katie blunt is the director of the mississippi department and a longtime member of the mississippi historical society. two of the groups are responsible for the series she will moderate this penal. thank you very much. i want to begin by recognizing our sponsors, bradley and cummings and mississippi state university, thank you very much for making this panel possible. >> i want to thank you all for joining us here in the mississippi state capital. we are very proud of this building and it was recently designated a national historic landmark which is very appropriate. [applause] in our bicentennial year. i'm really pleased to host this discussion about the heritage of mississippi series which was also a bicentennial initiative. the series will cover mississippihistory and 17 volumes , seven of them have already been published and there are seven scholars working their fingers to the bone right at this minute on the next volume and then a few to be signed. this series is as i said meant to cover the whole history of the state and it's aimed at a wide audience. dollars, teachers, students and th

i was born in the mississippi delta in a place called morehead mississippi. billy morris was an icon to us delta boys and a small little library in that town was the door that open the entire world. it was about all we had, black-and-white television and the library, you could see the world. you could begin reading. as a dislike dyslexic child it was a challenge at first. if you haven't seen it in a while, try it. those pages are still gray interned and dogeared as i remember the years of living vicariously through that great author who was sherlock holmes. i remember as a young man dining at the local restaurants, being part of the jackson community, making sure we did not interrupt her lunch, but in all of this great literature giant that sat just across the room. i've been to william faulkner's home. billy could have a good time there but could he write. all those new ones that are here, john grisham, the list goes on and on. we celebrate the fact that we have great writers but just as important to me that we have great readers. when i came into office 48%

why can't i love mississippi? ♪ y'all know the name pyinfamous ♪ ♪ all bets are off i'm through talking ♪ ♪ never gonna fall for my spider move august and september ♪ ♪ block your october so you should be thankful the party's not over ♪ ♪ we won the race 'cause they ran a lame campaign ♪ ♪ i'm over here cooking victory you want a taste? ♪ >> anthony: pyinfamous is a proud son and resident of mississippi. a youth mentor in jackson's church and public school systems, owner of a marketing agency, and hip-hop artist. this town, it feels empty. where is everybody? >> pyinfamous: i think one thing is a lot of people think that you have to leave mississippi to be able to do something great. but i think a lot of it is there's so much bubbling in the undercurrent that sometimes isn't seen. and i think it takes an artist who usually takes something that's blank and creates something that's awesome to be able to see the potential in a place,n a canvas, so to speak, that has been vacated by others. >>

. >>> live from the mississippi book festival a panel from the heritage of mississippi series discussed the bicentennial. i was good morning everyone thank you for coming to the panel. i'm with the mississippi department of archives and history. welcome to the heritage mississippi series panel. the director of the department of archives and history and a longtime member of the historicahistorical society twoe groups responsible for the book series will moderate the panel. help me welcome katie. [applause] thank you very much for making this panel possible. [applause] i want to thank you all for joining us here in the mississippi stat state capital. we are proud of this building and it was recently designated to a historical landmark that was very appropriate. [applause] i'm pleased to host this discussion about the heritage of mississippi series which was also a bicentennial initiative. it will cover 17 volumes of 17 of them have already been published in the there are scholars working their fingers to the bone right at this minute of the next volume and if you are yet to be. it is aime

he said we want you and mississippi to decide how mississippi's gulf coast and south mississippi will be rebuilt. we're not going decide in washington but i will give you all the help i can give you. the federal government took some really, really bad criticism, a lot of it very deserved. their logistical system they imposed totally collapsed. never work. and we were within a day, if not hours, of catastrophic results because of it. but we work around it. and i have to tell you, one of the way wes work around fema's, the federal government's failure, was the u.s. military stepped in. they brought us 1.7 million meals that they airlifted in and it took the place of what fema was supposed to have done. these weren't disaster assistance meals. this was the pentagon taking meals that are supposed to be for soldiers, and saying, we can get them replaced before we run out. so, a lot of times the federal government was typically a great partner. they did a whole lot more right than wrong. but they sure did some things wrong, and i'm not saying that they didn't. i hope when you read this book

she earned her phd at the university of southern mississippi and a ba from mississippi valley state university and in theater from arizona state university. her book the crusade for racial justice and a central blog 26 p.m. 2016a member of several organizations that fight for the equality of people including the social justice movement is newlo orleans. [applause] as the author of the critically acclaimed book how race changed memphis politics the cbs affiliate station at memphis and a panelist for important services of public affairs at channel three, plus he writes a weekly viewpoint column for the commercial before joining the university of memphis in 2011, the editor for the opinion and editorials at the commercial the land formerly served as the managing editor the first african-american to hold both positions. working at the pittsburgh press sandford is a nationally recognized lecturer on management of journalism ethics and first amendment issues and past president of the associated press media editors and past board chair of the mid-american press institute.into t in 2014, he was electe

and called for mississippi to change. [applause] >> my book sanctuaries of segregation generally is about how white churches and white church people respond to the civil rights movement. it is a local history but if you are from mississippi, you know about this event and something those who are not do not know much about but one of the things i discovered in my research is this really is an important story, churches were contested spaces in the early 60s like lunch counters and libraries. segregation 5 very hard to keep segregation so this book tells the story as best i can and i benefited from a lot of great folks willing to tell their stories. i may embarrass him, i want to point out reverend ed king, one of the leaders of this campaign, here with us. he and his students and other ministers throughout the country felt this was wrong on many levels but what better way to point out the immorality of segregation than to show up at churches and force white church people to make it difficult what they were doing. this tells

what a great day for mississippi. third annual mississippi book festival, all the work that's been done, he can't say enough to all of the people who have participated, but it's my honor to have, in mississippi, doctor carla hayden who is the h library of congress sworn in on september 14, 2016 so still new on the job, and we had an incredible day yesterday with her here at the state and library commission and also we had an amazing day. it was great. i want you to know that when you talk of rock star status, i see susan here, when we had her with about 100 librarians from across the state it was like all this was in the room. it was pretty special. also, probably at about 1015 we will open it up for q&a. there is a podium in the back, in the middle of the room. if you have a question that you want to ask, please feel free to go there and will get as many as we can in about a 15 minute span and do that as well. so, would you please help me give a warm mississippi welcome to doctor carla hayden. [applause] >> i just wa

sunday, mississippi, the hurricane is beginning here. you can see the palm trees are blowing, the wind is beginning to get the range entrees. nightmises to be a long in biloxi. in gulfport, have a dozen trained volunteer rescue teams and heavy-duty trucks are answering the first calls for help. >> we need an ambulance at the nicholas grove shelter. >> by 8:00, power are falling, starting fires and winds are whipping them out of control. even new orleans on the outer edge of the storm, camille is beginning to cause problems. canal,he industrial another levee breaks and begins flooding. quite the eye of the storm is still over two hours away. the wind is strong, one can understand up in it. the rain is torrential, streets are flooded, we are cut off from the outside world in our motel here. there is no power, everything is black. >> rescue wretched city control. >> already one of gulfport heavy-duty rescue teams are in trouble. >> rescue red has gone out on one mission. the truck is in the rising tides. >> to hell with the radio and equipm

they enter the mississippi river. all along the way, jacques marquette is writing about the things that fascinate him. the lancet -- obviously. the natural -- the landscape -- obviously. the natural environment. the animals he sees, making comparisons of animals with those he is familiar. you see something and the native american has a name for it, you rename it. all europeans seem to do that with alarming frequency so they won't accept or respect those original names of things. identifying things in the landscape that might be useful for trade. always on the lookout for mineral wealth. it is a very big deal for this expiration. copper has been found in the great lakes region. the french have known about the copper for a couple decades. you might think copper penny, virtually useless, the government is thinking of taking it out of circulation but copper isa circulation, but copper a very important metal in the 17th century. to find a lot of copper would be a good thing for the french empire. it would be another potent

the mississippi river has an incredible number of ben's. of bends. points.try far as theot as arkansas river. it is very tricky. it requires great physical strength to actually work that waterway. so that is what they leave with. not with very much but with this great ambition that they are going to cover as much ground as they conceivably can and get as much information as they conceivably can. they started the box river which comes out of green bay which is now green bay, wisconsin. overland briefly to the wisconsin river and in and enter the mississippi river. along the way, marquette is writing about the things that fascinate him. the landscape, obviously. the natural environment. animals he sees. making comparisons of the animals with eggs he is familiar. renaming thing. the nativeething and american has a name for it, you rename it. all europeans seem to do that with alarming frequency so they won't accept or respect those original names of things and identifying things in the landscape that might be useful for trade. always on the lookout for

they begin the first europeans to explore the mississippi river. she is a history professor at the state university of new york. of johnhe author marquette. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. i am the site manager. this is the second half of the years. we're open every saturday 9-5. something going on every week. today we are happy to have back with us a professor who is professor of history. he has been here six times. it is always a pleasure. terrific talks, exploring early american history. today she will talk to us about a theme coming up in her book. jacque marquette and louis jolliet and their explorations and what they found in their expectations in explorations. at the end we will take questions. thank you for coming back. [applause] >> thank you david for having me here again. i have always so happy when i'm here. my family affectionately knows the talk as my annual. it is my annual everyone looks forward to. i appreciate the opportunity. i should explain. usually they contact me and say can you g

mississippi is losing on every count. survivals are stumbling out of the shelters, still dazed and seeing how little is left. >> all these are the houses that came in this vicinity. they are all here in this neighborhood. mine was up on the corner and i don't even see it. [screaming] house! even go to my >> some are lucky, others less so. without we would still find our homes. saw it walked up and leveled, we knew it would not be there. >> some of the tenants refused to get out. come in, welcome to the hurricane party. >> 24 people decided to write it out, 23 died when the building collapse. one youngster floated out a third-floor window on a mattress and lived. now camille has almost become a forgotten woman every she rips -- woman. andrips through mississippi slows down as she crosses tennessee. east towards the appellations and the atlantic. appellations -- 2-3 feet of water for every inch of land. suddenly, flash floods are rolling down every hill and hollow smashing houses, reading people in their sleep. -- burying p

first, welcome to the mississippi book festival. we have about an hour to talk about books published since the last year that the deal with individuals primarily who were close to some important presidents in american history, and what you're going to do is try to concentrate our own uv audience with the kind of information, the kind of importance to talk about what these individuals have meant too american history for a long period of time. i was the director of the grant association's presidential library at mississippi state, one of the hardest jobs to learn how to say that. but at the present, just to give you a brief overview, presently we are preparing as andy pointed out the first publication to first annotated version of the grant memoirs and we are very i excited harvard is publishing this and they've been terrific getting publicity out etc.. we're also getting ready, and i invite all of you to come on november 30 we are going to be opening the u.s. grand presidential library in the square-foot addition to the mitchell memo

i am attending the mississippi book festival and understand it is the third year the state of mississippi is having its book festival and other states, texas is one of the biggest, wisconsin also, we are trying to reach out as library of congress and support that. >> host: booktv will be live at the 17th annual book festival at washington dc convention center saturday, labor day weekend, live with arthur eveneds and call ins, both schedules available at booktv.org. welcome to the washington dc convention center, the 17th annual national book festival. booktv on c-span2 will be live with others all day. he will hear from condoleezza rice, pulitzer prize-winning columnist tom friedman, best-selling authors jd vance and michael lewis the master not leland melton and many others. for complete schedule visit booktv.org, follow us on social media for updates and behind-the-scenes videos. on facebook, facebook.com/booktv,@booktv is our twitter handle and on instagram we are at booktv. this year's festival kicks off with library of congress carla hayden making opening remarks followed by pulitzer

i think the highest in the country is mississippi. under this block grant approach, our friends in mississippi get a 900% increase. how can that be? well, that's money that was going someplace else other than mississippi. so what have we learned about obamacare? rural poor, particularly african americans, don't do so well. these four states -- new york, california, massachusetts, and maryland -- they have a lot of high wage earners. we've got poor rural states. missouri is a very wonderful state. big cities, rural areas. how do you get more money? well, under this formula, you're getting money that would have gone to the four other states. 50% to 138% of poverty. there's 45 million people in america, mr. president, following that demographic, we can figure out how many live in missouri. and we use that as the basis fosh formula. you're not limited to spending the money on 50% to 138% of poverty. by 2026, the goal is no matter where you live, missouri, south carolina, or california, you're going to get the basic, same basic contributio

it's money going someplace else other than mississippi. sta several poor particularly african-american studies about. these four states have a lot of high wage earners.his they have role for states. missouri is a wonderful state, big city but rural area. how to get more money? under this formula you getting money that would have gone to four other states. out 50 - 138% poverty. 45 million people in america following that demographic. we can figure out how many live in missouri and we use that as a basis a formula. is there seems to be a fair way to redistribute the money.ina, by 2026 missouri, south carolina you get the same basic consultation what a novel idea. that means places like missouriw were given you long time to come down. friends in massachusetts, wehe have a great republican governor i don't how to explain the system to get that much more money than everybody else. the goal is for you to have time to adjust and charlie baker can do it. is it on fair for people like me now, who should get the money is another question. should so

i'm from mississippi. we have a very rich literary history, but you're talking about faulkner and welty, and they're both white and dead and i was neither. so i didn't think i could do it. but when i found out that there was a school not far from me with a writing program, i said, "okay. yeah. maybe you should pursue this." >> reporter: "the hate u give" grew out of a short story from thomas' senior college project. she was moved to expand the narrative by 2009 fatal shooting of 22-year-old oscar grant by a san francisco bay area transit officer in a train station. it became one of the first police shootings caught on amateur video to go viral. >> although it was thousands of miles away it affected conversations here in mississippi. so i was hearing two different conversations about oscar. in my neighborhood he was one of us, but at my school people said, "well, maybe he deserved it. he was an ex-con. and it angered me and it frustrated me because i didn't understand how they couldn't see why we were upset

governor of mississippi went katrina devastated the state years ago . he talked about how he let the residence of mississippi through katrina's aftermath and how texas can give it to recovery mode. this is one of the great questions and the topics we were discussing with joe carroll as he was reporting on it this week. at what point, and are we there yet, do you give it to what next and recovery? >> sure, and it was interesting to talk to governor barbour and the term he used -- joe, i'm sure you are familiar -- in his inimitable style, he said for a time you have alligators up to your armpits, with the rescue and recovery. itall of these cases, happened with katrina and we are seeing the beginnings of it in texas -- you have to shift to this long-term recovery and rebuilding mode. this is tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions, of dollars that have to be allocated and resourced and, that obviously cannot all come from the federal government, so it has got to come from usually a collection of business leaders and get together, and that is what we

it's made its way all the way to the mississippi river, through mississippi and also through tennessee. that's kind of rare. you don't usually see that with tropical sis temtz especially heading onto florida. the paths of what's left of it will head up into tennessee, again, the winds won't cause any more issues. we did lose georgia. almost 2 million people lost power just when it was a tropical storm. the rain forecast has bands still bringing heavy rains in the areas from wilmington towards fayetteville and lumberton, rain in mississippi, tupelo, not going to cause any problems. that's the weather story for the day. here's a closer look at your day ahead. >>> the power crews need this. they need nice clear conditions. they need the winds to die down just to help everyone out without power. you like to have that humidity and lower temperatures anyway. it's a little more bearable and those temperatures that are cooler there in arkansas that's when the clouds from irma also. >>> so we're just about done with all the problems. a two-day event of irma and the winds and the surge and it's

here's tig notaro in the new season of her show "one mississippi." take a look at this. >> we just want you to know, despite the controversy around other ministries, it is possible to pray the gay away. >> what if i want to pray the gay to stay? >> we don't want that. we want you to stop spreading that sinful stuff and stop talking about it on your show. >> well, it's my show and if i remember correctly, there's still a 1st amendment. so, feel free to not listen to my show. >> oh, wait. >> here's a pamphlet. and that's my number on the back in case you need to discuss anything further. nikki. >> nikki, stop flirting with me. >> jimmy: come on. come on. tig notaro. [ cheers and applause ] season two of "one mississippi" is available friday on amazon prime video. we'll be right back with a a performance from luis fonsi. stick around, everybody! "despacito." [ cheers and applause ] ♪ the big game huh. boy i wish your mom was here. instead of over there. (screaming) i ain't afraid to say it. go blue! i'll kick it. she needs this kids. mom needs this. (

here's tig notaro in the new season of her show "one mississippi." take a look at this. >> we just want you to know, despite the controversy around other ministries, it is possible to pray the gay away. >> what if i want to pray the gay to stay? >> we don't want that. we want you to stop spreading that sinful stuff and stop talking about it on your show. >> well, it's my show and if i remember correctly, there's still a 1st amendment. so, feel free to not listen to my show. >> oh, wait. >> here's a pamphlet. and that's my number on the back in case you need to discuss anything further. nikki. >> nikki, stop flirting with me. >> jimmy: come on. come on. tig notaro. [ cheers and applause ] season two of "one mississippi" is available friday on amazon prime video. we'll be right back with a a performance from luis fonsi. stick around, everybody! "despacito." ♪ the big game huh. boy i wish your mom was here. instead of over there. (screaming) i ain't afraid to say it. go blue! i'll kick it. she needs this kids. mom needs this. (screaming) have some. ju

it's made its way all the way to the mississippi river, through mississippi and also through tennessee. that's kind of rare. you don't usually see that with tropical sis temtz especially heading onto florida. the paths of what's left of it will head up into tennessee, again, the winds won't cause any more issues. we did lose a lot of power in georgia. almost 2 million people lost power just when it was a tropical storm. the rain forecast has bands still bringing heavy rains in the areas from wilmington towards fayetteville and lumberton, rain in mississippi, tupelo, not bearable and those temperatures that are cooler there in arkansas that's when the clouds from irma also. >>> so we're just about done with all the problems. a two-day event of irma and the winds and the surge and it's just about over. >> don't say that too early, though. >> we're good. >> thank you, bill. today is a big day for apple meanwhile the tech giant is expected to unveil its newest iphone. rumors call it the iphone x. debuting ten years after the original iphone, it may be the fancy est thing yet with an expect

i think the highest in the country is mississippi. under this block grant approach, our friends in mississippi get a 900% increase. how can that be? well, that's money that was going someplace else other than mississippi. so what have we learned about obamacare? rural poor, particularly african americans, don't do so well. these four states -- new york, california, massachusetts, and maryland -- they have a lot of high wage earners. we've got poor rural states. missouri is a very wonderful state. big cities, rural areas. how do you get more money? well, under this formula, you're getting money that would have gone to the four other states. 50% to 138% of poverty. there's 45 million people in america, mr. president, following that demographic, we can figure out how many live in missouri. and we use that as the basis fosh formula. you're not limited to spending the money on 50% to 138% of poverty. by 2026, the goal is no matter where you live, missouri, south carolina, or california, you're going to get the basic, same basic contributio

in the white house trade with the secretary of war said dick cheney of his data jefferson davis of mississippi the defect show acting president of the united states operating behind the weekly and franklin pierce collaborating on the kansas nebraska and would repeal the missouri compromise that had forbidden slavery or put a line through the country to prohibit backed. but now the repeal made possible the nationalization of slavery which was lincoln nightmare and in the struggle the entire order cracked a part lincoln described the atmosphere of the early resistance but we rose grasping the pitch fork or the butcher's cleaver. but in two new brief autobiographies he depicted himself as stranger the content becoming indifferent chiru politics as he was contemplating he told the chicago tribune and 8054 you will superseded the bottom of politics with the repeal of the missouri compromise aroused him it was this decisive juncture that though law partner wrote of lincoln ambition. that man waits for the people to call him has herodias knowledge he was always calculating and planning ahead to there

northern mississippi and tennessee, that's about one inch. what's more important than anything, trying to get people the cooler weather. hit and miss showers and storms. at 92, it's not comfy. >> can we bring up that again? i want to ask bill, where did this come from? >> we get those outer bands. these are spinning systems and thunderstorms produce tornadoes. sometimes we can get weak spin ups with these embedded showers and heavy thunderstorms off the coast. we had a lot of these, ft. lauderdale got hit by one, palm bay mobile homes got hit. usually they are week. usually winds of 120, not like the tornadoes in oklahoma and tk tx. if you are in a mobile home, it can tear those apart. >> all right, we'll check in with you later. we saw a lot of water rescues in florida, nowhere near the coastline. orlando has their work cut out for them rescuing 45 people when a nearby river overflowed. >> we saw the water coming up. next thing i knew, my car was under water. everything is under water. >> been here 39 years, this is the first time this water

nearly every mississippi story sooner or later touches this one, and sucked in some spiritual homing way right here -- ends up in some spiritual homing way right here. it just is a monument forgotten, recalcitrant, collapsing in on itself, set against memory and wind of these five decades of change and non-change in america race relations. the book was written a few years ago now. richard rubin often went to the store when he worked as a reporter in mississippi and tried in his mind's eye to re-create the scene as it was. i would search in search on either side of the -- in dirt on either side of the front steps to discern where the tables sat. after a while i was slowly and with a chill saunter into the store and greet the clerk behind the counter and engage in meaningless conversation for no other purpose than allowing me to study the counter itself and silently postulate, she stood there, a little to the left probably, and he stood here, right on the spot where i am now, right here. he found out, roy bryant ran a store nearby in louisville, and he went there. i imagine i was about

mississippi has the highest uninsured rate in the country or close to it. we have a low per capita income. we have a lot of uninsured people that need health care for not only their health security but their economic security as well. sgl council to the mayor de blasio. you look at this, roy was saying this is the law of the land. what does it tell you and the concern of the administration's lost the senate vote to try to, fix it, change it, whatever their view is and now they are doing this. sgl if you want to kill a program that's working, starve it. and that's really what this is. an attempt to make a prediction as you read in terms of the trump administration's response here. a e prediction that enrollment will be down by suffocate iing sarveing the stability to get numbers up. it's going to cause a life and death issue for some of our people in this country. sgl i want to play donald trump talking about obamacare. this is a complex problem p p what we're seeing and why it'ses so interest ing is this isn't about what's naturally happen g happening. this

i look back at on my home state of mississippi. my guy in congress brags on tv how he voted over 50 times to repeal obamacare. let me ask you this. if republicans control the house, and republicans control the senate, and we have a great republican in the white house, why wasn't one of those 50 bills to repeal obamacare ready to go on the president's desk on january 20? i will tell you why. because none of these bills were ever designed to pass. they were show bills, fake bills. they knew they would never make obama, but desk of they sounded great on tv, didn't they?they were nothing more than a way for these rhinos, republicans in name only, to raise more money to feed their own campaigns to give themselves job security. we have an amazing opportunity. yes, vote them out. we have an amazing opportunity right now to do everything we want to get accomplished in that house back there. but instead, we have a congress that is doing nothing. you an audience have served in the military.let's give it up for our veterans . veterans, like m

host: one more call from mississippi, carol, go ahead. from mississippi, go ahead, please. caller: yes, my question, sir, i used to work for the corps down in new orleans when that took place. i know labor was old, i know were ine 27 floods that that area, even mississippi, but ome area never been replaced correctly. almost , the corps is bigger than the federal government when you vote on that stuff. the key is, some people live on that area. i studied history going back to th century before america ecame a nation, only 241 nation, so this is nothing new. people living -- it happened at the same time, that have to say. eep the good work up, move on and move forward. guest: thank you, neighbor. thanks for the call. you know, it is accurate you have certain areas that are very protect and so you have areas where folks want to cases, they n many could be sitting ducks. all is why you have to use the tools in the tool chest. cases, corps of engineers is responsible for. you have zoning ordinances and state, g standard, a perish, county or other nonfederal units of government a

alabama, tomorrow it will be tennessee, bob corker's retirement and mississippi. steve bannon is talking to candidates there. mark green in tennessee and chris mcdaniel came really close in 2014. they are trying to recruit him to run against bob wicker next year. >> shannon? >> tomorrow the president is going town veil a big tax plan. there's one reason you should care. the economy, the stock market, all being propped up by companies who hope they get a big corporate tax rate. if they don't get that, if it looks like there's going to be opposition which is mounting from republicans in some of these high tax states, it's going to be a battle bigger than health care and a lot of companies retrench in their hiring. >> we'll see how stupid those people are right now. if they go after new york taxes, the home mortgages or charitable giving, forget about it. anyway, thank you. when we return, let me finish tonight with "trump watch." you're watching "hardball." you know who likes to be

but as we take a look at the wide perspective, see the swirl around sections of the the mississippi river vale, that's actually the center of circulation left with irma. you have some clouds. few showers headed right in our direction, and you can see, most of the region right now starting on dry note. we have 66 right now in philadelphia. temperatures across the area, upper 50's north and west, low to mid 60s into part of south jersey so the wednesday planner, bob kelly, temperatures in the mid to upper seven's with few showers, we will time it out coming up. >> sound good, 4:02, we begin with a disable vehicle on the

this is video of flooding in mississippi yesterday. harvey has now killed 38 people and damaged nearly 100,000 homes. officials will continue door to door checks today in houston. president trump has pleed $1 of his own money to help harv prices are surging as major refineries in texas remain closed. to give you a better idea of how people are feeling in houston, one person said if you stop, you'll cry. that's what one of harvey's victims said about returning home to begin the cleanup process. look at video from one houston neighborhood. what were once cherished belongings are ruined and considered trash. not everyone can begin the rebuilding process. jay gray reports from houston on a rescue operation that are still happening this morning. >> it's been a full week now. and in some parts of southeast texas, the water is still rising. >> it's really -- it's above your chest. >> survivors are using everything they can to save anything they can. >> while rescue teams continue to save lives. >> thought i was going to die. i really thought

it's made its way all the way to the mississippi river, through mississippi and also through tennessee. that's kind of rare. you don't usually see that with tropical sis temtz especially heading onto florida. the paths of what's left of it will head up into tennessee, again, the winds won't cause any more issues. we did lose a lot of power in georgia. almost 2 million people lost power just when it was a tropical storm. the rain forecast has bands still bringing heavy rains in the areas from wilmington towards fayetteville and lumberton, rain in mississi lñ@ affected by the equifax security breach. ahead we'll tell you how to protect yourself. 1,200 workers are starting their day building on over a hundred years of heritage, craftsmanship and innovation. today we're bringing you america's number one shave at lower prices every day. putting money back in the pockets of millions of americans. as one of those workers, i'm proud to bring you gillette quality for less, because nobody can beat the men and women of gillette. gillette - the best a man can get. heare you one sneeze away f

indianola mississippi which is also the home of b.b. king and it kind of gave us the conversation i have in it and it didn't build from that. so scott you of course have your own pretty fascinating backstory and we have a couple of tweets on on you also relationship these would be how you were brought up so this is a tweet from sarah she says are people who are members of the k.k.k. brought up at a young age to fear other races or to be experienced something to make them fearful and give a part true to that is another person who says what was the common theme in the reason why people are you in this case join the k.k.k. well i think basically of course the reason our joining i think it's pretty much has a common is a common denominator with in denominator with other people that joined and of course i grew up in a very dysfunctional family and you know with our colleague father but i must say i take full responsibility for what i did in a bad decisions i've made and i'm not blaming anyone but myself but there were some contributors are t

he talks about her time in mississippi. byhe became much disturbed observing slavery and asked her principal if she might teach colored children in her spare hours. he informed her that it would violate the laws of the state, but if she wished to ameliorate the conditions of colored people she should work with such people in her own area of the country where northern philanthropists had work to do to elevate their own free colored people. in writing a letter to harriet teacher stowe, she wrote that she was silent on what she believed to be true. the principal the mississippi school had worked out his own steam about how he thought he was going to emancipate the slaves he was working with. while myrtilla was initially excited about that idea, she realized it was an unrealistic plan and a strange land. i can going into more detail later if you want. sheas around this time that set her mind to creating a school to teach free african-american people how to teach themselves. when i first learned about this story i thought she mu

, in blotchy, mississippi. do we need to ta ke in blotchy, mississippi. do we need to take that name literally? you are a hurricane hunter? i have been with the hurricane hunters for ten years. iama the hurricane hunters for ten years. i am a meteorologist by training and i have flown through katrina, wilma, major hurricanes since 2000. i have not flown irma directly but i have flown quite a few. what do you do when you fly a hurricane, why do you do itand when you fly a hurricane, why do you do it and what are you getting out of it? the simple answer is we save lives. the day we are collecting inside the storm, people think we fly above, we don't, we fly through the middle of the storm and the w c130 the middle of the storm and the w 030 j the middle of the storm and the w c130j server he kilis aircraft is what we fly right through the centre no higher than 10,000 feet in the centre of the fury of mother nature —— super hercules. the winds are 180 knots. that's incredible and can cause in credible damage a

indianola mississippi which is also the home of b.b. keane and it kind of gave us the conversation i have in it and it didn't build from that. so scott you of course have your own pretty fascinating back story and we have a couple of tweets on on you also relationship these would be how you were brought up so this is a tweet from sarah she says are people who are members of the k.k.k. brought up at a young age to fear other races or to be experience something to make them fearful and give a part to to that of another person who says what was the common theme in the reason why people are you in this case join the k.k.k. well i think basically of course the reason our joining i think it's pretty much has a common is a common denominator within the nominated with other people joined and of course i grew up in a very dysfunctional family and you know with our college father but i must say i take full responsibility for what i did in a bad decisions i've made and i'm not blaming anyone but myself but there were some contributors are that you

he talks about her time in mississippi. "she became much disturbed by observing slavery and asked her principal if she might teach colored children in her spare hours. he informed her that it would violate the laws of the state, but if she wished to ameliorate the conditions of colored people she should work with such people in her own area of the country where northern philanthropists had work to do to elevate their own free colored people." in writing a letter to harriet beecher stowe, she wrote that she was silent on what she believed to be true. the principal the mississippi school had worked out his own steam about how he thought he was going to emancipate the slaves he was working with. while myrtilla was initially excited about that idea, she realized it was an unrealistic plan and a strange plan. you want. it was around this time that she set her mind to creating a school to teach free african-american people how to teach themselves. when i first learned about this story i thought she must be a tool of the abolition

indianola mississippi which is also the home of b.b. keane and it kind of gave us the conversation i have in it and it didn't build from that. so scott you of course have your own pretty fascinating backstory and we have a couple of tweets on on you also relationship these would be how you were brought up so this is a tweet from sarah she says are people who are members of the k.k.k. brought up at a young age to fear other races or to be experienced something to make them fearful and give a part true to that is another person who says what was the common theme in the reason why people are you in this case join the k.k.k. well i think basically of course the reason our joining i think it's pretty much has a common is a common denominator with in denominator with other people that joined and of course i grew up in a very dysfunctional family and you know with alcohol and father but i must say i take full responsibility for what i did in a bad decisions i made and i'm not blaming anyone but myself but there were some contributors are that

it's, like, the mississippi state penitentiary. and that prison was basically -- i mean, it was basically a plantation, right? the inmates were enslaved. they were whipped. they were made to work in the fields. they were rented out to industrial barrons. i mean, you know, it's very clear to me, like, how the legacy of slavery expressed itself in parchman prison, right? when these inmates were basically enslaved. and i also think that, you know, that that -- that legacy has followed us today, right? i mean, i wrote a memoir about five young men, you know, who i knew, one of them was my brother, who all, you know, died in my -- in my hometown. and one of the young men who died was one of my -- was a cousin of mine, right? he -- the car that he was in actually hit a train, right? and i feel like it's no accident that that happened, because i live in a poor, mostly black neighborhood, right? so i think the powers that be don't care about the infrastructure in that neighborhood, right? they don't care if, you know, if there are working

we will start flying irma from biloxi mississippi with the air force reserve. currently being flown down in the caribbean. we normally work out of saint croix but they were hit pretty good. that forward operating location, we pulled back to cure sou to fly the storms 24/7. >> colonel, thank you for telling us these are civilian airmen, from the air reserve. what actually do they do? are they in the c-130s? >> correct, we're flying the wc-130 j by lockheed martin. it's a fabulous aircraft. we have ten here on the ramp and our crew is five individuals and pilot and co-pilot and weather officer and navigator and load master. our job is to take off and fly to an altitude of 10,000 feet, penetrate the eyewall of the hurricane, drop at the request of the national hurricane center. gather data and send it via satellite uplink to the national hurricane center in miami. they are the experts here in the united states. they plug all of that information and from there we see it out on the worldwide web, all of the models to look at. >> walk us through what it is like speci

brian rose, we will help him win mississippi. we will help him win mississippi. we got a whole bunch of politicians that are absolutely draining us dry. we got a guy down in florida by the name of bill nelson. we got him on his way out. we got a guy -- we got a governor -- we got a governor over in ohio by the name of john kasich. and we've got his ass on the way out. if you're from the state of ohio get behind jim runacky. get behind renacky. these are the kind of people we need to have around us. i'd like to talk a little bit about commitment. back in 2015 when donald trump walked down the stairs, i made a commitment. i made a commitment not only to donald trump, but i made a commitment to every american citizen that's going to stand and be counted. people say we are not around anymore. people say we give up. we ain't gave up on the statues. we ain't gave up on the flag. we ain't gave up on our veterans. some of us have, but we haven't. are you committed? are you committed? can i hear a hell yeah? that's what it takes to be committed. you don't -- you don't sho

indianola mississippi which is also the home of b.b. keane and it kind of gave us the conversation i have in it and it didn't build from that. so scott you of course have your own pretty fascinating back story i and we have a couple with tweets on on you all's relationship these would be how you were brought up so this is a tweet from sarah she says are people who are members of the k.k.k. brought up at a young age to fear other races or to be experienced something to make them fearful and give a part two to that is another person who says what was the common theme in the reason why people are you in this case join the k.k.k. well i think basically of course the reason our join in i think it's pretty much has a common is a common denominator within the nominated were other people that joined and of course i grew up in a very dysfunctional family and you know with our college father but i must say i take full responsibility for what i did in a very decisions i made and i'm not blaming anyone but myself but there were some contributors ar

words but he also says that they spent up to twenty million dollars in indian casino money from the mississippi choctaw indians because they wanted to protect their economic monopoly in the southeast he sets up almost the perfect civil rico case against those involved who conspired in the prosecution and those who financed it the mississippi choctaw indian casino owners what one thing i want to point out jack avram off just so people know was the thief he's a con man he's a thief he's a criminal that they call rove brought this criminal this thief that went to went to prison for stealing millions of dollars but the but nevertheless the republicans bring in this criminal this thief to go after you did i get that right. oh yeah and you know that every mofo in ralph reed and grover norquist were all part of the part of rhodes group in the young republicans the college republicans so they've been together a long time and all of them were involved in of funneling laundering illegally twenty million dollars of indian casino money into the state to defeat me in two thousand and two the second revelati

words but he also says that they spent up to twenty million dollars in indian casino money from the mississippi choctaw indians because they wanted to protect their economic monopoly in the southeast he sets up almost the perfect civil rico case against those involved who conspired in the prosecution and those who financed it the mississippi choctaw indian casino owners well. one thing i want to point out jack avram off just so people know was the thief he's a con man he's a thief he's a criminal that they call rove brought this criminal this thief that went to went to prison for stealing millions of dollars but the but nevertheless the republicans bring in this criminal this thief to go after you did i get that right. oh yeah and you know that every mafia in ralph reed and grover norquist were all part of the part of rose group in the young republicans the college republicans so they've been together a long time and all of them were involved in of funneling laundering illegally twenty million dollars of indian casino money into the state to defeat me in two thousand and two the second revelati

[applause] >> [inaudible conversations] you are watching live coverage of the mississippi book festival and the conversation the library of congress carla hayden. we will be back in a few minutes with more. and [inaudible conversations] a [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] conversations back to [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] is [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] is [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] a look at some of the current best nonfiction selling books according to him beyond a group of independent bookstore booksto are members of the booksellers association what is on your reading list this summer and why? >> i just finished reading american gods. i read multiple books at the same time, and i like reading fiction and all the fanfare of the news it might as well go to this force and thathe source ann interesting read. i also reading the market discipline an old book from 1985 that talks about branding and brand management and i'm fin