86 winchester plenty of warmth off to the north and west of us but notice to the south nashville ashevillew looking at temperatures in the 60's and 70's. the reason why you can see on radar satellite and radar large area of moisture now pushing in from the south. this eventually will be our weather maker for the day on tuesday. we could be looking at some hefty thunderstorms. some gusty winds and heavy downpours during tuesday afternoon's rush hour commute and a few lingering showers wednesday into thursday. mainly clear for the overnight hours. bit humid. temperatures will fall into the 60's. as we move into the day tomorrow, look for partly sunny skies, another warm and humid day. not as hot as today. humidity levels and dew point levels will increase. it will feel a little more uncomfortable outside. extended outlook shows showers and thunderstorms on tuesday. we move into wednesday and thursday. keep a few lingering showers and by the upcoming weekend, looking really, really nice. temperatures in the lower to middle 80's. great beach weather for next weekend. wjla.com, check out the be

that black dot is the planet venus crossing the face of the sun as seen from asheville, north carolina. it's similar to an eclipse but much rarer. the earth, venus and sun line up like this only twice in a century. sky gazers young and old around the world spent hours observing this event called transit of venus. we have our report now from los angeles. >> little tiny dot -- >> reporter: 9-year-old couldn't take his eyes off the sun during a very rare cosmic event. >> it was sort of like awesome and scary at the same time, though. sometimes it was cool and uncool at the same time, too. >> reporter: for nearly seven hours, people around the world watched as the planet venus slowly crossed the face of the sun. it's called the transit of venus. ed krupp, director of griffith observatory in los angeles, says it's happened only once in the past 129 years. >> the next time we see this is in 2117 so you need good medical care in order to make that one. >> reporter: if you were lucky enough to be somewhere with clear skies, this was the view. venus, about 27 million miles away, looked like a t

he wanted a taste of the real thing so he completed the bike and the run portion of his race in ashevillelina. and carlos is type two diabetic, and he had his teammate, ryan maloney who is a type one diabetic. it is important to point out they both won their division. congratulations to everyone, and rick, you as well. and now one of our fit athletes joins us right now from hawaii. that was a great trip. you are about to do a relay as well in philadelphia and racing with sarah reinhardt and scott b bassert and like you are missing a leg as well. how did this come ant? >> we are all part of a nonprofit that works with people with disabilities. >> is it nerving racking for you? both of them have done it befored a i have met scout and talked to her about it, and what do you think about it? >> well, i met them three months after my amputation at a foundation run clinic, and they are incredible women and to have the chance to race alongside them at the phil ly event is amazing. >> tell us about t. >> it is a nonprofit that helps people to get back on their feet if they have lost a limb or are

rick says he wanted a taste of the real thing so he completed both the bike and run portion in asheville. carlos is a type 2 diabetic and did the bike leg near los angeles and had his teammate, 13-year-old diabetic. ryan and carlos both won their division. congratulations to everybody. rick, you as well. >>> denise is another one of our fit nation tri athletes and joins us in the studio. good to see you. welcome back from hawaii. >> thank you. >> a pretty great trip. you're about to do a relay as well in philadelphia and will be racing with sarah reinerson and scott basset as well and both of them are athletes, both of them like you are missing a leg. first of all, how did this all come about? how did this relay come about? >> we're all part of the challenge athletes foundation, a nonprofit that works with people with disabilities. >> is it nerve-racking for you? obviously they've done this, i've met scout before and talked to her. how are you feeling about it? >> you know, i met them probably three months after my amputation at a challenge athletes foundation run clinic and, you know, t

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cooler in the northeast, but nothing cool is coming in from the -- from the west. 103 reported in asheville and indianapolis. -- in nashville and indianapolis. check out these numbers these are the heat index numbers. if there is any good news, it fills one degree cooler in st. louis. this is the bubble and as it expands to the east, it will build vertically in the atmosphere. we have three or four consecutive days of temperatures in the upper 9's, near 100 degrees. that is why a heat advisory is in effect for tomorrow starting at 11:00 a.m. when you see the dewpoint temperatures in the 60's and the temperatures in the 90's, it is very dry. it doesn't happen very often here so we are getting a break but all that changes tomorrow. because of that heat and humidity up, we have widespread heat advisories. look at all these counties in the states to the west, the pink ones are excessive heat warnings. not much in the way of cloudiness or moisture and showers. as we get through the next few days we will watch for couple of things. combined with the daytime heat there could be a thunderstorm or t

here's the travel forecast. 91 in minneapolis 103 in kansas city, 106 in asheville. 101 in indianapolis. a few thunderstorms here and there in parts of the midwest and in new england close to boston there could be in a thunderstorm, but no delays to speak up at this time. lisa baden. actually steve. >> a bombshell in an attack that happened near. a metro near prosecutors in prince george's county will drop charges against two 18-year-old man in the gang rape of a woman. it did happenthe attack happened around christmas near the greenbelt metro station. dna evidence has cleared the individuals. >> a man has been connected to recent burglaries targeting elderly residents of southeast. >> anthony ford posed as a maintenance worker to gain access. once inside, he assaulted the victims and stole their property. 6:12, 76 degrees. >> californians will say goodbye to liver patte. >> when you share your husband with three other wives -- >> i have some jealousy issues. >> are you thinking about having another wife? next "anderson." well the kids wanted a puppy but they can be really expensive. so

louis. 91 in asheville. 81 in chicago. the warm air will make it to our area but it will take several days. the high pressure will take control of the weather at the moment that is interacting with an area of low pressure on of the carolinas. the low pressure will get out of the picture but we will still have a component of wind in the next couple of days. that will keep temperatures a little cooler than average as well as related to levels lower. the winds will start to shift out of the south and that will bring in the warm air mass. 97 in el paso. 90 degrees in oklahoma city. 93 in dallas. 91 in omaha. 64 in minneapolis. the heat is on the way, and the humidity will not be far behind. but in the meantime, very pleasant. low pressure bringing the clouds in -- high-pressure bring in the clouds in, but that will diminish as the low pressure moves out. quite a bit of sunshine, comfortable temperatures and humidity levels. the heat and humidity will return on monday and tuesday and wednesday next week. tomorrow morning, 61 an

. >> my initial contact with him was monday morning when we were transporting him to asheville.nd the corner. i think it was probably the only time in this investigation i had on an atf jacket. and you could hear him before we walked around the corner, he was talking to the jolocal deputies and jailers. we walked around the corner and he stiffened up, looking straight ahead. >> when the federal government agent would come in, he knew that they, the government, intended to kill him. >> extremist eric rudolph admits he did it. it's part of the deal that will spare his life. he'll get four straight life sentences. >> can you explain why eric rudolph was able to make a deal like this in the first place, avoiding the death penalty? >> it boils down to one word, and that's dynamite. he had stolen a lot of dynamite from the murphy, north carolina area and he had hidden it under ground and made a bomb. had the government gone for the victory, it would have been hollow if that had blew up. >> professionally, the plea deal i can understand the reason it was made. it expedited things, it e

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. >> stephanie: hi from asheville, north carolina. >> caller: hi, everybody. to "the stephanie miller show". for the good name of farenthold because blake farenthold's step grandmother sissy farenthold ran for governor unsuccessfully in the early '70s in texas. she was in the u.s. congress and -- i'm sorry, she was in the -- she was a state representative. i'm sorry. ran for governor unsuccessfully and got -- was second in balloting for the vice presidential slot in 1972. >> wow. >> caller: now granted -- kind of a disaster for the party. but she is a serious -- she is a serious advocate of women's rights human rights. she is the diametric opposite of her step grandson. i think the more we get that word out maybe the more likely it would be that he would be defeated. in the next election. so look her up. she's a person worthy of our admiration. she is a good, liberal democrat. >> and he has spent his entire life trying to erase any good she may have done. >> caller: well, it seems to me she's kind of one of those rich guys who at 16 couldn't find his way out o

iowa, wisconsin, colorado, california and greensboro, south carolina, where the local news covers ashevilleama squeak out a win in the tar state in 2008. all battlegrounds with the sole exception of california. he tried to spread a positive economic message. >> the good news is is that we're starting to see progress. well, the good news is is that in rural america we're starting to see terrific progress on a number of fronts. >> it's part of the administration's so-called live from the white house series. as they did in november, local anchors broadcast from the south lawn after interviewing the president and attending the white house briefing. >> let me go again, kristen remmington. >> the local journalists brought some tough questions with them to washington. >> given the recent jobs reports, why should wooi wisconsin identities believe any proposal coming from the administration? >> the truth of the matter is we've seen significant progress in manufacturing, for example. there are a whole bunch of auto plants in wisconsin that wouldn't be open had we not intervened and made sure that wor

some of the places maybe we didn't get to with the hard cover like asheville buffalo.ely. >> bill: and denver. >> yeah. >> bill: so there we go. maybe seattle portland. let's go. let's plan it for the paperback edition of "the obama hate machine." two of my favorite women coming up in this hour, congresswoman donna edwards and comedienne liz winstead. here on the "bill press show." the "full court press." but first -- >> this is the "full court press." >> other headlines making news on this thursday, the wheels continue to come off the rails over at cnn. the cable network yesterday announcing it is canceling john king u.s.a. the 6:00 p.m. eastern weeknight program hosted by john king. the situation room will now expand to three hours and john king will again become the chief campaign correspondent for the network. his show was consistently in third place behind fox and msnbc. >> bill: i'm not surprised. john king is a great reporter but that show just wasn't making it. and this cnn is in bad shape baby. i gotta tell you. and they have fall an long way. when i was aroun

. >> stephanie: let's go to john in asheville.you could have figured that out i guess. >> we already have an official pot grower but i forget who it is. >> stephanie: see what did you there? wee! john fuglesang, what did you think about the president's announcement on immigration? i just thought it was a the right thing to do much like his stance on marriage equality and it made mittens look more in. >>> >>> the authentic than he already is. he was saying he's not against the dream act. now he will avoid it. i enjoyed the press conference very much. i want to say that tucker carlson is the real journalism what tucker carlson is to "dancing with the stars." the dream act is an amnesty. if you think it is an amnesty you're thinking about what ronald reagan did. if you think this is amnesty and if you're angry about the dream act, you right-wingers have to take down the ronald reagan love dolls. that's exactly what the president did. this is a sinister plot of the president to allow babies who want to grow up and work and pay taxes t

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. >> host: let's get a call in from asheville, north carolina. good morning. >> caller: good morning. >> guest: good morning. >> caller: i'd just like to tell the representative how much i appreciate his honesty and integrity. and i had a comment about the voter id. i watched the black congressional caucus meeting with the black pastors, and i've never heard a more racist conference. and i called several of their offices to ask what the threat was to voters, and nobody could tell me in their offices. and even one office they told me to call louisiana office. i called them, they took my name and number, said somebody would call me back, but be nobody's ever called. i think it's strange that they present that point that it's a threat, but yet they can't tell you what the threat is. and also i asked when i called back to congresswoman waters' office i said, hey, we have a black congressional caucus, i thought we were supposed to be segregated now, and why do we not have a black congressional caucus if we've gone back to segregation? >> guest: well,

if you have been to nashville, we have done a town hall there in asheville.now that i have a lot of constituents that want to participate in this process, and you know they are very concerned about what international control of the internet would do to them and do to their livelihoods. how do we go about this, if the ftc does not have an open docca for comment? don't you think that would be a good idea, to have an opendoc it that these small business operators would be invited into for comment? at one. there was one, but there does not seem to be now. i think the early 2010, there was an opendoc it. tell me how we go about fixing this. >> the best vehicle for that would be something called a notice of inquiry that the sec could open up on what they should be doing in terms of the state department taking a lead on week 12. let me ask you this. one of the things, as i looked at this issue with the docca, one of the things that concerns me is that the fcc still does have an open proceeding to reclassify the internet services. tell me this. how is that open proce