there was some wind damage out in albany, connecticut, massachusetts, and just outside of boston. but overall pretty quiet severe weather day. today's going to be more of the same. we have a weather pattern without any huge storms. that's good. here come as cold shot of air. it's only 41 in denver, 33 in billings. so if you're in the northern plains, the weather's changed. it definitely feels like early spring, not summer. we have a little bit of rain, not a lot but showers continuing along this front. it will be warm today. south texas could see it in the mid to upper 90s. if you're in des moines, ames, miriam, dubuque, washington, kenosha down to davenport, you'll see showers. otherwise it looks like a beautiful day through the mid-atlantic and down through the deep south. just son afternoon storms in orlando. that's a look at the national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. temperatures are going to be on the warm side today. philadelphia, 82 degrees. what a great spring. memphis, 82, oklahoma city, 79. all of tennessee will be dry today after the bi

high pressure happen near albany. on-shore flow here. winds becoming southerly.hat is really warming things up. i will see the warm air in the middle of the country head this way. so it will feel more like summer in the next couple of days. the seven-day forecast, temperatures in the mid-70s, below average. 79 is where we should be. a shower or two. same story on tuesday. by wednesday and thursday, upper 80s, near 90. in fact thursday could be a little humid and cooler this weekend. low 70s with a couple of showers possible. we are going to the kitchen when 9 news now at noon returns. Ñú we know everyone's looking for ways to save. why not save on car insurance? [ coin drops ] [ high-pitched voice ] thanks. [ normal voice ] you're welcome. get a free quote at progressive.com. >>> 9 news now gets started for our earliest risers, that's right, at 4:25 a.m. check out howard, angie and andrea every weekday morning at 4:25 and it's almost summer which means grilling season. we have chef harper from stratford university with us. showing us a wonderful recipe. sounds gr

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cool stuff albany to new england. from winchester that's one of the cooler readings. 58 manassas. 59 on the bay in annapolis and 50 in martinsburg. cool pockets but a nice start. a spectacular afternoon. lower humidity level and 80 degrees. it will be one of the top ten days of the year. angie? >> happy cinco de mayo, everybody. >> excellent. >> 395 northbound, construction approaching the beltway blocks two lanes. you are okay after that point and more 0 roadwork on the outer loop at braddock road and little river road exit. construction is taking away two left lanes between clopper road and germantown. >>> hundreds of people flock to mclean to meet first lady lawyer -- former first lady laura bush. that's where she kicked off her book tour. >> to have a brief moment was satisfying. >> reporter: fans only had a second to say something to the former first lady. each person came with a different person with a different reason of wanting to read her book. >> curious about 9/11 and how that impacted her. >> she was a kin

one sanctuary city is albany, the capital of new york state.s the east coast at the center of the kind of dishonest debate of use of the rule of law and abandonment of the people that i have been telling you about this morning. if you want to see where it leads and what it costs the honest, lawful people like you, watch this video showing what life is like and what life is worth in albany, today. look at this for just a minute. >> gun laws mean absolutely nothing. gangs know they can beat the system. >> they do not prosecute. they make deals. >> they go right back out on the street, and they can get illegal guns like that. >> it looks good from the outside while the patient is bleeding to death on the inside. >> the more you disarm the public, the better off the gangs and criminals are. >> the system does not meet the challenge. >> albany -- the state capital of new york where lawmakers in their bill that unguarded chambers pass countless gun laws, but just blocks away, many of those laws have already been broken by drug dealers and rival >> ga

no problems approaching buffalo and syracuse and albany by tomorrow morning and then watch in the afternoont there. there we go, 4:00 we have some showers and isolated thunder popping up for your thursday afternoon, especially central and south. seven-day forecast. we will be 80 today, beautiful. 84 tomorrow with afternoon storms possible. friday dry and 78. shower and thunder possible on saturday. mother's day cooler but pleasant with highs in the middle 60s. speaking of cool and pleasant. here's angie. >> you are the coolest, though. thank you, howard. 12 minutes from the 6:00 hour. good wednesday morning to you we will begin with 95 and the bw parkway. nice and clean and green drive from baltimore to 495. as we move it to 270, we open the doors and show you the drivers are moving at a good pace from father hurley to the split. no real problems. virginia 6 things are filling out between 50 and 123. that delay is going to continue to grow. next stop, 495 in virginia. the outer loop, the inner loop, both of these loops are checking out fine between the wilson bridge to the american legion.

our problem is, we live in a state where we send a lot of money up to albany.we get a little bit of a back. we expect them to say thank you. they want to cut back dramatically the amount of money they sent back to us because they want to use the money elsewhere in the state to influence, i think, in the political reality. the federal government sends money is to the states and the states never get to the cities. i talked to the mayor of seattle and she said they never got the money from the stimulus. the monies that go to the states do i get to the population centers which are the future of this country. when the state cut back the amount of money basin back to this which they will do, it makes -- it puts us in a very difficult situation of having to make choices. the governor's budget requires laying off 20,000 employees. we will not have to do that public -- but we will have to make some tough choices. we have a situation where government employees were getting paid more. it is an untenable situation but it is difficult to address because we are very dependen

same thing for areas around albany, around macon in georgia and just down south, montgomery and up toward tuscaloosa, more powerful storms. severe weather just continues to move through the deep south. i'm going to take you to missouri right now. sedalia, missouri, where powerful storms moved through thursday evening. take a look at this rotation. officials sounded the sirens to warn residents. luckily there was no damage or injuries. but, again, all part of the same weather system that will be moving this way. so i don't think that we're going to see any severe weather around here. but one thing is for sure, we might have an isolated thunderstorm or two late saturday night early sunday. here's the weather pattern. still that big ridge over the eastern half of the nation. the dip there is what moves in for tomorrow. but more importantly is the weather pattern for wednesday and the end of next week that's going up to memorial day weekend. real hot. the ridge will continue to build all the way up to canada. i'm going to keep my eye on a storm system coming through the bahamas close to the o

the whole lesson of greece, of spain, sacramento, the lesson of albany, we can't sustain having government as the fourth bubble when we are spending more than we can possibly maintain. >> chris: not surprising my, your book has drawn strong criticism. you praised the tea party and when they ousted senator bennett last week you said this it is a sign of the anger of the american people. just three months ago you endorsed bennett for reelection. >> i did and i think bennett is a very nice man but my comment wasn't antibennett and bennett would agree with that. he went back home and i went to utah for him. his vote on tarp really signaled people that gave them an explanation of their anger. bennett is a reasonable person. i think they wanted somebody to come and fight and they were saying we are unhappy with washington and we want people who are going to fight to change, washington, and i believe that is going to be characteristic across the country. >> chris: you critics point out that you attack president obama for a socialist intrudion into the private sector but the fact is that back in 2

. >> host: get this set the trading academy for the correction officers in albany where i spent six weeks it is the same. you do not climb under door top sheet because then you will have to remake the bid. it is exactly the same. it is surreal. the officer culture and the inmate culture, they are parallel and the overlap in ways that are fascinating and get more typically would you describe in your book is a sort of darkly drawn line between inmates and officers and there is an officer in a truck when you are on a detail, you are outside the prison. he wants to be chatting with you and learn a little bit about you, what you are in for an hour a nice goal ended up in a place like this and you're not interested in having that conversation and i could have in that regard because i was always interested in learning about the inmates in fact it was kind of a problem i think connected to my education. i wanted -- and my mission to write about this eventually i wanted to write everything about them. a few inmates would talk to me and more would not. but as a mistake sharing that information? why

speaking of new york two to the state capital, albany, check in with governor david paterson, the democratic governor of the state of new york. what is the latest information you have on all of this, governor? >> well, larry, i have heard about this but i think that it is so important to bring those who tried to inflict pain on a lot of our citizens to justice, that i don't want to go beyond anything the investigators are saying publicly. >> larry: what has the conversations with mayor bloomberg taught you, if anything? >> well, we are just very happy that somebody saw something and somebody said something. it could be a whole different description that we would be discussing this evening and it could have been very tragic. but the t-shirt vendor told a mounted police officer and the new york city police department cleared times square in a matter of a half hour, which is stellar. and we have a very strong police force there and a strong police force in new york state. we have gone through this a lot. we have all kinds of threats assessments every couple of weeks. there are a lot of stories

the trading to eight katrina academies in albany where i spent several weeks it is exactly the same. you do not claim under door top sheet because you have to remake that date. it is exactly the sand. and it is surreal the officer culture and the inmate culture are parallel and overlap in ways that are quite fascinating, and yet more typically what you described in your book is a sort of darkly john line between inmates and officers and there is an officer i think in the truck when you were outside of the present who wants to be chatting with you and wants to learn a little bit about you and what you are in for and how nice girl like you end up in a place like this, and you're not interested in having that conversation and i could have been that barred because i was always interested in learning about the inmates in fact it was kind of a problem i think connected to my education. i wanted in my mission to write about this i wanted to know everything about them and a few inmates would talk to me and more would not so what is at stake for an inmate sharing that information? why wouldn'

just over one year ago, when there was gun attack in up state new york, in albany, taliban claimed theyit turned out that attack was carried out about a vietnamese man with no connection to the taliban. but it has caused the authorities toñr examine the claim with more seriousness this time.awc0@6 mrñ you mentioned bothpakistani and u.s. authorities are working on this. how seriously is this being taken over there, and does there seem to be cooperation on the >> i think this is being taken with great seriousness here in pakistan, if for no other reason that the government realizes what problems the country's image this association is going to create. and both from the president down to the interior minister and the foreign minister, allÑi have made very strong and unequivocal statements they're going to cooperate with the u.s. and as we understand it, u.s. and pakistani investigators are jointly interrogating some of these people who have been taken into custody already. >> declan walsh in caracas, thank you. >> brown: late this afternoon, i spoke with a top american official-- denis mc

the whole lesson of greece, of spain, sacramento, the lesson of albany, we can't sustain having government as the fourth bubble when we are spending more than we can possibly maintain. >> chris: not surprising my, your book has drawn strong criticism. you praised the tea party and when they ousted senator bennett last week you said this it is a sign of the anger of the american people. just three months ago you endorsed bennett for reelection. >> i did and i think bennett is a very nice man but my comment wasn't antibennett and bennett would agree with that. he went back home and i went to utah for him. his vote on tarp really signaled people that gave them an explanation of their anger. bennett is a reasonable person. i think they wanted somebody to come and fight and they were saying we are unhappy with washington and we want people who are going to fight to change, washington, and i believe that is going to be characteristic across the country. >> chris: you critics point out that you attack president obama for a socialist intrudion into the private sector but the fact is that back in 2

. >> host: so get this, at the training academy in albany where i spent seven weeks, it's exactly the same. you do not climb under your top sheet because you'll have to remake that bed. it's exactly the same. >> guest: surreal. >> host: it is surreal. the officer culture and the inmate cultures, they're parallel, and they overlap this these ways that are quite fascinating. and yet more typcly in what you describe in your book is this sort of darkly-drawn line between inmates and officers, and there's an officer i think in a truck when you're on a work detail, you're outside the prison who wants to be chatty with you, wants to learn a little bit about you, what you're in for, how a nice girl like you ended up in a place like this, and you're not interested in having that conversation. >> guest: uh-huh. >> host: and i could have been that guard because i was always interested in learning about the inmates. in fact, it was kind of a problem, i think, connected to my education. i wanted -- and my mission, which was to write about this eventually, i wanted to know everything about them. an

that we live in a state where we send a lot of money back to albany. they want to cut back the amount they sent back to us because they want to use the money elsewhere in the state to influence the political reality of the nicrest of the state. the federal government sends the money to the states and they don't give it down to the city. seattle never got any money from the stimulus. the monies that go to the states don't get to the population centers which are the future of this country. when the state cuts back the amount of money they cut back to us which they will do. it puts us in a very difficult situation of having to make some choices. it would require us to lay off 19,000 employees. will we do that? we won't have to but we will have to make some very painful choices. we have a situation where government employees are getting paid more on balance, they have pension benefits that the private sector no longer enjoys. this is an untenable situation but a very difficult situation to address because we are very dependent on our employees. in new york

host: for jeffrey miron, the next call is from albany.think you are one of the most incredible voice is an articulating the failures. do you think the obama administration is serious about having a debate? guest: i am not sure. i expect behind closed doors a large amount would be happy to have the conversation and be sympathetic. i am not sure any administration sees it as a political winner to take a strong stand because there is still a lot of opposition to legalization, save for marijuana. -- say for marijuana. the key initiative would be the california initiative. if that passes, and it creates the question of what the federal government will do about this. will they let california offpt out of the spectral cut program. i agree with you, i'd think the administration is sympathetic. i am not sure they will take a strong stand publicly. host: 8 twitta twitter for you,a libertarian, do you think churches should be exempt from paying u.s. taxes? guest: all taxes are paid by people. all taxes should either be on consumption or personal inc

host: albany, new york, david, independt line. caller: i agree with the caller just before.ace it -- let's face it, climate change armists of is a scam. schools are teachi it -- all are ms. ahman -- alarmedisinm ia scam. schools are teaching it. and they put it in our trade policies. host: what about at last point? guest: there is a border adjustments the tanagers are putting into their bill to try to make sure that any bills that come in from -- and the goods that come in from foreign countries, if they do not have equal protection in the united states, they will have to pay a mortar attacks. there is going -- are going to be challenges that since you as country spoke of with the u.s. is doing. and your are actually seeing it come back toward the u.s. ran out, countries upset by the fact that the u.s. does not have reporter change block. we're seeing the beginnings of a potential trade 4. that is what the senators are trying to get around -- a potential trade war. that is what the senators are trying to get around. host: next call on the republican line. caller: i agree wit

host: albany, new york, david, independent line. caller: i agree with the caller just before. let's face it -- let's face it, climate change alarmists of is a scam. schools are teaching it -- all are ms. ahman -- alarmedisinm ia scam. schools are teaching it. and they put it in our trade policies. host: what about that last point? guest: there is a border adjustments the tanagers are putting into their bill to try to make sure that any bills that come in from -- and the goods that come in from foreign countries, if they do not have equal protection in the united states, they will have to pay a mortar attacks. there is going -- are going to be challenges that since you as country spoke of with the u.s. is doing. and your are actually seeing it come back toward the u.s. ran out, countries upset by the fact that the u.s. does not have reporter change block. we're seeing the beginnings of a potential trade 4. that is what the senators are trying to get around -- a potential trade war. that is what the senators are trying to get around. host: next call on the republican line. calle

california and new york could deal with the legislature in albany.dollar will be stronger? >> it probably does. the dollar is still weaker against the euro than it was when the euro started. which is an irony. greece is starting to take out advertisements on tv and all the magazines are running greek covers. maybe a good time 0 go to greece. right now the airport is closed and olympic airlines goes on strike a lot. you might want to find another way in. >> i was thinking more krakow anyway. >> south of france, greek islands. >> greece is lovely. >> willie and i do charity work if the summer, you're all galavanting around. >> if you knew the truth about. >> don't have time for vacations. >> -- our vacations. his versus mine. >> us kids. >> he spent 25 years making people laugh as a syndicated newspaper columnist. dave barry will join us. >> he'd better be damned funny. >> if he comes up here and sucks, i'm going to be really disappointed. >> i'd better be laughing his particularly. up next our political round table with richard wolffe. keep it right h

join us in albany. what does this mean to live and work with dignity and respect. we will not decriminalize -- we will not be criminalized any more and we will fight for the dignity and humanity of all people. [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] >> and now with us, extraordinary leader of the labor movement, the executive director of the new york taxi workers alliance. >> hello, brothers and sisters. at the may day. -- at the may day -- happy mayday. we came together on may day and the workers of america are standing united, to say that we are all equal human beings, and there is no discrimination or criminalization, and no more attacks on the immigrants in this country. brothers and sisters, we come here with 49,000 taxi drivers, 90% of them immigrants who worked every day, 12 hours per day. 70 hours per week. working with close to 1 million people every 24 hours. what we want to know is that if you get rid of us, who is going to do this job? we are part of the working class that built this country, and we are proud to stand in unity with organized labor, and or

here's a view from albany, new york. sarah, go ahead, republican caller. caller: hi. host: sarah, make sure you mute your television or radio and then go ahead. caller: can you hear me? hello, can you hear me? host: yes, we can, go ahead. caller: well, basic on the this memorial day, i would like to say that i have a hearty thank you -- hello? host: we didn't quite hear you. what did you say? caller: i would like to say thank you to the peacemakers. thank you to the veterans of the peace movement. and thank you to all of those who have lost their lives for the freedom flotilla at the hands of israel, and that has so many u.n. sanctions against it and that no one is willing to confront. it's inhumane, and the regime is one that is murderous. host: the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, will be in washington this week, set to meet with president obama on tuesday, tomorrow. here's the headline of toronto's "globe & mail" in canada. netanyahu gets a warm welcome. it's made canada an important ally for the prime minister, in a photo of israeli prime minister benja

host: albany, new york, democratic caller, hi. caller: good morning, i am fully supportive of president obama and his actions. and i feel that bp would be responsible for all of the damages. and i think we need to hold them account to that. and we need to involve the manufacturer and push bp (inaudible) america taxpayer's dollars. host: looking at the baltimore sun and guests including jindle, governor of louisiana. and we have comments about the president. >> i have a relationship with the president, i like him. and as far as being involved in his objectives, they are limited. i give credit to his energy secretary for reaching out and let me work there, i appreciate it. in terms of the white house, either they don't want to work in a bipartisan way or doesn't know how. and i am still puzzled. for example, the president came to visit us, we are delighted to see him. but he didn't say why he was coming. he didn't say, i am going to talk about immigration, i may send troops down to the border. he and senator mccain could have jointl

that the secular socialist movement as a movement and the machine that is now running washington, albany, and sacramento, are as grave a threat as any totalitarian system we have ever seen. by that, i mean, if they gain in total control, if they eliminate got from public life, if they suppress your religious liberties, if they take away your right to earn money and politicians decide who should learn how much and who should be distributed, if bureaucrats in washington can decide every detail of your life, whether it is health care or energy or the environment or you name it, then america as we have known it has ceased to exist. and i think it is that serious a threat. by the way, if you go back and looked at george orwell's 1984, remember, george orwell, and left wing intellectual, so feared centralized planning and government that he wrote in 1984 not about the soviet union, not about not see germany, he wrote it about great britain and he said in his interviews that it is a warning to all of us that too strong a central government with the best of intentions can end up creating the end

when i spoke of the small town, the small city, we shared the good news with yesterday, the city in albany county in upstate new york, it's being repeated over and over again with municipalities in this country. then you put it into the business sector and the improvements they're making with the improvements and you talk about households where they have weatherization programs to create stronger energy environments within which to live. no family should be asked to live in poor energy environments, they're wasteful. it's wasteful in terms of energy supply and dollars expended. when we look at the track record here, we're looking at, talk about whose side are you on? we're looking at over hall a million job crease ated since december, 84% of which were in the private sector category. when we look at tax relief, we're not talking about just the upper income strata that the situation for the bush administration but now we're talking about 98% of americans getting a relief to the point where tax bills are at their lowest level since 1950. so we're talking about a whole different approach a di

that the secular socialist movement as a movement and the machine that is now running washington, albany, and sacramento, are as grave a threat as any totalitarian system we have ever seen. that, i mean, if they gain in total control, if they eliminate got from public life, if they suppress your religious liberties, if they take away your right to earn money and politicians decide who should learn how much and who should be distributed, if bureaucrats in washington can decide every detail of your life, whether it is health care or energy or the environment or you name it, then america as we have known it has ceased to exist. and i think it is that serious a threat. by the way, if you go back and looked at george orwell's 1984, rember, george orwell, and left wing intellectual, so feared centralized planning and government that herote in 1984 not about the soviet union, not about not see germany, he wrote it about great britain and he said in his interviews that it is a warning to all of us that too strong a central government with the best of intentions can end up creating the end of fre

our problem is we live in a state where we send a lot of money up to albany, they give a little of itack. they expect us to say thank you, although it is our money. they want to cutback the money they send back to us, because they want to use the money elsewhere in the state to influence, i think it is fair to say, the political reality of the rest of the state. that's a nice way to phrase it. if you talk to mayors all throughout this country, they will all tell you the federal government again and again and again will make this mistake. they send the money to the states, and the states never get it to the city -- cities. i was talking to someone a few months ago, and seattle did not receive any money from the stimulus. the cities are the population centers for this country. when the states cutback, which they will do, it puts us in a difficult situation of having to make some choices. we have said with our governor's budget it will require us to lay off 19,000 employees. will we do that? we won't have to do that, but we will have to make some very painful choices. we have a situation