their story immortalized on film in "mississippi burning." >> i guess they never left mississippi. >> they're dead. >> reporter: in 2005, justice caught up with this former clansman, edgar ray killen, sentenced to 60 years for manslaughter but never confessed or told who helped. the man who spent time with killen at a prison hospital says killen told hum he would confess to the killings, name who helped, and reveal 32 other murders, but only if the 86-year-old was allowed to serve his remaining years under house arrest. >> i already knew, no one is going to believe me. i said, so, edgar, do you want your thoughts to get out there. write this stuff down. >> reporter: amazingly stern has pages and pages of letters. this should assure the state given the medical release. my confession to personally killing. there is more i will tell you about. >> if edgar ray killen were to cooperate and testify that may give authorities enough information to prosecute the case. >> reporter: mississippi's top prosecutor said making deals to get out of jail isn't something the state will do. he is open to

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, louisiana, across the mississippi river. third, great migration being the movement of black people from the deep south from the soft to the cities of the north and the 20 at century. the total is over 6 million, and of course the migration which is just beginning in 1965 that this the change if our immigration law is that have brought people of african descent from all over the world to the united states. >> if we could, the second migration, the internal migration. why did that occur? >> it occurs it begins mostly after the war of 1812 in the tens of course with and it's driven by the fact the discovery it's close to our skin but we have a nice soft cotton and of course the requires the growing of cotton and the transformation of the southern economy, the american economy from growing tobacco and rice along the seaboard to the new commodity in the drive of the first movement of sleeves. spinet how did it grow from the revolutionary war to the civil war? >> there were 4 million about four and a half million black people in t

mississippi. we can't wait to see you. brought to you by bp and all of us who call the gulf home. >>> this was undeniably a difficult year for many people. and yet as always we also found things to celebrate. some here in our own country and some in galaxies far, far away. >> all three engines up and burning. two, one, zero and liftoff! the final liftoff of "atlantis" on the shoulders of the space shuttle. >> this sendoff, the long farewell to the space shuttle, 135 missions, 30 years of service, endless inspiration for young americans. >> i think there was this real sense of a lot of people want tock there for that final launch to witness this part of history. >> i have a lot of faith that the private sector is going to somehow make up the loss that we have. >> best reason to think he might be right. that swiss guy called jet man. >> best party back here on earth. give it to the brits and the royal wedding. kate middleton and principles william. >> it was wonderful, darling. >> best and worst maid of honor, kate's sister

making vancouver mississippi? >> not mississippi. >> no. i wanted oklahoma tctavia spency minuny minny. >> it's not my vision you say. >> i'm sure tate would have appreciated that. we all would have cocktails after. we shot in greenwood, mississippi. a darling little town and really hasn't changed so much from the '60s. >> there was so much when this book came out. it was like a flood. i felt like i heard it bit from everybody, from my mother, from my girlfriend. you would see it talked about on the tv and even wrybody was hap when the movie came out. but a bit of abacklash too. >> i did. i write in a dialect for the african-americans. i'm white taking on the story of someone else and i get that. like i sort of understand why that would be unnerving, but, at the same time, i think it's so important as a writer to try to imagine what it feels like to be someone else. >> speaking of writing. you have your next book. you're working on it. ongoing there. >> it was due in january! >> last january. not next month! >> no, last january. i had a mee

42% in favor of it in mississippi -- >> that's right. >> -- 58% against it in mississippi. >> that's right. that's because -- >> you couldn't get -- there's no state you could get a more favorable voter profile for it. >> absolutely. the reason the voters in mississippi rejected it and why the entire medical community opposed it is because this personhood idea would ban the most -- could ban the most common forms of birth control, including the pill, ban in vitro fertilization, which so many couples use now to have a family, and really threaten even women cancer patients' treatments. it's the most extreme kind of measure. it's incredible to see mr. gingrich, mr. romney, supporting this kind of extreme idea. as you say, it was rejected even in the state of mississippi. >> now, the democratic national committee doesn't mean the politics of this, which is to say, they don't mind seeing those people adopt something that is obviously a losing issue when they try to win in 50 states, when they try to go to a national campaign. does it do any damage beyond just damage to the republican nomi

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the gentleman from mississippi. mr. harper: thank you, mr. chairman. it is clear that what ha happened here is there's been no response to many of the allegations of mismanagement that we have heard soar. it is clear on the things that have happened that the e.a.c. in particular, it is me for this to come to a conclusion. it is an agency whose average salary for its employees, which the employee size is more than doubled in the last -- since 2007, the average salary is $106,000 for this agency. . rond reagan said the closest thing on earth to eternal life is a temporary government program, and this was supposed to last for a period of three years. the national association of secretaries state in 2005, did a resolution, a bipartisan group, did a resolution saying, bring this to an end. they renewed that resolution again in 2010 and yet it remains. if we cannot get rid of an agency like the e.a.c., then we are never going to be able to get rid of anything up here. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pr

looks like rain will be spreading in towards the midwest as well as right along the mississippi valley. for tonight you do want to watch out for wintry conditions here. for areas of colorado in towards kansas and oklahoma. monday's highs will be -- tuesday, rather, highs will be looking like this. it is getting to be looking cold for oklahoma city. highs at just two degrees. 4 also in chicago. also single digits, 9 in d.c. and 7 degrees in new york. lastly, a look at europe. we'll be talking about largely unsettled weather all around. for the southeast corner here we'll be talking about showers and thunderstorms. then as this frontal system pulls on in, wintry weather both rain and snow will be spreading across the british isles as well as western and central sections of europe. for the alpine region, those mountain areas, you want to watch out for the potential for heavy snowfall. highs for tuesday will be looking at zero in moscow and also the same in warsaw. looking cold in vienna, too, highs remain at 2 degrees. a little milder for athens, highs getting up to 16 degrees. all right.

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there might be some rainy conditions in mississippi and louisiana. most of the country in great shape. seattle in the 40's. they have some rain in the forecast. more on the forecast locally coming up in just a few minutes. >> something tells me i'm more excited about the crock pot than john is. >> i love them. >> 43 degrees on tv hill. a rally for hope. one committee amid the holidays brighter for a struggling family after they became victims of a crime. >> we are still taking your answers to our water cooler question of the day. what will you remember most about this holiday season? you can share your response at wbaltv.com and on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> a heartwarming storming back as a committee rallies to bring a share to a family after they were burglarized. her fiancee had all their presence stolen. calls began coming in. fuehrer's done enough to replace the $700 in stolen gifts. they were moved by the generosity of strangers. >> in it official again. it makes me realize when we're able to come we h

wow, you really are poor and mississippi. [laughter] just for the record, his shoes cost more than everything i own. [laughter] we are taxed in the morning we wake up in the morning to the moment we go to sleep at night. hard-working americans deserve a break and i'm going to give it to them. it's personal. it's human. his day-to-day networks. >> just to jump on something you said, governor what he said you talk about what it is that she wants to do and how it's going to help him and everything. one of the questions i pay a fee to frank, but i do get to moderate focus groups, too. and down the stretch in the virginia governor's race in 09 i was doing governor mcdonald's pulling and we did focus groups once a week in northern virginia, figuring if we did okay in northern virginia we would win statewide. one of the questions i would ask before we got the testing was, you know, what is bob mcdonald trying to say about himself to voters like you about why we should vote for them. people would give reasons, one of which is in all

there's really none of it east of the mississippi. you have to go up to northern portions of michigan, wisconsin and extreme northern new england. that's it. there's no snow throughout the appalachians. you can see where the snow fell from the big storm yesterday. new mexico got nailed and through the oklahoma panhandle into kansas. that's where the snow fell. that's the fresh snow on the ground. all the other snow out here is mostly up there in the rockies. only 27% of the country has snow on the ground right now. most of that is the mountainous location. it's a mild morning once again. just feels weird. it's 50 degrees to start your morning in washington, d.c. we've got an area, a large area of rain. it's hit and miss, though. the heaviest, thunderstorms coming on shore down here. the panhandle down in florida but all these showers are going to play throughout the day today. many areas of the east, no real snow with that. the snow's going to be in the rockies over the next 24 to 48 hours. the forecast today, if you're in the eastern

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there are some pockets of heavy rain over the mississippi valley. there's a chance we could see some mild flooding tomorrow afternoon and grangnai because the ground is saturated. we have it -- and tomorrow night because the ground is saturated. we have high -- have had a lot of rain. during the day tomorrow, the storm will come out of the mississippi valley and get closer to us. we will start today dry. for the morning commute -- commute, no rain. but for the afternoon commute, most likely rain showers. this cold air will likely try to wrap around it tomorrow night and catch up to the rain. a brief time of mixing tomorrow night. most of this will be a cold rain event. high temperatures between 45-50 degrees. this is still a big travel time right before new year's. most of the travel trouble will be in the east. showers possible in tampa. dry weather in the midwest. a few showers in the pacific northwest in seattle. a brief shot of cold air on wednesday. the high temperatures would be below average. thursday and friday's, upper 40's. maybe a couple

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we see some mild air in the mississippi valley. this is our weekend temperature situation with this cold air moving in. sunshine and clouds today. sunshine this morning. a few sprinkles late in the day. 48 to 52 the high. not bad. we are clear now but we do begin to pick up more cloudiness. we will see sprinkle and shower activity get closer. a couple of places tomorrow morning temperatures may be near freezing so a few snowflakes may be mixed in. by sunday, the next system moves in. that is a cold front that moved through sunday afternoon. it does not look very significant but it might produce some precipitation and some snow showers. cincinnati, the rain will be over by the time the game starts on sunday afternoon. temperatures in the low 40's. besprinkled late today. tomorrow, partly cloudy skies -- a sprinkle late today. 50 on new year's day. maybe a couple of flurries and some cold air starting next week. >> thank you. a dress rehearsal for the ball drop in new york city. the final padenls were placed -- panels were placed on

now it's getting heavier in areas of mississippi. as the storm tracks pretty much an inland track up through central new england, the back side of the storm should have a little bit of snow. we're talking ohio possibly western new york. you could end up with white stuff tomorrow into tomorrow night. for today, we're pretty good in the east coast, just a lot of rain in the deep south. that's a look at your national forecast. now here is a look at the weather outside your window. rally, north carolina, beautiful day today. in the mid 50s with a lot of sunshine. boston, mid 40s is pretty nice. it will be windy this morning before we get some sunshine this afternoon. still warm in areas like minneapolis. no real big cold shots of cold air coming, but maybe some snow for a few people tomorrow. >> we didn't get a white christmas. >> a lot of people didn't. >>> just ahead, how holiday service members spent holidays overseas. plus, it's mission accomplished for tom cruise. >>> coming up, aaron rodgers spreads christmas cheer throughout green

i have been told that this is a video from the former warden of the mississippi prison. >> it is clear that the execution will take place and something happens. they may not come out and say that they did this, but they will tell the victim -- i am sorry. and then they say, i did this. and i leaned down to whisper in his ear, and i thought i could reach them because i wanted to make certain that he is at peace with themselves. i said it is not important for you to confess to this crime and is not important for anyone in this room. the only thing that is important is that you let your god know the truth. and he looked at me and he said -- i am at peace with my god. how will you be with yours? >> do you think that he did this? >> i do not know. >> this is terrible. >> the former governor has come to the conclusion that this boy was probably innocent. we are good friends and have remained so, and the one thing we talk about when we get together -- let's hope that he was guilty because the idea that he signed the warrant and i signed the execution on an innocent kid is something i would no

there's really none of it east of the mississippi. you have to go up to northern portions of michigan, wisconsin and extreme northern new england. that's it. there's no snow throughout the appalachians. you can see where the snow fell from the big storm yesterday. new mexico got nailed and through the oklahoma panhandle into kansas. that's where the snow fell. that's the fresh snow on the ground. all the other snow out here is mostly up there in the rockies. only 27% of the country has snow on the ground right now. most of that is the mountainous location. it's a mild morning once again. just feels weird. it's 50 degrees to start your morning in washington, d.c. we've got an area, a large area of rain. it's hit and miss, though. the heaviest, thunderstorms coming on shore down here. the panhandle down in florida but all these showers are going to play throughout the day today. many areas of the east, no real snow with that. the snow's going to be in the rockies over the next 24 to 48 hours. the forecast today, if you're in the eastern

now it's getting heavier in areas of mississippi. as the storm tracks pretty much an inland track up through central new england, the back side of the storm should have a little bit of snow. we're talking ohio possibly western new york. you could end up with white stuff tomorrow into tomorrow night. for today, we're pretty good in the east coast, just a lot of rain in the deep south. that's a look at your national forecast. now here is a look at the weather outside your window. rally, north carolina, beautiful day today. in the mid 50s with a lot of sunshine. boston, mid 40s is pretty nice. it will be windy this morning before we get some sunshine this afternoon. still warm in areas like minneapolis. no real big cold shots of cold air coming, but maybe some snow for a few people tomorrow. >> we didn't get a white christmas. >> a lot of people didn't. >>> just ahead, how holiday service members spent holidays overseas. plus, it's mission accomplished for tom cruise. >>> coming up, aaron rodgers spreads christmas cheer throughout green

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if you're in areas like memphis or northern mississippi, look out the window. it's probably snowing this morning. maybe a coating to an inch or two at most. so, be careful out there on sidewalks and roads. we are watching very quarm conditions in the eastern u.s. but the rain is moving in. by tomorrow that rain will be gone. in new england we'll get snow. mostly at some of the higher elevations. if you're watching us on wndu news center 16 tv in south bend, indiana, see a one-of-a-kind design on over 300 skateboards at full deck, a short history of skate art at south bend museum of art. that's your early event of the day. are we heading to the skate park? >> no, that was boring last week. i'm over it. >>> here's an early look this morning's headlines in entertainment. alec baldwin says he'll never fly american again after being the latest celebrity to be booted off an airliner. baldwin got into a fight with a flight attendant and was forced to leave a los angeles flight for refusing to stop playing the game words with friends while parked at the gate. it is kin

to mississippi.. florida... louisiana... alabama. the gulf's america's get-a-way spot no matter where you go. so come on down and help make 2012 an even better year for tourism on the gulf. brought to you by bp and all of us who call the gulf home. beginning tomorrow, minimum wage is rising. supporters say it will help workers. or that could back fire and hurt job creation for 2012. how so, gary? >> it hurts it is low income worker. bottom line higher cost to business. less hiring and economic logic and fact. every study is shown a 10 percent increase in minimum wage and knock down one percent of hiring and if you lower the minimum wage businesses will do the job. many countries pay higher than minimum wage. it is 360 million in additional gdp for 2012. >> and the thing is. you are looking at what the guys getting the bump. most people are below the poverty level to start with. you are talking about the minimum wage. it is just eight states. number one and number two. this is going to raise somebody to the level that will be approxim

different species at frogs beyond green at mississippi museum of natural science. >> thanks. you don't actually have to hop but you can walk over there. that's just a fun play on it. >>> here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. just when you thought kim kardashian marriage fiasco quieted, you can't hide, the guilted ex has come screeching back. the chicago "sun-times" says egged on by his lawyers, family and friends, kris humphries will seek an annulment rather than divorce claiming victim to fraudulent divorce and claiming he's due big bucks. kardashian claims she did not marry humphries for her tv show that she was truly in love. kanye west came away with seven grammy nominations, adele with six, including record, album, song of the year. the grammys will be awarded in february. >>> finally, file this under -- whatever. possibilities are endless. courtney love is claiming to be lindsay lohan's sobriety coach. yes, you heard me correctly. the notorious 47-year-old singer told "details" magazine, quote, i've taken up lohan because nobody else will. n

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mississippi. we can't wait to see you. brought to you by bp and all of us who call the gulf home. >>> 38 minutes past the hour now. a south carolina boy has decided to help a schoolmate who lost everything in a house fire by donating all of his life savings to the family. we pick up the story from our affiliate, wcsc. >> ready? >> with a few more pieces of tape, one final present will be ready for a family that lost everything in a trailer fire just a week ago. fisher cook, a third grader, decided he wanted to help fellow schoolmates that no longer had a place to live. >> i heard about their house booel being burnt down and i decided to give them my $300 in my bank account. >> fisher's mother was, to say the least, proud of her son when he told her what he wanted to do with his hard earned honor roll and birthday money. >> for him to give that up and want to do something good with it pleased me. >> last year, a trailer caught on fire. she says a single mother of three boys wasç there along wi the woman's mother and handi

mississippi. we can't wait to see you. brought to you by bp and all of us who call the gulf home. >> jon: glad you're with us. i'm jon scott on the grounds of west point to bring you the sound of the west point band. the academy sits on plateau, overlooking the hudson river. location chosen in 1778 is no accident. george washington builds his first colonial camp on the west point of the hudson river. this is the oldest continuously operated post in u.s. military. >> general washington chose this location to stop the british advancement during the revolutionary war. 24 years later, legislation signed by thomas jefferson in 1802, the college was established, devoted to training professional leaders in warfare. now more than 200 years later, today's cadets are well aware of the impressive legacy placed on their shoulders. >> tradition is everything here. it permeates through everything that we do. i mean, the uniform is the same as 1802 when the school opened. it gives us a background and something to draw from in the lives a

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mississippi. we can't wait to see you. brought to you by bp and all of us who call the gulf home. >>> february 23, 2000, started as a typical day at pelican bay state prison system but as the "b" facility inmates were patted down one difference went unnoticed. while it is typical for some inmates to stay in their cells, every southern hispanic in the facility went to the yard. >> i was in this exact spot and i noticed over here, some people started stabbing each other and i looked around and all over the yard, there was fighting and stabbings going on. >> the southern hispanics had launched a calculated and brutal attack on the black inmate population. >> i have seen over 300 stabbings myself, easily. been in lots of incidents and this was, by far the worst one i have ever, ever seen. >> the riot persisted through tear gas, through pepper spray and through all orders to stop. for over 30 minutes, the inmates continued to attack each other in a frenzy of fists and homemade knives. >>> it looked like the movie "braveheart" t

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ronald reagan make his first speech after after he was nominated president as it's in philadelphia mississippi the city where three civil rights workers were notoriously murdered and he talked about states' rights that was the that was the the core of his first speech why if he wasn't if the republican party isn't about dog whistle politics why i just don't think it's true i mean you can say that i'm going to give his first speech in philadelphia just yet but i'm not i'm not going to read into it the way you did you think he just picked a little time six thousand people in mississippi that nobody ever heard of. on the matter saying it's his first speech as president but this is his first speech as a candidate for president after he had been nominated by the republican party to be their official nominee for president that was his first speech was in philadelphia mississippi and actually i mean nixon called it the southern strategy you could say whatever you want i mean i've been involved in republican conservative politics not just in massachusetts but in other parts of the country and i haven'

it is snowing in mississippi this morning. northern mississippi, up towards memphis. as i mentioned, it is not a lot going on in the middle of the country. rockies is quiet and still chilly. we have a little bit of fog and it is the only real issue this morning. and anywhere from seattle southward down i-5, patches of locally dense fog and temperatures are near or below freezing. you get the freezing fog and get a little coating of ice on stuff. we are a little bit above freezing from seattle to portland. medford, below freezing. probably really any condensed areas of freezing fog that's worse, it would be around the medford area. little bit cool in california. we are not below freezing in many areas. as far as today's forecast goes, we are going to warm it up slowly. 67 there in l.a. arizona still on the chilly side. 50s and 60s for you. we have a little front trying to sag down into seattle today. we may get drizzle or showers out of it. it is not a lot of wet weather. we are not going to call that h sunny.of a big deal. prescott, arizona, very cool, 43. cool temper

you saw the word from mississippi said that this had a personal effect on him and i wonder if you can address the issue that comes up with the victim's family often get satisfaction of some kind -- some relief because of the person that they understand has committed the crime and they are finally put to death. can you remark on this? >> let me say, i agree with everything that they have talked about. i cannot really speak for the families of the victims, only what i have observed to the execution process. this has an impact on everyone who is involved, including the staff. and of course the inmates' families. and the people who show up to watch this. and the whole show of people who are there for this. you cannot walk away from this without having been impacted. i want to talk about the war and has said, that these executions have been 7-10 years after the crime and we're not executing the same person. in california, everyone who has been executed has been 20 years after the crime and you are not executing the same person. people do change. from my observation of the victims' family m