look at this explosion of moisture over the southern united states ...re could be heavy snow headed for west virginia ... that setting up a northeast flow affecting chicago we on expect much severe weather today and tomorrow night in that southeastern area carrying into sunday as it moves northeast up the mid-atlantic coast ... unseasonably mild and windy this afternoon ... the high temperatures expected 48 degrees may be 50 degrees in some areas with the southwest wind gusting between 12 and 24 mi. per hour tomorrow morning snow showers flurries then partly cloudy modestly colder new flurry sleet or overnight the high- temperature tomorrow will be 37 degrees on sunday will be overcast breezy with some flurries near the lake chilly once again in the high 30s ... happy friday and have a good weekend >>time for today's trivia question: which of the following is not typically losing streak ends at nine games with their first road victory in two months. the blackhawks got off to a fast start in new york. just one minute into the game jonathan toews scored on

there was widespread discrimination and segregation against black people in the united states, especially in the southern united states. black people were barred from going in restaurants and cafes and motels and movie theaters. they could work in those places. but they were not welcome there as customers or clients. so there was widespread discrimination. and many people thought that should be changed. and during the year of 1963, president kennedy proposed a new civil rights law. and he was doing this in part based on rising tensions in the south, especially in birmingham, alabama. and president kennedy, in his administration, introduced a sweeping civil rights bill. it sort of stalled out and wasn't being passed. there was opposition from the south and other people. and then they made the trip to dallas, president kennedy and president johnson made the trip to dallas in november of '63 while this was pending in congress. and a number of people went with them including congressman brooks. and congressman brooks and lyndon johnson were in the motorcade in downtown dallas. november 22nd when president ke

there was widespread discrimination and segregation against black people in the united states, especially in the southern united states. black people were barred from going in restaurants and cafes, motels, and movie theaters. they could work there, but weren't welcome as customers or clients. there was widespread discrimination. many people thought that should be changed. during the year of 1963, proposw civil rights law, and he was doing this in part based on rising tensions in the south, especially in birmingham, alabama. and president kennedy in his administration introduced a sweeping civil rights bill, but now, and wasn't being passed. there was opposition from the south and other people, and then they made the trip to dallas. president kennedy andhnson made in november of '63, while pendi. and a number of people went with them, including congressman brooks. lyndon johnson were in the motorcade in downtown dallas, november the 22nd, when president kennedy was assassinated. president johnson went back to the airplane, air force one. he oath of office. the presidency with jack brooks and other people

united states would be located below the mason-dixon line. and i can tell you that the capital of the united states, the people of the district of columbia were controlled by southern democrats for 150 years and did not get its home rule until 1974 precisely because of that fateful decision. it was not because at that time or at any time until about 1960 the majority of people living here were african-americans. it was because there was a fair number of african-americans so southern democrats, people in my own party, kept the city from getting its home rule, kept is segregat segregated. i went to segregated dunn bar high school, everything was segregated in this city. the district was one of the five brown versus board of education cases. this was the legacy of that fateful decision. it was the capital of the united states and it was the capital of slavery. slaves were sold in the streets, slaves -- of course slavery thrived here even afterwards until nine months before the civil war when lincoln, as i'm sure someone said, as a war measure liberated the slaves of the district of columbia. my great grandfather, richard holmes was among them. richard holmes walked of

societal discrimination condoned everywhere in the united states. for southern whites, the war had a similar tragic legacy it left an economy still dependent on agriculture but without the slave labor on which that economy had grown to depend. it delayed industrialization. with the civil rights movement, not only did blacks move forward in the south and throughout the country, but the south began its economic development full throttle. and companies began to move in large numbers to the south with desegregated schools and institutions. the sun belt economy was born in the south. now this healing has indeed occurred with changed attitudes, but those attitudes could not have been changed without the civil rights laws. blacks and whites didn't get together in a room and say it's time now we began to talk to one another. the law was migrate privilege to administer title vii of the 1964 civil rights act, the job sdr discrimination act, was seminal in getting people to be with one another, to talk with one another, to be supervised by one another. nothing, nothing cou

, not in the 20th century, not since the civil war, in the history of the united states, without carrying at least three southern states. obama carried virginia, north carolina, and florida. i don't think he'll carry one of those states. in 2012. now, in terms -- in terms of the house and senate, i'm relatively optimistic the house will be held, and i'll tell you why. no incumbent president has gainor a re-election since world war ii, with one exception and that was lyndon johnson in 1964 and in a lot of ways that doesn't really count because it wasn't really g to on's re-elect.goin '80, it's obama '08 when it's he picked up 30 seats. it's not the re-elect. even reagan carrying 49 states and 59% of the vote, even he only picked up 15 house seats now, if you turn to the senate, i think the picture is potentially better. again, nine months out, a lot of things could change, but bob kerry bailed out of the nebraska senate race this week. that seat is gone, so now you're at 48. assuming north dakota goes erta should, that gets you to 49. at that point to get to 51 you would have to win two of montana, new mexico, mi

language that they use referring to founding fathers, sister states, slaveholders were our southern brethren, lincoln uses this language too. the united states is the home of one national family, he reminds congress in 1862. we are all of the same family, the same sort, he said, of northerners and southerners in 1863. the rebellion is this unhappy fraternal war. i think where you most see lincoln's affection for this familial metaphor and what he is meeting, this is a constitutional crisis. he is not reading the federalist paper. there's a military paper. why do witnesses say he always has his nose in? if you tarry too long next to him, you're going to get an earful of it too. it's shakespeare. lincoln had three particular favorites -- richard iii, hamlet, and as he put it, above all, macbeth. all three are tragedies. richard iii is classed as a history. it fits the tragic mold. all three are set in grieving war-torn countries. hamlet's denmark is contracted in one brow of woe. richard's england has long been mad and scarred herself. macbeth's scotland is the downfall where each new morning new widows howell, new orphans cry, and nor

a white southern lawyer saying that these sidewalks right here in the middle of the civil rights movement are as sacred to the united states as valley forge where the revolutionary army under george washington nearly froze to death. a white southern lawyer. saying that those sidewalks are as sacred ground for the united states of america as valley forge. martin luther king transformed david vann. he was a pretty good guy to start, but martin luther king transformed him. i have never seen a city deal as well with the complicated history or any place. here's the 16th street baptist church. you see the sign up there, top right. this is in the middle of the demonstrations. this is during the children's march. when the children's march started because all of the kids gathered in the church and then came down the stairs to the park across the street. kelly ingram park. here's the church again today. so you see the white church, this is a different part of town. this is the southside baptist church. this is the white church. big enough? it's like a city block, right? here's another one. you can't quite see the whole thing, but yo

federal officers had been arrested in southern ports, arsenals in various southern military instalations in the united states had been seized by the confederate states. the government is in essence breaking down and lincoln says, in essence, there is not a way for the courts at this moment in time to resolve these matters, so he imposes a blockade, which originally does not include virginia and north carolina, but expands it to those states shortly thereafter. he suspends the writ of habeas corpus and calls congress into session for july 4, kind of an appropriate date i think to call congress into session. but in his message, he indicates he did nothing more than that which congress itself would do if it had been present. so there was a sense of a limiting principle, at least from lincoln's stand point, an appreciation of what he was up to. but to understand fully the situation that lincoln confronted, and i want to call you professor hallser, because the presentation -- what harrold said is there was a lot of trouble in baltimore. merriman was a member of a military unit and indicated he had been instructed

arsenals in southern military installations in the united states have been seized by the confederate states. the government is in essence breaking down. in essence, there is not a way for the court at this moment in time to involve these matters. virginia and north carolina but , kind of an appropriate session. lincoln's standpoint and an appreciation of what he was up to. but to understand fully the situation that lincoln confronted and -- professor holzer, the presentation seemed so well along to me in an academic line. what harold said is that there was an awful lot of trouble involved. merriman was a member of a military unit, and merriman indicated he had been instructed by the governor to destroy several bridges that contained railroad tracks at the northern end of maryland and northern end of baltimore which were key to getting military troops in. at the time of the proclamation of april 18th, 1861, there were 5,000 federal troops in the district of columbia under the command of wynnefield scott. and in fact, they even put together a plan where scott would locate the troops ar

arsenals in southern military installations in the united states have been seized by the confederate states. the government is in essence breaking down. in essence, there is not a way for the court at this moment in time to involve these matters. he imposes a blockade which originally does not include virginia and north carolina but expands it shortly thereafter. he suspend a writ of habeas corpus and promptly calls congress into session for july 4th, kind of an appropriate state to call congressmen to session. but in his message to congress when congress does convene, he indicates in his view he did nothing more than that which congress itself would do if it had been present at the time. and so i think there was to some degree a sense of limiting, at least from lincoln's standpoint and an appreciation of what he was up to. but to understand fully the situation that lincoln confronted and -- i want to call you professor holzer, the presentation seemed so well along to me in an academic line. what harold said is that there was an awful lot of trouble involved. merriman was a member of

schools, out of the police stations and in a state that is almost a quarter spanish speaking it's a terrible imposition. >> that's across the southern tier of the united it's overt racism and i think newt gingrich is running the most overtly racist campaign at the presidential level since george wallace. it can only hurt republicans. it will continue to do so. >> the ever outspoken alan grayson, good friend. good to have you with us. thank you and good luck in your race. >> thank you. >> we will take a quick break and hopefully come back with mitt romney on the other end in tampa, florida. it's "countdown"! [ cheers and applause ] >> this "countdown" t primary. see the crowd. there is ann romney walking up to the podium. we are seeing the 62% of the vote in. 47% for romney. 32% for newt gingrich onset with us, governor eliot spitzer. i guess we are going to hear ann romney introduce her husband. so let's listen in. >> thank you florida! [cheers] [cheers]. >> we are grateful for being here tonight. thank you. this is a very wonderful reception. [cheers] . >> you know, this experience of mit running for president has been extraordinary for our family. i

confederate generals even vowed to execute white officers who commanded united states colored troop regimens under criminal law. many southern states had laws that said leading a slave rebellion was punishable by death. to them, being a white commander in a black regimen was akin to leading a slave rebellion. in may of 1863, the confederate congress upheld this popular opinion by passing a joint resolution calling for the execution of white officers in the immediate enslavement of black soldiers. now, the u.s. war department when it heard this announcement decided what it would do was issue an order of retaliation. that is it would execute captured confederate officers. one for each white u.s. colored troop officer execute and enslave one white confederate prisoner, one for each black usc t soldier. and in july of '63 was a first test month. a captured soldier was executed by confederate authorities and a regimental commander, the commander of the soldier who was executed decided he was going to put to death one confederate soldier which he did. after the execution of this confederate soldier, jefferson davis called off the

seven states have already laws on the books requiring women to undergo an ultrasound before getting an abortion. mostly, in the southern portion of the unitedtates. a similar mandatory ultrasound bill was approved by a committee in the illinois house this week. the bill was introduced by an anti-abortion democrat, joseph lyons. he chose to send it to the house ag committee. prompting this response from democratic representative debra mell. >> we're not talking abortions for cows or pigs? we're talking about women? >> yes, lyons chose the ag committee because of the predominantly conservative membership. his bill passed the committee, 11 votes to 2. it now heads to the house floor where a similar bill died last year. this is why representative lyons is so enthusiastic about his bill. he said "i think it gives the human face to the procedure, when women see the heartbeat and see that it's not just a procedure like getting your tonsils taken out or having an appe appendectomy. they want to shame women, who make it the difficult choice to get an abortion and have that procedure. they think women are probably too stupid to make an independent de

not many american southerners who were not presidents of the united states, lindbehin lyndon and jimmy carter, except martin luther king, ben bernanke, clinton, south carolina. no, not clinton, south carolina, dillon, south carolina, south of the border. sp supposedly it was his first job. ted turner. and newt gingrich. and that's -- i don't know if that's a stretch or not, whether he was -- is or should be a southerner. because he was born in pennsylvania i think. just because he represented georgia and taught at west georgia. well, anyway. "time" has tended until very recent years to be a very conservative, very loose, lucite publication you might say tending towards republicans and consensus sorts of people. chiang kai-shek made it, madam chian made the team. mao tse-tung never made person of the year. when "time" decided to acknowledge the american woman in 1975, they had some significant people, billie jean king and others, but they somehow in their list of folks on the cover or pictures of people on the cover overlooked betty fredan and gloria steinem. this is a pretty establishm

have to watch a system that will be developing down in the gulf, moving across the southern tier of the united states and up the east coast, along with another branch of the jet stream that is coming in around the northern tier that is going to be bringing in some colder air. those two are going to basically combine. but we have to see exactly how they're going to. and we won't really have a better idea on that until tomorrow evening. we'll continue to keep you posted. but that system is three days away. and we will talk about how it could impact us going into sunday, in your complete updated first warning forecast with bob. >>> a truck overturns and causes a huge mess on a busy area road. it happened southbound 95, negotiate of the fort mchenry toll plaza. sky eye chopper 13 is over the area. monique griego shows why the truck driver was arrested. >> reporter: just after 8:00 last night, a major response is called in to the southbound lanes of the i-95, after a tractor-trailer overturns, causing a massive hazmat situation. >> the spillage was coming down and it covered all lanes of traffic. >> repor

no democrat has elected president in the history of the united states without carrying at least three southern states. obamacare in virginia, north carolina and florida. i do not think we will carry one of the states. [applause] in terms of the house and senate, no incumbent president has game more than 15 states in a reelection since world war ii with one exception. that was lyndon johnson in 1964. it doesn't really count. it was not johnson treelike. usually you're going to have -- it was not johnson's re-elect. use a year going to have it. even reagan -- you are usually going to have it. even reagan only picked up 15 house seats in 1984. he turned to the senate, i think the picture is better. nine months out, a lot of things can change. this seat is gone. now you are at 48, assuming north dakota good republican. it should. at that point we get to 51. you have to win to. then scott brown has to be elected in massachusetts. i like our chances. [applause] i have said the scary as possible outcome would be for the republicans to win the white house and not bring about any significant change. is

southern hemisphere again, mr. nunes and miss myrec brought it up. the united states stepped in colombia forcibly and turned that around and i think everyone here would say it's been a success story, colombia is coming back. we entered into a trade agreement which is mutually beneficial. we have significant problems in our southern hemisphere, venezuela, ecuador, bolivia, central america is a basket case. guatemala has the highest crime rate in the world. last time i was there they managed to make that list, and obviously mexico. 50,000 people have been killed in mexico in the last three years. we had a discussion recently, as horrible as the number of deaths in afghanistan and iraq are, i suspect they may be higher in mexico. right on our border, of the united states and that violence is coming across our border, along our southern states, especially states like arizona, texas, we still have problems in california, and i'd like to hear what is our focus in south america? obviously we have significant problems in central america, but we've got big problems right on ou

united states. >>> a wild shootout in southern california. at i u.s. immigrations office.ne agent is dead this morning. another badly wounded. the fbi calls it a case of workplace violence. it's unclear why but one immigration agent shot a colleague several times, think third agent then killed the first. the wounded agent is in stable condition. those involved haven't been identified. >>> the man known as the underwear bomber has a good idea where he'll be spending the rest of his life. a solitary cell in this country's highest security prison. he was sentenced yesterday in detroit. danielle nottingham reports. >>> the nigerian man who tried to set off a bomb on a plane over detroit on christmas day in 2009 will spend the rest of his life behind bars. umar farouk abdul-mutallab called it a day of victory when he learned his sentence. the 25-year-old learned his fate four months, after admitting the failed terror attack was a suicide mission. >> al qaeda has lost once again. america has won once again. we always do. >> during thursday's hearing, prosecutors played a videota

united states. different regions produce different commodities. these needs cannot be addressed with a one-sized fits all solution. it is not a problem confined to agriculture in the northeast, southern border states or western states. this is not just a problem for large farmers. according to the united states department of agriculture, 60% of hired farm labor is hired by farms with sales of less than $1 million. last year, the committee approved a bill to make e-verify for all employers regardless of size or industry. it offered no issues. e-verify without a workable way to ensure a legal work force will send american agriculture production in the additional odd farm jobs created by it to other countries. farmers throughout the united states haveovative solutions to secure a domestic labor force. all have failed. not because we don't pay enough or offer benefits. americans through habit and education have progressed beyond agriculture to other occupations. americans no longer have the desire for agriculture work. it is a lifestyle occupation. many farmers see their children move into other occupations. i can speak from experience with three sons. two are home farming with me and on

on the southern border of the presidio, which is the only national park in the united states that's actuallya city. so it's unique to have a view of a forest while living inside a major city. the house was built in 1913. so it's ninety-nine years old. the house is four-stories. it's over 5,000 square feet. it has four formal bedrooms. then there's a room that we use at the gym. and there's a room we use as an office. then the in-door swimming pool. and the speak easy is the room that everybody loves. it's large, high ceilings. when we bought the house, there were no windows in the room. in 2005, we updated the speak easy. but we have left the bar and the band stand is the same size bar you would have in a restaurant. the original piano is still there. we've added the theatre to the room so you can watch films. it's a great room to entertain in. the story that came with the house is that when the police came to raid the speak easy, someone at the front door could push a button, and the lights on the bar would flicker, and people would know that it was time to run out the doors. and there are

southerners owned slaves. again, fortunately, we're blessed with the 1860 united states census. as i mentioned, i spent an entire chapter analyzing the data, and if you take every white man, every white woman, and every white child, and you calculate using the 1860 census, the percent of slave ownership, it's 95% of these people did not own slaves. 95%. some people quoted as high as 97. the actual correct number is 95%. but that's not really a very fair way to look at it, because, women and children typically did not own property back then. i thought the fairer way to look at it and really give us a good idea of prevalence of slave ownership in the south would be to look at it by household. and if you do that, you will find that only 26% of southern -- southern white households owned slaves according to the 1860 census. that means three out of four southern -- white southern families did not own slaves. now, every one, or a lot of people, seem to have this stereotypical image of the south. tara. with the plantation home, and the white columns and the live oak trees and the spani

southern mississippi. and part of i think the success for manufacturing in the united states is a strong tie with higher education. i'm going to talk a little bit about workforce training in our community colleges, but let me mention first our universities. the university of southern mississippi which is at hattiesburg, for more than 30 years has had a polymer institute. now, those of you who don't know what polymers are should run for governor of mississippi, because i will never forget when i went down campaigning to see the polymer institute, i asked the head of it, i said, shelby, what is a polymer. and he really gave me an illuminating answer. he said a polymer is a repeating molecule. great. you know, what the hell's that got to do with anything. well, of course, it's the heart of the composites industry. and we have a composite center now, associated with our defense industries and our shipbuilding industries on the mississippi gulf coast. to do such things as make paint that won't burn or that won't smoke when you have naval vessel, the ability to keep from having smoke seven levels down in the ship is ob

. >>> back to the united states a little closer to home, a slow moving system dumped several inches of snow in southern states. dozens of accidents have been reported and this morning crews are working to restore power to tens of thousands of people. the storm on sunday brought in a lot of wet snow to parts of kentucky and tennessee and north carolina and virginia and west virginia. we dodged a bullet there, lynette. >> but some people are upset. >> because they want snow. >> and it was so close you know. but like i said, it depenned on the track and the track took a southerly turn. so we didn't get anything. spending of that, this morning we are left with clouds but we will see plenty ofsen shine -- sunshine i said it took a southerly turn but in some parts of maryland you did get snow. being see that along the eastern shore there. most of the rain, though, is moved off into the atlantic and even the snow starting to diminish as of now. we will have high pressure build in here but before that, we are talking about the winds this morning. yes, it's little on the breezy side. the winds out of the north

united states. harrisburg, illinois in the southern part of the state was pummeled by a tornado with estimated windsorge sells is a reporter with cnn affiliate wtvi. he's joining us from harrisburg right now. set the scene for us, george. what was it like? i assume you lived through this tornado experience firsthand. >> well, the storm raised through here. it was about 5:00 this morning when it hit the area here in harrisburg. that storm system was moving 60 miles an hour, if you think about how quickly you drive, and what it brought with it, like you said, the tornado an ef-4, 170 miles an hour winds to give us an idea of some of the damage. i had to ask somebody how many businesses were in this strip mall before this morning. there were seven stores here a dollar tree, a sporting goods store among others. the good news, it was 5:00 in the morning, no one was here basically, but you go to some video. the bad news about that, the very bad news about this predawn storm is the fact that so many people were asleep in their beds and not awakened by tornado sirens. six people in and out confirmed dead, s

vernon, a citizen of the united states, and lately president of the sane, not a citizen of virginia, not a southerner or a tide water aristocrat, but an american. this is how washington reasserted the nationalist creed to which he had devoted 40 years of his life. like other thoughtful men, he struggled to reconcile his ownership of human beings with his country's professed love of liberty. he had indeed hoped that virginia's lawmakers would take the decision out of his hands by providing for gradual emancipation. the chances of such action all was faint, grew still more remote, as richmond lawmakers talked openly of defying federal authorities. and so it was left to washington to free his slaves on martha's death after making certain that the aged or sick would be fed and clothed by his heirs. he took an even more radical step. in challenging his state's legal ban on educating negros. directing that all under the age of 25 should be taught to read and write, and, quote, brought up to some useful occupation. and i do hereby expressly forbid the sale or transportation out of the said commonwealth of a

force relative to the saudi ambassador and what kind of access they have here in to the united states across that southernborder. it just seems like by continuing the operations of being on that order it's going to lessen that threat in the sense that we have a better chance of stopping something. so you know i also have a question of what are they going to do and i know the answer previously relative to what they are going to do in the united states, continuing plotting etc. seems to me like this is an important mission and i just wondered why if you could give me some insight into why this is happening and is in a thing going to take its place? >> first i would agree very much so that it's an important mission and we are in consultation with the director of national intelligence because defense intelligence agencies role in terms of how we do some of these missions. we provide some research and development technology that we look at providing. we come up with the capability. once we have the capability, then who best inside the intelligence community along our border should on that capability so i under

southern district of florida. he began his judicial career in 1999 as a united states district court judge for the southern district of florida, where he still sits. and based on his experience, judge jordan is extremely qualified for this position. and once confirmed, he will become the first hispanic judge on the 11th circuit court. so i would urge our colleagues to confirm this nominee without further delay, and i am pleased to be joined by my colleague, senator rubio, my colleague from the state of florida. mr. president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: the other senator from florida, thank you. thank you, senator nelson, for that introduction, the first thing we how to decide his name, is his jordan, jor-dan, or hardan. he has a reputation. i have a bias, because i also graduated from the university of miami school of law where i have my law degree and my student loan so i'm grateful to them for that. he was only 37 years old when he was appointed to the bench and it says a lot that over the years he's garnered a reputation for both being fair but also for his int

s&p, dow industrials, note germany for all the troubles in southern europe, outperformed all of the indices in the united states. up 6.2%. take a look at the s&p 500. which is the best two months of the year. best two-month start of the year since 1991 right now. we're up, as you can see, up 8.59%. i promised a little comment on the volume. let's take a look here. i put together a number of different platforms. consolidated volume at the new york stock exchange, according to sandler o'neill now, down 10%. all trading on all nyse stocks across the different exchanges. futures, stock futures, equity futures at the chicago mercantile exchange, down 32%. options trading is down about 5.4%. this is stock options trading. finally the only thing that's to the up side, we see energy trading to the up side. that should be up, maria, and that's trading in oil contracts. oil contracts, natural gas contracts, all volumes to the up side. >> bob, the volume in equities declining across the board, do you think the volume picking up in commodities overall, that mining sector so hot for so long, is that a shift of business happ

this is the birth place of the anti-abortion movement in the united states of america, down here in southerni. >> huckabee did well. >> he did very well. the bible belt, if you will. also huckabee doing well in the smaller, rural, today we might call them tea party communities. governor romney, i want you to remember this, he did well in kansas city, in the center of the state. mccain carried the st. louis suburbs, st. charles, romney did okay in the urban areas. watch this as we go back in time. i want to take this off because here, this was romney four years ago. this was romney four years ago, this was romney four years ago. the romney campaign tonight would like to say we did not compete here. we didn't put money into the organization, not put money into turnout, into tv, because it doesn't matter, but it's a symbolic, moral boost for a guy arguing that the race would come his way. so senator santorum leads tonight. he's going to be able to make the argument that he is at least equal of speaker gingrich who is trying to fight to be the alt n alternative republican. >> a lot of people vot