growing up to be the governor of mississippi was a great compliment to a young man in mississippi at the time. one of those young men was named trent lot. one of those young men was named thad cochran. i telephoned thad cochran and invited him to be a member of the citizens for nixon-agnew. he was a democrat but he agreed to do that. he met in october of that year in indianapolis. the mayor of indianapolis then was richard lugar, a young mayor at that time, later a member of this body. and that was the beginning of thad cochran's republican party activity. then he and that other young man who were so promising, both ran for the united states congress in 1972, and to the surprise of a great many people they were elected the first republicans since reconstruction, i suppose, in mississippi, thad cochran and trent lott. in 1978, thad cochran did something nobody had ever done in his state since the reconstruction. he became a republican elected to the united states senate and he's been here ever since. the reason he was able to be successful is not surprising. thad was and is an engagin

and we're here to serve the people of mississippi. even at a time when the wounds of segregation were still raw, he made it clear this meant all -- all -- mississippians. in fact, he hired the first african american congressional staffer to work in a mississippi office since reconstruction. nemiah flowers. and for all his staff, thad took the time to pen a detailed memo laying out high expectations for serving constituents and treating everyone with dignity. that temperament led it a litany of accomplishments. mississippians knew that in thad they had a quiet persuader. a steady workhorse, a dogged advocate who almost never made a fuss but almost always made a difference. indeed, the policy achievements of this mighty appropriations chairman are so numerous as to defy easy summary. i know this schoolteacher's son is particularly proud of his work on education. senator cochran carried the banner for research partnerships that raised the profile of historically black colleges and universities. he delivered critical funding to expand sch

thad was a practicing attorney in jackson, mississippi, a graduate of the university of mississippi, law school, undergraduate. and also studied abroad at trinity college in dublin, ireland, where we visited one time. we've served together here in the u.s. senate for over 30 years. he's been an excellent colleague and i've been honored to work with him. we represent neighboring states, mississippi and alabama. we both worked on some of the same priorities. but mainly he served mississippi with the utmost dignity and respect. he has an excellent staff. mr. shelby: we're all grateful for the hard work and help and coordination with all of us. as chairman of the appropriations committee, he's been a remarkable negotiator and the majority leader will tell you he's won himsel -- we need e traits. thad has provided critical funding for mississippi priorities over the years. he hasn't forgotten where he's from. he's led the restoration of the gulf coast after hurricane katrina right here with a lot of help. his major priorities have always been, as i've understood them, defense of this nati

growing up to be the governor of mississippi was a great compliment to a young man in mississippi at the time. one of those young men was named trent lot. one of those young men was named thad cochran. i telephoned thad cochran and invited him to be a member of the citizens for nixon-agnew. he was a democrat but he agreed to do that. he met in october of that year in indianapolis. the mayor of indianapolis then was richard lugar, a young mayor at that time, later a member of this body. and that was the beginning of thad cochran's republican party activity. then he and that other young man who were so promising, both ran for the united states congress in 1972, and to the surprise of a great many people they were elected the first republicans since reconstruction, i suppose, in mississippi, thad cochran and trent lott. in 1978, thad cochran did something nobody had ever done in his state since the reconstruction. he became a republican elected to the united states senate and he's been here ever since. the reason he was able to be successful is not surprising. thad was and is an engagin

that was their protection to enter mississippi. >> reporter: however, soon after arriving in mississippi, three volunteers, two white, one black, left the group to investigate a church burning. >> schwerner, chaney, and goodman, two white jewish kids and a black kid from mississippi did not come back by the appointed check time. >> three civil rights workers that disappeared in mississippi still have not been heard from. >> people are calling reporters, saying they're missing civil rights workers in mississippi. that was one of the reasons that allowed for this real convergence of press interests that went right up into the white house. >> mrs. schwerner, i have talked to the governor there and he is making all the facilities in the state available in the search. >> it became the dominant story of the summer. >> did mr. schwerner ever tell you in his own words why he came down here? >> he wanted to find what he could do about an intolerable situation. >> reporter: very quickly, the media focused on rita schwerner, the telegenic wife of missing activist michael schwerner. >> the people in

people read the speech, i went to the archives of the republican party of mississippi at mississippi state university and i read the memos that were written by the state officials. in fact, one of the things i learned yesterday, one of the officials in the reagan campaign event,ped arrange this paul manafort. he was kind of a southern representative for reagan, i learned that yesterday. the local officials in mississippi who were communicating with national officials for the gop, months before reagan won the nomination. they did not know who was going to win the nomination. the national office was saying where should our candidate come? mississippi official said you have to come to neshoba county, that is where our candidate can attract the george wallace inclined voters. "the george wallace inclined voters." that is an actual phrase. you will see in office -- in op-ed's, people talking about the southern strategy, they will quote this george wallace inclined voters. i am the one who found it. i am telling you. let it be known. "george wallace inclined what does he mean in 1980? it i

a county and he central in east central mississippi, it is a county fair. long time, long asore 1980 the fair emerged the place in mississippi politics where politicians would go and give their speech. dating back to the 19th century people would turn out late they would go to these cabins they built around the racetrack. close up in a county very , there was a distant cousin of mine who was running for a judgeshio. p. one summer when i was 10, he took us over so we could hand out flyers. that kind of thing. i grew up going to the fair. this is a picture of ronald fair, this980 at the is a picture i had in my first book. and i showed it to my mother, she looked at the picture and that his people from the crowd she knew. mississippi is a small place this county was a political .vent in june of 1964, three civil rights workers were murdered. they were murdered and their it took place over the summer of 1964. when hundreds of civil rights volunteers went south to try to register african-americans, this captivated the nation and made international news. their b

i know that you are doing it in mississippi. four years ago we passed a new state law creating what would call the early learning collaborative for the state put aside $3 million for a limited number of lowered its an certain areas of our state and these collaboratives are partnership between local districts had start agencies childcare centers and nonprofit organizations and because of the improvements that we have seen in the children as they are entering kindergarten or legislature increased that money. one way i was able to do that very simply a changed kindergarten enrollment form so all students, parents had to let us know where their students were as 4-year-olds. where were children being better prepared for kindergarten and not? that was an eye-opener. the overseeing of the launch of these collaboratives develop guidelines for all of our pre-k classes and we also align their pre-k standards to our k-12 standards so we made sure that was out there. we provided professional development from public and private providers for

of course, senator cochran never stopped being a cheerleader for mississippi. now, chairman cochran and i certainly had our differences. the chairman once said i don't call a lot of news conferences. i just don't see that as a necessary part of my responsibility. well, we'll agree to disagree on that one. but there are many things we have in common. there is a particular part of his legacy i admire. after hurricane katrina buffetted his state, he convinced recalcitrant lawmakers to deliver aid to the gulf coast, far exceeding the administration's request, and he did it by working members on his side of the aisle and across the aisle, behind the scenes. that's how he earned the nickname the quiet persuader. it's a skill i greatly respect after going through something similar when hurricane sandy hit my home state of new york. at the time, chairman cochran was the ranking member on the appropriations committee. he and his staff were extraordinarily helpful throughout the process. ultimately, senator cochran voted for the sandy relief bill when many of his colleag

most than we do know about our west of the mississippi and that isn't necessarily because west of the mississippi is more seismically predisposed but it's because we have done more research and so when youpr talko the u.s. geologists and seismologists they say if you want to be really terrified to thin,think about earthquake potl in thed, northeast. we don't know anything about that and basically that's because when you think about it, earthquakes are happening 5 miles, 30 miles under the surface of the earth. we don'the know when and where they are going to happen if we can't anticipate them and get technology to measure them so all we can really do is postmortem after an earthquake has happened and so they remain this incredibly unknown phenomenon that we have to sort of guess that we do know the united states is profoundly seismically activated the potential for major earthquakes is happening just about everywhere. as i say in the book unless you live in miami, you are probably at risk. will that happen tomorrow or in 500 yearsrr or 5,000 years, we don't know that we do know the po

mississippi is a small place. political event every year. nashoba county is the place where, in june of 1964, 3 civil rights workers were murdered. their death and the hunt for these missing civil rights workers that took place over the course of the summer, freedom summer, when hundreds of civil rights volunteers went south to try to register african-americans, this captivated in nation and made international news. their bodies were discovered late in the summer in a levy where they had been buried. they had been murdered by klansmen. wins the republican nomination in 1980. the convention is in detroit. the first campaign stop email is in the show but county -- nashoba county. you know in that speech he gave, he talked about that he is a supporter of states' rights. and we know historically what that is about. it goes back to the succession itself that when alexander stephens said we are succeeding -- seceding, geoff davis is saying, i don't know about that. let's talk about state rights. to talk aboutic white supremacy in 1860 and it is im

mississippi, going into alabama along i-10, particularly along i-20. then the big problem is widespread flooding that will reach down to houston along the coast of texas, louisiana, throughout mississippi, tennessee, alabama, going into kentucky and not only that, the rain will reach into the ohio valley region. kenneth? diane? >> paul, thank you. >>> turning to the firing of yet another cabinet secretary in the trump administration. >> veteran's affairs chief is out amid spending abuses. the president says the white house doctor will replace him. maggie rulli has the latest. >> reporter: it's another shake up at the white house. david shulkin is out as secretary of veteran affairs. the president, once again, made the announcement on twitter saying he intends to nominate ronnie l. jackson. admiral jackson served as the white house doctor in the last three sessions. the president says he is, quote, highly trained and qualified and, as a service member himself, he has seen firsthand the tremendous sacrifice our veterans make. he was a loan hold over from

i know that because we are doing it in mississippi. four years ago we passed a new state law, creating early learning collaboratives. the state put aside $3 million for a limited number of collaboratives to be put in underserved areas of our state. these are partnerships between local districts, head start agencies, child care centers, and nonprofit organizations. because of the improvement that we have seen in children as they're entering kindergarten, the legislature increased that money. one way i was able to do that simply, i changed kindergarten enrollment so that all parents had to let us know where they were as four-year-olds. then i was able to disaggregate that writing assessment data to say where were children being better prepared for kindergarten than not. that was an eye opener. the overseeing of launch of the collaboratives, we developed guidelines for all our pre-k classes and aligned pre-k standards to k-12 standards. we made sure that was out there. we provided professional development for public and private providers

knownryman is most well for his 1902 cartoon drawing a line in mississippi. the story is president roosevelt went to mississippi to settle a border dispute and while he was there, he was hunting. the press covered it. he was unsuccessful. he was not able to kill a bear. his aides did not want the president to be embarrassed. one of them tracked down this old bear and incapacitated it and tied it to a tree and took the president over and said, you can shoot this. the president said i will not shoot that bear. berryman took the bear and he turned it into this cute teddy bear and it became a popular stuffed toy. he was the one who coined that term and it became a recurring symbol in his cartoons and you will see later the teddy bear in some of the cartoons. after roosevelt left office, this cartoon talks about roosevelt on his last day in office, how he is going to go to safari in africa. clifford berryman wondered whether he should keep the teddy bear and this is called -- to go or not to go? he is asking, should i keep the bear now that roosevelt is not the pr

severe storms threatening mississippi, alabama, louisiana with the threat of flash flooding throughout the midsouth as well. but the targeted area for tornadoes throughout louisiana, mississippi in the morning time shifting over to mississippi and alabama, going into the afternoon, looking for damaging winds in excess of 65 miles per hour but not just that, river and flash flooding expected to occur from houston to little rock, jackson, mississippi, up towards nashville just shy of the ohio valley region. i'm accuweather meteorologist paul williams. >>> coming up, a cyberattack at airplanemaker boeing. >>> also ahead, the financial aid scandal rocking an historic university. how school employees allegedly stole up to a million dollars. >>> and a judge dismisses the most serious charges in the hazing death of a penn state student who was allegedly given 18 drinks in 90 minutes. we have reaction from his parents ahead. >>> we're back with in >>> we're back with incredible images of human footprints from 13,000 years ago. that's right. 13,000 years ago. experts say that they're the oldest

there will noe now be two open seats in mississippi this year. mcdaniel released a statement saying he is currently focused on his campaign against wicker but adds, quote, all options remain the on the table as we determine the best way to ensure that mississippi elects conservatives to the u.s. senate. it will be up to mississippi governor phil bryant to appoint a successor to fill cochran's seat until the spec election. steve, good to talk to you once again. let's stick with cochran's retirement here. you who disruptive is his retirement for the gop and does this give democrats any sort of opening in this state? >> it shouldn't be disruptive for the republicans, but we really don't know what's going to happen in states where there's one party control like mississippi or alabama. of course, things didn't work out so well in alabama when roy moore became the nominee. there's at least a small chance of something like that happening again in mississippi. the last time that rock ran ran for re-election, there was a bizarre conspiracy to break into t

this race is interesting in mississippi for one reason. republicans have the capability here of doing another roy moore episode. you have chris mcdaniel. i affectionately call him mississippi roy moore. >> accurate. >> but he's right now filed to run against in a primary senator roger wicker, a conservative senator from mississippi and doing a great job what he said after the retirement of thad cochran, if this is an easier race for me, i may switch. i may get in against somebody else that the governor would appoint. the problem is, the race is a run-off. if you have two or three republicans in there to split the republican vote against somebody like mike espy who will unify a democratic vote, i'll be darn how to lose a state like mississippi. >> that's an interesting point. >> to the larger question of what is going on, i was taking to brewster kell who said the power of personalities on both sides. you have bernie sanders and president trump out there as really unlikely characters to lead their party and to have that much support behind

now, you have to pay for it in tupelo, mississippi. so was that hard to convince people to pay for television? brian: what he liked about the business was the subscription nature. so in belts or cologne and many other businesses he had been in, you have a product, you sell it, if you get sick next month, you're out of business. in our business, and what he liked about recurring revenue, is you have to go borrow a lot of money, build it, and hope they will come, then you have a recurring business that you have a base to work from. david: where did the name "comcast" come from? brian: great question. doesn't get asked very often. it is amazing that in 1963, being a community television -- community antenna television company, he dreamed up the name comcast. "com" was "communications," "cast" was "broadcasting," and we were going to merge and be in the future of communications and broadcasting, so he was very visionary in that respect. david: you buy the cable franchise in tupelo, mississippi. how much did he pay for that? brian: i think

most of those we do know about our in mississippi and that isn't necessarily because it is more sort of seismically predispose that when you talk to the psychologistthese ecologisty listen, if you want to be really terrified, think about the earthquakthat theearthquake pote northeast. we don't know anything about that and basically that's because when you think about it, earthquakes are happening 5 miles, 30 miles under the surface of the earth we don't know when and where they are going to have an, we can't get the technology there to measure them so all the candidates postmortem after an earthquake has happened and so they remain this phenomenon that we have to guess. what we do know is that the united states is profoundly seismically active and the potential is happening just about everywhere. unless you live in miami you are probably at risk for an earthquake. wilwill it happen tomorrowwill n 500 years or 5,000 years we don't know that we do know that the potential is there and is so i'd want us to do with this book is set out the classic american road trip and drive around to ge

oklahoma mississippi and arkansas and at the very bottom is the great state of louisiana which ranks as the warst place for women with a score of thirty six out of one hundred so what areas decide if a place is good for women well this state has the highest median income for women are topped by state that isn't a state turns out washington d.c. the district with no representation for our taxation and does represent women in the paycheck coming in second again is minnesota moving down the list to delaware virginia and illinois rounding out the top five states with the highest median income for women say sort of the most unequal in pay with the lowest median income for female workers are kind of a surprise well why isn't the top ten overall there dead last in median income for women california thought to be a destination of equality as in the bottom five states with montana maine and oregon struggling to provide living wages to women now poverty that's a tricky subject because the when you see that hawaii's in the fifth lowest percentage of women in poverty despite the low wages overal

lawrence to the mississippi and down to the mountains of the mississippi. -- the mouth of the mississippi. washington is said with a letter to ask the french politely if they wouldn't mind withdrawing. the french politely respond, no. washington comes home, but part of what he is doing is gathering information to produce a map. he produces at short notice a journal of that mission, and he is asked to give a write up for tomorrow. he pulled an all-nighter. that brings them to the attention of colonial authorities, two people in britain, at a young age -- that brings them to the attention of colonial authorities, two people in britain, at a young age. he is only 21. he is experiencing a sharp learning curve. he is going into indian country and knows nothing about what that means, how to do business in indian country. he has to learn the language, , he has to learn the protocols, rituals, how and when to speak to people who are dressed differently. he has to learn what is the right way to approach. you don't necessarily take the shortest route from a to b. on a diplomatic mission, you need t

kenneth craig, cbs news, jackson, mississippi. >>> well, coming up on "cbs this morning," john zimmer, the president of the ridesharing app lyft joins us in the studio to tell us the future of self-driving cars. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) ( ♪ ) are confusing quilted northern for robes. they're both cushiony, comforting, and add elegance to your home. but quilted northern is not a robe. it's just really nice toilet paper. mother...nature! sure smells amazing... even in accounts receivable. gain botanicals laundry detergent. bring the smell of nature wherever you are. ialmost everything. you know, ke 1 i n 10 houses could get hit by an expensive septic disaster. but for only $7 a month, rid-x helps break down waste. avoid a septic disaster with rid-x. >>> our top stories this morning. overnight lawyers for daniels filed a motion asking for the right to depose president trump and his attorney michael cohen for a jury trial. daniels is the adult film star who alleges she had a sexual encounter with mr. trump. mr. trump denies the allegations. >

man and why he was so amazingly successful for the country and most of all for his beloved state of mississippi. he made people want to help him and help his state, even though we don't have, as susan says, the senator from maine said, our states are so different, we wanted to help each other and we're bound by it. so, thad, you are a great man, a great example to all of us on how to conduct ourselves and we will miss you here in the senate but wish you godspeed in whatever else you do.

the gentleman if mississippi. mr. thompson: i rise in strong support of of h.r. 4176, air cargo security improvement act of 018 and yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, h.r. 4176 seeks to improve the transportation security administration's ability to address air cargo based security threats. last july, then-secretary of homeland security, john kelly, identified such acts as a major concern, explaining that there are people out there, very smart people, very sophisticated people who do nothing but try to figure out how to blow up an airplane in flight. later that month, australian authorities charged four men with plotting to bring down a passenger plane on behalf of isis with a bomb in the air cargo hold. this underscores the need for t.s.a. to give focused attention to this clear and present security threat. the increased troisk air cargo comes at a time when the volume of goods being moved by air cargo has m

mississippi's "clarion ledger" reports the state imposed the toughest abortion ban in the u.s., but the new law is being challenged in court this morning. republican governor phil bryant signed the law yesterday. it bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. the state's lone abortion clinic sued trying to block the new law. a federal judge is scheduled to hold a hearing this morning. >>> "the philadelphia enquirer" reports of body of a missing st. joseph's university freshman was found in bermuda. police say 19-year-old mark dombroski was found in a moat outside an historic fort. an autopsy is planned. foul play has not been ruled out. he was a member of the school's rugby team which had traveled to bermuda to play in a tournament. >>> "the miami herald" says the brother of the teenager accused of killing students at marjorie stoneman douglas high school was arrested for trespassing at the school. 18-year-old zachary cruz had been warned several times to stay away from school grounds. security cameras recorded him skateboarding at the school yesterday afternoon. police say cruz sa

he was first elected to the senate from mississippi in 1978. and he is the tenth longer serving senator in u.s. history. according to law, phil bryant, a republican, can appoint an interim successor and there will be a special election in november. that means there will be two senate elections in mississippi with roger wicker up for re-election. and this announcement may also shake up that race. just last week mississippi state senator chris mcdaniel announced he would challenge wicker in the republican primary. but the question now is will mcdanell decide to switch races and run for the other mississippi seat. that remains to be seen. and on the democratic side, party officials were hustling to find one strong challenger to run for senate this november. now they have two. now they have to find two. we'll be back with more "mtp daily" in 60 seconds. as you can clearly see, the updates you made to your plan strengthened your retirement score. so, that goal you've been saving for, you can do it. we can do this? we can do this. at fidelity, our on

chris mcdaniel announced he is running in mississippi. you guys supported him in 2014. then the club president said he was putting the next generation of conservative leadership. will the club endorse chris mcdaniel against roger wicker? david: we always do and after election review. we saw problems with the way the campaign was handled. chris has made changes to his campaign team. we have talked to him several times. we are still considering it. the other factor is roger wicker is a much stronger incumbent than pat cochran was. pat cochran won. we have to consider that as opposed to spending resources in challenger races where the republican has the lead. is other complicating factor patannouncement that cochran is retiring. i think a lot has yet to be seen, what will happen in mississippi and we are waiting to see how that plays out. we will turn to stephen shepherd of politico. steven: what should chris mcdaniel do? should he run for the open seat? that will be filled on a temporary basis by the governor of mississippi. who would you recommend? would you recommend ch

all thanks to a jungle primary in the mississippi b. senate seat known as the special senate election that will replace resigning and retiring senator thad cochran and cindy hyde smith will finish out the term of retiring republican senator. and i think it is official. and she'll be running for that seat in november. the original tea party of mississippi is running in the street and he moved from the other senate race and already begun to attack her as a instrument of the establishment. and on the democratic side, there is former clinton agricultural secretary mike espy. and now mississippi law for special said that if no candidate gets 50% of the vote on election day the top two face off in a runoff a few weeks later. well, so the -- the november jungle primary will be on regular november election day. but if no one gets 50 -- well we have three major candidates and espy is the only democrat so he is likely to notch 35% and barring intervention by the white house it is unlikely they could avoid a runoff unless one of them drops out so

you ought to buy a community antenna television system in tupelo, mississippi. as he told the story, he said where is tupelo, and what is community antenna television? the answer was the birthplace of elvis presley. and in tupelo, they could not get cbs from memphis, it was a valley town, so they put up a big antenna on top of the mountain and ran a community antenna, catv, and those were the early roots of cable television. david: television was for free in those days. now, you have to pay for it in tupelo. was that hard to convince people to pay for television? brian: what he liked about the business was the subscription nature. so in belts, cologne, any other businesses he had been in, you have a product, you sell it, if you get sick next month, you're out of business. in our business, and what he liked about recurring revenue, you have to borrow a lot of money, build it, and hope they will come, then you have a recurring business that will have a base to work from. david: where did the name "comcast" come from? brian: great question. it does not get asked ve

such as in mississippi. if the supreme court rules like we think they probably will, that's reversing the third circuit, we will have to develop regulations. inpoint to you, if you're one of those states, you better get ready because your lawyers are going to be busy establishing a regulatory scheme for sports betting. if you lease holes in it, there professionalslick sports better that will find those holes and exploit them in your system. it is going to also create an of you doing it for prose and not college games. that is another issue that i issue can -- i have an about, college. i would think college players would be more susceptible to bribes. the counterargument is just as good that that is already happening now with bookies. they are already susceptible. point, is dealing with the integrity monitoring system. it is software, supposedly within again, within seconds, without rhythm is supposed to figure out if something is wrong, if something ends -- if someone is trying to throw the game. --europe, i

such as in mississippi. if the supreme court rules like we think they probably will, that's reversing the third circuit, we will have to develop regulations. inpoint to you, if you're one of those states, you better get ready because your lawyers are going to be busy establishing a regulatory scheme for sports betting. if you lease holes in it, there professionalslick sports better that will find those holes and exploit them in your system. it is going to also create an of you doing it for prose and not college games. that is another issue that i issue can -- i have an about, college. i would think college players would be more susceptible to bribes. the counterargument is just as good that that is already happening now with bookies. they are already susceptible. point, is dealing with the integrity monitoring system. it is software, supposedly within again, within seconds, without rhythm is supposed to figure out if something is wrong, if something ends -- if someone is trying to throw the game. --europe, i

mississippi state clinching its spot also in o.t. as we look ahead to the men's games tonight, villanova and kansas and michigan versus loyola-chicago. sister jean cheering on those ramblers. >> is this real, or is it a dream, and i said, no, it's really for real. >>> i like it. hey, good morning. this was the scene on the court overnight moments after the underdogs from notre dame beat uconn with that buzzer beater. the fighting irish celebrating there with their mascot leprechaun. >> speaking of underdogs, tonight chicago's loyola take on the powerhouse michigan team as the men's final four gets under way. we're going to have full coverage from espn's tony reali coming up. as a michigan girl i feel bad rooting against sister jean. it's almost like i'm rooting against god and i can't do that. >> oh, come on. >> so, who are you going with? >> michigan. >> it's sportsmanship. >> yeah. >> that was hard. >> i like the wolverines too. right? >> but she regrets it. >> healthy competition. >> god isn't choosing sides. >>> we're going to st

has been difficult for louisiana and mississippi. and we're monitoring that for the increased flooding threat this week. and it could get nasty out there. look what's happening across the deep south. we're getting an area of high pressure that will shift to the east. what that does with its clockwise flow, it's going to draw in the gulf of mex couldic moisture. we have several rivers that are at major or moderate flood stage right along the mississippi. can you see that shading in green indicating the flood warnings in effect. taking you through the rest of the workweek, we're talking sunday right through friday. and you can see the abundant amount of rainfall that will impact this region from atlanta, nashville, to little rock, houston and new orleans. we could experience upwards of six, eight additional inches of rainfall on top of what's already fallen across this area. on top of that, we have the potential for severe storms today, and once again tomorrow to start off the workweek. first we focus in on central texas and southern o

such as in mississippi. if the supreme court rules like we think they probably will, that's reversing the third circuit, we will have to develop regulations. inpoint to you, if you're one of those states, you better get ready because your lawyers are going to be busy establishing a regulatory scheme for sports betting. if you lease holes in it, there professionalslick sports better that will find those holes and exploit them in your system. it is going to also create an of you doing it for prose and not college games. that is another issue that i issue can -- i have an about, college. i would think college players would be more susceptible to bribes. the counterargument is just as good that that is already happening now with bookies. they are already susceptible. point, is dealing with the integrity monitoring system. it is software, supposedly within again, within seconds, without rhythm is supposed to figure out if something is wrong, if something ends -- if someone is trying to throw the game. --europe, i

in mississippi, if the supreme court reverses, we had a regulatory scheme established to immediately, after regulations are passed, to allow sports betting, solely though on existing casinos which are on our coasts and the mississippi river. tell a experts that will lot more about the actual christie case, and argue both sides of it. a case,ment stems from new york versus u.s. in 1992 where congress, when the supreme court held that congress could that youte to states had to pass or prohibit certain laws. new york is the basis of the christie case before the third circuit, and now before the supreme court, that congress cannot dictate states what we should or should not do. , christie the first case that went through in 2013 at the third circuit, where the court claimed the position that the third circuit took, and what they said was, we cannot force -- the court held that congress cannot force a pass a legislation that can hinder you from legalizing it, but can't -- it cannot make you repeal prohibitions. in other words, they made a distinction between repealing prohibitions and pass

mississippi joined west virginia amicus brief in support of new jersey with its appeal to the united states of report which was argued in december actually we are expecting an opinion to come down probably inio april to make a decision if it is up to the states to have sports betting. twenty states have casinos some of you have statutory schemes that allow that to go intoo effect immediately like mississippi. if the supreme court rules like we thinkhe they will and reversing the third circuit, then immediately we have to develop regulations. soilve my point to you before or panel is if you are in one of those states, get ready because the lawyers will be busy trying to establish the regulatory scheme for sports betting and if you beholds believe me there will be some slick professional sports bettors that will find those and exploit them in your system. it will also create an issue whether professionals and not college or college games. that is another issue i have concerns about college because i think college players are more susceptible to bias but the counter argument just as goo