baton rouge to natches. natches to vicksburg. vicksburg to memphis. memphis to cairo.build a dike a thousand miles long. men and mules, mules and mud. mules and mud a thousand miles up the mississippi. a century before we bought the great western river the spanish and french built dikes to keep the mississippi out of new orleans at flood stage. we continue to levee the entire length of the delta. that mud plain that extends from the gulf of mexico clear to the mouth of ohio. the ancient valley built up for centuries by the old river spilling her floods across the bottom of the continent. a mud delta of 40,000 square miles. men and mules, mules and mud. new orleans to baton rouge, naches to vicksburg, memphis to cairo a thousand miles up the river. they brought their blacks and their plows and their cotton over to the river. down through the boom train. down through cumberland gap over from georgia and south carolina. over from the tide water. over from the old cotton land west of the big river. west of the steam boat highway. down the highway to the sea. ♪ corn and oat

natch 7:30 tonight, students, fact tull cull tee and parents will make their way out to the athletic fiel fields with candl. students athletes knew all too well. these students and faculty dealing with and unmatchable tragedy on the opening day of school. iain. >> chris, fang you. just heartbreaking. >>> a warning for drivers in seaford, delaware. about a police imposter. a woman says a man used police style lights to pull her over near hastings farm road last night. she says he was acting suspiciously and she told him she was calling the cops. he immediately got into his car and drove off. >> police are on the hunt for some cold criminals tonight. it's a store you'll see only on fox. cops sometime over the weekend thieves broke into hill friedman world academy and plea say they made off with thousands of dollars in electronic. what's worse, those electronics were used in the classrooms for students with special needs. fox 29's dave schratwieser is live outside northwest detectives tonight. dave? >> reporter: lauren, hill friedman world academy has almost 100 students with special ne

she was nearly natched off the street before her friends saved her. >>> police on high alert and thisty is shaken just as students are returning to campus. this morning, university of new hampshire students on edge after a woman allegedly escaped abduction near campus friday morning. she was walking home when she said three military-looking men pulled up next to her in a tan sedan. >> there was an attempt to introduce themselves to her, and when that failed, it was a little bit more aggressive. >> reporter: two allegedly grabbing her by the arm, trying to throw her inside. their plan foild when her friends arrived. they drove off. >> it's pretty scary, we live right around the corner. stay together at night and feel safer because there are cops everywhere. >> that could be me one day. walking to my friends house, and if you're alone, there's nothing you can do. she was lucky she had her guy friends walk by. >> reporter: parents concerned. the incident happening the same day students arrived on campus. downloading live safe, designed to send tips to police in real time. and a safe walk

outside in the daylight they could see what kind of rocks they're drilling in and that's how they natch gated into the mountains looking for gold back in the day. on the left-hand side of the rim the mineral iron coming through so fun to capture the minerals in this mountain. that's what iron looks like when it rufts. that orange iron coming through. on the right-hand side this gets a lot of photos. we got some purple over the cal site like that. and in this old mine, named after james smithson, the founder of the smithsonian institute. he was quite a mineralologist and chemist back in the day. we keep this covered up and really fragile. and actually quite rare to see. this really captures how we became one of the world's largest producers of silver and recognizes the silver valley in idaho. notice this one right here. got little wires coming out of that. that's wire silver. what's exciting about wire silver is it's almost pure silver. very high grade ore body of silver in the mountains to have that and represents our industry and history. if you were here prior to the 1884 in these mou