, things just continue to get worse for the army in shreveport. and his subordinate, general simon d buckner on the left, has been left in command of the army while smith is a way. and buckner and the officers realize they have to do something so he will move to poor hudson to new orleans -- port hudson to new orleans where he will meet with camby's representative on the right to on may 26, buckner and o's drought's -- on the right. on may 26, buckner and osterhouse negotiate the surrender. the meeting took place in the st. charles hotel was you see on the left in new orleans. it was a city landmark. it is gone today, it is a parking lot. there is not even a historic marker. we know very little about the meeting on michael bennet placer appomattox -- unlike bennett place or appomattox. it was not recorded. but they do agree that the confederate soldiers will surrender under the same terms as appomattox meaning turning over military equipment and receiving parole passes and getting everybody home. because this was done without the commanding genera

and it's amazing. >> the gun was traced to shreveport, louisiana. the handwriting was gerald mason's, as was the thumbprint on the steering wheel of the car. >> i didn't realize i ran a red light. and i got out of the car, walked back to their car. my feelings were that what i had done was going to cause me to go to death row. so when the officer turned away from me, i shot both officers. >> to avoid a public trial, gerald mason pleaded guilty to the murder of the two police officers and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison. >> he only admitted the crime because it was in his best interest to do so. so that his family, his wife, his grandchildren, would not hear how he raped a teenager. he traded the lives of two on-duty police officers to avoid capture. >> it is impossible to express to so many people how sorry i am about that night. i do not understand why i did this. it is contrary to everything. it does not fit in my life. it is not the person i know. i detest these crimes. >> what people would say about him being at 24 years ol

while record rains are swamping streets in shreveport, louisiana. >> rob is with us now. >> the storm system has grown in intensity and size. you see the swirl? still tapping moisture from the gulf of mexico. let's time it out and watch this driving the rain across the ohio and tennessee valleys, into parts of pennsylvania and the virginias. some of it will start as sleet and freezing rain early. and on the backside will become snow. record heat today in the best and into the 90s across southern california. this is expected to last through sunday. >>> and now to another travel nightmare this evening for families headed to costa rica. ash reaching 30 minesles away. the biggest eruption in 20 years. >>> and allegations of -- tonight, the automaker agreeing to settle in the case of a young woman that started it all. rebecca jarvis tonight. >> reporter: tonight, word of a settlement in the case that blew the cover on a deadly defect in gm ignition switches. led to 2.6 million recalls. 29 year old brooke melton died in march 2010 after the ignition switch on her 2005 chevy cobalt slipped o

the heavier rains that have come through east texas here coming up past houston on their way to shreveporthoma and louisiana. that system will be bringing us the moisture. and there's just enough cold air in place that it does look like we'll see a little bit of snow at the onset. could be an inch or two north and west. chilly air. no problems today or tonight. tonight upper 20s and low 30s. tomorrow 30s and 40s. clouds not thickening still later tomorrow night. when you see the blue on the map, that's the snow part. the green would be the rain with just a little bit of maybe a rain-snow mix. this will eventually move off toward the north but here we are at 7:00, #k, 9:00, -- 8:00, 9:00, 11:00. futurecast still trying to spit out wet snow. if this were to happen, i don't think the roads in the immediate metro would be anything but wet. but there could be slick spots friday morning before everything turns to rain. will be in much better shape as we head into the weekend. so the forecast today, low 50s, upper 40s with a breeze. tonight 34. that's reagan national with 20s in the suburbs, ligh

record rains are swamping streets in shreveport, louisiana. causing this wall to come down luckily, no injuries. and in slide. >> rob is with us now. >> the storm system has grown in intensity and size. you see the swirl? still tapping moisture from the gulf of mexico. flood watches out from arkansas to western new york. let's time it out and watch this, driving the rain across the ohio and tennessee valleys, into parts of pennsylvania and the virginias. heavier rain in new york and boston. some of it will start as sleet and freezing rain early. but will change to all rain. and on the backside, will become snow. they'd love this rain out west. record heat today in the west, and into the 90s across southern california. this is expected to last through sunday. >> rob, thank you. >>> and now to another travel nightmare this evening for families headed to costa rica. extraordinary images of a volcano spewing ash. flights diverted forced to turn back. ash reaching 30 miles away. the biggest eruption in 20 years. >>> and news about the faulty igniti

tonight, along the gulf coast, shreveport, louisiana, here, streets under water. pickup trucks plowing right through. so let's get right to meteorologist rob marciano who is telling us this system is on the move tonight. >> reporter: it is, david. it has some juice to it. the satellite picture shows you, originating from the southern gulf of mexico. pouring into the u.s. that's where we have the flood watches out. new orleans all the way up to cincinnati. two to four inches of rainfall along the ohio and mississippi rivers and extending into the northeast. so, some spotty flooding there. out west where they desperately need the rain, just a heat wave. up to 30 degrees above average across southern california near 90 in los angeles. 80s across parts of northern california. and the pattern continues for the next two weeks, above average across the west, cooler than average across the east. something we've seen all year, david. >> all right, a tale of two countries again tonight. rob, thank you. >>> and those milder temperatures the melting snow and ice and now the r

there is warm air though to the southwest and dallas it's 82 and little rock 79 and shreveport 80 degrees, we'll tap into the warmth for one day and it comes with showers and maybe even thunderstorms, and heading into the weekend it's back to the winter chill. i'll have the details in the full accuweather forecast. >> i packed up my winter sweaters this weekend, that was a huge mistake. >> the good, the bad and the soggy. >> time for our "action news" traffic report. matt pellman is in the traffic center tuesday night. >> we are blaming the cold weather on cecily packing away her winter sweaters a bad crash on the blue route northbound side by baltimore pike, it happened just a little bit ago and you see a lot of emergency crews on the scene and they are blocking the northbound left lane what are you dealing with is a parking lot away from 95 this afternoon, use the local alternates we suggest like 320 or 452 also watch a new crash in bucks county at bustleton pike and heavy delays on the vine street expressway, because of heavy delays on the schuylkill that are loosening up. and in newca

wet weather from dallas austin san antonio, corpus christi and houston, north of louisiana into shreveport isa, back to you. >> so this is spring? rain snow -- >> this is what we get here in america. >> thanks very much. >> you're welcome. >> thanks very much. >>> still to come right here on the show new health concerns for a man whose bloody arrest was caught on camera. up next what happened to him and how the investigation is actually going. >>> plus isis' influence on the rise in north africa. taking a closer look, up next. i'm only in my 60's... i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans it could save you in out-of-pocket medical costs. call now to request you

. >> professor of chemistry at louisiana state university in shreveport. i know it's not done, but already i think it's struck a remarkable victory in making us come up with better ideas of dealing with this as a country. congratulations. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> that giant pile of artillery propellant sitting there in louisiana, that is the biggest stockpile of that stuff that we know of anywhere in the country. but it's about one-sixth of what exists totally in the country in materials of that stuff needing to be disposed of. what they come up with in louisiana may become a blue print for the rest of the country. hey, you forgot the milk! that's lactaid®. right. 100% real milk just without the lactose. so you can drink all you want... ...with no discomfort? exactly. here, try some... mmm, it is real milk. see? delicious. hoof bump! oh. right here girl, boom! lactaid®. 100% real milk. no discomfort. and for a tasty snack that's 100% real dairy try lactaid® cottage cheese. i bring the gift of the name your price tool to help you find a price that fi

. >>> check out this flooding from shreveport louisiana. the city got 2 to 3 inches of rain in a very short period of time. drivers found themselves in the middle of those rising waters. now, we expect less rain over a longer period of time so we're not expecting flooding like that. but we are expecting a good deal of rain hour after hour of it. a saturday soaker. the wetst part of the day is going to be in the morning. no doubt about that either. and a windy sunday. no doubt about that. going to be very gusty. cloudy skies right now. we started the day off with sunshine. not anymore. 47 degrees. relative humidity still very low. so, the first of those radar echoes to get in here well the rain is going to evaporate before it hits the ground. it will take a little while for the rain to actually get here. 36 in mt. pocono. mid-40s at least across the rest of the area. at least from filthy north ward. we've had thicker clouds back to the south. dover, atlantic city. there's the rain. the first echoes already getting into western pennsylvania.

you bumped up 24 degrees in shreveport, louisiana, plus 7 in louisville where you still have snow andegree swing in new york city. so the warm-up is here. the jet stream moving well up towards the north, and we'll keep that progressive zonal flow meaning no huge storms coming but we do have a little bit of rain that will come across parts of the upper coast of texas. some heavy r >> that smells so good. can you name these flowers, ron. >> no. >> come on. give it a shot. >> oh, ron. >> it's not a cocktail. >> i thought it was a blue hawaii. >> you can't take ron anywhere. i love it. i do feel like spring is actually in the air now, though. >> makes we want to do some laundry. >> get back in there, dan, and get it done. >> did i say that out loud. >> yes, you actually did. would you like to refract it. >> nope. >> you're sticking with it. >>> well coming up on "gma," missing teenager. the desperate search for a college student who vanished while home for spring break. >>> and the mad genius of the internet. how this amateur magician pulls off these six-second stunts that has gone repeat

. >> the marriott residence inn in -- shreveport.residence inn. >> we each had these little huts, you remember, like someone would be on the top. >> jimmy: just like who wants to -- who's having dinner? >> he's having dinner. we had fireplaces and i decked mine out with bed, bath & beyond. i think we got -- >> yeah looked -- yours looked super cool cause i learned that you knew how to roast chicken. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. i made roast chicken, yeah. >> jimmy: i was like, "how do you know how to do this?" i'm going to bring over ramen soup. ramen soup night. ramen noodles -- boiling noodles was my night. >> and then in fact, you remember the car park? there was -- the rocking rodeo? >> jimmy: yes, oh, the karaoke -- >> karaoke and line dancing which was literally our idea of heaven. >> jimmy: and jagermeister. >> and jager -- oh my god. i feel like they just start -- was that like a new thing? like a jager bomb. i feel like they just -- >> jimmy: that was a new thing -- >> like jager bombs haven't been around for 20 years. years, like 1

throughout the next two or three days. 2 to 4 inches around houston into shreveport jackson mississippiorthward. a couple more inches in the forecast by thursday and friday. birmingham out towards southern tennessee. a half a foot of rainfall could come down. flooding definitely going to be a concern. you see how it expands over the next three days as it pushes in towards the midatlantic. here we go out west. enjoy it. it will be warmer in portland potentially than in san diego in the next 24 hours. mild weather around the pacific northwest. some records certainly in place as well. here you go. seattle should be in the 50s. we'll top out into the upper and mid 60s by week's end. some showers come back in wednesday and thursday. potentially heavier rain there on wednesday afternoon. but i want to show you what is happening across areas of alaska because it has been well above in parts of alaska. the famed iditarod race taking place in the next couple of days. this was the ceremonial beginning in anchorage on saturday. as you can see, there was a lot of sun, a lot of slush, and really war

shreveport got 2 to 3 inches of rain in a very short period of time. drivers found themselves in the middle of rising floods. >>> we are in for hours of rain. tonight and tomorrow. >> nbc10 first alert meteorologist sheena parveen joins us. we're not expecting that kind of flooding are we? >> no, it will not ruin your whole weekend. you know it's going to be the first half of the weekend, but you can get a lot of stuff done with rain. a live look near citizens bank park in nfl. we've seen increase of clouds and overcast skies. it's ahead of the rain. the rain will be here for pretty much the entire day saturday. later in the day it will start to break up. here's that big area of moisture. it is approaching. as we go overnight tonight it's going to start to move in. mostly closer to midnight. as far as the temperatures are concerned across the area mid-40s in philadelphia also south jersey and delaware mid to low 40s. if you're headed out this evening, it is still on the chilly side. the clouds will still be here so by 6:00 temperature around 47 degrees

. >> professor of chemistry at louisiana state university in shreveport. member of this champ -- camp minden dialogue committee. i know it's not done, but already i think it's struck a remarkable victory in making us come up with better ideas of dealing with this as a country. congratulations. and keep us apprised as this moved forward, sir. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> that giant pile of artillery propellant sitting there in louisiana, that is the biggest stockpile of that stuff that we know of anywhere in the country. but it's about one-sixth of what exists totally in the country in terms of that stuff needing to be disposed of. what they come up with in louisiana may become a blue print for the rest of the country. lots more ahead tonight, stay with us. something entirely new is being built into bounty. dawn. new bounty with dawn. just rinse and wring so you can blast right through tough messes and pick up more. huh aren't we clever.... new bounty with dawn. doers they don't worry if something's possible. they just do it. at sears optical, we're comm

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in december 2007, roy brown, a 54-year-old homeless man, walked into a capital one bank in shreveport, louisiana, without a visible weapon and told the teller to give him money. the teller handed him 3 stacks of bills, but brown took only a single hundred-dollar bill. he said he was homeless and hungry. the next day, he surrendered to the police voluntarily, telling them that his mother hadn't raised him that way. he pleaded guilty. you know what he got? 15 years in jail. >> wow. >> 15 years in jail. happens all over the country. the big boys get off. we are under-enforcing the criminal justice laws against corporations. there's no 3 strikes and out for a corporation. no 3 strikes and out. there's no probation for a corporation, hardly ever. and the executives, they have shields of law firms to defend themselves. and it's getting worse because there were several hundred savings-and-loan executives prosecuted, convicted, and sent to jail 20 years ago, and some enron executives were. but they have so gamed the system, the corporate lawyers, it's extremely difficult to put them in jail.

shreveport pennsylvania. how are you doing? caller: i just had a question. i am a local in pittsburgh. and i was wondering if there is anyway that the local guys could actually have a say in -- make a rule or whatever. if we don't agree with it, we'll have a choice. host: chuck, when you say -- what kind of work do you do? caller: sheet metal. host: thank you, sir. lydia depillis. guest: that is an interesting question. there are workers and local who feel they are not represented by the national organization. you might say that has been part of the decline in unions, as well. when unions became less responsive to their membership, -- but unions have to be structured as democracies. you have to elect leadership. that is part of the rules. if you feel that you don't have a voice, the only because you have is to organize. host: we are going to talk to brian in edgewood, maryland. caller: hello. this is an interesting topic for me. i started in 1983, and i have been in ironworker for all my life. it is something to think about. i was at a local 201 in washingto