he was an outstanding governor for you in the state of tennessee. [applause] he was one of the most outstanding governor's in the whole united states during the time he served do in tennessee. it was my privilege and honor as the minority leader to work with him on many projects involving your state and involving governors throughout the country and i thank you very, very much. [applause] i am deeply grateful to my very good an old friend howard aker for his endorsement. you have an howard one of the outstanding members of the united states senate. nobody knows more than howard involving the problems of energy, nuclear power. he was tall and strong in the difficult days in 1972 and 73 and again in 1975 and 76 involving the problems of the intelligence community. i thank you from the bottom of my heart, howard, for your endorsement and your support. [applause] obviously, it's a great honor and privilege for me to be in johnson city again. i was here in 1972. i had a delightful opportunity to meet many of you from johnson city. i appreciate the genero

in 2005 tennessee department of corrections announced brushy mountain will be closed.ison will be replaced by a more modern and cost efficient facility, one designed to house more than 2,500 inmates. that's our report. thanks for watching. i'm john seigenthaler. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> america's prisons, dangerous, often deadly. there are 2 million people doing time. every day is a battle to survive and to maintain order. >> down on your feet, down! >> among the nation's most notorious institutions, san quentin state prison. our cameras spent months documenting life on the inside where gangs, drugs, and sheer boredom make up a violent mix. this is "lockup: san quentin -- extended stay."

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

. >> wild, untamed, the tennessee frontier is beyond the reach of all but the bravest and hardest of. frontiersmen, daring, a adventurous and bold. >> i knew that bear wanted to hug me. so i recon here's the chance. >> why did you put down your rifle? >> shoot, corners too close for old betsy. plus, i just do it with a knife. >> it was here that i began to distinguish myself as a hunter. and to lay the foundation for my future greatness. >> now, another time when i was just a cub, i can recall -- >> he's a jokester and remarkably funny and he's affable. people like him. >> 6 or 7 by the creek running into another bear. >> well, tennessee at the time was still the american frontier. you've got wild animals, you've got fights and it was in this world where there's no kind of solid, established law that david crockett begins the process of becoming the myth. >> david crockett, a third generation frontiersman after the signing of the declaration of independence. >> john crockett is what is called an over mountain man. they oppose british rule and come east to join their fellow americans

sherman commended the army of the tennessee. that was the part of his force to which he showed great favoritism. so much so that during one of hood's attacks on atlanta sherman did not send help to the army of tennessee because he thought the army of tennessee would be jealous. i wonder if some union soldiers pinned down of those trenches with bullets flying would really be jealous if other troops came in to chase the confederates away. i would suspect he would not be jealous. the attitude they took when the union army began taking in black troops. would they object, if sambo should stop a bullet coming to me direct? i don't think they would be in the least bit jealous. on the inside, that is the established framework. sherman was it really in general but his brilliance is confined to logistics. the confederate side is different. because they're all kinds of controversies on the confederate side. the campaign began the confederate army was commanded by joseph e johnston. he had a great reputation. when he joined the confederate

a class a flown in tennessee greta and ted. punishable by 15 to 60 years in prison.ear for the safety of this child though. the mother doesn't have custody for a couple years because of drug abuse problems. the dad does three years in prison for meth distribution. the uncle, according to local family members abused them. it was a dangerous pedophile. this poor girl has a long road ahead of her. if something else happened to this little girl, this guy is looking at more serious charges, maybe tragically aggravated sexual abuse. we don't even know. >> ted, it's just awful. this poor child. the problem is there are a lot of children out there who have their parents are both drug addicts and relatives are -- i mean, you know, that's what's so horrible is that carlie is just one of so many. >> but, you know, greta, let me just begin by saying the heroes in that community, you know, you and i, katie, we report so much doom and gloom. and here we got some good news. as katie said, you're right, greta. this child needs to be checked. we need to realize that this uncle had go

plaque burn of tennessee. the chair: -- ms. blank burn of tennessee. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote, the yeas are 258, he the amendment is not adopted. the unfinished business is the request for the recorded vote on the amendment from the gentleman from missouri, mr. smith, on which further proceedings were post-pobed, on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. smith of missouri. the chair: a recorded vote has been requ

tennessee farmer lawson and baptist minister franklin are being hailed as heroes.hey found carlie and held simpson at gunpoint and called 91 #. >> he has been looking. for what seven days? every day walking miles and miles. >> reporter: authorities say simpson picked up car already lie from school last week under false pretenses, they were seen on this surveillance video in a store after she went missing. search parties have scoured nearby areas before, but franklin says something told him to go up gravely valley road. only accessible by four wheel drive. >> each one of us had been praying you know every day to you know help to find this little girl. and so finally, you know, answer to our prayers. >> reporter: prayers answered for one community, and the determination of two men who refused to give up on one little girl. hena daniels, cbs news. >> now carlie appears to be okay but her uncle is now charged with specially aggravated kidnapping. but more charges may be pending. >>> play for this man b.. >> god is with you sir. >> a prayer and words of encouragement he

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jackson, tennessee, april 28, brian baines,old, 31. la shonda davis, 22 years old. wilmington, delaware, february 1, 2016, steven ryan heart and officer michael manly, 42, christina bellford, 39. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california have a motion? >> i move to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: those in favor say eye. opposed. accordingly, the house stands

. >> when we met gerald mccullough at the river bend national security institution in nashville, tennessee through a 12-year sentence on a sexual offense charge. >> there's no way out. there's just nothing to do. this is just a total waste of someone's life. >> despite his pessimism, mccullagh had found a productive outlet to express his pain. ♪ they say it's raining in denver ♪ ♪ that it's really kind of cold ♪ ♪ but i'm just pulling time in nashville ♪ ♪ how am i supposed to know >> shooting in a prison in nashville, the home of country music, we decided it would be great if we could find a country singer, and so we kind of made the call out to the other inmates and correctional officers, and they came up with mccullagh, and he turned out to be pretty good. ♪ talked about me how it never did seem right ♪ ♪ i've been pulling time in nashville ♪ ♪ wasting days and wasting nights ♪ >> writing music in prison is just my life. i don't sit down to write a song. something hits me, and my best songs come with about two minutes, in about two or three minutes i have an excellent song, and i wrote

my question for the people of tennessee is do you want cumberland county and tennessee to look like that? that's the question we need to ask ourselves. many communities where wind projects have been proposed have tried to stop them before they go up, because once the wind turbines and new transmission lines are built, it's hard to take them down. for example, watch the documentary windfall that i mentioned earlier. in october the residents of vermont voted 274-9 against a plan to install a pair of 500-foot turbines on a ridgeline visible from their neighborhoods. in new york, three counties opposed 500 to 600-foot wind turbines next to late ontario. people of the town of yates voted unanimously to oppose the project in order to preserve their rural landscape. take a look and you can see why. in kent county, maryland, the same company that's trying to put turbines in cumberland county, apex clean energy tried to put down 25 to 35 500-foot turbines, a quarter to a half mile apart across thousands of acres of farmland where the air serves as a route for migratory geese. according to the bal

this little wave goes through this morning in tennessee. another wave out here across parts of kansas and nebraska. that is part of the same system which will bring us our thunderstorm chance here coming up on friday. with all this in mind, here's your seven-day forecast. today, all clouds and a pretty good chance of some light showers around primarily this morning. the highs in the mid to upper 60s. all clouds tomorrow but not much rain. we'll see if we can squeak ou . out .01. sunday and monday look dry but cool with highs in the 60s. we'll focus back in on the next few days in 20 minutes. no booing in traffic. >>> that won't happen until 6:30 when people can't stand to look at me. westbound 32 at burntwoods drive, still have a problem because of a disabled vehicle. the purple there on the map means it is not giving us any travel information. that's worse than seeing something red. 270 northbound and southbound e no major issues. 66 headed into town, you can see you're fine from fairfax county parkway to the beltway. that will take you ni

tennessee has the second highest rating nationally for opioid addiction. as many states are exceedingly aware, drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in this country, and as we started working on this issue at energy and commerce, so many people did not realize that. prescription drug abuse,ed leading cause of accidental -- the leading cause of accidental deaths in the country. 18,000 fatalities last year. it does not care about race, gender, politics. it is an issue that affects all of us and it affects the people that we are here to serve, and many of us, families and those that we love in our communities, together we're working to find solutions that will combat this epidemic and help remedy those who are suffering from addiction the most. just this week you can look at the bills that have been on the agenda and have passed the house. many of these are being done with bipartisan support. there have been 15 amendments to these bills. they've all passed by voice vote. and what the bills will do is to streamline the burdensome bureaucracy w

state of tennessee, state senator dr. joey hensley and state rep barry doss have been the leaders on this issues for our general assembly and the legislation that i authored, along with congressman tom marino, was signed into law and ensures access to proper medication with patients with legit mate needs while allowing us to continue battling the drug diversion and abuse problems that exists mere in our country. it will enable our local and state officials to move forward, address the pill mills and at the same time make certain that patients with needs have access. the legislation is called the ensuring patient access and effective drug enforcement act of 2016. and what it will do is to combat the inappropriate use of prescription drugs by bringing greater clarity, something that is needed in so many laws and rules, but bringing greater clarity and transparency to the requirements needed for safe and secure distribution of

. >> you think of nearby tennessee, where she won in march, tennessee is 17% black population large compared far, clinton does well in states with higher black populations and not as well in states that don't have high black populations. both kentucky and oregon problematic for her tonight. one advantage she has, this is a primary like tennessee, a closed primary and you will have fewer independents coming in, among the party regulars, the one place she could do well. because she won tennessee, a lot do border the areas she won. i'll be curious to see how she does in southern and western time square where the cold -- western tennessee, where the coal industry is not as big. >> could this be a big night for bernie sanders? >> i do. i think it could be a big night for him. he could win two states. oregon is a very strong place for bernie sanders, very liberal, not very diverse and i could see him winning a large margin. kentucky has an indiana part and kentucky part. you could see sanders winning both these states tonight. he's far behind in the delegate race, particularly a big win in oregon

tennessee. i'll count slow for you. >> ben can't resist bringing a reporter from new york into the show. >> come on up here, crocodile. come on. >> he's got that evil-eye thing going. come on. come on, come on. up, up, up, up. yeah! whoo-whoo! [ applause ] tourism is about half of gatorama's business. >> i could see a vest out of this. i think you need to get me one. >> [ chuckles ] >> the other half is farming gators for skins and meat. >> the value of the skin would probably be around $600, maybe

scott: to tennessee state representative bill dunne and a lot of ordinary americans, it sounds like talk from another planet. >> i think it is good when you say somebody is a he or a she. he called me. that tells somebody something. if you tell somebody, we are going to meet ze, you will think you will meet someone from a different planet. scott: what do you say to those critics who say this is political correctness run amok, who say it is silly? >> no. first of all, political correctness is just respecting people. particularly in something that does not matter to you, does not hurt you, does not impact you in any way. why you would care whether somebody is transgender is sort of beyond me. sharyl: scott is here now. we heard in the piece there are an estimated something like 4 million-5 million in the country who fit in this category. do we really know how many there are. scott: no. one reason is that the federal government does not survey for this. it is not part of census

. >>> storms in tennessee tracking northeast and coming close to us this evening. i'm storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. i've got new timing. >>> history in havana. it has not happened in decades, now it's a new way -- or part of a new way of life. i'm angie goff at the news >>> developing right now a mess in northeast washington. some of the cars from that csx train that derailed are still lying under the rhode island avenue metro. the crash spilled chemicals all over the track. the metro station is back open, but mark trains are restricted. >> crews have a lot of work to do today to get the rails back to normal again. >> news 4 is live in northeast washington now with how they're making progress on the repairs. derek joins us now live with the latest.

. >> tennessee girl back with her family after being kidnapped more than a week al. carly found by two good samaritans who joined in the search. "eyewitness news" reporter justin finch live in the cbs-3 stat center more on the heroes who helped save carly. good morning, justin, this is a great store. >> i good morning, great story indeed, overwhelming sense of relief in eastern tennessee, law enforcement now there confirming nine year old carly trent was found alive thursday afternoon, her mother now by her side. and this morning, we're hearing from the two men who found her and her accused kidnapper. >> now the tennessee bureau of investigations thanking the two men who made the big find. donnie lawson, franklin, searched their own property which includes remote roads and woods for carly marie trent and her accused kidnapper, her uncle, gary simpson. the tv -- said one held at simpson at gunpoint as the other called 911. on their alter answer vehicles they found carly and her 57 year old uncle nel hard to reach swat of woods dotted with abandon cab continues, he sai

he was a civil war veteran from tennessee. these were the living circumstances of this veteran in brazil, trying to make a go of farmer. "the farmer's home was in a large clearing in the forest. that isase of a plateau some hundred feet above the river. all around, there were splendid masses of green trees and lime trees and great banana plants and coffee bushes in the woods. beyond those, untouched forest with the giant brazilian nut tree towering over it. the farmer says with all the beauty of this site, it evidently has a hard time of it. i still have a hard time of it, i am careworn and a little discouraged. the land is excellent but the stream is too small to give me good waterpower. without that, i cannot manage a large cane plantation. the man went on to complain that how the prices he received for his produce were not very good. traders take advantage of his helplessness, he cannot speak portuguese. it would be like an immigrant in this country. it is a huge disadvantage. all the americans are cultivating, who are cult

[folk music] (male narrator) memphis, tennessee. it has been written if music were religion that memphis would be jerusalem and sun studio, its most sacred shrine. and you are here with the memphis dawls. [music continues] - hi, i'm jana misener and i play with memphis dawls. we're from memphis, tennessee, believe it or not. i play cello and i sing. and we've got two other chicks who are awesome who also sing and play some instruments. krista wroten combest plays pretty much everything. she plays violin and keys, mandolin. holly cole plays guitar.

but i guess when your back is up against the back woods of tennessee, you'll figure it out.uilt houses and had a lot of babies. like, a lot of babies, because what else are you going to do without tv and they banned money and shared everything. there were over 1500 people living on the farm at its height and they took in 10,000 visitors a year. but even if you don't believe in money, everything comes with a cost. ♪ i am in the middle of nowhere. so, i'm 60 miles southwest of nashville, tennessee and i'm about to meet with doug stevensen who's been here since 1975, the farm's historian. >> hey, douglas. >> welcome to the farm. >> you want to see the place? >> sure. we should probably take yours. mine is probably not farm appropriate. >> this is greener. we have about three square miles of land and then another 1400 acres of nature preserve. about 4,000 acres altogether. >> even if they're small, that sounds like a lot. we like the peace and quiet, close to nature. so, we're coming up here. this is a recycle center. this is a wood shop. this is our soy dairy where we make tofu

western kentucky, a few showers over kentucky and eastern tennessee. they will not bother us. because humidity levels are coming up, this just goes to show some areas of moisture and instability getting closer. a chance ofhave showers and thunderstorms likely happening late in the afternoon and evening. as far as what will happen down at the park tonight, good weather for the nats. we will keep our eyes open. otherwise, partly cloudy. it is looking increasingly like a storm center will develop here, but even if it does not, we will still see moisture increase, especially sunday, monday. hurricane hunters going to go out and check this storm later today, but initial computer models suggest some system developing moving in this direction. something to monitor. we will let you know what the possible impact could be. jummy: so much. cleanup is under way in kansas after another tornado touched down overnight. luckily no injuries reported overnight, but the twister left --ath of description destruction. adrian: this morning, recovery in america's heartland as residents pick up the p

in georgia, tennessee and north carolina today, the hail came hard. the weather forced a ground stop at the charlotte airport. >> i can't see many babies no more. i can't see my four babies no more. >> reporter: this same storm system stole six precious lives in palestine, texas, where lenda asberry and her great-grandchildren drowned, trying to escape floodwaters that poured into their home. >> she made it out the house with those babies, carrying all four of them. the water had risen up to here on my momma. she was still trying to get through the water. >> reporter: an hour north, we met another family who lost their home to a tornado. listen as tiffany reeve tries to explain to her daughter that all is not lost. >> you sad? >> no, mommy's not sad. mommy's okay because you're okay. >> that is crazy. thank you, lord, that i got off of it. >> reporter: roads washed away before our eyes. from the sky, pictures of the storm damage through parts of atlanta. two water pumping stations lost power, and they've been telling people to boil their water since.

missouri, mississippi, tennessee.e all kind of day to day it simmers back-and-forth determining which law is the one they are focused on at any given time. north carolina will be prominent and then it will switch over to missouri or mississippi or tennessee. it depends on what someone is doing on a given day. we are looking at over 30 states and 200 or so bills. it could pop up anywhere or any time and we are nowhere new the end of this. carol: a lot of the best well-known corporations, what are they doing? >> some of the biggest names in business are writing letters, going in and having active meetings where they send in their staff especially in cities were they have a big presence. for example salesforce is potentially active in indiana for they have a lot of people and georgia. then you see paypal which was considering bringing people into north carolina. disney is active in georgia raced on things going on with entertainment. you can see the companies get involved where they have people. that is clearly starting

the thunderstorm watch is in the tennessee and ohio valleys.his is going to bring the threat of the showers and a few storms here tonight. that is in the first part of tonight. overnight, settling down, a have a shower, fog in i think we will get into the warmer air. the 70s, possibly low 80s and sunshine. also a couple of showers here and there. so, no yellow weather alert remember it. tuesday, we got to watch. that could be a yellow weather alert. start with with the clouds, showers on and off during the day. so, if it did stká not look too widespread tuesday -- so it does not look too widespread tuesday. showers and a thunderstorm area fog. the temperatures fairly steady from where they are now in the 50s. monday morning, 50s, 60s, early clouds and fog. in the afternoon, partly sunny. warmer, isolated, isolated showers and storms upper 70s to low 80s. big difference, talking about the 3 day, more scattered showers, mainly tuesday afternoon. upper 60s, wednesday, we can see a few more showers, upper 60s, now, getting tired of this? i am. >> t

this is great for my home state of tennessee. almost half the people i represent have moved from someplace else. but it is not great for the country as a whole. and we will face many problems in the future if the high tax states do not start lowering their taxes and start trying to keep more of their people at home. new york in the 1970's had 43 members of the house. now it has 27 members. after the 2010 census, each member was supposed to represent between 705,000 and 710,000 people. while in the 1970's, congressional districts have much lower populations than now, if new york had the average growth of most states it would have about 11 million more people than it now has. cities and states throughout the northeast and midwest have been losing population or having growth lower than most other states more many years. last year a man from new jersey told me his property taxes on a 2,800 square foot house were $13,000. plus, they have a state income tax on top of that. i told him the taxes on a similar house -- similar sized house

. >>> when we traveled to riverbend maximum security institution in tennessee, we encountered a young inmate who was also driven to kill. and his story was absolutely chilling. >> i murdered my aunt with a butcher knife. i threw on a hockey mask, brown overalls and brown boots. >> why? >> i had bottled-up anger. i was mad at my mom for all my life for the way she treated me. i figured if i killed her instead -- her sister, i didn't want to kill my mom. i figured if i killed her sister, it would slowly kill her mentally, emotionally. >> luis ramon was 15 years old at the time of the murder. when we met him six years later, he told our producer he relates with two notorious and fictional movie killers. >> i believe i become a killer like michael myers on "halloween" and jason voorhees on "friday the 13th." i'm just fascinated with the way they worked. i heard voices like jason voorhees. like one of my characters. they told me like how to kill people and when to do it. the devil. i was possessed by the devil for six years, with me for 17. the demon lives outside the window right now. jim

when they were ready to settle down, they made their way to rural tennessee like you do.and and established a new community they named "the farm." at that point, none of them actually knew anything about farming but when your back is up against the backwoods tennessee, you will figure it out. they grew food to feed themselves, built houses and had a lot of babies, a lot of babies. what else are you going to do without a tv? as part of their new communal society, they banned money and shared everything. at its height, there were over 1500 people living on the farm. they took in over 10,000 visitors a year. eventually, they learned that even if you don't believe in money, everything comes with a cost. >> cows, i am in the middle of nowhere. >> some 60 miles southwest of nashville, tennessee, about to meet with doug stevenson, the farm's historian who has been here since 1975. >> kamau. hello, douglas. >> welcome to the farm. >> thank you. >> you want to see the place? >> yeah. >> we should probably take your car. this is probably not farmer appropriate. >> this one is a lit

is $15 an hour, i'm more than likely going to shut down every small business in tennessee because the cost of living can not support a $15 an hour minimum wage. now in new york, a tennessee gas station handles five customers a day whereas a food service person in new york may handle a how to -- thousand customers a day for the same $15. so i think these same conversations, it's lost in the sense that things are not the same across the country. it's different in every city and every state. host: you mentioned that you were in the military. are you active duty? caller: i am. host: what rank? caller: i'm a warrant officer. host: what's your salary range? caller: i've been in almost 30 years. so my salary rate is not -- the warrant officer court is about 1% of the entire military which is only about 1% of the entire population of the united states. would a really small -- i not be a good case study because i've been in for 30 years. i am a tech kl expert in my field. i've made a commitment in my life, essentially. host: do you make over six figures? caller: no, no, no. host: ok. caller: a

westward to tennessee, kentucky, part of west virginia. we are on the fringes of it. right on the fringes of it is where we are seeing some action develop now. just southwest of the district. in the past hour we have had a flare-up of the heavy to now severe thunderstorms. in a fairly small area. let's zoom in. you can see the red indicating the areas of heavy rain. lightning activity. south to dale city. where they could have really strong wind gust on the leading edge here in 20 to 30 minutes. the southern portion of the system, warning up to the shores. northern part of the system heading northeast across arlington county and across the river into montgomery county is in effect until 7:00 this everything. you can see the time line here. burke, virginia, just about now. annandale 6:34. mount vernon 6:44. not hitting alexandria until 6:57 this evening. we will watch the storms closely. we have a fair amount of lightning. 32 lightning strikes. 33 lightning strikes total in the past 15 minutes. electrically active. the southern part of the system that is the most elect

he mentioned tennessee. tennessee has a 6% tax on net revenues. not horrible. but larger than we want to see it in that state. but the undefined portion of that is the regulatory fees. we are don't know what they're going to be. we have to negotiate those. we're looking for clarity in laws. we would like to have low fees everywhere we go, low taxes if there's going to be taxes. but it's a regulatory burden that is really troublesome. what i mean is many of the state laws that we have seen on the books are introduced so far talk about annual audits by a third party within the state. if we had an annual audit for our companies, one audit for the company that would be accepted across all 50 states that would be certainly acceptable. that makes sense. we want to see our financials? here they go. all 50 states. go out in the mail. but if we have to have financially -- our audits in every single state, 50 states times that, $150 fee, that's a prohibitive things for us on the regulatory side. on scale, we talk about draft kings and fan dual. huge huge huge companies.

now, tennessee also is a state that keeps trying to pass abstinence-only education. goal here was to make 9th and 10th graders never want to see a naked body again. and you can't talk about failing schools without talking about texas. >> what's happening at energy institute high school in this second-year french class >> does your teacher speak french? >> no, sir. >> have you ever heard him speak a word of french? >> bonjour, but everybody knows that. ( laughter ) ( applause ). >> larry: ( bleep ), man. seriously! a teacher should know more french than that just by being an adult in the world! oui means yes. merci means thank you. and beyonce means, if you cheat on me again, i will castrate you. ( laughter ) ( applause ) but, seriously, why doesn't this teacher know the subject he's teaching? >> so why was he hired? to replace this man, jean cius, a certified french teacher for more than 25 years. cius was sent to another h.i.s.d. campus where he says he was assigned to monitor the hauls. >> i feel so bad for the taxpayers because they're paying me for not doing anyt

. >> oklahoma, ohio, iowa, tennessee texas golpeado por la furia de la madre naturaleza reflejada en ni hablar de quienes han perdido todo en un abrir y cerrar de ojos. >> cuando salÍ y vi todo así quede shoskeanda >> pero aunque los que viven en la zona saben que son parte de su realidad... algunos como este hombre no estÁn preparados y no saben a dÓnde irse cuando se enfrentan con el fenÓmeno. al final sólo quedan escombros y un inolvidable susto, si se es afortunado. >> sÓlo queda dar gracias porque aunque se perdiÓ todo otro material no se perdieron mÁs preciado que es la vida. lo peor de todo es que la pesadilla no ha terminado. >> a corto plazo todavÍa hay riesgo para texas y Áreas del centro del paÍs, pero disminuyendo todavÍa las prÓximas 72 horas. >> el centro de proyecciÓn de tormentas dijo que nÚmero de fatalidades fue bajo, debido aquella gran mayorÍa tomÓ las debidas precauciones. pero advierten que no se debe bajar la guardia. en total unas 44 millones de personas viven en zonas que podrÍan verse afectadas por tormentas en las valles de ohio, tennessee t como y con nues

. >>> new developments thin the abduction of a tennessee girl. what we're learning about her rescue. >>> and did imagine not being allowed to spend that money. the local city that it's happening to and why they need congress to act. >>> and looking live outside where the rain is coming down in some areas. don't put away the rain foots just yet. a >>> developing story out of tennessee. a young girl abducted by her uncle is alive and okay. two men found the 9-year-old yesterday in a remote wooded area. they held will the girl's uncle at gunpoint up tell poli point arrived. >>> solocal tax dollars are locd up until congress gives approval because d.c. is treated like a federal agency. three quarters of their budget comes from local funds. house republicans are now working on a bill that would subject d.c. officials to civil penalties and criminal prosecution for spending local money without approval. >>> fast approaching 4:41. we've made to the end of the week, but we still have rain to deal with. >> chuck bell, look at that picture. not necessarily

another area in tennessee and kentucky. notice the main treat for wind and hail. not much in the way of severe weather causing tornadoes. the concern does pick up on wednesday for more in the way of tornadoes. that is in places like oklahoma city, joplin, kansas city and st. louis in line for the highest threat. that would be a two for the concern and threat level. this afternoon, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., the threat firing up across the tennessee valley. >>> thank you. firefighters in alberta, canada are trying to get a handle on the wildfires that have burned. daytime temperatures are calling and the humidity is up giving firefighters a fighting chance. it is little comfort for thousands of evacuees. they are not told when they can return or whether they still have homes. authorities say 10% of the town of ft. mcmurray is burned to the ground. john, it is 0% contained. our dan simon is saying there is no water. there is no infrastructure. the homes are gone. there's just no sign left of a town. >> in the long-term outlook, for the summer, it's bleak. this summer is jus

but most of the action is in the tennessee valley along a cold front that is swinging across chicago.nd that arrives here as we close out the week on friday. but for tonight, the clouds thicken up from west to east and there could be a shower late in much of the area, there are periods of rain into friday and it's not raining the entire day but as the system passes through there are some downpours and a rumble of thunder and .25 to .75 inch of rain. morning sunshine gives way to gusty afternoon thunderstorms, and some have winds that go up to 40 to 45 miles per hour. and a little bit of small hail as well. a high of 76, and for the weekend on sunday as we fly towards the plain states, high pressure is coming in through canada, a tight pressure gradient meaning strong winds and that is sunday's wind as well as chilly temperatures to come in the second half of the weekend. but for this weekend, a big race, nascar is back in dover on friday and showers and thunderstorms kind of disrupt the truck races with a temperature of 74 degrees, on saturday, 76 sunny and afternoon thunderstorms, ag

the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: i wonder if the e senator from oregon would yield so i could make two unanimous consent requests? mr. merkley: i would be delighted to yield. mr. alexander: thank the senator for his courtesy and i apologize for interrupting him. madam president, i ask unanimous consent that at 1:45 p.m. on thursday -- that's today -- may 12, all postcloture tile be considered expired -- time be considered expired and following the dt disposition of the alexar substitute amendment, the cloture motion on h.r. 2028 be withdrawn and the bill be read a third time and the senate vote on passage of the bill as amed. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. alexander: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that following disposition of h.r. 2028, the energy and water appropriations bill, the senate proceed to the consideration of h.r. 2577, the transportation, housing, and urban development aappropriations bill. further, that the pending amendments be withdrawn and that