state partnerships, is the question that is before the court and it raises the question under south dakota v dole about whether given that we're talking about now a program that is the federal government putting to the state the following proposition namely expand your medicaid or you will lose all of the current funds you get from the federal government for your current medicaid recipients as to whether that will be unconstitutional in south dakota v dole the court held that because the imposition amounted to only 5% of the federal transportation funds that came to the states, the compulsion required in urging the states to raise their drinking age from 18 to 21 was not all that great. i think south dakota v dole was wrongly decided, but still they left open, the court left open the possibility that if the compulsion amounted to more than 5% of the budget and here on average it's about 40%, then you might have a case of using the taxing power co-hersively. that's one of the questions indeed the central question that is before the court in this aspect of its proceedings. we're going to dis

cherapa place. >> it's not the tallest building in south dakota any more. of something. >> the zip may be down, but its legend has only grown. >>> and that's physical proof that the best laid schemes of mice and men go often askew. we'll give credit to poet robert burns for that one. he wrote it in 1785 in scotland. so it's probably safe to assume that what went wrong is a concept that

it's not just south dakota. it's the entire country which is seeing this same impact and by ask my colleague from south dakota as he travels around, is this what you're seeing everywhere as well? mr. thune: it certainly is. i think as you mentioned, the huge majority of businesses across this country and especially small businesses like those that you and i represent in wyoming and south dakota are enormously concerned about what this is going to do to their ability to create jobs, to maintain coverage for their employees, and there are just so many huge impacts from this. much of which frankly we predicted but again the idea, the notion that somehow imposing over half a trillion dollars in new taxes on businesses in this country, on health insurance plans was somehow going to lead to lower costs for people to get coverage in this country is beyond me. i don't know how, i'm at a loss to explain how anybody could make the argument this was going to create jobs. as i said, former speaker pelosi predicted four mill

south dakota state and western illinois needed overtime for a bid.riffin callahan knocked down the three to put south dakota on top. they won the conference summit title 52-50. that is your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> which 25-year-old starlet was mistaken last weekend for a 60 plus singer? your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, out of tragedy, another story of survival and new beginnings. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today." the wild, windy weather of yesterday in southern california, portions of arizona and throughout southern nevada is a thing of the past. that storm is leaving us. in its wake, definitely a chillier air mass. highs today only in phoenix of 63. 55 in vegas. 65 in l.a. as we go to thursday's forecast, that's when we're going to be watching things improving. we should see warmer weather eventually, especially areas of the northwest. >>> if you're watching on knbc 4 in los angeles, california, in nearby hollywood, see the props and costumes

griffin callahan knocks down the three to put south dakota on top. they won the summit conference title, 52-50. they're going to the ncaa tournament for first time ever. that's your "first look" at sports. i'm fred roggin. >>> for another look at the weather here is nbc meteorologist bill karins. he has your weather channel forecast. good morning. that's what we want to see. >> we're excited. the temperatures are going up. we like to show the temperature change map going up instead of down. albany, new york is 20 degrees warmer right now than what we were talking about yesterday morning, in areas like hartford and new york. d.c. about ten. buffalo, 30 degrees warmer this morning than you were at this time yesterday. an incredible warmup has occurred, even during the overnight hours. buffalo, 47 degrees. you're actually warmer right now than d.c. this afternoon will be just great from buffalo to everywhere else. temperatures will be in the 50s and 60s, pretty widespread out there. grab the sunglasses today. there won't be many clouds up there in the s

south dakota state became a division one program only four years ago.n the midwest, three seed georgetown plays a dangerous 14 seed belmont. and vcu back in the dance. they went to the final four last year, getting the 12 seed this year. playing five seed wichita state. last year vcu lost to butler in the final four. >>> nfl news, espn reporting that peyton manning narrowed his list of possible landing spots and the denver broncos are at the top of his list along with the arizona cardinals. yesterday manning was spotted meeting with ken whisenhunt, and on friday he met with john fox and john elway of the broncos. according to reports, peyton could reach a decision on where he will play this fall as soon as tomorrow. both elway and fox have pre-existing ties to manning and voiced skepticism privately about tebow's long-term prospects as a starter. no comparisons statistically between a healthy manning and the quarterback he would replace in denver. manning scored almost twice as many touchdowns did-he didn't score them but threw for them in his last full

in the most famous case on this is the south dakota versus dole case. that case the federal government required the state of south dakota to change its drinking age in exchange for receiving certain federal highway funds. and the state challenged that and said that was unconstitutional, interfered with the sate's authority as a sovereign to make these decisions for itself. the u.s. supreme court in a decision by justice rehnquist said that this was still constitutional. but there might be cases where congress was going too far. well, of course, just as in the takings clause cases we don't know what goes too far means. since then there's really been no development in the case law on this issue. and keep in mind that in that case in dole we were talking about 5%, i believe it was of the federal highway funds. i believe the total amount of $4.5 million. now we're talking about a tremendous amount of money as we saw. in fact, medicaid funding to states is usually federal health care funding in general is usually the largest single block of any state's budge

the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota is recognized. mr. thune: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to enter into a colloquy with my colleague from senator -- my colleague from kansas, senator moran. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. thune: mr. president, do i appreciate the opportunity to join with my colleague, senator moran from kansas, to speak in support of the bill before us, h.r. 3606, the jump-start or business start-ups or jobs act. the jobs act is a bipartisan bill. it passed the house of representatives by a vote of 390-23. it has been endorsed by the white house. small businesses are the engines of our economy, but government red tape is currently preventing these businesses from creating even more jobs. this commonsense bill would enable small businesses in south dakota and across the country to better access much-needed capital so that they can make investments and add additional employees. there's no reason why it should not receive similar support here in the united states senate. creating jobs, mr. president, should be

until he realized growing up in south dakota, actually lawrence was from canton, south dakota. lawrence looked upon horses as draft animals. for ernest, it was a way of distancing him from his roots. next one, please. >> since it all started in berkeley in 1929, both men were here. although from the beginning both men had different visions of what psychics would be at berkeley. lawrence believed that experimentalist was come from around the world to use his psycho trons and they did. he described berkeley as a mecca and a paradise of psychics. but to oppenheimer, it was a desert where a theorist like him could make a mark. he had no competition basically in the theoretical section of the psychics department at berkeley. next one, please. one nice thing about writing a biography is you get to go to where people live and bother their neighbors and camp out on the lawn and take pictures and what have you. this is where oppenheimer lived when he was a bachelor. he enjoyed his life there very much. is land lady lived upstairs. that was maryellen washburn. she was active in causes he

and the temperature topped 80 in pierre, south dakota. south dakota. but americans seem to be welcoming the warmth. >> march, i never expected anything like this. just get out and enjoy it. >> reporter: this unusually warm spell is caused by the jet stream is stuck to the north of the nation, keeping the cold, arctic air out of reach. the warmth, expected to last for the next few weeks. but it is confusing mother nature and concerning farmers tonight. especially those with fields of winter wheat and orchards of apples, who worry their early crops will be damaged by a late frost. our viewers are curious, too, documenting early blooms, azaleas in louisiana in january, sunflowers in february. and in wisconsin, crocuses growing in ground that is normally frozen in march. all over the country, people are tweeting us pictures of early blooming trees. like this magnolia tree in southern illinois. here in the northeast, trees like this maple are shedding pollen already. you can't see it. but we're getting readings two to four weeks earlier than normal. this is

native americans of south dakota took a different approach on several members of the oglala lakota tribe that were the transplant the trucks were trying to bring supplies to parts of the pipelines route last monday about seventy five members decided to put their foot down literally. so my trucks loaded with enormous slow pipeline components research across the road sometime during the afternoon on march fifth call it went out of view digital media participants were mobilized for what we saw recorded for impromptu gathering blocks the road with their bodies to prevent somebody trucks and pipeline components from crossing. at least five people were arrested when police were called in to break out that barrier like the people in texas the old law lakota tribe believe that the roots of the x.l. pipeline looking to make their water supply. poison there people all for the sake of making a profit and keeping all of that in mind trans canada have a company behind the pipeline construction plans to refile its application to build the northern section of the oil line within the next few months and

south-midwest build. and then up in north dakota we see every chunk. now, we are seeing the decline in central illinois and write up along route 26 near south dakota where we had all the blood, we saw declining corn acres there so i don't know what it takes couple years to do the couple crops but that's where we saw decline. but overall, it will be the largest acreage since 1944 in corn. and in beans, we are seeing the make or is the second highest ever and acres on the came in at 74 and the house. >> okay. is that kind of what you are thinking quick. >> i would say just to hear what bill has to say on that report but i think we've been looking around the 95 and the 70 76 on these, media touch higher. i think being fought their way back in this market since the first of february, and we were ready to discount them up until the first of february but they really let the market higher. >> the survey was taken a few weeks ago so there could be some response time there. >> well and that was before the weather turned to summer. >> yes, we would have to look

a suspect's bailed out at 43rd street and south dakota avenue in northeast.ecovered a handgun in that area. >> new video obtained by abc news s throws doubt into the deadly case of a neighborhood watch volunteer and teenager shot in florida. we've finally seen and george zimmerman on the night the claims that he shot trayvon martin in self-defense. tahman bradley has the latest details. good morning. >> good morning. george zimmerman said that trayvon martin slammed his head on the ground. his lawyer says that his nose was broken. but exclusive video obtained by abc news from the night of the incident shows zimmerman without any visible injuries. here is george zimmerman the night of the shooting walking into the sanford police department for questioning. claimed self-defense but a closer look shows the neighborhood watch volunteer with no visible blood on his head, his nose or his clothing. we are hearing from trayvon martin's girlfriend. she was on the phone with him moments before he was shot. she said that trayvon told there zimmerman was following him. >

the suspects stopped at south dakota avenue in northwest d.c.they found a handgun in that area. >> there is a new twist in the death of trayvon martin. the gunmen is here in the video. it appears to show officers leading him from the squad car into police headquarters. it is notable for what it does not show. brianne carter is live with details. >> good morning. new information this morning about all of this. including the video we are talking about of george zimmerman. we are hearing from the first time from other people who are speaking out. >> for the first time in this video obtained by abc news, we are getting a look at the man accused of shooting trayvon martin. he is wearing a white sweatshirt -- a red sweatshirt. he is walking into questioning. he says the shooting was in self-defense. the lawyers say the katina attack him, hitting his head on the sidewalk and breaking his nose. evidence of injury is not visible in the video. speaking out for the first time, his father also claiming his son was attacked. >> trayvon martin said something

veteran coach western illinois it first ever -- a tournament south dakota state tonight plan for themess off to the races for western for the slam up by nine points and now overtime tied at 44. national football league coming down hard bounties on opposing players new orleans saints' head coach sean payton and gm mickey loomis take full responsibility today and divorce months and the making just about final report say colts and four time most viable player taken man and parted ways tomorrow. hitting early in spring training outfield prospect brett jackson 3 run home run chicago cubs ahead to stay against colorado huge day for alfonso soriano 3-3 including a pair of home runs scored three runs stroke and three chicago cubs scored 28 runs and three games first victory 11-4 over colorado. and robin ventura take big tabs on john danks first spring appearance likely opening day starter jorge cantu sigel to left field to two runs score john danks gave up three runs walked three on the board and the second brent lillibridge shot to left misplayed tyler flowers scores falling to the angels 6

road work south dakota avenue. southbound lanes are closed at this time. beltway, delays leaving university boulevard towards georgia avenue. 395, 14th street bridge, traffic heavy and steady across the potomac. >> julie got embarrassed. thank you, julie. >>> aides to gingrich say he needs to win alabama and mississippi tuesday to justify staying in the race. the former speaker of the house will appear on fox news sunday this weekend. host chris wallace joins us live from capitol hill with a preview. jam packed show. mr.wallace, good to see you this morning. >> hey, tony. >> seems to me, his aides are saying it, seems it's kind of do or die time for his campaign. >> yeah. won two southern primaries. next tuesday, alabama and mississippi. really, with santorum having passed him as the leading conservative alternative to romney, if gingrich can't even win in the deep south as a regional candidate, how do you make the argument he should continue on? he can continue on, if he continues to have the money to do so and he does seem to have a kind of personal grud

in south dakota thunderstorms rapidly developing and headed towards north dakota. come south east word. look at the storms firing of ride at the apex of this war. where the strongest push of that front goes into the plains. this is the area where there will be support for thunderstorms that will come in here tomorrow afternoon. the storms may be instructive because that may be what happens in our area. it takes advantage of moisture coming from the midwest. you see the storms and icons representing the storm's circulation and even hail in that region. the forecast is for temperatures to stay cool tonight and warm tomorrow after 44 degrees today. the fact that most of these are above freezing means temperatures will not drop much. look at michigan where temperatures are well below freezing. you can see why farmers are concerned there about their fruit trees. 48 degrees in geneva. 41 degrees at soldier field in chicago. there were 40 mi. an hour winds blowing in off the lake and it was cool today. look at the highs in kansas. that is the air mass feeding us the weathe

barney horner, who is the great grandson of chief john grass from standing rock reservation in south dakota. one of the songs he gave me before he passed on, on indigenous people's day in 1995, was a song that he called the blue horse special. the blue horse special is the song that i have been fortunate enough to be able to play in a lot of different performance contexts. it's a song that was made by a man named matthew too bold, a very well respected elder whose wife, ellie, just recently passed on. both of them were very well respected for their singing skills. when i thought about doing an arrangement for today, the blue horse special came to mind. i thought i wonder if i can bring a cedar flute into an air, i thought, i wonder if i can take a pala song and turn it into a reel. what i will do is sing you the original pala song, so you can hear that, then we will go into an arrangement that also includes a little something at the end for my grandparents. (singing)

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south dakota state and western illinois needed overtime for a bid.y won the summit conference title 52-50 and going to the ncaa tournament for the first time ever. >> that is your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> which 25-year-old starlet was mistaken last weekend for a 60 plus singer? your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, out of tragedy, another story of survival and new beginnings. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today." today is the day we have been waiting for on the east coast after a little cold spell. a beautiful warm-up today. temperatures getting into the 60s from d.c. to baltimore, philly to new york and boston not bad in the 50s. we will see some rain on the front in the midwest. especially later on today. tap some of the moisture out of the gulf and it looks like the rain threat will remain here especially in texas and areas of arkansas and tennessee in the days ahead. >>> if you're watching us on lex 18 in lexington, kentucky see a collection of chine

what about the reservations on south dakota territory there, senator? one republican fighting the right wingers on this one is senator lisa murkowski, she voted for the blunt amendment, went back to alaska and got absolutely all kinds of hell from female voters. she had this quote, "i have never had a vote i had taken that let down more people that believed in me." now murkowski is reading members the riot act. the new york times reports murkowski sternly warned her colleagues the party was at risk of being successfully painted as anti-women at a closed-door meeting. i'm joined tonight by stephanie schriock, she is the president of emily's list. stephanie, great to have you with us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> you bet. >> is murkowski's warning to the republicans too little too late? can they turn this around? they are really starpt starting to have an image problem. >> here they go on this next piece of preventing the domestic violence piece. it is one thing after another, and it is clear this war on women that the republican party is waging

and south dakota are the only two places in the u.s.hat have not enacted anti-bullying legislation. >>> a look now at the morning's other top stories. police that fairfax county are searching for a suspect in an assault on a high school student. the teen was walking home from woodson high school yesterday around 4:00 when a man grabbed her and knocked her to the ground. this happened on a path near picket road. the teen thankfully was able to get away and was not seriously hurt. >>> hundred of people came out in support for a relievey against hate in the district yesterday. they first gathered outside the ihop in columbia heights where a gay man was shot and hurt about a week ago sunday. then they marched seven blocks along irving street to where a gay map was beaten and robbed the night after the ihop shooting. the tax of a transgender woman near gallaudet university has not yet been classified as a hate crime. >>> an internal memo from arlington police is raising some questions this morning. it appears to be pressuring officers to mee

. >> jimmy: now you're from south dakota, right? >> yes. >> jimmy: you're an outdoorsy kid, right?-- that does not make you outdoorsy, you went camping once. >> well, we tried it. >> jimmy: i thought you were like this big -- what, it was not good? it was a flop? >> it was a flop. there was a tornado. and -- >> jimmy: oh, my gosh. who didn't check the weather? what are you talking about? there was a -- >> it's south dakota. >> jimmy: there's a spontaneous -- >> it's very random. >> jimmy: spontaneous tornado? >> yeah, my sister jean almost got blown away. [ laughter ] not kidding. >> jimmy: come on. what are you talking about? really? she almost got blown away? >> yeah. >> jimmy: it was that crazy? >> yeah. >> jimmy: well didn't you just get in the car and go home? >> yeah, we did after that. we got in the car and went home. >> jimmy: oh, my gosh. that is just unbelievable. so let's -- let's say that -- >> so i haven't gone since then. >> jimmy: so you haven't gone camping now. but your mom -- mom is a manager at a outdoorsy store, right? >> she -- yeah. scheels. which, i don't kno

and other candidates, south dakota's senator, new hampshire's senator, and virginia governor bob mcdonald, and new mexico governor martinez. >> let's assume that the presidential primaries are protracted and they are decisive. what imperative does that impose on a presidential nominee when selecting a running mate? you understand the question? >> i do. >> do you want to answer the question? >> want to unite the property. and if you're mitt romney, there's not much enthusiasm for you, so you want to excite the party. who you foreclose do that is another question entirely. romney and the delegates that he needs are held by rick santorum, then we'll have a romney and rick santorum ticket. christy is a problem. would he light up the campaign trail initially and the question is would the tea party be happy with his positions when they get a close look at them because he is a northeastern republican, although a right leaning one. >> would rubio think i have enough star power and enough chops and i'm young enough doing this under my own power. i don't want to be lassoed to a candidate that may l

more thatten a dozen tornadoes from south dakota to oklahoma.ay, a threat of more of the same. >>> the soldier accused of killing afghan civilians meets face to face with his lawyers for the first time today. he's been held at fort lech wof worth, kansas. >>> shareholders of am have been lobbying for a dividend. >>> look at today's waerts, more snow in arizona and the northern rockies, hail, gusty winds and tornadoes from texas to oklahoma city and kansas city. >>> well most of us can't remember what it was like before gps. >> as amazing at that technology can be, that voice inside your dashboard is not always correct. a lesson can be learned the hard way. here's dan kloeffler. >> reporter: they were headed here thursday. three japanese tourists to the beautiful sappeddy beaches of stadbroke island. it seemed simple enough. what their gps didn't show was the nine miles of water between the mainland and the island. >> continue driving ahead. >> reporter: so they kept on driving and driving. >> continue driving 14.5 kilometers. >> reporter: they m

town's new olive garden restaurant, saying it's impressive and the most beautiful restaurant in south dakota. >> people were very excited about the olive garden, and it was packed with people for the first several weeks. >> by noon everyone blogged, tweeted, facebooked it. she is the most famous restaurant critic in america right now. >> alan: while she hey not put north dakota on the map for foodize, she could be the biggest boost for olive gardens business. >> be prepared for a traffic slowdown. a stretch of the embarcadero will be closed starting from pier 39 and running to mariposa street tomorrow. this this first street closure this year for the sunday streets program which gives walkers and bicyclists a chance to envoy a car-free environment. all right. all this good weather is over and we have rain on the way. leigh glaser is standing by to tell you about that. >> leigh: we certainly do actually had a few sprinkles from clouds that passed over, especially in the north bay. you can see looking over the bay from the emeryville cam that some of the clouds hanging low right now and maybe

crews will add another lane so drivers can make a right turn from riggs on to south dakota. >>> a popular rink in pentagon city will soon get a little bigger. the arlington county board approved a plan to expand the rink by 40 feet at the pentagon row shops. they also agreed to add another month to the rink's operating season. the measure calls for new landscaping, seating, and get this, a fire pit. all the upgrades should be completed by the fall of next year. >>> well, there is a pretty big rock star in los angeles this weekend, not the one that you would think. it's a 340-ton granite boulder that has made its way to tinseltown. it's part of the new exhibit at the l.a. museum of art. nbc's craig melvin explains. >> reporter: a predawn welcome for a 340-ton party magnet. >> everyone started cheering and screaming. >> it's a new rock star. >> reporter: in a city of stars, this rolling rock has perhaps become the biggest. it's as if these people don't even know it's 4:00 a.m. in los angeles. >> quite bizarre, absolutely, and immensely unique. >> reporter: for the shrink-wrapped rock, it wa

southbound lanes of south dakota avenue between rigs road and kennedy street are closed. it should last until sunday, we understand. road crews are preparing for the upcoming parliament closure on the rigs road ramp to south dakota avenue next week. >>> checking in with danella. >> if you are planning on heading out of the city, making your your way down i-95 south, we will take a look the the roads together. you make your way on 395, no issues from the 14th street bridge heading to the beltway. 57 miles per hour, 11 minutes from the 14th street bridge to the beltway. if you are coming on i-95 clear travels. your travel speed southbound from the beltway to the occoquan, 49 miles per hour. only taking 13 minutes to head out of the city. back over the to you. >> thank you, dan el. >>> spring peeled mall is about to get a makeover. the owners plan on closing the ma for two years so it can be turned into a vibrant town center. construction is expected to begin this summer. >> there's a lot of phases to this development. residential, hotel, office use, real mixed use community

crews will add another lane so drivers can make a right turn from riggs on to south dakota. >>> a popularin pentagon city will soon get a little bigger. the arlington county board approved a plan to expand the rink by 40 feet at the pentagon row shops. they also agreed to add another month to the rink's operating season. the measure calls for new landscaping, seating and even a fire pit. all the upgrades should be completed by the fall of next year. i am certain they will have many new visitors. i think i will add myself to the list already. sounds like fun. >>> well, st. patrick's day may be next saturday, but that's not stopping people from celebrating today. there's the st. patrick's day 8k race and parade. right now, people are gathering at freedom plaza and the race starts and ends on pennsylvania avenue between 12th and 13th streets northwest. rolling road closures began at 5:00 this morning and they are going to continue into the afternoon. >> and this year's parade theme is feed the soul and nourish the palate. police will close constitution avenue from 7th street to 17th street f