. >> reporter: from mississippi, they will travel to pensacola, florida, where they will reunite with loved ones, including a mother who has been praying for this day. >> well, right now, my mind is -- i'm just happy my daughters are being released. >> going to do dialysis in the morning at 7:15 in pensacola, florida. >> reporter: the scotts face a surgery they still have no means to pay for, and will spend the rest of their lives on probation. but it will be a life outside prison walls, and literally on their own terms. thanh truong, nbc news, jackson, mississippi. >>> here in new york, officials went out of their way to declare how ready they were for more snow today after that blizzard that crippled new york about two weeks ago and still left uncollected trash on some of the city streets. and man, were they ready. snowplows with chains on the tires were out, and lots of them. in the end, the city got about an inch. most of the snow ended up falling on the suburbs. but to repeat, boy, was the city ready. >>> meanwhile, another big storm is headed for the south and southeast this wee

nbc's thanh truong live in pensacola, florida, for us this morning.you. >> hi there, jeff. the sisters finally reunited with their family here in the early morning hours. this after walking out of prison 24 hours ago. one of their first stops, after getting out, was gloria's kitchen where gladys and jamie scott were greeted as heroes. the restaurant and its patrons are longtime supporters of the sisters, who say they were unfairly punished for their role in a 1993 armed robbery. the condition that they get released was that one of the sisters donate her kidney to her sick sister. after so many years in prison, the sisters say the simple things in life seem so amazing. >> i just feel like that, you know, we just blessed. and it feels so good to be able to walk outside and feel fresh air, see cars, see trees. >> after being locked up for 16 years, we take nothing for granted. nothing. i can't wait to go home and take out the trash. >> as for the kidney donation, it's unclear when it's going to take place. and whether the sisters are even a match for a k

there was, believe it or not, a colored window with the post office in pensacola florida and there were white and colored telephone booths in oklahoma, a state we don't even consider to be the south but by many respects it actually is. white people and colored people went to separate windows to get their license plates in indianola mississippi. and separate tellers to meet their deposits at first national bank here in alana. there were taxicabs for colored people and taxicabs for white people in jacksonville, birmingham, atlanta and the entire state of mississippi. colored people had to be off the streets and out of the city limits by 8 p.m. in palm beach and miami beach. it was against the wall for a colored person, and this is the hardest for me to believe, against the wall for a colored person and white person to play checkers together in birmingham. at saloon's here minnelli into the bars were segregated, whites drink it schools on one end of the bar and blacks on this will set the other end until the city out all season that resulting in white only and colored only saloons. there w

pensacola, florida. thomas, you are on. thomas, pensacola? caller: hello, yes. -- uh -- yes, sir, i happen to believe that -- yes, sir? hello? host: go ahead, thomas. well, we will leave that there. "mlk -- faith visionary" is the name of the of bed in "usa today -- op-ed in "usa today." host: back to the phones. betty, albuquerque. you are on. caller: dennis kucinich. host: why is that? caller: because he is supporting a department of peace rather than a department of war. i think that martin luther king would be totally supportive of that idea. host: thank you for the call. here we have a list of the 2011 african american leadership survey on the grio. throughout the first portion of the program we will be referring to that list as callers call in. who do you think most embodies you are on.lk -- mlk? you are on. caller: i think that it should be phyllis ben thnis. i saw her on "book tv." the press has demonized every one of the black leaders who have stood up. jesse jackson, al sharpton, the press has demonize them. this lady, you should have her on. thank you

why would this case be filed in pensacola where you only had three republican judges? this is a reagan appointee. so if decision comes as many of us think it might with, you know, one might be just the individual responsibility provision does not have a constitutional basis or something broader than that which is, clearly, what he seems to want to do, how would you suggest that folks respond to this? >> well, i don't think that we're served in any way by getting into a procedural argument about what's going on in the courts. i think that we can say it thiss an issue that's ultimately going to be decided by the supreme court. at this point we've had 14 rulings in favor of the law, and this would be the second one. again, you know, we can also say that there were, you know, there were judges who thought that social security was unconstitutional. ultimately, you know, it was upheld by the supreme court. i just, i don't want us to get bogged down in the, bogged down in this because it's going to be a lot of process stories. there are going to be rulings that go both ways,

why would this case be filed in pensacola? we only have three republican judges, a ronald reagan appointee. if a decision comes, as many of us think it might, one might be just for the individual responsibility provision, not having a constitutional basis or something broader than that possibly, which is clearly what he seems to want to do. how would you suggest that folks respond to that? >> i don't think that we are served in any way by getting into a procedural argument about what is going on in the courts. i think we can say that this is an issue that ultimately it will be decided by the supreme court. we have had this 0.14 rulings in favor of the law and this would be the second one. -- 14 rulings. we could also say there were judges who thought social security was unconstitutional and was ultimately upheld by the supreme court. i don't want us to get are down in this, because it's going to be a lot of process. there will be rulings that go both ways. i think that although this is a clear case of judicial activism and we

they had to, they had to transport him from pensacola to -- all over the panhandle. and be every time they got -- every time they got him to a jail, the posse was right on their tail, so they eventually had to take him to alabama, across state lines, and it was there that they actually came and got him. and, you know, it's a sad moment in american history. but i knew, i had never heard of him before, and it's my belief that all americans, we need to confront the good and the bad of what's happened within our borders. >> absolutely. >> and i did not know anything about that. >> i grew up here, and i didn't know. a lot of that. so thank you. >> thank you. >> i remember reading sometime ago that a chicagoing defender was instrumental in migration. did you find anything on that? >> oh, absolutely. the chicago defender was one of the first to document, the first record is in the defender from 1916 in which it's referring to a small party of african-americans who left selma saying it's not worth staying anymore, essentially. it was just a paragraph. and so that was the frs

host: pensacola, florida. caller: good morning. happy martin luther king day.nt to s and congratulate you for all the great work that is going on for the corporation for national & community service. as a minister, i realize that church has not taking a full stan of opportunities that the government gives because of the generation -- of the separation of crch and state. you have had a clause where you help initiate small nonprofits to get into a special class is. you ask if you're a n applicant to get funds. because of that, i want to know at you do to help and what will be done and how money would be allocated. it gets trickle-down. what is going to be done and what is going to be done to help the small fire starters to get started and to be effective in such communities? guest: that is a great question. we're doing a couple of things. if you go to our website, we have a resource center that is available for emerging nonprofits that just getting started. you can learn about how to engage volunteers, what are the best practices and so on. that is one opportunit

next caller from pensacola, jay, independent line, you're on the air. go ahead. caller: thank you. i love c-span. first i want to say joe lieberman, i don't think he's a bad guy. i just think he got caught up in the politics and when they made barack obama he was evil and from the wrong side of the tracks, lieberman just jumped on the republican party. i think he meant well throughout his political career and i think he's a good man. about the health care bill, i just think it's sad, because most of the people around here have never read a bit of the health care bill. i forget what -- mitt romney is the same as his state. the health care bill is there. it -- health care is dead. so -- and people don't want to pay for people who don't have insurance. just like in the state you have car insurance. host: thank you. we appreciate the call. dallas, tweets lieberman was so quick to kiss up to the g.o.p. of florida. most forget he was gore's running mate. and the two senators chris dodd and joe lieberman. two similar paths up and down. if you're interested in the politics of the senate, j