here here at the tennessee state fair grounds in nashville. >> during a life shot for news channelille, we've got a live report ter on the scene of the tennessee state fair. >> this is the lumber jack show. >> that's bruce of the lumber jack show impressing us all with his skills. >> look at him smiling. i have a feeling he's got an idea of maybe getting some water out of that tank toward me. >> it turns out the joke is on bruce. >> oh! >> bruce! >> he lands where the old sun don't shine right there on the log. >> he landed on his log. >> at that point bruce doesn't care whatsoever about the camera, the live shot, anything. he just says you know what? i've had enough of this. i'm out of here. see ya. >> taking one for the team buddy. >> and then he gave this move. >> one more time. >> oh! >> we encourage everybody to come out we will esee hopefully bruce maybe after he recovers a little bit. back to you in the studio. >>> you guys are familiar with the term couch surfing? >> yeah. going from people to people's apartment when you don't have anywhere to stay. >> this is the new zeala

it replaced its 100-year-old predecessor, the tennessee state penitentiary, known as the walls. today, riverbend houses close to

the hottest team in the bay area, hosted by navy, tennessee state. stripping miller, the quarterback, san jose state recovers it. not a lot of offense. but here's a terrific play. david fails looked like a sack. tosses up. and one-handed grab, leading 3-0 at the half. navy, play action... but damon otion borne jr., pick its up into the fourth, fourth and 7 for navy... not fooled. san jose state holds. they are now 4-1, shutting out navy, 12-0 is the final. the as have 5 games left. the magic number for clinching a wildcard spot is down to 4. seattle in town. every game important for bob melvin and his club. saunders deep. trailing, 4 innings left. 4-0, mariners, as down 4-2 in the ninth, until this one. with a man, two-run shot, ties it up and the amazing as do it again. extras, brandon moss -- see ya! two men on, three-run shot and the as walk off the 14th time, winning, 2 1/2 back of texas. angels and rangers near a rain dlai. as did it again. alabama and michigan on deck right here. stay tuned for after the game with us, afterwards, as we break dow

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he excelled academically, graduating from high school at 15, at tennessee state university at 19. >>nd the education, but two degrees and the third one was in building curriculums for schools, and the so the other doctorate was from a seminary and i got a third doctorate humanity. i think we should place a great deal of value on education, it just doesn't start in the classroom, however, there aspects of education as well and one of the most essential ones for me was travel, going to different places and out of different cultures and learning from different people, ways of life, helped to educate me. >> kelly: in his nashville home, he gave me a tour of the awards he's received from charitable programs as well as from leaders around the world. of all of these awards, you have a host of others that you have given to your alma mater. >> that's right, tennessee state university, and for the connection ap the other part is in indiana university. a bloomington and it's in there with calloway and count bassi. >> kelly: based on his experiences in life he find ways to inspire people on tele

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

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, male offenders that are

states like indiana and illinois western parts of kentucky and tennessee. exactly where we are getting much of the needed rain. right now we have heavier downpours through louisiana and central parts of kentucky and southern parts of the state of tennessee and alabama. some of the storms could produce severe weather. current drought extreme drought conditions the wos category of drought across southwestern parts of indiana and kentucky and tennessee and especially bad across the state of arkansas and missouri. most of the state is under one of the worst categories of drought. much needed rain from isaac. today severe weather risk include areas like kentucky, tennessee northern parts of alabama into mississippi cities like memphis, nashville and birmingham you are under the gun to see large hail damaging wind gusts and even tornadoes. we have tornado watches in effect from kentucky through parts of alabama and mississippi. these are in effect late night 11:00 p.m. local time. we have a severe thunderstorm watch including northwestern portions of georgia into

tennessee james is named after witherspoon's home state. >> where is she from? >> tennessee. nashville specifically. rapper lil wayne has overtaken elvis presley's records and it's a record that has stood uncontested since 1958. >>> finally, kelly osborne tweeted an apology to anyone who was offended by herman any cure. that's because it cost $250,000. it was a nail polish made from crushed black diamonds. that is a true story. bill's eyes are popping out of his head. i agree. i know. >>> this comes to us from wpbn 7 and 4 news in michigan. nearby cadillac the tables were turned on a few high school bullies. 16-year-old whitney felt the trade when she learned her homecoming nomination was an organized prank. after getting wind of the cruel joke they quickly rallied behind the sophomore. supporters have donated a gown, gifts, and they plan to display a huge banner in her honor at tonight's homecoming game. good for everyone there. i love that. i'm lynn berry, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day, today on your nbc station. >> you're watching wbal-tv 11. l

syracuse university, ohio state university, university of tennessee, brandeis university, university of south florida, and creighton university. >> i'm here at syracuse university. and they are so excited to launch the first day of our fall tour. >> oh, my gosh, you have a marching band. >> every parent who is watching this saying why are they not in class. but here's the great stuff. we are going to actually visit with sarah and learn more about the school a little bit later in the show. but we're so excited for the folks at syracuse university. >> thank everybody for us, sarah. we'll see you in a few minutes, sweetie. >> it's monday, so we always have our favorite things. and you liked my hair today. this stuff is terrific. super shine light moisturizing cream. instead of doing the oily stuff at the ends of your hair, it's a moisturizing cream. so it doesn't get as oily for hair that's like mine. but it's $44 for five ounces at amazon.com. >> my favorite thing, i fell in love with this show on pbs. just started watching the first season yesterday. i know we're at season three. i ha

state. it did not bring slaves with them. they were sympathetic to that culture. part of ohio also has been settled from west virginia, kentucky, tennessee, the states and the self, appellation, and indeed there is a part of a high of the really is appellation. again, there were seven separate piece. there was a lot of activity during the civil war 1/5. the governor of ohio at one point declared martial law and no higher to try to rein in the confederate sympathies and sympathizers who were here. so all of that adds up to the picture after the civil war where politicians are going to be successful statewide in ohio they had to appeal to both people with seven sympathies and people with north sympathies. on the northern side of the grand army of the republic to a committee of its officers from ohio. when they mustered out after the civil war they came back and establish the republican party. and so the grand army of the republic became in many ways the republican party. so you have strong republican organizations look particularly in the northern part of ohio. you had people in southern sympathies in southern ohio. you as a politician wan

state. they didn't bring slaves with them into ohio, but they were sthettic -- sympathetic to the culture. it settled from west virginia, kentucky, tennessee, the states to the south of us, the appalachian states. again, there were southern sympathies there. there was a lot of activity in the civil war pro-confederate activity in ohio. the governor of ohio declared marshall law in ohio to reign in the confederate sympathies and sympathizers here. all of that adds up to a picture after the civil war where if politicians were going to be successful statewide in ohio, they had to appeal to both people with southern sympathies and people with northern sympathies. on the northern side, the grand army of the republic, which was the union army, took many of the leading officers from ohio. when they mustered # out after the civil war, they came back to ohio and established the republican party. the grand army of the republic became, in many ways, the republican party organization. you had strong republican organizations, particularly in the northern part of ohio. you had people with southern sympathies in southern ohio. you, as a politician who wa

part of ohio also has been settled from west virginia, kentucky, tennessee. both states to the south of the appellation states and there's a part of ohio that is up alisa and southeastern ohio so there were southern sympathies. there's a lot of activity during the civil war and the there's the pro conservative activity and no chaim. the governor of ohio declared martial law. the and to the picture after the civil rights war where the politicians were going to be successful statewide. the southern sympathies and people with number sympathies. the grand army of the public which was the union army took many of its union officers from ally of. the established the republican party. so the grand army of the republic became in many ways the republican party organization. so you had strong republican organizations. you as a politician wanted to run statewide thinking i have a tribal appeal to both groups and of course by appealing to both groups, you are also able to appear to the whole country in a way that people that were presidential candidates for many decades after the civ

year an online schooling bill based on the alec model turned up in another state where alec has a powerful influence, tennesseeoth the state senate and house by alec members. the bill passed, making private corporations eligible for public money for online education. then within weeks the k-12 corporation got what amounted to a no-bid contract to provide online education to any tennessee student from kindergarten through 8th grade. so let's review, the alec member corporations help craft the bill, alec legislators introduce it and vote on it, and now there's a state law on the books that enables one of those corporations to get state money. game, set, match. but remember, this story isn't about one company in the education industry and one law in tennessee. it's about hundreds of corporations in most every industry, influencing lawmakers in state after state using alec as a front. here's another example. the american bail coalition, which represents the bail bond industry, pulls no punches about writing alec's model bills itself. in a newsletter a few years back, the coalition boasted that it had written 12 al

downpours across northern indiana into the central parts of kentucky and also southern parts of the state of tennesseento northern alabama and like you mentioned unfortunately some of the storms could actually produce some severe weather and we're keeping a close watch on that. otherwise, your current drought. extreme exceptional drought conditions, for the worst category, southwestern indiana into kentucky and tennessee and especially bad across the state of arkansas and missouri, pretty widespread out there and see most of the state is currently out of the more categories and droughts and again, some neede rain for isaac, not a drought buster, but moisture needed out there. today's severe risk, areas like kentucky, tennessee and northern parts of tennessee and alabama, cities like memphis, nashville and birmingham and so potentially large hail, damaging wind gusts and even some tornados and we do currently have tornado watches in effect from kentucky down into parts of alabama and mississippi and these are in effect to late tonight 11 p.m. local time and a severe thunderstorm watch including northwe

upper deck during a football game at the georgia dome. 20-year-old isaac grubb of tennessee was watching north carolina statewhen he fell about 35 feet and landed on another fan. both men were taken to the hospital where grubb later died. an investigation will take place but officials say it appears to have been an accident. >> beachgoers in massachusetts received quite a surprise saturday. the discovery that forced officials to close the beach. >> and more on a deadly mouse borne virus overtaking yosemite national park. national park. >> rain in the forecast. ♪ i'm thinking sweet ♪ and i'm thinking new ♪ i'm thinking all these brilliant colors ♪ ♪ shining through ♪ i'm thinking sunshine ♪ i'm thinking sunshine ♪ i'm thinking [ whistles ] ♪ i'm thinking [ whistles ] [ female announcer ] 40 delicious flavors that feel as good as they taste. yoplait, it is so good! >> now, your 11 insta-weather plus forecast with meteorologist tony pann. >> and welcome back. time coming up about 5:39, 72 degrees at the airport. 78 downtown and muggy. humidity at 97%. it is dry right now in most areas and will stay that way the

syracuse university, ohio state university, university of tennessee, brandeis university, university of south florida, and creighton in nebraska. >> sara is down south. hey, sara. >> hi, guys. today i'm at the university of south florida in the sunshine state. although the sun did not show up, the party did! >> like a flash mob. >> oh, my gosh. >> woo! >> that looks like fun. >> oh, my gosh, let's listen. [ cheers ] >> that looks like fun. >> if you can get college kids up and around 10:00 a.m., you've >> that is awesome. >> it's nice to see a different color than orange. >> mixing it up. we need everybody to vote. klgandhoda.com. we'll check back in with sara in a bit. >> the campus with the most votes will be our home away from home on monday, october 1st. you can only vote one time from one computer, right? >> unless you're a computer guy and you know how to beat the system. >> we don't want anybody to cheat. >> maybe computer classes can figure out how to do it in a creative way. >> we saw this picture coming up. i got to tell you i thought it was courtney love from about 20 years

syracuse, university of tennessee, university of south florida, ohio state university, brandeis, andon university. >> hoda and i will be hosting our show from one of those schools based on your vote so you have to vote. you have to go and vote for the school right now. >> right now. we're going to check in with brandeis university in waltham, massachusetts and then creighton in nebraska. >> hey, kids, why should we come to your school? >> we're so excited. "today" in the fourth hour. we love kathie lee and hoda. we have so much enthusiasm and spirit. >> we have sup a great sense of community and spirit. we love to rally, especially around a good cause and you and we really want you to come out here and become part of our community. >> you guys really turned it out i think. people up on the second tier, you know how to party and that's influencing us. >> judge looks like quite the party animal. >> yeah. wild and crazy judges. >> we can definitely show you a good time when you come here. >> you're showing us a lot of school spirit. >> thank you. >> thank you, kids. on to omaha and mike

year, an online school in bill based on the alec model turned up in another state where alec has a powerful influence -- tennesseeit was introduced in both the state senate and house by alec members. the bill passed, making private corporations eligible for public money for online education. then within weeks, k12 corp. got a no bid contract to provide online education to any tennessee students from kindergarten through the eighth grade. let's review. the alec member corporations helped craft the bill. alec legislators introduced it and vote on it, and now there is a state law on the books that enables one of those corporations to get state money. game. set. match. this story is not about one company and the education industry and one lot in tennessee, but about hundreds of corporations in most every industry in flensing lawmakers in state after state, using alec as a friend. the american bill coalition, which represents the bill on industry, pulls no punches about writing alec's model bills itself. a few years back and in his letter, the coalition boasted it had written 12 alec model bills fortifying the commerc

it happened during the tennessee/north carolina state game and the condition of the other fan isn't knownan autopsy is ongoing. this after a man fell five stories from an escalator at an nfl preseason game. >>> a baltimore man behind bars after a botched robbery. the victim says she lost her keys at maryland casino wednesday night. 50-year-old daniel miller found the keys, took her car eventually driving to the victim's house in edgewater. officers caught him walking out of her home with her laptop and jewelry. despite him being locked up, the woman is still on edge. marie didn't want to give her last name. >> like i said, i've never experienced it and so it's really been -- it's unsettling. i'm kind of walking around in circles. things i want to do and i just don't -- just very unsettling, still. >> miller faces multiple charges including burglary and resisting arrest. >>> federal authorities dropped their investigation into a controversial sheriff in arizona. authorities determined there wasn't enough evidence to present a case against maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio. there were char

and when the case was argued in the supreme court, on that technicality the state of tennessee, which at this time was so angry they have been exposed to the entire world is a bunch of southern backwoods ignoramuses, seized on a technicality to reverse the case but in reversing the case they issued a strict order back to the trial judge saying, you are not to retry this case. and so in the in the aclu lost because they did not get their testimony to go and it did not happen for many years later. dan whether that was pro bono. >> scathingly criticized for representing because their parents were very wealthy families in chicago which is part of the reason why such a famous case was that these boys had been given everything this country has to give answers to wasted by this stupid thread killing. so darryl had to accused -- issued a statement because the papers were talking about the million dollar defense. so i agree that we will go by as special board of the local bar association and establish a suitable fee thinking all the while that mildred ever hold it to him and he would still mak

it happened during the tennessee/north carolina state game.he condition of the other fan is not known. it comes just a day after a 25-year-old fell five stories from an escalator at houston's reliant stadium at an nfl preseason game. >>> and a church volunteer behind bars charged with sexual abuse. 23-year-old james west arrested yesterday. police say he was a youth group volunteer with king's travel church for several years charged with the sexual assault with a 14-year-old member of that group. police tell us the teen was assaulted twice in fairfax. >>> the government is orders virginia tech to pay a $27,000 fine for the 2007 mass shooting on campus that killed 32 people. inpril a judge dismissed a large fine issued by the education department. the officials claims they violated federal law by waiting two hours to inform the campus that the shooter was loose on campus. by that time, the gunman had already opened fire. education secretary arne duncan reinstated half of the original fine. virginia tech can still appeal. >>> police say the shoo

a fan fell to his death at the georgia dome in atlanta friday night at the north carolina state/tennessees were really freaked out right after it happened and everyone tried to run to the sides but security was pushing everyone back and clearing the area out so people couldn't look over. >> it's not something you would ever imagine happening at a football game. everybody is really excited and happy. >> isaac grub who is 20 years old and was celebrating a tennessee touchdown fell 35 feet from an upper level of the stadium. he died at the hospital. very tragic. >>> for decades it's been one of college football's power houses but today the nittany lions of penn state were dealt an embarrassing loss at their home opener. the school of course has been penalized since the sexual molestation trial of a former assistant, jerry sandusky. today penn state lost to ohio university which in the world of college football is a huge upset. what does this portend for the future in happy valley? cnn's joe carter is at penn state and joins us now. joe, first of all from a sports standpoint this is a pretty

they are syracuse university, the ohio state university. >> the university of tennessee.ty of southern florida, tampa and -- >> creighton. >> and hoda and i are going to host our show live from one of those schools october 1st based on your votes. everybody, go to klgandhoda.com and vote for the school you like best. right now sarah is down south at the big orange, the university of tennessee in knoxville. hey, sarah. >> i may have let them play with my wardrobe but i do have a couple of vols here to tell you why they want you to come here. first up, we have got laura. why do you think klg and hoda should come here to u.t.? >> you actually have to come see us at the university of tennessee, we love y'all down here and love to have you. pack your cowboy boots and visit us in knoxville and we are excited and see you october 1st. >> next we got jillian. jillian is the one that dressed -- okay. now, why -- >> cute. >> do you think they can -- thank you. do you think they can pull these off? >> oh, totally, anyone can, especially the two of you. if you have no other reason to

solid obama states 14 of them represent 184 electoral college votes. if you add kentucky, tennessee, georgia, to the 1 states that romney has. you add those states with bah and 184 to 181 in solid states for each candidate. the rest of is it up for gra grabs. >> bret: joe, talk about a convention bounce. we have don't see one of yet. tough. holiday weekend. you have the democratic convention this week. >> the non-incumbency point gets five points. it expect fa for romney. but we won't be able to see it not completely because as you said, we are at the democratic convention. that is going to start, the pendulum swinging the other way. you know, i think later on we have to see how big the gap is. but i think the bounce itself might be masked how close the conventions are together >> in the modern rare is only the second time conventions were back to back. we're likely to see the effect of the bounce mitigated by. that we ought to look at gallup polls and others cup weeks before the republican convention and see how the respective party bounces settle out. >> bret: in north carolina, i

tennessee james is named after witherspoon's home state. >>> rapper lil wayne has overtaken elvis presley's record for billboard's top 100 list. that's been stood uncontested since 196. >>> finally, you could have given me ten guesses that this exist. kelly osbourne tweeted an apology to anyone offended by her emmys manicure. it consisted of a $250,000 nail polish made from crushed black diamonds. what? >> she didn't pay for it. >> she didn't. a lot of people are -- that's just unnecessary. >> i wouldn't say no. if they wanted to paint my nails, i'll do it. >> if they want to paint me in black diamonds, i'll be fine with it. >>> this comes from wpbn where in nearby cadillac the tables were turned on a few high school bullies. 16-year-old whitney learned her homecoming queen nomination was an organized prank. after getting wind of the joke, students an community members quickly rallied by the sophomore and supporters donated a gown, gifts, even planned to display a huge banner at tonight's homecoming game. >>> i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just the first stop of the day today on you

united states knows what petaluma is >>> petaluma is the a capital of the united states canyon in the city in tennessee that beat petaluma. it is but the town and these kids on the map >>> it is pretty cool to see him on tv and stuff >>> it is heady stuff for a 12 or 13 year-old have ever done a tv interview before >>> yes >>> have you done interviews before two or three weeks ago >>> no. >>> now that ban on national tv and play by play advance across the country >>> it means the world to me that these fans and people here for me >>> your 12 or 13 have all these people applauding for you to marty go back to school you have homework. >>> to the girls kind of like it >>> yam >>> does this help you out with the girls? >>> note. >>> we'er back to sibling squabbles but it is wonderful what a great experience >>> the moments of great help their remember the moments >>> and then can be as fleeting as the confetti today. mike sugerman cbs 5 >>> the oakland a's raise more than $53,000 to fight cancer it was the breast cancer awareness day the tinsel and hats and being jerseys to benefit press cancer education a