and great execution defensively by tennessee. [cheers and applause] >> tim: bench points, 15 to 0 in this game. still a 2-possession game for napier. he rattles it home and a quick foul given up by niels giffey. still 2.7 left. gnashing of teeth continues. >> greg: and nothing has been easy down the stretch. they have had so many situations and opportunities to win close games down the stretch. let's see how they finish this one. >> tim: now you're guaranteed a shot to at least tie it, if you can get the rebound. >> greg: unless they decide to foul. and keep in mind, they do have a halftime. -- a time-out. >> tim: he did take it. 2.7 left. they will set it up and we'll finish it up in a moment. >> tim: there is the game reset. do you have a baseball pass length of the floor? >> greg: you should have an opportunity, if they can advance it, to make two passes. 2.7 is a lot of time. can you inbound it and get napier on the run. >> tim: napier in position to get it and he does, at midcourt. [buzzer] >> tim: tennessee wins! 60-57. a s

and great execution defensively by tennessee. [cheers and applause] >> tim: bench points, 15 to 0 in this game. still a 2-possession game for napier. he rattles it home and a quick foul given up by niels giffey. still 2.7 left. gnashing of teeth continues. >> greg: and nothing has been easy down the stretch. they have had so many situations and opportunities to win close games down the stretch. let's see how they finish this one. >> tim: now you're guaranteed a shot to at least tie it, if you can get the rebound. >> greg: unless they decide to foul. and keep in mind, they do have a halftime. -- a time-out. >> tim: he did take it. 2.7 left. they will set it up and we'll finish it up in a moment. >> tim: there is the game reset. do you have a baseball pass length of the floor? >> greg: you should have an opportunity, if they can advance it, to make two passes. 2.7 is a lot of time. can you inbound it and get napier on the run. >> tim: napier in position to get it and he does, at midcourt. [buzzer] >> tim: tennessee wins! 60-57. a s

and he replied that i tennessee and he replied that he had relatives in northeast tennessee and perhaps i knew some of them. he identified his great uncle isaac as having owned a farm at which his father thomas had worked as something of a hired hand in the 1790s and he also identified another great uncle, a gentleman by the name of mordecai who lived in the town of greenville, to which i replied greenville is my hometown. and your great uncle mordecai in fact performed the wedding ceremony for me and my wife e eliza in 1827 as well as we bed on the town council together in 1829 and i reassured mr. lincoln that he was in good hands in terms of politics that his great uncle had gained a great many more votes than i had. but like many young men who came into congress at the time, we went in there with goals. and each of us had a cherished goal that we wanted to achieve in that congress. mine was the introduction of a homestead bill. for mr. lincoln, it was the introduction of legislation which would have provided for compensated emancipation of slaves in the district of columbia. and like

home to nearly all of tennessee's death row inmates. it contains the state's only operating death chamber. yet, even outside death row, the majority of riverbend's convicts are considered so dangerous they remain on lockdown 23 hours a day. you're about to see firsthand the extreme measures prison staff take to control such an explosive population and discover what can happen when so many offenders have so little to lose. nashville, tennessee, is the world-famous home of country music, but just four miles from downtown is home to this state's most violent offenders. it's a high-tech correctional facility called riverbend maximum security institution. riverbend opened in 1989 and sits on 132 acres. it replaced its 100-year-old predecessor, the tennessee state penitentiary, known as the walls. today, riverbend houses close to 700 male inmates, 480 of them are high risk offenders, classified this way because they're a threat to the security of the institution and other inmates. >> we house the worst of the worst including the male inmates,

graduated from tennessee state and degree in english in 1964. she married her childhood friend on december 12. they are the parents of fredrick and twins robert and john. her education continued with a master's degree in early childhood literature, and programming in 1975 from webster university. patricia has a successful career as a teacher and children's book editor. she changed careers to become a full time writer of children and young adult books. her goal is to create books for and about african-americans. i write because there is a need to have books for, by and about the african-american experience and how we helped to develop this country. i present to you patricia makinsik heart of literacy. >> i am from st. louis, missouri. a lot of you think i have said it in correctly when i said missouri. you think i got it slid into my southern dialect, right? no. i was not born in st. louis. i was born in nashville, tennessee, a little town side of nashville. that is where i grew up, went to high school, met and married my husband. moved back to s

. >>> also a trip to tennessee to visit a dairy operation recognized for innovation. ? first, the headlines. morgan is at news desk. >> thank you. a combination of severe drought in the southern plains and historicly high grain prices continue to drive hay prices higher. at this time hay is nearly $70 a ton more than a year ago. according to the recent agriculture prices report the all hay price in december was $177 a ton. that's up slightly from november but $66 higher than december 2010. at $199 a ton alfalfa hay is even higher, nearly $80 more than last year. >>> a farm that includes acres in colorado and kansas is on the market. it wants to take advantage of strong farmland values, low interest rates and rising commodity prices. that's why the farming operation is base putting nearly 18,000 acres up for sale. it's located near burlington colorado and some of the tracks just over the kansas state line. you may remember the name. been was a finalist for the top producers of the year award in 2010. >>> the obama administration puts the brakes on a 1700-mile pipeline pr

is not afraid to show off its conservatism when it comes to social issues pretty sure that tennessee comes really close in taking the cake and one thing of the tennessee government stands up to fight for is anything related to restricting the rights of lesbians gays transgenders and bisexuals if you remember we told you a while back about the state implementing as be zero zero four nine also known as the don't say gay bill. no public elementary or middle school shall provide any instruction or material that discusses sexual orientation other than heterosexuality the man behind the bill you can't even talk about being homosexual in tennessee public schools because if you don't talk about gay people apparently just disappear but the state legislator didn't think that that bill went far enough they really wanted to make sure their state had no gays so former state legislator and current christian activist david fowler proposed an anti bullying bill that would actually protect the bully if he were really abuse somebody because it's his religious or philosophical belief you heard right th

this is the tennessee prison for women. >> we have everything here from forgery to murderers. it does look like a college campus. but we have surveillance cameras everywhere. we have random strip searches. we have cell searches. our main objective is to keep the inmates safe and our staff. we want our staff to be able to go home to their families every day. >> hey, hey, move, move, move, move. >> fight! >> hey, everybody in their cell now! >> in here, just as in any men's prison, correctional staff can find themselves in the middle of a sudden outbreak of violence. >> sit down, sit down. up to unit one. >> go to your room. shut the doors. >> if you all don't get in your cells, i'm going to take taking everybody to jail. >> you don't have to do this, man. >> come on, let's ride. >> there was a physical altercation on unit one. inmates were separated by staff on the units and the yard officers responded. the one na initiated the incident has been taken. i said go to your cell. >> this time, a potentially violent situation is quickly contained. but some of these inmates committed

one of the stops was the andrew johnson homestead in greenville, tennessee. a site own and operated by the park service. he served as vice president under president lincoln. here is park guide daniel luther portraying president jns and telling the story how johnson met abraham lincoln. >> in 0th congress representing the people. i met an extremely tall, raw boned young man representing the prairie state of illinois and his name is abraham lincoln. we fell into conversation, and i introduced myself and told him i was from northeast tennessee, and he replied he has relatives and perhaps i knew some of them. he identified his great uncle isaac as having owned a farm and his father, thomas lincoln, worked as a hired hand, and he also identified another great uncle, a gentleman by the name of morticah. i replied greenville is any hometown. your great uncle performed the wedding ceremony for me and my wife eliza in 1827 as well as mortica and i served on the town council in 1829. i reassured mr. lincoln he was in good hands in terms of politics. his great uncle gai

the rain is heading through tennessee, areas of alabama. georgia, you're next. we have thunderstorms rolling through the sunshine state. tallahassee and panama city and as far as what we are dealing with, this is all rain even up to the ohio valley. temperatures plenty warm through kentucky and a shield of rain covering you. the next 48 hours, all of this rain is going to begin to spread to the east later on today through d.c. and virginia, tonight and thursday through southern new england. the only areas cold enough for wintry precip and snow is central and northern new england. the mountain areas and the ski resorts will get snow out of this. the predicted rainfall together, new york city 1.5 and d.c. close to an inch and same for pittsburgh. significant rain event but will not cause problems for severe storms. once the costorm goes by, the cd air wraps into it. our computers think we will get significant shows, chicago, milwaukee, madison and possibly northern portions of wisconsin and the snow in northern new england. we will talk about that tomorrow. that i

states out there for tennessee and he's also a christian activist that's linked to the family action council and just to give you the just about what fowler and the family action cancel council stand for here's fowler explaining in his own words his stance on marriage who we are is the belief that the producers are going to say to me i'm on the right and if they're going to marry the raising of children is a good christmas i think it's good for everyone. all right so i make it pretty clear that he's soley for traditional marriage between a man and a woman and will he also happens to be a homophobe and in fact we try to look up information about fowler all we could find were clips of him spitting hate about gay marriage and homosexuality we can't change what marriage is are cannot draw a square circles and i cannot draw all round squares and i cannot make a marriage between two people of the same sex. you know i have to ask what's with all these pows in comparing gay marriage with things like beer or water or circles and squares and shapes but anyway getting off track now fowler is pr

it will bring the wet weather up to tennessee and the ohio valleys. we don't have too many severe storms out there, but there's a line of storms over lake okeechobee and new orleans maybe a rumble or two. a stream of heavy rain heading up through the heart of mississippi. then it's on its way to tennessee and kentucky. it will pour all day today into tonight. you see a little pink. there are reports of sleet in northern indiana, many portions of central and northern ohio. if you're heading outside, pittsburgh, maybe a little coating of ice out there. be careful as you walk out on your sidewalk. otherwise, plain old rain. lexington, louisville, you will get drenched under flood watches. we could see two inches of rain today and tonight. we could see localized flooding. we saw sleet overnight in areas of new jersey. southern new england, it peaked. now it's fizzling out. you may see a little coating of ice out there this morning too, especially areas outside the big cities. as far as the forecast goes today, we will see rain moving back in during the da

state representative joe reagan and the tennessee state legislature raygun a state representative from tennessee read recently compared homosexuality to pedophilia prostitution and murder and also said that homosexuality could be controlled by mentally healthy adult human beings or by clinics run by michele bachmann's husband these comments come in support of proposed legislation in tennessee. fifty three what many are calling the license to bully bill because it would protect bullies protect bullies who harass students based on their sexual orientation along with house bill love and fifty three the state legislature will also consider a bill that prevents school teachers from discussing or providing information home social looks like rick santorum is going to move it and see what his presidential bid fails and the very very ugly oklahoma state senator ralph shortie file this under absolutely insane legislation shortie recently conducted extensive research into his state's use of human fetuses in its food. after reading less than credible reports apparently on the internet webs it stat

. >> we met edward mckowen in tennessee at the river bend institution. >> i was ordained as a catholic priest in nashville in january of 1970. i served as an active priest for 19 years at which time i was in effect mustered out of the priesthood because of my behavior. i am, in effect, a child molesters. >> according to police investigators, mckowen admitted to molesting 22 boys, both during and after his time as a priest. the statute of limitations had run out on all but one. it got him a 25-year sentence. >> i certainly had some anxious moments when i walked in because of the way child molesters are traditionally treated in prison, which is not very good, you know. but the truth is, i have not been mistreated at all, either by inmates or staff. >> mckowen is lucky, as sex offenders go. he's assigned to the prison's one minimum security wing where most of the inmates are more interested in going home rather than getting in trouble. it's not the only positive thing mckowen sees in his incarceration. >> i was a catholic priest for a long time. i was then and i am now, you know, a person

it wasn't a real hitman she was hearing, it was a tennessee bureau of investigation agent undercover agent. >> how do you put feelers out for something like that? let me just ask around, see -- >> put a craigslist ad out. i'm looking for someone who's going to kill my husband. >> the deal was made on the lowry's front porch. >> our undercover agent met with her on her front porch. she told him that she would give him $5,000 if he killed her husband and the reason she wanted him killed was because she was desperate for money and she was the beneficiary of his life insurance policy. >> and the payout is $65,000. >> oh, my gosh. >> that's it? >> the lowry's neighbor dorothy helped get mr. lowry out of the house so that the tbi investigators could take over. >> so the lowrys still married or are they in couple's counseling after this? >> according to reports, imajean is in jail under $200,000 bond. but the sad part about this is imajean lowry is disabled and mr. lowry had been the person who helped her in and out of the home, built a ramp in the back of her house so she could get in and

he said you just really need to go back to east tennessee.led out application after application after application. >> i have adult children right now. my son in particular. people are qy working class and working poor are going into the military and finding a steady stream of income, sometimes for the first time in their lives, they are reluctant to stop and say, i don't care if the war is wrong, i don't have another way to feed my family. it doesn't matter if i have posttraumatic stress, because i need that health care for my children. >> we have talked a lot of people, and they say these people are going to college and getting in education, they would not have this problem. to me, that is nonsense. a person's education or lack thereof does not give you the right to tell them that they cannot provide for their family. >> i feel pressure to find a job and contribute to our household, and to begin to reestablish myself, i was living my own -- living on my own. i now have student loan debt, and i do feel that pressure, but i do miss having some

of the tennessee equality project., i'd like to start with you. your response to the tennessee equality project and other gay rights groups who say that this would give students a license to bully. >> well, first, let me make it clear that, that's just not true. bullying is wrong, period. any student and all students deserve to be protected from bullying. this bill actually puts into the statute the parameters of the first amendment rights that students have according to our courts, from the supreme court's case in tinker all the way down to the 7th circuit case from last march, the zelnick case from the 7th circuit. so i don't know why there's such a controversy that putting what the courts have said is permitted and what's not permitted into a statute in tennessee would be considered a license to bully because that's not what this bill does when you read it objectively consistent with what the courts have said. >> michelle, what do you say? >> well, actually, i'm really happy to hear david fowler say that no child de

and it never got out of committee in tennessee. last year it actually did and it got passed by the tennessee senate. now it's in the house and they're going to vote on it again. as you can imagine, gay and lesbian, bisexual, transgender people in tennessee are very alarmed about it. nationally, people are alarmed about it because this will be the first state that would ban discussion of homosexuality and they're putting other bills in place as well in tennessee. they have -- they want to actually exempt people who speak against homosexuality based on religion from the anti-bullying bull in the schools. >> i want to deal with that. this shocked me. there are two teenagers that committed suicide, two gay teenagers from his state and what he said and i was reading from your interview that bullying thing is the biggest lark out there. how did he explain that? >> caller: yeah. it's really extraordinary. we've seen these reports, of course, of suicides, of gay teens in the media for quite a while. these two stories in tennessee. bullying

>> reporter: republican state senator bill ketron wrote the tennessee law. >> we want to make sure that the purity of my vote or your vote is not disenfranchised by someone-- and all it takes is one-- to knock your vote out. >> reporter: in south carolina, the republican governor nikki haley, stands behind the state's new law. >> we have to show picture i.d. if we're using our check card or getting on a plane or buying sudafed. what are you scared of? >> reporter: but the justice department has rejected the south carolina law saying it violates the voting rights act. that means it won't be in effect for this saturday's primary, but the governor is threatening to sue the administration, scott, to try to get the law reinstated. >> pelley: nancy, thanks very much. fraud is a concern tonight for customers at zappos after the popular online shoe store was hacked. as many as 24 million customers may have been affected. the hackers gained access to customer names, phone numbers, and addresses. but zappos says they were only able to see the last four

we just talked about -- >> cleveland, tennessee. >> oh, tennessee. i didn't see the tennessee. good, good. you lost your beloved george this past october, wasn't it? >> yes, we did. >> how are you doing? >> day by day. >> we are going to lift your spirits when you come and see us. >> have you ever been to new york before? >> no. i've been through new york, but didn't stop. >> we are going to ask you to stop for a couple of days. we look forward to honoring you. you're an incredible lady. i'm sure you are an amazing mom. we are going to listen to betsy and give you your day and your song, all right? >> thank you. >> we are so excited. thank you for picking her. she deserves it. >> you wrote a beautiful letter, betsy, thank you. >>> next, three women who have become half their size weigh in on how they did it. >> head-to-toe overhauls we call ambush makeovers. but first, these messages. >>> every year "people" magazine scours the country for americans who have used only diet and exercise to become exactly half their size. >> the magazine is out and three of the ladies featured ar

if you're in kentucky or tennessee or mississippi or louisiana. then friday morning all of that heavy rain will be in areas of southern new england and the mid-atlantic so keep that in mind for your plans. >>> if you're watching on hgh 7 news in boston, mass, in nearby cambridge experience the new england forests at t. that is your "early today" event of the today. >>> >>> here is an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. >>> a source told e news going into the hospital, demi moore was acting like she was suffering from a seizure. tmz reports moore's hospital trip was brought on by inhaling nightus oxide. sources say moore is addicted to one or more prescription drugs and that addiction led to the breakup with ashton kutcher. >>> elsewhere, elizabeth taylor's auction may be continued when a portrait that once hung in her living room sold for $2 million. >>> all right. here is today's information winner. project runways tim gunn who admits he hasn't had sex for the last 29 years, that's not a typo. >>> finally, rapper 50 cent who

i was hired by the sheriff's department in 1983 under the leadership of my tennessee. -- mike hennesseylause] i have one of the most incredible work experiences in my life, working at the o'connor jail. i think that it has come full circle. now, michael has passed on the that -- the baton to someone who will definitely carry on that tradition. once again, i am very proud and happy to be a participant in this. we have an extraordinary program for you this evening. i will not be doing a whole lot of running my mouthth >> thank you so much. that was quite lovely. and continuing in the tradition of exploring a culture, we are going to -- our next performance will be by [unintelligible] a little bit about what she is going to share with us this afternoon. her company specializes in classical and contemporary persian bands. the dance company is directed by her in a group of dances and -- dancers and choreographers dedicated to exploring the boundaries of artistic movement and exploration while trying to stay true to that ethics of asian -- ancient persian esthetics. they perform at various ev

areas in tennessee aren't going to be too bad either.o complaints from nashville to memphis with highs in the mid-60s. this won't last forever. i mean, there's mid february is looking like a return to went. >> we will enjoy it while it lasts. >>> coming up, more euro worries. cruising takes a bruising and the state paying tribute to toto. your early morning headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, rarely has anyone performing on "saturday night live" been hit with such savage reviews. now del ray is having her say. >>> coming up the giants touch down and the magic unravel and quite possibly the dunk of the year. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. welcome back. i'm lynn berry. here are your top headlines this morning. >>> a nuclear reactor north of chicago shut down on monday. it lost power and the steam was vented to cool the reactor. officials say the steam contained face levels of a radioactive form of hydrogen. >>> the food and drug administration is being sued by staffers who were legally protected whistle blowers. the l

we're taking you now, we're taking over here from broadway in nashville, tennessee. this is the music drop. the crowd is going wild. legendary southern rockers, i don't know if you can hear him, lynrd skyrnd. we're taking you through live. take a look at this crowd. it is tremendous. nashville, thank you very having cnn. we're going to get a quick break in. total transparency here. we're about to do something on cnn we've never done before. the zach brown band in the middle of a sold out concert right now in atlanta. they're going to take a pause because they're going to talk to me and to you. keep tweeting, hash tag cnnnye, we're back after this. 0ñ@ñfÑ welcome. i understand you need a little help with your mortgage, want to avoid foreclosure. smart move. candy? um-- well, you know, you're in luck. we're experts in this sort of thing, mortgage rigamarole, whatnot. r-really? absolutely, and we guarantee results, you know, for a small fee, of course. such are the benefits of having a professional on your side. [whistles, chuckles] why don't we get a contract? who want

that is exactly what share at hennessy has done. -- that is exactly what share of tennessee has done.sheriff hennessy has done. i asked sheriff mirkarimi to challenge institutions. as i am sure that he would agree, no other institution is as broken as our criminal justice system. [applause] sheriff hennessey made great strides in paving the way for san francisco's innovative criminal justice policy to serve as an example for all other counties in california and throughout the country. sheriff mirkarimi, you haven't earned the honor and distinction of carrying the torch. the best to you, as you embark on this venture. thank you for being here today. please join me again in congratulating sheriff mirkarimi. [applause] now, i have the honor of introducing the former mayor of san francisco, who will be swearing in sheriff mirkarimi. [applause] >> thank you very much. this is an important day in our city. a day where we take the oath of office for our elected leaders. i am very proud to be the installing officer today. i have been on the other end of taking the oath over the years and i al

this morning we're watching that rain pushing across the tennessee valley. nashville getting pounded with heavy rain. also areas in northern alabama up to kentucky. this whole storm system heads our way for the afternoon. this morning as you go out, frosty from -- to great falls. loudoun county, leesburg up to lovettsville in the 20s. manassas down to 25. 29 alexander. even from andrews air force base, 27 degrees. in columbia this morning 29. so lots of frosty areas to start the day. our high temperatures, thanks to the clouds and rain moving in, 41 in lurray to 45 in washington. monica samtani, happy wednesday. >>> happy wednesday. it is a happy wednesday for commuters because the rains haven't come in yet. roads are relatively dry and things are looking great outside. good morning, everybody. the beltway is great. we're going to go all the way up to frederick where there are no problems to report if you're going from mount airy down the line from 270 as you head for clarksburg and the point where the lanes divide. everything is fine. we'll go to a live loo

there's some heavy rain in tennessee now. some of that moderate to heavier rain arriving here later today. so clouding up this morning, sunrise at 7:26. and then by noontime, the low 40s. and the metro area will probably see the first raindrops early afternoon. then wet after that. and chilly, too, with temperatures only in the low to mid 40s. training tonight. a look t evening -- rain continuing tonight. a look at traffic. >>> prince george's county, capitol height, addison at walker mill road. just be careful. and checking travel speeds in our area, some areas look really good. for example, if you're traveling 50 making your way from 301 to the beltway, you're at 64 miles per hour. connecting to the beltway on 50 on the outer loop making your way toward i-95, you're at 59 miles per hour. heading to virginia on i-95, slow. prince william parkway to the capital beltway, 39 miles per hour. i've give you a live look at fairfax county pea parkway, slow hitting the prax. no problems north or south. back to you. >> thank you. >>>

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>>clayton: in tennessee you will be in trouble, the tennessee legislature is doing something interestingstarted with what happened at the 9/11 memorial, a ten woman went there and had a licensed firearm with her and that was a problem because you cannot bring a licensed gun, she told authorities, and this happened to a marine, same thing, a possible arrest, up to 11 years possibly in prison, and tennessee, though, not happy with what happened. >>alisyn: but she brought a loaded licensed gun from tennessee, new york city law requires you have a new york city license to carry a gun. so she didn't know that. >>clayton: how can anyone be of new york city's laws when you have a people, should we on, if you are allowed --. >>alisyn: and she did the right thing and saying, oops, i have a gun here where can i check it and they arrested her. so tennessee is fighting back and they have said, all new yorkers sudden look out on the roads in tennessee if new yorkers plan to come and visit their state. >>dave: they are considering a resolution, "we remind the citizens of new york especially those resi

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