Staff would say put your shirt on and go back out and walk with people. So even today we have an annual mule day parade, the first saturday of the year in columbia, tennessee. There might be 100,000 people there. I wear my red and black shirt and walk in the parade. The rule of thumb is walk in parades. If its the mule day parade, walk in the front. It affected everything about my political career. I dont think i would have been elected without it. Because it gave me a personality or a story that people paid attention to. It also came after i had lost a race. It was kind of like a pennance. It really put me in touch with people. If you stay in homes with people, you eat dinner around their table, you sleep in their beds, you go to their sons or daughterss softball games. You are not just making things up. You know the people that you are going to serve. During my eight years as governor, so many times if an issue came up about where weather to have stricter standards against criminals
Trombone slide froze. So i just took off walking. I think my parents were probably pretty embarrassed. They raised me to be a respectable young man. I was standing on their porch announcing i was going to walk 1,000 miles across tennessee. I would rye to shake 1,000 hands a day. Usually we would plan ahead. Maybe i would stop and have lunch with certain people. By late afternoon, particularly as the weather got better, i would get to a town. And i would have a family to stay with. It might be the local farm bureau head or just were someone from the community. I might go to their kidss softball game, have dinner in their home. They would usually invite some of their friends over for the evening. By that time i was pretty tired. I would go to sleep, get up the next morning. I went to one factory in tennessee where all the women who were working there admired my red and black plaid shirt. Turns out, thats where they made the shirt. It was a levi shirt that they made right there in that fa
In texas. The flood waters still rising. Rescues in texas. The flood waters still rising. And tonight harvey is on track. For a second landfall. Now at 11 00 thousands of rescues in texas, the floodwater still rising and harvey is on track for a second landfall. Good evening. Im ken bastida. Im elizabeth cook. The death toll is up to eight and that number is expected to rise. Crews rescued more than 13,000 people so far and houstons mayor imposed a citywide midnight curfew to keep people safe. Cbs reporter meg olivier is in houston tonight. Reporter even at this late hour volunteers are showing up at Convention Center behind me bringing supplies and offering to help. The skies in houston could stay clear tomorrow, but the catastrophic flooding remains. All day rescue crews in houston used helicopters, boats and trucks to reach those stranded by rising water like Rhonda Chandler and they are 12year old daughter. Roof started leaking, water is close to coming inside the house. Its kind o
Midnight curfew to keep people safe. Cbs reporter meg olivier is in houston tonight. Reporter even at this late hour volunteers are showing up at Convention Center behind me bringing supplies and offering to help. The skies in houston could stay clear tomorrow, but the catastrophic flooding remains. All day rescue crews in houston used helicopters, boats and trucks to reach those stranded by rising water like Rhonda Chandler and they are 12year old daughter. Roof started leaking, water is close to coming inside the house. Its kind of scary, kind of scary. Reporter rescues became even more complicated when two reservoirs overflowed and a levee failed sending more water into neighborhoods where people are still trying to escape. The kids were scared, wife was scared, so it was just time to get to higher ground. Reporter with so many people now in shelters the citys mayor imposed a public curfew in the city from midnight until morning. I dont want them to have to worry about someone break
Very quietly become one of the brightest young stars in hip hop. He is one of the top 25 streaming artists in the world with one billion stream. He joins us to talk about everybody which has a unique concept and surprising guest collaborations. Before our conversation though, take a look at some of the video for the song black spiderman. I just want to be free no stereotypes your fans, of course, know your biracial makeup. There is of course, drake, there is jay cole, there are a bunch of folks that come to mind. But to my mind, i think this is the first time you actually talked about it in this way. Yeah. And im probably the first biracial rapper who looks white as hell. So, yeah. Its not me. Because im comfortable with who i am. I think sometimes like, you know, i think, you know, i heard things within the community of hip hop, he is always talking about being black and white. He is talking about being biracial. Why he is always talking about it . Im not always talking about it. This