and in alabama flash floods washed out highways, stranding some people in their cars. the water was so deep in some spots they were almost unrecognizable. >> that's supposed to be a parking lot. >> once you usually enter the water it's too late to turn around. you're inundated before you know. >>> unfortunately we have more bad news. it's going to take some time before cleanup can even begin because the stormy weather is here to stay for a while. >> accuweather's meteorologist cam tran joins us now with a look at the forecast, and it's going to be a busy day and week. cam, good morning. >> good morning, diane and kendis. an upper-level system will bring the threat for severe weather across the texas panhandle. watch out in amarillo and lubbock while further east we're watching the concern for flash flooding. a flash flood remains in effect for the i-10 corridor east of houston stretching to pensacola. stubborn frontal boundary that could bring anywhere between two to four inches of rainfall today while out west we are looking at some record challenging heat from seattl

attention just given his checkered history on voting rights, civil rights, coming out of alabama. one of his top aides was a top aide to trump amash on miller, who went to school at duke university. he is been rewarded. i don't think anyone would have picked them to be the top candidate for the attorney general position, especially given his history of targeting african-american voting leaders in alabama for which scott king -- coretta scott king famously author that letter. senator warren tried to read it in the senate with a confirmation hearing was happening. you think about -- amy: issue is censured -- >> blocked from reading this letter that was so laid out about why the civil rights committee was so concerned about sessions in the 1980's. you look at tom price coming out of georgia. as a doctor, he was part of this group that was called medicaid and medicare -- aspects of socialized medicine that should be vehemently opposed. he at a checkered record because was known for going to bat for pharmaceutical companies. a lot of conflicts of interest where he tried -- we try to pu

. >>> al.com says an alabama park plans to add a barrier around a kangaroo that bit a ye on video. the girl'she motr said her daughter needeind ne stitches to her ear after being attacked saturday. regulators said a complaint has been filed against harmony park safari in huntsville. >>> for you new cases of measles in the state. 48 people have been sickened in for you weeks. three have been vaccinated. most sickened are somalian immigrants. >>> and a girl's date greeted her when she was brought out of a hearse. sheffield like to be a funeral director. >>> still to come a wash out for dove soaps. they get negative remarks on social media. members have lost 15% more weight in the first two months than on our prior program! and they're still eating the foods they love! but do they need help making more of their own tears? if you have chronic dry eye caused by reduced tear production due to inflammation, restasis multidose™ can help... with continued use twice a day, every day, one drop at a time. restasis multidose™ helps increase your eyes' natural ability to produce tears, which

host: ok, that is elizabeth from alabama. m hampton, connecticut, sherry on independent line to the reaction of the president's trip. caller: as an independent, i was impressed with what he said to the arab country when he got in front of 20 or 30 of those countries and told them that it was their responsibility to make sure that there were surgeons was not being taken over -- they're insurgents were not being taken over by these terrorists. i thought -- i listened to his home entire speech because i wanted to hear what he had to what the liberal media has to say what he said. number two, when he got in front of those other countries, the jew 20, and said it was their responsibility to pay their fair share -- the g 20 and said it was their responsibility to pay their fair share, i thought it was their responsibility. they expect the american people and our soldiers to help them, so why shouldn't they pay their fair share? i was impressed with history. i do not exactly like everything that president trump does and says, but i

guest: the creek indians were located primarily in alabama, the present day state of alabama. some were located also in georgia and then some also in northern florida, the panhandle. they were the group -- or at least one segment of the creek indians was the group that jackson fought against during the war of 1812. a lot of people don't realize, because of the battle of new orleans, jackson spends most of that war fighting the creek indians, not the british. he really only has one major encounter with the british and that's in new orleans. the other 18 months or so were spent fighting the creek indians. host: i'm going to read from your book. page 65 -- "he wanted to punish the creek -- all of them -- and take their land. he succeeded. as he told the creek, quote, you have followed the counsel of bad men and made war on part of your own nation and the united states. this war has cost the united states a large sum." didn't the land belong to the creeks? guest: it did, but in jackson's mind, the creek had allied themselves with the british and the british were the enemy of the u

and as my colleague from alabama said, the decision to use comp. time is completely voluntary ap requires a written agreement. those who want to continue receiving cash wages as overtime pay are always free to do so. also explicitly prohibits employees from coercing workers into electing comp. time. mr. speaker, this bill is again, is about fairness and it i is so difficult for me to understand how democrats would be opposed to that. we should have the same rules in the private sector as we do in the public sector. i think that democrats have run out of excuses not to provide workers this choice. all we are doing here is giving a choice. no one, republic caps or democrats should know what is best for individual workers and their families. mr. speaker, when we vote on this bill this week, i hope all of our colleagues will come to their senses and see they are discriminating against the private sector by denying the opportunity to take their overtime as comp. time and will vote with us. i thank my colleague from h for her leadership and her willingne

the forecast high in birmingham, alabama, today see 54 montgomery alabama forecasted high of 57. that is unbelievable. it doesn't happen like best -- high temperature ever on record for the date. we have good company on the cooldown. southeast as well, a brees kicks in sfo gusting to 21 and to the delta there's been gusting to 30 miles an hour so it's going to be cool windy into saturday better sunday then there are 40s kelseyville low 50s for many san rafael, high clouds clear and sun breaks and low drops in keeping us cool today 50s, 60s, below on the way to southern california by sunday possible rain down there. some snow maybe but the sierra above lake level. temperatures rebound sunday and a slight northerly breeze and warm temperatures monday and tuesday but nothing like earlier. >> for the belly aching we did -- >> pretty happy? >> thrilled. >>> many do not know trayvon martin had a love for flying. florida college plans to honor him five years after his death. >> it is huge. if you can see it across the bay, and may draw more eyes illuminated art installation above the sa

as we learned when we visited the correctional facility in alabama. >> you want to be interviewed? put your clothes on. come on. >> steven parker is serving a life sentence for the murder of his stepmother. >> a lot of people villain ize me. i grew up with parents that didn't give [ bleep ] about me. i'm not trying to excuse my behavior, you know what i mean? i take full responsibility. i pled guilty. >> when we met him, he was serving his time in administrative segregation because his desire for another tattoo nearly turned deadly. >> about six months ago, i cut a dude's throat down there in population. he was supposed to do some tattoos. i was going to get some swastikas tattooed on the side of my neck. he didn't want to. i said you just need to give me my money back. he didn't do it. i pulled out a box cutter, cut the side of his throat. he ran away, hid behind an officer like an officer is going to stop me [ bleep ]. flew him to the hospital, did some kind of surgery. >> our producer learned that the total debt owed to parker was $60 payable in snacks and toil tris purchased at

alabama, frert athens, thank you. steven rothstein. guest: robert, thank you for the call. are right, something very important to president kennedy, e worked, as the earlier clip talked about, making it a moral issue. in some way we have come a long since 1961, 62, 63, in other go and have more to there is more discrimination, racial injustice, economic to continue e have to work and work on areas both n our neighborhoods, to volunteer activities in the communities and through state, ederal and international legislation. thank you again, robert, for the call. host: can you talk for a moment the relationship between president kennedy and lyndon johnson during the three years white house? guest: first, lyndon johnson was a legislativejust leader in the senate, but to elected. kennedy get i think it is fair to say they started off not being particularly close, didn't have relationship, it grew over time. a thousand days is a very short president kennedy was in 1036 days. it is not as close as some other presidents and vice presidents. lyndon johnson defsh deserves a lot of cre

ceo and president of aerojet rocketdyne, eileen drake at university of alabama in huntsville, executive chairman schultz, at, howard arizona state university, tempe, senator elizabeth warren at the university of massachusetts amherst, and senator rob portman at ashland university in ohio. this saturday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and seized on -- and c-span.org. live, today on c-span, "washington journal" is next. at 9:00 a.m., the u.s. house returns. off the floor members are invited to a classified briefing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein on the firing of fbi director james comey. up in 30 minutes on "washington journal,", congressman jim himes of connecticut, ranking member of the intelligence of committee on the nsa and cyber security, on the latest issues into the russianand -- into the interference. and representative kevin cramer from north dakota, on the future of the paris climate agreement and other international efforts to reduce climate change. ♪ host: good morning, it is friday, may 19. here are your morning headlines. the washington post reports that jame

we're at a bp corner of 41st and alabama avenue in southeast. back here out on the scene. take a look at this atm. absolutely gutted. we just talked to the store employee who says that he was here. and that all of a sudden he heard the noise outside his store. and that he could see two masked men wrapping chains around the atm. and a third person inside a dark colored pickup truck. he said he turned and didn't say anything to it. >> he was trying to come out and hook up the atm. and then pulled it. and broke it. they took the money -- they didn't come inside, they don't harm me. >> reporter: so, thankfully, we can tell you the store employee is okay. as he said, they didn't try to tried to throw rocks at a glass door. tried to actually break into the store where he was at. police here on the scene telling us they won't know if they really did get away with cash until the store owner shows up and they have a good look at this. we're live in southeast, i'm erika gonzalez. >> thank you. >>> be careful, it's national bike to school day. this year ddot and d.c. schools are hold

host: jerry from alabama, good morning. caller: good morning. i called several times on the same subject. congress they seem to be interested -- until we recognize one of the big problems and attack it, we can't never collect congress. the problem with congress is it's frozen. it has frozen for hundred years. over a hundred years. there are three or four times as much many people in the congressional district as it was hundred years ago. three or four times your representation has shrunk in this past 100 years. when somebody opens their eyes and sees where the real problem is in the actual make up of congress physical make up, that should be at least 12 12 -- 1200 members of congress maintain the size it was in 1913. guest: yes members of congress represent a large number of constituents. i think we have seen that there are members of congress who want to work together and tackle political reform issues. there was a bill introduced last month for instance to reform the federal election commission. we saw six house democrats working with six hous

. >> reporter: drenching rain triggering floods from alabama to indiana this weekend. >> in my 39 years, i've never seen it this bad. >> reporter: in salem, indiana, rushing flood water carrying this massive structure downstream, slamming into this bridge. other large containers piled up against the bridge. that road now closed. houses submerged. businesses under water. this stranded car being pulled to higher ground. >> that's supposed to be a parking lot. >> reporter: just north in clinton county, a tornado tearing the side off this building. this, just one of three reported twisters in the area late saturday. and flash flooding washing out highways in birmingham, alabama, stranding this woman and her three children in their car. firefighters carrying them to safety. >> once you enter the water, it's too late to turn around and you're inundated before you know >> we want to stay on top of the flood threat tonight. hey, rob. >> hey, tom. this system has two parts to it, rains in the north. and that will push to the east coast, a rainy monday. and in the south, several rounds of rain co

counties along the water and canned a few along the georgia-alabama border. very world. .- very rural host: what is your least favorite part of the new job? dunn: travel. just to drive into my district with do fly in to georgia or tampa. host: the hours? : i thought is a busy surgeon you could not be any busier than i was but i was wrong. my wife works harder than i worked as a surgeon. youe are more things that can do, at some point you have to say ok there are only 24 hours in a day, set aside six this week. n dunn, thanksma you very much fort talking with us. host: congressman the fazio, the top democrat on the transportation and infrastructure committee talks about the recent treatment of airline passengers on a overbooked flights, which was the subject of two congressional hearings this week. watch the interview today at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> he once called for the removal of pluto as a planet and today kneeled a grass tyson will be our guest on "indepth." washe moon, as small as it compared to the earth has five times the mass o

the segregationist governor of alabama running the third party. getting votes of northern democrats, many of them labor union people and campaigning as conservative in his own right. so what does buckley do? he says the only thing about buckley, let me tell you a call for the welfare populace. he says let's look at the budget. for every federal quote - program 60 percent of the alabama budget, he's a fake conservative. the only thing he does to get people supporting him in a big way is he doesn't want that people to get benefits. any calls from the phone and he says the conservatives want fewer programs, less government and they don't want -- and he write this article. if those of you that support george wallace in place of a conservative and say. [inaudible] buckley counters this. he says if you look at how he is governed alabama and of president - that makes nixon respectable the second time. >> tina was always remarkable for me to think that that george wallace was competing with whom in these northern states for labor union votes. robert f ken

plans in their entire state this year: alabama, alaska, oklahoma, south carolina, and wyoming. mr. alexander: that's because of the affordable care act law passed in 2010. mr. president, unfortunately we're going to be hearing every day, not just about insurers leaving counties and states but about the ones that remain because they're going to be charging sky high premiums. premiums went up by as much as 62% this year in tennessee and by 116% in arizona. and as the new rate increases are proposed to the states over the next few weeks and months, our constituents are going to be saying what are you going to do about that? so there is an urgency, but we want to get it right. so again, here are my goals for the senate bill, which we will now write in the next few weeks. number one, reserve could you and reserve could you is not too stong a word -- rescue is not too advantage to word, the millions of americans across this country who are going to have few or zero insurance options in the year 2018 because of collapsing obamacare exchanges unless congress acts. number two, lower premium

saban has led alabama to four national titles. he's present good. >>> police in boston say criminal charges could be filed against red sox fans who allegedly used some racial taunts against adam jones of the orioles. this as jones stepped to the plate last night, fans in fenway, well, they gave him a standing ovation. >> the sustained applause was in sharp contrast to monday night's game. that's when jones says fans used racial slurs and even threw a bag of peanuts at him. >>> and to the nhl, playoffs and the predators and the rangers were the big winners last night. >> we get nba action right now espn. >> good morning, america. and as always utica, nicole briscoe, john anderson. >> match-up between thomas and john wall. john wall, very impressive. 40 points. it's just that thomas was just a bit more on the impressive scale. higher up. he scored 9 in overtime because, yes, this game required that. he scored 20 in the fourth. added all together with all the quarters, 53. >> that's a lot. >> celtics win, 129-119. >>> the west, steph

my parents are from birmingham and montgomery alabama. they were growing up in the 60s. they were heavily involved in the civil rights movement. we grew up in an era where you had to ride in the back of the bus and you saw alabama neesa poses and billy clubs and dogs so these are images that black americans have in their heads.do doesn't just fade away. it's handed down through generations.

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all those 19 counties down along the water, and a few more of because the georgia-alabama border which are very rural kind of counties. great folks. >> what is your favorite -- least favorite part of this new job? >> and inform us about a travel back and forth. when i need to go to the district, i may actually fight orlando, which is closer to the farms in my district and where i live. when i fight orlando, tampa, jacksonville, driving and my district -- into my district. >> the hours? >> they are amazingly long. i thought it was a busy surgeon. i was wrong. >> how many hours? >> i have not added it up. my wife

and yeah, somewhere--there's widespread poverty in places like alabama and missouri, but they have very different problems. it might not be housing. it might be you have to drive 40 miles to the nearest grocery store and you don't have transportation, things like that, right, where we don't necessarily experience that. so yeah, i think anyone i know who moves here, just the first apartment they see, they walk right out the door because they're having sticker shock, right? damian: let's try modesto and see what that commute's like. rachel: yeah, they're like, "this for $2,000, what?" you know? damian: and we saw the images, the video of your agency there. i mean, that's, you know, the core of what sacred heart does on a daily basis. it tears my heart when i see those images when i'm there personally. what's it like for you, yeah? rachel: you know what? i find it to be a really hopeful place. people are really grateful for our services that we provide. and they're really, really powerful when they join our political advocacy work. so, in the fall, we won renter's protections as part of a

you notice mississippi all the way through alabama, a lot of heavy rain through west virginia and also into northern portions of virginia. overnight heavier rains around washington, d.c., saturday very rainy from d.c. to baltimore to philadelphia to new york city. then through sunday into mother's day that heavy rain shifts into northern new england with a little improvement in the mid-atlantic area during mother's day morning. that's a look at the big weather story of the day. now a closer look at the day ahead. you can see where the stormy weather will be, we'll dry out in dallas and san antonio and houston. the storms through alabama and louisiana, mississippi and tennessee this morning, georgia this evening. and cool temperatures a frances, we'll talk about the rest of the country coming up. >> after breakfast in bed you stay in bed in the jammies the entire day. >> that's what you get. >> my kind of day. thank you. >>> have you seen a horse fly? that sort of happened when our rescue crew had to lift this horse to safety. the animal and rider slipped 300 feet down a cliff. crews ha

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he was a former governor of alabama. governor inlabama 1958 and lost. he ran as a racial moderate. he learned his lesson from that loss. morehe needed to be much strident on race and the preservation of segregation. in 1962 he ran again for alabama become aand one and staunch vocal and national prominent defender of segregation. in rising to national prominence, he was not just speaking to alabama, he was concerned about how states rights were being infringed upon. how local traditions and customs were being infringed upon by new federal mandates. you can listen to some of his speeches, even as governor. in his inaugural address he talks to southerners might have left the south who are seeing all of these changes in the racial order around them and the social order around them, that is not something they are pleased about. by 1968, he has transitioned this message to not talking specifically about racial change, but talking about social disorder, crimes and these line order concerns. he is not talking about race, but he kind of is. have everyal parties anarchist on the streets. i a

he's helping build a national monument to the victims of lynching in montgomery, alabama. and, walter isaacson, he's a historian and writer and president of the aspen institute. welcome to you both. walter i'd like to start with you first. you are a native of new orleans. you were there when they were bringing robert e. lee down off his pedestal today. what do you think of their moves? judge i think it's very, very good. these confederate monument statues was not put up to honor these people, it was you put up in the 1880s, 1890s as a way to try to reassert white supremacy. new orleans has had a history, we have just gone through a hurricane, you should honor people not confederate generals,. >> bryan stevenson how does this sit with you? >> i think it's long overdue and a very important step for one of america's great cities that wants to be open and inviting to all the people in the world. i think this legacy of racial inequality and segregation has put a cloud more than anything. these totems are made of concrete and steel and bronze but they have been screaming at afri

touring that awful storm damage in alabama, while knowing at that very moment u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s were already on the move, halfway around the world. >> you had to go to tuscaloosa. >> yeah. >> you had to go have fun at the correspondents dinner. seth meyers makes a joke about osama bin laden. >> people think bin laden is hiding in the hindu kush, but did you know every day from 4:00 to 5:00, he hosts a show on cspan? >> how do you keep an even keel, even when we look back on the videotape of that night? there is no real depiction that there is something afoot. >> you know, when i go down to tuscaloosa, i'm very much present there because the tragedy and the devastation that had happened to the folks there, i think, consumed all my attention. so that wasn't difficult to focus on. the correspondents dinner was a different story. that was a little bit of acting going on there because my mind was elsewhere. >> i ran into many friends and acquaintances that night who subsequently remarked after the fact that pretty good poker player. didn't give anything up. >> we didn'

five entire states have only one insurer offering aca plans in their entire state, alabama, alaska, oklahoma, south carolina and wyoming. that is because on the law passed in 2010. unfortunately, we will be hearing every day not just about insurers leaving counties and states, but about the ones that remain, because they will be charging skyhigh premiums. premiums went up by as much as 60% this year. by 160% in arizona. and as the new rate increases are proposed over the next few weeks, our constituents will say, what will you do about that? there is an urgency, but we want to get it right. again, here are my goals for the senate bill which we won all right in the next few weeks. rescue, that is not too strong a word, the millions of americans across this country who are going to have few or zero insurance options in the year 2018 because of collapsing obamacare exchanges, unless congress acts. number two, lower premium rates. because in many states, the premiums are going through the roof under the affordable care act. number three, gradually transferred to states more flexibility in managi

what do you make of what's happening in alabama and north carolina? is progress being made to make sure voters are not barred from exercising their right to vote? >> last week and this week was a good week for protecting voting rights. when it comes to protecting voting rights, the last folks that i would trust would be the trump administration in doing it. i'm very happy that the dnc put up a special commission. i'm serving as vice chair, and the purpose of our commission is as a direct response to the president, president trump, establishing this commission on election integrity. i don't think that we can trust our president when it comes to protecting voting rights. he's made very -- a lot of baseless claims by saying that so many illegal americans voted in the last election. we are here as a reality check on what's really going on in this country when it comes to voting rights. being a native of selma and the congressperson who represents the civil rights district, there's no bigger challenge to our democracy than making sure that every american h

a few more against the georgia-alabama border. >> i asked you what surprised you about washington, what is your least favorite part of the new job? >> the enormous amount of travel back and forth. when i need to go to the district, i fly to orlando. orlando, tampa, or jacksonville just to drive into my district and work on the east end. >> the hours? the hours are amazingly long. i thought as a busy surgeon you couldn't be more busy than i was. i was wrong. >> how many hours? >> i have not added it up. my wife works harder. there are more things than you can do and you have to say there are only 24 hours in a day, set aside six for sleep. >> thank you for talking to us and telling our viewers about yourself. newsmakers, the rhode island congressman, the cofounder and cochair of the cyber security caucus, talks about how the u.s. should defend cyber attacks and the ransomware attack. ♪ washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues. coming up this morning, pentagon bureau chief discusses the pentagon's progress report on the fight against isis. then the american advance

and throughout his tenure in the united states senate as attorney general of alabama, jeff sessions has worked hard to cultivate strong, collaborative relationships across the federal law enforcement community. such collaboration is more than critical as our country faces unprecedented threats from international terrorist organizations and transnational criminal gangs. attorney general sessions, on behalf of all the men and women of the sergeants benevolent association of new york city, it is my privilege to instill upon you and honorary membership in our union in recognition of your commitment to doing what is right for our communities and having the backs of law enforcement officers across this nation. we present to you this plaque in honor of the sergeants benevolence association. because the certificate to be signed by the presiding officers on this date. thank you. ag sessions: thank you so much. that is fabulous. i will cherish that indeed. i want to thank all of you, your 13,000 members who walk the streets every day and put their lives on the line, and the association that you h

up next, we will speak with republican senator luther strange of alabama. why he says this is a distraction tactic. most on these balloons. travel with my daughter. roller derby. ♪ now give up half of 'em. do i have to? this is a tough financial choice we could face when we retire. but, if we start saving even just 1% more of our annual income... we could keep doing all the things we love. prudential. bring your challenges. >> hi, everyone, i am melissa francis peer republican senators saying moments ago "it may be that we need to look to an independent commission or special prosecutor regarding the whole president trump comey flint rush investigation." we're going to tell you who said that. and one of our guests has some unsolicited advice for the vice president. he says maybe he should threaten to resign, why? we are going to ask him. class a white legal experts are saying that there is no there there when it comes to potential obstruction of justice charges against the president. all next on "america's newsroom hq" ." >> jon: fox news alert, fox now co

i tell you from people who vote in alabama, and voted for trump in the nation, they take his promises seriously, they are expecting us and congress to help facilitate that agenda. lou: i hope everyone in the republican party in both houses agrees with you. >> thank you. lou: senator luther strange. >> vote in our poll tonight, do you believe we're now engaged in a struggle against the left, the dems and the establishment for the soul of this nation? cast your slow th vote on twitter we would like to hear from you, like me on facebook and instagram. on wall street today, stock prices moving lower, a sell-off on wall street, the dow plunged 372 points, s&p down 43, nasdaq down 160. and most analysts blaming all of the controversy in washington d.c. today. that controversy had been building through the day before the appointment of a special council by the justice department. big board volume 4.1 billion shares. >> household debt in country hit a record 12.7 trillion in first quarter, topping peak of 2008. and listen to my report 3 times a day, coast-to-coast, on the salem radio network.

the republican establishment through the immigration battle adding on jeff sessions the senator from alabama that had collaborated with them. steven miller sessionsd communications director. the three of them in the breitbart staff really took down or participated seriously and importantly in the taking down of harry cancer and the other members of the republican establishment including john boehner. they were kind of painkillers in that sense and that's what brought the attention of trump and that relationship is what brought rum to the white house. >> host: the term i'll write mark -- alt-right tends to be affiliated with breitbart. >> guest: a lot of people say he couldn't be the editor-in-chief of breitbart without eating a racist or in anti-semi. we have talked to an awful lot of people about it. here's the consistent approach and there are people of course say you couldn't run that web site with sections like black crime and illegal alien crime and engenders the kind of comments you could read atly breitbart with a misogynist and xenophobic quote. talke others we talked to said wait a

and president of arrow jet rocket, arlene drake, at university of alabama in huntsville. executive chairman of starbucks, howard schultz, at arizona state university, tempe. senator elizabeth warren at university of massachusetts, amherst. and senator rob portman at ashland university in ohio. this saturday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and cspan.org. >> deputy attorney general rod rosenstein briefed house members today after having briefed the senate yesterday. "the washington post" reporting several members leaving the house briefing expressed frustration. with the lack of new information provided about president trump's decision to fire f.b.i. director james comey. some of the lawmakers spoke to reporters after the briefing. reporter: did you learn anything new in there? hows was the briefing? mr. issa: the special prosecutor will have the breadth of scope if necessary to follow any and all leads directly to the russian attempt to influence our election. that for me clearly unclassified, that for me is the most important question there is, will the special prose

coastline, but in all those 19 counties down along the water there and a few more up against the georgia, alabama border. great folks. >> i asked you what surprised you about washington. what's your favorite -- what's your least part of this new job? >> just the enormous amount of travel back and forth. so when i need to go to the district, i may actually fly to orlando, which is closer to the far end of my district than where i live. so we fly to orlando, tampa, or jacksonville to drive into my district and work on that east end of the district. >> and the hours? >> the hours are amazingly long. i thought as a busy surgeon you could not be any busier than i was. i was wrong. yeah. i was wrong. >> what are you working? how many hours out here? >> i have not added it up. my wife works harder than i worked as a surgeon. i work -- it's a lot.

for every federal program, 60 percent of the alabama budget is coming from washington. he is a bit conservative. the only thing he does to get people supporting him in a big way is he doesn't want black people to get benefits for any of the -- and he calls him a phony. and he says will conservatives want fewer programs, less government and they don't want racial tensions. and he writes his article. those of you supporting george wallace calling themselves a conservative -- vote for me. but when consciousness and there's a lot of difference. if you look at how he's governed alabama and you look at the kind of president he will be to minorities and others. and that makes nixon respectable to these people do not like him. >> and his funny) george wells was competing with robert f kennedy. that was the situation. another brings the racial issue up. buckley was not a racist and do the opposite. he drove the racist abbasid number for you people here. and yet, like goldwater who is not a racist, integrated his own family department store in arizona. he, buckley and goldwater o

birmingham, alabama. mobile, alabama. a couple of water rescues. in birmingham. 5 to 7 inches of rainfall falling in a short period of time. montgomery, over eight inches in a 24-hour period. here's the radar. a little bit less in the way of rain. still, some heavy stuff across the florida panhandle. we have a flash flood to watch out for in parts of the new orleans for the next wave that will be along the next stall. more rain coming for the deep south. in some areas, it's good. some areas, you'll see more of that flooding. this gets up to the northeast, >>> congrats, once again, to cloud computing for winning the preakness. i like to think it's a weather-related thing. but i think it has more to do with data, and computers. >> make it whatever you want it to be. >> cumulus cloud. >> good job. >> megablock every week. no more megablocks today? >> no, we're good. >> i have no idea what we're talking about. >> i rarely know what we're talking about. imagine how they feel. >> yes. our apologies. >>> let's talk about something that is reasonably coher

he was a former governor of alabama. he first ran for alabama governor in 1968 and lost. he ran as a racial moderate. he learned from that loss he needed to be much more strident on race and the preservation of segregation. in 1962 he ran for alabama governor and won but became a staunch defender of segregation. in rising to national prominence, he was not speaking to alabamians concerned about how states rights were being infringed upon, how local traditions and customs of racial segregation were being infringed by national mandates, but he also -- and you can listen to some of his speeches as governor, he is talking to southerners who might have left the south, letting other places, seeing changes in the racial order around them and the social order, and that is something they are not pleased about. so by 1968, he has transitioned this message not talking specifically about racial change but social disorder and crime and law and order concerns. he is not talking about race, but he kind of is. so both national parties have kowtowed to every person. i'm not talking about

recognizing this problem in 2007, the state of alabama offered the secret service and the department of homeland security property and funds to construct a state-of-the-art facility if the federal government would fund the training and allow the secret service to operate it. i'm proud to say this facility is located in my district in the city of hoover. the national computer forensics institute, ncfi, opened its doors in may of 2008. state and local law enforcement officers come from all across the country to be trained at this one of a kind facility where they're trained by secret service agents on the same equipment and same software that our secret service agents use. ncif has -- ncfi has trained law enforcement officers, prosecutors and judges from all 50 states and its graduates represent over 500 agencies. they are not only trained in solving crimes but also in prosecution. i'm pleased that the work that ncfi does is being recognized, and i'm proud to be an original co-sponsor of h.r. 1616 and urge my colleagues to support it. i thank you and yield back. the speaker pro tempore

now the ruling followed the delay of seven prior executions in alabama. arthur's lawyers attempted to file an attempt to appeal arguing the state planned to use an ineffective sedative. >> cleanup is under way in ohio this morning after wild weather ripped through the buckeye state. this after an f1 tornado hit the area. the twister brought winds of up to 100 miles an hour. it knocked down trees, power lines and damaged several homes there. thankfully there were no reports of any injuries. >>> meanwhile hurricane season officially kicks off on june 1st. and weather forecasters are warning people to prepare for a very active season. oceanic and atmospheric administration is forecasting more tropical storms than normal. this year's outlook says there is a 70 percent chance for anywhere between 11 and 17 nad as nine hurricanes. >> ♪ >> in today's health watch, startling reality when it comes to alzheimer's disease. the center for disease control say more people are dying from the disease than in years past. a new report finds alzheimer's deaths increased n

. >> we cover georgia, florida, and alabama. got a two-fold question about trade. question from our georgia farm broadcaster, i believe you know mr. peanut. he wants to know if you see anything on the horizon that will mess up the deal with the chinese on peanuts and the talk about nafta, the south florida winter vegetables got thrown in the deal with nafta and wondered if you have any information for the south florida winter vegetable guys that are still standing. >> we understand that our vegetable growers in south florida have not benefitted as well as some other aspects of alkutch in that and that needs to be considered. that's one of the things that we need to talk about. but we've not had any discussions about peanuts right now. i don't see any change there. i think the peanut guys from georgia, alabama, carolinas, texas, are going to be well-served by the trade negotiations. the good thing about our peanuts is they're high quality, received very well across the country. if you talk to him, tell him i could sure use some of those fried peanut butter and jelly