mississippi and compared those to what was happening on the atchafalaya and the mississippi. and he theorized that the atchafalaya and the mississippi were in an intermediate stage of capture and that, if something was not done by about the 1970s, about 1975, we would reach a critical stage of capture in which the mississippi would no longer be able to carry any more flow because it was filled with sediment, and the flows would go down the atchafalaya. he said that this would happen when about 40% of the flow was going down the atchafalaya from the mississippi. in 1954, as a result of the army corps report, the united states congress authorized the old river control project. essentially, this funded the construction of a series of control structures and channels all situated in the old river area. under the plan, the flow of water and sediment between the mississippi and the atchafalaya was to remain at its then current rate, a 70/30 split. 30% of the combined discharge of the mississippi and red rivers was to flow into the atchafalaya, while the remaining 70% would be kept wi

we're at a kkk rally in the heart of mississippi. countryside still haunted by memories of lynchings and church bombing from decades ago. pastor wallace hartsfield remembers those days only too well. he witnessed a black man dragged through the streets. >> they shot the man and they hanged him and then used his body for target practice, to teach black folk a lesson. >> we're going to need some help. >> reporter: but this is not the distant past. this is just last month in a secluded property in the woods, where people have come to join the grand dragon stephen howard, for what they call a cross lighting. >> america is in turmoil and we're lighting crosses to let people know that america is in turmoil right now. >> reporter: this klansman, who asked we not show his face for fear he'd be fired from his job, starts to get ready for the evening's rituals. you are wearing the robes of traditional terrorists, of traditional haters -- >> that's just the outlook that they want to give you. that ain't true. not everybody is like that. >> repor

to vote in mississippi. the worry here was that because thousands of mississippi legal voters don't have the i.d. that would have been necessary under the new law, this new law would have kept disproportionate numbers from voting on election day. that law is now technically been blocked by this justice department letter. what if you could get that impact on the the electorate any way? this is what the mississippi secretary of state, who is a republican, has been doing all summer long in that state. he's been printing up and posting a thousand signs all across the state that say voter i.d. in big letters with a number to call if you need i.d., which by the way you don't need to vote in mississippi. mississippi's republican secretary of state spent the summer talking up the state's new law and sending out postcards all over the state about the new i.d. you're going to need to vote, even though that's not the law in mississippi. to be clear, if you do not have i.d., it's still okay for you to vote in mississippi th

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anyone east of the mississippi. three systems about to collide at once. 70-mile-per-hour winds barrelling toward the coast tonight. storm surges up to 12 feet high. a foot of rain. several feet of snow in some places. tonight, the massive evacuations under way. subways shut down. thousands of planes grounded. and school now canceled for millions of children. our extreme weather team, where the storm is already hitting. >> we're in the middle of a blizzard. >> abc's sam champion and the central question, why is this a superstorm? and ginger zee, right where sandy is expected to make landfall. why the full moon could make it even worse. "world news" team coverage starts now. >>> good evening on this sunday night. as we come on this air, you can see it swirling right over my shoulder here. what's being called a superstorm tonight. hurricane sandy is more than 200 miles off the coast, about to crash into two other systems when it makes landfall. take a look at this tonight. this is the imagery from space. a massive storm

amendment in mississippi. >> no, i remember that. >> even the people of mississippi rejected that position. >> well, romney also rejected that position as well. >> well, the president calls it romnesia. i have my own what i call mittology. >> anyway, also taking on the late night comedy scene, first lady michelle obama. she and jimmy kimmel put together an ad to get you out of bed on election day. >> election day, election day! up and adam. up and adam! it's election day. come on, let's go. get your shoes on. up, up, up! move it. >> all right. okay. >> time to vote. you can do it. >> okay. i'm voting. >> out the door, out the door! and eat some carrots. >> i'm barack obama, and i approve this message. >> also mrs. obama has been encouraging people to take advantage of early voting just in case, her words here, your toilet overflows on election day and you can't get to the polls. >> also, lena dunham, the creator, actor and writer in the girls. here she is talking about voting for the first time. >> your first time shouldn't be with just anybody. you want to do it with a great guy. you don'

this is tonight later today's rain now come out of the mississippi valley into the tennessee valley, ining in mississippi and tennessee. all of this making a beeline right toward the metro area. there could be a few areas north and west dealing with the sprinkles. here's the futurecast moving until noon now. montgomery county might see a couple of sprinkles going then. the better chance of showers will be north and west of dc. tonight we are going to have showers around for the o's yankees game, they may have tough times here, keeping the rain shower activity over the region. tomorrow morning especially south and east, the tomorrow a little piece of energy will pull away. sunny in the afternoon, warmer into the 60-degree range on tuesday. wednesday we are going to warm up even more ahead of this front, we'll warm toward about 70. most of the showers just do the dc split. temperatures are going to struggle. in the shanendoah valley we may not get to 50 degrees today due to the early arrival of clouds. winchester 47, closer to 60 in easton. warmer south and east. we are stopping in the

the truth. mississippi's voter i.d. law will not be in effect for the november election. it is a teeny tiny statement, but at least it's finally true. and a bunch of regular folks in mississippi are doing what they can to try to get the word out a little louder. including this true message written on the back window of her own car by the beloved mississippi aunty of one of this show's producers. no voter i.d. required to vote in mississippi. for the prospect our election should be free and fair and not purposely confusing, all good news. right? right. then there's the other side. then there's colorado. hold on. that's coming pup. >>> now that debate season is over and we have entered the final stretch of the campaign, you can expect to see schedules that defy human capability. president obama is embarking on a two-day around the clock campaign blitz across six battleground states. he will campaign in six states in just two days. while he's in between state, he will be calling voters from air force one. it's that time in the campaign. today president obama was in florida an

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the state of mississippi got hit the worst. the storms as far as the official tallies go about 77 storm reports, the blue dots are the damaging wind reports, the red is the tornado reports. we had three of them. it appears the one near yazoo city and to the south of meridian did the most damage. a couple thousand without people in central mississippi and the storms have weakened. a look at that storm that did cause the issues. here it was as it went through the meridian, mississippi, area. now in south central portions of alabama. it has weakened significantly. no longer a tornado threat but in monroeville you're going to get gusty winds, hear the lightning and thunder and those storms should be passing by within the next hour. otherwise, the storms have weakened significantly. it looks like these storms heading down toward i-10 will produce heavy rain. this storm in the northern plains got blown around from oklahoma northward, winds gusting up to 50 miles an hour. still windy behind that storm in iowa through missouri. it's cl

. >>> the university of mississippi, you know it as ole miss, well, the school just made history. 50ars after immigrating, it's elected its first african-american homecoming queen. >>> first, collect as many credit cards as you can. compete with your friends to buy possessions you can't afford. and don't bother saving for retirement. it's a long way off. these are all things ben stein says you should do if you want to ruin your financial life. christine romans sits down with him in this week's "mastering your money." >> ben stein is a well-known economist. he was a speechwriter for president nixon and, oh, yeah, this. >> bueller. bueller. bueller. >> now ben stein is advising all of us to slack off a little like ferris bueller. he writes financial basics, they're boring. it's much better to be adventurous. he writes a lot of stuff like that but i bet he doesn't mean it considering his new book is entitled "how to really ruin your financial life and portfolio." we know the financial world is full of people trying to fleece you. >> we sure do know that. >> why do smart people do dumb t

amendment in mississippi. >> no, i remember that. >> even the people of mississippi rejected that position>> well, romney also rejected that position as well. >> well, the president calls it romnesia. i have my own what i call mittology. >> anyway, also take on the late night comedy scene, first lady michelle obama. she and jimmy kimmel put together an ad to get you out of bed on election day. >> election day, election day! up and adam. up and adam! it's election day. come on, let's go. get your shoes on. up, up, up! >> all right. oak. >> time to vote. >> uk do it. >> okay. i'm voting. >> out the door, out the door! and eat some carrots. >> i'm barack obama and i approve this message. >> also ms. obama has been encouraging people to take advantage of early voting just in case, her words here, your toilet overflows and you can't get to the polls. >>> and the lead writer in the series "girls" steps up with a new ad encouraging young people to vote. >> your first time shouldn't be with just anybody. you want to do it with a great guy. you don't want a guy who says, oh, hey, i'm at the library

mississippi share is over 25 million according to a study by the state auditor and mississippi is sayingise have to suffer, so that's why they've joined the lawsuit. their burden is shared by the other 49 states. >> it's a significant burden. some might be scratching their head. why arizona. why not a state around the border? >> one of the interesting things in the last decade we've seen is every state is a border state now. speaking figuratively, it's true. we have illegal immigration in states across the country. it's very easy for illegal aliens to cross into arizona, they're put into minivans and dispersed all over the country. the southeast, georgia, alabama and mississippi have seen a boon in other industries and influx of inillegal immigration. so mississippi has been hit hard by the tax -- the taxpayers have been hit hard. >> we did reach out to the department of homeland security for a statement. they did not get back to us. they might bring up the obama administration deported a record number of illegals in 2011. does that not boost their case they're doing their job to protect

louis, right down the mississippi river through memphis, we'll have a chance of a few torn nad does. won't be widespread but there will be serious storms to watch in the area late this afternoon. keep an eye on that with you and your family late today. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. there's the chances of thunderstorms. indianapolis, that will be very late in the day as that squall line moves your way. areas like milwaukee, the storm will linger near you. colder temperatures in the days ahead also. all of that storminess in the middle of the country. slow moving east coast. able to get it friday. >>> bill, thanks so much. >>> coming up, 14-year-old making your iphone? a new england earthquake. and an nfl coach fired. headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus the government raids the company suspected in the deadly meningitis outbreak. you're watching "early today." >>> making news right now, federal agents raided the massachusetts pharmacy suspected in the deadly meningitis outbreak. an attorney for the pharmacy complained i

but thankfully all dry along the banks of the mississippi. there's water near the ballpark but not like san francisco. not with the at&t and the bay. not water that's reachable by a home run. we got to batting practice and we'll have a little bit of that later. live in st. louis, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> giants fans are filling the inbox. this is of bobble hood cooper. look at those blue eyes. and angelina e-mailed us of six week old max. he's been to two giants games. keep sending the photos. e-mail them to photos at www.ktvu.com or post them to our facebook page. >> priceless stuff. >>> it was a fire ball as big as a car streaking across the sky and a lot of people saw it. our health and sciences expert tells us what it was. >> reporter: almost as bright as the sun. >> there was a big flash and a ball of fire. and it had a big tail and it lasted all the way across my neighbor's house. >> reporter: a car sized rock, an asteroid slammed into the atmosphere south of monterey. several reports of sonic booms. it was 7:44 last night and the fire b

the truth. mississippi's voter i.d. law will not be in effect for the november election. is a teeny tiny statement, but at least it's finally true. and a bunch of regular folks in mississippi are doing what they can to try to get the word out a little louder. including this true message written on the back window of her own car by the beloved mississippi aunty of one of this show's producers. no voter i.d. required to vote in mississippi. for the prospect our election should be free and fair and not purposely confusing, all good news. right? right. then there's the other side. then there's colorado. hold on. that's coming pup. zeebox is the free app that makes tv even better. if your tv were a space captain, zeebox would be an alien, first officer. together they'd become the best star team in the fleet, able to take on anything in the universe. whew. space. space. [ male announcer ] download zeebox free, and let your tv go where it's never gone before. [ male announcer ] start with nothing, build a ground-breaking car. good. now build a time machine. go here, find someone

there, settlers looked west down valleys to the mighty mississippi, not over their shoulders that the mountains that separated them from the political creators. former vice president conspiracy of 1805 and 1806 to make a nation for himself and others opened by the purchase had come apart, but illustrated limited control exerted by the east over the west of the national government over its unsettled territory. a continental nation so uncertain that president thomas jefferson deemed it optional, quote, "whether we remain in one confederacy or form into atlantic and pacific confederacies, i believe not important to the happy of either part." the coming of the steam boat in 180 # 7 gave hope, but there were soon boats on the rivers, but no true navigation between them. the war of 1812 proved to be a three year course that the united states remained a shaky nation. british burned washington, madison escaped on horse back, the british burnedded buffalo and neighboring black rock. the pioneers of western new york fled east in terror. there was no defending the state's western flank by the ef

river start with a w and broadcast stations west of the mississippi start with a k.is what happened. tucker, you want me to do this. >> yes, please. >> way back in 1912, several can'teries attended a conference on the subject of international radio telegraphs. this was because -- i won't get into that. one of the biggest things to come out of that was the assignment of certain letters to certain can'teries to identify their radio and television signals for example, canada got the letter c. mexico for some rope got the letter x. the united states got two letters, w and k. we were also assigned n. we were given w, k, n and s. n and a, those letters were taken by the military. w and k were left over for commercial broadcast use n192, the -- in 1928, it was decided that all call letters were required to be four letters in length. they grandfathered in stations that existed before then. so, for example, there are some stations west that start with a w and some stayings that only have three call letters, wgn tv for example. they were grandfathered in. >> what does wgn stan

heavy rain will spread into the central parts of the mississippi river valley into tomorrow and back behind a cold front. criminal fire weather is imposed in parts of wyoming, eastern nebraska as well as iowa into tonight. heavy rain shards will gradually weaken as we head into tonight. very cool air coming from the north. frost advisory and freeze warnings are posted in the appalacians. temperatures aring looing quite chilly for this time of year. only 15 degrees expected in washington and chicago at 19 degrees. only 5 degrees in winnipeg. let's go over to europe. a strong low bring in snow showers and heavy rain in the southern peninsula. thunderstorms in italy. east in turkey will make its way toward the east. temperatures are looking seasonal in many locations. here is your extended forecast. >> that wraps up this edition of "newsline." . thanks for joining us. x0

out west of the mississippi, polls suggesting things have shifted back to president obama and democrats in iowa, colorado and nevada, and that's why mitt romney plans to go there after the debate next week to do a little bit of firewall back-filling to make sure he gets the key battleground states west of the mississippi right there in toss-up, if not leaning toward romney. jamie? >> campaign carl cameron. carl, good to see you. thank you so much. >>> governor mitt romney's now calling out president obama over what many are calling a string of petty attacks on the campaign trail, truly getting nasty. it's a huge sign, according to governor romney, of just how desperate the obama campaign has become. take a listen. >> they have no agenda for the future. no agenda for america. no agenda for a second term. it's a good thing. they won't have a second term. [cheers and applause] they have -- they've been reduced to petty attacks and silly word games. just watch it. the obama campaign has become the incredible shrinking campaign. >> so little time left. angela mcgown is a fox news political a

rain will also go soo is the mississippi river valley into tomorrow. and back behind the cold front, fire weather risk in parts of wyoming, eastern nebraska, southern minnesota as well as iowa into tonight. and out towards the east, heavy rain showers along the eastern seaboard will gradually weaken into tonight. as it does, very cool air coming from the north. so frost advisories. freeze warnings are posted in the appalachians. temperatures are looking like this. only 15 degrees expected in washington and chicago at 19 degrees. but will be cooling down into 11 degrees on wednesday and only five degrees in winnipeg. you may see snow flurries on tuesday night. let's go over to europe then. a strong low bringing in snow showers and heavy rain. making its way towards the battlic states. and to the south, moderate to heavy rain will be shifting towards southern germany. and thunderstorms in italy. eastern turkey and western russia will make its way towards the east. temperatures are looking seasonal in many locations but the exception is going to be the sib

the truth. mississippi's voter i.d. law will not be in effect for the november election. is a teeny tiny statement, but at least it's finally true. and a bunch of regular folks in mississippi are doing what they can to try to get the word out a little louder. including this true message written on the back window of her own car by the beloved mississippi aunty of one of this show's producers. no voter i.d. require d to vote in mississippi. for the prospect our election should be free and fair and not purposely confusing, all good news. right? right. then there's the other side. then there's colorado. hold on. that's coming pup. t makes tv ev. if your tv were a prom queen, zeebox would be a stretch limo. with this enchanting union, comes a sunroof she can scream from... i'm goin' to prom! [ male announcer ] ...and a driver named bruce that she can re-name james... faster, james! [ male announcer ] ...just 'cause. download zeebox free, and have the night of your life with your tv. he used to wash them in hot water. he didn't get the irony. i'm not the tree-hugging type. but

see the rains in northern mississippi through tennessee now. i think some of this could even be here by lunch time, if not later this morning in areas west of town as it is racing quickly off toward the east and northeast. put our futurecast in motion. especially in northern virginia, shanendoah valley, that will be the case through the afternoon hours as this stays generally north and west of washington. that doesn't mean you are not going to see a couple of showers here, just looks lick the better chance will be north and west. obviously baltimore is playing the yankees in game two of their series, could be problems more tonight. showers tonight down in the 40s, some 30s north and west but nothing frozen. an early shower south and east tomorrow. sunshine in the afternoon. 5 to maybe 60. wednesday looking very, very nice. by thursday upper 60s. friday slight chance of a shower and the weekend looks all right. 70 saturday, 76 on sunday. >>> here comes monika samtani with timesaver traffic, police activity continues on the northbound side of geor