the mississippi. so charles percy who was the son of thomas was 20 years old in 1940. and by that time his family had acquired land in the mississippi delta your he loaded flatboat with everything he had, and all his family's possession from a plantation they had acquired worth a half a million dollars back in 1840, including -- got on the tennessee river, went down to the ohio and then took the ohio river to the mississippi, and landed in a place that is called diacritic mississippi -- deer creek, mississippi. so the youngest kid on there was william alexander percy. he was just three years old. charles didn't last long. he died 10 years later. but william went to princeton, too, and they went to university of virginia law school. and then we mississippi, and during the war he became a colonel and had a regiment. he wasn't for secession but when mississippi seceded he went to fight. and he came back, his plantation was desolated, but he reorganized. and when the white, you know, terrorist overthrew,

and mississippi were shipped east of the mississippi. so charles percy was the son of thomas in 20 years old in 1940 and by that time, his family had acquired land in the mississippi delta. he loaded flatboats with everything he had an all family possessions from the plantation they had acquired worth half a million dollars back in 1840 including all of the slaves and got on the tennessee river and went down to the ohio then took the ohio river to the mississippi and landed in a place that is called deer creek mississippi. close now to the little town. the youngest kid on there was william alexander percy who was just three years old. charles did not last long. he died 10 years later. that william went to princeton but when there he became a colonel and have their regiment. he was not for secession but when they seceded, he went to fight and came back, the plantation was decimated but he reorganized. when the terrorist overthrew, he was a respectable face of terror to go into the mississippi legislature to become speaker for just one ter

and mississippi were shipped east of the mississippi. so charles percy was the son of thomas in 20 years old in 1940 and by that time, his family had acquired land in the mississippi delta. he loaded flatboats with everything he had an all family possessions from the plantation they had acquired worth half a million dollars back in 1840 including all of the slaves and got on the tennessee river and went down to the ohio then took

his father david is a second generation dairy man and also a mississippi state graduate. david doesn't actively use social media himself but supports his son's efforts to talk about agriculture. >> somebody fleds to tell our story. there are plenty of people ready to tell a story but may not be just exactly how it is. >> will added videos to his website in 2009 and started posting them on youtube as well. his father as appeared with him in at least one segment. this episode is titled a typical day, and has received almost 1400 views online. >> we do get a lot of feedback from people in agriculture that ask us about some of the things we do on the farm. we also get comments people who live in cities and urban centers who don't have a dairy farm anywhere around them or any kind of agriculture so it's a great way to connect with those people. >> from out in the country, social media is letting will successfully convey his important message round the nation. from alabama,. >> if you would like to follow will's blog head to gilmer dairy.blog spot..com. we will have a link on t

now, mississippi, there was just no way. and so one of the things was you're never going to do it here. when i graduated from high school, i had two partial scholarships, drama, for drama. and i thought what am i going to do with it here? so out. i had to get out. >> in the sense that in you're a young black man growing up in mississippi at the time your chances of getting on in life are pretty close to zero? >> if you stayed there. >> yeah. >> now, i had a lot of friends, my contemporaries in school, and they're in the mississippi legislature, they're senators, and they're teachers and they went to stuff like that. you know. so the timing was right for us sort of, you know. after 1964 things sort of broke loose. >> well, when barack obama became president, i know you endorsed him and supported him and so on. obviously, it was seen as this pivotal moment for america where we had the first black president. and yet i've seen you many times in interviews stress you don't want to be known as a black actor. >> no. >> you don't th

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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. >> because of my charges, i'm housed in level 6. they said i beat a guy to death with three other people in the community jail. torn kidney, broken ribs, broken skull. he was brain dead. they charged four of us. they charged me with the death penalty. take me to court for two and a half years to fight them. i get the death penalty thrown out and then they hang me for first-degree murder. they offered me a plea bargain and i said okay. >> like many suspected gang members, the only way out of level 6 is out of state transfer. the problem is, his request be has been denied before. >> what is it that you need from me today? what do you need to know. >> transfer. >> transfer where? >> out of state. >> i was told your out of state was denied. however -- however, let me finish. what i can do -- you have it and i don't have it? >> when i got here, you locked me down. >> okay. >> i stayed under investigation for three and a half years.

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as we head into areas of jackson, mississippi, getting some rain. also rainy on and off, even into new orleans, especially during the afternoon hours. and if you're in mississippi or alabama, that rain is going to spread your way. this green shows you where the rain's going to go the next 48 hours. notice it soaks the southeast and then right up the east coast. looks like an inch, inch and a half at most for just about everyone. i mentioned there may be just enough cold air on the back side of this that if you're in areas of say eastern or northeastern ohio, back up towards the buffalo and erie areas, that's where we could actually add some snow on your forecast. possibly, if we're getting any heavy snow, adirondacks into areas right around watertown, new york. you haven't had a lot of snow there this year either, and you have a chance tuesday into tuesday night. the forecast for today, looking really good the eastern seaboard, no problems at all. pretty nice day, in the 40s and 50s. there's the rain from new orleans, mississippi, even dallas dealin

will be in the mississippi valley during the day tomorrow. 20 inemperature only in denve denver. rain comes back thursday night and into friday morning. clearing up in the afternoon on friday. christmas eve it will be dry with a high near 45. christmas day there is still a slight chance for rain or snow. we will keep an eye on the storm right now. we may get click on the northern edge. -- clipped on the northern edge. >> he is sticking with it, snow on christmas day. the last person you want to be tired is the person piloting your plane. >> it has been a major concern. tonight the faa takes action. >> helping our wounded warrior spirit of that story coming up here ys. >> reassuring news for those of you traveling the skies this year, you not to worry about the pilot not being at their best. >> new faa regulations come after a plane crash was blamed on pilot fatigue. to go the faa says these new rules will prevent more accidents and save lives. >> ready for takeoff. new rules for private have been decades in the making. >> this is a big deal today. for 25 years people have been ta

and if you're in mississippi or alabama, that rain is going to spread your way. this green shows you where the rain's going to go the next 48 hours. notice it soaks the southeast and then right up the east coast. looks like an inch, inch and a half at most for just about everyone. i mentioned there may be just enough cold air on the back side of this that if you're in areas of say eastern or northeastern ohio, back up towards the buffalo and erie areas, that's where we could actually add some snow to your forecast. possibly, if we're getting any heavy snow, adirondacks into areas right around watertown, new york. you haven't had a lot of snow there this year either, and you have a chance tuesday into tuesday night. the forecast for today, looking really good the eastern seaboard, no problems at all. pretty nice day, in the 40s and 50s. there's the rain from new orleans to mississippi, even dallas dealing with some showers. northern plains, 45 in minneapolis. sno nowhere on the ground? i mean, that's a great day for you. looks like you will cool off on tuesday. ch

mississippi. we can't wait to see you. brought to you by bp and all of us who call the gulf home. >>> you might assume that a texan would always support a texan, but that's not the case with former president george h.w. bush. george 41 offered words of support, close to an official endorsement, not to rick perry, but to candidate mitt romney. the former president told the "houston chronicle" this week, "i think romney is the best choice for us." he also said, "i like perry, but he doesn't seem to be going anywhere. he's not surging forward." on newt gingrich he said, carefully, "i'm not his biggest advocate." what a gent. the former president bush, the senior bush. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." ron paul now leads the race to win the iowa caucuses on january 3rd. and with that lead comes a level of scrutiny he hasn't yet faced, including a closer look at some of his more unconventional positions. what is paul's popularity in iowa tell the rest of us about that state? and what would a ron paul iowa cau

>> abilene clark is a made in 1962, mississippi. when you're troduced to her in the story she has lost her son, 24 years old. shlost him in industrial accident and basically ad inside. she's decided to stop working. she's depressed and decides to go back and work for a young girl, well, elizabeth and she raises her daughter and through the course of the sto she's introduced to this idea to write this book about how it feels to be a black domestic work inning mississippi for white women. >> charlie: through a series of conversations and stories? >> interviews with skeeter the writer and through the course of writing the book i think she finds a purpose, you know, which has been absent in her life after she lost her son. so it goes. >> charlie: you read the book and wanted to make a movie. >> i did. i was very ambitious i said i want to option it and produce it and be the star of it and provide work for women of color. >> charlie: you could do that? >> in hindsight it was ambitious to see what it has turne into, yeah, it seemed overly

. >> reporter: the only two states, oregon and mississippi that now require mississippi, report a dramatic decline in meth labs. in oregon, busts are down 96% since 2006. in mississippi, they are down 66% since the law took hold last year. >> you should have taken sudafed. >> reporter: but over the counter remedies for cold and allergy relief make up a $4 billion business. the pharmaceutical industry is fighting stricter regulation. its trade group told us efforts to impose a prescription mandate will not stop meth abuse and punish the more than 18 million american families who rely upon these medicines. the pharmaceutical companies and even some allergy sufferers say, we don't want to put our customers through the inconvenience of a prescription for a simple cold medicine. >> well, look at the inconvenience in our daily lives, you know? if you take a plane anywhere, now you have to take your shoes off, your belt off. but you're arriving safely. >> reporter: for the kentucky unite task force, the day's work drags into night. >> they found a lab that's bubbling. >> reporter: over the same h

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harper of mississippi and mr. cole of oklahoma, to reduce federal spending by ending public financing for campaign and terminate this assistance commission. presidential campaigns are becoming increasingly expense i have to the tune of hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, the idea of having taxpayers contribute matching funds to them is lewd crowd. this practice -- ending this prackties would save $617 until over 10 years. as a member of the me on jurisdiction over e.a.c., the house administration committee, i've learned firsthand that this agency has outlived -- outlived its usefulness, mismanaged its resources, costing we the taxpayer millions of dollars a year. the election assistance commission's budget request for 2012 devoted 51.7% of its budget to management and overhead costs. let's eliminate this commission and support this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. brady: i'd like to recognize the gentleman from pennsylvania, m

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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. >>> the u.s. justice department has rejected south carolina's new voter i.d. law. wow. saying it does not protect the state's minority voters from discrimination. the department said the new law did not comply with the voting rights act. and that tens of thousands of minority voters might be denied the right to vote. good for them. the justice department must approve changes to south carolina's elections laws because of the state's past failure to protect the voting rights of african-americans. we'll be right back. ♪ i don't need anyone else in my arms ♪ ♪ but you tonight [ male announcer ] this is your moment. ♪ [ male announcer ] build your own unique memories with persona beads. now at zales, the diamond store. >>> sometimes it's hard to do the right thing. and sometimes it's politically difficult to do the right thing. but you know, when everybody called for a one-year extension of the payroll tax deduction, when e

this line here, see it, just west of jack son, mississippi -- jackson, mississippi. those are thunderstorms with isolated pockets of weather. no thunderstorms for us when this system gets in. high pressure dominated the mountain west there and another storm system that will crash into the pacific northwest over the next 24 to 36 hours. this is futurecast. tonight at 11:00, we have clear skies. quickly those clouds come in and thicken up. this is tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. again, if you aring into the office tomorrow, you know, you get there dry, at least that's the way it's looking now. then the rain quickly comes in and it looks like it's not just showers. once it gets in here, it's full on rain tomorrow and it's wet out there. we are talking rainfall totals maybe 1/2 inch to some places could be right up around an inch or so. look at the oranges here or painting a red. that is heavy rain coming through. quickly it's out of here by 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 we are drying out. look at the snow out to the west and the cold air. it's not going to come across the mountains.

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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

some rain showers crossing over mississippi. a developing system will affect us mainly on a thursday. steven moll you will notice added clouds. limited sunshine 50 today with skies, 52 tomorrow. rain thursday afternoon. >>> normal travel times. working in our favor of 95 between richmond and baltimore. good on the greenway, the toll road. thes clear between bridge and alongville and a nice run 270. the wilson bridge, moving very to the south of town. no issues on the beltway between avenue and at georgia avenue. take youere i will next. where did ever got to go? >> it is too early. >>> 31 degrees. less than two weeks from christmas. many of you probably still perfect gift.e >> you don't want to break the bank. cui have ideas and most of them $25.nder >> holiday gifts should be fun, thoughtful, and not expensive. are my top picks for six. most of them under $25. have tohat you don't to use the you all phone. $20 for this pair. another item that has dropped in wireless keyboard that use within ipad. $25 from hp. a great way to pyl

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heavy rain in texas into the mid mississippi river valley. nice but windy out west. then on sunday, the sunny and mild conditions continue along the east coast with the exception of new england. heavy rain in the gulf coast to the mid ohio river valley. look for frigid conditions in the plains.

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