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 to twenty so when all the tests come back it says detect neither pack not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. if they knew it. stalled in. the wall of the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the you're prepared or you're not ok they obviously weren't prepared because th

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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 sensitivity at twenty so when all the tests come back it says nine detect night in fact not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. and then they knew it. was the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the. oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are full in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the you're prepared or you're not ok they obviously weren't prepared because they were prepared t

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 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 to twenty so when all the tests come back it says nine detect neither fact not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. if they knew it. stalled ritual the wall of the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the you're prepared or you're not ok they obviously weren't prepared because th

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 sheen 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 sensitivity at twenty so when all the tests come back it says detect now that that not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. if they do it. still in the trial the wall of the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the you're prepared you're not ok they obviously weren't prepare

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 sensitivity at twenty so when all the tests come back it says nine detect nine in fact not attacked they needed that kind of fifteen. and then they knew it. was the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the. oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast or not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the you're prepared or you're not ok they obviously weren't prepared because they were pr

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 sensitivity at twenty so when all the tests come back it says detect neither fact not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. if they do it. still in the trial the wall of the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the you're prepared or you're not ok they obviously weren't prepar

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 minimum detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivity at twenty so when all the tests come back it says nine detect neither fact not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. if they do it. is still in the trial the wall of the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the you're prepared or you're not ok they obviously weren't

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 to twenty so when all the tests come back it says detect now that that not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. if they knew it. stalled in. the wall of the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the you're prepared or you're not ok they obviously weren't prepared because t

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 at twenty so when all the tests come back it says detect neither fact not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. if they knew it. stalled in the trial the wall of the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the you're prepared or you're not ok they obviously weren't prepared b

just first it's the same corruption that affects the louisiana happens on a larger scale and washed. through all comes from texas oklahoma louisiana the political structure the economic structure of those states are sold by well wishers where the number one issues. one thing that is unique about louisiana's were tiny state politically we have single digits in terms of electoral votes but we have an incredible influence on on the national political scene the senate is the most mal a poor showing body in the world you had to sitters from each state you had two senators from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world and louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related bills proposed in the last d

we are on the road in louisiana. our guest today is monique harden, environmental lawyer and activist. as we talk about the latest round bp, because it is back in court, that's right, in looking at a reuters piece right now in the frantic days after the 2010 gulf of mexico oil spill, bp lied about how much oil was leaking from its macondo well and took too long to cap it, according to plaintiff's lawyers monday in the opening phase of the second part of this companies trial. talk about the significance of this lawsuit that is now in court. the second part of the lawsuit that has been presented by federal court judge . they've scheduled about a two- week timeframe to delve into two key issues, which is what happened after the spill occurred or during the spill, which is the efforts by bp to fill the well and how much oil actually flowed into the gulf of mexico. highly those issues are questionable because of the false reporting and data that bp was providing the federal government authorities and the press. >> i want

it's the same corruption that effects the louisiana happens on a larger scale in washington. comes from texas oklahoma louisiana the political structure is the economic structure of those states or so the oil is where the number would be issues. one thing that is unique about louisiana's where a tiny state politically we have single digits in terms of electoral votes but we have an incredible influence on on the national political scene the senate is the most now apportioned body in the world you have two senators from each state you have two senators from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world and louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related bills proposed in the last decade ev

it's just it's the same corruption that effects the louisiana happens on a larger scale in washington. comes from texas oklahoma louisiana the political structure is the economic structure of those states are so done by well wishers where the number one issues. one thing that is unique about louisiana's where tiny state politically we have single digits in terms of electoral votes but we have an incredible influence on on the national political scene the senate is the most now apportioned body in the world you have two senators from each state you have two senators from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world and louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one. eleven energy related bills proposed in the last decade ever

it's the same corruption that effects the louisiana happens on a larger scale in washington. i'm sure texas and google louisiana the political structure is because of the structure of those states or so the well we're the number would issues but. one thing that is unique about the reason. and as we're tiny state politically we have single digits in terms of electoral votes but we have an incredible influence on on the national political scene the senate is the most now apportioned body in the world you have two sitters from each state you have two senators from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world of louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related belts proposed in the last decad

it's the same corruption that effects the louisiana happens on a larger scale in washington. comes from texas oklahoma louisiana the political structure the economic structure of those states are sold on the oil where the number would be issues. one thing that is unique about louisiana's where a tiny state politically we have single digits in terms of electoral votes but we have an incredible influence on on the national political scene the senate is the most now apportioned body in the world you have two senators from each state you have two senators from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world and louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related belts proposed in the last decade ev

it's just off the coast of louisiana. here we're dealing with wind ahead of the storm and it could cause storm surge problems with heavy rain. and then early saturday into sunday the storm is approaching mobile, alabama, and florida. so we're looking at the potential for flooding there. it will move up to the mid-atlantic coast, interact with that storm in the midwest and cause problems with flooding and the mid-atlantic. we have headlines coming up.

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louisiana the political structure the economic structure of those states or so. where the liberal would issues. one thing that is unique about louisiana's were tiny state politically we have single digits in terms of electoral votes but we have an incredible influence on on the national political scene the senate is the most we now apportioned body in the world you have two senators from each state you have two senators from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world and louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related belts proposed in the last decade every bill that contain provisions for alternative energy was blocked. the only bills that became law with the five that su

two others were in prison for armed robbery, then accused in 1972 of murdering a prison guard at the louisiana state penitentiary, known as angola. the men say they were framed because of their political activism as members of one of the first prison chapters of the black panther party. the dramatic series of events on tuesday began one federal judge brian a jackson of the middle district court of louisiana ordered wallace's release and overturn his conviction. jacksonrder, judge called on the state to "immediately release mr. wallace

the same corruption that effects the louisiana happens on a larger scale in washington. comes from texas oklahoma louisiana the political structure is the economic structure of those states or so the oil where the liberal would issues. one thing that is unique about louisiana's were tiny state politically we have single digits in terms of electoral votes but we have an incredible influence on on the national political scene the senate is the most now apportioned body in the world you have two senators from each state you have two senators from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world and louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related bills proposed in the last decade every bill

in southeast louisiana. jonathan, what do you see out there? >> reporter: jonathan, right now as we mentioned, mandatory evacuation order for this part of louisiana, plackerman's parish. people can come back. a lot of people have decided they will stay away. remember the order was for people to be out of this area by 6:00 o'clock but because of the gasta, the most recent forecast showing karen losing a lot of punch, they decided to allow people to come back. but as i mentioned, a lot of people don't want to take any chances. in fact, people say they will stay out for a little bit. people who dealt with storms recently know how bad storms can be. this is just a tropicalgression that is weakening our tropical storm. people are concerned about it. right now, voluntary evacuations for this part of louisiana. but there is one area, grand isle, where there is still a mandatory evacuation in place. >> even as the torm weakens, there is concern that this could cause a lot of damage? >> there is some concern. you hav

this is what we do in louisiana. we're the only state that has a state-operated network of charity hospitals. we transformed those. we had ten operated hospitals when i became governor. now nine will become public-private partnerships saving taxpayers over $100 million, improving the quality of care in baton rouge going from a ten-day wait to a tuplt wait to get -- to a ten minutes wait to getñr prescriptions. went to another city, lake charles, where if you had a broken bone, you had to travel many miles. now you can get that care locally partnering with a private sector in our commanding care and medicaid program, 9,000 individuals, got them in a private insurance plan where they're getting preventive care saving taxpayers another $100 million, improving health careñr outcomes. if you believe the federal government, if you believe the obama and the numbers they put out, our uninsured rate should be 6% or less. to us it made %g sense to expand medicaid to where every uninsured person you're covering you're taking

it's the same corruption that effects the louisiana happens on a larger scale in washington. comes from texas oklahoma louisiana the political structure the economic structure of those states or so the oil is where the number one issues. one thing that is unique about the museum is where a tiny state politically we have single digits in terms of electoral votes but we have an incredible influence on on the national political scene the senate is the most now apportioned body in the world you have two sitters from each state you have two senators from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world or louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related belts proposed in the last decade every bill

richmond of louisiana. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 385, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. richmond, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from louisiana. mr. richmond: thank you, mr. chairman. let me start with congratulating both the chairman of the committee and the ranking member for including commonsense reforms in this wrrda bill this congress. and with those commonsense reforms, i have just one to add. right now when the corps of engineers, when they do their cost-benefit analysis, they only look at the brick and mortar of the property that they're looking to protect. well, that just doesn't make sense when we're talking about things that affect our economy. for example, you can't just look at the bricks and mortars of the port of new york. the port of new york pays about $3.7 billion in taxes to the federal government every year. so if you only looked at the cost of the port to rebuild the port of new york, you would certainly miss the bi

louisiana. now that's the tropical tomorrow. this midwest storm is providing severe weather in eastern nebraska and iowa but not far away we are seeing winter weather, blizzard warnings all within 200 miles of each other. numbers of storms that have come in, tornado warnings and reports through nebraska and iowa. it is moving through iowa, watches have been extended and these are current tornado warnings. so a lot to talk about, tropical storm in the gulf and flooding in the mid atlantic and neeng neeng new england possibly joie. >> thank you dave. >>> bobby jindal mobiled national guardsmen who had been furloughed during the shutdown. >>> general russell monroe, you're not just an expert in all of this, you are a resident of the gulf state. do you have a sense that folks there are understanding and preparing for something that could be a very serious storm that already calls for evacuation? >> absolutely along the coast you talking about places like grand isle and the greater part of plaqueaman

passing by south of louisiana. this time seems to be saturday and sunday impacting louisiana with wind and rain, then sunday afternoon and evening going up in alabama and florida. could be anywhere in this area, focusing on alabama and the panhandle of florida. it will eventually move across land but by honorable is near south carolina and georgia and could cause flooding problems in the mid atlantic, could be absorbed by a storm in the midwest. it is the wind as the storm moves south of louisiana this wind direction will ploo ill piel a lot of water in the low lying areas of louisiana and that could be the biggest threat for a storm surge in that region. now, there's blizzard warnings in south dakota and severe thunderstorm effects in iowa, as storms move through. it is a large storm system that will push to the east and as the remnants of karen move up the coast, look what happens on monday. heavy rain from philadelphia to new york and new england monday and tuesday. temperatures will be a little bit cooler but t

this is what we do in louisiana. we're the only state that has a state-operated network of charity hospitals. we transformed those. we had ten state operated hospitals when i became governor. now nine will become public-private partnerships saving taxpayers over $100 million, improving the quality of care in baton rouge going from a ten-day wait to a tuplt wait to get -- to a ten minutes wait to getñr prescriptions. went to another city, lake charles, where if you had a broken bone, you had to travel many miles. now you can get that care locally partnering with a private sector in our commanding care and medicaid program, 9,000 individuals, got them in a private insurance plan where they're getting preventive care saving taxpayers another $100 million, improving health careñr outcomes. if you believe the federal government, if you believe the obama and the numbers they put out, our uninsured rate should be 6% or less. to us it made %g sense to expand medicaid to where every uninsured person you're covering you're

louisiana. now that's the tropical tomorrow. this midwest storm is providing severe weather in eastern nebraska and iowa but not far away we are seeing winter weather, blizzard warnings all within 200 miles of each other. numbers of storms that have come in, tornado warnings and reports through nebraska and iowa. it is moving through iowa, watches have been extended and these are current tornado warnings. so a lot to talk about, tropical storm in the gulf and flooding in the mid atlantic and neeng nw england possibly joie. >> thank you dave. >>> bobby jindal mobiled national guardsmen who had been furloughed during the shutdown. >>> general russell monroe, you're not just an expert in all of this, you are a resident of the gulf state. do you have a sense that folks there are understanding and preparing for something that could be a very serious storm that already calls for evacuation? >> absolutely along the coast you talking about places like grand isle and the greater part of plaqueamans paris

what that storm's going to do is slowly move up towards louisiana. that's where we're going to get our heaviest most intense rainfall or thunderstorms coming off this system. it's going to diminish and fall apart as we get through tomorrow night. when we look at concerns, florida, tropical storm watch, dropped. as we look at any other tropical storm watch, the only one we have is going into a warning right off the area of new orleans right around that louisiana coastal border panhandle. we're going to watch that for problems around high tide, when the waters rush in. we don't expect a big storm surge, but high tide and water coming in, there might be problems. >> the snow cover in the u.s. a bullseye where we've had all this snow, wyoming into south dakota, you have been hit so hard. 21 inches is what's being measured in rapid city. rapid city's daily record snowfall tailed was 24 inches. we're still sees all the snow for the mountains, it's a nice little start to our snow pack. let's hope it stays. i'll have more details coming up. >> pro immigratio

happened in springhill louisiana and mansfield louisiana and the headline is shopping chaos ensues in louisiana wal-mart stores after abt cards stop showing credit limits so you can look at this video here taken from inside the shop and you see that there the shelves were emptied completely emptied as people piled high because they could buy as much as they wanted and they purchased but when the system came back on line they abandoned just shopping carts filled with food and other goods from wal-mart that they just abandoned their yes like an abandoned civilization or the aftermath of the jim jones massacre in the jungle where they were all drinking koolaid but you know wal-mart is the prototypical american success story the wal-mart family the richest family in the world probably made their bones by convincing the government to pay for the salaries of their employees and for the play the. underwriters subsidize essentially the employees that are unable to survive on a wal-mart wage so this is the perfect example of the plutocracy in america the kleptocracy. here the consumer thought

a sag actor wants my vote now so i've been seeing a lot of movies their filmed in louisiana louisiana don't have a cap so why do we. that's one question. the other one is i work bet a the other day it's going to be filming mainly in la they're up here for a total of a week. i was wondering do the police get time and a half for that. i'm not sure if they had, you know, they get fed so well, and they move cones like a few times (laughter) and i'm not a huge fan i mean, i love texans to meet them personally but it's my opinion sometimes they screw up administrations so i was just wondering if that was something pledged by the last mayor that we get time and a half. i'm thinking there's ways to do this. >> thank you. next speaker, please good morning islam erica perez. i'm a actor in the bay area. we're very happy when they come and shoot a movie unfortunately, we only get background work because they don't want to pay all the taxes. yes. i support in but i also support my coworkers here janet mentioned why is there a cap. if we want them to come and spend their money on hotels and restau

happened in spring hill louisiana and mansfield louisiana and the headline is shopping chaos ensues in louisiana wal-mart stores after abt cards stop showing credit limits so you can look at this video here taken from inside the shop and you see that there the shelves were emptied completely emptied as people piled high because they could buy as much as they wanted and they purchased but when the system came back on line they abandoned just shopping carts filled with food and other goods from wal-mart that they just abandoned their yes like an abandoned civilization or the aftermath of the jim jones massacre in the jungle where they were all drinking koolaid but you know wal-mart is the prototypical american success story the wal-mart family the richest family in the world probably made their bones by convincing the government to pay for the salaries of their employees. for the play the. underwriters subsidize essentially the employees that are unable to survive on a wal-mart wage so this is the perfect example of the plutocracy in america the kleptocracy in america in action so her

happened in spring hill louisiana and mansfield louisiana and the headline is shopping chaos ensues in louisiana wal-mart stores after abt cards stop showing credit limits so you can look at this video here taken from inside the shop and you see that there the shelves were emptied completely emptied as people piled high because they could buy as much as they wanted and they purchased but when the system came back on line they abandoned just shopping carts filled with food and other goods from wal-mart that they just abandoned there yes like an abandoned civilization or the aftermath of the jim jones massacre in the jungle where they were all drinking koolaid but you know wal-mart is the prototypical american success story the wal-mart family the richest family in the world probably made their bones by convincing the government to pay for the salaries of their employees. for the play the. underwriters subsidize essentially the employees that are unable to survive on a wal-mart wage so this is the perfect example of the plutocracy in america the kleptocracy in america in action so her

it's the same corruption that effects the louisiana happens on a larger scale in washington. the old i'm sure texas a good old. louisiana political structure is the economic structure of those states or so the play well trips where the number one issues. one thing that is unique about louisiana's were tiny state politically we have single digits in terms of electoral votes but we have an incredible influence on on the national political scene the senate is the most now apportioned body in the world you have two senators from each state you have two senators from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world in the ways. ana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related bills proposed in the last

abc's ginger zee is in empire, louisiana, this morning with all of the details. good morning, ginger. >> reporter: hey, guys. it's still very calm here because karen is 100 miles away. she hardly moved all day. and after weakening, outside of a tropical storm, now just a tropical depression, there's not a lot left. still going to try to make its way across this portion of southeastern louisiana later today and tonight. but this thing has really died out. and that's great for all the gulf states. i'll have that forecast in a bit. but our eyes have been on that blizzard. and of course, the severe weather. we'll get the reports from this weekend. more than 90 including 2, new tornadoes yesterday. and a new pictures of the nebraska monster. >> holy cow. >> reporter: that ef-4 twister, ripping through wayne, nebraska, and up to 170 miles per hour. more than a mile wide at times, traveling 19 miles. launching farm equipment and destroying the town's airport. >> the wind started blowing and it started to rain a little bit. it got pitch black and lots of noise. most of u

in northeast louisiana that was cotton country. it's exactly what we think of when we think of the old south of the myths where you have fields and fields of cotton, hundreds of slaves laboring on the plantations. that's exact date what northeast louisiana was like. these new officers go out and they begin recruiting and organizing their regiments. this was in may 1963. both officers and enlisted men which learning their new duties for the former slaves. they are receiving weapons and uniforms. they are getting some training but everybody is kind of trying to figure out their new roles and their new jobs. the weapons they receive are kind of castoffs and expectation was that they would be a garrison force to remain at these outpost to the main union army which was white soldiers who moved on in their mission to take vicksburg. so this is the situation at the time. let me just recap real quickly. january 1 was in the final emancipation proclamation was issued. it provided for the enlistment of black men in the union army. unlike the

it's just south in louisiana. this this is where you see the storm surge. you have the wind coming in from the ocean there. that's the low lying areas of louisiana seeing the biggest storm surge nap will happen first then as it moves through the coast of alabama and florida. 1:00 on sunday and heavy test rain with wind forecast at 60 miles per hour. than is another track coming in tonight at about 11:00 eastern time. >> moving up the coast on monday. it could bring some heavy rain to new york. talking about midwest now. there's another storm. there's tornado watches and warnings in effect. this is northeast nebraska and the 200-miles away we have winter weather warnings and blizzard warnings. this is what it look likes in south dakota. over a foot of snow and gusty winds reducing visibility. that is what we're dealing with now. this snow will continue and that severe weather threat continues. werwe are tracking all the sevee weather and have the rest the from "karen" coming up. this w the national forecast. >>> . >> still ahead. the dangers many african imm

happened in spring hill louisiana and mansfield louisiana and the headline is shopping chaos ensues in louisiana wal-mart stores after abt cards stop showing credit limits so you can look at this video here taken from inside the shop and you see that there the shelves were emptied completely emptied as people piled high because they could buy as much as they wanted and they purchased but when the system came back on line they abandoned just shopping carts filled with food and other goods from wal-mart that they just abandoned their yes like an abandoned civilization or the aftermath of the jim jones massacre in the jungle where they were all drinking koolaid but you know wal-mart is the prototypical american success story the wal-mart family the richest family in the world probably made their bones by convincing the government to pay for the salaries of their employees. for the play the. underwriters subsidize essentially the employees that are unable to survive on a wal-mart wage so this is the perfect example of the plutocracy in america the kleptocracy in america in action so her

happened in spring hill louisiana and mansfield louisiana and the headline is shopping chaos ensues in louisiana wal-mart stores after abt cards stop showing credit limits so you can look at this video here taken from inside the shop and you see that there the shelves were emptied completely emptied as people piled high because they could buy as much as they wanted and they purchased but when the system came back on line they abandoned just shopping carts filled with food and other goods from wal-mart that they just abandoned their yes like an abandoned civilization or the aftermath of the jim jones massacre in the jungle where they were all drinking koolaid but you know wal-mart is the prototypical american success story the wal-mart family the richest family in the world probably made their bones by convincing the government to pay for the salaries of their employees and to. for the play the. underwriters subsidize essentially the employees that are unable to survive on a wal-mart wage so this is the perfect example of the plutocracy in america the kleptocracy in america in action

the purchase of the louisiana territory. congress decides it would put severe restrictions on slavery because it was generally recognized that the purchase of louisiana represented a test for the united states. are we going to expand slavery or curtail it as we have been saying we want to? there was tremendous pressure to introduce slavery. they were when the once and had ready access to cash and credit to go and and emigrate in what they called a torrent of immigration. , 160, 200 acres and open it up for small farmers. jefferson's friend of the one who wrote these are the times that try men's souls three he wrote an impassioned letter to the president, his old revolutionary friend begging jefferson not to send people into louisiana in what he called the state of wretchedness and slavery. this is the chance to put into practice the plan which you yourself president jefferson have talked about. we will send free people into louisiana, put them side by side with white farmers cannot teach them self-reliance and independence.

question: aren't you leaving a lot of folks in your state of louisiana out in the cold? >> chris, we need to do health care reform from the bottom up. this is what we do in louisiana: we are the only state with a state-operated network of charity hospitals. we had ten when i became governor and now nine are private-public taxpayers saving taxpayers $100 million and brook the quality of care. in baton rouge going from ten day wait to ten minute way for precipitations and six month wait for cancer specials and now they see the specialist right away and another city in st. charles if you had a broken bone you had to travel many miles but now you can get help locally. 900,000 were gotten into private plans and the taxpayers were saved another $100,000. if you believe the federal government and the obama administration and the numbers they have put out, our rate with the chains should be 6 percent or less, but it makes no sense to expand medicaid where for each uninsured you take one out of private insurance. if you let the states approach health care reform we can do it bett

ginger zee is in empire, louisiana, this morning with all of the details. good morning, ginger. >> reporter: hey, guys. it's calm here because karen is 100 miles away. she hardly moved all day. there's not a lot left. still going to try to make its way across this portion of southeastern louisiana later today and tonight. but this thing has really died out. and that's great for all the gulf states. i'll have that forecast in a bit. but our eyes have been on that blizzard. and of course, the severe weather. we'll get the reports from this weekend. more than 90 including two, new tornadoes yesterday. and a new picture of the nebraska monster. >> holy cow. >> that ef-4 twister, ripping through wayne, nebraska, up to 170 miles per hour. more than a mile wide at times, traveling 19 miles. launching pardon me equipment and destroying the town's airport. >> the wind started blowing and it started to rain a little bit. it got pitch black and lots of noise. most of us hid for cover. >> reporter: one day later, another reported tornado, in tennessee. and in rapid cit

evacuations tonight in parts of louisiana. >>> nbc news exclusive. elizabeth smart talks with meredith vieira. a decade after her kidnapping ordeal, she finally talks about why she didn't run when it looked like she had the chance. >>> and master class. how the great tony bennett is putting his money where his heart is. "nightly news" begins now.

happened in spring hill louisiana and mansfield louisiana and the headline is shopping chaos ensues in louisiana wal-mart stores after abt cards stop showing credit limits so you can look at this video here taken from inside the shop and you see that there the shelves were emptied completely emptied as people piled high because they could buy as much as they wanted and they purchased but when the system came back on line they abandoned just shopping carts filled with food and other goods from wal-mart that they just abandoned there yes like an abandoned civilization or the aftermath of the jim jones massacre in the jungle where they were all drinking koolaid but you know wal-mart is the prototypical american success story the wal-mart family the richest family in the world probably made their bones by convincing the government to pay for the salaries of their employees. to play the. underwriters subsidize essentially the employees that are unable to survive on a wal-mart wage so this is the perfect example of the plutocracy in america the kleptocracy in america in action so here the

even though it is in louisiana. there are some informational plaques at that location that talk about millikan's band. it is probably five or maybe even 10 miles from the original site tomorrow because it is expert property they can put that information there. so those are the main primary markers. there is a stationary exhibit between the visitors center at vicksburg national park the talks about millikan's band. they have done a lot of work over recent years to get the word out about the fight. the pension question, yes, the black soldiers will and -- were eligible, just like any other union soldier. they -- the pensions for the former slaves who were in the usc ts are an incredible, fascinating resource because they've all give you all kinds of affirmation. they will talk about where there were born, on one plantation, many of the folks here in louisiana had come from elsewhere like virginia, north carolina. and it will give you almost their entire migration route. i was so from this man to this man, and then rem

evacuations are in effect for parts of southern louisiana. >> we go to venice louisiana, with karen is heading. first we'll go to our metrologist who has the latest on the conditions. >> we are keeping close tabs on tropical storm karen. winds are at 40kph. it's expected to make its way to gulf states. it will bring a lot of rain fall along the coast. that's what we are watching closely. as it lifts to the north, and makes a curve to the north-east we'll see isolated rain fall amounts from pennsy cola. we'll watch for that to make landfall tonight, early sunday morning. it's been weakening, not expected to see too many changes in its intensity. a lot of rain associated with it - up ward of 6 inches and localised areas. impacts are lessened the further inland you go. we could see an inch or two across southern areas of georgia. most of the impacts will be felt along coastal indiana and the panhandle. >> a cold front is making its way across the dakotas, and rain will pick up around chicago, into milwaukee, and we are watching out for a temperature drop. in addition to the threat of stro

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