>> only on current tv. >> john: congratulations mississippi, it is your turn to be proud. a lot of people are hard on your state and i don't know why. just because you're ranked 48th in education and health. just because you're ranked 50th in economic well-being for family and community. 50th in child poverty with 31% of your kids living below the party line. 2011 poll showed that 52% of mississippi republicans believe barack obama's a muslim. which explains why he drone kills so many muslims never praised a mecca and likes gay marriage. 46% of mississippi republicans would support a ban on interracial marriage in this century. y'all also accidentally flew the confederate flag over your capitol building, the flag of an enemy nation. it is cool you had one of those lying around. you also only got around to officially banning slavery this year. yes, it is fair to say the state of your state sucks so hard, alabama has a hickey. but none of that matters anymore because your governor, phil bryant signed a bill today that's going to bring prayer back to public schools which will

medgar evers had been assassinated in mississippi in june of 1963. bull connor, the police commissioner of the city of birmingham, had used dogs and fire hoses on children, women in the streets of birmingham. hundreds and thousands of young people, young children, had been arrested and jailed in the city of birmingham. people couldn't register to vote simply because of the color of their skin. back in 1961, '62, '63, people had to pass a so-called literacy test in my native state of alabama. on one occasion, a man was asked to count the number of bubbles in a bar of soap. another occasion, a man was asked to count the number of jellybeans in a jar. >> before he would be allowed to register? >> register. and there was black doctors, lawyers, college professors, high school principals, maids, sharecroppers, tenant farmers, stood in unmovable lines all across the south. but were denied the right to participate simply because of the color of their skin. >> you lived a very frenetic schedule in the months leading up to the march. you were in all the hot s

and they do in other parts of mississippi. that's what makes the situation very, very odd. >> well, mr. parks, we'll be checking back in with you to see what happens and see if the mcmillian family gets justice and if it oes indeed solved. if you get an update, let us know, okay? daryl parks. >>> okay. moving on now. it is rosy esp arza's first trip to six flags and ended badly. witnesses describe what they saw. >> she goes up like this. and then when it drops to come down, that's when it released and she just tumbled. it didn't hit me until we got back down to the bottom and i said, like, she was no bigger than i was. like that could have been me and then i like -- i los it. >> they were screaming when they came back and trying to get out of the restraint and screaming, my mom, my mom, she's gone. >> very sad. i'm -- i feel horrible for the family. >> here's what witnesses telling "the dallas morning news." the victim expressed concerns of the safety bar. authorities are investigating the cause of this accident. >>> the blist

by asking for a right that they cannot have in mississippi. these couples are changing in some way every clerk's office that they walk into. they're making themselves known to their neighborhoods and to their state and mississippi ans, they are making this all as clear and as heartrending as could possibly be. and while we are talking about settings, you might think are unlikely for this sort of thing, consider also the great state of arkansas, in arkansas they have not one, but two red state gay rights campaigns, thinking about asking voters directly for same sex marriage rights in arkansas. after the supreme court ruling last month in windsor where the court said the federal government could not single out gay couples for stigma and disadvantage. after the ruling, two arkansas couples went to their clerk's office and asked for a marriage license and they made sure they got turned down. rita jurnagen, the taller one, retired from the little rock schools after teaching math for almost 30 years. facing the very concrete nuts and bolts reality,

>>ifill: senator roger wicker of mississippi, senator jeff merkley from oregon about.about. >> richard cord ray was confirmed to head the consumer protection bureau. >> brown: now to the volatile situation in egypt. after a week of relative peace in the country, violent clashes returned last night. ray suarez reports. >>suarez: supporters of out offed president mohamed morsi poured into cairo streets last night calling for his return to power. they marched into will of the capital's busiest brings ans that's where tensions boiled over. proof from pbs's front line, demonstrators burned tires and blocked the roadway.

so in mississippi, it looks like the number of places where women in mississippi can get an abortion will drop from one to none at all. there will be nowhere in the state where a woman can get an abortion. that is mississippi, in march, republican lawmakers passed a law designed to force one remaining clinic to be closed. so under republican matters, the place where women can get an abortion will drop from one to zero, that is north dakota, alabama, alabama has five facilities that provide abortions among other women's health needs across the state. in april, the republican governor of alabama signed a bill that would close three of the five facilities. so under republican governance, it looks like the number of places where a woman can get an abortion will drop from five to two. in virginia, the number of clinics, in april after threats from the attorney general, the state board of health voted to pass the law passed by the republican legislature that is designed to close 16 of those 20 facilities. so under republican governance in virginia, looks like the places where a woman can g

. >> now i head west to the mississippi river and the thriving riverport founded in 1819 that is the city of memphis. hello. >> hello. >> where do i put this? >> right there. >> memphis has this great system of trolleys. they'll take you anywhere downtown for a dollar. one tram stop on the downtown line will take you back in time to a historic location that has transformed the vestiges of a darker era into something positive. dr. martin luther king jr. was assassinated on april 4th, 1968, right here in memphis at the lorraine hotel. they preserved the facade of the hotel and built the national civil rights museum around it. the mission of the museum, which opened in 1991, is to chronicle key episodes of the american civil rights movement and the legacy of the movement with exhibitions and educational programs. examples include a recreation of rosa parks' montgomery bus of 1955. the original greensboro, south carolina, woolworth's lunch counter with a depiction of the 4 african-american college students who launched the first sit-in when they were refused service. and the original mot

based broadly on his own experiences growing up in the real-life mississippi river town of hannibal, missouri, tom sawyer paints childhood as most of us would like to remember. his many deeds and stunts have become part of our folklore and culture depictedded in a number of movies over the years. >> look at him smiling. osgood: including the 1973 musical version in which tom, played by johnny whitaker, fast-talks the other boys into white washing his aunt polly's fence. there's even a tom sawyer ballet performed by the new jersey ballet among other companies. tom sawyer was not an immediate best seller. it won wide recognition only after the success of the adventures of huckleberry finn, the sequel published almost 10 years later in 1885. certainly in the century of the third since tom sawyer hardly has a lack for readers. >> the national fence painting competition. >> osgood: nor has tomlaked for emulators. hannibal missouri staged its annual re-enactment of the white washing of the fence. there was a tom sawyer look-alike contest. later in his life mark twain wrote that tom sawyer

people coming out of mississippi went up the river. people had been going up and down the river from new orleans, arkansas, tennessee, up the river to chicago, up the river to detroit, but then most people don't know that there's an east coast movement. florida, alabama, georgia, north carolina, south carolina, all that went up to philadelphia, it went to delaware, new haven, connecticut, springfield, massachusetts, boston, all that kind of stuff. all those people came up, so i was always with either the southern bunch of people or a mixture of southern and caribbean people, and it was all about music. everybody brought music. you'd be out in the backyard playing marbles with your friends, bam, bam, boy, i got a big [unintelligible]. pow, pow, okay. [laughter] i'm serious, i'm serious, man. you got your hands up all like this and you're trying to tavis: yeah. >> and in the kitchen it's something [unintelligible] hairdressing salon. she up there saying, "girl, now hold your head straight now, so i can get that hot comb in there. don't b

. >> reporter: on the pristine beaches of mississippi, thousands of dead fish, sting rays, crabs and shrimp have washed ashore this month. aey died from a lack of oxygen in the coastal waters of the gulf of mexico. it's called the dead zone. it veryppears every summer. yis year's dead zone though is larger than average and more than twice the size of last year's. ye marine biologist nancy rabalais has measured the dead zone since 1985. >> the alarming news is that it >> t continues to be large year after year after year. r: teporter: the primary cause i the dead zone is nitrogen- based fertilizers in midwest fields that are washed down the rssissippi river by spring rains and into the gulf. cree they create blooms of algae that turn the water green and rob it of oxygen. scientists believe last year's yeought followed by this spring's heavy rains made the dead zone worse as fertilizer de never absorbed by crops was swept into the gulf. .n dulac louisiana david chauvin worries about what that could do to his shrimp business. >> shrimp are one of the most fragile creatures on the face o

my mom went to mississippi and she is like everything has sugar. bring her own food. >> it seems like i cannot do it. that is why all the booties are big in mississippi. >> anderson: there is a story that i saw in the news, there was a doctor named dr. katherine valcom on her way to surgery and got stuck in traffic and she pulled over to a friend's house and grabbed a bicycle that her friend had in the front yard. the problem was to get through the traffic to get to the hospital ditched the car. the problem was the bicycle was a child's bicycle. there is a picture. >> and she is like almost six feet tall. >> anderson: she rode it through the traffic and the police pulled her over and she explained what was going on and they said we'll help you get there but they did not put her in the police vehicle they gave her a police escourt and she joins us now on skype. doctor are you there? >> yes, i am. >> anderson: thank you for being with us. [applause] so i don't understand why didn't the police put you in the police vehicle? >> i don't know. that is a

. >> mississippi has a population of 3 million but the mississippi emergency management association only has 800 followers on his facebook page. >> you have to go back to a state of readiness, going back to establishing local centers where information can be relayed. >> some lawmakers say one of the challenges is how quickly the information can spread on social media and negatively impact response efforts. in washington, sally kidd, wbal- tv 11 news. >> this is interesting. a 2012 survey by the red cross said that three out of four americans expect help to arrive within four hours of requesting it on social media. >> an interesting twist to an animal cruelty case. a woman arrested for leaving two dogs and a hot car died three weeks later. now her attorney plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit. she was jailed on seven counts of animal cruelty for allegedly leaving her two dogs in a hot car while she slept in a best western hotel. her attorney says the medicine she took for her a little -- for her liver condition made her pass out. she could not afford bail and was in jail for three days.

i'm sure it will be years before mississippi takes the vote away from damp people. now, thankfully, not everyone is stuck in the past like georgia governor nathan deal, who celebrated the ruling saying, "over the last half century georgia has reformed and our state is is a proud symbol of progress." yes, georgia is a true symbol of racial progress. after all, georgia hasn't had this flag since 2003. so what do these cases have in common? grab a pencil, folks because here it comes. in doma and the voting rights act cases, it was about states' rights, not the people in those states. that's why the first words of the constitution are "we the states." i think it's really hard to read those gay letters. we'll be back with emily bazelon. [ cheers and applause ] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. now before the commercial break, i told you that the supreme court had struck down the defense of marriage act and then gutted the 1965 voting rights act. who knows what this means? here to tell me what this means, please welcome slate's legal expert and senior research fellow a

in 2008, the innocence project wrote to the mississippi state medical board, stating that dr. hayne is "a danger to the public" and should not be allowed to testify. dr. hayne is suing the innocence project for defamation. the case is expected to go to trial later this year. meanwhile, he continues to testify. among the various qualifications he cites is a certificate from acfei. >> there she is, guys, we got her, you can see her, she is coming out the front door right here. unbelievable... >> bergman: after 33 days of testimony, the defense prevailed. casey anthony was found not guilty of murder and released. >> this case utilized every single type of forensic science. they threw a bunch of stuff against the wall and they were hoping something would stick, and none of it did. you would think that there would be higher standards when someone's life is on the line. >> 99% of the time, forensic evidence is reliable and accurate and very, very necessary. and to take a small number of cases or the opinions of a few people and take that as an indictment of the system of forensic sc

she was born in louisiana, mississippi and the early 1800's. she was a slave and she walks 2000 miles behind her master's wagon to get to california. her master, whose name was white, was converted to mormonism through missionaries traveling through mississippi and louisiana. he, his children and his wife and the slaves, i think there were nine of them at that time, all traveled to salt lake city, what would be salt lake city today, in 1847. and became quite active in the mormon faith there and biddy mason felt very uncomfortable they are because mormonism at least at that time thought blacks were evil and they were painted evil because they were black. they were there for several years and then they went to san bernardino where they had a mission in the community or something and they were there for quite some time. and then she became acquainted with other blacks who were free and the constitution, if you would come you're on your own, in other words if nobody claimed you you could be a free person in california but it was kind of a catch-22.

in mississippi, the republican t.r.a.p. law to close down the last clinic in mississippi is blocked by the courts. in alabama, the republican t.r.a.p. law to close down alabama clinics is blocked by the courts. in wisconsin, the republican t.r.a.p. law to close down wisconsin clinics is blocked by the courts. in georgia, the republican ban on abortions at 20 weeks is blocked by the state courts. in idaho, the republican abortion ban in that state is blocked by a federal court. in arizona, the republican abortion ban is blocked by a federal court. republicans have long wished that roe v. wade did not protect women's right to have an abortion in this country. but something changed in the past few years and they stopped just wishing for that and advocating for that and instead they just started behaving as if that were not true. and so once a week now a court strikes down what they're doing. there are four states in this country where there's only one clinic that does abortions in the whole state. north dakota, right now, is o

. >> we should not be judged by the mississippi of 50 or 60 years ago. >> attorney general holder. alanlican congressman nunnelee. chief justice roberts is history did not end in 1955, the year congress passed the voting rights act. your response. >> that is his view of america. america has used decisions to continue accept his nomination-- find acts of discrimination in the so-called seachange states like alabama. the records show that our continued acts of discrimination that the justice department has blocked because they were able to use section four or five to go in there and block discriminatory steps taken by the state. they talk about as if something wonderful has happened in the last 20 years. the reason something wonderful has happened is because of the voting rights act. this is comparable to 1877, when they pulled the troops out of the south. >> reconstruction? >> reconstruction -- when you take away the ability to go in there and stop the discriminatory act, as the justice department has and the courts have, you invite them to go back to what they have already been try

showers and thunderstorms will roll east across the mississippi valley. isolated thunderstorms are possible from nebraska to west kansas and from the northwest through the rockies. and temperatures could top 100 degrees in central and east texas. >>> in sports, major league baseball has reportedly told the players union which players will be penalized in the latest performance-enhancing drug scandal. the league is hoping to announce the suspensions by friday. new york yankees star alex rodriguez is the most prominent player facing suspension. rodriguez and several other players allegedly received p.e.d.s from a florida anti-aging clinic. a-rod's potential suspension could be in excess of 50 games. >>> milwaukee brewers' star ryan braun has already been suspended for the rest of year for using p.e. dmts, but instead of keeping the $3 million that braun was supposed to earn, the brewers are spending it on the fans. fans who attend milwaukee home games in august will receive $10 vouchers to use on food, drinks, merchandise, and game tickets. the brewers expe

in mississippi, the republican t.r.a.p. law to close down the last clinic in mississippi is blocked by the courts. in alabama, the republican t.r.a.p. law to close down alabama clinics is blocked by the courts. in wisconsin, the republican t.r.a.p. law to close down wisconsin clinics is blocked by the courts. in georgia, the republican ban on abortions at 20 weeks is blocked by the state courts. in idaho, the republican abortion ban in that state is blocked by a federal court. in arizona, the republican abortion ban is blocked by a federal court. republicans have long wished that roe v. wade did not protect women's right to have an abortion in this country. but something changed in the past few years, and they stopped just wishing for that and advocating for that and instead they just started behaving as if that were not true. and so once a week now a court strikes down what they're doing. there are four states in this country where there's only one clinic that does abortions in the whole state. north dakota, right now, is

today we go to drew, mississippi in the 1960s. black schools were delab dated, used outdated materials and only operated a few months out of the year. but even after the civil rights act passed, some rural towns in the south like drew found a way around the law. they gave them a so-called choice. it was a tactic to discourage black children from enrolling in white schools. but the carter family enrolled in the white schools. they were constantly harassed. in 1969 the carters won a lawsuit against the drew school district. their fight is considered one of the most heroic of the time. those seven children, plus the youngest, karl went on to graduate from drew high school. it's a story you won't see in many textbooks, but my next guest, connie curry tells it well. connie made frequent trips to drew to make sure the carters got their education. decades later connie wrote a book called "silver rights" about the carter family. thank you so much for being here, connie. >> you are welcome. thank you. >> michael: you went to drew, mississi

>> the next morning, i cross the mississippi, drive through arkansas and into oklahoma. i'm heading to the capital of the choctaw nation to join in a 3-mile-long memorial walk to commemorate a very dark chapter in history--the trail of tears. in the 1830s, the choctaw were one of 5 native-american tribes who were brutally relocated from their homelands by the american government and relocated to, what was then, wide-open oklahoma territory. why are you doing this walk? >> just to honor our ancestors in the memory of what they went through to get us here. >> so are you choctaw? >> yes, ma'am. >> yeah. there are a lot of people on the walk who look native american, and then there are people like yourself who look more white. >> right. >> but i suppose all of you have choctaw or native-american blood in you. >> well, i'm actually choctaw and chickasaw myself, and, for the most part, i figure we're more mixed because we accepted the different folks that migrated round us, and that's what helped us develop into such a big tribe and to be strong. >> the choctaw were removed fr

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my introduction to mississippi, we drove into my, -- macomb. than were more black men i'd ever seen in my life. i was from westchester county. they are listening to a 14-year- old black girl say how she had been beaten and kicked and spat on for integrating the lunch counter. i thought, what country am i in? then i watched the courage of those people and the people who were supporting the student nonviolent cord knitting, -- coordinating. i went to school with the schwarner.- micky fractured thatat complacency, that entitlement. i realized you have to learn everything in this life, which has nothing to do with the color of your skin. it has to do with your principles and what you are willing to do to do the right thing. that obligation is to do the right thing. >> you mentioned a black minister who said something to you. last time i saw you, you are brilliant. i did not want to bother you. i saw you at a production of "waiting for godot." what did this black minister say to you? >> i had done this play in college and it totally bamboozled me. i

sent a letter to the state of louisiana and the state of mississippi saying we think it's ok to reopen these fish grounds state officials having someone to pass the buck to the ground or improperly opened open them we have to gain back the market share that we've lost the perception of folks that there could be a problem in the gulf we have to overcome that and we're busy at that every day something goes wrong they could say well we were told we could do it by the f.d.a. our department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration on. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one trip sample not a single one has reached a level of heat of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high minimum detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the se

sent a letter to the state of louisiana and the state of mississippi saying we think it's ok to reopen these fish grounds state officials having someone to pass the buck to the ground or improperly opened open them we have to gain back the market share that we've lost the perception of folks that there could be a problem in the gulf we have to overcome that and we're busy at that every day something goes wrong they could say well we were told we could do it by the f.d.a. our department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the high. hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been wrong on. one trip sample not a single one has reached a level of heat of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the se

sent a letter to the state of louisiana and the state of mississippi saying we think it's ok to reopen these fish grounds state officials having someone to pass the buck to the grounds or improperly opened open them we have to gain back the market share that we've lost the perception of folks that there could be a problem in the gulf we have to overcome that and we're busy at that every day something goes wrong they could say well we were told we could do it by the f.d.a. our department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration on. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of heat of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high minimum detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the

. >> in mississippi. >> right, in mississippi, and moving jobs from virginia to mississippi is the claim. so what i think terry mcauliffe's campaign hopes -- i think jean is right in terms of the time something bad for ken cuccinelli. terry is not cast as the guy with some ethic challenges where ken, he's probably more conservative than you are, but he's principled and trustworthy. they are trying to use mcdonnell hos political future has imploded over this, use mcdonnell to tie to cuccinelli and to sort of muddy waters and hurt the republican brand in the state. >> but of course, virginia is evenly divided north and south. jean, you've covered politics around here for a long time and you know that northern virginia, the women's vote might be much more important because of the social issues. cuccinelli has been very hard on reproductive rights but in southern virginia it is a very strong republican strong hold and terry mcauliffe will not be very popular there. >> there is definitely a divide. virginia comes down to the independents and that's where mcauliffe does actually have an advant

sent a letter to the state of louisiana and the state of mississippi saying we think it's ok to reopen these fish grounds state officials having someone to pass the buck to the ground or improperly opened open them we have to gain back the market share that we've lost the perception of folks that there could be a problem in the gulf we have to overcome that and we're busy at that every day something goes wrong they could say well we were told we could do it by the f.d.a. our department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of heat of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivity

sent a letter to the state of louisiana and the state of mississippi saying we think it's ok to reopen these fish grounds state officials having someone to pass the buck to the grounds or improperly opened open them we have to gain back the market share that we've lost the perception of folks that there could be a problem in the gulf we have to overcome that and we're busy at that every day something goes wrong they could say well we were told we could do it by the f.d.a. our department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration on. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of of concern for human hailed the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that back around is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivi

the jogger, telling the media three black men in a chevy mali due drove up to him in senatobia, mississippi. he said the men told him, this is for trayvon, then began beating him. after they finished they said they shoved him out of the car, bloodied and bruised and throwing him right on the street. he's being treated in the hospital. you will have a live report straight ahead. >>> and right now, george zimmerman's brother, robert zimmerman jr., is here to go on the record. the past 48 hours, a total whirlwind. >> verdict, we the jury find george zimmerman not guilty. >> are you kidding me? how the hell can they say not guilty for anything? >> the justice department shares your concern. i share your concern. as we first acknowledged last spring, we have opened an investigation into this matter. >> i think the prosecution of george zimmerman was disgraceful. as happy as i am for george zimmerman, i'm thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty. >> if you commit a crime, then you supposed to be held accountable for that crime. that's not what happened in this case. >> a

said a letter to the state of louisiana as a state of mississippi. he's saying we think it's ok to reopen these fishing grounds state officials having someone to pass the buck to the grounds or improperly opened open them we have to gain back the market share that we've lost the perception of folks that there could be a problem in the gulf we have to overcome that and we're busy at that every day something goes wrong they could say well we were told we could do it by the f.d.a. our department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration on. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of heat of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that background is five parts per

sent a letter to the state of louisiana and the state of mississippi saying we think it's ok to reopen these fish grounds state officials having someone to pass the buck to the ground or improperly opened open them we have to gain back the market share that we've lost the perception of folks that there could be a problem in the gulf we have to overcome that and we're busy at that every day something goes wrong they could say well we were told we could do it by the f.d.a. our department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration on. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of heat of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitiv

mississippi. >> yes, mr. chief justice, but ongress recognized that expressly in the findings when it reauthorized the act in 2006. the generation's problems had been dealt with. > which state has the greatest disparity in registration between white and african-american? massachusetts. third is mississippi where, the african-american registration rate is higher than the white registration rate. but when congress -- when the choice congress faced when it -- writing on a t blank slate in 2006, mr. chief choice.s, it faced the and the choice was whether the conditions were such that it confidently conclude that this deterrence in this longer needed.no relevant to congress making because it made a cautious hoice in 2006 to keep the constraints and the deterrence in place. >> justice? > there's no question that the voting rights act has done enormous good. it's one of the most successful congress in the 20th century. one could go further than that. hen congress decided to reauthorize it in 2006, why congress incum

sent a letter to the state of louisiana and the state of mississippi saying we think it's ok to reopen these fish grounds state officials having someone to pass the buck to the grouse or improperly opened open them we have to gain back the market share that we've lost the perception of folks that there could be a problem in the gulf we have to overcome that and we're busy at that every day something goes wrong they could say well we were told we could do it by the f.d.a. our department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration what. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area. here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run on. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensiti

palazzo of mississippi. the chair: the gentleman from mississippi, mr. palazzo an meab opposed will each control five minutes. mr. palazzo: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. palazzo: my amendment is simple, it prohibits the air force from making changes in fiscal year 201460 days after congress hears from the commission west tablied to report on the global structure of the air force. over the last two years, congress and the air force have engaged in numerous discussions about the future of our forces. i've had an opportunity to engage in many of those conversations about what the air force can afford what provides us the greatest capability and what ensures that our men and women get home safely. these discussions have included decisions the air force has made regarding the realignment of forces. some of these decisions made a will the of sense. some of them did not. but as we've had these conversations, as these decisions are being made, i can't help but feel like i'm listening to the air force play

meehan: i thank the gentleman from mississippi and, mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. but i want to thank my colleagues for their support of h.r. 1542. this is a vitally important piece of legislation, as has been identified in the earlier comments of the gentleman from mississippi, and i echo them myself, particularly his concern as we engage in a world in which the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, particularly those which are chemical weapons which we do not know where they may have fallen into hands from not only syria, libya as well, creates a heightened sense of need and awareness on the part of those in our intelligence committees to do all to assure there's collaboration on intelligence that they derive in these areas with the partners on the federal, state and local levels. so i urge the members to support this legislation and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is will the house suspend the rules and agree t

my grandparents are sharecroppers and alabama and mississippi and my parents were sharecroppers and mississippi in the forties and fifties. i'm interested in the finding of the article. was it the article or was it pos and photography whacks. it was the photography. that's one question. and then my other question was agee alone given the assignment and then selected a photographer and instructed him and once they were on the job in alabama to that collaborate specifically about what they wanted photographed? >> it was a collaboration. eddy want to elaborate? >> i think they worked separately. >> they chose to live with the families. he was more interested in keeping a distance. he thought it was important to do that kind of work and he was somewhat of a reserve a guy as i understanding, less likely to be in the trenches and his career as an artist which was foremost in his mind because two years after the photograph was made in alabama, 1936, evans was the first photographer ever to have a one person short in the museum of modern art in new york and the was in 1938 which included some of the co

she was born in louisiana, mississippi in the early 1800s. she was a slave. and she walked 2,000 miles behind her master's wagon to get to california. her master, whose name was white, was converted to mormonism. there were some missionaries traveling through mississippi and louisiana, and he took, he, his children, his wife and all -- and slaves, i think there were about nine of them at that time, all traveled to salt lake city, what would be salt lake city today in 1847. and became quite active in the mormon faith there. and biddy mason felt very uncomfortable there because mormonism at least at that time thought blacks were evil, and they were painted evil because they were black. and they went from -- then they were there for several years. then they went to san bernardino which, where they had a mission or a community or something. they were there for quite some time. and then she became acquainted with other blacks who were, who were free and it was a peculiar thing with the california constitution. if you, if you were -- if you had come here on your ow