pensacola just celebrated 450th birthday.ion and how the state's tourism continues to rebound from the bp oil spill. we shall return. [ todd ] hello? hello todd. just calling to let you know i'm giving you the silent treatment. so you're calling to tell me you're giving me the silent treatment? ummm, yeah. jen, this is like the eighth time you've called... no, it's fine, my family has free unlimited mobile-to-any-mobile minutes -- i can call all i want. i don't think you understand how the silent treatment works. hello? [ male announcer ] buy unlimited messaging and get free unlimited calling to any mobile phone on any network. at&t. >> we have world class beaches. we have natural sea shores. we have everything to offer for businesses to move here, for people to move here. we need to tell that story. that's what we're about. >> we're going to have -- let me tell you. >> you were part of that. >> let me tell you something. ironically it's a lot easier and a lot less work goes into keeping the beaches white than keeping ashton

-i-40 across from tennessee to pensacola. icy spots on i-84, 90, cascades and north rockies. >>> just a couple of airport dlals possible in chicago and new orleans. >>> well, whitney houston's daughter says she's coping with her mother's death. >> that's right. 19-year-old bobbi kristina brown said he told her mother everything. she defended her mom's image. >> nobody knows how much of a great -- an amazing spirit she was. no one knows that. no one knows. >> that's why we're doing this so people can hear. >> yeah, yeah. and that's exactly what i want. because she wasn't only a mother. she was a best friend. she was a sister. a comforter. she was -- she was -- she was just -- this spirit that she had, which is, no matter where she was, no matter what she said to anyone, it touched everyone. >> brown says she also plans to become a singer and also act and dance. she did not discuss her father singer bobby brown. but tmz is reporting that she's been telling friends she doesn't want her dad's day but plans to change her name to k

center of a civil rights tempest was born in the aftermath of a hurricane, after ivan in 2004, a pensacola man who shot a looter at his house, waited months before learning he would not be prosecuted. that prompted the legislature to make florida the fifrs state explicitly allowing homeowners to use deadly force. with the support of the nra, the law was later expanded to cover anywhere a person has the lowell right to be. one of the sponsors said it was never intended to apply to someone who chases or confronts someone else. >> i don't want us to make a mistake of removing protections that are there for law abiding citizens and letting them know we will stand by them as they protect themselves and their families from harm. >> florida's stand your ground law said people can use deadly force if they reasonably fear for their safety. it does away with the usual rule that people who are threatened have a duty to retreat if they can, and florida's law goes one step further, allowing deadly force to stop someone from committing a serious crime, including robbery or burglary of someone's anyone's

center of a civil rights tempest was born in the after' math of a hurricane, after ivan in 2004, a pensacola man who shot a looter at his house, waited months before learning high wouldn't be prosecute said. nat prompted the ledgislature that allowed florida the first to allow homeowners to use deadly force. it was extend ed anywhere a person has the rights to be. one of the spaunonsors said it never meant to apply to someone who chases someone else. >> i don't want to make the mistake of removing protections for law abiding citizens, that we will stand by them and protect them. >> people can use deadly force if they reasonably fear for their safety. it does away with the usual rule that people who are threatened have a duty to retreat if they can, and florida's law goes one step further, allowing deadly force to stop a serious crime including robbery or burglary of anyone's property. >> the common law allowed you to use force to defend yourself or your home. it's called the "stand your ground" law but it's really stand someone else's ground law. >> 19 other states have similar laws, allowin

she then spent the war in pensacola teaching male pilots celestial navigation. that's a very good point. "the mercury 13" were too young to participate in any way in the national effort in world war ii, too old to be part of sally ride's generation. they were squeezed right in the middle there. they looked to women like the alum you mentioned as the shoulders they stood on. particularly point to the wasps, women's air force pilots of world war ii, who ferry planes domestically. without their efforts they wouldn't have been able to start rattling that door a little bit. well, i think that just about does it. i'd like to thank you all once again for coming. it's been a real pleasure. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> next week on history book shelf, brotherhood of the bomb, tangled lives and loyalties of robert oppenheimer, ernest lawrence. the book tells the story of the physicist who created atomic bombs dropped on japan at the end of world war ii. history book shelf airs on american history tv every saturday at noon. >> hosted by cable partner c-span's conte

their final stems of tests, not sensory isolation, i'm sorry, but space simulation tests at the pensacola naval air station, were halted when they needed to get an ok from the navy. nasa stepped in and said no, we don't want the women to go farther. and it was at that point that a very pivotal thing occurred and that is that the women said no way.gng to eshey began to lobby congress. geri cobbmary advocate for all of the women, along with jayne hart, who as i mentioned in the first passage was the senator -- wife of senator phigan. so this passage has to do with the payoff for some of their lobbying when they went to see lyndon johnson, who was head of the space council. >> hart's lobbying worked. within days of her request for an interview, the vice president agreed to meet and hart wired geri cobb in oklahoma, asking her to leave immediately for washington. lyndon johnson wasn't an especially important ally to win. not only had johnson gui eadated nasa in 1958, he also of the president's space liaison with nasa. more important, the slp understood that -- vice president also understood t

. >> pensacola, florida. rita, republican line. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i just want to thank you for the opportunity to say something that i think needs to be said. my son is an 18 delta, which is a special forces medic. he's been in the service almost 30 years and is evidently very talented.

. >> pensacola, florida, eric, independent line. >> caller: hey, good morning. i can't tell you how many things i disagree with you here. you come out of left field on quite of few things. let me just give a couple quick little notes that i was making. one -- first off here, your foundation of identity politics i think is -- i consider it somewhat racist, to think that everybody simply because of their national origin is going to vote one way, think one way, i mean, that's stereotyping. you would call that -- you would call that profiling, so i think that's one of your biggest issues. look at the name of your organization, what isn't the americans. you're too busy trying to put wedges between people and trying to find out how your little group can get something. it's america. we're all supposed to be in it together. another point here. >> do you have a question for our guest other than a point. >> caller: yeah, i do. how -- here's a good example, something you were asked earlier. who is going to determine who an organization should be paying? this is not the gov

. >> pensacola, florida. rita, republican line. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i just want to thank you for the opportunity to say something that i think needs to be said. my son is an 18 delta, which is a special forces medic. he's been in the service almost 30 years and is evidently very talented. he's had many commendations and bronze stars for his duty and things that he has done. in fact, one of the things that attached to the commendation medal said he was the lead surgeon. my problem is when he gets out of the service next year, what

>> i go to pensacola. i don't like donny at all. i go to pensacola, florida. it's my home.and ben bernanke had stern warnings. >> yeah, could be political game changers in the coming months and then we'll get to what really happened in michigan. but first as you mentioned, joe, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke is offering a stern warning when it comes to the economy suggesting recent signs of recovery could be compromised by what happens in washington, d.c. and testimony before congress yesterday, bernanke warned that a one-two punch of spending cuts and tax hikes may be more than the nation's economy can handle. >> monetary policy is not a panacea that it can help offset cyclical fluctuations and financial crises like we've had. but the long-term health of the economy depends mostly on decisions taken by congress and the administration. i think you also have to protect the recovery in the near term under current law on january 1st, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases. >> ben bernanke yesterday, steve rattner, gave

one june, a trial court judge in pensacola said as a result of the mandate being unconstitutional, theole law is unconstitutional. >> the mandate is the glue for the whole reform. >> there are many other decisions not legally controversial. >> pre-existing, not allowing insurance companies to deny you coverage if you have a pre-exists condition. >> or requiring children to be allowed to stay on their parents' health care until age 26. that is not constitutionally controversial. there is one judge that threw out everything. if they throw out anything it will be -- >> how deep are the divisions in the court. >> there are four judges appointed by democrats, who are virtually certain to uphold the law. there is one judge thomas who will strike it down. can they get one more out of roberts, scalia, kennedy, alito. i think the odds are it will be upheld. those four justices are really going to hold the outcoin their hands. kennedy as usual the swing justice. >> i've been hearing so much about the commerce clause. what is it they are fighting the legality of this? >> what's important to remem

one judge, a trial court judge in pensacola said as a result of the mandate being unconstitutional, the whole law is unconstitutional. >> the mandate is the glue for the whole reform, isn't it? >> it is. but there are many other positions that are not legally controversial. >> like a pre-existing -- not allowing the insurance companies to deny you coverage if you have a pre-existing condition? >> right. or requiring children to be allowed to the stay on their parent's health care until their age 26. that is not constitutionally controversial. those -- but there is that one judge who threw out everything. i think if they throw out anything, it will just be the individual mandate. >> how deep will the divisions be within in court on this? >> there are four justices appointed by democrats, ginsburg, breyer, sotomayor, there is one who is certain to strike it down. the we is, can the liberals get one more out of kennedy, scalia, and alito? but those four justices are really going to hold the outcomes in their hands, kennedy, most of all, usually the swing justice. >> i've been hearing so mu

host: pensacola, florida. eric, independent line. caller: you come out of left field of a few things. first of all, your foundation of identity politics, i consider it somewhat racist to think that everyone simply because of their national origin will think one way or vote one way, that is stereotyping. you would call that profiling. why it is not the name -- why is your name of the organization not american? this is america. we're supposed to be in it together. host: do you have a question? guest: -- caller: yes, who will determine what organizations should be paying? it is not the government pulled the decision. you are doing people to slave labor by continuing immigration, saying it is lowercase simply because people have a need. there is a pest to -- saying it is simply because people have a need. there is a path to citizenship and she called but he knows have demonstrated they will vote for democrats or republicans -- citizenship. guest: democrats or republicans will be elected by latinos. are the swing vote. they represent the

if you're driving from pensacola and you're heading east, you are going to encounter some very severethis is a good time to plan your day accordingly and not travel if you don't have to in the southeast. good news, we're seeing some of the storms work there way through mississippi. mississippi has hard hit yesterday. however, down here, look at this in baton rouge, more thunderstorms are rolling on through. so it's still an unsettled day across the southeast, nowhere near what we saw yesterday. but with that tornado watch in effect, we want to keep everyone alert. what about further north inspect. >> the mid-atlantic, that heavier rain is coming in. even further to the north, we're tracking some intense storms working there way offshore near long island. here is where we're looking at the most intense storms right now. thunderstorm warnings popping up in southwest georgia. 95 tornado reports, 95 in one day. now, with the wind reports and the strong and damaging hail, that let to an incredible number, a number that we don't see very often, certainly not in early march. look at this. we

pensacola i thank the gentleman. you will never convince me that the federal government has the authority to order the american people to buy health insurance whether they want it, need it or not. my hope is in the days ahead, the supreme court will come to that conclusion. i believe we must not rest or relent until we repeal obamacare lock, stock and barrel, but for now let's take the path before us. let's repeal this independent payment advisory board once and for all. and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. mr. levin: you ready to close? i yield myself the balance of my time. the supreme court will be hearing the case about the individual mandate next week and i don't think we want to argue this now. we don't have any judges here. but let me say on the individual mandate, it really is ironic that the more conservative apparently your the more you dislike the individual mandate. when individual mandate was the central point within the health care reform proposal of conservati

there will be a flood threat today. 4 to 6 inches from mobile to pensacola northward towards birmingham and montgomery. ahead of this system, it's going to be a record high temperature in some cases. 80 degrees in lant lachbatlanta. 76 degrees in new york. for the most part, eastern half of the country, for the most part is done. >> yea. >> i would feel better if i didn't have to see the pictures down south. >> that's true. right, rob? >> we kind of need the rain but not all at one time. >> that's the problem. >>> rob, we'll check in later. thanks. >>> ten minutes past the hour. this just in. aaa says a new national average for a gallon of regular gas. do you want to gas? >> $3.88 a gallon. that is 13 days in a row of gas prices rising. analysts say the high gas prices are here to say through at least the summer. you might want to prepare your finances for that. adjust your budgets. >> two days in a row it's almost two cents overnight. the rising numbers are getting bigger each time it seems. frustrating. ten minutes past 5:00 in the morning on the east coast. u.s. markets hitting the b

host: pensacola, florida. eric, independent line.eld of a few things. first of all, your foundation of identity politics, i consider it somewhat racist to think that everyone simply because of their national origin will think one way or vote one way, that is stereotyping. you would call that profiling. why it is not the name -- why is your name of the organization not american? this is america. we're supposed to be in it together. host: do you have a question? guest: -- caller: yes, who will determine what organizations should be paying? it is not the government pulled the decision. you are doing people to slave labor by continuing immigration, saying it is lowercase simply because people have a need. there is a pest to -- saying it is simply because people have a need. there is a path to citizenship and she called but he knows have demonstrated they will vote for democrats or republicans -- citizenship. guest: democrats or republicans will be elected by latinos. are the swing vote. they represent the future of the united states. we

host: "tracking been locked in " pensacola, florida. you are on. go ahead.aller: dr., thank you for what you are doing and what you have done in the past. people do not understand that you see the wreckage. the army nurses in vietnam -- i could not stand the field hospitals. i left as soon as i could. i went back to the unit because i could not stand with the nurses put up with every day. the stresses are not just specifically to combat. some of -- i was one of those in the field all the time. if a mortar comes in, it is a potluck sort of fading. the way you acted react. -- act and react. this has nothing to do with a survivability when a mortar comes in. the stressors are widely different. i did have a field where soldiers took care of each other. particularly if you have good nco's. changes are the biggest things. any personality changes are the biggest things you watch out for. the stresses people go through that cause that, when you see something that happened -- all of a sudden, somebody changes. host: we're going to leave that there. guest: i am glad y

host: pensacola, florida. michael, on our line for independences -- independents. caller: is there any chance of the space station drifting off or is it locked in by orbit? guest: the bigger concern is not a been drifted into space, but is being pulled into the earth's atmosphere. it is very unlikely. the biggest risk is the amount of space debris floating right now in lower orbits. there are hundreds of thousands of pieces -- millions of very small pieces out there. it is it tough crunch for nasa. the shielding on board the international space station can withstand hits of space debris as small as 1 inch. that does not sound like that big of a deal, but when it is going 12,000 miles an hour, it is a big deal. it is like a bullet. it can shield against those, and this sounds remarkable, but they can track space debris as tiny as 10 inches and larger from the earth and be able to keep track of the objects, but the big worry is not-so-sweet spots between 1 inch and 10 inch, they will not be able to track it. host: las vegas, nevada, chandler, on our line for republic

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heavy rain, some minor flash flooding, that is where the trouble is heading up to gulfport, mobile, pensacolast beautiful june-like day for new england. look at the temperatures in the 70s and 80s, slightly cooler and windy in boston. notice all the rain from chicago to indianapolis. see thunderstorms possible throughout illinois today, indiana, kentucky, as we go through the weekend that storm system heads east and that will make it cooler and of course, the rain a little wet. forecast in the middle of the country, you actually are going to see a beautiful weekend. the west coast, we have rain four, san francisco on saturday, then some of that rain will be in los angeles on sunday. as far as newt gingrich goes, sunday will be the wettest day four, the jersey shore up into southern new england. can't complain what a run we have had of unbelievable midmarch temperatures. you are watching "morning joe." we are brewed by starbucks. [ tom ] we invented the turbine business right here in schenectady. without the stuff that we make here, you wouldn't be able to walk in your house and flip on your l

we'll continue to watch those for you in mobile and pensacola.e shouldn't have temperatures like this yet. 70s today as far north as connecticut. we'll have a light chance of rain around d.c. but your morning and afternoon will be dry. and watch out in chicago, you could see strong thunderstorms late today, maybe even an isolated tornado. that's how warm and unusual it is. we have a chance of isolated tornadoes in the middle of march. usually about a 1/2 foot of snow on the ground, not this year, folks. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. hi, i just switched jobs, and i want to roll over my old 401(k) into a fidelity ira. man: okay, no problem. it's easy to get started; i can help you with the paperwork. um...this green line just appeared on my floor. yeah, that's fidelity helping you reach your financial goals. could you hold on a second? it's your money. roll over your old 401(k) into a fidelity ira and take control of your personal economy. this is going to be helpful. call or come in today. fidelity investments. turn here. ♪ wh

. >> my mom in pensacola, i was not being so charitable on the air, but she was charitable enough andt of politicians. she said it was the most exciting day of her life. >> and you would go to these events, mark and i went to a bunch of palin events in the course of that 60 days that's captured in the mother and yvie talk to people in the crowds. actually a moment in the film reflects this, crowd reactions saying over and over again, she seems real, like my next door neighbor. i know this woman. that is a quality you can't teach a politician could convey that. can't learn it or fake it. it's either you have that relatability and she it, in the core of her being, and it's what made her so magnetic to so many people and still does to this day. >> yeah. >> so julianne moore is on the cover of a "more" but writes about her flaws. really. >> uh-huh. >> whatever. >> uh-huh. sure. were you willie geist, at the flash cam. willie has a question. >> over here in the time-out seat across the studio. how you doing? good to see you. >> hi. >> we've actually talked over the last couple of months al

so looking at that forecast today, 54 degrees. 80s for you issavannah and also pensacola. we'll watch out for showers and storms in the ohio river valley. 80 degrees in wichita. low 80s san antonio. 70 degrees in bismarck. and then toward the west coast, of course, continuing to track clouds and showers. some thunderstorms this morning move through parts of ohio, so if you have travel plans around cleveland watching out for some of the thunderstorm activity, some of it has been a little strong to severe so take a look at all the reports as far as those thunderstorms moving through sections of the upper ohio river valley and parts of the midwest. we have that threat for some severe weather today around memphis, nashville, louisville, primarily toward the afternoon hours watching out for some damaging winds and some spotty hail so just keep that in mind if you have travel plans. look at that system out west. a lot of rain and wind in the days to come. guys, back to you. >> scott, thank you. >> caught my first striped bass yesterday. >> of the day, not ever. >> i call it earl

able to recognize this country's in trouble, and i don't care if you live in orlando, florida, or pensacola, florida, whether you live in dallas, texas, or whether you live in california, the needs of this great nation are about job creation and ensuring in the competitive marketplace that we keep jobs, that we have ample credit available, that we have new ideas like we are handling today in this bill, but that we also go to some old ideas and that is when you tax companies or you tax something, you get less of it. and what -- the democratic party wants to do and the president of the united states is to tax america, the free justice department prize system, to pick winners and losers, and then to try and call that will new revenue to this country when in fact all it does is offset with higher unemployment. mr. speaker, we need a pro-growth economy. we need a pro-growth agenda from the united states congress. not just the house, but the senate also. we need the president of the united states to understand that his temptation to talk about economic growth should be about job creation not just

by senator nelson from florida who remembers all too well the oil that washed up in places like pensacola where i did some basic training on my way to becoming a naval flight officer, and the kind of headaches that -- but since we got that straightened out, puts tighter restrictions for drifg safeguards. 400 or so drilling permits just since then have been put in place with stronger safety standards. as a result, we have a record number of oil rigs operating right now, more working oil and gas rigs in the west than oil combined. with the changes that have been made, the increases in permitting in the last year or two, we now have a record number of oil rigs operating right now. more working oil and gas rigs than the rest of the world combined, combined. and yet of the millions of acres the government has allowed, our government has allowed for oil and gas development, only 25% of those acres are being used for production. we had a chart here that demonstrates that rather graphically. if you will, think of all this as the millions of acres that are available for oil and gas development in

pensacola, florida. you are on. go ahead.thank you for what you are doing and what you have done in the past. people do not understand that you see the wreckage. the army nurses in vietnam -- i could not stand the field hospitals. i left as soon as i could. i went back to the unit because i could not stand with the nurses put up with every day. the stresses are not just specifically to combat. some of -- i was one of those in the field all the time. if a mortar comes in, it is a potluck sort of fading. the way you acted react. -- act and react. this has nothing to do with a survivability when a mortar comes in. the stressors are widely different. i did have a field where soldiers took care of each other. particularly if you have good nco's. changes are the biggest things. any personality changes are the biggest things you watch out for. the stresses people go through that cause that, when you see something that happened -- all of a sudden, somebody changes. host: we're going to leave that there. guest: i am glad you mentioned

she then spent the war in pensacola, teaching male pilots celestial navigation. >> that's a very good point. the mercury 13 were too young to participate in any way in the national effort in world war ii. too old to be part of sally ride's generation, they were squeezed right in the middle there. they looked to women like the mount holyoke alum that you mentioned as the shoulders that they stood on, particularly point to the wasp, the women air service pilots of world war ii, as being the women who ferried the planes domestically and without their efforts, they think that they wouldn't have been able to start rattling that door a little bit. >> well, i think that just about does it. i'd like to thank you all once again for coming. it's been a real pleasure. thank you very much.