nasty weather just to the west of nashville, not much in terms of warnings on this, but you're going to see a lot of lightning, heavy downpours, and gusty winds that can cause some damage. so be aware. there you can see those live lightning strikes right through the nashville area as we speak. now, we were talking about ef scales and what kind tornados these can cause, we don't have the official word yet out of jackson, mississippi, how strong this tornado was but based on the pictures i've been seeing, don, i would say at least an ef-3 tornado, which would be considered a severe tornado and winds around 165 miles per hour and i've also seen a couple of pictures where some of these homes have been wiped clean off of the slates and if that is case and these are well-constructed homes maybe see this upgraded to an ef-4 or more so we'll watch that and of course as we get word from them tomorrow we'll bring that along to you so this threat continues overnight with that high risk, don, especially mississippi, alabama on into western kentucky and tomorrow this moves into the eastern seaboa

do you still play nashville? >> sure. absolutely. i enjoy playing nashville.this record, these are all nashville pickers. and we played in nashville at with all the songs a few weeks ago. >> larry: are they the best? always talk about the nashville sound. >> these are the cream of the crop. this is ronnie mccoury and his family, del mccoury, a great grouch bluegrass pickers. and chris sharp and dennis crouch, great upright bass player. these guys, the fiddle player, these are the real pickers. and it's always comfortable to be able to look at anybody in the room and nod at them and know they're going to take a great course. >> larry: kind of fun when you sing with great people. >> absolutely. >> larry: they make you better, right? >> they make me comfortable. >> larry: anybody you want to work with you haven't worked with? >> let's sing one. let's you and i do one. >> larry: want to do one? >> yeah. >> want to do blue skies? >> yeah, we can do blue skies. >> larry: want me to start? ♪ blue skies smiling at me, nothing but blue skies do i see ♪ ♪ bluebirds sing

now you're looking at live pictures out of nashville. clearly, very damp.ou see the water on the lens there. let's find out with our bonnie schneider what the potential is for nashville, memphis, and so many other cities. >> very high, fredricka. already seeing tornado warnings breaking out across mississippi into alabama. unconfirmed reports of tornadoes in alabama from fire officials in the city of ward. i'm checking on that right now. alities getting reports of trees down and some damage to homes in meridian, mississippi, due a possible tornado. unconfirmed at this time. the warnings, you can see, xaft right where the quell is going through. on into tennessee. the bigger picture, speaking of tennessee, shows that memphis and nashville are und atornado watch persisting through the afternoon. hattiesburg, mississippi, down through new orleans also under a tornado watch. however, the watches existing here for central mississippi, alabama and western tennessee are listed as a particularly dangerous situation. a pds watch. what does that mean? enhanced langua

we also have a very intense line north and west of nashville.ust new tornado warnings issued here. doppler radar indicated near the state line, moving over towards kentucky, and we have seen this continuing throughout much of central kentucky at this hour. now, we have a high risk of these tornados continuing, these large, violent tornados that stay on the ground for a very long period of time and so it's this big purple area, mostly where we have the watches now that we think that that greatest threat will continue. this will move eastward through the overnight and through the day tomorrow, we'll have that risk of severe weather, say, from parts of pennsylvania in the mid-atlantic states down through the carolinas and even into parts of florida. however, tomorrow, the threat not quite as strong in terms of getting rotating storms as what we've been seeing tonight. don, this has been a really rare event of what's been taking place. this happens only a couple of times a year. it's been an unusually quiet severe weather season so far. i mean, this

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we had a warning around the nashville area that expired but we are still looking at fasty cells that are moving through carrying a lot of rain and large hail. look at the tornado watch boxes. they extend east as the line continues to push off to the east as well. so 10:00, 11:00, the system will start to wind down. unfortunately, the severe threat tomorrow will push further down the coast from maryland to car carolinas. it doesn't look like it's as severe as today but continues to sunday. >> that can't come soon enough for those people. they had a heck of a day. thank yoyou. >>> fox news is america's election quarterbac headquarter. one of the most vulnerable senators up for re-election is arkansas senator blanche lincoln fac face faces challen from halter and also morrison. last night, the three squared off in a televised debate at the university of arkansas. our own james rosen has the story from little rock. hey, james! >> reporter: no knock-out punches scored or even attempted between n the debate. they kept the discourse civil and substantive. halter said it was unseemly for bla

truly derailed me for a long time when i read it and it stayed with you today as i drive here to nashville today of the "mayhem in mayberry," these incredible misadventures, but not only the misadventures, but to look at the underbelly of crime and punishment in appalachia, this could american experience and ultimately part of the great american experience to understand who we truly are. i want to have a message first though because every reading is sponsored in my reading tonight is not sponsored by peabody energy, it's not sponsored by clean coal. we try to do a debate today at npr and they didn't even want to face off with me anymore. my reading tonight is sponsored by the independent booksellers association because when we were doing the bailouts and putting up those billion dollar checks and the mail we were wondering about wall street is wondering about the banks were wondering about this corporation, the corporation, i just had this moment with my son. i said, what about the independent booksellers? [laughter] i just kept waiting for timothy geithner, one of my heroes and president

nashville, also matching that number. so, lynn, a lot of beautiful places starting off april right with some decent temperatures. coming up we'll talk about what we can expect for the finish of the week. >> all right. i like the way it looks. thank you, todd. well, jobs fall, amazon inks, and google giggles. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. plus, remember when one of tiger woods 'mistresses canceled a turnout? turns out she had 10 good reasons to do so. >> the mother of all foul balls. you're watching e "e.t." >>> good morning. welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry, and here are some of your top headlines this morning. >>> across the country americans have been sending in their census forms, including president, seen here filling out his questionnaire. today is census day, the day when everyone is supposed to have mailed in those forms. those who have failed to do so will be visited by a census bureau worker starting in may. each of those trips will cost taxpayers about $25. >>> a chennen

host: national, tenn., -- nashville, tenn., democrats. caller: i am a small-business owner. i would like to expand to more employees in the next three or so years. what do you think this new health care legislation is going to do for small business owners that are looking to bring employees on board and get the proper benefits. what is that going to do for us in the small business sector? guest: he would have to get a lot larger in your company before you could govern the requirements of legislation. in some sense, i hate to say it, but time will tell. if they operate as they are intended to, there will be a more robust marketplace for small businesses like yours. they could go in and evaluate the different coverage options that are available to you and purchase them. if there is good competition, it should be a net positive. on the other hand, there are new rules part of the law that insurance companies are limited in the amount they can charge young people versus older people. the net effect of that is going to be for the small business like yours or a young individual goi

the next area we're watching, nashville, tennessee and areas off to the west and southwest. see how the storms are developing right along this line? any one of these are developing rotation, and you can see one that has it and it could be impacting nashville, so be aware, your storm's right around the corner, and last but not least, we're looking at storms that have been firing up across parts of alabama, these storms started out in mississippi and we could see these strengthen and intensify as well. so a lot of different areas we're going to be watching in the next couple of hours. what can you expect as we head through the rest of tonight and into tomorrow? look at this huge area of high risk. we only get a handful of these high risk outlook days per year, don, so we have had a really slow start to the tornado season this year, we have a 50% shot that a tornado is going to come within 25 miles from your home if you live in that area. this will spread through parts of pennsylvania all the way through the sunshine state. so the risk tomorrow is not as favorable for tornado d

we take the next call from jeremy from nashville, tennessee. caller: devastating conventional attack? how will we pay for this? the nation is already bankrupt. i'm actually ashamed to be calling this morning because i read the report last night about this insane policy of this idiot, barack obama. i am ashamed for the first time in the history of my life to live in this country. the idiot who called before me, from kentucky, he would deserve to be annihilated in chemical attack. all this does is leave us vulnerable to our enemies. host: let me ask you this -- you do not think we have enough weaponry stored away that if someone were to attack us that we could retaliate? caller: we have not used it so far against our enemies, have we? host: where do you think we could have used it? caller: first of all, in afghanistan. george bush did not have the testicular fortitude to use it against afghanistan. diid he? host: and what you think about president obama? caller: i saw his opening pitch of the washington senators game -- he throws like a girl. hos

. >> in nashville? >> in nashville. i was there. they have a parenting program there for people whose kids may have issues with attachment. i actually witnessed an entire workshop around this, and she could have gone. it is one hour from where she lives. she never went to that clinic. she never had the kid examined. >> lisa, do you think the mom is going to be charged or the grandmother is going to be charged with a crime here? >> this case reminds me of one of my law school classes, choice of laws, because they resided in tennessee. she flew with the child to the washington, d.c., area and then he was on the flight a t russia. the question is if there was child endangerment or abandonment, which most of us think that there was, where did it take place? it doesn't seem to me it took place in tennessee. she was in charge of the child there. she took the kid to the washington, d.c., airport and then he was then properly put on a united airlines flight as an unaccompanied minor. i've had my kids fly that way, though not internationally

. >> reporter: for most of the year, the majority are either on the road or in nashville.o they say that having the show here in las vegas is a real treat. these are places that you can celebrate each other. >> reporter: celebrating for the country's greatest as they can. sandra hughs, cbs news, las vegas. >>> all right, we're looking at reverting back to winter for a short period. is there tomorrow will be the day of two seasons in just one day. in the morning, you'll think that we're right back into winter. then we'll go back to early spring throughout the afternoon hours. it will be a big change in the temperatures. the coats, gloves, you know, maybe thinking about sweaters and scarves in the morning. then it will be about t-shirts in the afternoon. the next three days, showing this nicely. mid to possibly even upper 60s in some cases. we'll get the sunshine back tomorrow even for the most part on tuesday. we'll show you how we got them to roll up today. you can see them coming into wednesday. this is now for certain. giving us a lot of the shower activity. light steady

and always good to take a look at nashville. there is carrie underwood.the year last night at the academy of country music awards? this is the second time she's been given that honor. that has not happened with any other woman. >> it is usually kenny chesney. good for her. "american idol" to star of the country world. good for carrie. it is 48 minutes past the hour. rob marciano is in the extreme weather center this morning. hey there, rob. >> good morning, gorgeous weather across the tennessee valley and through nashville. the sun will come up today. we have a couple of showers that we'll be dealing with in the southeast. other than that, no huge storms, except for the pacific northwest, showers rolling in there. it was a gorgeous weekend across many spots. 68 degrees for the high expected in memphis. this little shower will bring its way over to the east. it will pose rain in memphis towards new orleans. the biggest problem will be across parts of florida where the showers continue today. that will be an issue because we have something called the space

aside from the storms ripping through the plains, there are showers around chicago, louisville and nashville. snow in colorado, utah and wyoming. and light rain in the pacific northwest. >> 61 in seattle. 65 in boise. 75 in sacramento. around 70 in fargo, omaha and the twin cities. 60 in the northeast. and 80s from miami to dallas. >>> still ahead this morning, the nation's $250 million lottery winner. >> lucky guy. >>> they were supposed to be wap watching the economy. but they were watching something else, instead. >>> and the middle sch >>> well, overseas stock markets are mixed to close out the week. tokyo's nikkei average fell 0.3% today. hong kong's hang seng is lower. in london, the ftse opened higher. on wall street, the dow added nine points yesterday. the nasdaq gained 14 points. >>> a couple of technology giants could weigh on wall street today. investors were apparently hoping for more from microsoft. the company's stock fell in extended trading, despite a strong quarter. microsoft's profit jumped 35% from last year. the newest version of windows drove sales. as companies spent m

for most of the year, a majority of country musicians are either on the road or in nashville. having the show here in las vegas is a real treat. >> we travel separately, we all tour separately, get to hang out as much as you like and these are place we can actually get to see each other. >> reporter: and celebrate country music in a way only country's greatest can. sandra hughes, cbs news, las vegas. >>> straight ahead, your monday morning weather. and in sports, layoff action gets off to a fast start in the nba. for all active families. our advanced 2-in-1 power cleans tough stains like grass better than the leading oxi detergent and helps get your family's wash incredibly white and bright. try new all oxi-active. it's all good. has a whole new look. presenting benefiber orange -- the natural, orange-flavored fiber that dissolves completely, so there's no grit. that's the beauty of benefiber. [ man ] orange. [ coughs ] [ laughs ] ♪ [ sneezes ] ♪ [ female announcer ] your hands are only as clean as the towel used to dry them. so why use the same hand towel over and over... ins

woman decided that she no longer wanted her adopted 7-year-old son so she put him on a plane from nashville to his native moscow alone and included a note explaining he was violent with severe psychological issues. she arranged month a fan to pick up up and drop him off at the education ministry. not clear whether any laws have been broken. >>> the entertainment world is mourning the loss of actress dixie carter this morning. she played the outspokenall i can't sugarbaker on designing women. carter died of complications from uterine cancer. beside her husband hal holbrook, dictiony carter leaves behind two daughters. >>> we'll tell you why you won't need to dig for change in some sports the city for the parking meters but may want to whip out your cell phone. >>> high me eee motion as phil mickelson captures another green jacket. >> we had temperatures in the mid-70s and a few chances for rain. julie wright will be in with a look at your on-time traffic right after the break. lots of discounts on car insurance. can i get in on that? are you a safe driver? yes. discount! do you own a home? y

one day, i was waiting in his office, to catch a plane back to nashville. and a person came in and said, the president is on the phone, meaning president johnson, and, nobody asked me to leave and i didn't. and, i heard the conversation go like this, no, mr. president, i'm sorry. i'm sorry, i can't come down to have a drink after work. pause. i'll tell you why. i came home late last night and lou well la was mad. and i thought this is remarkable. republican leader, democratic president, on such cordial and informal terms and 15 minutes later i heard a terrible clatter in the reception room, and the first thing i saw were two beagle dogs tied onto one leather leash, true story, he came in, the secret service, was panicking, and, came to the inner office and said, if you won't come drink with me, i'll come drink with you! [laughter]. >> and they did. they went to the -- i don't know what they did or what happened there and i don't know what problems got solved, but i'll guarantee you, some did. and, that is missing that is not there any more. and that is too

one day i was waiting in his office to catch a plane back to nashville. lee goldman and his secretary came in. >> we're going to leave the remainder of this recorded event and take you live now to state department coordinator of counterterrorism daniel benjamin. he's going to be speaking at the woodrow wilson center in washington. it's just getting underway. live coverage on c-span2. >> within the wilson center. today's meeting is cosponsored by the international security studies program and by our middle east program. the coseries of georgetown professor bruce hoffman sends regrets. he's unfortunately enable to be with us today. i'd like to extend a particular welcome to those who is viewing's today meeting on c-span. i welcome those who are attending in person. as is usual, the usual format after this meeting is over, in one hour, we will adjourn to a reception in an adjacent room. today's topic could not be more topical. counterterrorism in the obama administration. tactics and strategy. and our speaker could not be more authoritative. it's ambassador

world, and now, ladies and gentlemen, in attendance and mma joining us around the world, live from nashville, it's show time! >> introducing first the challenger, fighting out of the blue corner, one of the most decorated fighters in mma history, free style history and his records stands at 25 wins and seven losses. tonight, making his strikeforce debut, please welcome the two-time u.s. olympian and four-time world champion, dan henderson! and in the red corner, a world renowned virtuoso of wrestling and jujitsu his record stands and 24 wins, four losses and one draw, including 13 straight victories, tonight, making the first defense of his title, please welcome the strikeforce world middleweight champion, jake shields! and the referee in charge, now to give instructions, big john mccarthy. >> all right, gentlemen. strikeforce middleweight champs, protect yourselves at all times. fight a clean fight, hard fight, fair, step on back. >> jake shields, defending his title against a legend, 39-year-old dan henderson. jake, no freebies i want to take on the best and he is getting a shot now. dan h

tesh said he and oprah dated in the 70s while they worked together in nashville.say why they split up but says they remain good friends. oprah oprah's reps haven't commented. >>> and kate gosselin is still on "dancing with the stars." hear what the judges thought. >>> and a man who lives on the streets has a new home and job. hear what a police officer did to help a man turn his life around. >>> for a second day, 46 countries are in washington today to talk about how to safeguard nuclear materials and keep them out of terrorist hands. yesterday a counterterrorism adviser warned that al qaeda has been trying to get its hands on a nuclear weapon. >>> there is a new safety warning about another toyota vehicle. "consumer reports" says the new lexus gs-460 here is a rollover risk. the magazine is warning people, do not buy this suv until toyota fixes the problem. lexus says the vehicle exceeded all federal safety requirements, but it's going to take a serious look at it. >>> california is considering a new child molester's law named after chelsea king. she's the teenag

> reporter: for most of the year, the most of the musics are -- musicians were on the road or in nashvillee all tour separately and these are places where you can see each other. >> reporter: and celebrate country music in a way that country music's greatest can. >> you've given us the dream that every country singer and musician dreams of. thank you so, so very much. >> that was brooks & dunn saying good-bye, they took home a win for the best duo for the tenth time and they announced last year they would be retiring after a summer long tour. they joked they're going into therapy with brett favre. >>> and in sports, the orioles can wake up with smiles on their faces after snapping the nine game losing streak. wiggington hits a double to the opposite field. that's the rbi on the base and it was all part of an 8-3 oh's over the a's win. they'll go to seattle now to play in boston. as tim said, it's a start of a winning streak. >> we'll mention quickly, the country music awards. all of the over awards shows can learn from them, they always go off on time. i don't know what they do or how they

i lived in nashville, tennessee. i've lived in a number of different places in the country.dalter town, mastercard, good morning. eugene on our independent line. guest: good morning. i think this show conveniently levering out a key come foinlt flying to -- the violence associated with inner city drugs uses a lot different from the guy down the street who's maybe selling marion. in -- selling marijuana in white sub you are byya. in my day there was another gang called the hell's angels cracked down on as much as the fomplee i would like your opinion on that. guest: well, i'm glads you raise that had. because i think most people assume that the drug war really is aimed at ruling, you know, rooting out vie lent drug offenders, bus but as i indicateed the dataal suggest the principal targets of the drug war have not been violent offenders, but rounding up in mass, very low level non-. well, we'll see how that works. guest: when you brarneds them felons, you can virtually guarantee that they will have a very difficult time ever getting work in the legal economy. and as we know,

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soul mates ♪ [ music ] for most of the year a majority of country musicians are on the road or in nashvillesay having the show here in las vegas is a real treat. >> we travel separately. we all tour separately. don't get to hang out as much as we'd like and these are places where you can actually see each other. >> reporter: and celebrate country music in a way only country's greatest can. >> a fun night and a good morning to all of you watching 9 news now at 6:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. howard bernstein is here with our forecast. >> a chilly one. some frost and freeze advisories to the west. a frost advisory and a freeze warning. farther west you go, the light blue southern faulkier and could pepper counties

out of nashville, tennessee, flora hollars, this is misty and tommy croslin's grandmother.ed her from behind bars and gave their accounts of what happened the night haleigh apparently was murdered. also with us, annette sykes, joining us exclusively. this is haleigh's great-grandmother. she was there at the home just hours before haleigh disappeared. first to you, ms. sykes what did you observe in the home that evening? >> i stopped by about 7:30 to drop off some laundry i had done. i always did the children's laundry just because it's something i've always done. the children were on the front porch with misty. they were eating supper. and when we drove up, haleigh jumped out of her chair and come running up and gave me a hug. junior came out and gave me a hug and i gave them a kiss. misty walked out. she helped carry some of the clothes into the house and got the children's shirts on and they got back up to eat supper. i gave them a kiss, told them good-bye and i got back in the car and left. >> so all along, ms. sykes, misty croslin told us that evening she spent doing la

special guest, the grandmother of both misty and tommy croslin, miss flora hollars, joining us out of nashville, tennessee. miss hollars, are you now suggesting that ronald cummings, haleigh's father, may somehow be to blame for her disappearance? >> yes, ma'am. from leaving the kids there with her. >> i'm sorry. i couldn't hear you. repeat? >> yes, ma'am. for leaving the kids there with her, with her all strung out. >> so are you convinced in your own mind that your granddaughter, misty croslin, and grandson tommy croslin and joe overstreet are all three responsible? >> yes, ma'am, i am. >> what scenario do you believe unfolded? what do you think happened that night? >> exactly what misty told me. that the rope and the cinderblocks and dropping her in the st. johns river. heel pressure. high arches. (announcer) people everywhere are discovering dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic center. backed by foot care scientists, its foot mapping technology identifies the areas you put pressure on then recommends the right orthotic. for locations see drscholls.com. i buy plants, i bring them home, and then.

reid, the soon to be former senate majority leader. [ cheering ] >> in places like searchlight, nashvillelsa and here in minnesota the tea party is growing and steaming thanks to a lot of good hardworking patriotic everyday americans who love this country and are proud to be american but also deeply concerned about the path that our country is now on. people who are not afraid, like michelle, stand up and speak out out for what is right. minute hint is full of these good people. [ applause -- [ applauding ] >> i mentioned this to michelle. some of these tea party leaders, most of them are women. yeah! surveys show that that's inspiration that give us hope for this movement. ronald reagan's friend margaret thatcher used to say in politics you want something said, ask a man. you want something done, ask a woman. i'm much more traditional than that every -- behind every good productive man stands a very surprised woman. but minnesota if you want something done right, if you want something done right for our country, then please reelect congresswoman michelle bachmann. [ cheering ] >> greta:

she put him on a plane from nashville to his native moscow and included a note explaining he was violental issues. she arranged for a man to pick him up at the airport and drop him off at the russian education ministry. >> if i as a parent had mutt putt my 7-year-old on a plane and sent him to seat wail note for somebody to take him to an orphanage, would i be charged with also bruce and neglect? probably so. >> officials say it is not clear whether any laws were broken. so far, nobody has been charged in this case. >>> remembering dixie carter this morning. family, friends and fans say the star's legacy will live on. diences with her southern drawl on designing women for years but before that, she was a broadway veteran. she died from come indications of uterine cancer at the age of 70. she leaves behind two daughters and a husband. >> husband hal holbrook, of course, who often played her boyfriend on designing women. >>> still ahead, have you filled out your census forms just yet if would youable a lot of people stilt haven't. >> why haven't you? >> it is just busy and it is staring at

lauren green, fox news in nashville. >>> the news is far from over. at 11:00 starts right now. >>> this is fox 5's "news edge" at 11:00. >>> we start the edge with a look at radar and a busy night of weather. storms and showers showing up. severe thunderstorms lit up the sky earlier. there was a tornado warning. fox 5's gwen tolbart is here with the news update. what is the very latest? >> reporter: the latest is that our flash flood warning has been cancelled so that is an a improvement over where we've been. let's look at the radar because storms a

tonight," the new age musician, apparently they hooked up, they even lived together for a while in nashvillein 1970s tennessee got the best of tesh and he bolted. apparently she's saying they were an item for quite some time. oprah's people are not commenting on the book. john tesh's people didn't respond either. interesting couple. >> that is a really interesting couple. probably the two most unlikely people in the world. >> right. he's of course married to connie sellecca. we know oprah's got steadman. >>> here's some stories to watch today on abc news. a team of federal investigators arrives in montcoal, west virginia, to look into last week's deadly explosion. >>> thailand's government could call for early elections to stop deadly political unrest. today is a national holiday in thailand but most events are canceled. >>> astronauts at the international space station prepare for their next space walk. they'll finish work on an ammonia tank that is used to cool the station. >>> finally this half hour, a rare chance to get an up close look at the shroud of turin. >> believers say it is jesu

i hadn't until i went to the national tea party convention in nashville in february when i interviewedarah palin. this is america, bill. i don't have to tell you. this. >> bill: it's white america. it's white america. >> well, okay. >> bill: not much minority representation. look, it's a small movement in the sense that it just started and it's just startling how quickly it's growing. but, look. >> i was going to say 24% according to polls. also you look at the "new york times" poll, they are better educated than most americans. >> bill: make more money. >> wealthier than most americans. >> bill: they are not -- >> they are not yahoos and they are not timothy mcveigh. it's like a meeting of the rotary club. they are small businessmen and women. >> bill: they are regular folks. >> professionals in california. they are thoughtful americans and, bill clinton and barack obama and, you know, nbc news can try to marginalize them. but it is a mainstream movement. >> bill: that's why the president even is paying attention to them because he knows they are a threat. bill clinton and the tea par

nashville, you're in the danger zone. tuscaloosa, birmingham. storms are moving east-northeast at 50 to 60 miles an hour. with the tornado warning this morning, no tornadoes have been sighted. they're based on op der rdopple and rotation. in mississippi we had some wind damage with a 60-mile-an-hour wind gust at the airport. we're watching and waiting but with the heating of the day and energy from the jet stream, things will be ramping up between now and later this afternoon especially east of here, through mississippi and alabama, getting into western georgia tonight. tomorrow's threat zone, northern florida, up and east of interstate 95, into the mid-atlantic. >> you know, mike, with this storm moving at the speed of 50, 60 miles an hour, people have got to pay attention. heads up on all this because there is not a lot of time. mike seidel. >> yeah. i was going to say, they move very fast. you don't have much time. have the weather channel on or noaa weather radio. these things move in very quickly. >> also weather.com. >>> to politics now, t

as a matter of fact, i spoke this morning to a large number of businessmen in nashville, tenn.the candidly became sole angry thinking about the way the debate has evolved, that i had to think about it coming up here today and controlling data and using that in a productive way. maybe their rhetoric has changed a little bit throughout the day, and i know that my friends from virginia and my friend from connecticut had a press conference earlier today to talk about some of the issues that are being talked about rhetorically. and let's say that what is happening right now -- and it is unfortunate for the american people -- what is happening right now is that both sides of the aisle are trying to herd of goats with language -- up folks with language that does not do justice to this, very difficult, something very much needed in this country. there have been a lot of discussion about this funding mechanism, this $50 million -- this $50 billion bailout fund, if you will -- and those are somebody else's words by the way, not mine. let's just talk about this and i know the american peo

but if you want to understand the force behind cece winans' music head to nashville to the born againds. >> if you walk in dead you're going to wake up and put the spirit of god on the talent it turns into something explosive you can't put into words. >> that's the definition of gospel music? >> yes. it's explosive. >> it's life-changing. that's the best music out there, it really is. >> and that's muse they can began in america dating back as far back as slavery and revival meetings of the late 19th century and took off on the radio in 1970s. and today with sales of about half a billion dollars annually, it's hardly the largest slice of musical pie but it's a rich one. with styles ranging from rap to rock. from country to r&b. for artists like cece winans, oh, my god is not just a, it's everything. >> i'm doing what god wants me to do and when you're in you're purpose you shine. >> born eight of ten children in a musical dynasty, cece is a family nickname grew up singing gospel. >> we never thought it was anything great or different and until we started getting offers -- [♪] >> first

have since lived in pane places, in california, i lived for a while in washington, d.c., i lived in nashvilletennessee, i've lived in a number of different places in the country. >> host: bell mucher town, massachusetts, good morning, eugene on our independent line. >> caller: good morning. first of all, i think you are conveniently leaving out a key component to the drug war. i grew up outside of l.a. now i live outside of springfield. the violence associated with inner city drug use is a lot different from the guy down the street who's maybe selling marijuana in white suburbia. when i grew up it was hell's angels, which cracked down on just as many other african or hispanic gangs. you don't see people driving down my street doing drive-by shootings. i would like to hear your opinion on that. >> guest: well, i'm glad you raised that, because i think most people assume that the drug war really is aimed at ruling -- at routing out violent drug offenders, but you know, as i indicated, the data suggests that you know, the targets, the principal targets of the drug war have not been violent offen

we did a public town hall in nashville, advertised all over, advertised in state wide television andside with a sign saying, it's my money. inside, i had a crowd that gave me a standing ovation when i walked in, wanted to know details and talk about jobs. >> let me go to congresswoman schultz. i want to know about this thing. a couple things mystify me. if we're closing the donut hole, people who rely on drugs, pharmaceuticals will get a pretty good deal now. won't get cut off at a certain level. that's a very good thing for people as they get older because they rely more and more on pharmaceuticals and better than not taking them. why are they complaining and people already on medicare a government program kicked into during their working years, why are they against the government role, per se, surprises me. they benefit from a government role, per se, why do these people say why can't the government stay out of health care? what are they talking about? it's inconsistent. >> the senior citizens i represent, representing a district in south florida, i represent a large number of them

caller: my main -- host: nashville, tennessee. go ahead. caller: the drawdown of nuclear weapons, do we want everyone to follow was? do we want to be the leader of nuclear winter and the destruction? kind of a serious question -- which do we want to be? i think a lot of people forget that part of the problem in the 1960's that people forget is that everyone felt we just need to bomb them and turn them in the gless. saying that we do not respond to a non-nuclear attack by turning against certain countries or areas, creating an and habitable area for thousands of years. i will take my answer of of the air. thank you for allowing us to get the voice out to the american people. host: this one comes from twitter. there is no name, "does the u.s. no longer want to be a world leader? oguest: i think that the caller answered his own question. as far as the question from twitter and evidence that the u.s. is abdicating responsibility is as a leader, i do not think that anything could be further from the truth. the president's emphasis to verifiably

but at the end of his life he made a point of vanderbilt university in nashville.owever, i think there's good reason to think, yes, he wanted to create a institution of learning because he did feel throughout his life the fact that he was uneducated. and every chance to speak, and this is a great era of oratory you couldn't have tea without somebody getting up and giving a two-hour speech. he refused to speak. he would always have someone else speak for him. i think he did feel his lack of education. but also part of his project with vanderbilt university reflected part of his patriotism. having given a million dollar steamship to the navy it was a personally project to reach out to the south after the civil war. of course, he was thinking of the white south. his second wife was an unrepetant confederate. he thought that was great. general bragg would announce the abolition tyrant in his wartime orders as a witness at his second wedding. when he reached out to the south we're talking the white south. but it did reflect a sincere taking him on his own terms a sincer

we have several major medical centers in our state, both in memphis and nashville, knoxville and the tricity where ares which is where i live. the idea is that we were going to have a plan in tennessee that was going to have a competition, much like we heard in the public option, which this plan does not have where various insurance companies would compete for your business. and when they would compete for your business, this would help drive costs down. what we did was we actually provided a massive expansion of a medicaid plan, tenncare is our exemption for medicaid. what this current health care bill does is it massively expands medicaid. remember, medicare is plan that has premiums which fund it. so there are premium dollars that a recipient gets now that's paid in just like for any other insurance plan whereas medicaid is not. it's an entitlement. we expanded our entitlements and how did we do that? we had eight plans that would compete for your business and in 1993 we had about a $2.6 billion program in our state. 10 budget years later, that has exploded to an $8 billion progra

host: national, -- nashville, alan. guescaller: it does not make see to me that we are getting weaker when we should be getting stronger. we need to maintain the ability to strike unpredictably. we need to be irrational and frightening for them to leave us alone. with the chinese have been 225 million men between ages of 18 and 22, how are we going to face potentially china and any other nuclear power? we cannot even hold down afghanistan and iraq. this makes no sense to me. guest: i think the obama administration would probably argue that we have 1500, after the new treaty is fully implemented, we would still have 1500 deployed strategic weapons. in addition to that, we have thousands of weapons that are not deployed but are in storage, in reserve, or are awaiting to be dismantled. the total sum of our stockpile is affected to a much smaller degree that people would expect by this decree with russia. host: michael on the republican line. caller: 20 you think the executive branch -- want to rethink the executive branch

. ♪ >>> tomorrow night nashville's greatest gather in las vegas for the 45th annual country music awards>> he went to honky tonk to headliner after his number one hit and top male vocalist award. this year he's nominated as both producer and performer. >> joining us in our second cup cafe with his latest hit, barefoot and crazy off his new album big dreams and high hopes, jack ingram. ♪ ♪ the clouds are parting, the summer sun's starting to burn down on that river ♪ ♪ my baby's waiting, i got chevy shaking, i'm blazing a trail to get her ♪ ♪ there she is, she's got her shades on, and man, she's looking strong ♪ ♪ mine all mine for the weekend, the cooler's loaded down, we're headed out of town ♪ ♪ jumping off the deep end, going barefoot and crazy ♪ ♪ me and my baby, back flip off the flip right bridge ♪ ♪ double dog dare me and i will, meet me it at the bottom with a cool wet kiss ♪ ♪ she's's rocking that bikini top, my heart's skipping like a rock across that water ♪ ♪ don't ever want to stop, going barefoot and crazy ♪ ♪ the sun is dropping, we got the fire popping, and it's lighting