james meredith is enrolled at the university of mississippi. the school is technically integrated at the cost of two lives, almost 200 injuries, and the reputation of a state. now the questions are, was it worth it? [music playing] ross barnett: i could not pass this platform without first reaffirming fully my absolute and unshakable for segregation of the races at all levels. [film reel] curtis wilkie: when he ran again in '67, i think, at the outset, people thought that he would be a hard figure to beat. [music playing - "let's roll again with ross"] all the reds in washington will say they hope ross will fall along the way. but we won't give our state to little bobby k. roll with ross, roll with ross, roll again with ross. who is the best man yet? ross barnett, ross barnett. curtis wilkie: barnett had a reputation of just kind of a blundering blunderbuss. and we all thought he was a complete buffoon, something of a fool. he was constantly doing goofy things. so he was a laughable figure of mythic proportions here in mississippi history. geral

president, i commend the university of mississippi, pearl river community college, the university of southern mississippi, and mississippi state university for carrying on mississippi's winning tradition. two years ago after a season cut short by the covid pandemic, ole miss catcher hayden dunburst said, i have never been a part of a team so special. we will bring a national championship to oxford. and so they d -- did. congratulations. the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mrs. hyde-smith: thank you you mr. president. i also am very pleased to congratulate the university of mississippi baseball team on its recent 2022 ncaa world series championship. if there's anything an ole miss fan is sure of, it's that rebels love to keep unedges of your seat. some fans were you are in is reserve when the rebels hit a midseason slump, but this talented team hit its stride right at the perfect time. the players knew all along they had it in them to take it all the way. they even issued a warning in early may -- don't let the rebels get hot. well, they were able to be there to be the

this was at the university of mississippi ole miss. places where people think that there's no engagement on climate. places where people think that we are lost or we are forgotten and we are not engaging places where people think we are not environmentalist. no it was because and is because of our conversations with one another our inclusiveness with one another and beginning to realize the face of environmentalism doesn't look like the google search it looks like the person who is sitting right next to you. i'm beginning to understand and that's any compass it and everything that we do. beginning to wrap all of our issues from all of our communities in the cloak of climbing. it's one of the things that i love so much about moms clean air force an organization that i've been blessed to now be a part of. it's because mothers do what mamas do. that is we are going to protect our babies to no end. and whether we are protecting them from the impacts of climate or we are protecting them from gun violence or we are protecting them from immig

this was at the university of mississippi ole miss. places where people think that there's no engagement on climate. places where people think that we are lost or we are forgotten and we are not engaging places where people think we are not environmentalist. no it was because and is because of our conversations with one another our inclusiveness with one another and beginning to realize the face of environmentalism doesn't look like the google search it looks like the person who is sitting right next to you. i'm beginning to understand and that's any compass it and everything that we do. beginning to wrap all of our issues from all of our communities in the cloak of climbing. it's one of the things that i love so much about moms clean air force an organization that i've been blessed to now be a part of. it's because mothers do what mamas do. that is we are going to protect our babies to no end. and whether we are protecting them from the impacts of climate or we are protecting them from gun violence or we are protecting them from immig

his firing on friday came directly after he subpoenaed the university of southern mississippi athleticndation which as you said was responsible for using $5 million in welfare funds for building a volleyball stadium on campus and this is on behalf of brett favre. this is a brett favre project. now brad was appointed attorney and he's taking a case in a one party republican state. so he wasn't expected to pull any punches in his efforts to claw back the money. he has a lot of experience in doing this so he told us that he thought that the decision to remove him from the case was politically motivated. and it certainly smells like a cover-up. it seems like they're trying to divert attention away from this volleyball stadium and what happens with it at at the campus at usm. >> your reporting on this has been incredible. and you have had to just go to such great struggle to get so many of these documents and uncover this $94 million trail of money that was federal money intended for poor people in the poor estate in the country but instead paid for rehab for pro-wrestlers and gave brett fa

desperate search for a missing college student. 20-year-old jimmie "jay" lee, a student at the university of mississippiing for more than a week. police found lee's car after it was towed from an apartment complex the day he went missing. his father is pleading for anyone with information to contact police. >>> and a deadly helicopter crash linked to the arrest of a notorious drug lord in mexico. mexico's navy said that 14 marines assisting with the capture of rafael quintero died friday after their blackhawk helicopter crashed. no word yet on the cause of the accident. >>> when we come back, a consumer alert. the search for answers after hundreds of illnesses are linked to a meal delivery service. not a time capsule. sometimes the house itself can tell you how a young homeowner is turning into their parents. -not those two. -yep, they're gone. -forever? -yep. that there is progressive's homequote explorer website, where i compared home insurance rates. we don't need to print the internet. some are beyond help. i will give you $100 if you can tell me what this is. -scotch egg. -it's a meatball. progress

university of maryland. in exploring more some of the connections to slavery in the origins from the role that slaves played in actually building the buildings. i remember seeing at the university of mississippi the hand prints on one of the bricks. it's one of the slaves enslaved people who left that print. i'm from building the buildings to the fact that they were serving as you know, there was servants to some of the students unto the professors and they were enslaved sometimes hired out to the you know, so there's there's been this big exploration going on and these books have pushed back into almost um almost that the reason for this was to perpetuate slavery. could you talk about why you what your opinion is about that? i mean, i read you were saying that that is misguided that is that is misleading in terms of what the university of virginia was all about. can you explain more? yes, um, i would say from the outset and most of these books came out so during the bicentennial university in 2019 by commission on slavery. for the university and they do represent a very important corrective. to earlier work in acknowledging the presence of slavery and it's unbelievable. now that earlier hist

well after the civil rights movement and i will point out well after the university of alabama the university of mississippi, right you can go on and on with other schools that integrated earlier. so it's connection to civil rights is in a group of very powerful white southerners whose vision of uva in the past looks a lot like what they reconstructed with these gardens and this beautiful erased history of slavery. so it matched their mythology. yeah. one more question okay, that was me. my question is if it's similar though, but i was gonna say that i noticed that you talked a lot in your research about the work you had to do going through like records to kind of uncover a lot of that loss history due to like infrastructure changes and everything like that and my initial question was going to be did you find that a lot of that like covering up of that past legacy was purposeful or accidental but it seems like you were kind of leaning towards that a lot of it was purposeful or like intentional one. i guess. i'm asking that and two if it was purposeful. do you think that you would have had an easier or more

of the top stories we're following this morning. police in oxford, mississippi have arrested and charged 22-year-old sheldon timothy harrington jr. in connection with the disappearance and murder of universityppi student jimmy j. lee. >> lee went missing on july 8th and his vehicle was found three days later but his body still hasn't been recovered. authorities say the investigation is ongoing and they're asking the public to contact them with any tips. >>> in california, a large wildfire spreading dangerously fast is threatening parts of mariposa county. the oak fire is zero percent contained and authorities say 4,300 acres have been burned. the fire started yesterday afternoon and has spread to the sierra national forest. the county sheriff has forced vacancies and road closures for some surrounding areas. >>> this morning, more than 85 million people are under heat alerts as record breaking temperatures are expected across the northeast united states throughout the weekend. many of us have noticed that these recent heat waves have been more dangerous and happening more frequently. but to raise public awareness and protect lives, cities like los angeles, phoenix, and miami have appointed

. >>> and a suspect is in custody for the murder of a missing university of mississippi student. d charged 22-year-old sheldon timothy harrington jr. with the murder of jimmy j. lee. missing student 20-year-old lee was last seen on july 8th as he left an apartment complex near the campus. his car was found a few days later at a tow lot. lee's body has not yet been recovered. but police say they are working to locate his remains. no motive for the killing has been discovered. >>> and a twist in the case of a west virginia woman who awakened from a two-year coma and then said her brother was the one who attacked and nearly killed her. police arrested daniel palmer last week but then just days later, he died. cnn's jean casarez has the latest. >> reporter: daniel palmer iii charged in the brutal attack of his sister wanda palmer was said by law enforcement to be uncooperative as they tried to get him to jail after an initial court proceeding. now officials say he's dead. palmer died thursday night in a hospital after being in jail for five days. palmer, of jackson county, west virgin

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jimmy "jay" lee was last seen leaving an apartment complex near the university of mississippi on julyaddio romero is following the clues and what are the family now saying. >> the family is distraught. we've heard from the father and the sister and just want him to be found. but we know this is an active police investigation. so oxford police have executed a dozen search warrants on digital assets, think about they found his laptop and ipad and go through that and see what hes would communicating with and who was in the photos on his social media, try to get an idea of his life. the people he knew, the people he was connected with. and to put together a timeline as well. as they go through his car, that has been recovered now, that is now at mississippi state crime lab, looking for evidence like finger prints or dna, his or someone else's who may have been in the car. and all of this is happening in a very small area. in oxford, mississippi, consumer the campus of ole miss. campus apartments is where he was last seen last friday morning. headed out. and then his car was recovered on m

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a search is also underway for a missing university of mississippi student jimmy j lee was last seen on july 8 leaving campus. a towing company removed his car from an off-campus apartment building the same day. police are now processing the car for evidence as his family pleads with the public for help. >> asking that if anyone knows anything, or sees anything, say something. call -- contact law enforcement. just tell them what you know. this is my plea that you help find my child. arthel: anyone with information in this is asked to call oxford police (662)232-2400. crime stoppers is $1000 reward for information that leads to lee being found. and an dallas police are searching for a nurse who never return home. according to her roommate, roxanne left home thursday night to go for a run. the last ping from her phone came from a trail in east dallas. her family and friends in vain. they're asked to give them a call there. police number is (214)671-4268 if you have any information on this case. before people go missing every day they are friends and family need our help. officials firing

. >>> meantime, a suspect is in custody for the murder of a missing university of mississippi student. authorities have arrested and charged 22-year-old sheldon timothy harrington jr. with the murder of jimmy j. lee. missing student, 20-year-old lee, was last seen on july 8th as he left an apartment complex near the campus. his car was found a few days later at a tow lot and lee's body has yet to be recovered. but police say they are working to locate his remains. no motive for the killing was given. >>> still ahead, wildfires are exploding in size out west and scorching land near yosemite national park. the flames fueled by record high temperatures that are sprawling across the nation right now. >>> plus we're expecting to get new details about president biden's health as he continues to isolate at the white house with covid. what we know about his condition, straight ahead. what ? what do you want to leave behind? what do you want to give back? what do you want to be remembered for? that's your why. it's your purpose, and we will work with you every step of the way to achieve it. at

. >> well, meantime, we're following the search for a missing university of mississippi student.ee's father is pleading with the public. nadia romero is following details. >> the search continues for that missing college student and we are asking anyone with any information to please come forward. jimmy lee who also goes by the nickname jay was last seen last friday july 8th at 6:00 in the morning outside the campus walk apartments. you can see here his car was recovered by police on monday at molly bar trails apartment complex and that's just over two and a half miles away. some photos and videos lee is wearing dresses and makeup. a local station says they caught up with lee's sister who was with others in the community doing a search on a nearby trail. take a listen. >> just to see people come out and actually help us that shows us that there's actually some people in this world that actually care. if there's anybody out there that know anything, anything, it's just anything, a simple clue, a simple piece, a simple something, just to get something to find him, pretty much, beca

jimmy lee was seen one week ago leaving an apartment complex near the university of mississippi wherestudent, and he hasn't been seen since. earlier this week, police found lee's car. cnn's nadia romero is following the latest developments. >> reporter: good morning. police were able to recover his car. it is now with the m mississippi state crime lab and that is important to this investigation because iengnvestigators can lo for fingerprints and dna evidence. they can also find receipts in there. maybe they can put a timeline together of where he went from the last couple of days before he went missing. here's what we know. take a look at this map. we'll see here, his apartment complex, campus valley apartments or campus walk apartments is where he lived. he was last seen just one week ago on july 8th at about 6:00 in the morning, and then his car was recovered on monday at molly bar trails. that's a different apartment complex, and police believe he may have been there to visit someone. what we don't know is what happened in between. he could have went straight there. he could have

missing college student is pleading for help. 20-year-old jimmy jay lee disappeared near the university of mississippicnn's nadya ramara is following developments, and she joins me now. what is the latest on this investigation into lee's disappearance. >> ryan, we know that his family and friends are really heartbroken at this disappearance. we're hearing from oxford police telling us that they have executed dozens of search warrants, both physical and digital, to try to find out more information. so when you say what's a digital search warrant, that would be a laptop or an ipad that would show investigators who he was messaging with, who he was taking pictures with, just anything that would tell them more about him and those people surrounding him. we also know that his car was recovered on monday and that car is now at the mississippi state crime lab where it's undergoing forensic testing. they're looking for dna samples, fingerprints, even something as simple as a receipt from a fast food restaurant that has a time stamp on it could help them piece together where he was before he was last seen last

res. 710, congratulating the university of mississippi rebels baseball team for winning the 2022 national collegiate athletic association division 1 be baseball championship. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will mr. van hollen: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without mr. van hollen: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 711, submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 711, expressing the condolences of the senate and honoring the memory of the victims of the mass shooting at the fourth of july parade in highland park, illinois, on july 4, 2022. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will mr. van hollen: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and

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university of west alabama as the management entity. the black belt region of alabama stretches across the lower central portion of alabama from the eastern border of mississippi to the western border of southern georgia. the region is recognized by many as the center of the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's. several pivotal events in the civil rights movement took place in the region, including the montgomery bus boycott and the march from selma to montgomery. which helped lead to the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965. the black belt region is a special area of our country that deserves national recognition. i urge adoption of this bill and reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. houghman: mr. speaker, i reserve and am prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman fromle new mexico is recognized. ms. herrell: thank you, mr. speaker. i urge adoption of this bill and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields. the gentleman from california is recognized mr.

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after graduating from high school, bill went on to attend both the utah of mississippi and armstrong atlantic state university completing his education with a masters in the arts and communication. after serving in this high school j rotc, he furthered his interest in the army buyer serving in the army rotc at ole miss and joining the u.s. army signal corps. he continued his career until he reached the rank of captain in the military intelligence unit in savannah. aside from his military career he was blessed with his loving wife and seven grandchildren. ones he left -- once he left the service, he had a successful career in radio broadcasting becoming host of what is now a a.m. savannah. his commitment was rewarded when he was recognized by associated press for sports precedence. i'm so grateful for bill edwards and his tireless commitment to improving his community. bill is an outstanding georgian and i thank him for all he's done for his community. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? ms. brown: mr. speaker, i ask u