and he wanted to bring business to tennessee. that is why the trial took place there, because scopes' agreed to be the defendant. >> technology was a factor in the trial. cameras were allowed in the courtroom and it was broadcast nationwide on the radio. >> one of the things that is so remarkable about this trial, not only that it was broadcast on the radio and tens of thousands of americans listen to it, but it was a court room. for bryan to try to defend his christianity in creationism in the courtroom -- and was the context of the courtroom in cross-examination that made it so difficult for him to say what he meant and what was so poor and about creationism in his thinking and about the social darwinism logic that he thought was infecting american society. it was a very difficult context in which to make that argument. bryan and his life, really, as sort of a man -- ends his life, really, a sort of a man out of context. the context of the courtroom in dayton, tenn., proved very challenging for him. >> peter is on the phone fro

a million in tennessee alone? >> a million tennessee alone will go from employer-based insurance over to the state exchanges. this is calculation on the part of the tennessee authorities. they feel that there wouldn't be the for employers to keep people on their ranks. employers rather pay the penalty. employees will go to the state exchanges. bill: these are companies that have 50 employees or less they will let them go. >> exactly. bill: who pays for all these peoples? >> the feds will pay $3 billion for the state of tennessee. they also calculated in administrative costs a billion dollars in the state of tennessee that is without adding in what president obama is talking about maybe more cuts to medicaid and asking states to pay more? bill: where will tennessee get a billion dollars to cover this? >> that's a really good question. tennessee does not have overflowing pock wet book. as a practice physician i have another care. primary care physicians are right in middle 22 in the count interest. 99 health care do

>> next, "newsmakers"with lamar alexander from tennessee. then, "the contenders," on candidates who have run and lost but changed the process. >> senator lamar alexander, republican from tennessee, welcome. david, you have the first question. >> senator alexander, you announced you will step down from republican leadership in the senate. he said it would be liberating. what is it that he might not have done? >> in some ways, it will not change. i have already had two calls for mitch mcconnell this morning. instead of spending my time on leadership, i want to focus on the issues i care the most about. i would like to work with senator feinstein and senator bingaman and find a way to put out a -- place to put our nuclear waste permanent. we are closed down yucca milton. we need a permanent repository. we need to work across party lines to do that. i believe we can do that. >> we've seen bipartisan efforts in the spring and summer, most notably the gang of six trying to get a big debt deal. they got a lot of attention. 36 are supportive. they n

tropical depression lee dumping rain from across tennessee up to maryland. bad rain and the video is crazy. of course a lot of people heading back to school. over to meteorologist, justin berk. >>> good morning. the big question, how do we dress the kids? tennessee, right there, a lot of rain, still in thick of it and considering to pump the moisture. see a distinctive back edge. we are pumping in heavy rain out of virginia. maryland's most powerful doppler, an inch and a half yesterday, some of you got caught in the downpours, we got a chance to sample the rain and this morning, half an inch in spots. we got it around tallson, westminster, we got a dry patch in annapolis, shower from shady side could clip you. arnold 62, 6 be 3 edgewood and edgewater. temperatures not moving much. dress the kids in pants, long sleeve shirts, it will be wet and chilly throughout the afternoon. e islands. ll town >>> we have an accident reported 95 southbound at 195s we have slight delays. die doing okay at up for a few get o through, you may see cones downtown, and all of th

i will save taxpayers money and i will be able to help demonstrate, built on the tennessee foundationof what it means to reform our criminal- justice system through the eyes of the sheriff's department. i would be honored to have your support. please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. it has been an honor to serve you as a supervisor and i would be honored to be your sheriff. >> the league of women voters and sfgovtv have been honored to bring you statements by all four candidates for share of. >> my name is paul miyamoto and i make captain in the sheriff's department and i can't edit it for sheriff in this election. our department finds itself in a very neat situation on the eve of a significant change in the criminal justice system. our share has decided to retire after close to 32 years. the best person to continue his legacy and build on his foundation is someone who has been a part of carrying out that vision. that is me. i have professional experience in the operations and management of this department. i have risen through the ranks of all positions in gain

i have been nominated five times by tennessee republicans to serve in public office. i have been elected three times by senate republicans as conference chair. if i could get 100% republican solution to any of our legislative issues i would do it in a minute. i know that the senate usually requires 60 votes for a solution on serious issues and we simply can't get that. only republican votes for democratic votes. second by stepping down from the leadership by expect to be more aggressive on the issues and look forward to that. the senate is created to be the place where the biggest issues producing the biggest disagreements are argued out. i don't buy for one minute that these disagreements create some sort of unhealthy lack of civility in the united states senate. those who believe the debate today in our senate are more fractious than the debate in political history simply have forgotten american history. they have forgotten what adams and jefferson said of one another. they have forgotten vice president aaron burr killed secretary treasury alexander hamilton. they f

this was was it was a series of dams which were constructed in the helmand valley based off the tennessee valley authority, it is kind of a good story of the law of unintended consequences. using the tennessee valley authority as their model, american engineers thought what a wiki is they within the rivers in the helmand valley in order to create dependable irrigation supply and also began to electrify the countryside, just as in the tennessee valley. however, what happened was that in building those dams, the unintended consequence was actually to raise the level of the water table. and in doing that it brought to the surface all the salts that it had a committed overtime in this whole. and this will have previously been a productive reason for dry grains especially. with the salinity rising in the

what they are doing to get their beloved pooch back. >>> grandfather in chattanooga, tennessee is being called a hero. they were visiting from memphis for a family reunion, rising flood waters carried their car several feet. he thought quickly to save himself and dprapped kids. >> i had to pick -- grand kids. >> i had to pick both of them up. >> i wanted to get out of the water, that's why i was crying. >> yates was a hero. they are fine this morning as for the super beetle, the car didn't make it. >>> hurricane katia looked impressive overnight. see the eye going through. little bit of sheer on the west side, hint of the winds ahead of what is remaining from lee and helping to steer this off the coast. that's been the projection here and we are sticking to it. it's made the curve to the northwest. may resurge a little bit today if we can regenerate the eye wall. rip currents across the east coast. we got our own problems, with the remnants of lee rolling up our stalled frontal boundary. we are on the cooler side. how long does it last? we are explain in a couple of minutes. >>> a broke

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the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: madam president, i thank my friend for, the republican leader, for the remarks i am about to make. i thank senator corker and several of my other colleagues for on very short notice coming to the senate floor for these brief remarks. madam president, next january following the annual retreat of republican senators, i will stope down from the senate republican leadership. my colleagues have elected me as republican conference chairman three times, and i will have completed four years or the equivalent of two two-year terms at the time. the reason for doing that is this: stepping down from the republican leader will liberate me to spend more time trying to work for results on issues that i care the most about. that means stopping runway way regulations, runare away spending, but it also means confronting the timidity that allows us to -- or that allows health care spending to squeeze out support for roads, support for research, support for scholarships and other government fu

we are expecting it to move through mississippi tomorrow before it heads up into the tennessee river valley. rainfall continues to be the biggest threat in terms of inland flooding. some of the numbers that we've seen are just incredible, almost as much as a foot. look at what we're expecting here, next 48 hours, jackson mississippi, we're talking 7 to 10 inches of rainfall here. atlanta georgia, probably 3 to 5. chattanooga, 5 to 7 expected and that's going to continue up in the northeastern corcorridor. we also have the threat of tornadoes and tornado watches in effect and here for new orleans until 4:00, over here into the florida panhandle until 11:00 tonight. that's the latest on tropical storm lee. alina, back to you. >>> the former imf chief at the center of an explosive rape case is back in france. he arrived this morning after taking an overnight flight from new york's jfk airport, the same airport with strasse-kahn was arrested on may 14th. his return comes less than two weeks after a judge dismissed charges in the case where he was accused of trying to rape a hotel maid. j

and the apex of this was when the big trial took place in dayton, tennessee. and, of course, william jennings bryan goes down this to work with the prosecution. a footnote to this is that one of the preacher, in fact, the man probably most responsible for getting william jennings bryan to go to dayton, tennessee, was j. frank norris. and one of the last things that bryan did before he died just a few days after that trial while he was still in dayton, tennessee, he dropped dead, was write a handwritten note to j. frank norris in fort worth thanking him for his help, for his encouragement in going to the trial, and norris opened that handwritten note after he'd gotten the news that william jennings bryan had died. and he printed the note in his newspaper which at that time had 50,000 subscribers and used it as a way to link himself. and his goal very much was to become the heir to william jennings bryan and become the leader of fundamentalists or what we might call conservative christians in america at the time. and it very well might have happened except that

they came in after last week's loss to tennessee, the quarterback played well.he offensive line, with gurode playing at the left guard, may have answered some questions there with grubbs still injured and john harbaugh in the wake of a loss has come up with his 13th win in 17 games as a head coach of the ravens. on the other side, steve spagnuolo has lost his sixth game in the last seven going back to last year and they looked bad today to be quite honest. he's got a lot on his mind. the quarterback took the beating, and they have got a lot of issues here in st. louis. solomon: yeah, you never really saw him get going in the no-huddle offense. this baltimore ravens defense was just simply dominant today. kevin: so we saw three long touchdown passes by flacco, all to rookie torrey smith, who caught touchdown passes of 74, 41, and 18 yards. field goals by cundiff, and two very dear friends, spagnuolo of the amounts and harbaugh of the ravens, will give a quick goodbye amid field. you just saw ngata, who had the fumble recovery and a touchdown run for baltimore. ba

then thursday, we'll watch it go into the tennessee valley. a lot of coverage with this, no question about it. although both the rain and the wind will pale in comparison to what it is and what it will be in the next 24 to 36 hours. >> alexandra, thank you so much. >>> moving on, the tenth anniversary of the september 11th attacks is a week from tomorrow. the state department has issued a travel alert for u.s. citizens traveling or living overseas. homeland security officials say they don't know of any specific threat. but they just want people to be aware of what's going on around them. >>> and the next time you fly, look for new, less-invasive body scanners. that's good news. the tsa will install them in 40 airports over the next few months. they'll protect your privacy by showing a more generic computerized outline of your body versus specific images. the new scanners are faster. but a german study says they give false readings 49% of the time. >>> well, she may or may not be running for president, but sarah palin is grabbing the spotlight

tennessee became the first state in 1984 to pay teachers more for teaching well. up till then not one state paid teachers one penny more for teaching more -- not one penny more for teaching well. in my office this morning were the two principals of the year from tennessee, and the three representatives of tennessee education association, and four out of the five were voluntarily a part of our master teacher or career ladder program and were telling me how grateful they were for that. but let me tell you this: it was a controversial, difficult effort. it was opposed massively by the national education association, whose members this morning were thanking me for the program. because it's not easy to determine in a fair way how to reward outstanding teaching. particularly if you're going to relate it to student achievement , and particularly if you're going to relate it to performance pay. so the best way to do that is to encourage states and encourage school districts to try different ways of doing it and hope they succeed and borrow ideas from one another. that's w

i yield 90 seconds to the gentlewoman from tennessee, mrs. black. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from tennessee, mrs. black, is recognized. mrs. black: thank you, my colleagues, from being is something, for yielding time. i'm here today as a member of right to work state and a co-sponsor of this legislation to speak out against nlrb's actions against boeing

the author examines the defense attorney's many noted cases which include his representation of tennessee teacher john scopes. his personal life is marked by about of depression and his legal career was almost ruined by an indictment by los angeles jerry. john farrow speaks at politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c. for just under an hour. .. we are really happy to have you here. i wanted to do this introduction very much, because i was a great admirer of your book on o'neal, and i can tell you from having read jack farrell's look on clarence darrow, it is another book worth reading that helps us understand part of our legacy in america in a very turbulent and special time. you know, we think of darrow often defined by the movies. there is spencer tracy and in an herat the wind and we know about the scopes trial and there is orson welles as darrow in compulsion. we all know about leopold and loeb, but would you have done is, in both the combination of journalism and the kind of current work you are doing at the center for public integrity, it helps to serve as a perceptive and art

people, a member of the committee, the gentleman from tennessee, dr. desjarlais, one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minutes. mr. desjarlais: i rise in support of h.r. 2587, the protecting jobs from government interference act. as i have traveled tennessee's fourth congressional district and spoken with 30-plus job creators, our conversation inevitably focuses on one basic complaint. the federal government's overregulation of the private sector is impeding job creation in this country. . instead of reducing the regulatory burdens on business, an act which would most certainly create much needed private sector jobs, this administration has used its labor board to make it harder to do business in america. nowhere is this more apparent than in its recent unfair labor practice complaint against boeing. if you want to talk about creating jobs, let's look at the facts. boeing has invested approximately $1 billion to build a plant in south carolina which will create new well paying jobs in south carolina. . despite the fac

but forecasters warn that tornadoes and flash flooding could spread across the tennessee valley, into the appalachians. lee, packing enough punch to bring heavy rain and winds across the entire southeast. frances coe, nbc news. >>> elsewhere, water would have been welcome in drought-stricken texas this weekend. but instead it was lee's powerful winds that fueled wildfires burning across the state. over the weekend, crews battled parched conditions, and up to 40-mile-per-hour wind gusts from what was tropical storm lee. one of the fires killed a 20-year-old woman and her 18-month-old daughter, trapped inside their home. officials say thousands have been evacuated, and an estimated 300 homes have been destroyed. >>> president obama paid a visit to water-weary new jersey, yesterday. visiting parts of the state hit hard last week by hurricane irene's devastating floods. today, the president will be marking labor day, speaking to a group of union workers in detroit, just days before presenting a sweeping economic proposal to congress. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington with more o

. >> reporter: in nashville, tennessee, zainab elberry is a muslim activist who has been involved in interfaith work for more than 30 yearáy she says in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 she was heartened by the flood of support from the community. she received many invitations from religious groups that wanted to know more about her faith. >> by that time islam was known to america with a bang, unfortunately, and at that point i tried my best to educate and to share information with as many people as possible. >> reporter: she says interfaith relations were largely good. but then things began to change about two years ago. in several u.s. communities, including her own, anti-islamic groups began spreading a message alleging that muslim extremists were plotting a stealth campaign to take over america. >> it was really disheartening. was sad, and i really was a little scared, to be honest with you. >> reporter: in the town of mufreesboro, just outside nashville, there were sustained protests and vandalism surrounding the proposed expansion of the islamic center. tennessee legislators de

this is a great day for the state of tennessee. and i can tell you, based on the conversations we have had and the way i know you, united states senate is going to become very quickly a more interesting place to serve, and for all of us, who have been concerned about our lack of ability to solve our nation's greatest problems, i look at what you have done today as a step in the direction towards us being able, as a body, to more responsibly deal with the pressing issues that you outlined in your talk. so, i thank you for having the courage to step down from a position that many republican senators would love to have. i thank you for the way that you serve our country. i thank you for the example that you have been to so many in your public service in our state and our country, and i thank you for being my friend. >> robert king is meeting with south korean officials on resuming food aid to the north. this is two and a half hours. >> come to order. >> thank you for joining us for this very important hearing. human rights record in t

i think i can walk up and down the streets of tennessee and sell that to 99 out of 100 people. it increased revenues. >> is that the same thing as increased taxes? >> i am not going to try to write the bill before i see it. i am not on that committee. i will reserve the option -- i hope they consider everything. i will not try to say yes or no to the bill before i can read it. >> how much do you think the new freshmen in the house and senate have changed the overall atmosphere? it feels as if the house, as if it is going to be difficult to pass anything that is not staunchly conservative, especially on debt and taxes. how much of the newcomers in both places changed the makeup of the place? >> they have made a real difference. that shows our political system works well. what we have had for many years is a system where most of the forces were contributing towards spending more and a larger government. there were very few countervailing forces. the tea party movement and many of the new republicans have provided a new force that has said we will go the other direction. instead o

, everywhere, designs from canada, ohio, new york, the cylindrical panels atop the university of tennessee house are different, up to 20% more efficient than the old-fashioned counterparts they say, bifacial on appalachan state home generate power from both sides. you're a home builder. dow this sort of thing for a living. bi facial solar panels here, cylindrical over there, what is the most innovative idea you have seen on the rooftop. >> it would be a toss up. i really like what i see. i think the bottom line comes down to what it will cost to actually put them on a house. >> and cost is partly determined by tax breaks and government goodies, vulnerable to budget cuts. >> you are a home builder, involved in all kinds of energy efficiencies. these solar panels, can they happen without government subsidies because those are under attack. >> that step to get up there without some kind of subsidy is just almost never going to happen. >> but take heart, innovations go inside too. in perdue's in home this a tachbs to the air conditioner and filters air as it cycles through, in new zealand's fi

to storing frenzies surrounding mosque building plans near ground zero or even in tennessee ironically if you go to ground zero and you look around it's all surrounded by a whole lot of trucks most of their years and all the way to the peddling of myths that shariah law is the legal code of islam are about to be adopted in the u.s. . leading to. bills. and where you have roughly seven million muslims live in the us yet many americans have never had any real encounters with the community i corrupt in the northern midwest and anybody who tried to say that mexicans were going to take our jobs we have to confront the fact that really there were no mexicans living where we live and that's kind of the same thing here regardless of this argument. it's escalated to a point where i think in many ways it's it's good because it allows people to see how raw the bigotry really. here has also helped distract attention from frightening issues that whole there is a very serious economic crisis and so we think that is anti muslim pokers is really scapegoating and provided us with public support for war

he's a fine football coach at the university of tennessee. [laughter] >> they're playing very good football and i intend to be in my usual seats at the georgia game in two weeks. [laughter] >> madam president. >> the other senator from tennessee. >> madam president, thank you. i want to say to my colleague i certainly enjoyed your comments and i'm certainly excited for you. i sit very close with with you at the senate. i do plan to keep a cane out of your reach for a few days. [laughter] >> but i very much appreciate your service and leadership of the republican party here in the united states senate. and i think that what you've done in that position is to bring out the best in all of us in the best way that you can. i'm excited for you. and i look at this as a great day for the senate, the united states senate. it's a great day for our country. this is a great day for the state -- for the state of tennessee. i can tell you based on the conversations that we've had and the way that i know you, the united states is going to become very quickl

all the way through mississippi, tennessee, alabama, into georgia. some of this rais i going to be a good thing, but by the time we get to the end of the week, it may be flooding. look at the track, as i mentioned, just crawling along to north, transitioning into an extra-tropical cyclone. that really doesn't mean much, except it still has the chance oduce tons of rain. and then there's katia, a well-defined hurricane. you can see the eye of it here on the satellite picture, strengthening to 105 miles per hour today. that's going to continue to move off to the west, as will its waves and the rip current risk to the east coast of the united states. notice the track coming eerily close to cape hatteras and the outer banks. we may still be dealing with lee coming the end of this week. and kate, it's not even the middle or the heart of the hurricane season yet. back to you. >> not good news there. jim cantore, thanks so much. >>> meantime folks in the northeast are still dealing with the aftermath of last weekend's storm, irene. in already hard-hit vermo

this will be spreading across the deep south into the tennessee valley throughout the appalachians. widespread averages will be four to eight inches. we are concerned with this in the mountains that we have a threat of mud slides here. of course a lot of major cities are being affected. three to five inches between tonight and tuesday morning. this will head into the northeast as a cold front moves through. it's the cold front that produced a tornado in upstate new york this evening. we have video of it. we'll bring it to you and talk about what the whole thing will do to your travel coming up later. i'm hearing that we have the pictures in now. this is just in cranesville. the tornado was caught on camera moving through there. there was quite a bit of damage, trees down and power outages. we don't know if anyone was injured in the storm yet. we have crews on the scene and are talking with affiliates. we'll bring you information as we get it. look at the debris in the air. amazing pictures out of new york tonight. >> that's massive. you see the enormity in the picture. of we hope th

it will be gradually picking up forward speed and heading on up towards the tennessee valley. it will become what we call extra tropical. you call it a rainmaker and that's what it's going to be here, the rainfall totals in addition to what we already have are forecast generally to be on the range of 4 to 8 inches across the deep south. a few places will get hit harder. jackson could see 6 to 12, atlanta, 3 to 5, knoxville 4 to 7 and we have a cold front which is coming in along with that and that's going to be bringing in about 1 to 3 inches across the northeast today. we are expecting an additional flood threat here across parts of upstate new york, even into vermont where severe thunderstorm watches are in effect. those people reeling from irene. we have a big soaker in the southeast. this will be a long impact storm with the cold front moving on through. it will be an ugly mess for millions trying to travel tomorrow. >> that's what i wanted to ask you about. what are we looking at in terms of flight delays. >> like you. >> like me. trying to get home tomorrow from their ho

along with arizona, arkansas, california and tennessee. georgia scored some from a fly-by-night distributor operating out of the back of a driving school in west london in the uk. georgia killed two people using the drug they got out of the driving school. they brought it from a drug distributor operating in a fly-by-night shack and they used it to kill two people. then in march, the drug enforcement agency seized georgia's supply arguing the drug was imported illegally. they took away ever single vial of it the state had. how does georgia keep killing its prisoners? georgia decided to switch drugs. the state decided they would start using a drug that has the trade name nembutal instead to kill prisoners. it's a sedative used to euthanize animals. a danish company who makes nembutal shouldn't be used in executions. when they used it, reporters who witnessed the execution said the man being killed jerked his head several times throughout the procedure and muttered after the drug was injected and he was supposed to be asleep. controversy ove

he will run for reelection in tennessee and the governor of tennessee.somebody with a long time in public service and what it also does is shakes up who will take his place. he has been talked about that some day a candidate in south dakota puts his hat in. everyone watching john corn on in charge of senate republicans, he might be someone moving into leadership as well. the number two will retire in january 2013. a big mix up on the prominent faces in the gop party. >> kelly o bonle live. thank you, kelly. john boehner used particularly colorful language in his attack on the president's plan to raise taxes on millionaires. take a listen. >> giving the federal government more money would be like giving a cocaine addict more cocaine. >> joining me now is cnbc's correspondent john harwood. john, does congress have a coke habit? i'm not sure where he was going with that. we get the point, he doesn't like what he heard from the president. >> he was reaching for that colorful language because he and other republicans in congress, democrats in congress too cam

this was a series of dams constructed in the helmand valley based off the tennessee valley authority, and it's kind of a good story of the law of unintended consequences. using the tennessee valley authority as their model, american engineers thought what they would do is they would dam the rivers in the helmand valley in order to create dependable irrigation supplies and also begin to electrify the countryside just as in the tennessee valley. however, what happened was that in building those dams the unintended consequence was actually to raise the level of the water table, and in doing that it brought to the surface all the salt that had accumulated over time in that soil. and this soil had previously been

i am from dayton, tennessee. home of the scopes trial. i am not old enough to remember it. but i know several people that were there and it was carnival- like, and the table where it all started in, as i understand it, started as let's do something exciting or unusual, let's do this. so that is how it got started. and the older people have told me that dayton has grown into a booming little town. it has a play on the anniversary of the trial, and it is a very interesting place for people to come from all over the united states to see. i just wanted to say that we were known as the monkey town for a long time but now we are known as home of the scopes trial. i did not know william jennings bryan, but i did meet clarence darrow at a tea held for him by the women of dayton. we're glad that it happened there, and as i was told, it was kind of started for chattanooga, and chattanooga did not want it, so they decided to bring it to dayton. it has brought much economy to the city of dayton. >> thank you for calling in s

. >> we are watching a dangerous situation unfolding in memphis, tennessee. warning has been in affect for maybe the last 25 minutes or so. we have a tower cam that i want to show you that we're watching. there's been a lot of lightning associated with. this low-hanging clouds. from time to time. we may have seen a wall cloud. you can see a lightning strike right there. this is for fayette county, shelby counties are now under tornado warnings and the storm has a history of producing large hail when it was over the state line before it moved in to tennessee when it was in to arkansas. we have seen reports of between golf ball and tennis ball-size hail. this is a dangerous storm. this is north of downtown memphis. i will show you it on the radar picture. you can see the area we're talking about. it is kind of getting bad data in here. it is right over the radar site. this is the area we are talking about, compared to downtown. there are multiple storms, which developed to the south and west of there. there are more storms moving in to the area as we head throu

iowa's game against tennessee tech was just one game delayed by foul weather today. lightning led officials to clear the stadium. the story was the same in south bend, indiana, for notre dame, south florida, and in knoxville for tennessee-montana. fans in and arbor didn't get to see the fourth quarter. michigan's match-up was called off because of lightning. the teams agreed to end the game with the wolverines up dean obeidallah-10. not something fans want to see. jacqui jeras is at the weather center. we know how football fans are. they are into the game. this is opening weekend. better to be safe, right? >> absolutely. it was great to see they actually evacuated some of these stadiums to keep people safe throughout the storm. bummer for football fans. tomorrow is another day. hopefully next weekend we'll get great games in. we are tracking storms still moving across the midwest at this hour. a sliver of a severe thunderstorm watch which includes the det tro metro area. you guys have been pounded with heavy rain, lots of lightning. we've seen strong gusty winds to g

that's what we do in tennessee, where we have no bonded indebtedness on our roads. we pay -- >> apparently the state of tennessee is deficient, because you've got 182 bridges in your district, congresswoman, below code. >> i said do away with that 10% set-aside on enhancement money. >> congressman ryan's got 85 in his district. these jobs are not getting done. the money should be spent to keep our bridges safe, some people think, others don't, but i think you're with fixing the bridges. congresswoman, thanks for coming on, congresswoman marsha blackburn who believes in infrastructure spending, and congressman tim ryan that also does. >> coming up next, what is it about rick perry that shot him to the top of the republican field? we'll talk to ad guru donny deutsch, who has a strong feeling about why this guy is kicking butt in the republican party and while they're all coming after him and not coming after romney because he's way down in second place now. this has "hardball," only on msnbc. ♪ [ male announcer ] you never know when a moment might turn into something