tonight north carolina's first, the fighting first! (cheers and applause) folks, the first district of north carolina includes duke university known for its school of engineering, advanced medical research and completely destroying your ncaa bracket. the first is also home to the town of new bern, the setting for nicholas sparks romantic novel the notebook which explains the motto your girlfriend made you come here. and who has the research-- to represent this district, the first has the highest percentage of black res didn'ts in north carolina so it is's no surprise it's prominent african-american congressman and civil rights leader gk butterfield. i sat down with representative butterfield in his washington office. hey. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> what's happening? can someone tell me what's happening? is this the guy? >> this is him. >> you said he was black. >> i have been for 66 years. >> my mistake, i don't see race. >> we come in all shades, how about that. >> exactly. i really thought you were a white guy, my apologies

it starts in the blue ridge mountains in north carolina. they call it the catawba river. h carolina, it changes names. south carolina, they call it the wateree. it's a beautiful river. it has faced real trouble, though. along its course in south carolina is this big coal burning power plant. when coal gets burned at a power plant, what's left over is something called coal ash. that's the residue. and that plant stored 2 million tons of that residue, of that toxic coal ash, alongside that beautiful river. in these big giant lagoons. this is another coal ash lagoon. actually this is a coal ash lagoon nightmare. kingston, tennessee, christmas week 2008. a billion gallons of coal ash spilling out covering hundreds of acres contaminating the rivers, contaminating a big piece of tennessee. that was the largest coal ash spill in u.s. history. and after that spill, after seeing what it looked like when the worst possible outcome actually happened, environmental groups sued to prevent that kind of spill from happening in south carolina. the southern environmental law center sued th

. >>> up next -- a human skeleton is found in the marshlands of north carolina. >> the longer a body's been dead, the harder it is to determine how long it's been dead. >> we don't know who she is or why she was killed. >> but it tells a story all its own. >> whatever happened to precede death, it probably was sexual. >> a story of anger and hatred. >> at what point does a person realize that, you know, they're dying? >> and a violent end. >> had this person remained anonymous, we would have had nowhere to go. >>> on a cold, spring afternoon in 2004, ray lee jacobs found what looked like human bones in the backyard of the home he rented in wilmington, north carolina. >> it was kind of gruesome. we came across these bones. it was horrible. at first, we seen her leg bones and then we came across her skull. you know, and ribs and -- and then we realized, you know, it wasn't fake. it was real. you know, so it was terrible. >> he called authorities who moved quickly to collect the remains and any possible forensic evidence. >> the bones had been scattered by the animals and maybe by the tid

north carolina and around this area up towards virginia.s across the peninsula there in virginia, north carolina, just off of the coast of new jersey, clearing out by tomorrow, but this will be followed by colder air, starting to see a little snow up around the great lakes this weekend. lows tomorrow in the northern plains down below zero. it really doesn't make it too far south here. maybe as far south as philadelphia, but some mild air returning across the southeast and southern plains, but right in the middle is the area that is suching south. del? >> dave warren thank you very much. and thank each and every one of you for watching al jazeera america. i'm del walters in new york. "the truth is" is next. and check us out 24 hours a day at aljazeera.com.

and i believe that north carolina and the u.s. are well positioned to lead and to take advantage of opportunities in the 21st century energy economy. i look at north carolina's research triangle partnering which is an international model for bringing together industry, research institutions and government, to help develop clean energy technologies that reduce carbon emissions and make our country less dependent on fossil fuels. companies and institutions across north carolina are developing ways to use energy more efficiently, harkinasing harkinasing -- harkin asking -- harkinasing smart grit grid technologies. while it presents new economic opportunities we must also be sure to minimize any economic burdens on the least fortunate and take efforts to ensure that we do not harm our global economic competitiveness. the challenge before us is great but if we come together, democrats and republicans, we can move forward the with commonsense measures that increase our energy independence and put the u.s. back on a sustainable path all

now to a very closely watched trial in north carolina. at 1 point, everiry st. clair was looking at life in prison, now it's no jail time for the army general accusing of mistreating a subordinate, who also happened to be his former misstress. in natasha joins us now by phone, natasha, what was the sentence? >> dell, as you alluded to, for this two year process, general st. clair lives with the possibility of having to register as a six offedder if he was convicted. sexual assault charges those charges were dropped this week, he pled guilty to 14 counts including adultery, and mistreating his former misstress. and he walked out of the courtroom today with a reprimand and a $20,000 fine. he spoke to reporters briefly. >> it's been a difficult time for me and my family. the system worked. i have always been proud of my army. all i want to do now is go up north, and hug my kids and see my wife. >> this is what happens next. sinclair will have to go to a separate board. as all people who are requesting retirement, which sinclair is, and the board will determine his

>> live from moncure, north carolina. thank you very much. >> at one point big dear general jeffrey sinclair was looking at life behind bars. instead no jail time for the army general accused of mistreating a subordinate who happened to be his former mistress. he was sentenced a short time ago. natasha is live in fort bragg, north carolina. what is the reaction from where you are? >> well, the reaction i'll give you in just a second. let's back up a little bit. as you alluded to. when this process began, general sinclair had the threat facing life in prison after being convicted of sexual assault charges hanging over his head. the sexual assault charges were dropped. today after pleading guilty to 14 counts including mistreating his former miss stress of three years and having an inappropriate relationship he walked out of a courtroom with a reprimand and 20,000 dollar fine. he says the process worked and he is always been proud of my army. now, immediately after the sentence we are told he went to go call his wife. she h

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joining me now, democratic state representative from north carolina, pricey harrison. i want to start with the full-page letter in the north carolina newspapers on sunday from duke. they say "following the events of the last few weeks we want to regain your confidence. we're taking immediate action to ensure the safety of our ash basins, our highest priority is the safe operation of all of our facilities and health and wellbeing of our communities." do you believe them? >> they've been facing a pr nightmare as a result of the high-profile spills and toxins into our waterways. i wish they may have had the same attitude back when day were operating these coal ash ponds and building them. >> had they been fighting efforts to more stringently regulate the coal ash? >> absolutely. at all levels. at the state legislative level and at the federal level. i couldn't even get a study or hearing on my bill that i filed after the kingston spill in tennessee.

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their work and the work of other reporters around north carolina is having an effect.the week after the "ap's" expose about the street's sweetheart deal with the governor's former boss, the week after that the u.s. attorney's office in north carolina opened a federal criminal investigation into the state's handling of coal ash. federal prosecutors subpoenaed duke energy and subpoenaed the mccrory administration. 18 separate staffers of the mccrory administration's environment agency. prosecutors specifically asking staffers for details about money or items of value they might have exchanged with duke energy. those subpoenas call for testimony, testimony, in-person testimony before a grand jury in raleigh, north carolina, starting tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. and possibly continuing through thursday of this week. that testimony happens in closed court starting tomorrow morning. north carolina's environmental agency tonight said they wouldn't confirm whether the hearing is still scheduled for tomorrow or how many staffers they expect to testify. so what happens before that gran

the murder of a woman in an industrial section of raleigh, north carolina. offered me a chance to prove i'm innocent, i jumped at it. >> but the police didn't believe him. perhaps because investigators found a spot of what looked like blood on the fender of his truck. taylor had abandoned it just yards from where the woman was found. the crime lab backed up the cops' suspicions. >> the blood was the issue right from the very beginning. there's no way i could be telling the truth with the victim's blood on my truck. >> at trial, taylor was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. he appealed the conviction all the way to the u.s. supreme court. unsuccessfully. >> you figured you were going to die in prison? >> yes, sir. >> taylor's fate began to change when his case fell into the hands of a north carolina attorney who fights to reverse wrongful convictions. she got ahold of the original blood analysis. >> it's one of those moments i'll remember forever. >> the documents showed the substance on taylor's truck did test positive for indications of blood in a p

. >> north carolina moved to withdraw a legal settlement that environmentalists said was too easy on the nation's biggest electric power company duke energy. the state had agreed to settle a massive pollution case with a fine of $99,000 and no requirement that the $50 billion company clean up the pollution. duke energy and state regulators are under investigation over the disposal of ash that is left over from burning coal. mark extras than found that prosecution, that follow lucian is still flowing. >> reporter: these are photos taken by north carolina state regulators and environmental groups. the state claims the pictures show duke energy illegally pumped contaminated water into the river along the state's coast. from two of its colash bay since at a retired plant, the wastewater contained arsenic and celine yum, known to cause cancer. >> duke declined an on camera interviewed but in a statement maintained it followed the law to train the pond for routine maintenance. iit was being pump to the existing out falls and monitored according to the plant permit. state regulators said th

the senator from north carolina. mr. burr: mr. president, we have had a very productive day on the childcare development block grant bill, and we have processed a number of amendments, some by voice, some with recorded votes. all members have had the opportunity to come down during the day and offer their amendments, and we continue to have amendments that are either filed or talked about. it is still the intent of senator harkin, senator alexander, senator mikulski and myself that we finish this bill tomorrow afternoon, and we see no reason that we can't do it with the level of cooperation that all members have shown. so let me try to sketch out for our colleagues what our intent will be. we intend to hopefully go to a period of morning business, length to be determined by the leaders, when we conclude after we speak. at some point in the morning, probably 10:30, we would resume consideration of amendments. and we would process those amendments until shortly before lunch. it is our hope that members would take the opportunity to

so, iowa state is moving on north carolina is going home. 85-83.t looks like they made the ride decision. >> that was about as strange of an ending as i have seen in a long time. there's no question the clock did not start right away when the ball was inbounded. there was maybe a half a second or more that should have elapsed. and at that point it looked like the dribbler the guy bringing the ball up the floor was in rhythm. >> pretty hard to call a time out one second to go in the game. had about a 35, 40er. he's had a good look. i was surprised by the time out. officials were not a hundred percent clear at least in my view whether they said the clock started late or the time out was taken when the clock went to zero. >> i don't think there was an official claire fix at the end of the game. >> regardless even if they put time on the clock. they probably would have put maybe .2 or .3 and as you know with .3 or less you can't even grab the ball and shoot it. you have to tip it. so, north carolina really didn't have much of a shot at that point. >> n

. >> in north carolina, a yellow sign stands in front of many farms, it's a caution marker saying thathe pve virus has affected the population. >> newborn pigs, mott of them die. >> 3,000 pigs on the commercial hog farms have died since june. but on a snowy march morning, there's no sign of the virus on this farm. he and his family own this 75-acre operation. they raise free range hogs. >> my pigs have a robust immune system, because they live outdoors. >> many commercial pig farms are densely crowded. and that could play a factor in the spread of pve. >> it's very concerning because most of the farms in the united states are in confinement facilities, and those pigs are very vulnerable to pve because it's easily transmittable. >> the virus can spread to humans, and it prevents an outbreak in the adult population. >> thousands of pigs continue to die of the pve across the country, environmental groups warn in north carolina of the potential health risks that can occur with the disposal of infected hog carcasses. >> we have a large number of carcasses that are left in dead boxes for a l

it crosses both the dan river and north carolina.rts. >> reporter: this spill of coal and ash from a retired duke energy power plant coated an 80-mile stretch with toxic sludge. eight days later, federal prosecutors issued the first of 23 s&ps investigating the relationship between utility and north carolina regulators. >> it's clear they have been coordinating their legal efforts. >> he says the questionable relationship became apparent last year. his group tried three times to sue duke to clean up spills but he said state regulators block them every time by fining utility instead of demanding a cleanup. >> it's an inappropriate or too close relationship between duke and the state that's contributed to that. scrutiny is due. >> reporter: the federal subpoenas demand the records of 18 employees of north carolina's department of environment and national resources or denr. the prosecutors are examining whether the regulators were influenced by utility with a monetary payment, pref rein ren chal treatment, of promise of future employmen

polices in raleigh-durham, north carolina, had two suspicious deaths.ller's death was caused by a massive dose of arsenic. six weeks later, eric's friend, derril willard, committed suicide. the two had been together at the bowling alley on the night eric miller fell ill. >> derril completely out of character for him, according to everybody we talked to, buys a pitcher of beer while they're waiting for a lane to free up. but when eric took his first swallow of beer, you know, it doesn't taste quite right. >> and shortly before derril willard committed suicide, had he confessed to his wife that he had been having an fair with ann miller, iraq an's wife. >> we don't know the whether or not he told his wife anything else about his potential involvement with arsenic or eric miller at the bowling alley. >> investigators searched willard's work computer and phone records. they also searched ann miller's. they found ample evidence of the affair. >> from the middle of october until eric's death, she's got like 500 cell phone calls to derril willard's desk, to hi

will they reclaim that senate seat in north carolina? are the urban centers where those mayors have to ac vate those bases. does canon's bad behavior impact kay hagen? >> does the mayor, the former mayor, is there a team of his that was moving voters day-to-day or another set of folks. but no doubt if there is a mayor that has a strong power base then that can have a negative impact. who steps up in that vacuum to get people out to vote. >> you are going took hang out with me longer. thank you to our guests for being here. they are going to stick around for the rest of the show. coming up, i want to share with everyone the story of my great great grand father this four wives and what it tells us about a case being argued before the supreme court this week. there is nor at the top of the hour. [ male announcer ] new gain flings! smell so amazing, they're like music to your nose. ♪ your love ♪ ♪ love keeps lifting me ♪ ♪ higher and higher [ male announcer ] lift your love with new gain flings! more gain scent than ever plus oxi boost clean

alexander: i thank the senator from iowa and north carolina. i thank the senator from wyoming for his leadership, for a number of years he has been the ranking member of the health, labor, education and pensions committee. he's been there, his focus on trying to spend his money more efficiently. sometimes we forget that head start is not the only early program we have in the country. it's the most famous, it's best known, it's very popular with most people. it's about $8.6 billion. but the bill we're debating today is another -- the childcare block grant is another $5.3 billion, two-thirds the size of head start, affects a million and a half children, and then there are another $5 billion or so of federal funding for early learning and early childhood. now, without getting into a debate about what we should have new programs or not i think there's a consensus among most of us that we should at least start by taking the money we're spending for early childhood and spend it wisely. one step we took few years ago was to create centers of exlen exc

also today in north carolina, a federal grand jury began looking into possible criminal charges.rk strassmann is in raleigh. >> reporter: this spill of coal and ash from a retired duke energy power plant coated an 80- mile stretch of the dan river with toxic sludge. eight days later, federal prosecutors issued the first of 23 subpoenas investigating the relationship between utility and north carolina state regulators. >> it's clear they have been coordinating their legal efforts. >> reporter: derb carter is a lawyer with the southern environmental law center, or selc. he said the questionable relationship became apparent last year. his group tried three times to sue duke to clean up spills, but he says state regulators blocked them every time by fining the utility instead of demanding a cleanup. >> it's an inappropriate or too close relationship between duke and the state that's contributed to that. scrutiny is due. >> reporter: the federal subpoenas demand the personal financial records of 18 current or former employees of north carolina's department of environment and natural r

the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mr. burr: i thank the president, and i thank my good friend and colleague, the senator from maryland, senator mikulski. you know, in the senate, for those of us that have been around for a while, we understand how it works. and i'm not sure that the media does justice to the american people about how difficult it is for legislation to actually pass the united states senate. as a matter of fact, the historical threshold of 67 and then 60 in agreement means that in you're a serious legislator and yoand your interest to workn good policy -- not perfect; i think senator alexander said, we've never seen a perfect bill -- then the first thought that goes through your mind as you work on a legislative agenda is, who on the other side of the aisle can i get that this would be appealing to from a standpoint of their interests and, two, an individual that understandunderstands how to geh difficult times? well, i'm here to say to my colleagues, barbara mikulski is one that fills that category -- not

big area here in north carolina and west virginia.s is the heavy rain falling in the air, which is below freezing, high pressure keeping that cold air in place. eventual, the temperatures will climb barely above freezing but we still have the rain coming down, and the wind will be out of the northeast with the nor' easter here, and this will be from delaware to new jersey and all the way up to new york and new england. here comes the rain. the area of this freezing rain will be north carolina, virginia, and overnight and thursday, you'll be waking up to that, and on friday, eventually climbing above freezing, but not until 1:00. this is icing and you'll get the accumulation in north carolina and virginia. another shot of cold air coming into the plains in chicago, but warm air returns from texas, oklahoma, kansas, nebraska, denver, up to 67°. it's dry there, and we could see snow in the northern plains, and another storm in the pacific northwest causing problems with very heavy rain and snow in washington and northern california. the

at fort brag north carolina now day two of a sentencing case in a high profile case.he most serious charges against him were dropped after he entered a plea deal. in the what kind of penalties does he face now to the charges he has pleaded guilty to. >> well, as you just said, he has already pled guilty to numerous charges and with those charges he could face up to 25 1/2 years in prison. of course, as the defense has its way, he will "go home to his family and simply face a reduction in rank." now over the last several days the general has pled guilty to numerous charges ranging from adultery, mistreating his former misstress, and causing her emotional distress, as well as engaging in inappropriate relationships with subordinates. we heard already from the accuser and his former misstress, who cried on the stand talking about the torment that she continues to endure. the accuser says she sleeps with a loaded gun every night, and this morning we heard from one of the women who sinclair did plead guilty to attempting to have an inappropriate relationship with, she also

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garrett in detroit michigan, michael hutchinson chattanooga tennessee, griggs wimbley and stanford north carolina and martha biggs in chicago. martha biggs is the mother of jovana and jamiah and the scene that i just read. i want to make something clear because sometimes there is confusion. i'm not a financial reporter. today i'm going to speak about the way that we choose to organize the society and the ways in which it can be different. so we will travel from burned out bank-owned buildings in chicago to liberated families across the country. so let's begin. you want me to tilt. okay. hold on, we are tilting. great. okay. can you still here may? okay, good. thank you. i want to start with a very simple question.

. >>> a parent of a young boy in north carolina says his school is punishing the wrong person in an alleged case of bullying. the 9-year-old was told to leave his my little pony lunch sack at home because it created a disruption in the classroom. his mom says her son complained of being pushed around and teased because of the bag. she says the school needs to crack down on the other kids, not her son's choice for his lunch sack. it's like saying that a short skirt is a trig forerape. the school says it's looking into the conduct of the other students but still standing by telling the kid not bring the lunch pail to school. >>> we shift attention to business. markets are continuing to rally. green arrows across the board. geoff cutmore live in london for

but the votes, look at a state like north carolina. with, you know, huge african american population, a growing latino population, a state that has gone for barack obama, you know, kay hagan is imperiled in -- the senator in north carolina. if you get the right voters out, you can save that state. >> also, if you get out chapel hill vote too. >> right. >> but you got to get about 100% turnout in chapel hill. >> you got to get every vote you can. now, they have jim messina and other people out there who know how to do this. we saw is the last time around with republicans in 2012 were completely hapless. >> let's look at the good news for the democrats. let's look at the issues that the president thinks. these are interesting. the latest are facing a challenge in landscape of course in november. but when it comes to almost every major issue, the majority of americans actually do, this is so ironic, given sort of the bad morale out there for the dems. nearly two-thirds want the minimum wage raised to $10.10. two-thirds of the country. on

light snow is possible, especially the 95 corridor all the way down to north carolina. the biggest potential for impact, boston toward cape code, nantucket, and martha's vineyard. blizzard conditions not out of the question there. i'm eric fisher for cbs news. >> this morning possible debris from the missing malaysian airliner has been spotted by a crew of a chinese search plane. the debris was located in today's search area, a region 1,500 miles off australian's west coast. a chinese satellite first picked up the debris over the weekend. holly williams is in perth, australia, where the search is being conducted. good morning, holly. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. one of the cruise said several white objects, quite large, was discovered in the indian ocean giving a grimmer outlook in this international effort to find out what happened the malaysia flight 370 when it disappeared more than two weeks ago. other planes will be dispatched to that section of ocean and the chinese ice breaker the snow dragon will be there tomorrow. up until now the only incredible imag

. >> environmental groups are warning the department of agriculture and states here in north carolinaith the disposal of infected. carcasses. >> late last month the water keeper allowance and north carolina river keepers sent these photos and a letter to governor pat macquarie to send out a letter of emergency because they believe the carcasses are not disposed of properly and there is a high risk of contamination of the ground water. >> wthey responded, we are aware of the situation. commissioner is monitoring the situation and we're confident he'll request additional support from the governor's office if needed. to date there is no back scene and despite the herd losses farmers are not required to report the virus to state or federal officials. but farmer and environmental concerns along with pork prizes are starting to rise. robert ray, al jazeera, north carolina. >> and appearance of a c pac pac with the first looking of running for the white house. we'll have a look at the highs caves that are a hot tourism spot in the midwest. >> presidential candidates are firing up the base th

the greensboro, north carolina firm provides faa required maintenance to commercial cargo and military planes. it's benefitting from the strong growth in the aviation industry, growth threatened by a lack of skilled workers. >> we are at capacity. and so again if we were to expand it could be an issue of getting enough workforce in here to actually work those aircraft. >> reporter: kip blakely is timco president of industry and government relations. he says to replace nearly 40% of its workforce nearing retirement they need to hire 350 worker assee for the next three. replacing them isn't easy. the workers who take apart, inspect, prepare and then put planes like this 737 back together again need to be faa certified. that's a process that takes two years. to ensure steady stream of workers for present and future years, timco's partnered with greensboro's gillford community college to get the word out about jobs in the industry. starting with talks that are aimed at kids as young as fourth and fifth grade. >> we try to spark that interest early when people are open to anything and haven

jump into somewhere like north carolina, splurge a ton of money when they find a vulnerable democratthen come out anonymously. but the democrats i think would be stupid to let them be anonymous. aren't the democrats smart to jump the guys and say these are the boogiemen. they're the bad guys. >> i think he and elijah cummings went to the same faux outraged acting school. >> that was real. >> this is about changing the subject because harry reid doesn't want to talk about people who have lost their health care. he is talking about a stagnant economy. >> presumably, rick -- >> sure, whatever. >> say benghazi. >> why do you want me to say benghazi? >> because it's on the list. >> is it a game? >> it is a game. it's called change the subject from the koch brothers. should a couple of brothers who have made a lot of money in oil and gas decide who wins the senate race in north carolina for united states senate? >> of course not. everybody is free to give as much money as they want. >> but nobody has the kind of money they have to throw around. who else can write a check for a couple of mi

mez tomorrow a federal grand jury will begin hearing evidence on whether north carolina regulators look the other way when toxic coal ash leaked from power plants operated by duke energy. coal ash is the sludge left over when coal is burned to make electricity. and there was a massive leak of it last month in the dan river. mark straussman's been following this. >> reporter: what is below this water. >> right below us is coal ash. >> brian william iss a conservationist with the dan river association, he took us 20 miles downstream of the coal ash spill at a retired plant in edden, north carolina. >> it was just giant gray sludge pouring into the river. >> reporter: on february 2nd, a pipe below a duke energy storage pond blew out. 39,000 tons of ash and water gushed into the river. wildlife officials estimate a layer of sludge that included chemicals known to cause cancer traveled 80 miles downriver. >> it's down here on the bottom and it's mixing in with the sediments and it's actually-- continually leeching out the toxins. >> duke energy klein declined an interview but said in i state

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