he blew me away because when we were patrolling a neighborhood in south memphis, the poorest neighborhood in memphis, i believe. it is 100% african american with one white resident and one latino residence. significant homelessness and drug and gang issues. everybody from a 5-year-old to a 60-year-old knew this officer. waved hello to her. i asked her how does every person know you. i said i have been patrolling this neighborhood for 14 years. that amazed me how well they knew her. people she arrested before were come category up and saying hi to her. maybe half an hour after that we got a call because someone is threatening suicide. the person threatening suicide was a woman in her 40's and she was threatening it from the doctor's office. my officer went and when she showed up on the scene with her c.i.t. button two other officers looked at her and said you are in charge. that coordination was great. they walked into the doctor's office. the woman was in one of the rooms for the patient and she was crying saying she would kill herself but she is afraid of bugs or worms eating her and she

you do have severe weather blowing through arkansas and moving into the south, flight arrival delays into memphisse our flight tracker if you are flying today at abc7news.com >> eric: it's 4:48. in japan the government today ordered the operator of the tsunami damaged nuclear power plant to pay residents that had to evacuate because of leaking radiation. they have been ordered to pay $12,000 to each household and $9,000 to individuals beginning in two weeks. many of the displaced residents that i that is too little. they have lost their livelihoods and possessions and they aren't sure if they will ever be able to return to theirs homes. >> a republican plan to cut billions from the budget goes for a vote. it calls for deep cuts to medicare and medicaid. meanwhile, they have sent president obama that averted a government shutdown last week. emily schmidt has details. >> president obama warms husband his campaign rhetoric last night raising $2 million for his reelection effort. >> this is not my campaign. this is your campaign. >> illinois launched the president's political career but in an intervi

memphis a little while ago. you were born and raised there. you were raised there in the segregated south. how did being raised in the segregated south impact your life choices, your decisions, particularly where education is concerned? you don't get to where you are without being educating. -- educated. connect those stocks for me. >> in the black community in the segregated south, the vehicle for progress, the vehicle for survival, the feel cool for pushed back was education, education, education. -- the vehicle for pushback was education, education, education. the teachers in the south, they viewed their ability to improve issues of race in our country was to make sure that they got every ounce of potential out of every kid that they took care of in the segregated public schools. so, whatever those schools might have lacked in resources, books, ph.d. teachers, master's degree teachers, whatever it might be, they more than made up for by teachers who wanted to motivate them and encourage them and guide them to do their best. it was never part of a unique strategy, it was just the environ

south and west. dallas 73, new orleans 72. already in the low 50s memphis and atlanta. miami 82.hat's where the air is going to be coming from. look at this graphic. by early next week we're going to be in an envelope of not only warm but warm and humid air. so much so the forecast for opening day at camden yards has changed. how so? meteorologist tim williams will have the details coming up shortly. back inside. >>> on that note spring training is over. real games begin for the orioles. the manager buck showalter. will play the first game in tampa. hoping to get to a fast start because expectations are higher this year. one analyst at the "new york post" predicts the orioles make the playoffs this year. that hasn't happened since 1997. after tampa the os return for the home opener monday. you see orioles take on the detroit tigers live on wjz 13. our special pregame coverage begins 2:00. stick around for the game. a full day of orioles baseball live here on wjz 13, on monday. >>> still to come. an end to the violence in libya. rebel fighters give moammar gadhafi a way to work ou

great instance which wheat just said -- and the southern justice, the courts in the south upheld this reporter on the memphis appeal and -- cspan: that was the only place that you found it? >> guest: right. it wasn't -- there were terrible things they did. miti to reporters, too. cspan: general need. >> guest: general meade, the victory at gettysburg, despise reporters and had an even bigger temper than sherman probably. the philadelphia inquirer had a reporter named edward crasey and he tried to do a report between grand and mead and he was in charge of everything and meade was in the army of the potomac and how this relationship worked and she did that and did very professionally, but then he went on to say that there was a time after -- the wilderness, after the battle of the wilderness, when meade wanted to do what all the other generals had done which is retired, retreat, and grant -- he said grant intervened and said no, we will not -- we will go on. never again are we going to go back, and this saved the army from -- but meade saw that as a reflection upon his courage and his -- got furious and crasey

severe weather tore through the south and left behind major damage. memphis hard with homes and cars crushed by falling trees. an 87-year-old man died after touching a down power line. thousand without power from mississippi to west virginia and pennsylvania. >>> looking now at your tuesday forecast, those storms are bringing high winds, large hail and isolated tornadoes. from florida to the carolinians. showers and storms to the mid-atlantic. new york and boston and drenching downpours and flooding in the pacific northwest. heavy snow in the cascades and snow showers in the northern rockies. >> 54 in boise. 67 in salt lake city. 77 in albuquerque. 50 in chicago and 66 in kansas city. mostly 50s in the northeast and 87 in miami. >>> a less than stellar season but in the end they were unstoppable. >> uconn celebrates its third ncaa championship. butler led at the half but thanks, in part, to kemba walker the huskies pulled off the grinding 53-41 victory. putting a punctuation on this year's march madness. butler's score was the lowest in a title game since 194

memphis, and louisville, all as a possible target. flooding from chicago to pittsburgh. scattered showers from des moines to south dakota. up to a foot and a half of snow in the rockies. >> 68 in sacramento. 72 in albuquerque. 87 in phoenix. 66 in the twin cities. 56 in chicago. 71 in new york. and 80s from baltimore to miami and dallas. >>> congresswoman gabby giffords' family got great news over the weekend. the wounded lawmaker is well enough to travel to florida on friday for the launch of the space shuttle "endeavour." >> it's being commanded by her husband, mark kelly. she'll be watching in a restricted area with other family members. we'll have more on her recovery coming up. later this half hour. >> and amazing recovery it's been. she is a lucky lady, wow. >>> coming up after the break, a new sign of recovery in japan. >>> an nfl player stabbed. his wife accused. was she trying to protect herself? >>> and in tech news, the long-awaited white iphone could be yours later this week. long-awaited iphone. could it be yours later this week? >>> this morning, rising oil prices are keeping overseas investors from making

south will be recovered by good sunshine today. new orleans comes in at about 75 today. but really warming up over the next few. 80, 84 degrees atlanta. to the 70s. memphis, to the 80s. it's chilly if a lot of parts of the south this morning. but you'll recover beautifully by afternoon. another storm system. if we looked at march in the northwest, it was really only dry about four days. and every day this month, they've picked up rain. it's just been one series of systems, just parked up there in the northwest. they get more rain today. more than an inch and a half or two inches of possible in that line that goes south of seattle to portland, all the way to northern california. eureka is involved in that. dallas is about 81. >> all right. it's time for the morning menu this morning. we all heard that life can change in a split-second. wait until you see this tape of a split-second accident on the highway and it proves the point. >>> plus, a new wave of sports superstars. some are as young as 4 years old. is that too young, too soon? >>> and jamie oliver is leading a food revolution right into times square this morning. you don't want to miss that. jamie