ajax metal forming solutions in minnesota. this is the third generation of ajaxes. it was ajax and son but the son is too old to be called a son anymore. but eric's third generation. they make 70% of north america's appliance hinges. 70%. his company has over 70 employees, one for every percent of our appliance hinges. half of whom -- half of his employees were trained, hired and had their college tuitions fully paid through his earn while you learn registered apprenticeship program. now to do this, eric partnered with local community and technical colleges to find and train students, including veterans, women, first-generation americans and ex-offenders. i went to his factory floor, and he introduced me to an ex-offender who had been working there at e.j. a jax for six years and he just bought his first home. because of a training program that he had taken that had been made available through the community technical college. and these are -- now all of these categories i'm talking about -- and i met first-generation americans there who have great middle-class jobs

winter storm ajax is expected to bring heavy snow into the rockies and parts of kansas and nebraska.that blizzard warning is in effect until early this afternoon. we don't wantto see that here. bill henley did say we may see flurries. what can we expect from this system causing this blizzard warning out west? >> that's going to be a rainmaker on thursday. that's also producing the rain in the midwest and the thunderstorms. you saw the funnel cloud activity, you showed that. that's rain for us for thursday. but not today. we are dry. mainly in the clear other than a few high clouds in the area. it's chilly this morning. 49 degrees, that's at philadelphia international. much of the rest of the area is cool. cooler and some areas dropped in the 30s including the pocono mountains which is completely dry. we'll see lots of sunshine today. this is a view from blue mountain. over the weekend the mountains may get the first snow from mother nature. just a month ago they were making snow it got cold enough for that. nothing on the radar screen here just yet. but to the west a line of showers

ajax is a story about someone who feels he has been betrayed. whether he's been betrayed or not is actually irrelevant. he perceives he's been devalued and betrayed by those above him. and in some ways that's the wounded that cuts deep his friend and i think it is the wound that cuts deep is for many people in our society, for better or for worse. i think there's something to be learned from the ancient play and also the ancient perspective. there's another would look at this play that as much about suicide as it is about an act of attempted violence that precedes the suicide that is fueled by sense of isolation and betrayal. and also, and i said this earlier, a vocabulary of violence, a lack of ability for this person in the blood and in our society, young people, to express themselves in any other way. >> can't i just say very quickly that suicide bombers on the flipside of people who take their own lives. they are doing it in the pursuit of a cause. and the people who are doing it now, i know the president doesn't want to call it radical isla

partnership with the mural arts program and unveiled a commemorative bronze plaque listing the former ajax metal building. and it has a pope doll and magazines in a time capsule for others in the future to find. >>> and brothers and sisters in the program took part for a unique unveiling at the people pour people charter school, the children put the puzzle together showing how the first niagara company is donating. once the peases were in place, they saw the grand total, $125,000. across america, people like basketball hall of famer dominique wilkins... ...are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes... ...with non-insulin victoza®. for a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar. but it didn't get me to my goal. so i asked my doctor about victoza®. he said victoza® works differently than pills. and comes in a pen. victoza® is proven to lower blood sugar and a1c. it's taken once a day, any time. victoza® is not for weight loss, but it may help you lose some weight. victoza® is an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with di

cranes and tree is the and airports and even to gibson guitars and roland amplifiers and old spice and ajax. you can still buy, he writes, tennis racquets and skis, bindings and boots. the houses where we lived were still standing, all of them. the sole difference, he continues, which is the difference between a child's reality and an adult's, was they were no longer laden with meaning. a pair of soccer boots was just a pair of football boots. if i felt anything when i held a pair in my hands now, it was only a hangover from my childhood, nothing else. nothing in itself. the same with the sea, he continues, the same with the rocks, the same with the taste of salt that could fill your summer days to saturation. now it was just salt. world was the same, yet it wasn't. for its meaning had been displaced and was still being displaced, approaching closer and closer to meaninglessness. literature, like art, pushes against time's fancy, makes us insomniacs in the holes of habit, offers to rescue the life of things from the dead. a story is told about the artist oscar -- [inaudible] who was leading

thanks to winter storm ajax. blizzard warnings are also in >>> well, a much different story here. i'm looking at a blue skiling and 47 degrees -- and 47 degrees and let's turn now to meteorologist bill evans, he forecast. >> a lot of sunshine and we're going to have some really pretty weather. temperatures you know dropped on down into the 40s this evening and probably looking at 52 for just a few minutes this afternoon. and a lot of sunshine. after school kids, at the bus stop it will be a little cool and crisp and got of the sports after school and teachers coaches, another little layer and they should be just fine in this stuff. you know dave and shirleen the stuff like we do. they get out there running arnold they're just fine. we got rain to talk about. it could be a rainout on that's next. back to you shirleen. system. >> they're immune to it. >>> students at connecticut take a stand against discrimination, why they staged a sit-in to support a fellow paris terror attacks. >>> students at aikona upset over a racist -- u con upset over a racist message. staged a shirted n tal

milwaukee, chicago or detroit, we have the second named winter storm of the season, the first one was ajaxich actually was earlier this week. now we have bella expected to produce up to 8" of snow in chicago. that will cause airport delays today. right now, clear skies. we have temperatures in the 40s and 50s with a mild start to your friday. and later today, very pleasant conditions again very spring- like but we have much cooler air mass working its way in by next week. we'll talk about that. first we have a huge ridge of high pressure with valley fog forming in the central valley and you can see the diversion of the clouds to the north of us bouncing off that ridge of high pressure right there. so for the most part, pleasant all the way through about monday. we start turning cooler on monday. but this weekend temperatures still soaring into the low 70s away from the bay. then this area of low pressure is developing in the gulf of alaska. it's a cold front. so it has a lot of cold air associated with it. that's the number one feature. second feature is the precipitation only anywhere fro

winds of 50 miles per hour expected thanks to winter storm ajax. blizzard warnings are also in effect in parts of kansas and nebraska. >>> the start of a tradition today that helps keep he is fortunate new yorkers warm for the holidays. new york cares launches its 27th an yum coat drive this -- annual coat drive this morning at the bowery mission in manhattan. you can drop off a coat at any of 300 locations throughout the five boroughs. >>> 5:47. coming up next, a devastating diagnosis for hack which are charlie sheen. actor -- for actor charlie sheen. >> protesters are demanding justice in minnesota and we have new details about how many people have been arrested. >> also new information in the case of robert durst, the new >>> 5:50 and some difficult health news for actor charlie sheen. hollywood publicist bragman confirms he has been told that sheen is hiv positive. brag man also says he didn't speak directly with sheen about the hiv status, but sheen's people have told bragman that the actor is receiving treatment. >>> the federal government is