Fort Stevens was shelled by a Japanese submarine that snuck into the Columbia River with some fishing boats on June 21, 1942, during World War II. An in-depth video, “The
huge speakers, it would blow you out. it was fantastic. he would let us, as children, me and my brothers, play our music on it. and he would stay in there and learn the songs and try to figure out what we would doing that way. it s one of the ways that he kind of stayed in touch with his children. i d like to welcome our special guest this morning to the open line program, former state senator and gubernatorial candidate jimmy carter. well, i replaced lester madison in the governor s mansion. and lester madick s symbol was a pick hammer that he used to drive away african american customers who came to his chicken restaurant. he bragged on that as being a stalwart defender of racial segregation. for years the solid south were very segregationist and very let s just call it racist. they were anti-black.
banks. one california charity made demand thanks to a desire for marijuana. a medical marijuana dispensary did its part by offering its approved patients complimentary pre-rolled joints for every four cans donated by patients. the dispensary took in about 11,000 pounds of food and handed bout about 2,000 joints between november and christmas a 92-year-old man, washington state man. look at those teeth here. he used his head and specifically he used his teeth, his false teeth to get free following a home invasion. lester madison let two men into his home who said his car had broken down. the men tied him up, took his cash and pickup truck. he then used his false teeth to chew to freedom. it took me about two hours to
justice, life and death, you see hope and drama. see outrage as well. it s rare we get all of those mixed up into the same story. that is exactly what we have today. what i m talking about is a decision by the mississippi governor, haley barbour, to release two sisters who were serving two life sentences each for a 1993 robbery. a robbery that netted just $11. nobody was hurt in this robbery either, by the way. now, that would be news in itself, but that is just where the story gets started. jamie scott, one of the sisters, she s there on the left. she is desperately ill with kidney disease. gladys scott, her sister on the right, wants to give jamie one of her kidneys. haley barbour suspended their sentences on the condition that one sister gives the other a kidney. the govern or says a transplant quote, should be scheduled with urgency. the scotts have plenty of friends and supporters who pushed for their freedom for years not just out of mercy but fairness. the sisters were
davis are in police custody for the murder of john fleming, his body was found in his living room. he has been stabbed several times. police arrested jacobs and davis this morning, each wearing clothing that contained blood stains. police have no motive. weather wise today, nice stuff. i mean really compared to what we have seen most of the month of december, this was not bad. sunshine, winds letting up and nice way to finish up the end of 2010. let s show you first the satellite trend which is still nice and clear. just a few high thin clouds passing by today. show you that in baltimore and you see just a couple of high thin clouds. a lot of sunshine cascading the city. and really a pretty good looking night as we look towards sunset tonight. what do the temperatures look like? highs today, we were well into the upperer 40s. 50 in chester town today. and i think we are back here very close to these numbers tomorrow. we cool off to the low 40s and our winds very light. so,