing downto statues, we have to be careful on doing that. heritage, connect culture, what does it all mean. lee was a great west point cadet. host: bob, great falls. i hope my mom is listening. she will not believe i got on. this is her favorite program. i know you wrote the book on franklin roosevelt. we are big bernie sanders fans. wondering, do you think baite sanders is trying to -- break up the big banks, start a work program like bernie sanders is talking about. would fdr be c

went up in churches, on trees, and along rotting walls of one from schoolhouses all over the mississippi delta. peopleed to the colored and written in large letters, as the coloredcing people. dr. dorothy ferebee and her staff of trained colored assistance who would treat the sick of their race. the mississippi health product was coming to town and lord knows, the colored people of oliver county needed all the help they could get in the summer of 1936. but the rest of the population clawed their way out of the hadt depression that engulfed a decade, blacks in the delta still suffer the same miserable this and they always had with no end insight. most african-americans in the tenantorked the land as farmers or sharecroppers, i can to modern-day slavery. a grandamilies aren't sum of $50 a year, sometimes less. the farm workers lived on the most fertile ground on earth, but their diet contained almost no fruits or vegetables, because the land owners refused to allow them to use the valuable acreage to cultivate small gardens. wholesome foods want sold to plantation commissaries. the only stores t

churches, on crate myrtle trees and a long rotting walls of one-room school houses all over the mississippi delta, addressed to the colored people, written in large letters as if my a huckster announcing the arrival of the traveling circus. notice, colored people. come to a clinic for health advice. the anonymous author promised a genuine lady doctor from washington dc. dorothy ferebee and her staff of trained colored assistance who would treat the sick of their race. mississippi health project was coming to town. lord knows the colored people of bolivar county need their help. populationest of the claw their way out of the great depression, blacks in the delta still suffered the same miserable existence they always had with no end in sight. most african-americans in the delta worked the land as tenant farmers or sharecroppers. akin to modern day slavery. entire families earned the sub of $50 a year, sometimes less. farmworkers lived on the most fertile ground on earth but their diet contained almost no fruits or vegetables. the landowners refused to allow them to use the valuable acreage to cult

about the winter flooding that has gone in the midwest and always worry about flooding and the mississippi delta and new orleans. it's a complicated issue, the mayor of new orleans is trying to remove statues. things have to be done on a case by case basis. wrote a piece at the anniversary of selma, edmund pettus bridge should be renamed after congressman john lewis. edmund pettus had no connection to the bridge and would be a great way to honor john lewis. those are appropriate but other times people go way too far. we want everybody to look like they did today and i think we have to slow some of that down a little bit and be very cautious on the tearing down of statues and renaming of everything. certainly in new orleans, huge advocate we need to do a park for one of the heroes of the civil rights movement in new orleans. i like honoring people that have done great things for the civil rights movement in the southern cities like new orleans. but i think to change washington at lee college and get rid of lee's name and that is a slippery slope for us to do as a country. host: bob, you are on wi

we'll be talking about this for the next two weeks until it frees the area and gets past the mississippi deltaon, interesting to see how it's testing those history exle records. tom sater, in the weather center, thanks very much. >>> coming up on "cnn newsroom," breaking news on the delicate diplomatic front. saudi arabia severing ties with iran in the aftermath of a wave of executions. a live report after this. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news right now out of saudi arabia. the kingdom servering all ties with iran after this weekend's attack on its embassy in tehran. saudi foreign minister made the announcement a short time ago on saudi state tv. all stems from the execution of 47 prisoners, principally a prominent shia muslim cleric, iran, a shia nation, saudi arabia, a sunni nation, protesters around the world have shown their frustration in the wake of this execution, including london, where cnn senior international correspondent frederik pleitgen is now. the saudis call this shia cleric, in effect a terrorist, that's why he was executed. the iranian regime, shia,

she said, i think it would really work in the mississippi delta.n the ozark mountains, which are -- then were our version of appalachian. i said, well, it sounds interesting, but what are you going to do? she said, oh, i just called the woman that started the program and she'll be here in ten days and we're going to set one up. before you knew it -- >> bill clinton, former president clinton, in nashua, new hampshire, his first solo campaign rally of the year. talking about a side of hillary clinton we haven't seen or heard much about, the early days when they met some 45 years ago. >> 45 years ago. he said everything she touched she made better. we're going to continue to listen to former president bill clinton. we'll get in a quick break. ♪ (cell phone rings) where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won't call an exterminator... can i call you back, mom? he says it's personal this time... if you're a mom, you call at the worst time. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you sw

she said i think it would really work in the mississippi delta.k mountains which were then our version of appalachia. and i said, well, it sounds interesting but what are you going to do? she said i just called the woman that started the program and she'll be here in ten days and we're going to set one up. before you knew it, there were hippie programs in more than 25 states. still the largest area. there are thousands of kids before there was any talk of universal preschool or quality child care standards or anything, thousands of kids got off to a better start in life because she made one phone call and followed through. and she hadn't been elected to anything. she was just a changemaker. then i put her in charge of the education standards movement in our state at a time when a national expert said we had the worse wo school system in america in arkansas. when i came here running for president, nine years later, the same guy said that arkansas and south carolina had the most improved schools in america. she did that. and she hadn't been elected

i worry about flooding in the mississippi delta. complicated issue.hink things have to be done on a case-by-case basis. the edmund pettus bridge in alabama, should be named after john lewis. sometimes i think those changes are appropriate. go way too, people far. everyone to look like they did today. we have to sloth of that down some of theous on tearing down of statues and a renaming everything. in new orleans, i am an advocate that we need to do a statue for ruby bridges. people.onoring ruby bridges, being one of many. as a way to outrace the confederate memorials. tearing downto statues, we have to be careful on doing that. heritage, connect culture, what does it all mean. lee was a great west point cadet. host: bob, great falls. i hope my mom is listening. she will not believe i got on. this is her favorite program. i know you wrote the book on franklin roosevelt. we are big bernie sanders fans. wondering, do you think baite sanders is trying to -- break up the big banks, start a work program like bernie sanders is talking about. would fdr be con

i worry about flooding in the mississippi delta. complicated issue.hink things have to be done on a case-by-case basis. the edmund pettus bridge in alabama, should be named after john lewis. sometimes i think those changes are appropriate. go way too, people far. everyone to look like they did today. we have to sloth of that down some of theous on tearing down of statues and a renaming everything. in new orleans, i am an advocate that we need to do a statue for ruby bridges. people.onoring ruby bridges, being one of many. as a way to outrace the confederate memorials. tearing downto statues, we have to be careful on doing that. heritage, connect culture, what does it all mean. lee was a great west point cadet. host: bob, great falls. i hope my mom is listening. she will not believe i got on. this is her favorite program. i know you wrote the book on franklin roosevelt. we are big bernie sanders fans. wondering, do you think baite sanders is trying to -- break up the big banks, start a work program like bernie sanders is talking about. would fdr be con

people were starving in mississippi and malnourished, and there were babies with bloated bodies, and for whatever reason i started talking about the problems that were going on in the delta. the mississippi officials were changing over from free food commodities to food stamps and charging two dollars per person and people had no income and they were being pushed off the plantation. >> hinojosa: right. but i'm still stuck on the fact that you, as a young black woman, just were saying, "i'm going to... i like this man, and i think i might even marry this man," which you ended up doing. and then you ended up giving birth to three boys. >> three wonderful boys. >> hinojosa: who are jewish african-american from the south. >> that's right. >> hinojosa: and for you, this relationship as a mother to impart to them that you are products of a jewish background and of an african-american background, and you've written about this, the fact that these are oppressed people. talk a little bit about how you manage that, you know, being in the center of the public eye and, at the same time, being a mom who's trying manage... i mean, just before we came in, you said, "oh, i'm always know