we really do need this in tennessee. we need it across america. >> chattanooga's plan went up in 2010 thanks to the municipal utility. >> the latest upgrades from existing providers were not coming to chattanooga. >> david wade is the chief operating officer of epb. he says they built "the gig" in order to enable a smart electricity grid. bit it also brought ultra high speed internet to the citizens of chattanooga. chattanooga raised $220 million in bond money and nearly $112 million in federal stimulus funds to build the network. now, in addition to providing electricity, epb provides high speed internet, phone and television to more than 72,000 homes and businesses. >> what would you do with one gigabit per second? >> oh... all the things, so many things! i wouldn't have to come to the church, i wouldn't have to spend so much gas money. >> peyton is one of the 19 million americans who do not have access to fixed broadband - such as dsl or cable - in their home. and it's not just rural areas... in major cities like miam

we really do need this in tennessee. we need it across america. >> chattanooga's plan went up in 2010 thanks to the municipal utility. >> the latest upgrades from existing providers were not coming to chattanooga. >> david wade is the chief operating officer of epb. he says they built "the gig" in order to enable a smart electricity grid. bit it also brought ultra high speed internet to the citizens of chattanooga. chattanooga raised $220 million in bond money and nearly $112 million in federal stimulus

so tennessee. the house looks very nice.assmates and your life in wichita, but were you pleased at what the prospects were for you in tennessee? >> i was. i mean it was really hard going to school there and things, but i just started focusing on getting to college and things like that. >> reporter: emily recalls there had been so many changes. and one change in particular was unusual. lou's name. lou now wanted to be called "joe." how did he explain that to you? that, "i'm not gonna be lou. don't call me lou over here anymore." >> i think because he didn't have the proper, like, identification to actually get legitimately established as lou. so he needed, like, an actual social security card and an actual driver's license. >> reporter: by now, goodwyn and snyder and agent sullivan were getting up to speed on lou's whereabouts and agents in tennessee were keeping close tabs on him. >> john's counterparts in tennessee obtained a license tag on a vehicle out there which was registered to a person by the name of joe venegas. so

didn't expand medicaid, tennessee and this is not partisan statement but tennessee did not have an administration that supported necessarily the affordable care act, so as opposed to kentucky's experience, administration was supportive, marketing it and running pr campaign and alerting the population to the options that were available to them, that experience was going to be different than tennessee's or louisiana's where it seems to me you had an enrollment problem first and foremost. would that be a fair statement that all of these factors would affect how the co-o punishing s and whether they have had a better or worse chance of succeeding? >> certainly, statewide we had positive enrollment through the marketplace, but we did not expand medicaid, but the skewed enrollment of less than a thousand people for the co-op made it difficult to survive. >> exactly. we have different health conditions as well. montana probably has a lot healthier population than tennessee. we have serious challenges in that regard. but you know, one of the things that impresses me and this relates just to mr. colins' s

was the tennessee co-op under an enhanced oversight plan? >> the first notification we had about the enhanced oversight plan for the tennessee co-op was on september 29th when we received a letter that i never i've attached to my testimony. what's problematic about that day is we were also in discussions with cms to lift the enrollment freeze for 2016 without a knowledge that the enhanced oversight plan was going to be coming our way. >> so you were getting conflicting information from cms. the enhanced oversight plan for the itt tennessee co-op include what? >> there were 5 pages of issues in the letter that were identified that were areas that the co-op needed to focus on to create greater financial stability and create better viability for the plan going forward. >> so they were giving you conflicting information, on one hand you had this and on one hand the other? >> we were under the impression that a cms felt much more comfortable with the financial stability of the co-op. and that's why we requested to lift the enrollment freeze by oc

was the tennessee co-op under an enhanced oversight plan? >> the verse notification we the tennessee co-op was on september 29 when we received a letter i have attached. what's problematic is that we were also in discussions with cms to list the enrollment fees for 2016. >> you are getting conflicting information. the enhanced oversight plan for the tennessee co-op included what? >> there were five pages of issues in the letter that were identified that were areas the co-op needed to focus on to create greater financial stability and a better viability for their plan going forward. >> they were giving you conflicting information. you had this on one hand and this on the other. >> we were under the impression with thepressure stability of the co-op and week requested to list the moment fees by october 1 so the programming could be available for open and moment starting november 1. startingnrollment november 1. >> let's talk about the solvency. they converted the solvency loans in seven co-ops. the loans would artificially appear more financia

that's a huge step. >> they were leaving to go to tennessee and i didn't wanna go. and i had just lost my mom and i couldn't stand the thought of losing my dad. i never have been able to stand that thought. my daddy is so important to me. >>>>nd did you tell lou u his face, "i'm not going. i'm not gettin' in the car"? >> yes. >> how'd that go down? >> he was very angry with me. scary angry. and i just said, "i'm -- i can't. i'm not doin' that. i don't wanna be that far away from my dad. there's no way." >> reporter: emily might have gone to live with their father, but she remained with the commune. >> i wasn't going to l lve what i considered my family. >> and your dad was part of another family back when but -- >> i mean i still visited my dad and i still loved my dad, but that's just nowhere i was going to live. >> reporter: so as the family -- and emily -- moved to a beautiful colonial home on acreage in columbia, tennessee, sara stood her ground in wichita. she could exhale at last. and one evening, she went out and met a guy. his name was daniel -- an expert ma

we'll start with the insurance commissioner from tennessee. you may get a five-minute summary of your statement. >> good morning, chairman murphy. representative blackburn and numbers of the committee. thank you for inviting me to testify. i'm the commissioner of the tennessee department of insurance. in addition to my responsibilities in tennessee, i serve in leadership roles on the national association of insurance commissioners. and as a member of the federal advisory committee. i spent most of my career in insurance regulation, previously serving in kentucky. i have a strong affinity for the state-based oversight. my testimony today will highlight the history of tennessee co-ops. my comments will focus on events this year that ultimately led to cha on october 14. they were awarded loans and advances to launch the company. cha first offered plans in 2014 with plans and five of disease eight service areas -- of tennessee's eighth service areas. having limited network options, the company memberships and rate challenges were compounded by a p

. >> the raiders look to break a three game losing streak in tennessee. the gets to work by 8:00...ids, and always manages to give them a healthy lunch. the newlyweds seeking out wholesome meals and exciting flavors for their new cookware. the guy who finally decided to kick 35 years of bad snacking habits. you inspire us to do everything we do... ...for goodness' sake. >>> the battle of the losing streaks. the raiders break theirs, but tennessee can't seem to break theirs, huh? >> the raiders take on a titans team that lost 10 straight at homecoming in. the raiders had lost 10 straight of their open. it came down to the wire. as close as you can get for a must win game. it rained pretty much throughout the game, it was soggy, it was slushy, and marcus mariota finds his tight end, 6-0. carr, to crabtree for the touchdown. a big day for carr. 330yards, 3 touchdowns. the raiders up 10-6, when carr finds seth roberts who die dives into the end zone. 17-6, it's looking good. the raiders up 17-14 now. you see the play fake. finding just p fowler for the 1 yard

. >> we met edward mckeown in tennessee. >> i was ordained a catholic priest of the dioceses of 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 molester. >> according to police investigators, mckeown admitted to molesting 22 points both during and after his time as a priest but 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. the truth is i have not been mistreated at all either by inmates or staff. >> mckeown is lucky as sex offenders go. he's assigned to the prison's 1 minimum security wing where most inmates are more interested in going home than getting in trouble and it's not the only positive mckeown sees in his incarceration. >> i was a catholic priest for a long time. i was then and am now a person of faith. i was a person of faith active as a priest who

was the tennessee co-op under an enhanced oversight plan? >> the verse notification we the tennessee co-op was on september 29 when we received a letter i have attached. what's problematic is that we were also in discussions with cms to list the enrollment fees for 2016. >> you are getting conflicting information. the enhanced oversight plan for the tennessee co-op included what? >> there were five pages of issues in the letter that were identified that were areas the co-op needed to focus on to create greater financial stability and a better viability for their plan going forward. >> they were giving you conflicting information. you had this on one hand and this on the other. >> we were under the impression with thepressure stability of the co-op and week requested to list the moment fees by october 1 so the programming could be available for open and moment starting november 1. startingnrollment november 1. >> let's talk about the solvency. they converted the solvency loans in seven co-ops. the loans would artificially appear more financia

schweikert: to my friend from tennessee, let's do the facts. simple amendments because without it you've all decided to subsidize the uber wealthy in the world. think about it. you have made a decision to use our import credit facility, our constituents' credit, subsidize great wealth around the world. that's what you've decided to do here. i thought there was a battle here between the right and the left and the left always says, we're for the little guy. here's your chance. if you want to -- if you want some basic reforms that, are you thrilled with the con soacht a sovereign wealth fund coming out of indonesia, malaysia? we're going to guarantee the loan instruments on the back of our taxpayers? i mean, come on. at some point the absurdity of the argument saying, well, you had a chance to do this last week, no we didn't. you chose to do a closed rule. you did. you had every opportunity to do an open rule and give us the chance to put these actual reforms in. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman's time has expire. speakers are remined to add

tennessee senators tomorrow etc. bob corker remembered farmers tennessee senator thompson who died over the weekend at the age of 73. here's a look at their remarks. >> mr. presents my sad duty as was mentioned by leaders this morning to report that fred thompson who served in his body from 2009 from 1995, 22,003 representing our state of tennessee died in nashville on sunday. my wife and i and the members of our family and every one of whom knew fred very well, as well as members of the united states senate expressed to fred's wife jeri, children hayden and sammy, his sons by his earlier marriage to sarah tony ann and his brother ken howe or sympathy for his death. very few people can light up the room the way fred thompson did. the truth is, most public figures have always been a little jealous of fred thompson. his personality had a streak of magic that none of the rest of us have. that magic was on display when he was minority counsel to the senate watergate committee in 1973. asking former white house alexander

my grandfather was a judge in tennessee.used to have coffee with all the local political guys every morning downtown so i would go down there go down there at a very young age which means it's why an quite as strange as i am into the district attorney would be there, senators would come by. it was kind of the courthouse in chattanooga so for me politicians were always real people and what always -- when i went into journalism after suwannee which my grandfather pointed out this kind was kind of like being the last to board a sinking ship which i thought was on kind of accurate but i always wanted to do is write about the great events but they were great events that were shipped by the people and what impresses me most about politicians into one of the many character flaws that i like is that we all know that the folks in your line of work are fallible, you make mistakes, but you do great things and all the human frailties are still there if you manage to rise above that the country in the world on a better course and that is

you can see heavy rain through ohio and tennessee and down into parts of eastern texas.ou are going to have a tough time. the other concern with the frontal system as it continues to push eastward is we have potential for severe weather. northern louisiana through mississippi and tennessee. heads up in the city of nashville. you have the potential for additional severe weather. a very sharp contrast in temperatures around the frontal boundary. you can see ahead of it it is very warm. it is in november. it is 66 degrees in new york city. 65 in cleveland. behind it feeling like winter and fall. 33 in albuquerque. you can see the forecast high temperatures mild across the eastern u.s. the cooler air moves eastward. you are going to be feeling the cooler air heading into this saturday and sunday. enjoy the warmth one more day>> heather and anna over to you. >> we have a surprise for you that's the message from quinton tarantino to the fraternal order of police. not giving any details but the surprise is in the works it would be in addition to the boycott of tarantintarantino

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. >> showers and thunderstorms rolling through ohio and kentucky and tennessee and fizzle out during the day but we will see showers and thunderstorms fire up across parts of the virginias and stretching down towards alabama and mississippi. >> earlier, floodwaters invaded streets in austin. several drivers had to be rescued. >>> there will be two fewer republican presidential

young upstart aaron vallett wants to see his name in lights in nashville, tennessee. >> he saw himself being the next edward jones. >> narrator: he takes $5.5 million into his investment funds, but his clients don't see the dark soul behind this shining facade. >> unfortunately, the best crooks are also the best salespeople. >> narrator: albany, new york... real-estate investment company rivertown financial claims to be dedicated to rescuing desperate homeowners from foreclosure. but in 2008, one of the company's employees, tony urbinas, senses something is wrong. over and over again, homeowners who have enlisted rivertown's help receive notices that their homes are on the cusp of being taken away -- yet again. urbinas digs through rivertown's paperwork to find out why and sees one suspicious transaction after another. >> there was just too much... too much information that i was gathering that was not registering as being proper. >> narrator: he uncovers falsified loan applications and title transfers not filed with the county. when he confronts the company owner, geoffrey goldman, ab

who is a tennessee boy.t was getting a lot of buzz. why? >> it was so pure. it was blues. it was r & b. it was country. it was a little bit of americana if you think about it. it's all these different musical genres put together and executed beautifully. >> i want to mention carrie underwood tweeted her mom texted her after the performance and said i loved the opening but i'm sorry, i don't know the song that justin sang tonight. >> can't argue with mom. >>> winning a very big prize, entertainer of the year. luke bryan. he's at the absolute top of his game right now. >> absolutely. 14 number one songs, 7 million albums. earlier this summer, he beat dr. dre with his album. where does he go from here? i think it's possibly going the pop route like taylor swift or keying urban or blake shelton who have crossed over to television and become megastars. the sky's the limit for luke. >> you can't talk country music without miranda lambert. she won female vocalist of the year. she performed a killer -- her performan

the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: i want to thank the people of iowa for sending us chuck grassley and to say that he doesn't just represent iowa. he personifies it. i know of no united states senator who better personifies his fate than the senator from iowa. mr. president, i ask consent that i be recognized to say a few words about our departed colleague, fred thompson and following my remarks senator corker be recognized. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: it is my sad duty to report that fred dalton thompson who served in this body from 1995 to 2003 representing our state of tennessee died in nashville on sunday. honey, my wife, and i and the members of our family, every one of whom knew fred very well, as well as members of the united states senate expressed to fred's family, his wife geri, their children hayden and sammy and his sons ton ni and dan and his brother ken, our pride and friend's life for his sympathy and his death. very few people could light up the room the way fred

for what purpose does the gentlelady from tennessee seek recognition? the gentlelady from tennessee is recognized. mrs. black: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor the life of a tennessee giant. senator fred thompson. whether fred thompson was speaking on the senate floor, canvasing the state in his red pickup truck, or entertaining us on the big screen, he always did the volunteer state proud. in his lifetime, fred saw many accomplishments, but he remained the same. a proud product of lawrenceburg, tennessee, the son of a car salesman and the first person in his family to earn a college degree. fred was a statesman who led with conviction. he was a visionary who helped bring tennessee from a democratic strong hold to a conservative success story that it is today. he was a loving husband and father. he was a man of faith, who ew, who i knew found the ultimate healing today from the cans that are gripped his lirget body. tennessee shines brighter because of fred tomp of thompson's service. we will miss him deeply but we know his legacy lives on.

she was on the phone with her father in tennessee, and he was telling me that this is a very tough time for the family. right now he and his wife are in tennessee, in constant communication with rescue crews and law enforcement officers. he told me ava went missing on a hiking field trip with her boarding school in the cherokee national forest in northeast tennessee. crews are searching for her in the rough terrain. she got separated from other students about 2:30 in the afternoon last wednesday. crews haven't found the 16-year-old. her father told me that she did not have a cell phone with her. he talked to our sister station wcyb in south virginia. let's whatever he has to say. >> it's every parent's worst nightmare. you see the stories on the news, but you see the throngs of people who come out to help. we're relieved that that's happened here and that one of them will find our girl. >> reporter: the rescue crews are well-organized, and this is a well coordinated rescue. he is going to continue to talk to them, and hopefully they find his daughter. live here in northwest d.c., i'm sh

we have a lot of rain here back in the tennessee valley and into kentucky and indiana. the travel impacts forecast for the afternoon and evening rush hour should not have any travel problems, maybe just a few sprinkles. and thursday morning that is when there will be cautions, slow downs, maybe fender benders for the morning commute tomorrow, and no real risk for tornadoes tomorrow. we could have gusts tomorrow. the flood risk is low. and by later in the morning it will dry out. there is a high risk of heavy rain for several hours especially in the morning commute tomorrow. we'll look at those rainfall totals, i'm working on that now. >> thank you, tom, montgomery county police say a suspected flasher is a wanted man. a victim was able to take this picture of the man. the suspect was wearing a navy blue sweatshirt with the words wood stock student. >> an 8-year-old boy is dead after a violence car crash. he is was one of four children critically hurt following this crash earlier this month. the car he was rising in crashed into another car. >> meth row is prepared to dr

duncan of tennessee. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 512, the gentleman from tennessee, mr. duncan, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from tennessee. mr. duncan: mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent that amendment number 20 printed in part a of house report 114-326 be modified by the form i have placed at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report the modification. the clerk: modification to amendment number 20 printed in part a of house report 114-326 offered by mr. duncan of tennessee. on line 12, of amendment number 0, add the word, not after is. the chair: is there objection to the modification? without objection, the amendment is modified. the gentleman from tennessee is recognized. mr. duncan: thank you, mr. chairman. first, i want to commend chairman graves. nobody could have done a better job on this bill than he has done. and i also want to thank chairman shuster and ranking member defazio, because they have placed just about everything that i have requested into this bill, including accepting an amendment yeste

duncan of tennessee. the chair: the gentleman from tennessee mr. duncan, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from tennessee. mr. duncan: madam chairman, my amendment requires the department of transportation to conduct a study on the operations of a double decker motorcoach equipped with a luggage carrier on the rear of the vehicle. the department of transportation will be required to report its findings back to the congress 60 days after enactment of the bill. federal law does not limit the length of buses but provides states cannot limit buses to less than 45 feet. the majority but not all states adopted laws providing for a 45-foot maximum limit for buses years ago when all inner city buses were no longer than that length. however, the 45-foot limit in the states effectively precludes the attachment of luggage carrier, known commonly as a luggage box, to the back of modern buses because the luggage boxes extend the bus by about two feet and several inches over the 45-foot limit. luggage boxes

is back home after surviving six days alone in the mountains of tennessee. search crews rescued ava ezekiel yesterday. on facebook her mom wrote her daughter was weak but in stable condition. she went missing last wednesday while hiking with classmates from her boarding school. >>> right now the death toll is riding in washington state after terrible storms hit the northwest. three people have died. about 300,000 are without power. the deaths were all from trees falling on cars. winds up to 119 miles per hour were reported south of seattle. the heavy rain is expected to pick back up tonight there. flooding could become a problem overnight. >>> the storms that will bring us rain in the next few hours already caused damage in the south. take a look at this. more than 14,000 people are in the dark in tennessee after winds knocked down trees and power lines. in arkansas winds brought down part of a roof at a downtown business. some people say they saw a big cloud filled with lightning pass through before all of those bricks fell. no one was hurt. >>> 6:51 now. s

a university of tennessees agresearch center has a new project looking to boost tennessee's beef herd. that story coming up on agday. in agribusiness.... "so you know the packer here hasn't needed to pay up. they have had no problem securing hogs." agday-brought to you by the dependable, long lasting chevy silverado. good morning i'm betsy jibben. clinton will join us later from the agribusiness desk. as the old saying goes "if at first you don't succeed....try, try according to bloomberg news, the seed and trait maker appears to be making another effort to purchase syngenta. during a press briefing in advance of monsanto's investor meeting, monsanto c-o-o brett begemann told reporters that his team is discussing internally on the merits of making a new offer. this new attemptptomes about a weekekfter 'china national chemical corporation' made a bid for the world's largest pesticide maker. . in august monsanto pulled its 46-billion dollar offer off the negotiating table. syngenta's leadership said during the summer that monsanto's bid "under-valued" syngenta. the spread b bween diary

thompson served as a u-s senator from tennessee for eight years and ran for president in 2008. many will remembmbr him from his acting career... including movies and on "law and order." he died former president jimmy carter continues to battle cancer -- as he heads to tennessee to help uild homes for habitat for humanity. he was scheduled to volunteer in nepal, but the trip was cancelled because of supply problems and oter issues in that part of the world. the former president and hissife have spent t week volunteering with habitat every year since 1984. the current president is on his way to new jersey today to push for changes to the criminal justice system. president obama was in that state in may -- when praised efforts by the police department to improve their relationship with communities struggling with violence. four people arein the hospital this morning -- after being hit by car trick or treating. ititappened on satuuay night. police say an s-u-v was turning -- and the driver did not see a "i was standing next to a well they cme around the $& corner so fast, and she s