>> the recent fight between william mitchell and deamon beavers is due to a disagreement over how many packages of noodle soup beavers would pay mitchell in return for a favor. mitchell allowed beavers to use his account to buy commissary goods. since any money beavers had in his own account would be garnished by the jail for unpaid booking fees. >> you ready? >> narrator: beavers must now tell his side of the story to disciplinary officer hale, who will decide how much time he will get in segregation. >> i don't have no problems. you know what i'm saying? come on, harvey. you know me. you know i don't cause no ruckus. >> you complied and laid on the ground. mr. williams kept on trying to fight. and like i do with everybody in here, your first offense for fighting's gonna be 10 days. >> oh, man. come on, man. i mean, come on, hale... i comply with everything the officers have asked me to do. i've been in here. i ain't been kicking on no doors. i ain't been causing no ruckus or nothing. >> sign right there and right there. >> [ sighs ] that's just bull[bleep] man. lose all the way aroun

williams. it was andrea mitchell who said this is the reason why elections matter and have ramifications.nd also an example of the key decisions. >> reporter: probably mostly the state's electing a democratic attorney general and governor. now, what the attorney general says is that virginia is certainly a key foundation on liberty in america, but that sometimes it's been on the wrong side of important issues. it fought school integration. it fought marriage for interracial couples. it fought allowing women into dmi. he said he was afraid if virginia continued to defend the ban on same-sex marriage, it would make another historical mistake. so he said he believes she on the right side of law and on the right side of history. a couple of interesting things about this, tamron, number one, the marriage law in virginia will still be defended. this will not be like the situation in california where the state also declined to defend the proposition 8 law that was ultimately declared unconstitutional. here, two counties continued to defend the law, so that's day one. there still will be a trial.

mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> and that is our broadcast for this tuesday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williamsee you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> we're following developing news this evening. we've been following a fire burning in the delta. you see intense flames and evacuations. thanks for joining us. i'm raj mathai. i'm jessicaing. the location is kimble island in the delta that's right across from the marina. this is what we know, a call came in, the coast guard said the fire began as a brush fire. the call came in to the sheriff's department around 3:15 this afternoon. one strike tour burned but at one point there were 20 structures burning but it turned out one burned. no one was injured. the residents were taken and evacuated off the island. cal fire fighting the dpier and looks like they are making headway. we're keeping a very, very close eye on the is the situation. >> a serial arsonist remains on the loose and the fire department is tracking them and they are short staffed. firefighters couldn't do much as the home burned across the street from the station. budg

mitchell. >> reporter: former first lady barbara bush on c-span said her husband bush 41 and bill clinton have become great friends. >> every summer. we don't agree politically but we don't talk politics. >> i, william are an unlikely pair. once political adversaries, their relationship was icy after the bitter 1992 campaign. in 2004, george w. bush asked his father and clinton to join forces to help victims of the tsunami and later katrina. >> we took seven trips together. this man who i always liked and respected i literally came to love. >> reporter: in the years since the two visited, shared lunches and often talked to the phone, a relationship that has now blossomed into even more. >> i think he thinks of george a little bit like the father he didn't have. >> people began to judge i was getting so close to the bush family, i had become the black sheep son. >> i love bill clinton. maybe not his politics but i love bill clinton. >> reporter: andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >> nice story. can you imagine 1992 they battle it out for the presidency and to think all these years later they are so close. >> they can put that behind them. well done. >>> next, we've got a "today" exclusive. the au