indeed, i imagine a new louisiana. i see a new louisiana where not only our sons and daughters pursue their dreams but children from other states come here for opportunities which i envision a louisiana where the governor of texas is complaining of sons and daughters of texas moving to communities in our state and we can do that. and that is one of the reasons that we have proposed a bold plan this year which we've said our top priority this year is not to stay still but get rid of income taxes in the state of louis louisiana. we have talked about competing with texas and florida. and every one of us know families and friends that have gone to the state after they retire, they go to florida or texas. we have talked about catching up with those states. it is time to do more than talk. it is time for us to be bold and get rid of the income taxes. look at what is going on in our tax code today. the single biggest obstacle and step we can take to make louisiana a better state for our jobs and families is to have a tax code

louisiana and every other state in the country all ban violent felons from having guns, but in louisiana, that ban on felons getting guns was declared unconstitutional by that local trial court judge last month. that's because of a new law that the nra supported in louisiana last year. a new law that singles out gun laws and gun regulations for special scrutiny by the courts. essentially, gun laws in louisiana now are presumed to be unconstitutional unless proven otherwise. including the one about felons. when the law was first proposed, the bureau of governmental research, which is kind of like the congressional research service at the state level, they do nonpartisan review of legislation and policy for the state of louisiana, this nonpartisan analysts in this state said don't do this thing the nra wants us to do. they urged people to vote against this change in the law. they said, there's no good reason to enter this uncharted territory. they said, changing the law like this, quote, would expose the h. republican governor bobby jindal, though, supported it. he said, it's time we prote

like in louisiana we have the louisiana family forum to focus on the family to get this past. so that's really where it is coming from. >> michael: listen to paul brown in georgia. >> all of that stuff i was taught about evolution, and embriology, all of that is laws straight from the pit of hell. >> michael: he is a sitting member on the house committee of science space and technology. how outraged does that make you? >> in our fight we caught on board the support of 78 noble sciencists, and they have made some of the most incredible advancements in science. so representative brown should listen to them and until he realizes that real evidence-based science is what we need to teach, be studying what we need to base our -- like world off, i think it's a very scary thought based on that committee. >> michael: do you want to run for office one day or just keep fighting this fight as someone on the outside. >> as i mentioned this problem is a lot larger than louisiana and a lot larger than creationism. we just cut $50 billion in science research in the budget sequester. so i want

louisiana and every other state in the country all ban violent felons from having guns, but in louisiana, that ban on felons getting guns was declared unconstitutional by that local trial court judge last month. that's because of a new law that the nra supported in louisiana last year. a new law that singles out gun laws and gun regulations for special scrutiny by the courts. essentially, gun laws in louisiana now are presumed to be unconstitutional unless proven otherwise. including the one about felons. when the law was first proposed, the bureau of governmental research, which is kind of like the congressional research service at the state level, they do nonpartisan review of legislation and policy for the state of louisiana, this nonpartisan analysts in this state said don't do this thing the nra wants us to do. they urged people to vote against this change in the law. they said, there's no good reason to enter this uncharted territory. they said, changing the law like this, quote, would expose the public to unnecessary risks and hamper law enforcement. republican governor bobby jind

that is what we want from louisiana. more economic growth, population growth, sons and daughters, to recognize louisiana as the land of opportunity. [applause] there are many reasons to get rid of the income-tax that ensure our people a level playing field. to make sure that louisiana families have more control over how and when they pay their taxes. one study has shown by getting rid of those income taxes, we can get rid of 12,000 new jobs in our states. $1.8 billion in more new disposable, 910 new dollars for each louisiana household. 12,000 new jobs. just by getting rid of the income tax. that is why i have made the repeal of these taxes my top priority. a plan that included raising the sales tax rate and expanded the definition of services to which we apply the sales tax. moment and is a something a little different. i want to talk to you a little more personally than normal. my mom is here, i've been hearing this my entire life. i speak too quickly. i move too quickly. some of you have told me that, some more polite

so the o'reilly family has been in louisiana for centuries. in cuba, nobody remembers him but it was the street of calle oreilly, famous until the 50's for its banks and bookstores. it was one of the favorite streets of (inaudible) secretary of the spanish count of fernandino, my grandfather, another irish man feeling at home in havana. there, at the busy corner of calle street and oreilly was a cafe bakery owned by a catelan. it was described by many foreigners, in particular british and irish who lived in havana at the time, as one of the best order and most elegant cafes in the world. its large door led to a main floor with a fantastic stone floor. i saw it in the 50's, i was very little but i still was there in the 50's, and have a fountain that all that water really produce a refreshing sound that drown the patrons' loud conversations. but what made dominica famous, according to some foreigners and historians, was its ice cream of countless flavors and its famous fruit ices: guava and other flavors were served according to an irish travel

we have two areas i want to highlight in mississippi and louisiana. we actually had one confirmed tornado in louisiana. ef-0 confirmed. and reports of power lines coming down in mississippi. that storm system on the move today. we have winter weather to talk about. winter weather advisories because more snow is possible across sections of new england and the upper great lakes. and that tornado watch, including parts of virginia, north carolina, and south carolina through later this morning. >> very troubling, thank you. it could be a troubling new warning about north korea's intentions. a defense intelligence agency report finds north korea likely has the capability of arming a missile with a nuclear warhead. but the pentagon is down playing that report. david piper is live in south korea with the very latest for us. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning. he is on his first leg of his asian tour. high tensions over concerns that north korea is about to test a missile. the secretary of state went straight into meetings with military leaders he

louisiana has a traveling electric chair. they would take it from parish to parish, county to county. they would display the literature on the county courthouse at noon, and invite school kids about the classes to come and make a field trip and look at the electric chair. don't do bad stuff because this chair is waiting. they then would take the chair inside, a good up to a generator on a truck and invite the victim our mandate the victim into the chair. in this particular case, 17 year old black and end willie francis who would kill the pharmacist during a robbery was put in the chair, strap in, electrodes attached to his ankles and to his head, and does one witness told, the executioner said goodbye willie, and willie didn't go anywhere. the chair malfunctioned. there was smoke and sparks and willie had minor burns, but they took him back to his cell. that became a celebrate supreme court case. was a double jeopardy? the court eventually decided it was only accidental. you could put willie francis in the chair again. but ju

louisiana's mary landrieu, arkansas's mark pryor and west virginia's joe manchin. landrieu's statement says this. her office released the statement thursday. quote according to the u.s. constitution marriage and family law are reserved for the states. the people of louisiana have made clear that marriage in our state is restricted to one man and one woman. while my personal views have evolved i will support the outcome of louisiana's recent vote. an interesting attempt to sort of split the baby there. is that something folks in louisiana can handle, a senator basically saying i have a different view, but i'm not going to share it with you or support it. we'll see. up next as the president pushes his plea for gun control we've got two top white house veterans here for strategy session on how this is working in washington. plus the big back track in the bayou state. amid plummeting poll numbers louisiana governor bobby jindal changes his tune on taxes. first a look ahead at today's politics planner. it's a busy one today. lots of focus on guns on capitol hill. and, o

boussard grew up in louisiana and said he often faced prejudice there but he never expected to be a target in a diverse city like this. >> i have nothing against the city. it's a great city. i just think everyone needs to be aware that there are people out here that think like that. >> barrett allegedly told boussard and his friend that he had been a member of the nazi low rider gang in prison. the d.a.'s office has charged barrett with a hate crime. he faces up to 16 years in state prison if convicted. >>> coming up this morning on

. >> reporter: boussard grew up in lafayette, louisiana, and he says he often faced prejudice, but he said he never expect to

louisiana has a traveling electric chair. they would take it from parish to parish, county to county. they would display the electric chair at the county courthouse at noon and invite school kids to make a field trip and look at the electric chair. don't do bad stuff, guys, because this chair is waiting. they then would take it inside, hook it up to a generator on a truck and invite the victim or mandate the victim into the chair. in this particular case, 17-year-old black named willie francis killed a pharmacist during a robbery. was put into the chair, strapped in. the electrodes attached to his ankle and to his head. and as one witness told us, the executioner said, good-bye, willie, and willie didn't go anywhere. of the chair malfunctioned. there was smoke and sparks, and willie francis had minor burns, but they took him back to his cell. that became a celebrated supreme court case. it wasn't double jeopardy to put the man in the electric chair again. the court eventually decided it was only accidental, that you could put

in louisiana and in arkansas next year will be crucial their ability. up for re-election, mary landrieu, the democratic senator from louisiana, as well as mark pryor. if one or both are able to win come november, 2014, odds are democrats will probably hold on to control the u.s. senate. and going to your point, the landrieu name is a very famous name in louisiana. it is very similar to being a kennedy in massachusetts. that has helped her family win contests in that state. she is hoping that is one thing that can help her being a democrat in an increasingly red state of louisiana. >> growing up in massachusetts, i can attest to the power of the kennedy name. for decades and decades. even though americans would probably say, no, no, we don't believe in political dynasties, that's like royalty. we actually do, as you said, the 2009 study in the review of check studies talks about the longer you hold power, the greater chance your heirs will get to attain power. if you barely win the election, you are far more likely to put a cousin or a son or daughter in

not as a courtesy to him but as a courtesy to other inmates. >> guest: the louisiana case and the louisiana state penitentiary in angola. >> guest: but another one of those issues that are very very tough. what do you do with an inmate who was on death row or not he doesn't want to take his medication and the courts as well, if you can show it's medically necessary you can forcibly medicate them but what doctor is going to say yes it's medically necessary so you can kill a guy? another one of the issues i used to lie awake at night thinking about, it's so troubled me not because they cared which was the right way to go but these are puzzles. in this case the question was can you use the victim impact statement in deciding whether this person is being convicted, committed the crime. should the jury hear about the impact with the loved ones left behind? there were three of the most horrible cases in the book and the court said you can't because if you do somehow if the relatives their relatives are articulated in speaking about what the law says they might get the death sentence but what happ

you remember governor of louisiana? he ran for president got up to 7%. it turns out there's a problem with money in politics. a really amazing story about the explosion in west, texas. the amount of material they had that could explode was crazy. turns out we need more regulation. first, we start with other unfortunately messy situations, including the ricin attack against the president within senator roger wicker and a judge, turns out we had the wrong guy. released today kevin paul curtis has been released. he might have been framed. isn't this fascinating? >> over the weekend agents searched his home and car and ex-wife's house. they found no trace of ricin or anything used to make it. computers were seized. investigators found no data pertaining to the poison. cenk: bowing air force base got a letter with ricin today, so obviously it couldn't have been curtis who sent it, because he was until today under supervision. it's fascinating. we don't know who has done this. it gives you insight about how you shouldn't prejudge things. fascinating turn of ev

the state of louisiana wants to scrap its state income taxes. that plan includes an increase in the state sales tax uping it by 56%, a hike on cigarette taxes and eliminating some loopholes to make up for the short fall. steve moore is a senior writer e wall street journal." steve, good to see you. >> hi, gregg. gregg: i wonder if it makes economic sense because income taxes many economists say income taxes is dwect penalty on savings and labor which is a tax on wealth while sales tax is a tax on consumption the result of wealth creation. >> that's right, gregg. you have nine states that don't have a state income tax. sorry those are not states like where you live. states like tennessee and texas and florida and wyoming. the states that are really booming generally in this country have no income tax. they have taken advantage of the tax that their taxes on business income and labor income are virtually zero to attract a lot of jobs, a lot of new capital and a lot of new workers. so that is where the real boom is going on. the real story here bob

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>> he loves the place i'm from south louisiana. >> love it. >> yeah. look. >> if you don't love new orleans, if you don't love louisiana, there's really no hope for you. >> right. >> it is the magical, magical state with a -- maybe the single most glorious tradition of cooking and eating and drinking. >> i think the cooks there are some of the best in the world. >> no doubt about it. i think it is an environment -- i think it's the mix of cultures, the wonderfully mutant history. you know? louisiana has a long tradition of, you know -- they're not ambivalent about pleasure. >> right. >> they like -- >> a good way of putting it. >> they like a good cocktail. they like food. you know? they're not kidding about letting the good times roll. >> hah hah! there's the promo. cnn brings you the world. anthony bourdain, of course, traveling to countries. "parts unknown" at 9:00 p.m. here on cnn. saying the same thing about louisiana. good way of putting it. right? you like the t-shirt. >> love it. made you look 14. >> that's -- >> ageless. how did you do that? >

john: you live in louisiana have problem th a different animal. >> i do. a nonexistent animal. the fish and wildlife service has certified the frog itself has not been seen in the state of louisiana since 1967. john: so this is elsewhere, just has not been seen in your neck of the woods. >> not in the whole state. john: and they want to reestablish it. >> they have said they want the land we have, over 1500 acr, to become a frog conservation area and it will utterly destroy the value of our land which they will not and they have told me this, pay for. it is just a massive federal landfill. john: you want to build some home >> we want to build some homes and businesses. the land is high and dry, it still is, it will be very valuable for people to live on to avoid the kind of flooding that occurred in katrina. john: this is sort of them saying it is worth zillions of dollars, but you can't make that money. the fish and wildlife said they were not available to, on the show to talk about this in response to your complaint, they posted this video on youtube. >> we're looking forward

she represents louisiana. on one side you have new orleans with a high crime rate. on the other hand very rural areas of her state after all it is the sportsman's paradise as they call it down there in louisiana no surprise she's unsaid to on this issue and undecided right now on this bipartisan proposal that came out earlier today. no word yet from her office. >> thanks for that report. the first lady stepped into the gun debate. stay right here. you'll hear what michelle obama had to say to an audience in her home town of chicago. she got very emotional. later the defense secretary of the united states issues a tough brand new warning to north korea. our special report on the korean crisis. that begins right at the top of the hour. but i wondered what a customer thought? describe the first time you met. you brought the flex in... as soon as i met fiona and i was describing the problem we were having with our rear brakes, she immediately triaged the situation, knew exactly what was wrong with it, the car was diagnosed properly, it was fixed correctly i have confide

. >>> and life-threatening hazards at a golf tournament on the louisiana bayou. >>> former president george w. bush says tlfgs a time in his life when he wouldn't be found at a library much less dedicate his own. that's changed while his sense of humor hasn't. danielle leigh reports on the dedication of bush 43 presidential library. >> reporter: it was a rare gathering, all five of the nation's living presidents and their wives standing together. the dedication of the george w. bush presidential museum and library drew thousands to dallas' smu campus. >> today i'm proud to dedicate this center to the american people 37 >> reporter: former president george h.w. bush rose from his wheelchair with pride. president obama thanked his predecessor for setting a great example. >> he takes his job seriously, but he doesn't take himself too seriously. he's a good man. >> narrator: inside the more than 43,000 square foot museum is a high-definition freedom hall a replication of the oval office and thousands of artifacts like these beams from the world trade center. the museum examines key momen

. >> you killed a pig i believe for a louisiana cajun roast. i grew up in louisiana. don't you just love new orleans and louisiana and the food there? it is amazing. >> if you don't love new orleans, if you don't love louisiana, there is really just no hope for you. >> right. >> it is the magical, magical state with a -- maybe the single most glorious tradition of cooking and eating and drinking. >> your book "kitchen confidential" did that change your life or did it change your life? >> as much as anything could change your life, "kitchen confidential" changed mine. i was literally 44 years old and next to a deep fryer looking forward to pretty much of same for the rest of my life and i wrote this little book thinking a few cooks and restaurant people in new york would read it and really almost overnight the world became my oyster and i found myself with the best job in the world. i mean, look what i do for a living. i sit around with friends and looking at a map thinking where do we want to go and what stories we want to tell and how do we want to tell them? so it w

their comes straight to us from the louisiana police department. back in june of 2012, the parents and both children were in a hotel rook. there was a disturbance report and here's the quote from the police. when police arrived both parents were actsing in a bizarre manner that alarmed officers think were talking about completing their ultimate journey and they were taking a journey to the armageddon. let it be noted that both of their children were present in the hotel room at the time. because of their behavior, the fact that narcotics and weapons were located in that hotel room, the children were taken by child welfare officers. police were notified that the father showed up at the foster home demanding the return of his children. the father fled without his children and we find ourselves in the situation we are in now. and i take you to patrick ottoman in havana, cuba. can you update me, patrick, hon what you've been seeing that? >> yeah. since we last, i got back to our office here in savannah. i'm looking at the photos. there's not a doubt in

it's 1946, louisiana has a traveling electric chair they took from parrish to parrish, county to county, display the chair on the county courthouse at noon, and invite school kids to make a field trip and look at the electric chair. don't do bad stuff, this chair is waiting. they took the chair inside, hooked it up to a generator on a truck and invite the or mandate the victim into the chair. in this particular case, 17-year-old willie francis who killed a pharmacist in a robbery was put in the chair, strappedded in, electrodes attached to the ankle and head, and as a witness told us, the execution their said, good-bye willie, and he didn't go anywhere. the chair malfunctioned. there was smoke and sparkedded, and he had minor burns, but they took him back to the cell. that became a celebrated supreme court case. was it double jeopardy to put the man in the electric chair again? they decided it was just accidental, that you could put willie francis in the chair again. justice frankfurter who voted for the execution felt constitutional mandate to do it was so disturbed, he went behind the

it would have jacked up the sales tax in louisiana to make up for lost revenue. right now, voters in illinois are picking the replace iment f jesse jackson junior. robin kelly is favored against paul mckinley, ex-con turned activist. >>> when it comes to voting, the average african-american voter waited 23 minutes to vote, according to a new study. hispanics waited 19 minutes and whites waited 12. >>> paul ryan pulled in $600,000 in the first quarter, including a hefty check from condoleezza rice. we don't know what his future plans are, but he has about a million and a half cash on hand right now. >>> former president bill clinton is now on twitter thanks to stephen colbert. >> do you tweet? >> no. i think i'm so sort of insecure, like, you know, what if you tweet and nobody tweets back. >> i took the liberty of opening you a twitter account. >> now, president clinton was taken. william jefferson clinton was taken. but prezbillyjeff was available. >> clinton's first tweet that colbert typed, just spent amazing time with colbert. is he sane? he is cool. as we wer

he was a judge in louisiana and new orleans himself and very friendly with a judge who he was trying this case before. and they did, you know, the whole case as you said didn't call witnesses, didn't have arguments and the murder trial that had to defendants that began and ended in under two hours. if you look at the transcript and the judge based on the times to read those transcripts. and then gregg was sent to prison for 27 years kept saying i didn't do it and with his sixth grade education he tried to educate himself, tried to get access to police records even that took years and years and then he finally got an innocence project lawyer to take up his case, and they discovered that all of his appeals and his letters to the courts, etc., were going before a judge, the same judge who actually was one of the prosecutors in the case who promoted him to be a judge and he was basically being asked to weigh in on his own prosecutorial misconduct made so of course gregg never got his appeal heard were never really even got into court. he was finally freed after 27 years thanks to the wor

the saga began nearly a year ago in slidell, louisiana. police there responding to a disturbance at a hotel say they found weapons and drugs in the haikens' room. the children were there with them. what concerned authorities just as much was how the haikens were talking. >> they were speaking some bizarre terms to the officers in reference to traveling across country to beat the armageddon. things were just very strange. >> reporter: the children were taken and put in foster care out of concern for their safety. two weeks later, according to louisiana authorities, haiken showed up at the foster home with a gun demanding his kids. he ran off when 911 was called. >> i need the police. i have a guy at my house with a gun. >> reporter: it was sometime after that the boys were sent to their grandparents'. it's not clear how haiken and his wife had planned the abduction and escape to cuba, or what they may have planned to do once they got there. >> incredible story. earlier today, cnn's patrick otman tracked down the haikens in havana. he joins

to the charges in this case that had been filed against joshua or if they were related to a case in louisiana in which joshua is charged with going to a foster home where his children were held in july of 2012 with a gun trying to take them back. we're still getting the answer to that. so far this is the list of charges. we're working to get filings that happened in the last hour and a half ago because of this proceeding this morning. >> let me interrupt as we continue to watch for the parents of sharon to take the microphone and address us outside of their home in tampa. i want to switch gears as well to irving, texas. we have breaking news. i have very little information. let me tell you what i do know. that traffic incident that you are seeing there courtesy of our affiliate wfaa is actually an overturned bus. there are reports that we've been getting there may be some people trapped in that bus, and it's hard to make it out. you really have to sort of look in the midst of all of those emergency response vehicles that have -- that come -- that have come to the scene. it's on president geor

john: you live in louisiana have problem with a different animal. >> i do. a nonexistent animal. the fish and wildlife service has certifie the frog itself has not been seen in the state of louisiana since 1967. john: so this is elsewhere, just has not been seen in your neck of the woods. >> not in the whole state. john: and they want to reestablish it. >> they have said they wantnt te land we have, over 1500 acres, to become a frog conservation area and it will utterly destroy the value of our land which they will not and they have told me this, pay for. it is just a massive federal landfill. john: you want to build some homes. >> we want to build some homes and businesses. the land is high and dry, it still is, it will be very valuable for people to live on to avoid the kind of flooding that occurred in katrina. john: this is sortf them saying it is worth zillions of dollars, but you can't make that money. the fish and wildlife said they were not available to, on the show to talk about this in response to your complaint, they posted thivideo on youtube. >> we're looking forward

that lawyer was also actually a judge in louisiana in new orleans itself in very frankly was the judge -- and this whole case as you said they didn't call witnesses and they had no opening arguments in no closing arguments in the murder trial began and ended in under two hours. if you look at the transcripts and the judge based on the time to read those transcripts. and then greg wright was sent to prison for 27 years and kept saying i didn't do it, didn't do it and was trying to appeal from jail with a sixth-grade education. he tried to educate himself and tried to get access to the police records even after years and years. then he finally got and innocence project lawyer to take up this case and they discovered that all of his appeals and all of his letters to the courts etc. were appearing before a judge, the same judge who actually was one of the prosecutors of the original case. he had been promoted by the judge and he was basically being asked to weigh in on his own prosecutorial misconduct. so if course greg never got his appeal heard or ever got into court. he was finally free

paton had 10receptions. 136 them for touchdowns and louisiana tech pass-happy offense is expected to compete could also be used a kick y and runner. three picks later they took south carolina running back marcus lattimore. it could be a while before lattore contributions in the field. he severely injured his knee. a year after he had surgery on his other knee frank gore ached tout mattlor after his surgery this year. in the 5th round the 49ers took another quinto quinton dial. and nick moody from from florida state and three 7-round picks, to sect a quarterback, b.j. daniels and carter bykowski and marcus coopers from rutgers. >>> quarterback has been a fluid position and they addressed that positiowith their 4th round pick taking tyler wilson of the arnsas. wilson was a two-year starter for the razorbacks throwing for 21 touchdown passes last year and 24 in his junior year. the raiders hafour pims in today's 6th round and took nick casa of colorado and michael rivera of tennessee and they chose a running back,lattous murray and defensive tackle stacey magee of oakland. bryce butler

>> the carolinas are now in the crosshairs a day after as many as nine tornadoes touched down from louisiana to alabama. >> actually it's coming towards us a little bit. >> reporter: it was an ominous site, this monster twister captured on camera as it descended on eastern mississippi. one person was killed and several others injured. towering trees also came tumbling down slicing through homes in huntsville, alabama, and businesses were not spared. >> no one was here. i got a call. the roof just peeled completely off the building. >> reporter: as they struggled to pick up the crumbled debris, thousands are forced to cope without power knocked out by those brutal winds, and the cleanup job is still under way in st. louis where a twister left dozens of homes in ruins wednesday night. the weather service has now confirmed that it was an ef-2 packing winds up to 135 miles an hour. and as they brace for more of that wild weather farther east, a dangerous mix of ice and snow continues to menace the great lakes and northern new england. >> accuweather meteorologist jim dickey is tracking it all. >

for six months, i studied it to retake the louisiana board -- the law board. six months later, i reject the test. my score catapulted up to a 401. [laughter] i figured, at that rate, i would be about 90 before i got into an english-speaking law school. so i started writing jokes for all comedians who played in the catskill section of new york. the hotels paid me $7 a joke. that was the going rate at the time the vso 21. they are 45. it was like writing for my parents' friends. but i tried my best. they would say to me, like, a sperm banks. sperm banks are in it the news. write me sperm bank jokes. 21, this is what was the foremost on my mind. they have this new thing now called sperm banks, which is just like an ordinary bank except here after making a deposit, you lose interest. [laughter] hey, $7, what do you want? [laughter] then i became the sperm bank guy. they would go, more sperm bank jokes. that i looked into the future. i said, i see a problem with spurring banks. they're starting to freeze sperm. that will be a problem because it is herded up telling

john: you live in louisiana have problem with a different animal. >> i do. a nonexistent animal. the fish and wildlife service has certified the frog itself has not been seen in the state of louisiana since 1967. john: so this is elsewhere,e, jt has not been seen in your neck of the woods. >> not in the whole state. john: and they want to reestablish i >> they have said they want the land we have, over 1500 acres, to become a frog conservation area and it will utterly destroy the value of o land which they will not and they have told me this, pay for. is just a massive federal landfill. john: you want to build some homes. >> we want to build some homes d businesses. the land is high and dryit still is, it will be very valuable for people to live on to avoid the kind of flooding that occurred in katrina. john: this is sort of them saying it is worth zillions of dollars, but you can't make that money. the fi and wildlife said they were not available to, on the show to talk about this in response to your complaint, they posted this video on youtube. >> we're looking forward in worki

esta vez se concentran en el sureste, desde alabama, desde louisiana hasta pensilvania, en el sureste pudiÉramos tener aviso de tornado, en las planicies del sur tenemos 36 mil personas sin el servicio de electricidad. y asÍ que bueno, tuvimos nieve hacia el norte, fuertes vientos, es un sistema que se mueve desde louisiana, en alabama, justo hasta el medio oeste, al mal tiempo buena cara. el centro del paÍs con condiciones estables. aquÍ en los Ángeles con condiciones placenteras, nieves sobre las montaÑas. patrÓn del tiempo durante las prÓximas 24 horas. inestabilidad en el sur de la florida. lluvias que tambiÉn llegan al noreste, nubosidad que se concentra en el centro del paÍs. y nada significativo, el termometro en los 40 grados hacia el norte. chicago con 52. san luis condiciones severas, 51 grados. san antonio 70. miami con 84. al igual que en tampa. las vegas y phoenix ya sintiendo temperaturas en los 82 grados. en la noche temperaturas frescas en el rango de los 50 grados. esto es todo de mi parte. continuamos con mÁs de "primer impacto." y seguimos comunicandonos

louisiana, 85%, where mary landrieu is being chicken on the issue. montana, 79%. >> i have to read, this is one of my favorite columns, the economist wrote about america's gun divide, they wrote the truth is that gun control is going nowhere. one reason is that the millions of americans in favor of gun control do not live in the right places. support for gun control is geographically and racially concentrated in ways that sap the momentum of political power. are we essentially at the mercy of southern states and states in the center of the country where like four people live, where they are essentially dominating what the majority, 90% of americans want? >> two points, the economist has gotten it right once again. if you want to kill something in the senate, you wait a long, long time until after the, it's not an effect and then you kill it with 1,000 cuts, those are called amendments, that's how you kill a bill in the senate. if you want something to not happen. you act like you really care and then your actions over and over again, amendment after

if i'm a single mom in louisiana and i want to buy milk and bread and eggs for my kids, how am i not bearing more of a burden by having a higher sales tax to keep the progressive structure that exists in the state? >> each of the states is looking to move away from the income tax and some of them want to extend to searcheses that are not presently covered. >> overall what they are looking at, the states that don't have the income tax are growing more rapidly and people are moving their jobs and if you don't have a job, the most important thing is to get rid of income tax to create jobs. i'm not a fan. i think we should take the income tax down and take the additional revenue through growth and budget cutting. >> the issue is not something you can quantify. in terms of what you are trying to see, what would you think would be a plan that you see them run into a brick wall. where could you see that coming apart? >> the plan to abolish it in a year and the statehouse is saying take a look at that. they will come across the board with the significant cut in tax rates without raising the

what's interesting about new orleans and the situation in louisiana and why i chose to write about that is that the budget crisis -- this is something being experienced of course all across the country in the last five years, but with shrinking budgets, you know, one of the places on the chopping block very early in the process is the public defender's office. so come and new orleans what happened was the public defender was forced to lay off a third of his lawyers so one hold a vision which is called the conflict division and if this means if there are two people arrested for say rubbing a 711, one gets the public defender's office but because the might be accusing each other of being the one who fired the gun or whatever you need a separate lawyer so in new orleans the conflict division that was a separate division and a completely got rid of that in the budget cuts. so anybody than that came in with multiple arrests like that or accomplices, they have no attorneys so they were sitting in jail for months and months and the judges were making the police to the private bar, they were sc

there it is, the storm system heading to louisiana where there are storm watches. there's the red box, you can see it in effect. we'll keep you updated. martha: all right. well, the senate is now preparing for a key test vote on the issue of gun control this morning. there's two prominent pro-gun state senators, they're from pro-gun states, i should say, they are national senators, and they're working to nail down a bipartisan deal, joe manchin and pat toomey. one is west virginia democrat, joe manchin, he became very emotional during a meeting, and who wouldn't, with the sandy hook families. watch some of this. >> [inaudible] but i can ayou, we're protecting the rights of law-abiding governors the same as we're trying to prevent people who are capable of having a gun. he does both. martha: he said, i'm a dad, i'm a grandfather, and he was or very emotional, as you saw there, but would this legislation -- here's the key question, folks -- would it do enough to stop tragedies like the ones in newtown, virginia tech, aurora and tucson, all of which had a huge mental

one of the things we have learned as this debate has gone on is that louisiana has these really loose laws on guns. those guns make their way to chicago. so many of the guns found in chicago come from mississippi. so how are they able to control the flow of guns from one place to another it's similar to marijuana and similar even to abortion in some cases. >> that's one of the arguments, but spoke tos who are passing these laws in these states say they reflect local customs and culture. in the story i did last week with a colleague, she talked to the speaker of the connecticut house, the day they passed those gun measures and he said you need the federal legislation because as you suggest if we have one state passing a law -- and we have a number of states, california and nevada right across from each other, have versusly different laws. and states who have more liberal or looser gun laws are right next to other states. >> michael: we started talking about the emotional i'm of this issue. we have gone to the legislation. i don't think the legislation gets anywhere without the emotiona

joshua and sharon hawkins last year they lost custody after police found them in a louisiana hotel room with their two sons coal and chase. those children were surrounded by weapons and also drugs. the boys will now be and are now back with their grandparents who have legal custody. >> they are warning north korea they have become close to crossg a line. they have two missile launchers on the east coast. pentagon officials confirmed to fox news the missiles have a range of 2500 miles would be launched any time. >> what is significant about this test they are going to do it from a mobile launch platform something they can move around set up and launch much more quickly than if they have to put it on a launch pad we can see from space. >> the u.s. wants to tone down the rising tensions but kim jong-un's regime is making a difficult. >> he aided the enemy when he leaked classified documents to wikilea wikileaks. they will allow a witness to testify. that witness likely a navy seal will testify that bin laden had documents that manning admits to having leaked. he could face life behind bars

and neal haze being filmed in louisiana, tax credits there make filming less expensive. when the game stands tall is due out next fall. >>> let's check in with sal, how is the commute? >> you know it is actually all right but let's start with the bay bridge, that is backed up for a 20 to 35 minute delay which is the norm and no accidents on the bridge. this is a look in san francisco and that traffic looks pretty good if you are driving through and on the peninsular southbound to 182, it is a 20 minute drive. here is steve. >>> it is really cool and foggy for some warm for others, big differences for many, 50s and 60s closer to coast and bay. >>> coming up on mornings on 2 we have been on since 4:30 this morning, gunfire led to an all night standoff with s.w.a.t. , it just ended moments ago. >>> and a one word answer the surviving bombing suspect gave to investigators, stay with us.

louisiana has some of the most lax gun laws. we are a sportsman paradise. >> right. >> that's a dedicated fund. they can cut healthcare and legislation. as we speak, our second largest charity hospital will close down at 12:01 tonight. >> bill: really? >> 11:59. but with that said, a person was stopped in louisiana, went through the court in new orleans. he was a 3-time convicted felon, a couple of homicides, on probation, a judge had to release him because there is a law that governor jindall signed, the government association who travels all over the nation and only spent about 30 days in this state during his entire term >> bill: donald, listen. we ran out of time. i thought chicago wasnu 1. didn't realize it was baton rouge. just shows how widespread the problem of gun violence is. >> this is "the bill press show." that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'

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