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elizabeth greenfield, elizabeth taylor greenfield, born in natchez, mississippi 81ulsing fn the 1850s. and she would give concerts and the proceeds of the concerts would go to help these families. so it was a community effort to help these families. also, women would disguise themselves as men and fight. now, if they were successful and got away with it, we don't know anything about them. but there are women who disguised themselves as men and fought. then there were women who worked as guide scouts and spies. lucy carter has been noted in the virginia theater as one of those guide scouts and spies, but one of the top guide scouts and spies, man or woman, in the civil war was none other than harriet tubman. she would go down to the department of south, sometime in the spring or early summer of 1862. she would go behind enemy lines and establish her relationships. i'm going to refer to it as captain tubman since i did that earlier. and captain tubman in june of 1862 would lead or -- would lead a raid of 300 men from the 1st -- excuse me, from the 2nd south carolina infantry of african

worth all the property put together in the country, that -- i mean, when you start thinking about natchez, mississippi and all the millionaires who lived there, more per capita than anywhere in the country. do i have that right? >> state of mississippi. >> state of -- this is like depressing. it really will cause to you rearrange how you think about yourself in reference to your country. so if millions of people -- not millions. sorry. hundreds of thousands of people were willing to die for the expansion of slavery and the good guys were only willing to die to not see it expanded, you know, it just so happened by luck, by chance that we got an emancipation, who are we, then? what are we then? are we the land of the free? i think it poses deep existential questions that are just hard to get to. >> is this why you've written this stunning piece about why don't blacks study the civil war more, is this the nub of it, that somehow when you really do get back to the civil war you find that it's not such a pretty clean moment of jubilee, it's not the country -- well, it's the country freeing the

johnson, state representative from natchez, informed me that he had talked with the senate chairman and that my confirmation was being pulled at the 11th hour by the lieutenant governor. he had every -- he, the senate chairman, had every intention on having the confirmation hear this past tuesday and he was told that my confirmation hearing was pulled. and so while on the phone with representative johnson, i got a call from the associated press reporter, asking me why my nomination had been pulled. so, obviously, you're dismayed and outraged at the prospect of a major governmental institution not having enough decorum to allow a fairly simple process to move forward. so it was strictly the -- really, i got more information from the reporter, because she had already interviewed folks in the lieutenant governor's office and the governor's office and from her investigation, it seemed to have come from the 11th hour and by the lieutenant governor and not by our governor. >> as, obviously, you were appointed to this post by the previous governor of mississippi, by governor haley barbour, him

the prison is in the southwestern city of natchez. the disturbance broke out yesterday afternoon involving between 200 and 300 inmates. prison officials insist there is no threat to public safety. >>> the only person ever convicted of the bombing of pan am flight 103 has died. abdel baset al megrahi was released from a scottish prison just three years ago because doctors said his death from cancer was imminent. the bombing killed 259 people aboard, plus 11 on the ground in lockerbie, scotland. his death leaves many questions about the attack unanswered. >>> u.s. drones have joined the yemeni government's new offensive against al qaeda. in the last day alone, in fact, 17 people have been killed. the crackdown also includes an all-out hunt for the mastermind of that recently uncovered underwear bomb plot which was designed to bring down u.s. planes. abc's martha raddatz has exclusive details now from yemen. she is the only network reporter inside the terror zone. >> reporter: as some 20,000 yemeni army troops are pounding al qaeda stron

>>will: that is packed his natchez's searcher but also a daughter and that is missing.and more people are showing up. marlene lamar is very touching can tell. >>darya: what it interesting perspective. banks will. thanks well. you can't tell the story of a kron4.com. >>mark: there is a busy day schedule for present, and so is arriving this morning. the gases to the south bay. here's jackie sizzle. jackie is of of the foxes heater in redwood city europe >>jackie: of fox theater is one of the presence of three stops in his sunny fund- raising tortured. i just felt something in that room and a shovel sweeping the streets. i saw somebody clearing out one of the reflecting pool. this is the ride his wind had to a private fund- raiser the tickets at that one reason will be almost $36,000 a ticket. and then he will come to the fox theater where the tickets start at $250 and up to $1,000. >> i think it's a great thing. i think it's great he stops to come down to meet the people i'm really excited he's countess' silicon valley. this is an important part of our country. the nation

it began at adams correctional facility in natchez.y families of guards and inmates were praying they were all right. >> they said it's some kind of riot. me and my descrairt been out here since 6:00 trying to find out something. the teargas and all. i just hope he's okay. shannon: it took tons of reinforcement to get that situation under control. police blame gang activity for starting the riot. the food police are working the banned beverage beat. uncle sam slapping the school with a fine of $15,000. the crime? accidentally selling soda at a vending machine during lunch. >> reporter: this is davis high school in salt lake city. the federal law says during the lunch hour you have to turn off the soda vending machines. they turned off the machines in the cafeteria but they forgot about the vending machine in the bookstore. they were find $15,000. the principal calls the law disingenuous because while they can't buy soda they can buy sports drinks and candy bars, as long as they have nuts, because nuts are healthy. >> we can sell a snic

prison officials in natchez, mississippi have taken control of a riot at the correctional facility.s killed in the disturbance. at least 19 people were injured including three inmates. >>> more shaking in northern italy today, a strong after shock followed yesterday's 6.0 earthquake that killed at least seven people. workers are digging through the rubble searching for survivors. some 11,000 people are out of their homes. many sleeping in cars or tents. >>> let's talk sports. lebron james, maybe he can do it at the end of the season. >> the eastern conference playoff picture is a jumble. first derek rose got hurt. then chris bosh he got hurt. it looked like the heat could be in trouble down two games to one. down at halftime. lebron james turns it on in the second half. he and his teammate dwayne wade completely control the second half. they outscored the entire pacers team in the second half. there they are. they win 101-93. the series is now tied two games apiece. game five heading back to south beach. san antonio spurs look unbeatable. that's danny green hitting a three. the spur

a 23-year-old guard was killed yesterday at the adams county correctional facility in natchez.nally brought under control but it was really late last night. the prison houses over 2,000 illegal immigrants. most charged with low security crimes. officials say none of the inmates escaped. >>> also making news the queen the disco era donna summer will be buried today during a private funeral in nashville. five-time grammy winner lost her ten-month battle with cancer on thursday. she was just 63 years old. >>> it was a cheese catastrophe. the deadly magnitude 6.0 earthquake, i don't mean to make light of it folks. it shook several towns in northern italy, crumbled a clock tower and destroyed centuries old buildings, also destroyed $65 million worth of cheese. the region is known for making parmesan cheese. an italian farm official says some 200,000 huge round cheese wheels were damaged. >>> all right. this story out of miami has a lot of people shaking their heads. prom night meets porn night. no kidding. the miami beach convention center playing host to two parties on saturday nig

more water flow through the gauging stations along the mississippi river from cairo, illinois to natchez, mississippi than any flood in recorded history. the flow at cairo, illinois, the confluence of the mississippi and ohio, was over two million cubic feet per second. two million cubic feet a second was running through the mississippi river right there. helena, arkansas, it was running at 2.3 million cubic feet a second. now, at some locations the corps of engineers is in the process of determining this, they're not ready to say it yet but on some locations up and down the mississippi river system, they are considering whether this actually was not a 100 year flood or 250 flood, this was actually a 500-year flood, the largest flood in history. and all this, all of this mississippi river mr & t, mississippi river and trib beaut taxpayer system cost the -- $32 billion. but just in the flood last year, it saved taxpayers $110 billion in damages. that's a great return on investment. we need to honor that return on investment. we need to not charge people an additional flood insurance for a