i have to go five hours down to southern illinois to see her. with the help of the reverend, i promised my dad. i cannot allow bitterness to rule my being at this time. she needs me. i want to one day be married. it would destroy all of that. i cannot do that. god controls my bitterness. tavis: i get the sense that you cry a lot. >> no, i do not. it eokes my emotions. i cannot hide all that i feel. i am able to express how i feel. with these guys, i can be honest about it. the people who have done you wrong, they tried to read your emotions and give a false perception of it. here, i felt comfortable. i am able to allow myself to show the people that are looking and understand that we sit here on this stage, all we want is our life back. there is a called action to 50,000 signatures. if that is what is needed to get his attention to do the right thing among innocent people. if you can pardon the guilty people, you can pardon one innocent person. let alone all 5. we have to talk for her. it is too overwhelming. at least this gives us a platform. t

marion illinois it's the southern illinois and he's been moved to you know call the communication management unit something that actually no one had ever heard about and he didn't know anything about it. so these units pulled what they consider people not necessarily charged with terrorism but somehow associated with terrorism which is very vague and it could basically mean anything they want it to mean. i lived in new york for nine eleven i experienced that. for me it's the kind of. really difficult to swallow that label being put on him considering i actually do know what. terrorism is and. someone who destroys property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind is not a terrorist. or president obama's pledge to close guantanamo on the secret overseas cia prisons calls are increasing for him to reexamine the treatment of prisoners detained as part of the so-called war on terror being held inside the united states with little public scrutiny of the bush administration open to secretive prisons and indiana and illinois newness communication management units o

political columnist for the register, now the director of the paul simon public policy institute at southern illinoisy carbondale. thank you for joining me tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >> you can have the last word online. follow my tweets @lawrence. back live at 11:00 p.m. the rachel maddow show is up next. good evening, rachel.

political columnist for the register, now the director of the paul simon public policy institute at southern illinoisrsity carbondale. thank you for joining me tonight. >> thanks, lawn rens. >> -- lawrence. >> have the last word on line. follow my tweets @lawrence.

fact, i was doing a radio show a while back, and a man called in and he said, i was hunting in southern illinois with my brother, and the sheriff came up and said, you can't hunt here. and we said, here's our license. he said, that's an illinois license, this is missouri. we said, what are you talking about, the river's over here. he said it was over there, but it's over here, and you're still in missouri, and you can't hunt here. [laughter] the supreme court has consistently held that when a river changes its course, the boundary does not. so there are lots of places, downtown omaha, nebraska, has an area that's really iowa, and it is iowa, technically iowa, because of a flood on the missouri river that changed the course and left the little lake back there. but the river's over here. it did cause disputes, but over the years the consistency of the court in saying that the boundary does not change has resulted in no longer being something that creates disputes. there's a little tension right now between indiana and kentucky because of a slightly different thing, an island in the ohio river, and

louis, heading to southern illinois.s, could head your way in about an hour or so. as far as the middle of the country goes, we are hot in the south, very stormy in the south. in >>> good saturday morning to you. we are waking up to some areas of low clouds and drizzle. much like we have seen throughout this week. but by lunch time, pretty nice. in fact, we will see those numbers in the 70s, maybe as warm as 80 out by livermore by noon. and eventually topping out 82 san jose, 65, san francisco. not much change for the weekend. we should see temperatures, though, climbing a little bit early next week. >> and that's look at your weekend forecast. >> bill, thank you very much. it was the murder trial that riveted the nation. and now found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter ca , but her troubles may be far from over. >> casey anthony's defense team not in the mood to talk after court friday. they argued that casey already served probation and shouldn't be forced to return. >> the court lacks jurisdiction and would

louis, central missouri, southern portions of illinois, maybe indianapolis, that's it for strong stormsay, but sunday afternoon and evening, we have to watch out in the big cities again. d.c., baltimore, philly, new york, boston, hartford, and providence. you could be looking at a very stormy sunday afternoon. keep that in mind for your plans. also, probably one of the bigger weather stories that will doppler throughout the weekend into next week. the next tropical threat. a very large tropical wave is about to head for land areas there around the virgin islands, the st. lucia area, martin ique. that's the problem throughout this week. near puerto rico on monday. now, this storm is going to be covering a lot of the land wrar. filths near the land areas, it will be weaker. if it stays out over the water, it will be stronger. by the time we get to friday, whatever is around, probably thursday into friday, it will be right near florida. anyone with plans in the southeast at the end of this upcoming week needs to play close attention to this forecast, and watch this system. if it does get a

southern florida. there will also be storms, some severe in illinois and michigan as well as colorado and nebraska. the southern plains will remain hot and dry. the northeast and the west coast will have fair and seasonal weather. >>> in sports, the red sox split a double header with tampa bay. in the first game in boston, jacoby ellsbury blasted a three-run homer for a win. in the second game a triple play but the rays home run from desmond jennings won the night cap, 6-2. boston trails the yankees by a half game in the a.l. east. >>> score tied bottom of the 14th inning in chicago, juan pierre gave chicago a walk-off 8-7 win over cleveland. >>> and milwaukee walk-off single against los angeles, the brewers beat the dodgers 2-1, they've won 18 of their last 20 games. >>> the ncaa is investigating gifts given to university of miami football players. nevin shapiro told yahoo! sports he gave money, cars, jewelry and other benefits to more than 70 hurricanes players between 2002 and last year. the school is cooperating with the investigation. >>> when we return, another look at this morning's top stori

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