that was hurricane agnes. we will give it a minute are too. i will continue my story. the storm stalled over central pennsylvania and dump to record amounts of water. i suspect that we will have additional problems. does everything seems stable enough? people have told me i am windy, but i did not know this was going to happen. suffice it to say, the community needed a friend, and needed someone to sit there and be with them as they went through these extraordinary days of being isolated by flood waters of the likes of which central pennsylvania had never seen before. it was a thrill, almost, to be able to sit there and help people get from point a to point b. to let them know what services were available, how to get supplies. the community responded and it worked very well. another occasion was not a natural disaster, but it happens to be three mile island. we talk about honesty being the best policy when it comes to businesses dealing with the public. in this case, it is not what happened. it made the circumstances much worse. the lieutenant governor came out to meet

. >> agnes decimated on the flat. -- flats.ut agnes came in june. >> it turned out it may have had a big part in the grass's survival. >> it would have made a huge difference. hurricane agnes came through in june when the plants were just starting to come up. if that had happened with tropical storm lee, the effects would have been much more severe. >> reporter: and a real blow to a bay struggling to recover. alex demetrick, wjz eyewitness news. >> it's estimated that tropical storm lee poured 29 trillion gallons of water into the bay. >> well, it's a little too cold to be out on the water today. but will it stay cool? a live look outside now and an overcast end to the afternoon. we have weather and traffic together. bob turk is here with first warning weather. bob? >> i think probably yesterday, with temperatures in the low 60s. some of you probably could have gone in the water. water is still too cold. take a look at radar. we have a few light sprinkles across western maryland. a few snowflakes above 1500 feet. light rain acr

. >> reporter: agnes -- decimated everything on the flats. but agnes came in june. >> reporter: turns out, timing may have played a big part in the grass's survival. >> it would have made a huge difference. again, hurricane agnes in 1987, when the flats were starting to come up. if that had happened with tropical storm lee, the effects would have been much more su severe. >> and a real blow to a bay, struggling to recover. alex demetrick, wjz eyewitness news. >> and to give you an idea of the kind of force at play, tropical storm lee pumped 29 trillion gallons of water into the bay. >> and to give you an idea of how much water that is, bob has an interesting factoid. >> let me give you a little research. that's 1,000 times the capacity of loch raven dam. >> wow. >> unbelievable. >>> no precip right now. but it is cloudy and chilly. 43, north winds at 5. dew points, down to 24 degrees. the barometer on the way back up. we'll look at a fairly normal weekend after this. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> here's a live look outside right now. it's been overcast. b

. >> agnes decimated everything on the flats.ut agnes came in june. >> reporter: turns out, timing may have played a big part in the grass's survival. >> it would have made a huge difference. hurricane agnes in 1972 came through in june. when the plants on the susquehanna flats started coming up. and if that had happened with tropical storm lee, the effects would have been much more severe. >> reporter: and a real blow to a bay, struggling to recover. alex demetrick, wjz eyewitness news. >> to give you an idea of the kind of force at play here, tropical storm lee pumped 29 trillion gallons of water into the bay. count that up. >> you can't comprehend that, though. >> $29 bill -- 29 billion gallons? >> turning into a mixed body of water. all of that salinity changed. >>> we have really dry weather. colder weather changes through the weekend. not going to get through baltimore and the d.c. area. 43 now. compared to yesterday's low 60s. dew points down to 25 degrees. humidity, 48%. west/northwest winds at 8. barometer just jumped up

thomas point light somehow survived the assault of 23 foot waves crashing upon it from tropical storm agnes in 1972. eminently navigable, the bay has always been a superhighway; freighters, steamers, tugs, and tows. water is a way of commerce and means of transport. the chesapeake bay skipjack, iconic in form, symbol of the bay's boat building heritage. skipjack nathan of dorchester is an exquisite example of the form. built as a light, inexpensive craft for oyster dredging the shallows, hundreds of skipjacks once thrived here. true to form, skipjack nathan cuts through the choptank river almost without effort. the schooner sultana is an exact replica of colonial merchant vessels that once patrolled the north american coast, but now serves as a classroom on the water. annapolis, celebrated as the sailing capital of america. state capital of maryland. general washington resigned his command of the continental army here, when annapolis was the temporary capital of the united states. high on a hill, the maryland state house is the oldest legislative building in continuous use in the nation. wa

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everybody writes down what they're going to buy aunt agnes. i'm going orgeat her a sweater.ater. if it costs more, then you feel anchored. write down the dollar amount. come up with a total dollar amount of everyone you'll buy for, add it up. is it too much money? start cutting. take people off the list or reduce the amount per person. once you have a grand total you can live with, here is the key. go to the bank, go to the atm, pull out the cash. leave the credit cards home, take the cash to the mall, means you can't go on-line. take the cash to the mall. when you're out of money, you're done. >> shannon: okay. excellent strategy. how do we find the discipline to do this? 'cause i know everybody gets caught up in holiday shopping. >> that's why you leave the credit cards home because when you're out of cash, you're done. if you spent too much on aunt agnes and not enough money for uncle harry, then he doesn't get anything. you need to be disciplined because you only have x amount of money and it forced to you hang in there and do it right. >> shannon: there are so many thin

no matter if you're in there, in sarajevo or outside it's the safety that we'll never feel agn. >> rose: the saty you will never feel again >> the safety. beuse we never thought it could happen to us. and it did. so it can happen. any time and anywhere. and which is why it's so important that things like this fi aremade tha it keeps reminding us so that hopefully it won't happen again. >> rose: but the's also... the story here is that there are places in which there's... think that's not two ses and genocide is an example of where there's not two sides. sand where there is the imperative of meone saying "we cannot stand for this." that's also part of what you want to say. >> absolutely. we were very... we talk often about srebrenica and zana does a project everyyear on srebrenica and it's important to... it's what finally compelled internatnal intervention, it s the turning point. and did it have to go that far? do we have to wait for when the rape numbers are at 5,000 and when it's notabeled genocide. this is what frustrates me ant... we sit on darfur and say "is it genocide? is it...

for instance, with armed sales to iraq under these circumstances when sectarian violence threatens agn and it should look very seriously at the economic incentive that it has to bring the government to a more democratic and constitutional need. >> woodruff: reconsider sending arms and other kinds of aid. just quickly to abbas kadhim, what can influence events, what can or could the u.s. do? >> well, the united states has influence. in fact the last chance for having real influence was in the end of june of 2004. after that, we have-- and i've said that many times in different settings-- what happens in iraq right now is the results of the influence in the regional powers. i think the keys are in iran and in saudi arabia pretty much rather than the united states. for us, we strive to use diplomatic means, if possible, to probably create some mutual understanding among iraqis, but i don't think the united states has much power or influence in iraq in the same sense the regional powers do have influence in iraq over the different factions. >> woodruff: we will leave it there. gentlemen, t

extended in law family, janet and rod, deborah nicholson who took my son alexander outside the room, and agnes is probably the most technologically savvy of all of us at 80 something years of age. i also wish to remember on this day my late grandparents. they never could have imagined that their sacrifices and the sacrifice of their children would have culminated in this proceeding, as by a producer pointed out i'm the child of immigrants. my parents came to the united states from india exactly 40 years ago with about $10 in the pockets, a willingness to work very hard, and they believe in the american dream. they settled in parsons kansas in the late 1970s. just to give you a sense of the geographic scope of the place, and a town about 10,000 people, rising 150 miles south of kansas city. after seven in parsons my parents been serving the committee as doctors at the county hospital. they still work there to this day. i can say that i am glad i grew up in rural kansas. the friends i made in the experiences i had gave me valuable perspective on life, and as i grew older i find that i appreciate

aisle is engaging in discussions to try and finish up our work and look forward to that happening, agn, within the time frame that both of us would like to see happen. i yield back. mr. hoyer: that doesn't arify very much but i understand the gentleman's problem with respect to what's being done. let me ask the gentleman, if we can't get agreement, is the gentleman, in light of his focus on the 16th as the date of adjournment, is the gentleman saying we might consider a c.r. for some period of time, either a -- either the bance of the year, continuing resolution, or a continuing resolution for some of the time? i yield to my friend. mr. cantor: thank you, mr. speaker. our hope is, again, to be able to avoid that so that we can have a full appropriations package to dictate the priorities that we can agree upon for spending the rest of the year. again, as the gentleman knows, we are operating within the context of the budget control act, thegreement that was put into law at the end of the debt ceiling discussions and begin -- at the beginning of august of this year. as you know, as the g

let me close agn by thanking all those volved in this process on the appropriations committee. like to thank ben nicholson with the majority and the staff from the majority staff as well as stephanie guptka with the minority and her staff and also to thank senator landrieu and senator coates and ranking member price, of course, who was my process in this -- colleague in this pros. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance omy time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington. mr. dicks: i yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from north carolina, the ranking member for the homeland security subcommittee, mr. price. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for two minutes. mr. price: mr. speaker, i'm plead that we're finally nsidering an omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal 2012 to fund critical federal agencies including the department of homeland security. after a year of lurching from one manufactured crisis to another, these stabilizing the american economy and sending congress' approval ratings to record lows. i