so let's find out more about it joining me is bethany morrison assistant professor at the university of georgia and a professor at freedom university and the start of a magical undocumented youth in georgia and a freedom university student i want to thank you both so much for joining us tonight and i guess so i want to start with you and i just want to get your opinion on what you think is happening within the state why you think that lawmakers there already clearly restrictions for undocumented immigrants there in attending university so why do they want to take it even further and bar it and how does that make you feel. well i think i believe that's the reason why they want to take you you can further you know i'm top of the list and from universities. as they only know that there's real problems going on in this that they don't want to address and they want to scapegoat undocumented students and immigrants like me and say oh it's you know it's their fault that we're going through there is that these problems exist and we're going to deal with them instead of the feeling with the real causes

want to help keep this going we exist entirely on donations that have come to our web site university of georgia that com and gifts of books all the books for this have been donated all the time we have yes seekers who are on their own nickel will fly down to georgia and the class people who are our part of the national level academic conversations and who want to help keep students aren't connected and learning and still be nice on legislative their ears have been removed so yes if this passes you're expanding the pool of people who are directly affected and i think what we've seen is plenty of people in the state plenty of educators who are delighted that there's a way to address this and understand what this is doing to the state that this is thriving talented students everyone in this who is watching this who teaches should be so lucky as to have a student like recital in a classroom at some point in their career and this is a young man who is not going to be allowed onto a public campus. in the state of georgia and people like him are going to be driven out of the state and take their talen

. >> the book was published this year by the university of georgia press. available at the back of the auditorium this afternoon. it is called blood ties and brown liquor. and he is also been the finalist for the 2006 poetry prize. please, join me in welcoming mr. sean hill. [applause]. >> i want to read from blood and brown liquor today. this book is about my home town in georgia. it's also where [inaudible] is from. and i started researching the history of [inaudible] and sort of fell into the history of black people there because it was not taught in school. so -- in order to write about the history i had to invent a character to explore this history. the character's name is si loss wright. >> first poem i will read is titled silos write at age 71914. it's about silos follows a fishing riggel in the shallows. he describes the line in his tablet as much pride in that line as a man and his son. he giggles and goes on. the next letters come easy. with this he will have more than a mark to bind. rambling across the page again and again in messy rows along it

shocker, this is from the same political scientist the university of georgia using the same measures of liberal and conservative, right? tracked this for both the house and senate, same bayic pattern both of them, easier to see with the house data. the basic idea here is that the middle line here, the middle line, the yellow line in the middle is set at zero, that is neither conservative or liberal, it marks moderate. the higher up you get the more conservative, the lower down you get the more liberal. obviously, republicans are more conservative they are up top, democrats up liberal, they are down below. the two lines up see on each side of the middle there, are the most moderate members of each party. those lines are more toward the middle, more toward the center. the lines at the very top and lines at the very bottom are partisan people. the more partisan of each parltity. this shows where the moderates and partisans in the republican and democratic party have been in our country from around reconstruction like post-civil war to roughly 1975. then look what happened since 1975. loo

religious voters evangelcat voters for an analysis of the situation on the ground in georgia and a bit about national politics as well, we turn to university of georgia prefacer of journalism pulitzer prize winning writer cynthia tucker. she was with the atlanta journal constitution, she comes from atlanta, welcome to the war room. glad to have you here? >> thank you. i am glad to be here. >> well, i am really interested in your perspective of what's going on, on the ground. my assumption is you have been sort of seeing the local talk and watching t.v. and seeing ads. how -- what's the feel? what's the pulse in georgia before tomorrow? >> well it's pretty much what your polls indicate. everybody expects that newt gingrich will win here easily. just how big his numbers will be are not yet clear. he is not expected to hit 50 or 51%, but he is expected to win the vote count. now, that may not mean a great deal for gingrich because, as you notice the delegates will be awarded proportionately. so he might not lead the state with a huge cache of delegates but newt will win pretty persuasively. the governor is backing him. several members of cong

a number of universities of which the university of georgia is one participating in the program and they recently found -- aflotoxin and tied it to immune systems and they're making a breakthrough and turning it around. my interest is to find out what the status of that review is and what the agency thinks of what's been produced so far by the peanut crisp program, if you wouldn't mind. >> that has been an external evaluation that's under way. we've tried to restructure our entire research strategy and agriculture and food security and this is part of that review. i will explore the details and come back to you on that. but i want to note that certainly, aflotoxin is a critical issue that we've expanded our focus on under the new strategy and we also would note that through some of our other mechanisms we've been working with, i believe, a group in georgia that's producing peanuts -- a peanut-based high nutrition product for some of our food aid as the food aid makes the shift to include more high nutrient, high protein and prepackaged food that have a bigger impact on helping kids survi

i'm from the university of georgia, international trade and security. welcome to the community. thanks for putting together a very interesting panel. i have two questions if you'll allow me. first one goes to paul and our att expert on the panel. you mentioned one of the trends, one of the worrisome trends in the arms market at the moment is that the capacity building type of transfers that we see more and more of, do you see that as a call for looking at strategic trade controls and how we monitor and control the capability building equipment as certainly that we need to look at with new eyes or from a different perspective? and how would that relate going to the discussion regarding the arms treaty and the possible inclusion or at least reference to controlling components. the second question to you, matt, it quite fascinating to see our friend down south displaying his new purchase in such a youtubesque way but how do you perceive this type of media, tweeting and facebooking and youtubing these-- how can you evaluate this information, put anything together with anyone and --

he was at the university of georgia running a track meet. he became a n.f.l. star.e went on to several teams including the cowboys, minnesota vikings. >> he was here talking about a cool initiative. >> going to capitol hill with a bunch of other athletes including johnny miller and other n.f.l. greats talking about getting in shape. staying in shape. >> and having maybe gym class regularly. >> trying to keep funding for p.e. >> he was very gracious with all of us here off camera as well. thanks, herschel, for coming by. >>> weather wise a good day for him and everybody else. mid-60s today. with the winds 20, 25 out of the southwest boosting us to 70 tomorrow. most of the showers will be overnight tomorrow night into early friday. so friday may not be too bad but cooler, only in the 50s. >>> hasn't been too bad on 270. a live look at the split. you have the slow traffic through rockville from sky 9. a quick look at the outer loop, our last live look on the outer loop slow from 95 to georgia avenue. >>> cbs this morning is next. they're going to have more on the super

contests in those states, we are joined by charles bullock, professor of political science at the university of georgia. and in tennessee, john geer is a professor of political science and co-director of the vanderbilt poll at vanderbilt university. professor bullock, super tuesday has in past cycles been a very southern primary but a look at the map shows you that it's sort of all over the place this time around. it's still important for the four men vying to becme the republican candidate to show their strength in the south. why? >> well, the south has now become the heartland for the republican party and this is the base they build out from. so it's taken the same kind of role for the g.o.p. that it did for decades for the democratic party. moreover gingrich has been saying he needs to get back to the south and the south will redeem him. looks like maybe now he's going to narrow a definition of where what what he can do in the south and maybe only georgia. >> professor geer, can you give us a ick tourf tennessee so we know what we're looking at politically? >> >> well, tennessee is a state that's mo

this is from the university of georgia, from his home state. talking about the liberal and conservative dimensions in congress. the chart here shows that by getting worse over the years, the vertical line is a list of whether members are more conservative the higher the up they are, or more liberal the lower they are. back in the 40's and 50's and 60's -- in the 1940's and 1950's and 1960's, they were in the same area on the chart. the divide has grown worse over the years. the university of georgia politics determine also put one out on the senate. you can see it is not quite as strong as the house, but the partisan divide in the senate is getting worse as well. let's get your calls. we want to first start in houston. kalisha is on the republican line. caller: i want to say that i do think is a good idea if we have cameras covering the senate, congress, what ever they are doing. i think it is ridiculous. gas is costing an arm and leg, and then your soul and your kids. put them on one arm wage and see how long they last. the things -- put them o

left side of the screen is the outer loop but in towards university colesville, georgia any delay a brief one right now out of college park. so that's a good start for you. virginia drivers, heading northbound on 95. coming up out of stafford, quantico, building volume to head into wood bridge. stake with the interstate though. here's northbound 95 getting past alreaditon. the northbound lanes of route 1 out of dale city into woodbridge are blocked off with that crash at route 1. as you leave the peltway and edsall and landmark and on to shirlington the pentagon and 14th street bridge, volume is still light incident-free downtown. and for that matter maryland beltway save for the building volume in to silver spring. mike, back to you. >>> thank you bev. now it's a waiting game. since the supreme court's decision on president obama's health care reform law isn't expected until late june. >> the third and final day of oral arguments wrapped up yesterday. you may remember tuesday they talked about the part that would require americans to buy insurance and wednesday, they focused on the other

my name is angelina from the university of georgia. t of all -- audio back thanks for putting together a very interesting panel. i have two questions if you allow me. the first round goes to paul on the panel. you mentioned one of the trends. one of the worrisome trends in the arms market in the type of transfers we see more and more a. do you see that as a call for looking at trade controls and how we monitor and control the capability to update equipment as something that we need to look at over the inspect her and how does that relate to the discussion regarding the arms trade treaty and the possibility and reference? the second question to you as quite frankly our friend down south is waiting in terms of you to wait, but how do we perceive this kind of social media, tweaking and face poking and u2 been these kinds, how do you weigh that and the possibility of tweaking the competition or putting a picture in the wrong place. how can you evaluate this type of information? because anyone together with anything in that post it somewhere

miss coffman has also been named university of georgia's broadcaster of the year in 2001 and the georgia association of broadcasters' 1992 citizen broadcaster of the year. madam speaker, i will always remember however, one evening, july -- gosh i guess it was 2002 , it was actually november of 2002 when i was first running for congress and that election night in a very, very close race , it went deep into the night, and finally about 11:00 it was news time at wsb and sure enough i had to go downstairs and get ready to be interviewed by monica coffman in regard to my race for congress. at that point we were behind. all counties except one had reported and i was behind. and monica was very sweet and kind to me. she could tell that i was a little nervous and worried and scared and she said, you know, have you picked up the phone yet to call your opponent to congratulate him on his victory? and i said, monica, i haven't. i'm not going to do that until the last vote is counted. and then shortly after hanging up the phone and being off the air, i get a call from my opponent telling me congratu

state of georgia on stuper tuesday, but it was one of the weakest victories by any republican presidential candidate since 1972. he won just 47.2% of the vote in georgia. according to the universityf minnesota's smart politics report, that ties john mccain in 2008 for the lowest vote tally in a home state win. it's among the weakest home state performance since 1972. the other candidates who didn't win in their home state were pat robertson in virginia in 1988. they end up losing. we'll be right back. >>> more pros here tonight to debate two key issues fatsing the election. first personnel. who should be running in this race? newt gingrich is facing calls for him to get out of the race and allow rick santorum to take on romney one on one. then number two, the one affect everybody today as they drive to and from work, gas prices. it poses a threat to president obama's reelection. we always blame the incumbent. the questions we turn to our strategists. democrat steve mcmahon and republican todd harris. gentlemen, let's try to be analytical. todd hairs, why doesn't newt gingrich get the heck out of the way? >> i don't think he'll get out of the way. two key reasons. number one is eg

of georgia on super tuesday, but it was one of the weakest home state victories by any republican presidential candidate since 1972. he won just 47.2% of the vote in georgia. according to the university of minnesota's smart politics report, that ties john mccain in 2008 for the lowest vote tally in a home state win. it's among the weakest home state performance since 1972. the only other major republican presidential candidates who didn't win a majority in their home state were george herbert walker bush in 1980 and pat robertson in virginia in 1988. both bush and robertson ended up losing, by the way. we'll be right back. at 90 calories, you can have brownies again. ♪ fiber one 90 calorie brownies. in the granola bar aisle. cleaning better doesn't have to take longer. i'm done. i'm gonna...use these. ♪ give me just a little more time ♪ [ female announcer ] unlike mops, swiffer can maneuver into tight spaces without the hassle and its wet mopping cloths can clean better in half the time, so you don't miss a thing. mom? ahhhh! ahhhh! no it's mommy! [ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time. or your money back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." we've got more pros here

of georgia on super tuesday, but it was one of the weakest home state victories by any republican presidential candidate since 1972. he won just 47.2% of the vote in georgia. according to the universityminnesota's smart politics report, that ties john mccain in 2008 for the lowest vote tally in a home state win. it's among the weakest home state performance since 1972. the only other major republican presidential candidates who didn't win a majority in their home state were george herbert walker bush in 1980 and pat robertson in virginia in 1988. both bush and robertson ended up losing, by the way. we'll be right back. in america, we believe in a future that is better than today. since 1894, ameriprise financial has been working hard for their clients' futures. never taking a bailout. helping generations achieve dreams. buy homes. put their kids through college. retire how they want to. ameriprise. the strength of america's largest financial planning company. the heart of 10,000 advisors working with you, one-to-one. together, for your future. ♪ >>> welcome back to "hardball." we've got more pros here tonight to debate two key issues facing the election. first personnel. who should b

conservative radio host went after georgia town university law student sandra fluke after she testified to democratic congress members about access to contraception. >> i will buy all of the women at georgia town university as much aspirin to put between their knees as they want? >> and it got worse from there. limbaugh today attacked her with language that we will not repeat on the air. we do not want to further embarrass or hurt this unintended victim, sandra fluke is a georgia town university law student, and joins me now. >> i have to say, you have shown grace through all of this. you have -- >> thank you very much. >> you wanted to testify two weeks ago, was it two weeks ago or last week? >> i have completely lost track. >> i have as well. let's talk about how you felt, first of all, you were in our green room ge-- room getting rey to come on and the white house said we can reveal that you just got off the phone with the president? >> yes i did. >> the stakes have been raised pretty high. what did he say to you? >> he encouraged me and supported me and thanked me for speaking out about the concerns of american women and what was really personal for me was that he

the outer loop of the beltway just building volume west of new hampshire avenue off and on past university boulevard and over to georgia avenue. one accident northbound if you're traveling out of burke near route 4 and 408 in waysons corner. initially it was the northbound right side of the roadway that was blocked with that. our next check of time saver traffic comes up at 6:10. >>> new this morning. the boy taken from a prince george's county school has been found. he's alive and well. >> he was found on the other side of the country in reno, nevada. delia goncalves is live outside prince george's county police headquarters really with a bizarre story. delia? >> reporter: absolutely, mike. based on the amber alert that police issued last night, it appears that this mother had 11 hours to travel with her son completely under the radar. the amber alert for 9-year-old wilbert was issued around 7:00 p.m. thursday. we're told his mother checked him out of dodge park elementary school just before 8:00 a.m. she does not have custody of the 9-year-old wilbert but told school leaders he had a doctor's appointment. police reco

out edition and undocumented immigrants in the state of georgia are being denied an education after the state senate passed a law banning the universities colleges and technical schools will speak with a professor and student of universities that are fighting back.

past university boulevard to georgia, all of the lanes are open. your fox 5 on- time traffic. >>> thank you very much. new this morning, d.c. and montgomery county police are investigating an overnight shooting involving an officer. around 1:00 this morning, several shots were fired on eastern avenue. when police arrived they exchanged more shots with an armed suspect. that suspect is in critical condition. a montgomery county officer was slightly hurt. he is already out of the hospital. the area around 14th street there is still shut down this morning. >>> a disturbing story out of calvert county, where police say a dead baby was found in the trunk of the car. it was made in the 4200 block of sixes road. investigators say someone was cleaning out the car of a family member last night and found the newborn. so far, police have made no arrests. >>> another tragic story involving a child in virginia, police say an illegal day care run out of this house has been shut down after a 3-month-old baby dies. a viewer sent this picture of police at the house

outer loop of the beltway slow go heading west of university boulevard heading around colesville and georgiavenue just been a volume delay there. a crash in southeast reported on the inbound lanes of pennsylvania avenue between minnesota avenue and kenilworth: 29 r5 also new incidents reported out of upper marlboro near wood yard road. next timesaver traffic at 6:24. back to you mike. >>> the cool schools bus is going to college this thursday morning. george mason university and fairfax, virginia in fact. where students all the way if elementary school up to graduate students in college are making cool music. they're taking part in the national trumpet competition and getting tips from some world famous jazz and big band people including one you are sure to recognize. ♪ >> it's like they're -- >> three times a day, seven days a week. forest johnson fills air with music. he practices like it's his job. ♪ 11 years old from vienna, virginia, he is the youngest competitor in the 20th annual national trumpet competition at george mason university and it's pretty special to him. >> this is one of

campaigns know about you and the bills working its way through the georgia legislature to bar undocumented students from all of the state universities so we're going to learn about one underground university where professors volunteer to give everyone the education that they deserve or have all that morphy tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so after super tuesday today news on wednesday's usually pretty boring and mainstream media just spends hours and hours hashing over the results and what they might mean. public racism burkey is a split decision on super tuesday that romney taking six states including the big prize ohio if both are in but the jury sure is still out early one percentage point separates romney from rick santorum in ohio yet about a million votes cast and there was about a twelve thousand vote difference between romney and santorum no knockout punch mitt romney narrowly avoids a super tuesday catastrophe romney continues to struggle with the same parts of the party he has struggled with the entire campaign for conservatives and so

. >>> you are about low speed college park headed past university boulevard for georgia avenue. 202 west ofhorities checking for a crash there. eastbound on the fry at sixth street southeast, authorities are checking for the activity there. much like yesterday, another crash for report for you guys coming in out of waldorf. it is at route 5. watch out if fire and rescue units responding. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> time now for a look at today's my fox half off deal. it is from discount carpet care. can you choose from deals for one, two or three rooms. find out more, go to myfoxdc.com and look for my fox half off on the right side of the opinion. >>> two school systems in maryland say the ground beef dubbed pink slime is out of there, off the menu. bridge county schools say they don't serve the meet meat which is brief trimmings treated with ammonia. and montgomery county schools which stopped purchasing the meat says they're not bringing it back either. the usda maintains the meat is safe but recently gave schools the option not to buy it. a lot of consumers kind of

heard on the campus of virginia state university in richmond, at miami gardens in florida hundreds of students marching where trayvon martin went for his freshman and sophomore years. georgia representative john lewis weighing in showing how much farther this country has yet to come. >> it's a very sad and dark hour, not just for race relations in the state of florida, but race relations in america. there should be a sense of righteous indignation in america the same way that we had during the days of lynching. >> mean time, florida's stand your ground that you police cited after passing on the arrest of zimmerman coming under withering criticism now, police in miami saying they were stunned after a judge decided not to charge another man who claimed self defense after chasing down and stabbing an alleged burglar. the co author apparently ready to reassess his own work. >> nothing's ever finished in the legislature. i learned that, you know everything can always be readdressed. >> the state senator calling for legislative hearings into that law, talking to the miami herald: >> and that quote, weird batman zimmerman with more time on his hands to consider his future withdra

of georgia. >> president obama reached out to a georgetown university law student slammed by rush limbaugh. dra fluke, testified in favor of mr. obama's policy requiring church affiliated employers to cover birth control. fluke became a target for limbaugh who controlled her view on free birth control to prostitution. fluke made an appearance and said president obama called her personally this morning with some kind words. >> he said to tell my parents that they should be proud and that meant a lot. because rush limbaugh questioned whether or not my family would be proved me. i just appreciated that very much. >> so far, limbaugh has not apoll japo apo apologized. it's costing him advertising money. sleep ads, pulled its ads, and a petition is circulating asking for sponsors to do the same. >> home video of a tornado that touched down in southern indiana. indiana as you might know was hit hard by a series of tornados. at least eight people have died. the latest in ape se series of twisters that touched down soecht maso many states have been affected. jay gray joins us from nashville. when wi

of manassas. that is how she rolls as you work your way in towards 28. out are loop slows, university boulevard to georgiahbound 270, still heavy and slow. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. etraffic. juror are you ready for this? >> i'm really excited. this is my first one since i've been on the morning show. >> this is like the most exciting thing that happens this time year. it is time to tip off mascot madness. >> it is the biggest names in sports and they are hitting the hard court in a competition like no other. holly and dave are live at bethesda's chevy chase high school to get things started this morning. >> i can't believe it is our fourth year. >> four year and holly, we have the most mascots ever for the mascot madness challenge. >> fourteen, is it? >> we have a real bracket. >> these mascots train all year to try to get the trophy that about f. we remember, claude from american university won a year ago. i think he is enjoying last final moments with the trophy. claude is back in the house drying to defend his title. >> screech won it the first year. we've got t-rex getting loose. w

university of idaho. that state has a caucus system in which paul tends to perform very well. newt gingrich campaigned in tennesee. he is pinning most of his hopes on his home state of georgia where the polls show he has a huge lead. >>> cnn's delegate estimate shows romney has 207 so far, more than the other three combined. >>> president obama will hold his first news conference of the year. he will make a statement and take some questions from the press at the white house at 10 a.m. pacific time. he is expected to tackle the economic recovery, presidential election and rising gas prices among other issues. right now he leads all of his potential challenges. >>> san fernando sheriff ross mirkarimi's lawyers are saying he will not get a fair trial in san francisco. so they have filed a request to move his domestic violence trial to another venue. that decision is pending. so is an appellate decision on allowing a videotape of mirkarimi's wife eliana lopez showing a bruise on her arm to a neighbor. in the meantime a former girlfriend of mirkarimi's testified in open court that she was bruised by mirkarimi four years ago. when a verbal argument turned physical. christina flor

merryl black of emory university isn't so sure. >> if gingrich wins georgia big, and it looks like heen the question is so what? if he wins big in georgia the next states are alabama and mississippi. that is a southern strategy. if he wins those, so what? he has to do well outside of the south. >> since winning south carolina in january, gingrich's most frequent fbi has been fourth place. even supporters aren't blown away by his campaign. >> no, i don't think anybody would say they are thrilled about it. it's been a nontraditional campaign if you want to choose a word. >> but even running the table in the rest of the south won't get gingrich what he needs. >> he did horribly in florida. you have already seen that. he is not even on the ballot in virginia. the southern strategy is already kind of in tatters. >> the biggest beneficiary of a gingrich win here in georgia could be mitt romney. if gingrich wins big tonight that will likely embolden him to stay in the race. as long as he and rick santorum continue to split the very con seventive vote, it could allow mitt romney to run up the

end of the ramp from university boulevard to go onto the outer loop of the beltway there's been accident. you cannot exit there. traffic on the beltway is open in maryland. outer loop between georgianue and connecticut avenue there's another accident. stick around. back to you. >> thank you. 5:29. some drivers will have to let their cars dryout after getting stuck in high water yesterday. emily van glider was driving home from a working party last night when she decided to get off 27 and7 and to take the back roads. she hit a high water and managed to get help from emergency crews who happened to be headed to a second rescue. >> i had been hitting water the entire time and did not think it would be that high. the water was coming up to my door. >> she was rescued quickly, but not the car. family members could not get it restarted last night. >> a reminder of the power of mother nature. yesterday's tornado flattened entire blocks and parts of the midwest and the south killing at least a dozen people. >> the storms damaged several buildings in branson missouri, days before the start of tourist season. tahman bradley is live in northwest with more. >> these storms were potent. entire