and then another company, tennessee tequila. >> now the decision on wha what constitutes tennessee whiskey in your glass may not be the bar but the court. >> a florida woman got angry at an overzealous driver that was following her in a truck. she turns on her cell phone to record him. he slows down to make an obscene gesture to her and then drove right into a ditch. jeffrey white took off after the road rage disaster. the video helped to arrest him just a short time later. >> i'm looking in my mirrors. i'm going the speed limit, following the traffic laws. there is some point where you got to learn to curb your behavior. we have to grow. i hope honestly this is a growing experience for him. >> well, if the embarrassment was not enough the video went viral. i'm morgan radford, thanks for watching. al jazeera. >> hi, i'm lisa fletcher, and you're in "the stream." marijuana legalization. many believe it's not a question of if, but when. but taking it off the streets and putting it in the stores, is it really safer and better? my cohost, rajahad ali, is here, and he's bringing all of your soc

constitution tennessee whiskey in your glass may not be decided at the bar but in court. al jazeera, nashville. >> meteorologist: good morning to you all if you're waking up on the east coast or the west coast this is soggy morning to say the least. we're looking at the rain still coming down along the pacific northwest where the landslide actually occurred last week. we'll continue to deal are rain across this area. we could see a half inch to threthree-fourths an inch of ra. the flood warning in effect through sunday night. and that rain is going to continue to come down very heavy even across the seattle area the next several days. temperatures are right where they should be at this time of the year. recomfortable day across the central planes. very warm down in middle east as well, almost at 90 out there today. and we're going to have to deal with potentially severe weather. now we're looking at a line of storms making it's way across i-10 making it's way across florida right now. we could see damaging winds and hail and tornado warnings out there. if you're traveling

antonio barton hits the three. 19 point lead for tennessee.hey crash the boards and it's an easy put back for jordan mccrea and i think this has been our reduring theme tennessee doesn't play like a double digit team. >> no one ice talking much about tennessee. they have been really really impressive. they get michigan now and that's going to be interesting, but tennessee is one of the more impressive teams in the first couple of rounds. mercer had a great year but tennessee too athletic. >> we have done four shows in a row and i think the blur part of the march madness is gone. 64 teams down to 16 thank god. >> i think a very solid 16 and it's going to be really fun from this point on. one thing about the tournament this year has been much more exciting than previous tournaments you get these double digit seeds that are in there. let's face it stanford is doing a great job making it to the west coast making it for the pay area. >> i think you're absolutely right. get a local team he keep the local interest. let's take a look at the barack cal

. >>> tennessee is known for its whiskey home to brands like jack daniels."re is a question about what defines tennessee whiskey. lawmakers are being urged to weigh in. ays's jonathan martin has more from nashville. >> whiskey making has been a tennessee tradition. so much is produced here, tennessee whiskey is considered it's sflfrmths own. burbon. jack daniels, the state's largest producer put linkburg on the map and ships more than 10 million products every year. geoff arnette is the master difficult i willer. he has been away from his usual job and atti tennessee's capito where he lobbies to uphold a new law that defines the process for making tennessee whiskey. >> we hoped we could debate what is great whiskey and make it because i think the state has been known for great whiskey for a long time. >> to be marketed as tennessee whiskey, products have had to be made and bottled in the state but last year prompted by jack daniels, the state added tighter requirements. now, all tennessee whiskey may undergo a char:filtering process and be aged in new oak bar

. >> we're in tennessee. >> tennessee. >> tennessee, knoxville, tennessee. >> yes. >> knoxville. that's what the locals call this place. >> yes. >> and what is the english word for it. >> knoxville. >> this is knoxville, tennessee this is america. >> oh, that explains it. oh my god, i think i saw a wafflehouse. >> but if we were in america, what the hell was stan brock doing here. >> it has been designed to take airborne relief, parachute drops et cetera to the third world and have more than 90% of everything we do is here in the united states. >> and is that because 90% of the world's population is american. >> no, no, when i came to this which i saw that there was a desperate need, people that couldn't afford or didn't have access to care. >> the u.s. healthcare system is the best in the world, fact. >> if you can afford it. >> name five other countries that have a better health-care system than the u.s. >> malta, cyprus, france, switzerland, japan, australia, great britain. >> all right, you named like seven. >> yeah. >> and i said name five, so you lose. okay, so maybe we're

last year tennessee passed a similar slaw for tennessee whiskey.war. >> reporter: george dickel is one of tennessee's oldest distilleries making whiskey here in the tennessee country side since 1877. its charcoal filter and aged in new barrels. the two processes that are required by state law in order to label it tennessee whiskey. but whether or not companies must use new barrels is at the heart of the current controversy. and the reason george dickel now says the state's law should never have been passed. >> we support innovation because george was an innovator. it is the foundation of our whiskey. >> reporter: doug kragel is the master distiller, using new barrels, the traditional and legal way. but he doesn't think other distilleries should be mandated to do the same. >> it is about your choice and it is about what this does to the whiskey and what you want it to do to your whiskey i think is what is really important versus cost. >> having that choice. >> having that choice. >> reporter: george dickel is owned by diaggio which says the 2013 law

and what does it take to earn the title of tennessee whiskey?e will talk about the controversy next. zeera america, take a new look at news.america, back with ross. another sport concern about c concussio concussions, not just football. >> year, there are other contact sports. bleach believe it or not, la cross is boom okay college campuses. there were more teams added last year in la cross than in any other sport. 20 for men, 40 for women. like football and other contact sports, teams are trying to minimize the damage of concussions. >>> just as fast, just as physical as ball and hockey. >> it's very tenacious, aggressive, incredibly explosive. somebody is going to get hit in the head and it's not going to go well. >> the cause and effect did of concussions has become one of the hottest topics in sports. sacred hard university men's lacrosse team is participating on concussions and affects on the brain. >> they have sustained impacts from another player, the ground, a la cross ball and stick. you have more variably did in the lacrosse world tha

is tennessee whiskey and nobody else can call it tennessee whiskey because it is not tennessee whiskeyture does not have a right to do that. we have one here. europe, correct me if i'm wrong, has more of a regional tradition that we do here. nobody can make something in norway and try to call it champagne, would they? stuart: they call it scott. >> it is not from scotland. they make it from weight. stuart: it competes. why can't i make it in arizona out of cactus? >> i wonder if japanese scotch is lawful in scotland. i wonder if you can even sell it there. >> i will check it out. let's go play some golf at saint andrews. >> will you pick up the tab for this guy? if we play golf at saint andrews. stuart: no be at >> somehow i'm not surprised. stuart: my daughter went to one of those places in monaco. $30 for a shot of scotch. >> did she send daddy the tab? stuart: certainly not. you are all right, judge. unions planning a two-week long minimum wage bus tour. they want $10.10 per hour. i will tell you why this latest plan may work. we will tell you after this. ♪ [ male announcer ] how di

but in tennessee there is a student who is fighting to change things.n martin has her story. >> reporter: this 19-year-old hoped to at tend tennessee state university and major in business, but because she is an undocumented immigrant, jasmine learned she doesn't qualify for in-state tuition that makes college uneye affordable. when she was seven jasmine and her mother left mexico and goved to minnesota and later tennessee. where children must pay out of state fees. attending tsu would cost more than $20,000 a year. >> you are preparing students to go to college, but then at the end of the day you are not allowing them to go to college? not everybody has the same access to college education? >> reporter: a bill before the tennessee legislature could change things by allowing undocumented immigrants who came to the state as children to qualify for in-state tuition if they have lived in the state for at least five years and meet academic requirements. >> when people have college degrees they usually make more money in their lifetime, and that means more t

last year, tennessee law laid out requirements for spirits to be labeled tennessee whiskey, which in, kind of made it. lead jack daniels and other distillers in the state actively trying to change the law. they say you are trying to have a monopoly there. what do you say to that? >> they are wrong. there is one major distiller who is making a lot of noise down there. >> the craft distillers, the small guys, are also against the law. it's not just the one big guy. >> who is the one big guy? >> most of the craft distillers are on our side. this is the one thing i will say about it. a year ago, the state legislature and the governor signed into law the standards of identity that exist today. and the reality is that anybody who produce debates in any of the categories of distilled itrits around the world, meets those standards of quality vigorously. it is very true of scotch whiskey, cognac, tequila, bourbon. the unique thing about this is that jack daniels from any size or scale, really, the only well-known tennessee whiskey. it has caused a bit of a scrap down in tennessee. it is getti

this time from a police officer 1,000 miles away in sumner county, tennessee. he noticed a red pickup truck with texas plates in the parking lot of a seedy motel. a man matching huffman's description was registered in the motel under a different name. >> he gave the name of robert hokam, which later he admitted to the authorities was not really his true name. so, initially, they had him detained for providing a false name. >> huffman denied any involvement in the hit-and-run death of rafael garcia and, once again, claimed he hit a deer. when police looked at his vehicle they noticed that the passenger side headlight was intact, as was the plastic cover on the turn signal. >> after all this time that had passed, 2 1/2 months, the trip to tennessee yielded no evidence, no forensic evidence. >> but investigators had the seven chips of red paint from the crime scene. was it possible that they were from huffman's truck? martinez measured the seven paint chips. each one was approximately a half inch in length. martinez and his colleagues noticed something. there were

. >>> tennessee could become the first state in the southeast to offer in-state tuition for studentsho live in the country illegally. it's not a done deal yet. independents could quash the tuition bill before the legislature. jonathan martin talking to people on both sides of this issue. >> graduating at the top of her high school class, 19-year-old jasmine ramirez hoped to attend tennessee state university and major in business. but because she is an undocumented immigrant, jasmine learned she doesn't qualify for in-state tuition. for her, that means college is unaffordable. >> a week before all of my friends left to college, i cried myself to sleep so many times because i saw them pursuing their dreams and i was going to be stuck at home. >> when she was 7, jasmine and her mother left central mexico and moved to minnesota and later tennessee where children in the country illegally wanted to attend state colleges must pay out of state fees, which is three times more than in-state tuition. attending tsu would cost more than $20,000 a year. >> you are preparing students to go to colle

. >> at the end of a long day in may of 1984, a farmer in tennessee made a startling discovery. >> he noticed some clothing lying in the field. there was actually a body lying there. >> the victim was a young girl wearing only a bra. her body was covered with two pairs of jeans and a dark jacket. one pair of jeans was her's. the other was a pair of men's jeans. >> also there's a black jacket across her body with a sleeve tied around her neck and a pair of panties that she was clutching in her right hand. >> she was identified as 18-year-old laura salmon, a local college student. >> her life was stolen. her life was stolen. and in such a horrible way. >> the autopsy revealed laura salmon died of blunt force trauma to the head. the murder weapon appeared to be the rocks found near her body. >> the blood on those rocks and other material was consistent with her being struck up to ten times in the head with those rocks. >> the medical examiner found evidence that laura had consensual sex some time before the murder, most likely unrelated to the crime. >> we knew that ms. salmon had been i

that is exactly what happened in tennessee. a debacle. the legislature has chosen not to expand medicaid in tennessee, and with good reason, because they know it is not an affordable premise and they are very concerned about the impact that would have on the access to health care within our state. >> what is your belief that this is not affordable, because this year premiums were actually 50% lower than the independent congressional budget office had projected they would be, and to be fair, there are a lot of people saying it's going to be another year or two years before we get the full impact, but at least the early indications are that these costs are going down. >> what you are seeing is within the marketplace with those bronze-level plans with some of the premium that is going down, but take a look at what happens with the out of pocket. it goes up. and those premiums are coming in below what the expectation was, but yet, chris, they are still higher than what the enrollees were previously paying. i have not talked to more than a han

in the nation's capital, massive power outages because of freezing rain. 30,000 without power in tennessee, 22,000 in texas, another 21,000 in arkansas. we'll be checking in with meteorologist bill karins right after the break. [ dennis ] it's always the same dilemma --

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that's the potential for an ice storm across the ohio valley and the tennessee river valley and then we'll see the thin line of heavy snow we think setting up across the mid-atlantic, just south of new york city for the monday morning commute, so winter weather advisories. 150 million people ahead of this storm system. we also have ice storm warnings in and around the paducah area and then winter weather advisories up towards the mid-atlantic and the northeast. there's your forecast precipitation. in some cases over a foot in around kansas city. they have seen their share of winter weather and accumulating ice for parts of the arklatex across the tennessee river valley, obviously that is going to be a very difficult situation. we'll keep you posted. back to you, greg. >> janice dean, j.d., thanks so much. >> yep. >>> fox news alert. president obama speaking to russian president vladimir putin about the escalating situation in ukraine. we're going to have more details on that conversation in a few moments. the president also getting some major flak concerning the thin resumes of some

i couldn't even get a study or hearing on my bill that i filed after the kingston spill in tennessee.

the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: i want to say to the senator from iowa how much i appreciate working with him. we were talking yesterday. he told me -- understand think i have the facts right -- that our committee in this congress has reported 17 bills that have passed the senate and ten that have become law, which i suspect exceeds that of any other committee. and as our hearing this morning on minimum wage shows, it is not because we always agree with each other all the time. we probably have the most ideologically split committee in the congress by party, but we get a lot done. and that's due in great -- in great measure to the way the senator from iowa leads the committee. and i apreasht that very much. -- and i appreciate that very much. and i'll have more to say about senator burr and mikulski in a few moments because they've done yeoman's work on this. they're the leaders in this effort. they've immersed themselves in it in the last two years. they brought it to a position that was -- which convinc

these families are bertha garrett in detroit michigan, michael hutchinson chattanooga tennessee, griggs wimbley and stanford north carolina and martha biggs in chicago. martha biggs is the mother of jovana and jamiah and the scene that i just read. i want to make something clear because sometimes there is confusion. i'm not a financial reporter. today i'm going to speak about the way that we choose to organize the society and the ways in which it can be different. so we will travel from burned out bank-owned buildings in chicago to liberated families across the country. so let's begin. you want me to tilt. okay. hold on, we are tilting. great. okay. can you still here may? okay, good. thank you. i want to start with a very simple question.

governors have declared states of emergency in new jersey, tennessee, delaware, mississippi, and virginiaet's start our coverage with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> west coast, they sent us here. the west coast sent this storm across the country. >> blame it on them. >> get, like, one rainstorm every year. >> this is shifted from what we expected. >> it did shift. friday it was centered up towards indianapolis, over the weekend it shifted south and really hit areas of tennessee, kentucky, arkansas, even dallas had a lot of sleet out of it. now this morning it's centered over virginia and washington, d.c. and it's amazing for martha it's 19 degrees during the week. it snows in march, but new york city has had a coating. four to eight in d.c. and richmond doesn't get many snowstorms in march. three to six inches, tonight you're going to be shoveling snow. talk about a crazy roller coaster. dallas, 2 degrees. wherever you had the sleet yesterday, it's still on the grounds, roads are still treacherous from that, and no end in sight, unfortunately. tonight we're down to 6 in philly, 9 in d.

that's why he's here at the governor's residence in nashville, tennessee. >> it is an honor to have you here today and to welcome his royal highness the prince edward, the earl of wessex. and congratulations to all the award winners, as well. >> the award winners included students, scouts, members from boys & girls clubs, as well as teens from miss america. >> six years ago, we started this program. i've been involved for three years, and in that time, we've grown from one program in california, our pilot, to 30 states and the district of columbia -- over 7,000 young people taking part this year. this afternoon, we celebrate 85 recipients from tennessee -- nashville and the greater area -- who have dedicated their time, gifts, and talents to fulfilling what it requires to meet the standards of the duke of edinburgh's award. >> to qualify for an award, you have to participate in four areas... the idea is that by doing these activities, you'll make yourself a better person, while helping others at the same time. >> harrison lane. [ applause ] >> there are three award levels -- bronze, sil

tennessee has not executed a person since two thousand and nine. thank your wondering whether or not to electrocution is considered the two main. the answer is no. the most recent polling on the matter was in nineteen ninety seven by the united states court of appeals for the sixth circuit which state electrocution has never been found to be cruel in the unusual punishment. my team aired in court tennessee lawmakers are currently debating a bill that would allow for execution by electric chair watching out for the paralympics just came to an end. here's a quick look at the final medal count russia heavily dominates the metal blanks with a total of eight medals not mention having the most bronze silver and gold medal wins a second places ukraine with twenty five total medals. the us is in third place with eighteen medals. canada is in fourth place with sixteen s followed by germany france austria and slovakia. for more on the final days of this year's paralympics art easel in say france reports the combination of the festivities here and saatchi and

there's a state of emergency in tennessee, alabama and texas.ights, mostly in the northeast, have already been canceled today. >>> in parts of kansas, the windchill overnight made it feel like 20 below. 6 inches of snow there sent cars skidding off of interstate 135. that there is a mess in wichita. >>> more winter misery for missouri. dozens of accidents reported on snow-covered roadways in st. louis. police forced to rescue, look at that, dozens of drivers who were stranded on icy interstate 70. they were there for hours. >> schools shut down, travel treacherous in southwest illinois. windchills below zero there. the highways choked with ice and snow. look at that. that looks like fargo. i always think about the movie "fargo" when i see a scene like this. officials say there does not appear to be a single major roadway in the state that is not iced over. >>> all right, parts of i-275 shut down for two hours in both directions in northern kentucky. drivers are being warned to stay off the roads. parts of the state socked with up to 7 inches of

candidly, i do represent tennessee, but the things that i am involved in, i'm not a parochial senator, i miss under the pope that focuses on the big issues of the day. tennessee is gotten used to that, not because of someone like myself, because we have really good senators from tennessee in the past, and expect their senators to be involved in the bases that big issues of the day. -- the big issues of the day. the dinners that we had, they were good, the president handled himself very well. in a group of 12 people, adding there, he knew the policy that people at the forthcoming he was aware of who we were, and you are interest were. he did a good job at these dinners. that led to cover the group , that met at the white house multiple times to try to achieve some sort of fiscal reform. i have said this to the folks that we were dealing with, and i too, it mayd this toretoured on trust -- down trust. he is a very pleasant person to be around, people ask me back home what is it like? and i said it was like a saturday round of golf. we got used to each other every year is easy to be with

she's our speaker of the house in tennessee. she's the first female speaker of the house ever in our state's history. beth started her career in public service when she was elected to the general assembly in 1988 and then in 2011 she was unanimously elected to serve as speaker of the tennessee house. she is a diligent worker, she is very devoted to public service and she represents our state so well. chief justice of the tennessee supreme court, connie clark, who is one of my constituents, now justice clark is -- brings an incredible -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york's time has expired. under the speaker's announced policy on january 3, 2013, the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from tennessee, mrs. blackburn, for 330 minutes. mrs. blackburn: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i guess a technicality, we're so excited about all our talking we didn't realize the time had to be split. but so be it. we women stand and abide by the rules of the house. so we will accept the acknowledgment of the change of time

the presiding officer: the senator from ken tennessee. mr.orker: if i could just add to the comments of senator mccain. we met last night mite knight with the prime minister -- last night with the prime minister. they don't need this economic aid today. they have to sign an i.m.f. agreement agreement first. it's weeks before they even need what the senator from wyoming wished to pass. on the other hand, what we're trying to do is to push russia back and as the leader mentioned, this bill has tough sanctions, and, by the way, europe is meeting on monday to begin looking at the sanctions they want to put in place. so if we were to pass the sanctions that we have in this bill which are tough sanctions, sanctions that we have never imposed before, sanctions on economic extortion, sanctions on corruption, what that would do is help boost the european community along to do the same thing. our goal is to isolate russia, to keep them from continuing to put pressure on ukraine. i couldn't grate more. with why -- agree more. why would we pass a bill th

the turks will take on tennessee tomorrow at noon. head coach brenda freeze is doing everything in her power to prepare the girls for sunday's electric atmosphere. >> you want to play in front of fans instead of an empty arena, from our end, yesterday we piped in rocky top and a lot of our players, you know, some of them hadn't even haired rocky top. >> i was like why is this music playing? she was just trying to simulate the type of environment we're going to be in tomorrow with a lot of noise and a lot of tennessee fans. >> lexi brown, only a freshmen still young. >> why are they playing? >> it's something the kids understand. >>> amelia is keeping an eye on is that rain, it's not going to stop any time soon. nightly is up next and we'll hopefully see you again on news4 at 11:00. good night. >>> on this saturday week later. inside the search for dozens of people still missing after that deadly m

lawmakers and tennessee are proposing naming a section of oak ridge highway in his honor. that road passes by his high school in knoxville. fairfaxe day ahead, county police officers were learn how to spot distracted drivers. they will take base -- part in a training session. the class focuses on legal challenges, psychology, law enforcement and current trends undistracted driving. april is national distracted driving awareness month. >> maryland state police are getting 22 new troopers. they will take part in a graduation ceremony today in westminster. after graduation the candidates must complete eight weeks of additional field training with an experienced trooper. then they will be allowed to patrol alone. during this winter's olympics in plan tout russia's cull thousands of dogs caught our attention. >> jay korff got to meet the dogs. >> they look like great dogs. they just arrived from dulles. companions from russian have no idea the international effort that unfolded. to get these sweet and scrappy dogs into their new digs at washington animal rescue league in northw

as the university files an appeal in illinois, lawmakers in the big college sport state of tennesseesider a bill that gives its student athletes a grant when they graduate of up to $50,000. >> we were love for them to continue their education or start a business up here in tennessee. >> reporter: while the former players did not ask for money, the issue of composition looms large in the big business of college sports. >> hundreds of millions of dollars come into these schools, and now the players want a part of it. >> reporter: for now the only players that may get a part of it are players at private schools like northwestern. >>> the ncaa says it is disappointed adding that the students play for the love of the sport not salary. but it says the current system still works. >>> nepal winning its fight against a devastating disease, giving hope to thousands of children. >>> and denmark launching a rather unique campaign in an effort to get more people to have more children. >>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are your head lines at this hour. the president is

think he for joining us from tens or -- your joining us from tennessee.i wasknow that the president before he got his position as president of afghanistan. to serve the purposes of doing a pipeline down from into the gulf to bring that and just recently they discovered a large rare earth minerals in that area. --rica's dominance and oil in oil and rare earth is seen as part of what they're trying to accomplish over there. are aboutilization the entire region and could only end up in world war iii. i think americans are very concerned. out of thatpull entire region and let them take care of themselves. taking care of themselves as right in a sense. i just think anybody is suggesting the united states has a long-term interest in occupying afghanistan. should we stick around in a limited capacity to help what remains of what we built in terms of an afghan national security force for a matter of several years or should we pick up our game or even tip it over and mark it out expeditiously. i would rather try to hold this together. part of it has to do not with

a million dollars university of tennessee for this.at style. >> what ungod's name is that? >> they are encouraging people to eatgod's name is that? >> they're encouraging people to eat fruits and vegetables. >> fruits. fruits, they're -- they're dressed up like grapes. >> they're dressed as grapes. it's not just the university of tennessee, a bunch of universities, students working together, they're going to inspire people. >> the feds gave the university $5 million to produce this stupid video? >> and to do other things. >> like run around campus dressed like a cantaloupe. >> it's much more, an education program. i'm sure is coming. >> $5 million the university of tennessee got for this dopey thing? >> we could have produced that stupid video for about $5,000? >> they're calling it the get fruv campaign. fruits and vegetables. >> bernie sanders tells me, he's going to tax us even more, the socialist. >> you have to pay for this stuff. >> john stossel, everybody, it's pathetic, but it's real. factor tip of the day, an evil man, an evil

maybe it was part of the tennessee williams festival that went on in the french quarter yesterday where they pay homage to "a streetcar named desire." yes, they were ripping off their shirts. they get judged and rewarded. >> how did you do? did you win? >> i did not participate yesterday but i did watch it on the news with great interest as we do every year and paid tribute to tennessee williams with the great festival in the french quarter, and people yelling, "stella." different people yelling at for different reasons here today. the bill that is under consideration begins to peel back the layers of outdated and restrictive laws and video rules and regulations that are now decades old and work against consumers and risk-taking job creators. say the to like to current rules take place in a free-market, i would like to point out that this bill dispels that met with the repeal of this sweeps roll which is just one provision of an entire law called the 1992 cable act that lays out a long and specific on'ts betweenand d content creators and video providers. on the one hands, it is true tha

tennessee what's ki considered its own bourbon. jack daniels but lich burg on the match and ships every year. snow jack is the master distiller. he's been away from the job and has been lobbying politicians for a law that defines the process. >> i hope we can quit debating. the sit has been known for a great whiskey. >> products have had to be made and bottled if named tennessee whiskey. tighter requirements were added. tennessee whiskey must under go a charcoal filtering pros and be aged in barrels. other protested. it's about maintaining a standard economy, similar to france's requirement for calling the product champagne. >> all of the those things come from the barrel, sugars, all those things. >> a small distillery is run outside nashville. consumers, not law makers should define quality. >> the requirement to use new barrels can cost $100 more and hurt companies like his. >> we are seeing a shortage of those barrels. it will not be lopping before the price goes up and up. >> pritchard and other makers are pushing the stat to

. >> sumner county, tennessee...population less than 200 thousand people. it's a region that boasts of being one of the finest places to live, work and play in tennessee. >> move quick, let's go let's go, let's go! we got an officer down! it also has its very own 18-man swat team - and last summer, they received something known as an "mrap" through the federal program. it's a "mine-resistant ambush protection" vehicle - it was designed to protect us troops from roadside bombs in iraq. >> we average about once a month. >>once a month? >>once a month we'll be in this. >>but this is something that's not really designed for civilian use, right this is a military vehicle? >>we could get shot at in any particular time, we sign on for that yea but that don't mean we don't use tools that are readily available to use. that's all this is. it's a tool, this is no different than our gun. >> the swat team is often used on drug warrants, most of the time the mrap goes along too. >> there is a criticism that people are concerned that stuff that's being used in conflict zo

the university of tennessee team leaving monday for dayton, ohio.ht teams playing in the first four games of the tournament today and tomorrow. >>> the action begins tonight at 6:40 eastern on trutv. the university of albany facing off against mt. st. mary's and coverage of the round of 64 starts right here on cbs this thursday at 12:15 eastern with ohio state versus dayton. you can follow along over the next three weeks and see how you stack up against the experts by filling out your own bracket on cbssports.com. >>> finally, the luck of the irish was not with an umpire during a spring training game on monday. in the second inning cincinnati's brandon phillips hits a line drive to short stop. it hits umpire brad myers. and you can see from the replay it hits him in a bad spot. myers would be on the ground for several minutes but before leaving, he says he's okay. this is the "cbs morning news." . colorburst matte and lacquer balms ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> a man decided to play chicken. with a high-speed train in redwood city, california. he gets across the tracks

the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. corker: i'll be brief. i want to say to the leader, we certainly have had some discussions regarding operations on the senate floor and the speed with which we deal with witthings and the amount of deb. but i want to thank him for trying to bring this issue to a vote today. i want to thank him for what he's going to do in a moment -- and that is to file cloture on this piece of legislation that passed out of our committee with strong bipartisan support so immediately what we get back we'll take it up. i do wish we could do it tonight. we have a group of seven or eight senators on their way to ukraine. nothing would be better than for them to know that we passed this strong piece of legislation out this weekend while, by the way, there's getting ready to be a referendum that's going to take place early next week in crimea, while we have russian troops on the border, while we have a prime minister that was here last night showing extreme courage, a 39-year-old man, dealing with the issues that he's met with t

watson got stuck in this tiny little cave in tennessee. we're seeing watson's owners, his family trying to get to him. they were losing daylight the day before and they had to leave watson in this little cave, overnight. just heart breaking. if you can imagine the terror the dog was fehlinllfelling but what its owners were feeling. nick edwards is the son of manny edwards. they ended up tie something rope to watson's leg. crawled back in there and they were able to get watson free. let me show you the moment that watson is reunited with his family. there is watson, dirty and afraid and hungry and thirsty but thrilled to see his owners. this was an effort by an entire family. we have manny, nick, elizabeth, ben and neighbors from their area. and to tell us about this complicated rescue, we have manny edwards, the hero nick who crawled in the cave and little elizabeth via skype from tennessee. tell us how watson got stuck in this tiny space. >> what i figure is he was chasing something. he's a terrier. and whenever something moves, he goes a

let's go to freddy in tennessee. >> caller: this is freddy out of memphis, tennessee, home of the memphis tigers going into the ncaa with lots of energy. i want to know if arai has any energy left? >> no, i think it's kind of tanked, i do wish you the best with memphis. it doesn't figure real big in my brackets but maybe i'll throw my bracket away and start a new one. >> there's an opportunity in frothy biotechs. we have three next week. i think the only one we want to be in is mediwound. stay with cramer. >>> tomorrow, kick off the trading day with "squawk on the street," live from post 9 at the nyse. >> i have the final four right here and believe me, my cold, dead hands you can't pry it from and this is it. >> it all starts at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >>> on wednesday, we're heading to the emerald city to get an inside look at this hot bed of ingenuity. the ceo of starbucks will walk us through one of the biggest days of the year, the company's yearly meeting, nordstrom, zill low. tune in tuesday for a special investing in america brewing innovation edition in seattle. and now it is time for