this is a hotly contested issue in tennessee. tennessee republicans are now in the mix. they're vocal opponents against unionization. the governor down there warned unionization could damage tennessee chances of luring new businesses to the state. hold it right there again. this is the age old argument that if you actually pay someone a living wage that the whole states economy is going to go in the crapper. really? how about the automobile loan that president obama floated out to ohio? that help the economy at all? how about the most recent commercial out there by mr. snyder in michigan talking about reelection? think he'd like to give back that automobile loan? you can go in state after state where the automobile loan was forked out to these economies and they've had a revival of sorts. the republicans are outraged by these uaw efforts to get people a living wage. watson is taking his opposition to a new level. this guy is making threats. he says that if the plant votes to unionize, new tax incentives for expansion could have a tough time of passing in the state senate

tennessee, but they haven't left yet. i want to bring in two volkswagen workers from the chattanooga plant. i see you have some supporters behind you as well. great to have both of you guys with us tonight. justin, you first. how much of an effort has been pushed by the employees to get this vote where it is now? >> this effort has been all the employees. the uaw is supported, but it was the employees who contacted the uaw, not the other way around. it's been the employees who have done all the talking to other employees. it's been the employees who have done this entire process. >> so the uaw didn't come banging on your door with sticks and drums and everything else saying we've got to unionize from this shop. it was by the employees, is that what i'm hearing? >> yes. >> what would the uaw do for workers at this plant? what's the upside here? >> the upside that we see and the one that we're truly interested in is it will help us fix the one problem we have here at the plant here in chattanooga. we have failed to fully em

senator bob corker of tennessee and governor bill haslem. they were pressuring employees to vote no. this was a flat out republican anti-media blitz is what it was. workers were swayed into voting against their own self-interests when you look at it. here's what republicans were saying leading into the vote. put yourself in their position if you heard stuff like this from an elected official. >> the officers a month ago talking about fighting and combat and all of those kind of things, if that's the kind of environment you want, uaw are the people to choose. >> there's no question if the uaw comes there, it will impact our ability to recruit other businesses to tennessee. >> i believe any additional insentives from the citizens from the state of tennessee for expansion or otherwise will have a very tough time passing the tennessee senate. >> you've got a facility that's the most advanced environmentally sound facility in the world right here in chattanooga, tennessee. what's this about? it's about one thing. it's about money and it's about p

last year, tennessee had the number one growth rate among states. 33,000 new union members inside tennesseeyou have to put into perspective that's only about 6% of tennessee's workforce, there's still a long way to go. >> what may account for the absence of unions in the south? >> well i think a lot of it is just generational. you have labor battles fought in the north many years ago, and there were a lot of plit issues that separated -- political issues that separated a lot of the southern states, even going into some racial issues that you know, there was a fear in some acases that potentially by bringing in unions they might have to offer similar benefits to both white workers as well as black workers, so there was some conflict there. but that goes a long way back and what you find now is that the south is a hotbed for the gop, and there's a feeling among, certainly among members of that party that unions kind of make it more difficult for businesses to thrive and grow. and among workers there's a feeling of independence. they want to make their own decisions versus having decisions mad

instead, thanks to tennessee republicans, the opposition forces were outside the plant.governor bill haslem announced that auto suppliers wouldn't relocate to chattanooga if the workers unionized. tennessee senator bob corker, the city's former mayor and a man whom two weeks ago pledged not to get involved, he issued the following pronouncement just two days ahead of the vote. should the workers vote against the uaw, volkswagen will announce it will manufacture its new mid size suv here in chattanooga. there was just one problem with his statement. it wasn't true. the chairman of volkswagen, a man named frank fisher, responded. there is no connection between our chattanooga's employees decision and where to build a new product for the u.s. department. grover norquist launched the center for worker freedom. this billboard delivered the suggestion of socialism, united obama workers. and this one meant to strike fear in the hearts of workers everywhere. detroit, brought to you by the uaw. >> so they can't help with the wages. you've got a facility that is the most advanced

we're watching a landmark labor vote in tennessee.kers a volkswagon plant voting on whether to join a union. >>> in southern england 16 severe flood warnings now this place. a hard-hit area is about 25 miles west of london. >>> another serious ice storm now slamming the southeast. the national weather service predicting more than an inch of ice could accumulate in parts of georgia. but schools have been closed and as you can see most drivers are staying home. and as we saw the interstates are almost empty this time. >> yeah, and they are getting that coating of ice now. we are talking about a significant snow storm, but not until tomorrow. we're dealing with the ice now. temperatures forecasted below freezing, getting rain fall going this very cold area. so that is the problem there. willing testimony is at 38. the cold air is trapped in place from the north, and we're getting a lot of the warm air and moisture coming up from the south. this continues through 6:00, by 7:00, 8:00, we're still seeing that mixing coming down, but it will

that's better for tennessee? that's better for -- better for the workers in tennessee. >> you believe the united states senator ought to get in the middle and say one vote -- >> it's also kind of obvious. the president of the united states got involved. >> that's what they do. they're talking about bringing jobs to tennessee. corker says, i want more jobs in tennessee. if it means keeping the uaw out of auto plants in tennessee, so be it. >> and the workers in tennessee know that they have a lot of competition around the world, and the mexico plant, whether corker had said that or not, obviously, there are choices to be made if you're a company, where are the best workers and where can you get the best deal? if mexico offers them the best deal, maybe they'll make that decision. >> you know what else? i think the people down there looked over at detroit and said, we don't want to be that, which is basically the mona lisa of union damage. that's all you have to look at and go, sorry, i think we'll go our way. >> un

. >>> an elderly nun who broke into a nuclear plant in tennessee will learn how much time she'll spendn prison. she and two other peace activists admitted to breaking into the center. jonathan martin is live outside of the courthouse in knoxville, why did they break into the plant in the first place? >> reporter: they said their move was more symbolic than anything. they wanted to show their disfaction with america's use and really the stockpile and storage of nuclear weapons. and keep in mind the national security complex here in tennessee is supposed to be one of the most secure in the country, but these individuals were able to cut through wires, get into the complex for about an hour, and walked up to one of the buildings that stores nucle nuclear uranium, and spray painted the walls splashed the laws with blood. so it exposed a big security breach here in the country, del. >> reporter: john than, what type of punishment are they facing for this crime? >> reporter: well, up to 20 years. they have been convicted of sabotage, so they each will be convicted in just an an hour or so. w

his statement came back to bite him in the back and and to by tennessee and all the american south in the backside unfortunately first thing is this is a united states senator along with a congressman zach wamp who intentionally and deliberately kept their constituents from increasing their quality of life their security and their standard of living and the future of their kids that's number one number two the there is a reason that germany with as much wealth and highly paid workers as they do has an export surplus it's because they have ports councils it's because business and labor and government works together to make sure the make the best possible product and they are able to export it we should do the same and and all the german worse counsel is saying is look we're not millette you go to the american south and exploit those workers and undermine here home in germany it's it makes a lot of sense if you're a german metal worker. now the german metal workers union is to be congratulated for pushing as hard as they have on on volkswagen and bob corker did well he proved that he wa

to tennessee.t makes us so attractive is very, very antiunion state. last year we voted to do unionize the teachers union. that is how much we don't appreciate it. when volkswagen was first coming into the state of tennessee, the tennessee taxpayers offered $577 million with the thought they would not ring the union into the volkswagen plant. those bones of the uaw were the puppeteers plunder strings of obama campaigning for uaw to -@come into volkswagen. it is the whether or not they can infiltrate all of our automobile industries in the united states. stuart: senator corker says if you reject the union, you workers at that plan, you will get to build a midsize suv. if you accept the union, maybe it will produce the thing in mexico. now, the nlrb, largely obama appointees, on the side of unions, they say not fair. the senator cannot come in and offer an inducement to the workers to reject the union. what do you say? >> i like they are criticizing bob corker when a brother president themselves into

most thought they did score a big victory in the volunteer state and for good reason to tennessee is actually the fastest growing state in the country for union membership and because the union the u.a.w. wanted to create in chattanooga was supposed to be part of a plan to create a european style works council like they actually have in germany volkswagen didn't oppose the unionization rose fight with. but it appears that a last minute scare campaign by led by republican lawmakers including tennessee senator bob corker of tennessee governor bill haslam worked like a charm it's hard to see just how many votes corker has the other conservatives took away from the u.a.w. but there's no question that there are scare tactics had a huge impact on that election by threatening to take away volkswagens tax incentives of workers approve the union and by warning that a pro union vote would scare volkswagen away from building its new s.u.v.s in town and see neither which might have been true anti-union crowd apparently so frighten the small number of workers that they provided the margin for the

that apparently worked against them in tennessee because some volkswagen workers in tennessee were already making what some newer uaw workers make at other plants. and apparently that led some workers to question what the benefit of being in the union would be. >> that's why they said no, it looks like. bob king thanks for your time today. >> thanks for having me. >>> today jurors entered their fourth day of deliberation of mike dunn. dunn fired four rounds of shots into jordan's suv. invoking the stand your ground law. >>> the way women's sexuality is portrayed in the media. ♪ what is this place? where are we? this is where we bring together the fastest internet and the best in entertainment. we call it the x1 entertainment operating system. it looks like the future! we must have encountered a temporal vortex. further analytics are necessary. beam us up. ♪ that's my phone. hey. [ female announcer ] the x1 entertainment operating system, only from xfinity. tv and internet together like never before. >> rivers are still rising and now i.t. has -- it last started raining again. weeks of reco

a landmark labor vote unfolding in tennessee.a volkswagon there decides whether to join the united auto workers union. >>> a dangerous winter storm slamming southeast us. snow and ice already causing major problems. more than 200,000 homes and businesses without power at this hour. and the storm will be heading up the coast. >> it will be moving north. the actual track depends on who sees the most snow, but that's what we're looking at. high-pressure keeping the cold air at the surface. it will redevelop as the storm moves across the southeast, then we're getting gulf moisture and atlantic moisture together. here is the actual track. you see how it redevelops here by 1:00 in the morning. this is bands of heavy snow coming in. this looks to be all snow from philadelphia to nigh a even i-95 down to baltimore and washington, d.c. then a change could happen as warmer air gets pulled in. then back to snow as the moisture wraps around and the cold air approaches from the west. it won't end until friday at around 3:00 in the morning. th

why do you think volkswagen would be better off in michigan than tennessee?town. we make things. it's what we do. it's in our dna. it's in our blood. we make the cadillac cts, ats, the buick enclave and the chevy traverse. this is what we do. we have a manufacturing tradition. we have a tremendous manufacturing prowess. and we embrace all manufacturing, union, nonunion, you name it, we wake it. we have a great relationship with uaw. that's one of the reasons general motors continues to expand here. if they're going to try to punish people for exercising basic american rights in tennessee, that's another thing we respect is basic american rights and american law, labor law, that allows workers to make the decision without coercion. i mean, corker should put a cork in it, don't you think, ed? give me a break. >> i just find this amazing that he is out saying that he has been assured. he should tell us by who. and what was the correspondence. was it a comment in passing? is there a letter? is there an e-mail? what ever? he should tell people who assured him if t

and chattanooga and those areas of tennessee and people, they fear that. now, whether or not it's true or not, to bob's point, i don't know. but they fear it and that's what drove them to vote the way they vote. >> you're probably rightn most of that. mielle, in a right-to-work state, they don't he to pay union dues -- pay a little attention. in right-to-work states, if you unionize, you do not have to give your money to the union to give to democrats. they don't hav to -- just so you get th straight. >> michelle? >> i'm not even going to answer that. thats so -- the way you just spoke to me was so condescending and inappropriate. >> i'm sorry. i just wanted to try to correct the -- >> we want to wrap this up. >> go ahead, jon. what the unis have become, they've become a political party. they've become a wayf bringing money to the democrats. more so than protecting any worker's rights. >> and not just a political party. but they use politics, they use government force to create higher-than-market wages and the net result is the same thing as the minimum wa

i think some areas -- i don't think tennessee falls in that category.t. this could provide a new model. each side is going to have to compromise a bit here. volkswagon if this passes volkswagon is going to see a work council slightly different than they've seen in their plants around the globe. the uaw is going to enter into an agreement as john articulated so well that they don't have those kind of operating agreements at other plants around the country. the beauty of this, chris, it could provide a model going forward for working, for unions and for that matter for innovation, workplace agreements to be structured and implemented across the country. >> i'm hopeful here. i'm very hopeful, john. i hope we get something done here. i want something new. a new paradigm where workers get represented by their people and have good relationship with management. we get good productivity. this could be good for everybody. i'm not singing a song here. i think that's where the direction has to go. thank you so much, harold ford. thank you, congressman, for coming

in contrast, in tennessee, tennessee has a vibrant economy and even though the level of unions among the work force the relatively low here there are many very large corporations doing business in tennessee that have had a union forever and driving the economy, especially in the transport sector and it is doubtful aching the union to a major corporation would under mine the tennessee economy given that the tennessee economy is thriving with very large union companies. >> some workers felt they didn't need the union, the average wage is $19 an hour and one of the workers said that we don't need the uaw to give us rights, we already have them. we already talk to the company if we have problems. is that the issue that a lot of the companies are facing that the work conditions are actually pretty good at most of these plants? >> it is the case in any region of the united states the labor unions are having troubles organizing the unions in the large corporations. they are paying the union scale and provide union like fringe benefits to the workers in the absence of a union, in part to dis

in contrast, in tennessee, tennessee as a vibrant economy, even though the level of unionization is low here, the - there are many very large corporations doing" in tennessee that have been unionized forever, and driving the economy, especially in the transport sector. it's doubtful that adding on another unionized major corporation would undermine the tennessee economy, given it's been thriving with large unionized companies. >> some workers felt they didn't need a union, that the everything wage is more than $19 an hour. one worker that led the drive said "we don't need the u.a.w. to give us rights we have. we can talk to the company if we have problems", is that the issue that a lot of these companies are facing, the work plants? >> it is the case that in any region of the united states, labour unions had trouble trying to organise workers in large corporations, largely because large non-union corporations pay union scale and provide union-like fringe benefits to the workers in the absence of a union. in part to dissuade the workers from unionizing altogether. in that respect the par

, tennessee. we lived in south carolina when i was a younger person. my dad was transferred over and he was an engineer at dupont. he was transferred when i was 10 or 11. my sister is to got -- two years younger. i have a wonderful wife named elizabeth who grew up on a farm. we have two daughters, julie and emily that are roughly, depending on when this airs, 25 and 24. the 25-year-old is married to someone she met here on han -- on our staff. my younger daughter is living in new york. she is product development manager with the program -- with theseany that makes shabby stylish handbags and the proceeds go to feed people in africa. that is the most important thing in life is that they are productive and doing well and happy with who they are. .s individuals elizabeth is happier than she has ever been. i am gone for days a week now and appear and i see that in jest. i am fortunate to be married to someone who would allow me to do what i am doing and to be such a strong-willed, good person. i feel

died last month on tennessee and holiday streets in val val. as rob ross reports, his children are now taking the initiative to improve safety there. >> comes a ray of light. >> anything for my father at this point, you know. i wish he -- he could have been here next to us. >> sergio owned this market on tennessee street. january 3rd, he walked across tennessee and holiday street on his way to the bank when he was struck by a car, knocked to the ground and run over by a second car. he later died. both drivers are cooperating with police while the accident is being investigated. >> every time i look at that corner, it remind ess me that that was the end of my father, and i don't want no one to lose their life that way ever again. >> the family wanted to do something to help tennessee street, a street their father loved. >> cars zoom. >> so the family is donating money, along with an organization called team tennessee, to pay half the $8,000 cost of putting in flashing solar led signs at the crosswalk where he was killed. the city is covering the

a mosque in central tennessee vandalized before opening. we have more on the story from nashville. >> every day begins and ends with prayer. for the second time ever, they have imbarked on a modern day pilgrimage to another house of worship. they have travelled to a jewish temple on the other side of town. we are building generations of muslims and jews working together and working together for the betterment of the community for tennessee. coming together of the religious groups. before opening it was meant with public opposition. they burned the construction equipment and now taking fight to the u.s. supreme court and saying that they didn't get the proper notice that the mosque would be built. the meet something showing they are sharing common goals and protecting the first amendment rights and fighting radicalism. >> for jews and muslims this is a rare event, it is especially rare at the buckle of the bible belt in nashville, tennessee and given the conflict that has gone on around the construction of the mosque. >> they are saying it i

live in that part of southeast tennessee, they have seen devastation rocked by unions.have seen the unemployment, they have seen the. ty buildings and des layin laying that played into the vote, i was not surprised when i saw the vote as it went down, i suspect that they will be hard pressed to make a change and bridge the union back to that company. lou: you know,. go ahead. >> what bothers me. this is become now, you know a race thing. that in the south, we in south, we don't want 9 northern unions here, i heard beckel the other day compare to civil rights movement that is some of the more ignorant things i heard, to that guy running volkswagen in germany, you don't want to build your plants in the south that is fine with us, we don't want you. >> this ceo needs a tour of detroit, we should play on a first place plane ticket, put hii in the back of a towncar, and drive him around, maybe he would know the vote in tennessee. lou: you are sounds like a memmm commercial but a town -- fem fe m&m commercial. >> i 1 irwhat impact will be, which this is richest consumer marke

governor quinn of illinois democrat and governor haslam of tennessee. we ended up talking about the minimum wage, the uaw vote in governor haslam's home state. governors are finding a way to work together but mark, what we're hearing is that, you heard them, they're divided on some of the same issues. >> all politic is local. pat quinn's running for re-election in illinois and he came on and duked it out with governor haslam. i think there's a little bit of political standard even. the differences are real, don't get me wrong. >> i think the problem is running in tennessee. he believe it so good for him. just on the issues, first on the minimum wage because we just had this big ceo report come out in washington. it's a mixed bag with a lot of policies. there are winners and losers. the losers, many more millions of people see the wage increases. the losers would be some loss of jobs potentially in the ballpark of 500,000. how do you weigh that. i would say two things. when you take people out of the labor force especially when our labor foreis so decima

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and some of that was the same message they were talking about in tennessee. didn't believe it. why not some. >> the the workers didn't believe it because here is an important point. president obama made a comment about this election before it happened making the case those who oppose the unionization cared more about german shareholders than they did the u.s. workers. they have come to be seen as an extension of the democratic party. and there were billboards up pointing out that uaw helped elect obama and other local politicians and that is something that resonated. the uaw with so lonks as it looks as though it is simply an extension of a political party will engender a lot of distrust especially in places like the south. >> a lot of talk is this the end of the united auto worker, ups they can organize in the south, they will be slowly wasting away. i guess i don't buy that because i think that they will still make a lot of efforts in the south and they have the strength in detroit and a lot of political support from the democrats and the administration. >>

workers at a volkswagen plant in tennessee reject the united auto workers after a costly antiunion campaign. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a new report based on top-secret documents from edward snowden has revealed how the united states and britain targeted the whistleblowing website wikileaks after it published documents on the u.s.-led war in afghanistan. according to report co-authored by glenn greenwald and published intercept.org, britain's top spy agencies eagerly monitored visitors to wikileaks site by collecting their ip addresses in real time. the national security agency added wikileaks founder julian hunting" target list alongside al qaeda suspects. the documents also show the u.s. urged its allies to file criminal charges against assange over the afghan war logs. we will be joined by julian assange and his attorney michael ratner after the headlines. in iraq, a series of deadly car bombings has rocked baghdad and the area south of it today, one day after another wave of explosions killed at le

thank you very much. >>> big labor is weaker after the uaw lost friday in tennessee. velshi says that vote sends a message to union leaders. >> it's a big deal. voel ks having a gone has cooperated with the united auto makers. typically you have the union and then the company on the other side, the interesting issue is there was heavy lobbying against those moves by republican officials in the state of tennessee who may have swayed enough workers to the vote -- you know, against the union. the governor said a union win at volkswagon would hurt the state's ability to lure business, and if they did unionize the company would lose some of its tax advantages in tennessee. so there was a third power at play. >> another set back for organizeized labor, not just in tennessee, but what does it mean for unions across the country? >> a lot of setbacks for organized labor. in 2012, 11.3% of salaried workers were unioned. and of the 11% who are unionized, almost half of all union workers work in the public sector. which means the number in the privateized sector is very, very low

>> it's tremendously important for the workers in chattanooga, tennessee.to be a part of the codetermination system globally. they believe in representation. they believe in codetermination. they say codetermination is a critical factor in their success. and this will give chattanooga workers the right to sit on the global works council, to have input on quality and productivity, on where new product goes. it's a tremendous opportunity for the workers in chattanooga. >> so explain this german works council. what does that mean? this is the first time i think a lot in our audience have ever heard that term, what it means, what impact it would have. >> under the german coded codetermination law where it is set up by law in that country, they set up works councils that look at the workplace issues, health and safety issues, production standard issues, overtime issues, things like that the works council deals with. in the u.s. under normal contract relationships, that's all dealt with as part of the contract. in chattanooga, if the workers decide they want uaw

. >> coming up, a mosque in tennessee receiving threats even before they open their doors, but found help in a rather unlikely relationship. >> welcome back to aljazeera america. here are your headlines at this hour. ukraine's fugitive president coming out of hiding today, viktor yanukovych claiming that he is in control. in kiev, they're building a new government without him. in crimea, mysterious troops surrounding airports, suspected they are pro russia militia men. there is concern about what's happening in crimea. >> bill clinton's presidential library to release documents today, including confidential advice and correspondence between the president and then first lady hillary clinton. >> a mosque in the middle of tennessee has been subjected to hate even before it opens its doors. the vandalism led to a unique partnership between two religious minorities in the heart of the bible belt. we have more from nashville. >> every day begins and ends with prayer. for the second time ever, he and dozens of fellow muslims embarked to another house of worship. men, women, young and old al

in that part of southeast tennessee, they have seen devastation rocked by unions.n thenemployment, they have seen the. ty buildings and des layin laying that played into the vote, i was not surprised wn i saw the vote as it went down, i suspect that they wille hard pressed to make a change and bridge the union back to that company. lou: you know,. go ahead. >> what bothers me. this is become now, you know a race thing. that in the south, we in south, we don't want 9 norern unions here, i heard beckel the other day compare to civil rights movement that some of the more ignorant this i heard, to that guy running volkswagen in germany, you don't want to build your plants in the south that is fine with us, we d't want you. >> this ceo needs tour of detroit, we should play o a first place plane ticke put hii in the backf a towncar, and drive him around, maybe he would know the vote in tennessee. lou: y are sounds like a memmm cmercial but a town -- fem fe m&m commercial. >> i 1 irwhat impact will be, whh this is richest consumer market thehey have a 5 fool lking this ig

"on the record" takes you live to one plant in tennessee. and also, knockout game development.ht, new video that has police on the hunt right this at attack or something else? coming up. weekdays are for rising to the challenge. they're the days to take care of business. when possibilities become reality. with centurylink as your trusted partner, our visionary cloud infrastructure and global broadband network free you to focus on what matters. with custom communications solutions and responsive, dedicated support, we constantly evolve to meet your needs. every day of the week. centurylink® your link to what's next. workers at a car plant in the south kicking the union to the curb. telling him to pack bags and head back north. employers rejecting the united auto workers plan to unionize them. the union trying for years to finally build their cars in america so that they can avoid union fox correspondent joins us from chattanooga, tennessee. how big of a blow is this one to the unions? >> good evening, judge. this is significant for a number of reasons. but mostly because unions

or tennessee through tennessee and the mountains and it's kind of strange and difficult. and so he said there is the lotus retraining pass and they built that 6-foot ride road and one of the first federal projects and they didn't have money, and so any way they built the road in 20 years later with a series of treaties making was founded in 1823 and one of the important churches here in may 10 is the presbyterian church. it was built in 1858 and they had two previous churches. but that was built in 1858 when he played the organ there and his flute as well. he was a young confederate private and he also talks about the war from a completely different perspective. he was captured and put in prison point lookout and contracted tuberculosis there and they are very difficult and they wrote some of the most beautiful poetry that was ever written ♪ >> we are headed up towards the antebellum house over there on the right. it is an antebellum home that was built by the railroad magnate and they would send cotton down in the late 1830s and they built this house and later sold it to

that tennessee spill is still being cleaned up now six years later. the cleanup costs for the tennessee bill, well over a billion dollars. that was supposed to be a wake-up call for us about the risks of storing giants amounts of this toxic sludge, especially right near waterways. but two weeks ago, on super bowl sunday, we did it again. or rather, duke energy did it. it was their plant. it was their coal ash. it was their spill. that company is confirming they, too, have received a federal grand jury subpoena in this federal criminal investigation that we found out today, along with the mccrory administration's subpoena. and in the first instance, it's going to have to be that company, duke energy, and that agency, the environmental agency, who are going to have to answer for what happened here. and the bigger picture, though, the questions are for north carolina governor pat mccrory. for the government he leads. before he was sworn in as north carolina governor, pat mccrory spent 28 years working for duke energy. the "ap" reports he's received over

. >>> still ahead, the united auto workers union attempts to make history at a plant in tennessee. we'll tell you what's at stake whichever way the vote goes. >> a recall to tell you about. toyota recalling nearly 2 million prius hybrid vehicles worldwide. about 700,000 of them here in the u.s. a software glitch can cause the engines to stall. thankfully no accidents or injuries have been reported due to that problem. >>> meantime, the overall quality of autos made in the united states slipped for the first time in 16 years. a new j.d. power vehicle dependability survey of owners of 3-year-old cars and trucks found that engine and transmission problems especially in smaller, more fuel-efficient four-cylinder cars caused quality to fall from last year's record high levels. bucking the trend, g.m.'s luxury cadillac brand rising 11 places this year to rank as the third most reliable name plate behind lexus and mercedes benz. >>> ford is selling a lot more cars these days in china. the automaker and its chinese partners sold nearly 95,000 vehicles in china in january. that's an increas

trees christensen researchers point out the country's defensive posture against japan in the east tennessee the war his aggressive actions are increasing the risk of a crisis but other nations in the region and the staff is to manage a crisis but i know they know what i keep buying their terminations cats would eat anything. he must die is one of the japanese expats here but the vehicle a nice tool and bingo there are kids this group. become a tree and had the chemistry got to ask i doubt that our youth by definition. to that the more dangerous thing though. that means. thus as grand as the school canteen japan and china to establish a crisis management mechanism as a master of the agency. he says the monk must function on many levels including the high flying between indeed as one team member discussions between the ministry officials and communications among ships and ashcroft. she says from the city and got when an opposition have wrapped up that first round of peace talks without much progress on inclination is to steal an aunt of a heart and a fine team in the country needed humanitari

as you saw from some of the tennessee politicians, they still engage in this state to state labor raceo the bottom. there's a way. you have seen the detroit three make significant investments in their factories. north of the mason dixon line they're churning out profits. they need are better policies from washington and less of this damaging rhetoric. >> i had a state legislator from tennessee tell me today on the radio -- he said, we're a poor state and fear worked on these folks. that's just how it all turned out. are these manufacturing jobs now facing a new political wall that has to be climbed because of senator corker, the governor down there, and some legislators have started threatening retribution on tax policy and such as this. they think that turned the vote. is this the new wave? >> i hope it is not. there are examples of governors who have high-road strategies trying to attract investment and are doing it successful. governor cuomo is a great example of that. when the chinese government says we're going to build a factory in tennessee, they're happy to have that communist

breaking news out of tennessee. the historic vote whether or not to unions the volkswagen plant in chattanooga. jonathan what can you tell us? >> john i can tell you the uaw is disappointed and pretty surprised. all week we talked with uaw officials, we have a solid number of workers who want a union at the plant. obviously at the plant the totals don't reflect that. 53% of the workers voted against union representation. the uaw has lost influence, sheer numbers. they were hoping to finally finally get a foothold at a foreign auto maker in the south after so many years of being unsuccessful. they seemingly had a good shot at doing it. they had an unlikely ally, which was volkswagen. volkswagen was allowing them to come into the plant, talk to the workers, and volkswagen wasn't opposing this. the feeling is that if the uaw could not win with that support and the backing of volkswagen it will be unlikely that they will be able to do that at least any time soon elsewhere. >> do we have an idea why the workers decided a

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i don't know how good you are with tennessee law. we've got two counts, felony first degree murder, two counts felony premeditateded murder. those to me sound like the same thing. >> they're not. felony murder traditionally is what -- the clearest example would be if you were robbing a store, and you killed somebody during the course of the robbery, you weren't planning to kill them. that's a felony murder. now -- so in this fact pattern, if he were planning to blow up the house, but he didn't intend to kill the individuals in the house, that would be a felony murder. so i'm not quite clear why it's charged here. >> felony first? >> i've got the law here. premeditated murder. also charged with the killing as a result of throwing, placing or discharging of a destructive device or a bomb. that is in their first degree murder statute and also felony murder has some delineated felonies, including burglary. >> might have been breaking into the house. >> i'll tell you what. they are keeping the most critical details close to the vest. >> h

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