the louisiana hayride embraced young talent. the great stars that were here that became so famous all over the world from the louisiana hayride have never been equalled. it actually started april 3rd, 1948. it was a live show broadcast in this wonderful building on this stage and it was broadcast by kwkh. horace logan was the producer frank paige was the announcer, along with norm and several others. and it just became a regular saturday night radio show. this building, it's kind of hard to believe, but every saturday night in the '40s and '50s, this building was packed with people that would drive hundreds of miles to come to the louisiana hayride. the show was very loose. >> you know, folks, i had a pleasant surprise tonight. an old friend of mine dropped an old friend of mine dropped in to visit with me. i talked him to coming out on stage and sing for you folks. he said if you like his singing, he'll come back next saturday night and sing all the songs you want to hear. it's been a long time since he has been on the show. co

they both performed on the louisiana hayride many, many times. ne is part of the great carter family, whose mother mabel and sisters, the carter family played here on the hayride many times. and of course, here is little old elvis. of course, elvis didn't have side burns back then. he was a little teenager coming from memphis, kind of sandy headed, and cute as he could be. and of course, stole all the hearts of the fans of the louisiana hayride, and became famous from the louisiana hayride stage when he was still a teenager. and down here is of course the great hank williams. hank williams was actually the first really big star of the louisiana hayride. he was the greatest back then and is still the greatest. he left here after he became a big hit, went to the grand ole opry. unfortunately, he had a problem, he had a drinking problem, but he was in really poor health, and he was fired from the grand ole opry, and came back to shreveport, and mediately said always be a member of the louisiana hayride, and we continue that. he will always be a membe

in the east, 8:00 p.m. in louisiana where polls is just closed. nbc news can project that rick santorum is the winner of the louisiana republican primary. santorum will win by a significant margin. we can also project that mitt romney will finish second and newt gingrich third. santorum needed to win tonight and he has. again, rick santorum the projected winner in louisiana. i am alex wagner. here with me tonight from new york magazine, john hileman. and there is breaking news tonight, former vice president dick china has undergone heart transplant surgery. we'll have much more on that story in just a few minutes. john, i want to go to you first. what do we make of this? it was in some ways a predicted outcome, rick santorum winning louisiana. does it do anything for his campaign? >> it keeps it alive. in mitt romney pulled off an upset, it would put the final nails in santorum's coffin. the next time we come here on tuesday -- >> april 3rd is probably when we'll be here next, giving santorum a chance to pull off wisconsin, that is what he'll need

cnn projects has won the louisiana primary. next, we're going to go to cnn's joe johns, who's standing by on the ground in new orleans. hey, joe. what do you know? you're talking to voters there. you've been hearing from them. what do they make of this? what are they saying? >> reporter: well, we have been talking to voters here in louisiana. actually been here on the ground all week, don. and it's very interesting for a number of reasons. louisiana is one of those many states that just for decades really has not been involved in the republican primary process the way they've been involved this year. so it was sort of a novelty for these four candidates to descend on this state at this time and start asking them for their vote. so we would see events two dozen seats set up or whatever and just a row of tv cameras. very unusual. one of the things that was pretty par for the court with some of the other primary states, though, was the robocalls, tons and tons of robocalls. we're told most of them that people heard from were actual

if it maintained its present course gustav would eventually end up over the southern states, louisiana and mississippi in particular. almost exactly three years earlier new orleans had been hit by one of the worst storms on record,hurricane katrina and was still struggling to recover. with the memory of the disaster still fresh in his mind, new orleans mayor, ray nagin, knew that if lives were to be saved he had to act swiftly. >>you need to be scared, you need to be concerned, and you need to get your butts moving out of new orleans right now. this is the storm of the century. (vo)a mass evacuation of new orleans and the gulf coast area was put into effect immediately. soon thousands of people under the watchful eye of the louisiana national guard were steadily heading inland. by august 31st nearly two million people were on the move in what would turn out to be one of the biggest mass evacuations in us history. they were just in time because gustav slammed ashore the very next day. however, even though howling winds and torrential rain lashed the gulf coast, the storm was not quite a

the war ended. finally in 1912, louisiana adopted the flag we see today. >> the louisiana flag, i love, because it'sitional love. what the settlers saw, according to louisiana legend, when they first arrived there were these brown pelicans. and if food was scarce, what the mother pelicans would do was peck at their breasts until they bled, and they would feed that to their young. so, on the state flag, you see a mother feeding three baby brown pelicans. >> eventually, louisiana adopted the brown pelican as its official state bird. by the way, louisiana also has an official state doughnut called a beignet. it's fried dough with powdered sugar on top. fortunately, the official state drink is milk. with flag facts, i'm kristen. >> adopting a dog is pretty easy. animal shelters are almost always on the lookout for good owners. but as hannah reports, there's a lot more to becoming a friend to man's best friend. >> so, you want to adopt a dog, but you don't exactly know how to properly care for one. here's a way to learn how. >> volunteering at an animal shelter is a wonderful thing to do. there's a lot o

companies and helping win passage of water quality funding in kentucky is a graduate of the university of louisiana and lafayette and the author of the new and critically acclaimed book the self-made myth and the truth of how government helps individuals and businesses succeed he joins us now from our studios in new york city brian welcome thank you don't let me on the show thanks for joining us let's begin at the beginning here how is wealth created adam smith one hundred one what is wealth and how and who creates. again i think that's really what we really look at in this book there's a narrative that's popular in our culture that somehow wealth is all the result of these heroic individuals who through individual effort through through hard work and smarts and personal sacrifice and leadership create these vast business enterprises and it's sort of a self-made story that's deeply woven into our nation's history and and is lifted up by political pundits because it serves a political agenda but what we look at in this book is that the the true story of wealth creation is far more complex than that

louisiana. it was designed to take the confederate capital of louisiana which was at shreveport. it had a naval base, it had the military headquarters, it had the legislature for louisiana. all good reasons to take this place. but when the thrust of the war is moving across the heartland to the east and you've got an army to the northwest, it doesn't really make much sense. so why did they do it? political pressure. an absolute political need. economic pressure. and both of these trumped military imperative. the political need was because president lincoln wanted to and believed upon receiving a lot of intelligence information that he could repatriate to bring back into the union louisiana and maybe even texas without a lot of problems. they'd had great success at new orleans, they'd had great success at baton rouge, very minimal effort, loss of life was very small. and they thought that perhaps shreveport would be the same way. didn't work out that way. members of president lincoln's cabinet were telling him that if they could just get an army into texas, that the german immigran

the people of louisiana sent a loud and clear message. this race is long and far from over and the people from wisconsin i just say to you, on wisconsin. let's get it done. thank you. >> rick santorum, green bay, wisconsin, looking forward to. that louisiana he said he is a winner. three strikes in a row he said he bowled today. he has been a man of the people. a strong day according to him. let's get more insight. crystal writ is joining us. she is a d.c. delegate for newt gingrich. crystal, what do you think of rick santorum's win? did he hit another strike tonight? all i can do is laugh at his win in louisiana and joe johns pointed out that it is only 20 delegates at stake. the delegates are awarded proportionately. so while mr. santorum would like to believe that this is a game changer for him, he was expected to win in louisiana, and he continues to win among evangelical christians, but that is not going to be enough for him to take this ball and run with it and make a strike and become the nominee. the math is not there, and the vote

joe johns on the ground in louisiana. let's listen in to rick santorum. >> i want to thank you. [ applause ] i have spent the day up here in wisconsin. i'm extremely excited to be up here, the next battleground on this race. we've had a great day. we were just down the road at lambeau field, walking the field of champions, and throwing a little football around there. we were down in cheboygan bowling with the folks in wisconsin. i don't want to brag, but i did roll three strikes in a row. [ applause ] this has been a pretty strong day on the campaign. here in wisconsin, we've been having a great time with the people here and we're going to enjoy it. we're here to fight and we're here to say that if you're looking for someone who can match up and defeat barack obama in this election, someone who can take it to the president, make him the issue in this campaign. stand up for the principles that made this country great. the people of louisiana sent a loud and clear message, this race is long and far from over and the people o

now, if you sort of take that notion and overlay it here in the state of louisiana, well, the politics of louisiana, which is where the primary is right now, are such that the people you talk to, conservatives and evangelicals, will tell you the one mantra they have -- in fact i heard a voter say a few minutes ago, anybody but obama. so if a candidate is talking about the president he's a republican trying to get elected in this state. if he's going to be complimentary of the president, it might not get him too much. so it's not that surprising to see them being critical of the president during a political year. >> you talk about complimenting the president, is anyone saying anything in louisiana about rick santorum's comments where he talked about not wanting to vote for mitt romney if he were the nominee. instead being more inclined with what some people interpreted as saying obama. >> yeah, that's gotten a lot of traction here in the state of louisiana and elsewhere. conservative bloggers writing about it. rick santorum really got so much criticism because, again, people here -- if

only registered republicans can vote. >>> more on the louisiana primary in just a minute. something we like to call political gut check where we take you beyond the speeches and break down what is really going on in politics. tuesday's primary in illinois. >> thank you, illinois. thank you so much. >> mitt romney won but it was his wife, ann, who spoke first. now boston. >> what a fabulous welcome from massachusetts. >> this was super tuesday, romney won massachusetts by a landslide and it was ann who took the mic first. back to january. >> thank you, florida! >> this was florida, romney's first and only win in the south. you can see where i'm going here. mitt romney's wife, not some powerful politician introduced him win after win. i spoke with mark preston who said he's not surprised to see this. >> ann romney gives something to the candidacy he doesn't have. she connects with people. she connects with voters and she helps humanize mitt romney. one of his biggest fall-backs or perhaps something he needs to work on is his ability to connect with voters. a lot of people don

obama care does to health what obama's done to the drilling industry of louisiana. s them in paperwork. >> so as the health care law heads to the u.s. supreme court this week, several aspects of the affordable health care act will be under fire. let's bring in our cnn political contributor, and national journal editor, ron brownstein. good to see you, ron. >> hello there. >> what does it do to the white house's promise made to the uninsured, the underinsured, that it's finding its way in the supreme court? >> well, the heart of the question before the supreme court is this idea of the individual mandate in the bill. a rirlt on those without insurance to purchase it, along with subsidies to help them do so. it's an idea with a very tangled political history. it was originally proposed by republicans as the alternative to bill and hillary clinton, bob dole and chafey. it disappeared for ten years until mitt romney brought it back, passing it in massachusetts. in 2007 you had arnold schwarzenegger adopting it in california. and hillary clinton as a democratic candidate,

the louisiana situation may not be such a good day. i think the two tracks are starting to come together. >> i think jeb's endorsement, christine has the effect of really telling the folks who want to support santorum in the hopes of having a contested convention, because jeb bush will ride in on a white horse and save the day that that ain't going to fly. i think jeb's enforcement has much more significance than just him being a party leader. >> i think that's true. there was no romney in there or man of character and steadfast vision. there were the things that you norm atly see as part of the endorsement. but romney has a good point, i think duf has a good point -- >> can i write that down? >> yes. [ laughter ] >> we're both veterans of these campaigns. we know how it goes. it's one thing to say which ear going to try to block someone at the convention. neither santorum of gingrich is going to win the nomination. their best hope is to block romney and get him so close to the bare 50% that people throw up their hands and say we need a

he spent the day trying to win over wisconsin, he scored big in the louisiana primary, where nbc newsrojects he is the winner. >> the people of louisiana sent a loud and clear message -- this race is long and far from over. >> reporter: it was another disappointment for mitt romney, who still has a strong delegate lead but can't close the deal with conservatives like this one. >> were he to be the front-runner, winds up with the republican nomination, i'm not sure where i would be rnkts . >> reporter: in pennsylvania, neuwelt gingrich was capitalizing on that doubt. he reminded voters of what a romney aide said in recent days. >> i thought they were in fact children's toys not presidential campaign design systems. >> reporter: beginning hitch has vowed to fight on to the republican convection in august, but the road to tampa is now uphill all the way. brian mooar, nbc news. >>> santorum's win, though, is complicated by some rules for awarding delegates in louisiana. there are a total of 46 it delegates but only 20 were at stake tonight. the rest will be allocated at a state convention

just a few days before the ambush took place in louisiana, there was a local cafe here, not too far from where we're standing called the majestic cafe. and on this street, somewhere between the point we're standing and a couple of blocks from here, clyde was spotted somewhere near the majestic cafe and someone in the neighborhood phoned the local authorities and it was because of that report that law enforcement from the region, including, of course, texas rangers knew that they were in the vicinity. and so that's when the net sort of began to close around bonnie and clyde and their ambush occurred actually just four days after clyde was spotted here on this street. they were ambushed not far from gibson, louisiana, on a rural road. there was actually the ambush laid in place by local law enforcement over in that part of louisiana who knew on good intelligence where they were going to be, what their movements were and they laid in wait for them on a stretch of road and, of course, as many people know, opened fire on the car that they were riding in and bonnie and clyde both suffered over

for six months, i studied it to retake the louisiana board -- the law board. six months later, i reject the test. my score catapulted up to a 401. [laughter] i figured, at that rate, i would be about 90 before i got into an english-speaking law school. so i started writing jokes for all comedians who played in the catskill section of new york. the hotels paid me $7 a joke. that was the going rate at the time the vso 21. they are 45. it was like writing for my parents' friends. but i tried my best. they would say to me, like, a sperm banks. sperm banks are in it the news. write me sperm bank jokes. 21, this is what was the foremost on my mind. they have this new thing now called sperm banks, which is just like an ordinary bank except here after making a deposit, you lose interest. [laughter] hey, $7, what do you want? [laughter] then i became the sperm bank guy. they would go, more sperm bank jokes. that i looked into the future. i said, i see a problem with spurring banks. they're starting to freeze sperm. that will be a problem because it is herded up telling

right along the border of louisiana and texas. port arthur, around four, you get the idea here and we've had extreme flooding in a lot of small towns and parishes. temperatures have been off the charts. i can't categorize how significant this early warm period has been, we've never seen it in recorded history from chicago through the great lakes. now some areas here in northern new england haven't seen weather this warm, this early in the spring season. it was 85 in chicago. seven days in a row of record highs. that's unbelievable. each and every day we've broken the record high, detroit, the 82 was the warmest you've ever recorded in the month of march, we're still very warm this morning. we're going to do it again today in chicago, if we get enough sunshine once again you'll be up there in the mid 80s. along the east coast, there are more clouds, we'll keep you in the mid 70s. in northern new england today. you have a chance of another 80-degree day. it was all the way in caribou, maine, it was 70 degrees yesterday and they still

that is going to the polls in louisiana. santorum. half of the voters have called themselves very conservative voters and more than half of the electorate are evangelicals and they support rick santorum in the earlier campaigns. it looks like a good night for santorum. he's actually in wisconsin, a state that votes a week from next tuesday and looking to go head-to-head with mitt romney and santorum come on plained that romney being what he is too moderate is talkingly about the del great race. listen. governor romney said he is the candidate that is the eventual winner. let him make the case. that'sall he is doing is running negative ads and not talking about anything important. >> the process questions reference the quest to delegates in the republican process. romney has a better than two-one lead over rick santorum. it is not an insurrountable achievement. >> mentioned the test coming up this week. if santorum manages to win louisiana tonight. how much is this giving him steam to bet mitt romney down the road. >> absolute

when banks' man's leave, it is burned to the graphic the only major city in louisiana that gets the same kind of destruction that georgia gets. shreveport, second largest city in louisiana, will be a banking center, a trading center, an agricultural center. it will get that position and hold it until 1970. it will call itself the queen city of the southwest. and it will in effect have that position simply because that army was able -- >> for more information on shreveport we can on book tv, is at c-span.org content. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. i think we'll hear a lot more in the coming days and i think this is all good. this is a very good thing to happen. >> how do you assess the race? >> santorum is experiencing a surge. the question is is he going to be able to take the. romney will turn it up and he has the organization to do it. you can fly by the seat of your pet for a while but you can't fly by the seat of your pants the entire primary season. >> thank you. good luck. >> thank you. how are you? >> how are you a? >> great. take care of yourse

in this race for the gop presidential nomination,i deleg. louisiana with 46 at stake. only 20 of those, though, to be given after tonight's contest divided proportionately to the candidates who get more than 25% of the vote. the rest will be awarded at the state's convention in june. our campaign karl cameron live in new orleans for us. karl, it looks like santorum will win louisiana as fox news is projecting. does this give him a significant bump? >> well, it certainly gives him a bump for the delegates. he'll get more of those mitt romney. it looks like newt gingrich won't get any tonight. with a victory, santorum has won 11 states, romney 21. santorum gets a bump in the delegates, but still only has half the delegates that romney has. still with all that, santorum can continue to argue that he's the conservative alternative and that romney can't win in certain parts of the country with conservative voters. tonight he's in wisconsin that holds its primary on tuesday. >> i'm not suggesting he drop out, but if he wants to i'll certainly accept his resignation. you know,

los angeles, sunny, 72. >>> now for a check of the national forecast. louisianakansas and western missouri will get more flood-producing rain and possible tornadoes today. the thunderstorms are also likely in the southeast, the southern mid-atlantic and the northern plains. there will be more record high temperatures from the western great lakes to the northeast. rain and mountain snow will continue in the northwest. >>> in sports, peyton manning got an early birthday present, an orange denver broncos jersey. manning, who turns 37 on saturday, is the bronco's new quarterback. man willing wear his familiar 18, the number brought out of retirement with the blessing of the bronco's first quarterback. >> i'm thrilled to be here. looking forward to meeting my new teammates and doing everything i can to help this franchise win another super bowl. >>> manning's new contract will pay him a whopping $96 million over five years. bronc broncos' vp, john elway, says his toughest job was telling quarterback tim tebow he was out of a job. >> the things he did last year was tre

then about 30 minutes in, we travel across town to the louisiana state museum to see a unique collection of autographs signed by some of our nation's founders and statesmen. >> my favorite is this one signed by john hancock. the one at the national archives is faded and rather difficult to see, whereas this one is in nice, bright signature, easily recognizable as john hancock. >> to round out the hour, a look at medical practices during the civil war as we visit the pioneer heritage center. >> we have our amputation kit. it consists of scalpel, bone saw, the big pliers that have the cutting edge to remove things like appendages like fingers. >> all these stories and more as american history tv in conjunction with comcast cable partners travels to >> freedom itself was attacked by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended. i want to reassure the american people that the full resources of the american government are work to go assist local authorities to save lives and to help the victims of these attacks. >> i was at home asleep when we got the phone call, and an editor of mine said

he won the louisiana primary convincingly, but lags far behind mitt romney in the delegate count. ill rick santorum win in louisiana give him a bayou bounce? or does the victory with 20 delegates at stake have little in the fight for the nomination? let's ask our panel. former national communications. >> and a former spokesman for howard dean's campaign. he took 49% to 27% for romney, i believe. the south is not romney's strong point, so how much does this win mean? >> ultimately tdoesn't mean anything, it's a nice talking point for the rick santorum campaign, they are moving forward. but they are not gaining on mitt romney. what the states coming up, the district of columbia, maryland, which will be good for romney, we will see him further the lead, he has double the delegates of rick santorum and that's the math problem. >> caller: how important do you think it is? with pennsylvania coming up, santorum's home state, where he did not do well in the last senate election. how important is it to make a statement there? >> the results in louisiana underscore the problem we continue to

cnn projects that he has won the louisiana presidential primary giving him another victory in the south. these are the latest numbers in the emergency count. those numbers will continue to update overnight. look at this map. it shows how santorum swept every parish but one, it seems. since tom foreman has been crunching the numbers. so, tom, what with are the numbers showing you? >> oh, man. they show us what's behind that map are some real trends they have to pay attention to. number one is the economy. look at this. that was the big issue that everyone was voting on. 51% of the people that we surveyed said that was the big issue for them there. look at what happened there. we break it down by how much money they make. various categories. the biggest group is here. look n all of these groups, rick santorum won every one except for the people who make more than $200,000 a year. and he won big. if you look at this group, 30 to 50,000, he won 49% to romney's 21%. newt gingrich did better than mitt romney in this category. go to the lowest end group here and look at this, 65% to 13%. sure,