southern command will continue defending the southern approaches to the united states and enhancing regional security and preparing enduring partnerships. i prepared a full statement and respectfully request it be made part of the record. >> it will be made part of the record. >> i want to previously discuss two topics with you this morning and both you and senator mccain briefly talked about it and that's countering transnational organized crime. my other topic is building enduring partnerships. as i have discussed with you in previous test, the u.s. southern command has increasingly focused on a concern that permeates the region, transnational organized crime. biden discussed during his visit to mexico and honduras, transnational organized crime is impacting citizen safety in north, especially guatemala, el salvador and honduras, they threaten to overwhelm law enforcement and spread violence and halt the spread of these military groups. to address this growing threat, last year the president implemented a strategy to combat transnational organized combat organized crime. in spaurpt of this

southern command will continue to defend the southern approaches to the united states, enhancing regional security and il mr. chairman, i've prepared a full statement and request it be entered into the record. >> it will be made part of the record. >> chairman, i want to briefly discuss two topics with you this morning, and both you and senator mccain briefly about them. that's countering transnational organized crime, and my other topic is building enduring partnerships. mentions it this morning, u.s. southern command has focused on a concern that permeates receipt jorngs transnational organized crime. as vice president biden discussed during his visit to mexico and honduras last week, it's impacting citizen safety in central ameri guatemala, el salvador and honduras. they threaten to overwhelm law enforcement capacities. in an effort to reduce violence and halt the spread of these criminal groups, these countries have deployed their militaries in support of law enforcement organizations to address the growing threat. last year they implemented the strategy to combat transnational organi

powerful storms socking the southern united states. we had some showers today.e. but we still managed to tie the record. they have pretty well, moved on and the focus will be in the plane's and look at the storms erupting there. they will do so over and over again in texas and oklahoma and arkansas and parts of louisiana with violent consequences for some storms. all of this with a powerhouse jets dream. the biggest dip representing with three cold in the west and thunderstorms and some of them rotating super cellular rotating at this boundary. lookit how this is cut off from the main flow as the week goes on. this just sits there and keep the focus of the rain to the west and allow it warm air to fled up into the chicago area. there is the corridor of showers and storms tonight. each of the icons represents a stormed with hail or downpours. there is some three-dimensional built to the clouds in iowa. at the same in kansas and parts of oklahoma but the big ones are down here in taxes and they have been producing are reportedly tornados and damage. look at those

united states? >> sure. well we've seen eight inches over the last century. scientific project sean now range between -- projection now range between two and seven feet. the most vulnerable places in the united states include southern-and-a-halfsouthern flod south california. as well as really isolated locations all up and down the coast. czech peak region, virginia, jersey shore, new york cy. >> suarez: are there big population centers. as you mentioned new york city, let's use new york as an example. it's not a place that we think of as being flat or low lying. if the water rose a couple inches in the next several years, what would it leave a place like that vulnerable to? >> yes. well what sea level disl doest raises the launching pad for coastal storm. malt is vulnerable astal storm. new york hars harbor is shaped a angle. if a storm hits at the wrong annal there is the possibility of a storm surge into lower manhattan and fill the subway system much of which is below sea level and disable it. as the sea level continues to rise. the odds of that kind of event continues to increase and one day instead of meeting a category three hurricane, we might instead just need a category two hurricane and so forth. >>uare

the kind words not only for me, but more important for the men and women who serve in the united states southern command. it really is my distinguished farmer -- it really is my distinguished honor to serve them today. i join my close friend and partner chuck jacoby. we have a clear and close partnership between northern command and southern command as we work the topics and criminal organizations transiting through our two regions. the relationships between our staffs grow closer every day. with the continued support of congressmen and members of this committee, southern command will continue defending the southern approaches to the united states, enhancing regional security, and building an enduring partnerships. i have prepared a false statement and request it will be entered into the record. >> it will be entered into the record. >> i want to discuss two topics with you today. this is countering transnational organized crime. my other topic is an during an building partnerships. as i have discussed with you in previous testimony, u.s. southern command has increasingly focused on a concern th

. >> tornadoes and high winds hit the southern united states causing several deaths and widespread damage. hello, welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to our viewers on pbs in america and also are around the globe. he is russia's strong man, vladimir putin. he rallies supporters as he anticipates a return to the presidency. let the good times roll. the cuban cigar festival celebrates the island's iconic export. hello again. four weeks after the assault on the syrian city of homs began, the un secretary general ban ki- moon has described it as atrocious. he is also accused the syrian government of systematically attacking its own people. jeremy bowen reports. >> this was an anti-regime protests in a town just north of homs. it was attacked. and the panic subsided, activists claimed there were 12 killed, some of them blown to pieces. the seizure of baba amr is over, but the fight for syria goes on. syrian state television showed baba amr. yuen said it had unconfirmed reports of summary execution -- the united nations said it had unconfirmed reports of summary execution. >> the people have not

united states district judge for the central district of california. ronnie abrams of new york to be united states district judge f the southern district of new york. rudolph contreras of virginia to be united states district judge for the district of columbia. miranda du of nevada to be united states district judge for the district of nevada. susie morgan of louisiana to be united states district judge for the eastern district of louisiana. greg jeffrey costa of texas to be united states district judge for the southern district of texas. david campos guaderrama of texas to be united states district judge for the western district of texas. ryan c. wimes of missouri to be district judge for the eastern and western districts of missouri. christine baker of arkansas to be united states district judge for the eastern district of arkansas. john z. lee of illinois to be united states district judge for the northern district of illinois. george levi russell, iii, of maryland to be united states district judge for the district of maryland. john j.tharp, jr., of illinois to be united states district judge for the northern district of illinois. jeffrey j.helm

. >> tornados and high winds hit the southern united states, causing several deaths and widespread damage. >> the u.n. secretary general accuses crimes against the populations of arms. >> syrian forces have committed widespread systematic and caused human rights violations amounting to crimes against humanity. >> welcome to bbc news. coming up a little later, the russian strongman rallies supporters as he anticipates a return to the presidency. >> welcome once again. we're going to start in the united states because more than 70 tornadoes have hit the mid south of the country. several people are reported killed so far. the states of tennessee and kentucky also indiana, they've all been battered by powerful storms which have ripped apart homes and damaged schools. >> in indiana, they know the meaning of the word destruction all too well. ripped apart like match stick buildings, the houses in clark county have been reduced to rubble. one whole town was said to have completely gone. this is one of the tornados that caused the damage. filmed by a man in his car, you can just make out the swir

the search for survivors begins after severe storms that ravaged the midwestern and southern united states leaving at least thirty seven dead indiana ohio tuckey georgia and alabama were devastated by ninety tornadoes with hundreds of freak weather events reported as well such as giant hail storms president obama has offered federal assistance now the governor of ohio has declared a state of emergency. and b.p. says it has reached a seven point eight billion dollars deal to settle claims from thousands of fishermen and businesses affected by the gulf of mexico oil spill it comes ahead of a much anticipated trial in the u.s. in which the american government is expected to claim billions of dollars in fines the b.p. oil rig deepwater horizon exploded in april two thousand and ten killing eleven workers and leaking four million barrels of oil. religion and politics mix that is a major part of the debate raging in america's presidential campaign so our resident reporter hit the streets of new york to ask people if the government or the media should be behind certain ideologies. when is it ok f

the search for survivors begins after severe storms that ravaged midwestern and southern united states leaving at least thirty seven dead indiana ohio kentucky georgia and alabama were devastated by ninety tornadoes with hundreds of freak weather events reported such as a giant hail storms president obama has offered federal assistance while the governor of ohio has declared a state of emergency. a head on collision between two express trains in southern poland has left at least six dead and a further sixty injured emergency workers are trying to free some passengers who are still trapped in the wreckage authorities say one train was traveling on the wrong track the polish prime minister is on his way to the scene which has already been described as one of the country's worst train crashes. do religion and politics mix that is a major part of the debate raging in america's presidential campaign so our g.'s resident reporter hit the streets of new york to ask people if the government or the media should be behind certain ideology. when is it ok for at government or the media to support

cherokees in southern apalachicola, a, creeks on the gulf coastal plain and choctaw scattered over central mississippi and louisiana. in addition, thousands of indian people, whom the united states never threatened with removal lived in the region on small tribal plots, individually owned farms or public lands. as they took up former i saidian land, white southerners stopped thinking very much about the indian people who remained in the region. they kept some indian place names, especially for natural features but also make changes so mountain peaks came to commemorate white men, indian scriptures lakes and waterfalls and settlements with new names rose on the ruins of native towns. newcomers interested in the productivity of the land and in the labor of enslaved african-americans not in the survival of indian people. as a result of indian removal, the nonwhite population of the region became overwhelmingly slaves, a circumstance that relieves southerners of a racial contradiction that a free flourishing indian people had presented. little challenge the convention of anti-bell um white southerners, that be of color, african-american or indian, were inferior and slavery was a ble

nixon's angst was with the united states pentagon, not with the enemy, because they had not evolved a sufficiently powerful or potent plan. in 1971 when we invaded southern laos, mr. nixon wished to fire the united states commander in vietnam, general creighton abrams, because he was not acting forcefully enough. in 1972 in the beginning of the year when the north vietnamese launched their easter offensive, mr. nixon immediately criticized the air force for not developing sufficiently potent plans for hitting north vietnam. in fact, the christmas bombing that occurred in december 1972 in which we sent 100 b-52 bombers against hanoi was prefigured as early as the middle of april of that year when mr. nixon specifically wrote in memos that he sent to the pentagon, i want a plan thursday morning to hit hanoi with 100 b-52 bombers. mr. nixon was constantly pushing and pushing for the most forceful option imaginable. this is the kind of thing you have to explain. it's not limited to vietnam for that matter. early in the nixon administration there was an american reconnaissance plane that was shot down off the north korean coast, an aircraft of the type called

societies of the americas, especially in the caribbean, central and south america and the southern part of the united states. let's begin with the people themselves. there's been a tendency among some sectors of the academic and educational community to think of africa as a country rather than a continent. to think of african peoples as a homogenous group. the african people involved in the slave experience were diverse, frequently as much strangers to themselves as they were to the european captors. africa is a continent with a multiplicity of ethnic, national and religious groups and this culture and religious diversity was represented in the population that's were involved in the slave trade. they brought their ga and cultural attributes with them but these facets of each of their individual identities were interconnected and intertwined with the cultural and ethnic experiences of other african that's they met here as well as with the indigenous peoples and the peoples of the various european colonial powers. they were transformed into new people in this new world. these neoafrican people were bu differe

damage is literally across half the united states right now. but southerna was particularly hard hit by yesterday's deadly tornadoes including the town of henryville. storm chaser jeff piatrowski was there when the second tornado hit the town. he was able to get the help and help some kids get out of the school before the tornado pretty much leveled the building and he spoke to us earlier. listen. >> tornado hit henryville and as the tornado went through there -- about three to four minutes after the tornado. and the second storm was rapidly approaching. as we made our way into town everything was leveled. we realized it. we drove over by the school and took shelter from the storm. baseball sized hail. i saw people running up to the school and i asked is there somebody in the school and people said kids are in there. we found that kids were trapped in part of the building. they were there as part of an after-school program. it took about 45 minutes to get the kids out of school as the second storm passed. baseball hail and took us to gnat shelter north of i

this is just the beginning of what is coming to the next 90 to 120 days in the southern united states and that's going to be a tough year. >> you talked about the kids in the school. they're okay, yeah? >> yes, the kids, there was no kid injured or parent or teachers at the school that were injured. a lot of people fighting, a lot of kids had water on them. the roof had collapsed, walls had collapsed, we had to step over rubble. different walls and sections and break doors down. as you get people through the doors, some people had mud and water on them, and scared and the fire alarms were going off. inside the school was a bad situation. it picked up cars and buses and threw them into the school. it's a very bad scene there. >> we're seeing the pictures of the school buses tossed around like they were toys. jeff, appreciate you talking to us about what you saw today. the damaging storm system, as we said, and as chad reported, covered a major portion of the middle of the country. the storm now extending as far as the atlanta area. let's go to rob marciano just outside of chattanooga,

breaking news, deadly tornadoes tonight sweeping across the midwest and had the southern united states. we begin with chad myers. chad? >> erin, it was a violent day across parts of the east and southeast from the ohio valley through the tennessee valley. storms firing in illinois and s that hit at 5:00 in the morning. that's rare for that to happen. that's not saying storms won't continue, because they will, and you'll see rumbles of thunder and there may be a tornado, but they're not going to have the f-4 or f-5, the 200-mile-per-hour tornadoes. they're not going to happen at 2:00, 3:00 in the morning. as you see it, the storms are moving to the northeast. they'll move to the carolinas and go down pp hill, as they do into north carolina, south carolina, they'll lose some of their intensity as well. i'm concerned in the gulf coast where it's muggy, humid. that's what the gulf coast is almost all of the time, but it has the potential to keep the storms going for quite some time. i'm going to drag it down on the upper side of this system. we have snow coming down behind that banner. fro

>> i think in the general election he'll be able to unite the party and win those southern states that have been solid for the republicans of late. the challenge for him is, again, upcoming, not just mississippi and alabama but also louisiana. he's going to have trouble winning those states. if newt gingrich gets out, i don't expect him to right now, it would be more problematic. one of the things that struck me, santorum was able to win both oklahoma and tennessee, even though gingrich got a quarter of the votes. imagine if gingrich gets out of the race and most of the southern vote that gingrich is getting goes to santorum. again, that would expose weakness for romney and certainly allow santorum to have a base in the south to pick up more delegates. >> your point good gingrich is one the santorum side already made. a santorum strategist argues their key to inwithing the nomination is consolidating the conservative vote and facing romney on a one-on-one race. they argue they would have won ohio had gingrich not been in the race. any chance he could be convinced to get out for the bet

this is just the beginning of what is coming to the next 90 to 120 days in the southern united states and that's going to be a tough year. >> you talked about the kids in the school. they're okay, yeah? >> yes, the kids, there was no kid injured or parent or teachers at the school that were injured. a lot of people fighting, a lot of kids had water on them. the roof had collapsed, walls had collapsed, we had to step over rubble. different walls and sections and break doors down. as you get people through the doors, some people had mud and water on them, and scared and the fire alarms were going off. inside the school was a bad situation. it picked up cars and buses and threw them into the school. it's a very bad scene there. >> we're seeing the pictures of the school buses tossed around like they were toys. jeff, appreciate you talking to us about what you saw today. the damaging storm system, as we said, and as chad reported, covered a major portion of the middle of the country. the storm now extending as far as the atlanta area. let's go to rob marciano just outside of chattanooga,

united states. it promotes his conservative and anti-gay agenda. the southern poverty law center just designated id ahead -- a hate group. >> this is not a change in their status. it is an acknowledgement of what he has been doing for a decade. >> democrats called on him to resign. he also started a petition toward that goal. >> he does not speak for the loud and county we love. >> some residents describe him as a responsible representative. in a statement, he said -- >> we hear it is related to a hate group. >> recently, he referred to airport safety touchdown procedures as part of the homosexual agenda. he reported --this designation some say has validated feelings they have had for years. >> it certainly reflects on those who voted for him. it reflects on those who shelter him. >> also tonight, no more weapons allowed on the campus of virginia tech. the board of governors has approved a measure that would ban all concealed firearms. you will remember in 2007 virginia tech was the scene of the worst mass shooting in modern american history. >> more legal trou

. >>> breaking news, tornadoes sweeping across the midwest and had the southern united states. we begin with chad myers. chad? >> erin, it was a violent day across parts of the east and southeast from the ohio valley through the tennessee valley. storms firing in illinois and indiana and then ran across the ohio river into parts of kentucky. at times, i had 29 tornado warnings for 29 separate tornadoes on the ground or indicated by doppler radar. by about 10:00 at night, things calmed down. down to ten tornado warnings for ten separate storms. that seemed great because we were one third of where we were. when you look at t you see the ten tornadoes were still on the ground that late in the night. it typically happens that after sunset, the tornadoes start to calm down. the air is hot, the ground isn't hot because the sun is gone. the air doesn't want to rise anymore because it's not buoyant, hot at the surface, things start to calm down. the storms start to calm down. things are going to go up for a lot of the night, watches and warnings for the rest of the evening into the ove

united states. they had that in southern canada the last number of welcomes. >>shepard: lots of watch boxes and warnings out there. and now where the storms are happening, our storm chaser is on the line with us now, west of louisville, kentucky, in the area of a watch box. what do you see? do we lose contact? jeff? jeff? >>shepard: rick we will work to get back in to with him. the storm chasers have been showing us patterns all along and in the box areas you were showing us the winds come and go. it will be sunny and the clouds drop, and it is ominous. rick: generally you get the worst of the tornadoes with a nice sunny day, the heating of the day, heats the hair, and that shoots up throughout the afternoon, and this morning, though, we had a lot of storms that happened across alabama and that acts to stabilize the air. the rain 8:00s everything down for a long column, and, so, this was a chance that maybe on the southern fringe of here that could cool and stabilize the atmosphere but if this case, jet stream is way too strong and we have a jet ripping 150 mi

stay home from school and been denied food stamps despite being born in the united states however a new report by the southern poverty law center documents far worse effects of the law in some cases public utility companies that cut off service to latino those who cannot provide proof of birth in the u.s. causing some families to be forced to live without water or electricity report also shows that alabama residents feel that they can now openly harass and intimidate the latino population without fear of punishment alabama state republicans have succeeded in returning that state to the racial violence and intolerance of decades ago and that it's very very clear. imagine imagine a life with no water you wake up you can't take a shower you can't brush your teeth can't use the bathroom. can't cook can't clean you can't do laundry you can't really do anything and luckily this isn't really a problem facing most americans but it might be soon that's because it's not just our roads and bridges that are deteriorating across the nation it's also our water pipes a new study by the american water works association revea

point out that the president has no real say over pipelines constructed inside the united states like this one, the southernart of that pipeline where he can, though, have great influences over the northern part of the pipeline which sks runs from canada or would run from canada into the united states. this strags blocked that part of the pipeline because of environmental concerns, brook. >> we know he is calling to drop the red tape. what specifically is he referring to and will that help speed anything up? >> that's a very good question because jay carney was asked that very question on the gaggle aboard air force one and he said this will be effective and help get rid of some of the red tape that will make this move along more quickly, efficiently, and i can tell you publicly the company has said the company that will build this pipeline said they were planning for a launch date around june and that they don't believe any of these actions will change that timeline. >> dan, appreciate it. next hear the fbi watching suspected hezballah agents with ties to iran right here in the united states. next senior n

the gulf moisture is coming up from the southern part of the united states making everything feel a bitd warm ... we have an influx of moisture the clouds are coming in tomorrow morning we will get some sun breaks but that overcast situation will be with us for the coming days we may see some scattered showers and thunderstorms this coming thursday ... the cold there is hitting the west coast ... that will be cloudy and cool in southern california ... we have 70 degree temperatures over the next seven days here in chicago this is record-breaking. this could be the warmest st. patrick's day on record thank-you tom skilling and we thank you for joining us today. we hope you have a great afternoon remember that we will be back at 5:00 and again

because the united states and its allies in southern europe and in eastern europe want to build a missile defense shield to protect themselves against presumably a threat against iran. what happens when they get in that kind of bluser? the president says, well -- >> you may not -- right. which i think is what michael is saying. that's a potential issue. >> look, you don't want to negotiate in issue, especially not with an overheard mic. it wasn't great for president obama. >> it's not great for poland. that's who i'm worried about. how do you feel when the president is caught saying this kind of thing when he thinks no one is listening? that's what i'm concerned about. maybe it's good for him, not good for him. >> that's generous. most people are not worried about poland. some are, but they're more worried about themselves. >> what president obama said he's open to lots of interpretations. it could be he's waiting to consult with congress and with the military just like he said. nobody wants to negotiate in this. >> what john boehner said, john avlon, was pretty incredible. he did not tak

well it appears there are major plans for the united states to expand its military presence toward the southern hemisphere this includes an expanded presence in australia and in the long run a new air base on the cocos in healing island territory of australia located in india in the indian ocean sort of halfway between australia and sri lanka there's talk the islands would replace the u.s. as current indian ocean based on diego garcia which is least the u.s. by britain at least runs out in four years and well as specifics of the new base remain under wraps an in-depth report by the washington post from the location should be quote ideal from am surveillance aircraft as well as unmanned drones also an official review conducted in now these are just a few of the details of an agreement announced back in november by president obama and the australian prime minister here's president obama speaking or not is that there are no better friends there the united states and australia or darkest moments. what are called the independent institute island islands those are island i've been left kind of cut st

in 1905, the united states government began to return flags captured in battle to southern states. this was kind of a goodwill gesture, in other words. and so as you can imagine, there were no computer databases to keep up with these flags, and so a lot of flags were mis-i.d.ed. they were given a war tent numb department number as you see up here, this was 227, but they were mis-i.d.ed. and this particular flag, this was an arkansas flag, but it was sent to alabama. so since 1905, it stayed in the archives at alabama of a could i have archives and history museum. the curator contacted me and said i think we have finally i.d.ed through scholarly research this flag and it prongs in arkansas. and so they went before the board. showed all the work that they had done, the scholarly research, and very generously they decided to donate the flag to us. so in october of 2001, i went and picked up this flag and brought it back to arkansas. this is the third confederate. we immediately -- it had never been conserved, so we immediately began raising money to have the flag conserved. on average

southern, western party. you're landlocked to certain parts of the united states. so you can grow your -- you can make yourself a national party two ways. you can either get more people to vote republican and bring more people in, or you can get more of the other team away from the polls and keep them from voting, and right now i think republicans are playing a very cynical game. they're saying, listen, we can't grow our base, so we're going to try to suppress the other team. >> i think reverend sharpton had the right message for "d"s and for "i"s, people who are able to be persuaded on this issue, which is to say -- to ask for identification is not offensive, not problematic, but let's be reasonable as to what form of identification that might be. >> if you look in texas, they're saying student i.d.s -- >> but a gun license works, yeah. end of argument. richard bloomingdale, thank you very much. joy ann and crystal stick around. >> thank you. >> more strong evidence of an improving job market and economy. the labor department says 227,000 jobs were added last mont

watching our team of course and it appears there are major plans for the united states to expand its military presence for the southern hemisphere and this includes a larger cousins in australia and also in the long run a new air base on the cocos and healing island is there at. territory of us troy located in the indian ocean kind of halfway between australia and sri lanka there's talk of the islands would replace the u.s. as current indian ocean based on diego garcia which is currently leased to the u.s. by britain at least runs out in port years and while the subs specifics of the new base remain under wraps an in-depth report by the washington post found the location to be quote ideal for manned surveillance aircraft as well as unmanned drones also in an official review conducted inside australia there's been a whole a really big push to expand the naval base in perth these are just a few of the details coming after an agreement announced back in november by the president and the australian prime minister here's the president speaking during that visit there are no better friends there the united states and austra

you're watching our team well if here is there are major plans for the united states to expand its military presence to the southern hemisphere this includes an expanded presence in australia and also in the long run a new air base in the cocos and killing islands this is a territory off australia located in the indian ocean kind of halfway between australia and sri lanka there's talk that the islands could replace the u.s. this current indian ocean based on diego garcia which is leased to us by britain and at least runs out in two thousand and sixteen now while the specifics of this new base remain under wraps an in-depth report by the washington post found the location to be quote ideal for manned surveillance aircraft as well as unmanned drones also an official review conducted inside australia found that there's a big push lately to expand a naval base in perth these are just a couple of the details coming out following an announcement made back in november by president obama and the australian prime minister here's the president speaking for him at this hour there are no better friends but the united states an

university of southern mississippi professor susannah ural teaches a course on the history of the united states from its founding to 1877. professional ur lal focuses on e election of 1860 and subsequent secession by the southern states. this is 50 minutes. >>> all right, gang. when we left off last time, we were talking about the crisis of the 150s and we had wrapped up with talking about the dread scott decision and the lincoln douglas debates and finally with john brown's raid, okay, and i promised you next we would get to that crazy election of 1860. as we've been talking about all semester, election years are fun to watch, to kind of take the pulse of the united states. as you can see from what's up there on the online, we're going to wind up with four presidential candidates, two from the same party. obviously, things are about to get really crazy. now, set the stage for me. what happened with the dread scott decision that was so important? what are you going to need to remember to put in your essays? the significance. oh, wait, i'm not supposed to ask questions. i'll tell you. dread scot

southern state. it would also fly the flag of the united states. but it will not be flying the confederate flag. now a group called virginia flaggers is not so happy about that. but, the museum's executive director says the flags that will fly outside will be part of a permanent exhibit demonstrating the reunification. >> a confederate flag does not belong in that because the confederacy neither conceded nor did the confederacy -- >> that's why i represent the veterans and soldier who's gave their blood, gave everything for us. >> now the confederate flag has not been omitted from the museum. 22 confederate flags will be on display inside. we all know the confederate flag is controversial, but this is a con ned rat museum. shouldn't the flag be flying out front or is the symbolism of this flag so hurtful that it is better off behind closed doors? mailbag@wusa9.com. i want to hear from you on this. >>> spring starting off, but it feels like summer and topper says it's only going to get warmer. what else did topper say? but first -- >> the national cherry blossoms are out in all their glory and th