we are from a plantation south of savanna.my grandfather was raised and that is where we find, just across from the plantation or his grandmother had five and his great-grandfather bought land in the 1870s, right after he was free. and we all come as my grandfather said, we'll were going to be raised in the ways of slavery and that is the way we were raised on the farm. it's a very hard life, but it is a way of life of which i am enormously proud. there's not been a moment in my life when i've had nothing but the greatest pride in people who grew up under the most difficult circumstances with the dignity that is unmatched in the city in any of the great cities in this country. it is almost as though it is a nobility of humanity, simply because of the dignity of the negatives put in their way and the harshness of life. and as i say in my book, and i mean it, my grandfather still reigns as the greatest person i know of or know about. you tell me a person who could have accepted and not have a father, but as a mother. as he said,

there's a very good chance savanna state could lose by more than ten touchdowns.ast week alone they were destroyed by oklahoma state, 84-0. the silver lining, the school gets paid almost a million dollars to take the pounding. congratulations, gentlemen. >>> coming up, superstar swimmer now trying to become a hollywood superstar. ryan lochte is getting ready to do a bit of acting. we'll tell you where you can check him out. >>> olympic gold medalist ryan lochte making it clear he wants his career to go hollywood. looks like he's got a wish come true. lochte set to make an appearance on nbc's "30 rock." a writer for the show tweeting a picture of lochte and tina fey on set tomorrow morning. not his only upcoming tv appearance. he'll also be appearing as himself on "90210." he admits it's tougher than it looks. memorizing lines and trying to, like, say them and still, like, do the movement and all that, that was hard. if you want success in hollywood, zip this, unbutton this, keep it quiet, you'll be fine. >> wow. spoken like a true fan. i didn't say it. jon kelley

a peek into the untamed world of brazil's savannas.re, the dry season pushes animals to desperation. the feeding frenzies of the piranha, the cannibalism of the croc's cousin. it's a place where anacondas can bite off more than they can chew. lawrence took us on a journey to the anaconda's heartland. nearly 1,000 miles from rio to remote bonito. >> hey! bonito. welcome. >> reporter: we unloaded the boats. the stream cool and clear. i'm kind of hoping we don't find one so i don't have to go in the water. >> don't say that. come on, man. >> reporter: you get to defend yourself with that and i have this. >> no, this is not what you think. >> reporter: and our date with an anaconda approaches. what are we looking for? >> if we see a thick branch that swims, that's the anaconda. >> reporter: we found the stream where just months before, lawrence found this monster. >> the head was giant. as thick as a dive tank. that was a dinosaur. it was a snake that when i look at it, i say, "wow." >> reporter: our local guide has tracked these waters fo

. >>> well, a group of daring tourists who wanted to get up close and personal with the african savanna way more than they bargained for. >> a cheetah, jumped on to a jeep in kenya, coming face-to-face with several people. and decided to park itself there for 45 minutes. amazingly, everyone kept their cool. and even kept taking pictures. >> and the cheetah eventually jumped down. and there was a huge collective sigh of relief. >> quite remarkable. he wanted food, i think. >> something. >>> up next, "the pulse." and the popcorn that just jumps into your mouth on command. >>> and members of the u.s. naval academy join an international music wave. ♪ a little rendezvous.♪ ♪that special something that will carry you through...♪ ♪that little reward for all the things you do.♪ luscious, creamy filling - combined with our slow melting chocolate - the one and only ghirardelli squares chocolate. for all the things you do. ghirardelli. moments of timeless pleasure. try our caramel, now with sea salt. [ male announcer ] every time you say no to a cigarette you celebrate a little win. nicorette gum

it spent billions in the '50s and '60s moving its capital to a barren savanna near the middle of thehere it built brasilia, a futuristic city right out of the jetsons. then it borrowed billions more to develop the country's interior. corruption and ineptitude eventually led to a financial collapse... >> [shouting in portuguese] >> 2,000% inflation, and, at the time, the largest financial rescue package in the history of the international monetary fund. >> [speaking portuguese] >> then a few years later, this man walked into the president's office. >> [speaking portuguese] >> president luiz inacio lula da silva, known simply as "lula," is a former metalworker with a fourth-grade education and a doctorate in charisma. >> [speaking portuguese] >> when he was elected in 2002 on his fourth try, lula was a firebrand labor leader with socialist tendencies. some predicted another hugo chavez, but he left office at the end of 2010 with an 87% approval rating and much of the credit for turning the country around. we talked to him at the presidential residence in brasilia. when you took office,

so i took three days, i stayed in savanna and in orlando on my way and i talked to people and you knowyone i talked to on the bus, i talked to some church volunteers that were feeding the working poor in savannah and they all said look, nobody cares about us anymore. the idea that those of us that have the least are being protected or helped, has sort of gone out the window. i talked to one guy robert in jacksonville. he's from indiana. he had moved down to florida to try to get work as a construction -- in the construction industry. he tried to start his own small business. and he found it sort of impossible. the jobs he got paid almost nothing and he ended up on food stamps living in a weekly rent hotel on the side of route 1. he had to call his mother in indiana to get her to wire him money so he could get back to live with her. he was on his way home to indiana. >> bill: tough stories out there that we never hear about these people. it is like they don't even exist. >> right. exactly. >> bill: once you got to tampa and once you got to charlotte now looking back, right, what was the

. >> bill: hey linda is calling from savanna, georgia. hi linda, how are ya? >> caller: hi, bill.ou. isn't that something? >> bill: well it's worth the wait just to talk to you. >> caller: i sat through every hanging chat with you and al gore. [ laughter ] >> bill: so linda, do you think president obama is going to do it? >> caller: i'm praying every day he does. i'm a little disappointed in what he did yesterday, not going to any of the meetings he should have gone to. what do you think his reasoning was? >> bill: i think he figured that there are not many votes for him in egypt or kirkastan or even france and he wanted to get out and spending his time with voters. >> when we're sitting here in washington it's always -- do people pay at attention to these things. he is sitting down or not with leaders of the un. and last night i was thinking the same thing, and i think it was a bad decision on his part. i think he should have met with three or four and it would have offset this argument that he is more interested in going on "the view" than sitting down with president morsi. i th

the confederacy in 1864 and he was meigs' ships waiting for sherman when he marched from atlanta t savannalate 1864. but at the beginning of the war, there were no of ericsson washington. washington was embraced by two slave states, virginia and maryland. people are terrified the confederacy was going to an aide. it said the first volunteer unit from the union came down to washington and there is no place to put them except the capital. this is the eighth massachusetts, the first unit to take up residence there. and you can see, this is the mass going up into the rotunda and you can see the circular staircase that they saw the link to the platform. and so the soldiers were there for about three or four months and created a terrible mess and they were finally thrown out a special session that lincoln called in july of 1861 took place. in 1862, walter became the architect of the capitol again and actually took over the project. in the end of 1863, he installed the statue of freedom on the top of the dome. at the end of 1865, finished the epictetus of washington. two views of it here. walter

savanna greenberg, one of my very favorite posters. not only does she take the pollsters to the nation, but she also has very interesting things to say. and then we have one thing to mention. this guy is a great blogger. ruy teixeira. if you're going to read a conservative blog, he's a great writer. and we also have ronald brownstein. he is devoted to demographics as i sometimes say. if you're just going to read one columnist about 2012 election, ron is the guy to do it. and finally, frank sharry. he has done fantastic work and a long-term student of the latino vote. let's start with you, ron. let's shed some light on these issues. >> yes, i will try to take what he said and put it in a framework for a couple of minutes. from 1968 to 1988, republicans won five out of six times for the white house. he talks about a republican lock on the electoral college. if you look at 922-2012, democrats won. same thing with 68-2000 and eight. the first is a change in a change of the electorate. in 1984, 65% of the total vote were noncollege whites.

confederacy in 1864 and it was meigs ships waiting for sure and then when he marched from atlanta to savanna in late 1864. but at the beginning of the war, there were no barracks in washington. washington was embraced by two slave states, virginia and maryland. people were terrified the confederacy would invade and so the first volunteer unit finally came down to washington and there is no place to put them except the capital. this is the eighth massachusetts, the first unit to take up residence they are. and you can see this is going up into the rotunda and you can see the circular staircase that leads all the way up to the platform. so the soldiers were there for about three of four month and created a terrible mess and they were finally thrown out when the special session that lincoln called in july of 1861 to place. in 1862, walter became the architect of the capitol again and actually took over the project. and in the end of 1863, he installed the statue of freedom on the top of the dome. at the end of 1865, finished the s. of washington to use here. walter resigned a couple of months i

because at that .2 million years ago all about the size of a shuffle slightly smaller on the african savannat at that moment the science involved and in 1 million years it had gone from 400 to the present 1,000, 2,000, and thus it would appear that humans are quite consistent with reaching the news is in the mushy and advanced culture, advanced society. and of course we were different in that we developed culture along the way. but the culture very much as by the instinct that evolved in the freedom. >> so, you've laid out in the picture you talk about the society again building a nest and this idea of the fire and having had sites in that technology in a sense is the precursor in the immediate step to this other larger social. >> the trends of culture. they have technology. but they also have 400 centimeters of brain only. but different cultures show, different cultures i mean different localities in england, the congo and so on, they have different level local populations have different behaviors they pass on, clearly the cultural matter. another one uses digging tools for sticks to dig ou