savannah, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. white house officials say the decision to fire this official, shirley sherrod was solely at the discretion of the agricultural secretary, tom vilsack. the president was briefed afterwards and fully supports the decision. it's the video that became an overnight cable and internet sensation. >> the first time i was faced with helping a white farmer save his farm. >> reporter: posted on a conservative website, it shows shirley sherrod at an naacp dinner in march of this year describing her initial reluctance to help a white farmer who came for aid. >> i was struck by the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland. and here i was faced with having to help a white person save their land. so i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> reporter: sherrod says the incident she was describing occurred more than 20 years ago, before she worked for the usda. a story she told as an example of overcoming her own prejudices. >> that's when it was revealed to me that it's abou

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. >> savannah, i know you've received -- >> we want to thank everybody. >> savannah, you received a lotmoney so far. can you tell us a little about what you're going to do with the money you received from the community? >> well, i'm going to try to buy some more clothes. >> go ahead. >> you're going to buy some more clothes, savannah? what else? >> not much anything. >> she's a little nervous. >> i'm sure. i understand some of it is going to charity as well which is great. danielle behan and girls thanks so much. i understand the lemonade stand is back up and running in the next few weeks. we're back after this. [ male announcer ] next on kraft tastemakers... let it go, let it go. the entire sandwich décor was from the nineteen seventies. it all has to go! a complete gut rehab. oh my gosh! [ crying ] i'm sorry. [ male announcer ] new kraft sandwich shop. give your sandwich a makeover. >>> still could tom, how did a bear get stuck inside this car and actually drive it sort of? we'll find out in a "today" show exclusive. >>> uspl t rider, from fearless female who are riding high. sometime

or further back through each human cell to african eve her grunts are tuning savannahs. i felt the gift shared from the bones later that night in the crowded room when all the instruments had gone silent and a man rose up shyly alone and sang sean moss one of the singer's songs. beautiful country, i take you to by the black water screens of the beast the thrush and the black bird sings sweetly and the wild deer over the mountains branches with fruits and blossom the and hives with honey. and the corn creek lifts it's cries in the grass. [applause] >> your poem has a sense of place and you mentioned earlier the sensation of going to canada and what it felt like to be in that place in canada and in other opportunities to be in that land in ireland. i wonder if you can reflect and margaret as well, what were the physical experiences you were having and what was the importance ever going to the place by way of informing your story? >> i don't know if anybody seen there is a series on now on called african-american lives? >> yeah. >> and it remindses me so much of my experien

nbc news white house correspondent savannah guthrie has the story. >> reporter: it's the video that became an overnight cable and internet sensation. posted on a conservative website, it shows shirley sherrod, a georgia-based official with the u.s. department of agriculture and obama administration appointee, at a naacp dinner in march of this year describing her initial reluctance to help a white farmer who came for aid. >> i was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland, and here i was faced with having to help a white person save their land. so i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> reporter: sherrod says the incident she was describing occurred more than 20 years ago, before she worked for the usda, a story she told as an example of overcoming her own prejudices. >> that's when it was revealed to me that it's about poor versus the people who have. >> and telling that story, how i changed while working with him, i used that to help others to see it's not about race. >> reporter: but the reaction was swift and certain. the usda asked her

. >> larry: how about savannah and the kids?say do they have -- well, the kids don't have a say, do they? >> well, the kids got all the say. no. i mean, i think they're going to support any decision that i make. of course, they have a say. but, you know, they feel like to this point i've been able to make the right decisions in my career, and they're going to support whatever i do. >> larry: are you looking forward to making the decision? is there going to be a relief when this kind of pressure -- and it is a pressure, happy pressure, is over? >> well, absolutely it's happy pressure. to be in control. >> larry: that's what you are. >> absolutely. we all at some point want to be in control of our -- >> larry: destiny. >> -- our destiny, exactly. >> larry: more with lebron james. we'll investigate also what it is like to mature early? what's it like to go from high school to the pros, after this. [ female announcer ] even a high spf can leave your skin feeling vulnerable. that's why neutrogena® created new spectrum plus with helio

savannah, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. well, the white house is hoping to move past this chapter, now that the agriculture secretary has come forward to offer ms. sherrod a new job with the agency, and to apologize. under fire for the firing of a usda worker, agriculture secretary tom vilsack faced the cameras. >> this is a good woman. she's been put through hell, and i could have done and should have done a better job. >> reporter: vilsack said he personally called sherrod to apologize. >> i asked for shirley's forgiveness and she was gracious enough to extend it to me, and for that i am thankful. >> reporter: at the white house wednesday, it was also all apologies. >> i think without a doubt ms. sherrod is owed an apology. a disservice was done for which we apologize. and on behalf of the administration, i offer our apologies. >> reporter: after initially standing by the agriculture secretary's decision to fire sherrod, the white house now acknowledges it was a rush to judgment. a usda official called sherrod monday afte

savannah, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, matt. these developments are moving really quickly. at first there were condemnations against shirley sherrod for alleged racist remarks. now some of the very first people to rebuke her are now apologizing and over the night the white house directed the agency that fired her to reconsider. this is the video at the center of the controversy. with having to help a white farmer save his farm -- >> reporter: first posted on a conservative website, it shows shirley sherrod, a georgia-based official with the u.s. department of agriculture, and obama administration appointee, at an naacp dinner in march of this year describing her reluctance to help a white farmer who came for aid. >> i was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland, and here i was faced with having to help a white person save their land. so i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> reporter: the video became an overnight cable news sensation. >> miss sherrod must resign immediately. t

now, i live in savannah, i have a house on the water front and a beach house. mr. kingston: i have to participate in the national flood insurance program and in the state windstorm pool. and mr. tailor's right, if you've ever dealt with them, it is a pain in the neck, the bureaucracy is horrible, getting the claims paid is a really big problem, the debates a to what is flood and what is wind and what is wind-driven water is very complicated and i think the insurance companies will get no sympathy from me on this situation. the problem is that here we are again under the pelosi congress with a closed rule. and which none of cuss offer an amendment -- us can offer an amendment. we're all elected, 435 members representing 600,000 people and yet we're not allowed to offer a rule, an amendment because the rules committee has to play favorites and unless you're on the a-list, you can't offer an amendment, even though you still represent 600,000 people like everyone else here. so we kim prove this. a couple of suggestions -- so we can improve this. a couple of suggestions

the pilots perform a vital public service, keeping the savannah river and the harbor safe, and they have used this facility at fort pulaski for more than 40 years under a special use permit. h.r. 4773 would regular lies that arrangement under -- regularize that arrangement under a lease. mr. speaker, we support h.r. 4773, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from guam reserves the balance of her time. the gentlewoman from wyoming. mrs. lummis: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. lummis: thank you, mr. speaker. h.r. 4773 would allow the savannah bar pilots association to continue leasing a facility at fort pulaski national monument as they have done since the 1940's. the national park service supports this legislation, and we are pleased that this is one piece of legislation that will not place additional burdens on american taxpayers. i urge my colleagues to support the legislation. mr. speaker, also, at this time, i ask unanimous consent to insert in the record a st

>> savannah, i don't -- i'm not afforded -- nobody in this government was afforded the opportunity to see what they do or don't have. i don't know that that question is relevant for me as much as it is for him. >> i just wondered if by making this point you're trying to i guess attack the credibility of the documents that are out there. >> no, no -- >> i mean, other news organizations -- >> again, i have not -- i certainly have not reviewed 90,000 documents. this got brought to us late last week. again, the coverage i read off of the news documents doesn't i think materially change the challenges that we have in each of these two countries. as i said a second ago, i don't think the challenges that you would have listed on a piece of paper this time last week are, quite honestly, different based on what we read in this documents at this time this week. i think the challenges that we've had and the historical relationships with pakistan intelligence and the taliban were certainly something we were working to address. so it's not -- that in and of itself isn't a surprise. working on safe

host: savannah, georgia, sodbuster on the democratic line. -- sylvester on the democratic line. ,aller: i'm a veteran approaching 62 years old. it is good to help people who are homeless, but when they come back, and when they are on the verge of homelessness, why should a person have to be on the verge of homelessness in a country -- [unintelligible] there are lots of things, and then decided to -- host: i apologize. i have to let you go. very difficult to hear you there. i do not know if mr. love -- guest: thank you, again, for your service to your country but celeste trichet note is that the core of this plan -- that you, again, for your service to country. what sylvester should know is that at the core of this plan, the best way to end homelessness is to prevent it from happening in the first place. host: next call. caller: good morning, mr. love. the question i have, and i don't know how much this would go into your home, but in cases where i have a home and we make it month by month, it is a wonderful day, but the problem we have is that the insurance has gone through the roof. w

host: savannah, georgia, sodbuster on the democratic line. -- sylvester on the democratic line. ,aller: i'm a veteran approaching 62 years old. it is good to help people who are homeless, but when they come back, and when they are on the verge of homelessness, why should a person have to be on the verge of homelessness in a country -- [unintelligible] there are lots of things, and then decided to -- host: i apologize. i have to let you go. very difficult to hear you there. i do not know if mr. love -- guest: thank you, again, for your service to your country but celeste trichet note is that the core of this plan -- that you, again, for your service to country. what syllester should know is that at the core of this plan, the est way to end homeeessness is to prevent it from happening in thh first place. host: next call. caller: good morning, mr. love. the question i have, and i don't know how much this would go into your home, but in cases where i have a home and we make it month by month, it is a wonderful day, but the problem we have is that the insurance has gone through the roof. we

host: one more call for tom fahey from savannah, georgia. caller: i used to live in california. i have lived in new york state. now i live in georgia. a couple of questions. do you think that the republicans would vote for a bill to fund the unemployment extension? second, what would be the effect if the true unemployment rate and stimulus funds or not there to plug the teachers, firefighters, etc. host: thank you. guest: those two programs that you mentioned, medicaid

savannah, ga., democratic line. steve, you are on "washington journal." caller: it amazes me how the republicans always have the ability to have their way with anything. they want to make this the new cold war, socialism, because the president had to step in to save the automobile industry. which would have led to a lot of people losing their jobs that rely on that industry. they have to step in for the banks so that the people do not lose their pensions. money is in the banks. but they call it socialism. one of your callers use the word, fascism. again, i am amazed how they can remove themselves from what happened under president bush, blaming this president for everything that happens. it is unbelievable. if the american people reelect these republicans back into office, they deserve what they get. host: one more item having to do with the coverage of the oil spill in the gulf clean-up, we will have live coverage this morning on c-span 3 of the first public meeting of the national commission on the deep water rise in oil spill and national drilling -- h

savannah guthrie is at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the white house feels a political winner championing benefits for the jobless at a time when unemployment has dragged the president and his party down in the polls. accompanied by three out-of-work americans the president tried to shame republicans into extending unemployment benefits. >> the same people who didn't have any problem spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest americans are saying we shouldn't offer relief to middle-class americans like jim or leslie or denise who really need help. >> reporter: republicans say they support unemployment benefits but not unless they're paid for with spending cuts and won't add to the deficit. >> we're all for extending unemployment insurance. the question is, when are we going to get serious about the debt? we recently passed a $13 trillion cumulative deficit threshold. when are we going to get serious about this? this administration has been on an incredible spending spree. >> reporter: but today's vote, the

. >>> good morning, matt, savannah and al. north korea is threatening the u.s.he looks forward to fighting ethics charges. house investigators announced the charges on thursday against the former chairman of the ways and means committee. they're related to rangel's travel, personal finance and fund-raising. the woman at the center of a domestic dispute that nearly brought down new york's governor is speaking out for the first time. she dated one of the governor's top aides and is hoping there will be criminal charges against him. more now from jonathan dienst. >> reporter: booker says she told the truth when she alleged her then boyfriend david johnson, once the governor of new york's right-hand man, had had abused her. >> it's not okay for anyone to put their hands on anyone else. it's not okay for someone to be fearful. it's just not okay. speak up. stand up. >> reporter: and by standing up, booker is standing behind claims made in new york family court that state police officers had tried to keep her from moving forward. >> they kept harassing me to drop the