just north of i tenure at vicksburg moving to the north, this is expected to increase as we go to the overnight hours. here's how are rain chances look overnight tonight. minimal chances, 10% chance of a pop appear through your morning commute. that takes us into the 8 o'clock hour. tomorrow we begin to see those come up slightly. wayne expected to be on the light to moderate side, not going to be super widespread, 20% as we get to the 12 or 1 o'clock hour. we are back in the 90s tomorrow , more on the forecast coming up. >>> just reopened. it was closed for eight hours after smi slammed in the cars and trucks causing a 24 vehicle pileup. >> reporter: drivers stranded in their cars for hours on ice 17 the traffic backed up for more than 10 miles after that massive pileup. it's incredible , everyone in the crash made it four people had to be flown to hospitals, 13 others taken by amulets, when smi hauling cattle couldn't stop in time for slowing traffic. plowing into a row of cars for half a mile. >> don't know if he lost his brakes but was going way too fast. he hit the first car over

into the same problem at vicksburg that they did outside of richmond. them asame time i give certain pass because i'm not sure they sought coming. -- saw it coming. officerverage civil war is going off in 1861, even west point trained, they are not necessarily going to west point all the time. they are becoming officers and engineers. a lot of these guys are designing railroads. they are working on engineering projects. they have not commanded more than 120 men. here comes sherman reading the manual he's driving a new car about how imovie brigade from that line of battle. there is a lot of learning on the fly. i have to give the western armies a lot of credit for their combined operations with an 80 and with the army -- with the navy and the army that worked so many times well together. chris will talk about new orleans tomorrow. that'so second manassas, a fantastic attack that takes place. longstreetstreet -- is credited with being slow, but he delivers a hammer-like low. normally people say stonewall jackson was the man to do this, this was the perfec

and until vicksburg fell in the middle of 1863, it would have been virtually impossible. how did she get down to new orleans, do you know? >> yes. well, so what she says -- the way she tells it -- and i'm very much -- this is mary's own words. so i'm going to give it to you from not the -- what was a train schedule but the way she describes what the boat was, because it was a very scary experience for her. she had been in st. louis all her life. but she said she got on a boat with a big wheel on it, a big wheel on the back, and she had to stay crouched down near the wheel. don't make any fuss, don't let anybody -- it wasn't about hiding. she could be there, she had a ticket. her master who freed her help e her get a ticket. so it's possible there's a kind of cargo piece of it. but whatever it was, she stayed near the big wheel, don't look at anybody in the eye and don't show your papers. so that's the story she tells. so she'sible to get to new orleans on the mississippi river. >> let's shift it. >> dave sullivan, new market, new hampshire. my question is, did mary find h

this was in vicksburg, michigan. they were going to have a bachelor party type situation.st morning there they noticed a dog by the front door, she was guarding a certain area. there was a big hole and inside of it were seven puppies. all of the dogs, including the mom, were adopted by the groom and his groomsmen were their relatives. what's nice about it, they can hang out and be buddies because they live very close to one another within a five mile radius. >> nice. >> well done with the happy ending. isn't that nice? i think so. greg? >> all right. live show, tonight, a first for the g.g. show, it will be live. we will have the great writer walter kearn. we have steven baldore from "scarface" and the jon voight tv show. what's it called? i'm doing a terrible plug. >> wow. >> ray donovan. >> wow. >> and i got tyrus and carl cameron. it will be great. we will have the tape delay on in case i say something. >> oh, my goodness. charming. just like old times. hope you don't choke. all right. melissa? >> behold, my newspaper thief. watch, watch. look at this. okay. for like th

in that area, it was significant because vicksburg fell. that area of mississippi fell -- defeated around july 4. the celebration is a national holiday. it was something they did not celebrate. you have this account that nobody that visited -- it happened right there, but nobody that visited whatever no would ever know. not necessarily out of malignancy of the people who run the place, but because that is not the usual story. i am telling that story to say that these stories are everywhere. people that the research, people begin to look at the digitized newspapers in the 19th century, you can find the stunning stories of this time from all across the south that are kind of hiding in plain sight. it was a kind of moment of, this places using -- oozing, but we don't know. >> i would be remiss if we did not mention one of my colleagues on the national park service has been coordinating with local people about how to build locally-based commemorations. questions of violence and how to deal with it that came up -- he found people, especially tie