stimulus act of 2012 when the tax relief act came along and now we have firstnet. mississippi was one of the grantees under the top and moved forward very aggressively with greater speed than any other recipient. and the department and our delegation have had numerous discussions about her disappointment with how this has turned out. i understand firstnet could not reach a spectrum lease agreement with the state of mississippi. this was unfortunate because tens of millions of state and federal tax dollars have been spent significant fiscal assets deployed and the system weeks away from going live mississippi would have provided an early demonstration of the great potential broadband holds for first responders. i assume you're aware that the entire delegation met with the assistant secretary strictly in 2013 to press upon him how important restarting the original vtop project was put at that time i tried to help firstnet in the state of mississippi retune agreement. assistant secretary tried to work with us to find a way forward and of course this has not come to version. as saving taxpay

york. mayor keegan and our witnesses from representative harper's district in mississippi will provide us with a glimpse of the challenges they face each and every day and their efforts to deliver clean, safe drinking water to their public. they do a remarkable job in keeping clean water flowing to every home every day. water infrastructure is essential. it's the only way to state it. we can afford to do this. we cannot afford to delay these investments any longer. public health, community viability and economic vitality all rest on the foundation of a sound infrastructure. we cannot maintain global leadership and compete in a 21st century global economy with 20th century infrastructure held together with a hope and a prayer. we have an excellent panel with us today. thank you for taking time away from your important work and busy schedules to be here to do your messaging this morning. and thank you mayor keegan, mr. newman, mr. salmon and mr. stewart for the expertise and dedication you'll demonstrate to your communities that you demonstrate to your communities each and every

save him. >>> good afternoon. we are going to begin with breaking news out of mississippi. the claiborne county sheriff's office is about to reveal new details on that disturbing case that to many in the area and throughout the nation might evoke memories of a very painful chapter in our nation's history. this of course after an african-american man was found hanging from a tree by a bed sheet in a small town just outside jackson, mississippi. the big question of course was this a horrific hate crime or a suicide or something else all together. let's go live to cnn's ed lavendera in port gibson mississippi, where this press conference is about to get under way. we know this man has been identified by local authorities. who is he? >> reporter: he is 54-year-old otis byrd. he was discovered yesterday by search and rescue people who had been going through a wooded area behind his home. otis byrd was reported missing on march 8th. he was last seen on march 2nd. officials here are saying that it is either a murder or suicide. we spoke with the sheriff earlier today who told us that

attack is just the start. we are also following breaking news in mississippi. police have now found the body of an african-american man hanging from a tree. the man has been missing for days and we are awaiting word on whether it's a suicide or murder. we will be discussing u.s. race relations with the head of the national urban league and president of the naacp. the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, republican congressman ed royce is here in "the situation room." our correspondents and experts, they have been working their sources. they are all standing by to bring us the latest on all of this evening's breaking stories. >>> let's begin with the isis claim it's behind that museum attack. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr has the latest. >> reporter: wolf an audio claim from isis that they were indeed behind the attack against the museum in tunis yesterday, not totally verified yet. but the u.s. is saying that right now, it has no reason to doubt the authenticity of the claim, that according to a u.s. official i spoke to. meanwhile, the tunisian government crac

in jackson, mississippi. she went to the back door as she usually does. when she got there she noticed one of the security cameras lying on the ground. it had been ripped off the usual spot on the roof. it was just laying on the pavement. the wires were dangling loose alongside the building and she saw a second security camera had been pulled off of its housing, as well. ate peered somebody had tried to cut the electrical wiring in to the building to wreck an expensive generator that state law requires that building to have on site. inside she could hear the alarm going off when she got there. the business that is reporting this attack on their premises today is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of mississippi. supporters and defenders of that clinic painted it bright paing few years ago, as a way of saying they were not budging, not ashamed of their work and wouldn't be chased away. their motto was "this clinic stays open." today with the discover oi of this physical attack the motto becomes a watch word for the last clinic in mississippi, this clinic stays open.

this is the last remaining abortion clinic in the state of mississippi. defenders and supporters painted in bright pink saying they were not hiding or ashamed of their work. their motto was this clinic stays open. now that welcomes like a watch word for the last clinic open in mississippi. they say whoever attacked them last night ended up getting caught at least on video. they sent us this surveillance video just before the cameras were knocked down. you see that figure there in boots, a hood maybe at some kind. and they're carrying what might be a hatchet or another longhandled tool. the surveillance images were taken very early this morning at the last open abortion clinic in the whole state of mississippi. they are definitely lurking. seems to maybe want to do damage to the clinic itself. we don't know. but right after these images were taken, the cameras that took these images were destroyed. we have been following the story of the clinic in jackson for afew years now. republicans have come up with a few ways they think they can force the clinic to close. they forced the doc

commands the department of alabama, mississippi, and east louisiana. taylor has heard rumors about virginia and north carolina. the commander of the union department of mississippi is general camby on the right there. it will be the only general who oversees two surrenders. i want to point out a few things on my map. down here is mobile. the union army is going to assault before protecting mobile -- the fort protecting mobile on april 9. the confederates will pull back up to meridian, mississippi. in these towns up here in mississippi and alabama, the confederate army is going to concentrate and the union army is going to concentrate -- capture mobile and move into the interior of alabama towards the capital of montgomery. in late april, having gotten word of what is happening to the east, taylor and can be will start -- camby will start to communicate and will meet between their armies. the meeting happens that the mcgee farm. just like bennett farm and appomattox, a private home. it was near the railroad, that is why they chose it read they will get their two different ways. gene

now we have firstnet. mississippi was one of the grantees under the top and moved forward very aggressively with greater speed than any other recipient. and the department and our delegation have had numerous discussions about her disappointment with how this has turned out. i understand firstnet could not reach a spectrum lease agreement with the state of mississippi. this was unfortunate because tens of millions of state and federal tax dollars have been spent significant fiscal assets deployed and the system weeks away from going live mississippi would have provided an early demonstration of the great potential broadband holds for first responders. i assume you're aware that the entire delegation met with the assistant secretary strictly in 2013 to press upon him how important restarting the original vtop project was put at that time i tried to help firstnet in the state of mississippi retune agreement. assistant secretary tried to work with us to find a way forward and of course this has not come to version. as saving taxpayers money by quote avoiding investments that might

records especially in states like mississippi and louisiana many of these individuals were born in places such as richmond virginia. this particular region that we are in, the chesapeake region. maryland and virginia. multitudes of people. you look at the vicksburg records, natchez, mississippi. over and over again, you are finding people when asked for their place of birth they are saying eastern shores of maryland. frederick, maryland, baltimore ireland, washington, d.c. with that represents is the internal or domestic slave trade that occurred after 1808. after 1808 the transatlantic slave trade was ended so in this particular region which was formally based on the cultivation of tobacco tobacco cultivation was no longer as lucrative as it once was. this was the oldest area of what was considered the self so they considered themselves to have a surplus slave population. as is were the largest amount of slaves were. virginia have the largest black population. but what occurred during that period is that many of the slaveowners that no longer needed that surplus labor, they began

. this is what they're sucking up, and bringing out here. >> sand from the bottom of the mississippi river. >> everything we're standing on is we're standing on the bottom of the mississippi river. >> all of this land here has been pumped from there. >> pumped from the bottom of the mississippi river. >> right now we're going to the end of the pipeline, this is where the sediment from the mississippi river has been taken all the way to this fill site. this is where the coastal erosion fight is happening right in front of our eyes. >> in my opinion if we can accomplish the master plan and the projects in the master plan and go beyond it and rebuild south louisiana, and protect it, and restore it i think by the end of the century people will look back and say this is one of mankind's greatest achievements in this century. >> this section of reclaimed land is just one small piece of a plan to spend $50 billion over the next five decades. the only problem: louisiana doesn't have that kind of money. >> we can't protect everyone from everything, and there's an inherent vulnerability living

freedman's bank records especially in states like mississippi and louisiana many of these individuals were born in places such as richmond, virginia. this particular region that we are in, the chesapeake region. maryland and virginia. multitudes of people. you look at the vicksburg records, natchez, mississippi. over and over again, you are finding people when asked for their place of birth they are saying eastern shores of maryland. frederick, maryland, baltimore washington, d.c. with that represents is the internal or domestic slave trade that occurred after 1808. after 1808 the transatlantic slave trade was ended so in this particular region which was formally based on the cultivation of tobacco, tobacco cultivation was no longer as lucrative as it once was. this was the oldest area of what was considered the self so they considered themselves to have a surplus slave population. as is were the largest amount of slaves were. virginia have the largest black population. but what occurred during that period is that many of the slaveowners that no longer needed that surplus

district in mississippi will provide us with a glimpse of the challenges they face each and every day and their efforts to deliver clean, safe drinking water to their public. they do a remarkable job in keeping clean water flowing to every home every day. water infrastructure is essential. it's the only way to state it. we can afford to do this. we cannot afford to delay these investments any longer. public health, community viability and economic vitality all rest on the foundation of a sound infrastructure. we cannot maintain global leadership and compete in a 21st century global economy with 20th century infrastructure held together with the hope and a prayer. we have an excellent panel with us today. thank you for taking time away from your important work and busy schedules to be here to do your messaging this morning. and thank you mayor keegan, mr. newman, mr. salmon and mr. stewart for the expertise and dedication you'll demonstrate to your communities that you demonstrate to your communities each and every day at work. i look forward to your testimony and to working with e

the most rural states east of the mississippi. with that being said this is so important to us. what i would ask you is that -- also want to thank you for the conference you attended and mess with some of my west virginia first responders. when will the grants be available? right now everyone is talking and planning but we're not seeing any action. >> right. i don't know if you want to answer that question. [inaudible] >> he manages the grants. >> oh, yeah. when are you going to let them go? [inaudible] >> turn your mikeow phone on. the question is, when are you going to let the money go? >> there are actually two round of money. the first round of money under the state level implementation grants so round one has gone out. round two is somewhat dependent on figure ought what the that da needs are for firstnet. the first round has gone out for consultation and planning and to allow the states to do the work to fund that work to work with firstnet as part of the first round. the second round is going out for accumulating the data that will go into it. so we're in the process of figure

interoperable. so that argument does not seem to hold water. furthermore mississippi's contract with its vendors requires complete compliance with quote all the rules, specifications and functionalities unquote. that may change per the fcc were ntia during the buildout of a nationwide network. understandably we in mississippi are disappointed and upset. given these assurances by the state of mississippi and the vendors how exactly is the ntia saving taxpayer money especially when in fact the agency is telling mississippi to spend money to dismantle the lte equipment already deployed? >> senator as you know there were originally seven pilot projects that we looked at. for them were approved in three of them are not approved including the 70 million dollar mississippi grant. we were deeply disappointed as well because he wanted to try to make this work but at the end of the day the state in nta couldn't agree on terms because the state's plan didn't provide the necessary level of detail we needed to meet the statutory requirements. as you know under the btop program there were specific statutory r

year a mississippi man got 25 years in prison after pleading guilty for sending letters laced with ricin to president obama, also a president in mississippi and a mississippi judge. >> susan mcginnis in washington. thank you, susan. >>> phone calls to the u.s. embassy threatened kennedy and another american diplomat. japanese media report the threats came last month from a caller speaking english. >>> and a u.s. air force veteran is due in federal court in brooklyn today for allegedly trying to join isis in syria. aviation mechanic tairod nathan webster pugh is accused of attempting to travel to syria earlier this year. prosecutors say a search of his computer found nearly 200 jihadist propaganda videos. he faces charging for allegedly providing support for a terrorist group and obstructing justice. >>> in israel what was to be a razor close election wasn't. prime minister's netanyahu's opponent conceded and that sets netanyahu up to form another government and serve his fourth term as prime minister. barry petersen joins us now by phone from tel aviv. barry, good morning. >> repor

probably one of the most rural states east of the mississippi. with that being said, this is so important to us. what i would ask you, and i also want to thank you for the conference you attended and met with some of my first responders, but when will it be available? which is going to get us in business. everyone is talking and planning, but we're not seeing any action. >> i don't know if you want to answer that question. he manages the grants. >> turn your microphone on. >> so there are actually two rounds of money. the first round of money under the state level implementation grants so round one has gone out. round two is dependent on figuring out what the data needs are. the first round has gone out for the consultations and planning and to really allow the states to do the work to work with first net. second round is accumulating the data that will go sba it. so we're in the process -- >> every state is going to be different. everything is different from state to state as far as the needs are. we undertook a program with stimulus money and billed out to every school, every

wagner. a press conference from the local fbi officials in mississippi. this is expected to start any minute and it is on the investigation into that body of an african-american man that was found hanging in a tree thursday. the fbi and the justice department have been looking into the circumstances of this individual's death. authorities believe the man is 54-year-old otis byrd but they have not officially confirmed his identity. at this hour law enforcement is saying investigators haven't reached any final conclusions about the hanging, but we do expect to hear more in this press conference of course. joining me now to explain is trumaine lee. what is the latest on this and a little background on the case for those who don't know it? >> the department of justice, the fbi, as well as the u.s. attorney's office in the southern district of mississippi, are trying to figure out if there is anything here to this case whether it is a homicide or suicide. otis byrd went missing two days ago after a visit to a local casino. he was found on thursday with a sheet wrapped around his neck a

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house in the past. in january of last year a mississippi man got 25 years in prison after pleading guilty for sending letters laced with ricin to president obama alsoing to a mississippi judge. >> thank you, susan. >>> a air force man was arrested. he is accused of attempting to travel to syria earlier this year. prosecutors say a search of his computer found nearly 200 gee ha different propaganda videos. he faces charging for allegedly providing support for a terrorist group and objectnbstructing justice. prime minister's netanyahu's opposent conceded and that sets netanyahu up to form another government and serve his fourth term as prime minister. barry petersen joins us now by phone from tel aviv. barry, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, i think there's some interesting parts of this. first it was a surprise. netanyahu on view ya netanyahu was trailing but did well in the polls. second talking about president obama, it's been rocky. it's been rough. there is some fence mending that's going to stro be done. also the iran nuclear deal which the obama administration is

, go ahead. andrew: i have a different action plan. i am going to bring them back to mississippi. everybody in ferguson came from mississippi, moved north to memphis. but the best place in america to live right now is in small towns in the south. if you want to retire, since integration, you can't beat the south. [laughter] andrew: and all we need -- i mean, what washington carver change the self -- george washington carver changed to the south with a new crop, peanuts. we have a new crop. it is the people that helped us in the march from selma to montgomery, the landowners. children went to ferguson but these people are still there and have land but they do not have the energy or crops to do it. we have a crop that we can introduce for free across the south and the department of agriculture will agree to help the farmers have microloans to revive farms. we are getting veterans across the south who are coming back home to own the trucking companies to do the harvesting and tillage, and there is no tillage because it is a watercraft called -- water crop called duck weed. it grows

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raising rates becomes overly burdensome. the town of new haven, mississippi, we need to comply with a new epa wastewater discharge permit that will cost two to three million dollars. i will close with some comments on the federal water infrastructure programs, namely the epa state revolving funds and the usda grant program. we are appreciative to the funding of these initiatives and realize that funding constraints in the nation. notwithstanding the curtailment of federal funding continues to increase. we urge you to emphasize grants in these fnding programs. low interest loans often don't help the communities facing the most severe hard ship from federal compliance. leaving the loan funds to be confused with greater ability to afford financing. we're grateful for the funding assistance, it's allowed many rural and small communities to have excess of drinking water and sanitation that would otherwise not have been able to afford without the federal assistance. we want to be partners in the effort to make the initiative as efficient and successful as possible. thank you very much, mr

mississippi, was it suicide or was it murder? the fbi has joined the investigation into the death of an african-american man. his body was found hanging from a tree in a wooded area of claiborne county that's near the louisiana state line. family members identify the man as 54-year-old otis byrd and the local naacp wants to -- chapter wants to know if he was the victim of the same racial hatred that haunted this region for decades. let's go now to cnn's ed lavandera in mississippi. he joins us with the latest. what are you learning ed? >> reporter: well investigators here in claiborne county mississippi, brianna, are still trying to figure out, as you say, whether or not the case of owe the at this time byrd is a case of murder or was it suicide. the sheriff here in claiborne county said bird's body was discovered in a wooded area. he described what investigators and search teams found when they arrived on the scene yesterday. >> a wooded area about a quarter mile down in the woods. it was near an area where someone had been. we got down there and see a man had a rope tied around his ne

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. but the shame of it all and from mississippi when good man along with cheney, who was black from mississippi, when they were killed then there was this huge effort to find people responsible. but in looking for them, looking for them, they found so many bodies that had been dumped in swamps, that had been put in unmarked graves. no one had ever--and to this day--no one has been held responsible for those deaths. that's the shame of it all. that we, unfortunately don't don't--back then, we didn't value the death of black people. >> that's what it says about back then. what about now. i was investigating the death of jonathan daniels back in 2006. what does it say that these deaths and these murders still remain unsolved to this day? >> well, to randall's point black lives did matter. right now the people in ferguson are saying black lives matter. it's the same issue isn't it. 50 years later we're book ended into this same issue to make sure that a black life is similar, equal to a white life. we have not reached that point yet. >> robert ray, live for us on the ground right now in

later in the programme. as you can see, 13 out of 21 states are in the south. mississippi has the highest level of public schoolchildren living in poverty - 71%. 6 of the 21 states are in the west. new mexico had the second highest level of students in the country, 68% in 2013. new mexico is where we begin the conversation tonight. joining me from albuquerque is sonya, a teacher from an elementary school. welcome to "inside story". great to have you with us. >> thank you for having me. >> let's start at the beginning of the day. 25 kids file into the classroom at 8:45 in the morning. what is different about a classroom where most of those kids are poor? >> well, when those kids come in, the first thing i do is do a quick assessment of the immediate needs. some of those children are homeless or come from homes with trauma, my job is to make them feel welcome. the first thing i do is ask if they have eaten breakfast. if they haven't. i make sure they get breakfast. we have a free breakfast programme. if they are a little late for school, i have snacks ready for them. i do is quick s

company is also involved in a federal lawsuit for allegations of fraud in a home in mississippi. the owner doug mittleider refused requests from fault lines for an interview. the only way to speak to him was to catch him as on his way to the office. the widow of one of the patients there says that her husband died of neglect, can we sit down with you and have an interview with you about it? >> sometime, sure. >> sometime, yeah? can we set the date and time now? >> no. >> can you answer questions about it now? >> no. >> do you have response to the allegations to the lawsuit that the federal government's joined? that says that you rationed care? including oxygen bottles? >> i don't know what you're talking about. >> you don't know that there's a lawsuit by the federal government about one of your homes in mississippi? [silence.] >> mittleider had no comment. none of the industry representatives that we contacted for an interview would speak to us either. >> there's a corporate shell game that goes on, that conceals who really is running the nursing home. they'll set up a company or llc