[inaudible conversations] >> in the mississippi state capitol in jackson is home to the first ever mississippi book festival. more from this event in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> sunday, september 6th, booktv is live with lynn cheney, the former second lady and senior fellow at the american enterprise institute on "in depth." mrs. cheny authored a wide variety of books including biographies, novels and books for children. he most recent book is an account of the life of the fourth president, james madison. other tiedles include, "blue skies no fences" where she recalls her childhood in wyoming, and a book about american history. her other books range from profiles of leaders of the house of representatives to the failure of moral relativism and a condensed history of the u.s. for children. lynn cheney, live on booktv, sunday, september 6th on "in depth." you can join us by sending questions or comments to lynn cheney at facebook.com/booktv, on twitter@booktv, or call in live. >> here's a look at some of the current best-selling nonfiction books. [i

known as the mississippi delta. it's the kind of place that makes you wonder why did they make it the capital? until you grab hold of what used to be around here. farish street used to be the hub of african-american life in this city, its black commercial, cultural center. when dr. king came to town, he came here. everybody did. medgar evers had an office just upstairs here. musicians like tommy johnson, sonny boy williamson too, and elmore james all played here and the likes of duke ellington, cab callaway, count basie and louie armstrong all took the stage at places like the crystal palace ballroom and the alamo on farish street. what happened? where did it all go? >> what killed it was integration. once we were able to break out of our own indigenous black-run businesses, the black-owned businesses died. great for the black race but terrible for the black business. in fact, the only reason you're coming here right now is you have two churches, two funeral homes and the big apple inn. so you're going to either die

i say it in mississippi that's a slave and really there's a 3 million of us in mississippi, we love mississippi but 1 million afro-americans every time that flag flies is an insult to us. we gave gave 247 years of free labor to build this country and to build the south, 247 years! [applause]. it break our hearts to fly it, that remind us that we were slaves. we are better than that, as is date of 3 million people, 11 billion afro-americans let's get something that represents all of us because not any of us going anywhere. we love the state, but we hate to be embarrassed every time i come to this capital for the last 23 years and it's flying above the capitol reminded me that my ancestors were slaves after giving 247 years it meant nothing. we have enough decency in the state of mississippi that we change and get another emblem. thank you [applause]. >> i think before this issue is over, dennis mitchell will have a new chapter to add to his mississippi history. always a new chapter. yes ma'am. >> i have a question, it's not regarding the flag. i have two children and we have spent our whole year

cleveland, mississippi. as a child, my education about civil rights came to a great degree from walter cronkite. that is what i saw on the news as it was taking place. but my question for you has to do with teaching history. i have three daughters, and i'm involved in their education and in their schools. but what i find often is that civil rights education is not taught to our high school and junior high students. it's hard to really begin a broad discussion with one's children without an historical context. especially where i'm from. and i would appreciate your thoughts on this, your thoughts on how we can introduce this into our education system better so that our children do grow up with a sense of their history and their past? >> what a great question. we have an excellent panel to address that. i'll say one thing by way of starting. in the state of mississippi, we do have a civil rights curriculum mandated by state law to be taught in every social studies class kindergarten-12th grade, so you can begin

mississippi line which is the pearl river. mississippi and louisiana make a 90-degree angle. it pushed it all into that corner with 150-160 mill after an f hour winds. we thought camile would be the bad as can be. we planned for katrina. the thing is the goal standard. it couldn't get worst in katrina. it couldn't get worst than camile. well, katrina was much worst than camile like i said, the winds weren't as high. that wasn't the problem. it was the storm surge, it was the great storm surge ever reported in the history of meterology. the storm surge was more than 30-feet deep. 38-feet deep when you count the waves on top. everything was gone. the problem was it was also gigantic. the eye was 32 miles across. 70-something miles away, the storm surge was still more than 20 feet deep, more than 20 feet above sea level. nothing left but the foundation. in fact, most people don't remember downtown mobile flooded from the storm surge that was generated by a storm that came on shore at the peal river. so this storm wrecked havoc. and you had to see it. and i'll never forget the fi

i believe someone to mississippi -- some went to mississippi. no, they did not come up, they could not afford it, and i could not afford to bring them with me, unfortunately. children, andl the last thing on people's minds , when it tried to rebuild their lives are library books, and libraries. int: that is eileen maryland. the tears from regina in louisiana. caller: good morning. host: where are you in relation to new orleans? about 60 miles from shreveport going southeast. host: on this 10 year anniversary, what do you think about the recovery of new orleans and louisiana as a whole? caller: i think they're are doing pretty good. it could be worse. mean, it could be worse. where you particularly affected by hurricane katrina? i know you were probably outside of, but did you have friends or family in the new orleans area that were affected by a? caller: yes, sir. andister lived down there, when it hit, it center up your. her up here. host: for how long? caller: she is still here. hast: what has been like -- that been like? thatr: for the first

you can watch that live at mississippi book festival on my netbook tv. now more from book tvs visit from jackson last year. >> don't shop for anything i capitol street, let's let the merchants down on capitol street build economic, let me say this to you i have one merchant who called me and he said i want you to know that i talked to my national office today and they want me to tell you that we don't need mega business. these are stories that help support the white citizens council. the council that is dedicated to keeping you and i second-class citizens. finally ladies and gentlemen, we'll be demonstrating here until freedom comes to negroes here in jackson mississippi. [applause]. >> 15 minutes past midnight got out of his call in a negro residential area, but a 40 hour delay a sniper fired a single shot from a high-powered rifle the olin hit him in the back and crash there his body through window through the house. he died within an hour at a jackson hospital. city detectives believe the fatal shot they found a rifle in the bushes which they think is

we want you in mississippi to decide how mississippi will be rebuilt. we are not going to decide in washington. the federal government took some really, really bad criticism, a lot of it very deserved. their logistical system that they had exposed totally collapsed command we were within a day if not hours of catastrophic results. but we worked around it. one of the ways we worked around fema federal government failure was the us military stepping in bringing us 1.7 million meals that they airlifted in , and it took the place of what fema was supposed to have done. these were not disaster assistance. this was the pentagon taking meals that were supposed to go to soldiers and saying we can get them replaced before we run out. a lot of times the federal government is typically a great partner. they sure did some things wrong, and i'm not saying that they didn't. i hope you read this book the book is half as good. if i have done the story justice is going to be a great book because it is a great story. i mentioned my mother, the best and most people. she a

so why doesn't mississippi want gay couples to adopt? >> larry, mississippi isn't anti-gay. it's simply pro-yesterday. >> larry: pro-yesterday? what does that mean? >> look, larry. mississippi is just trying to rebrand itself from the hospitality state to the nostalgia state. >> larry: the nostalgia state? >> that's right, because we want to be the one place in america where the good old days of the 1950's never ended. where your biggest concern isn't global warming or isis, but how many penny colas you can sneak from old man johnson at the old five and dime, right? now doesn't that sound nice, larry? >> larry: well, yeah. it sounds pretty good when you put it like that. but what does that have to do with banning gay adoption. >> calm down. now, larry, if you go back far enough, gay doesn't exist yet. >> larry: what? >> larry, that is simple science. now, listen. >> larry: it is not science. >> so we are not anti-gay. we are simply pre-gay. >> larry: wait. did you say pre-gay? >> that's right, larry. after all, it's adam and eve not adam and steve. >> larry: okay. that's not

i was there over 30 years, got all my degrees out mississippi state. so from akerman, mississippi, where i lived during those years, the highway to starkville is like a long driveway. for me. my major interest of civil war history has been the western theater of the war, because i'm convinced, as are many others, that's where the war was decided. most recently i did a book on general grant and the siege of vicksburg. prior to that i did a general study of mississippi and the civil war, major campaigns and battles. and tim did a companion volume on the home front. so we think we got it covered. i also think the best book i've done, frankly, at least most involved and the hardest one to write, was the history of the vicksburg campaign that came out in 2004. it's the only one-volume study i know of that covers the entirety of the campaign. i'm very proud of it. so i always like to mention that one. i think al together -- i don't know when we throw this numbers out because they don't impress anybody usually except us, but i've published a 14 books, authore

i believe some went to mississippi. no, they did not come up, they could not afford it, and i could not afford to bring them with me, unfortunately. they have small children, and the last thing on people's minds, when it tried to rebuild -- when they are trying to rebuild their lives are library books, and libraries. host: that is eileen in maryland. let's hear from regina in louisiana. caller: good morning. host: where is castor in relation to new orleans? caller: it is about 60 miles from shreveport going southeast. host: on this 10 year anniversary, what do you think about the recovery of new orleans and louisiana as a whole? caller: i think they are doing pretty good. it could be worse. i mean, it could be worse. host: were you particularly affected by hurricane katrina? i know you were probably outside of it, but did you have friends or family in the new orleans area that were particularly affected by it? caller: yes, sir. my sister lived down there, and when it hit, it center up your. -- sent her up here. host: fo

mississippi got battered. the gulf coast of mississippi. coastal parts of louisiana got battered. there was a companion storm right behind katrina called rita which affected the southwestern part of the state. while new orleans was the epicenter, the massive extent of this storm went far beyond the city. this -- it'soffer important for people to understand what caused the flooding. feared in new orleans that the most catastrophic thing that could occur would be a mississippi river levee break. in the event of a huge storm. in this instance, what broke canalslevees on drainage that are not as wide as this room. these drainage canals carry water from underneath the streets to a pumping station where they are pumped up and put in the canal and the canal empties into the lake which then mds into the gulf of mexico. with the power of the hurricane, it forced the water in reverse into the canal's and created so much pressure that the levee walls broke in five separate places. they were in engineering convention of the early 1900s designed to train -- drain parts of the city that used to

jackson, mississippi. we'll be covering panels such as panels on civil war, history, civil rights and two other panels that we are covering on book tv include eudora wealthy and harper lee, two well known, one mississippi, one alabama author. that's all live tomorrow on book tv on c-span2. jerry nash, thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you, peter. we look forward to hosting you. 202 is the area code for public policy stories you want to talk about. what seen in the news this week. you can see the numbers on the screen. area code is 202. let's begin with a call from mississippi. this is john in lucedale. where is that? >> caller: down in the southeast corner. >> what do you want to talk about? >> caller: thanks for c-span by the way. yesterday was a politician on that was talking about the automobiles and manufacturing in this country. i had bought one and i've had an enormous amount of problems with it. my fault, i guess. but it would be nice on these vehicles if we had some sort of information

whistling at a white woman in mississippi. better to play with a ratsle snake. >> what did you tell him? >> we didn't have time to tell him anything. our reaction told him everything. we ran to the car and got out of town as fast as we could. >> did you figure there would be disaster. >> i thought if they caught us they'd whip us, but murder never crossed my mind. never thought he would be kill. >> the boys ran into the fields to hide. trouble didn't follow that day or three days after. by saturday the boys all but forgot their fear. until late in the night, pounding at the door woke them from a sound sleep. when i opened my eyes, i saw two white men. i recognised one. the guy with the gun. he ordered me to lay back down. and made emmett get up and put his clothes on. and his mother came in he begged and pleaded. offering money. >> she offered money. >> yes, to leave them alone. >> he hesitated. but he didn't. >> he wasn't going to. >> money was not going to stop him. >> the men took emmett away down the dark road. what were y

background from mississippi state. i have been working in the water world for 25 years starting in my hometown in lawrence county. i still work for the lawrence county water authority in addition to 12 other small communities and rural water associations. i want to thank my congressman gregg harper for his support and assistant to over 150,000 small public water systems across the country for sponsoring the grass roots rural and small community water assistance act. representative harper's bill directs the environmental protection agency to prioritize the type of technical assistance that small communities find is most beneficial. this is what all the small communities in mississippi and the other states rely on for help with compliance, operations, emergencies, line breaks, loss of water, setting rates and training for operator certification. i am told that congress funds the epa's internal management budget by hundreds of billions of dollars every year. small and rural communities want congress to know that the only

a few stores along the mississippi gulf coast. and brian was here and experienced katrina, and this was his home, and this is where he had chose to raise his family. and he knows firsthand exactly what you did for us as well. so, again, walmart sincerely appreciates each is and every one of you for what you did for us. so let me just briefly mention something else. so i told you walmart would be here for you for years to come, and we really mean that. after katrina i think our company realized that we're a lot better when we're at our best. our ceo, our chief executive at the time was lee scott. and lee scott asked our company, the leaders of our company after katrina what would it take for walmart or to be that company -- walmart to be that company, that company that responded so well to katrina and did so much for the communities. and that has really changed our thinking, it has changed how we respond, and to a large extent that's why i'm with the company today. i work primarily with a lot of security-related areas, and i have t

whistling at a white woman in mississippi. snake. >> what did you tell him? >> we didn't have time to tell him anything. our reaction told him everything. we ran to the car and got out of town as fast as we could. >> did you figure there would be disaster. >> i thought if they caught us they'd whip us, but murder never crossed my mind. never thought he would be kill. >> the boys ran into the fields to hide. trouble didn't follow that day or three days after. by saturday the boys all but forgot their fear. until late in the night, pounding at the door woke them from a sound sleep. when i opened my eyes, i saw two white men. i recognised one. the guy with the gun. he ordered me to lay back down. and made emmett get up and put his clothes on. and his mother came in he begged and pleaded. offering money. >> she offered money. >> yes, to leave them alone. >> he hesitated. but he didn't. >> he wasn't going to. him. >> the men took emmett away down the dark road. what were you thinking, your you? >> they said they were going to bring him back. i lay there in shock a

that weight came down hard on the state of mississippi. governor barnett was found guilty of civil contempt and ordered to pay ten thousand james meredith out of the classrooms of ole miss. "now, the difficulty is, uh, we got two or three problems. in the first place, what can we do to, uh, if we can , if . . .. first place is the court's order to you, which i guess is, you're given until tuesday. what is your feeling on that?" "well, i want . . ." "what's your position on that?" president." "right." "uh, it, it's a serious matter, now i want to think it over a few days. until tuesday, anyway." meanwhile, an envoy of u.s. marshals steamrolled their way onto the campus of the university of mississippi and on september 30, 1962, president kennedy addressed the nation. "americans are free and sure to disagree with the law but not to disobey it. for any government of laws and not of men, no man however prominent or powerful and no mob however unruly or boisterous is entitled to defy a court of law." "if this country should ever reach the point

a category two hurricane hit new orleans. -- south and the mississippi mississippi, gone. we couldn't even get people there to tell you about it. if they were there, they were dead. a 32 foot wall of water came into my state. new orleans got spared. man had been so poor at preparing the city that it is they were sovel -- poorly prepared that they couldn't take the equivalent of two storm. it will happen again. it will be worse, especially if they decide to not extend the budget. itday wouldn't have -- wouldn't have it. today, we have twitter, we have facebook. people would know, don't go to the convention center, you will to there -- although that is some degree overblown. i think it would have been better in the current world. c: by wednesday, there were no cell phones because the cell .towers went down you have have this catastrophic situation. point of view, when we were in new york, and turned on television, and i saw ,hat was happening at the dome and at the convention center, my wife and i looked at that -- i went from absolute rage to crying. i haven't cried since m

this is of extreme urgency in south mississippi. a united states military facility with shots fired on our own, updates as we get them throughout this news hour. >>> first, though, the stage is set for the first gop debate thursday night right here on fnc. but the candidates, along with the rest of us, still don't know who will make the cut for that primetime showdown. with 17 contenders, the most in modern political history, only ten, ten or so, will get a spot on the main event. everybody else will face off in a different debate on that same afternoon. 5:00 eastern, the smaller debate. 9:00 eastern time, the big debate here on fox news channel on thursday night. the rules state that the top ten will come from an average of recent national polls that came out that day. we have the final fox news poll -- fox news poll but this isn't the decider. we'll use oar pother polls as w. one thing seems certain here, donald trump will be front and center. his support among republican voters is at an all-time high of 26%. a statistical tie for

this is live coverage of the inaugural mississippi book festival in jackson, mississippi. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. we welcome you to the mississippi book festival, to our harper lee panel. the rules the we have up in here, there will be no beverages allowed in here. if you have beverages we ask you to go to a garbage can and placed in the garbage can. second thing, please silence yourself phones. we need everyone to please silence yourself funds. again we would like to thank you and i would like to introduce the moderator, amanda nelson, editor of the largest book site in north america. he is also a judge of the 2016 best translated book award and is an expert on the topic she is about to lead on the discussion. welcome to the harper lee panel. [applause] >> thank you. i like being called an expert on something. i am on that debt nelson, i would like to reiterate the welcome to our panel and i would like to introduce my panelist and we will jump right in and the last ten minutes will be reserved for audience questions. this is my pan

then right after winning that case, she went to mississippi where she argued in federal court that mississippi's ban on same-sex marriage itself was unconstitutional. she made that case in mississippi of all cases and she won that. now, she is returning to mississippi, we can report, for this next battle. maybe a final battle over the state's gay adoption ban. the fact it is the only such ban left in the country and that gay marriage is now legal nationwide shows how much and how quickly the nation is changing. in another sign of all the evolution on these issues, we want to tell you the very governor who signed this mississippi ban into law in 2000 has recanted. his explanation strikes a note tracks with justice kennedy's logic. writing there are far too many children in america in need of a loving home who are shuttled between temporary homes and group shelters that fail on provide the stable nurturing environment all children deserve. i came to understand that a person's sexual orientation is nothing to do with their ability to be a good parent, he wrote. the colonel governor of mississippi,

. >>> now, on your screen, is a live picture of the old supreme court chamber in the mississippi state capitol. booktv is in jackson this weekend, covering the first annual mississippi book festival and we'll be back in just a couple of minutes with more live coverage. [inaudible conversations] >> one day late in the 2000s i was looking at this library and i asked myself, how did all this music actually get here? how is this actuaos [inaudible conversations] one day i asked myself how did they get here in the first place? how is this possible? to investigate and found the most astonishing thing. to be traced back to three people. one was brandenburg who had spent his life investigating the properties of the human ear steadying frequencies that were inaudible. and he came up with the md three encoder to shrink the compact disc by 90 percent. but he could not monetize the invention and was locked out and in desperation 1995 he posted it as a free public down the road to a his website within a couple of years the pirates got a hold of it he made hundreds of millions of dollars from intell

alan from mississippi. go ahead. , i worked at the navy base. we had all kinds of trucks and stuff in there. we had a local system set up there in the hangar. i think that they done pretty good work. aknow that they had considerable traffic jam. all of the ice trucks and stuff. it stayed and never left. a we had went to work on saturday, and we released on a thursday, i believe, it loses me. i went home and my house was tore out. i had four inches of water in it. apologies for that. the steak one more call. this is phenix city, alabama. more call.ke one this is phenix city, alabama. caller: i was there for katrina. we left on friday. we were the first to get out, everyone leave, this is serious. .e went to my sister's house five people and the house. there were 11 of us. we has to get air mattresses and whatever we could get to sleep on. greatery, thank god, fellowship christian church, red cross, the people in arkansas, they helped us tremendously. we went back to new orleans after two or three months, and when i got back, everything was lost.

it was one of the events of the trans mississippi. the buildings for the trans miss were intended only for the trans mis, not designed to be permanent mix -- fixtures in omaha. this is a reconstruction of what the buildings would have looked like. they were lumber frames, covered over with cement and a mixture of horse hair and plaster, used to kind of whitewash them. on the interior it was just open lumber and the exhibitors would be in the hauls in those wide-open buildings. they served their purpose and then were taken down. they weren't zoined to with stapped the nebraska winters. and all of. pieces were pushed into the lagoon and covered over to make what is now a park. when you have large rain storms sometimes pieces of these will come back up due to the settling of the earth sometimes you can find them on he bavement these are air couple of pieces from the trans mis, pieces of the capitols in the main court. one of the main events was the peace jubilee week, commemorating the end of the spanish-american war. president mckinley'

mississippi is an extraordinarily violent place. and that's something that in this conversation, someone listening to it should understand what's going on here, has a really deep and particularly violent history. >> mr. califano? >> well, i think all of that is correct. i also think that -- notice a couple of other things. one, that's why the president ultimately said to nick and to me, you know, try and get you know registrars, federal registrars in these counties that come from the state. he's very conscious of not sending yankees into essentially any of those states because he didn't want the southern congressman and others to have the argument. you're sending the yankees down from the south. by and large, most of the federal registrars came from the very states they were going to work in in the county voting areas. and also that mention of eastland, eastland was the center for mississippi. he was the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, a violent segregationist and against the voting rights act, but he was very important

my name is chris goodwin the mississippi department of archives and history. this is their civil rights history panel sponsored by the mississippi humanities council

murdered. >> whistling at a white woman... in mississippi? >> america tonight opens the case... >> never thought that he would be killed for that. >> that started the push for racial justice. >> that was the first step in the modern civil rights movement. >> could new evidence uncover the truth about that gruesome night? >> i wanted people to hear the true story of till. >> new orleans, the crescent city, is a cultural and historical gem, worth preserving ... so when the mr go channel was built in the late 1950s many peope were already saying: mr go must go! mr go is what locals call the mississippi river gulf outlet. once dubbed the surge superhighway -it's a 76-mile artificial chanel built for commercial shipping. dr john lopez is a member of the mr go must go coalition. he's also a coastal biologist who consulted for the army corps of engineers. >> tell me about mr go why was it created? >> well it was like a lot of federal projects. it was based on some sort of cost benefit that they projected by increased commercial use navigation on the

germany: he made a friend in mississippi, paul johnson, the governor. they have constitutional amendments, the state of mississippi voting on it, which they will pass overwhelmingly, which is an attempt to say, we are taking care of the voting problem. we do not need the federal government. but johnson wants to give his new friend -- i'd say friend. about as friendly as you can be with an arch segregationist from mississippi -- but he wants to give him this cushion. he does not want to send registrars and these counties. this is johnson trying to build something into this. the deeper story is the county he is talking about, in the next year, there will be ku klux klan members who will kidnap and murder a black man specifically to try to get martin luther king jr. to come down to natchez so they can try to assassinate king. mississippi is an extraordinarily violent place that is something you should understand. what is going on here has a very deep and violent history. host: mr. califano? mr. califano: i think all of that is correct. also, notice a coupl

mr go is what locals call the mississippi river gulf outlet. once dubbed the surge superhighway -it's a 76-mile artificial chanel built for commercial shipping. dr john lopez is a member of the mr go must go coalition. he's also a coastal biologist who consulted for the army corps of engineers. >> tell me about mr go why was it created? >> well it was like a lot of federal projects. it was based on some sort of cost benefit that they projected by increased commercial use navigation on the channel. now that might seem kind of ironic because it's built right adjacent to the mississippi river. they saw some advantage but in reality it didn't pan out. the use of the channel was very small. >> and because mr go cut right through precious wetlands...that act as a flood buffer---there were immediate community concerns. >> there were people...even before...some locals who were heroically trying to fight to get this thing changed but it was just a few locals fighting this huge bureaucracy. >> their concerns proved valid on august 29th, 2005. we're at th

mississippi has some of the highest rate of obesity and diabetes in the u.s. but hopefully, this farm to school program can change that. >> we do do a lot with what we do have and i'm very proud of that. i'm very proud of the success of our programs here in mississippi. >> reporter: and it's not just the delta's younger generation that are learning about the benefits of a better diet. jeronda tends her small garden every day and says her efforts are about more than just health. >> i can plant a seed and watch it grow from a sprout to actually bearing something that i can eat, that i can save money for that i don't have to buy that product from the store. i can focus on something else as far as insurance and medicine and other things like that. >> the mississippi delta is one of the u.s.'s poorest regions and food deserts defined as places where access to healthy produce is difficult to fine is commonplace. but progress is being made. in addition to teaching the local community how to grow their own fresh food and showing them firsthand the eventually plan for

there's a bayou that runs up the mississippi river that runs parallel to the mississippi down into the gulf of mexico. two confederate generals that occupied the region south of the mississippi. a general alfred mouton, and general dick taylor. a general is killed in baton rouge, general williams. general butler says we need a new general to fill the gap, and i need a new brigade. at age 26, he becomes at the time the youngest federal general in the union army. not only that, but butler assigns to him a group of all black soldiers called the louisiana native guard. these were freed slaves who came to general butler to fight for the north, and he outfitted them in a regiment called the louisiana native guard and assigned them to brigadier butler. he takes his men after several months of training in new orleans up the river. he engages them in several clashes and achieves his first victory. the battle of the georgia landing, 86 federal casualties, 229 confederate. he is a brigadier gaining a reputation already as a pretty good officer. after the confederates are flushed out of the region

it is an opening adventure for us in mississippi, and we are delighted to see the good turnout. our recent books we will be discussing cover a wide range of subjects. as you heard, our title is: letters, flowers, love, of welty, and current literary scholarship. let me introduce you to our panelists who will speak briefly about their books, and then we'll have some time for questions. if you would, just hold applause until i have introduced all of them, and then we will be happy to celebrate their being here. "meanwhile there are letters," the corporations is coedited by suzanne marrs and tom nolan. suzanne is the welty foundation scholar in residence at millsaps college, and tom nolan is a wide by published free lance writer, professor marrs is the author of one writers imagination, the fiction of eudora welty. also written the major biography of welty, and she has edited an earlier collection of letters entitled "what there is to say we have said." the correspond of welty and william maxwell. tom nolan has written for many magazines including "rolling stone" and "plow shares"

the heat advisories from texas to mississippi all the way to alabama. jackson, mississippi for example has been 95-plus degrees for 29 days. they should break a record tomorrow. a quick look at the red flag warnings anywhere from northern california to montana. >> ginger zee with us tonight, women's see you in the morning on "gma." >>> to the west tonight, new wildfires raging in northern california where those warnings continue. the jerusalem fire erupting a few miles from the rocky fire. 5,000 acres burned, at least 150 people evacuated. over the weekend a u.s. firefighter michael hall ek beblg killed on the job, the second firefighter killed in the line of duty in just over a week. we have one more image on the weather. typhoon soudelor, dash cam video showing its force. a white minivan no match for the winds. at least 21 people have been killed. >>> back here at home tonight, a state of emergency declared in

the mississippi river takes an s-curve. any ship would have to slow down to take that turn, so they perched two forts on either side of that curve so they could pummel any ships with cannon fire on the way up. weitzel spent four years here, 40 miles away from new orleans for most of his time. he draws every day, every doorway, every wall and writes a letter to cyrus comstock saying he is bored to tears. i have done nothing but draw every day, drawing in triplicate every single detail of these forts. when he has downtime, he goes to the bayous and hunts ducks, which he enjoyed doing. those four years, learning every inch of these two forts and learning the back bayous of fort saint philip became the most important thing to launch his career in the military. weitzel gets another letter saying, "your assignment to new orleans is over, and you are assigned as an assistant professor to west point," so in august 1859, he takes a steamer up to west point. before he gets there he stops in cincinnati, he meets a young girl, german g

they were for other parts of louisiana or mississippi. many have chosen to stay in texas, which received a lot of families, or other states. a lot of families chose to go to other states. we do see folks have moved. we have seen new orleans is a smaller place. jaime: i just want to remind folks in the room we only have three or four minutes left. if you want to go to the mic, go with it. >> i am with fox business. i want to ask about the new i.g. report that just came out stating more than 25,000 over-income families are in public housing now, some making hundreds of thousands of dollars. we have been talking about texas today. that was where this happened, it was in the top three of where this happens. i am wondering if you can talk to us about how the department would justify spending taxpayer money on this, as well as if there will be any changes made. >> their question is specifically about over-income families -- your question is specifically about over-income families? >> yes, in public housing. >> it is important to note the law al

they were arrested this month at a mississippi airport. according to a criminal complaint they were about to board a delta airlines flight bound for atlanta, amsterdam, and ultimately istanbul. prosecutors say undercover fbi agents posing as isil supporters on social media communicated with jalen young and mohammed decala throughout the spring and summer as the two looked for travel tips and how to wage holy war. their questions sounded a little more naive about what they're getting into, but emphasized their commitment to the cause. would i be with people who speak english as well, later adding i'm willing to fight. i want to be taught what it really means to have that heart in battle. young told an fbi agent i'm skilled in math and chemical and worked in a lab here at college campus. we learn very fast and would love to help with giving medical aid. >>> the family friend and lawyer said that relatives are in a state of disbelief. >> this is something that is like being hit between the eyes with a 2 x 4, a and your eyes are still bringing