the story unfolding in tuscaloosa is not just about tuscaloosa. it's happening nationally. it's happening. it's all of us everywhere in this nation. we are going backwards as a nation where issues of racial segregation is concerned. there's no question about it. >> joining me now is film maker alexander pelosi, associate professor at columbia university and dorian warren. it's distressing to say i don't know ho to teach brown versus board of ed when talking to a class that's been segregated. how did it happen? there's a calculated effort to keep white students in one place and blacks in another. >> i don't want to bore you with the politics there. >> it's happening here. >> it's here in my kids school downtown. man hatten is more segregated than most in america. i think the most important thing we need to talk about is how it happened in the whole country. >> yeah. part of that -- it's a story about economics and opportunity and mobility. it's conservative ideology that, as john roberts said, if you want to stop discriminating, stop discriminating. >> wait. it's most import

that was the fear in tuscaloosa.from under its court order, it had gone from more than 60% white to less than 30% white. and they believe that the court order was the cause. >> i want to pause for a moment and come out to my table. i have some folks on my panel that i want to give them an opportunity to ask you questions but i also want to ask them a bit here. here in new york is judith brown dianes and julio vazquez, hali parter and tremaine lee. it's easy when we start with brown and then we go to tuscaloosa, alabama, to see this as a black/white issue. and, in fact, our public schools are now a black/brown issue in many ways. talk to me a little bit about how nikole's findings are different from yours in texas. >> latinos are the most segregated in california. we had to think about immigrant students and emergent bilingual students. in texas, those students are triple segregated, by race, class and also segregated into those students that are learning english. we often talk about this demography determines destiny

actually plagiarized an older book called start stolen alabama down from the ivy league and lived in tuscaloosa and traveled all over the state and wrote about it very eloquently. this young professor had actually i believe plagiarized in all innocence. he was sort of a postmodern type writer who is borrowing from earlier writings and using them. to me his explanations were somewhat garbled and muddled and they said something about where modern english scholarship is. i thought how can a ph.d. in english make this grave a mistake? but despite his pleas that this was an ascent and let's put and arata university georgia press was the publisher, the book was withdrawn by georgia. the copies were called and destroyed. this to me was the worst thing for any author. it's like the iconic scene in the 1960s television show brandon. chuck connors is out there stripping off this regalia and insignia and breaking up the sword and you are better so this young man unfortunately really did suffer that fate reidy was fired from where he was teaching at the time which i think was the university of mississippi

. >> reporter: we moved onto tuscaloosa, expecting big tornadoes in tuscaloosa on the third day.t didn't happen because down here on the gulf coast there was a front, and it didn't move. it wasn't a stationary front, a cold front, but it just didn't keep going. that front right where we are here caused rain to rain all night. almost six inches of rain in one hour at one reporting station. and this is what happened. the water came up. this is the confluence of two rivers that never flooded before, and i'm talking the water would be over my head here, i am even with the house. the water is here and not much above me before i am in the attic. neighbors helping neighbors. but the damage you incur from being wet or knocked down by a tornado can be at times similar, except being picked up by a tornado, you can get all put back together by insurance. people here don't have flood insurance because this place never floods. i can't tell you the devastation i've seen. but also hard to describe the help. i would tell you a thousand people in this neighborhood here, and very few of them know

. >> we also went to tuscaloosa, alabama, for habit for humanity, and we helped build houses that got tornado damage a few years ago. >> and we also traveled to guatemala twice. we went to an orphanage down there, and we played with them. we fed them. and we also went to a school, and we gave them supplies that we doned. >> that's amazing. when you were interviewed by tyler years ago, you said that one goal was to make other teens want to volunteer. do you think that worked out? >> yes. we're in the process actually of actually trying to promote a new group of freshmen who are coming up, and we're talking to eighth graders right now and having them apply and try and be the next four friends. so, we're really interested in finding girls that are interested in volunteering and helping those specific girls start their own group, as well as helping other students that are interested. and we have seen students already participate in volunteering activities because they've seen us volunteering. >> that's great. so, now that you're graduating high school, what are your plans going forward? >

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in tuscaloosa, alabama, well inland, low-lying areas were swamped. >> i've never seen this much water in my life. i mean, i know i'm young but this is a lot of flooding for alabama. >> ifill: some parts of the state saw up to 26 inches of rain in 24 hours alone, more than some hurricanes bring. the slow-moving system also brought powerful thunder and lightning storms overnight, knocking out power to thousands. the heavy rain also reached to the atlantic. llewellyn jones lives in wilson, north carolina. her basement was flooded when a nearby creek overran its banks. >> we had about four and a half feet of water in our driveway. it was over the hoods of both our cars. probably a good three feet in the house that turned our freezer over, washer, dryer. >> ifill: from there, the storm system pushed north, dumping as much as five inches of rain across parts of the mid-atlantic and into the northeast. >> ifill: for more on the flooding, we spoke a short time ago on the phone with ashton hayward, the mayor of pensacola, florida. welcome, mayor. as of 6:00 p.m. eastern time, we're hearing tha

here in tuscaloosa, alabama, we don't have an emergency room.hat they are telling the veterans now, when you are calling for an appointment, you must go to a civilian hospital or the nearest va hospital to be seen. said, i was taken something described by the v.a. and i got constipated for a week and a day. so i called my primary doc there here at the va hospital -- a doctor here at the va hospital and i asked a nurse and i said, can i come out and see my doctor? she informed me that he was booked up until may -- which is this month, may 22. they sent me an appointment date, may 22. now this happened in february of this year when i became constipated. host: if you can bring this to a conclusion, that would be great. therethe conclusion is, was no way feasible i could wait for three months to see a doctor . pardon me, sir? , it seems like to me that the hospital should have been responsible for the bill since they sent me to a civilian hospital. but the v.a. said they were not going to pay for it. that is larry's experience with the v.a. system.

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tuscaloosa say. >> i think we have some great examples that we can emulate. for example, the way the exchange model is structured today, the only way to get the subsidy for the member is to purchase through the exchange. if you look at medicare advantage, which is a highly regulated program, good quality with many innovations, the member can buy from any health care they want they are buying a product. one of the simple things we could do is simply eliminate the exchange about the point about which the purchase needs to be made in that way we eliminate another level of regulation. we have the commissioners and all that represents another layer of complexity. the other thing we have to recognize is the whole hospital and cared for every system is going to be asked to change its business model and changing the business model in your current business model is what pays the bills to a model that doesn't provide you enough revenue is a very tricky proposition and what that means if the institutions that will fail at it will be the institutions that serve the most

the pictures looks like joplin, like tuscaloosa, and other bad sites.e do have a chance of seeing strong thunderstorms today. later this afternoon into areas of cedar rapids. we do not think this will be tornadoes. but if you're in chicago, indianapolis, ft. wayne, all the way down to indianapolis and columbus. a line of strong storms with damaging winds heading your way. a lot of power outages expected with that. thankfully we've had a quiet, knock on wood, tornado season in oklahoma. they had the el reno tornado that was an ef-5 a couple weeks after this one. they've only had five tornadoes up to this point in oklahoma all year long. typically they average about 55. we're at a nice, slow pace. and they deserve it after what they went through last year there in moore. more on "morning joe" coming up. we'll be right back. ♪ vo: once upon a time there was a boy who traveled to a faraway place where villages floated on water and castles were houses dragons lurked giants stood tall and the good queen showed the boy it could all be real avo: whatever you ca

. >> we moved from tupelo to tuscaloosa. down here on the gulf coast, there was a front.ry front, but a cold front. it just didn't keep going. that front right where we are here, caused rain to rain all night. almost 6 inches of rain in one hour at one reporting station. the water came up. this is the confluence of two rivers that never flooded before. the water over my head and not much before i get to the attic. neighbors helping neighbors. the damage you incur from being wet or knocked down by a tornado, can be, at times, similar, except being picked up by a tornado you can get put back together by insurance. people here don't have flood insurance because this place never floods. i can't tell you the devastation i have seen, but it is hard to describe the help. thousands of people in bristol park in pensacola, and few of them know each other, they are strangers helping neighbors. people coming to help because they know the people here are hurting. people that did not get hurt or damaged or did not get water damage are coming here to help in droves, in buses with church