knoxville, they didn't want it in nashville either. regional rivalries as one point believe it or not, west tennessee legislators suggested west tennessee would secede from tennessee and this is in the 1840s and create their own state called guess what, jacksoniana. there is another state rep from east tennessee who is young, his name is andrew johnson, he's going places, his future is i guess bright. if you are going to secede then we are going to secede and go back to that name of the state of franklin. what do legislators from nashville do? they start appropriating money to build roads in west tennessee and east tennessee. but in spite of this grid the strengths were pretty much nonexistent and you would have some boardwalks for sidewalks and you would have some transportation but overall living in the city was kind of a dirty place to live because you have chickens running loose, all manner, don't have a good sewage system so living in the city was in some ways kind of unhealthy. that is why people build these houses if they had an

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our author is the former to turn mayor of knoxville and former governor of knoxville tennessee. tennessee became the fastest improving state in the country in k-12 education in the first state to provide free community college or technical school for all of its citizens. in addition to adding 475,000 net new jobs. serving on the board of directors for teach for america. the wilson center and young life. his wife of 40 years have three children and 10 grandchildren the he is here today to discuss his new book faithful presence. a public face. welcome to the southern festival of books. >> hi. thank you for including me. i'm not used to people introduce me as an author. kind of getting used to being on the other side of the table. >> you are welcome. that is what is cool about the festival. kind of like the u.s. open. >> that is quite a good thing in my case. >> one of the things about this session that we need to talk about his time. we have about 40 minutes here to talk. i thought that we could just jump right in. i read your book. i read through it a couple of times. i just have

here and knoxville, very sophisticated and they had a way of getting that hauled out and he cannot imagine it and tools that it took to get those things hollowed out to hold water but nonetheless, they had volunteer fire departments, they did have a flat laid out, drawn by thomas malloy, aol survey, very early, 1794, and had the city lots and again the names a of all of the streets in the streets running by the river was called front street or water street and first avenue as youou know now is nashville and is first avenue so you have the street and in the second one was market and so on and so forth. they had about ten blocks and where our state capitol's debate, was a senior not alexander, alexander campbell but another campbell, but the hill and it was given to the state in 1840s, they can you believe that it took tennesseans help 1843,3, to decide on where they were going to have a permanent capitol. now if you live in tennessee, will you know exactly why, memphis did not wanted in nashville, but they sure didn't want to go to knoxville and they didn't want to in memphis. they did it o

he was from a little country town north of knoxville. that was his way of saying, i will work my hardest to remember i need to walk into it with the realization that i may not have this exactly right. particularly within our own team and staff was, okay, that is where we are. that will be the administration's position. i learned real quickly that did not get us to the best answer. realizing i may not always be right is moving my chair from the head of the table when we had our senior staff meeting to the middle of the table. so that i could make certain that my voice did not cut off the discussion. if our answer was the answer i walked in the door with, it would not be as good as all of us could walk out of the door with. >> that is true. >> you have a couple of sections in your book here. some on anxiety. some on humility. you know, we know that anxiety and pride have a negative impact in our personal lives and how we act politically. a political climate, what are some ways that we can win? trying to get an idea and compete and put fort

he was from a little country town north of knoxville. that was his way of saying i'm going to work my hardest to remember i need to walk into it with a realization that i am mightnot have this exactly righ. so particularly within our own team and staff once the governor speaks, okay that's going to be the administration's position. but i learned quickly that didn't get us to the best answer. an example of realizing i might not always be right is when we our senior staff meetings to the middle of the table so i could make sure my voice didn't cut off the discussion because i learned quickly if that answer was the answer i walked in the door with it wouldn't be as good as the answer all of us could walk out of the door with. >> that's true. talking about anxiety, you have a couple sections in your book, some on anxiety, some on humility. we know it has a negative impact in our personal lives and how we act politically or can act politically in a competitive political climate what are some ways we can win if you try to get your idea out the

he was from a little town, a country town north of knoxville. that was his way of saying i'm going to work my hardest. and i need to walk into it with the realization that i might not have the exactly right. and so particularly within our own routine in our own staff, once the governor speaks you think okay, that is the administration's position. but i learned also really quickly that that did not get us the best answer. the example of realizing this was moving my chair from the head of the table when we had the senior staff meetings in the middle of the table so that i could make certain my voice did not cut off the discussion. so it wasn't going to be as good as the answer that all of us can walk out of the doorway. >> that is true. talking about anxiety. you have a couple of sections in your book here, some on anxiety and others on humility. and we know that anxiety has a negative impact on our personal lives and how we act politically or not politically in a competitive political climate. what are some ways that we can win. if you are trying

he was from a little country town north of knoxville. that was his way of saying every discussion i am and i'm going to work my hardest to remember the while i have my view of the right answer i need to walk into it with the realization that i might not have this exactly right. what happened when i was governor is particularly within our own staff is once the governor speaks, that is where we are, that's the administration's position but i'm and real quickly that didn't get us to the best answer. an example of realizing i might not always be bright was moving my chair from the head of the table when we had the senior staff meetings to the middle of the table so that i could make certain that my voice didn't cut off the discussion because i've and real quickly if the answer was the answer i walked in the door with it wasn't going to be as good as the answer all of us could walk out of the door with. >> that is true. talking about anxiety you have a couple sections in your book here, some on anxiety, some on humility. we know that anxiety

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>> this story begins here at a suburban office outside knoxville tennessee, it looks a lot like any office in america. but when workers here talked on their desk phones, every word was captured. >> she always looks like she's about to kill somebody? >> and oh, the stories they told. unfiltered and intimate. with details about office romances. >> he was so hot. >> and in one heartbreaking case, maybe even clues about a murder. >> this was a real whodunnit? >> norman clark, love sports. his mother estella says that he was a top athlete and a good son too. >> he was a loving, hard worker, caring person. >> as a boy, norman had dreams of playing in the nba, then studied sports management in college. but by his mid twenties, he was working here, vanderbilt mortgage and finance. 23 year old britney eldridge started the very same day. >> she was very beautiful but it was her smile that really got me. >> that winning smile got to a lot of people, britney's big brother jeffrey said she embraced life with a contagious enthusiasm. >> she liked to cheer lead and she liked to play soccer. she was a gir

of protesters demonstrate as gathered to a member 41 people killed since the military took over knoxville. germany's karone of ours death toll has officially passed a 100000 hospitals of rapidly filling up across the country. germany announced tougher restrictions last week to cope with the outbreak. with south african scientists have requested an urgent world health organization meeting after detecting a new cove at 19 variants. the national public health institute says the variant has an unusually large number of mutations. experts trying to confirm if the strain is more infectious and vaccine resistant cases have also been detected in botswana . and in hong kong, i speak to helen reese. she is chat of regional immunization technical advisory for the at, for africa at the world health organization. she's also a member of the south africa ministerial advisory committee for cove it and cove at vaccine and joins us from johannesburg. money, thanks for joining the program. so the worry with this new cove at variance seems to be the high number of mutations. 32, i believe in this my protein.

we'll talk saying that the opposition was being too unruly british socialites because knoxville is set to go on trial in new york in the coming hours. she's accused of enabling the crimes of late sex offender jeffrey epstein took his own life full awaiting trial. maxwell insist she's innocence and claims. she too was a vixen. gabriel alexander has been following the story from new york create a how much did delay maxwell know about geoffrey epstein alleged sexual abuse of under age girls? that will be the central question in the trial of the 59 year old british socialite, facing charges of sex trafficking and other crimes. he is going to be the invisible presence hanging over this. and that is why i think that she is going to have to explain something that everybody really wants to know. what was his hold over her? what was that relationship? a big unknown on the trial is how far the judge will allow the prosecutors to probe and epstein and maxwell's high profile social circles that included many household names from politics, industry, and entertainment. one being britain's prince and

rise here in germany, significantly mass demonstrations in london as the deadline passes for mandatory knoxville, inoculations of care, home staff, and with the ultimatum. now in force, those not vaccinated are facing losing their jobs. they comes out for a separate decision to make vaccines obligatory for health care workers and social carriers in england. the sectors face losing thousands of employees if they're not fully inoculated against covered by april, next year, and less as a medical exemption. so as he said, the deadlines pass for care home workers, some other protest to share their thoughts and worries with us, making the co workers forcing them to take a vaccine. it's just, it's just a step too far. you know what, what's the next thing that we have to help you say should come down to choice. and it's never happened before. has happened before where people have been whole cave taken. take anything so they're going to be ready. so start and lots of people are going to suffer with leaving say, if you did it this way in the hospitals, even the nurses, they're not going to be cared for. a

to keep it free rated so we have special guest today, and are author is the former two-term mayor of knoxville and governor of tennessee, and during his tenure, as he became the fastest improving state in the country and k - 12 education the first state to provide a free community college or technical school for all its citizens in addition to adding for 35000 net new jobs pretty fmr. gov. bill haslam teaches on the board of directors the wilson center and he and his wife over 40 years have three children net and ten grandchildren predict a tear today to discuss his new book, "faithful presence", the promise of the peril of faith in the public square and is also my former boss, eddie special guest today welcome fmr. gov. bill haslam pretty. >> thank you for including me. i'm sort of used to having people introduce me as an authority say the other today and i'm thinking who is going to join us for unit i'm used to being on the other side of the table but it's really fun to be on this part. >> well that's what's cool about the festival's that's kind like the u.s. open's, you know, just one book

. >> that's right we're going to the georgia/tennessee game this weekend in knoxville you can see on the board there, we basically have been all over the south this fall, we're going to have a big fun tailgate celebration on the part of the big noon kickoff show, which airs on the main fox network from 10-12 eastern and number one georgia as you know, ainsley , has been on a roll, nobody can score on their defense, we'll find out should be a heck of a game i can't wait to see everybody in knoxville and then i'll be at the big fox event with the patriot awards next week. ainsley: let's go through some of the games, oklahoma baylor. >> yeah, look i think oklahoma is trying to make a case they came out with the college football playoff ratings last night, and if oklahoma will get on a run, they've got to take down baylor, whose had a very good season so far, oklahoma needs to finish 13-0 you can see what's breaking down it's a very good game. i know the big noon kickoff crew is in waco, texas i expect there's baylor fans excited trying to ic tariff down the sooners. a lot of failure in

you can see the stadium over my shoulder, going to be an awesome day in knoxville. >> re-saying god never fails. you were tweeting about this earlier this week, the nba has a rolling vaccine requirement, it requires boosters as well. >> the nba is sort of giving us a signal of where many different places are going. they are encouraging everyone who got the vaccine to get the booster and for the johnson & johnson vaccine if you don't get the booster you are no longer considered vaccinated. you are talking multiple shots, a rolling consistent not ending covid vaccine requirement and for a lot of people how many shots will be required and how long will it go on and i give credit to kylie irving because many athletes want to talk about politics but most of them don't risk anything in the process. chi read irving is walking away from tens of millions of dollars and is standing for what he believes in and i give him credit for speaking out like i gave aaron rodgers credit for speaking out, living in an authentic world, hearing what people believe even if you don't agree with them particularly a

and knoxville. and then we're staying chilly right into next week look at this minneapolis, monday, 29 degrees. rochester by tuesday, 35 41 in new york city by monday. tuesday, we're looking at 36 -- i should say monday, 36 degrees in cincinnati. that's what's going >>> good friday morning. i am meteorologist, kari hall. we are seeing some scattered showers moving in, but also pushing out fairly quickly. we have only seen a very light amount of rain for parts of the bay area. we are going to see partly to mostly cloudy skies for this afternoon, and it stays cool with highs in the low 60s. for the weekend it will be nice with highs in the upper 60s for the inland areas. we will have another chance of rain in the forecast on tuesday, but it does look to clear out in time for thanksgiving day. guys >> thank you, al >>> when you come back, we are going to sit down for a thanksgiving feast and we're going to do it 1600 style. cynthia mcfadden discovering what the foods from the very first holiday can tea

so the difference is the jet stream milwaukee, 39 degrees for a high today. 41 in pittsburgh knoxville, 9 degrees below average, but look at these temperatures on the other side of the jet stream. denver, you're going to be 77 today. 73 in rapid city dallas, 11 degrees warmer at 78 degrees, and that warmth starts to make its way to the east. by tomorrow, chicago, you're at 53 little rock, 77. nashville, 77 degrees. 12 degrees above average same for santa fe. roller-coaster temperatures though chicago, by wednesday, you're 57, but down into the low 40s by friday buffalo, low 40s by frid >>> good morning. i am meteorologist, kari hall. we have had to deal with dense fog in some spots but it stays clear in oakland, but the low clouds will linger and we will not see much sunshine today and we will see temperatures on the cool side here. for the inland temperatures, 67 degrees and tomorrow the same as the storm passes to the north of us and slight rain chances in the forecast on thursday and early firefighter morning. >> that is your latest weather gang >>> coming up next, a former japanese

now, the knoxville fbi has been very concerned about china, so give me a little update. what's the status of the china initiative at the doj? >> so senator, we are -- we regard the people's republic of china an extraordinarily serious and aggressive threat to our intellectual property, to our universities. >> okay, you're stonewalling me on that. we all know they're an aggressive threat. >> we continue to investigate -- >> okay. >> the prc efforts to -- >> do you see them as an adversary? >> i see them as adversarial with respect to our ransomware, with respect to hacking our -- with respect to counterintelligence -- >> well, we know that over the last several months, the last nine months, several espionage prosecutions of researchers have been dropped. our charges have been dismissed, including those of a ut professor at ut knoxville, and of course, the huawei case is there. so this is in spite of the fact that director wray recently testified that the fbi opens a new chinese espionage investigation every 12 hours. so are there apparent failures of the initiative? is it

our charges have been dismissed, including those of a professor at ut knoxville, and of course, the huawei case is there. so this is in spite of the fact that director wray recently testified that the fbi opens a new chinese espionage investigation every 12 hours. so are there apparent failures of the initiative? is it a lack of leadership? or is it a compromised position with the administration? is it incompetence? >> every case is evaluated on its own with respect to the law and the facts. we continue to open cases involving the people's republic of china daily, as the director said. we will not in any way let up our concerns about -- >> okay. all right, i want to move on. i'm glad to know you're not going to go soft on china because this administration is going soft on china. on your directive, going back to the school board association and the directive you sent out. the nsba has apologized. are you planning to apologize to parents of this country? moms and dads. >> there is nothing in this memorandum that any parent should be concerned about. >> there's a lot that parents should be co

let's see where you are headed after this on november 13th to knoxville, tennessee. so, and then there is some other locations. you can see there along the bus tour that clay is taking across the south. he did make a stop in texas well admirablably. let's walk through a few games this morning what we can expect to see. ohio state, nebraska, noon eastern time. what do you think? >> it's the big noon game. i got my t-shirt on here, will. by the way, you can tell even in the sunny south we are starting to turn into the cold season. can you see my breath here. cold this morning in tuscaloosa. i think ohio state is going to come out and dominate scott and the nebraska cornhuskers. we all kept waiting for nebraska to take the proverbial next step under scott. it's time to acknowledge they are just not very good and they haven't gotten a lot better under his leadership so far. the prodigal son return has not gone well. i think ohio state wins and covers with ease. will: go to the big 12 taylor, bcu eastern time what do you think there. >> i think baylor keeps it rolling. th