the interview focuses on the book "expelling the poor, atlantic seaboard states and the origins of american immigration policy." this interview is about 8 minutes. >> your research focuses on immigration restriction and the united states. when do you see this begin? >> i think it started mid 19th century when a large number of impoverished irish catholic immigrants came to the united states. it was this immigration status in massachusetts and new york developed a series of laws to prohibit the landing of destitute foreigners and to depart those already in the states. were there any federal laws in place at the time? hidetaka: not really. federal law had to wait until the late 19th century, before that moment, states and local governments were largely responsible for immigration control. so state governments rather than federal governments are the major administrators of immigration control. >> what were the perceptions of irish immigrants at the time? hidetaka: the american perception of the irish can be characterized by three issues mainly. one is anti-catholicism. the vast majority of the

the interview focuses on the book "expelling the poor, atlantic seaboard states and the origins of american immigration policy." this interview is about 8 minutes. >> your research focuses on immigration restriction and the united states. when do you see this begin? >> i think it started mid 19th century when a large number of impoverished irish catholic immigrants came to the united states. it was this immigration status in massachusetts and new york developed a series of

the interview focuses on his book, "expelling the poor: atlantic seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of american immigration policy." about eightew is minutes. >> your research focuses on immigration restriction in the united states. when do you see this begin? >> i think it started in the mid-19th century when a large number of impoverished irish catholic immigrants came to the united states. in response to this immigration, the states of massachusetts and new york developed a series of laws to prohibit the landing of it

on tonight, close to the mid-atlantic eastern seaboard and it will supposedly help nasa study the earth'sh nasa facing cuts and how will studies like this one affect the space program? we have acting nasa director, robert lightfoot to fox business. acting? you should be the full-time guy. >> we'll let somebody else make that decision. liz: i will weigh in and during a comment period. sir, i start off back in the day, i wasn't born, during the cold war the u.s. government had plan to blow up the moon to distract the russians or something like that. what is it you're going to change the color of the sky? how? >> we're putting sounding rockets have that smoke in them. they give us a way to look at the upper atmosphere in a different way. this is a system for us. part of our agenda advancing research, different ways collecting scientific knowledge we need to get. that is part of our chartering what we do. understanding the upper atmosphere, pretty exciting stuff, no worries for anybody. normal day's work for us with the sounding rockets. liz: no chance it might affect flocks of birds? >> no.

it will be a very muggy afternoon across the eastern seaboard into the mid-atlantic states. look at the temperatures for the afternoon -- 90 for the nation's capital. 82 for new york. you know the second you step outside with that humidity level skyrocketing, it will feel even warmer yet. back to you. >> thank you very much. >>> uber may be in the middle of a crisis,but employees ata competitor are being told not to gloat. cnn's "money stream" coming up. if you have medicare parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what? you could apply for a medicare supplement insurance plan whenever you want. no enrollment window. no waiting to apply. that means now may be a great time to shop for an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. medicare doesn't cover everything. and like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, these help cover some of what medicare doesn't pay. so don't wait. call now to request your free decision guide. it could help you find the aarp medicare supplement plan that works for you. these types of

atlantic city. so that trough of low pressure that will be exiting the eastern seaboard so that will allow for somearmer temperatures really over the next several days. we'll crank that heat up tomorrow and then as we move toward the upcoming weekend, an area of high pressure that heat pump will set out to sea. so we're looking at that flow coming in out of the south and west and that will really warm those temperatures up. so for your thursday, 89 degrees. 92 by friday. look at saturday. 93 degrees. when you factor in that humidity, though for saturday we're looking at feels like temperatures approaching the upper 90s. 90 degrees the high temperature on sunday. ultimate doppler try dry across the area looking good in west chester, norristown, doylestown, trenton and her zero county looking good over to mount laurel as well. no weather problems. around parts of the great lakes look at this disturbance in the red those are active tornado warning in yellow severe thunderstorm warnings. some of that energy will head in our direction by the upcoming weekend we'll have pop up showers and thunderstorms m

atlantic city airport 78. and lots of sunshine today and high pressure is pushing off the eastern seaboard and you can see how all of the activity with showers and thunderstorms forced up to the north and that is where it should stay tomorrow. future tracker 6 showing temperatures in the low 90s lots of sunshine and the best chance of a storm would be north of our region, could have a storm sneaking into the poconos and mainly dry and saturday the frontal boundary moves in and by the evening keep your eye to the sky and your 6 abc app with the potential for storms at 6:00. and i-95 corridor and areas to the west moving toward the shore later on in the night. the great place to be this weekend. adam joseph going ocean city and you have the job today. great day for it. >> it's beautiful because we have the sunshine and cool breeze off the ocean and food as well. heading down for the upcoming weekend on saturday, temperatures 79 degrees and most of the storms on storm tracker hold off until late in the day and moderate risk of rip currents coming in off the water and creating wave action, sunday and monday, 84 s

seaboard. >>> going to be down the shore this weekend? you'll have a smoother stretch along the atlanticy boardwalk. they cut the ribbon on a rebuilt stretch of the boardwalk between rhode island and oriental avenues. money related to recovery efforts from hurricane sandy paid for the $5 million project. >>> staying down the shore in cape may county, the bridge between sea isle and avalon could be opened by july 4th. officials tell us it's not a guarantee. fingers crossed. the townsend inlet bridge closed in april after a crack was discovered in a support pier. for now drivers have to use route 9 or the garden state parkway to travel between the two shore points. >>> 4:47. in south jersey, we'll find out what's happening on 295. >> that's right. jessica boyington has an eye on the cameras. >>> watching 295 through west stepford. cameras showing it looks like a good drive. a few cars moving either direction. the trip southbound from the 42 freeway, moving up toward delaware. if you're heading toward the delaware american legion bridge, a 23 -- delaware memorial bridge, a 23-minute trip. s

atlantic city, 78, millville 85. this is a typical pattern when we get the heatwave, high pressure off of the eastern seaboard.y and tuesday, temperatures building through the mid 90s. humidity making it feel 100-degrees. that's dangerous. this is the place to be this weekend at the shore. 78 sunday, bumping up to 81-degrees. the ocean temperature cools you off, 63. race weekend in the poconos tomorrow. possibility of a straight shower, partly sunny, 78. sunday, pocono 400, sunny and on the warm side with a high of 84. the accuweather forecast, tomorrow, partly sunny, warmer, slightly more humid. the humidity is not oppressive, 87-degrees. the heat builds to 97: 95 monday tieing the record two years ago. tuesday, a high of 96. that would set a new record. dewpoint in the 60s, the heat index around 100. that's dangerously hot. then the heat wave, 86 wednesday. 82 thursday and friday, 84 and a chance of thunderstorms. two days this week are dangerously hot. we'll have excessive heating signs pooed. >> the empowermentel tonight in center city. awards provided to individual s. among them a posthumous award t. >> y

high pressure dominating washington weather mid atlantic weather really all the way up the eastern seaboardef for couple more days. today, tonight, tomorrow, keep the he can treatment heat around little better by wednesday with highs in the upper 80s to near 90 with a few thunderstorms back door cold front gets in here closes us down for thursday and friday. lots of water. check on your elderly neighbors. pets keep them indoors that kind of thing. >> okay. >> okay. >> thanks tuck. >>> erin how is it ok >> not looking oh so great. look at that delay. this is as you head north on 395 you're jammed on the 14th street bridge just really slow traffic there. memorial bridge also a bit heavy this morning. so coming up from the bottom of the beltway to across the 14th street bridge 395 northbound about a 20 minute delay holding steady. >> let's switch it over from the live look to look at our maps. and show you another crash. this is also adding to those delays on the freeway westbound at case bridge. and then you're stacked completely off 295 on to the 11th street bridge. really heavy as you make

atlantic city airport 62. satellite 6 along with action radar showing we started the day with loads of sunshine and there is low pressure off the eastern seaboard you see how that is pumping up the clouds and the clouds will be eroding from the southwest to the northeast as that low pressure moves away from us. tonight turning partly cloudy and a cool night. 55 in philadelphia and 47 in allentown and wilmington 53 and cape may 56. future tracker 6 showing tomorrow should be a beautiful day. good amount of sunshine and temperatures climbing back up into the 80s for philadelphia. philadelphia 82 degrees on the beach wildwood 76 degrees and plent yip of sunshine. as we head into the weekend saturday it gets warmer and more humid and 85 degrees by 3:00 and temperatures in the generally low to mid-80s along the shore and the humidity will be increasing. tomorrow dew points in the mid-50s and that is comfortable and saturday, sunday and monday, dew points are heading into the 60s. so you will feel the moisture in the air and sunday and monday, temperatures climbing up into the mid-90s. it's going to get hot a weather whiplash, for saturday down the s

across the great lakes and eastern seaboard and we're just dealing with a mess of wet weather all of this gulf moisture working its way in towards the southeast, the mid-atlantic kind of weather is going to be sort of what we're going to be dealing with throughout the workweek. i have a picture to show you guys. the internet was taken by storm by this image. i saw this yesterday. this is out of alberto, canada. when i saw it i was like is this for real or not? i hope you can take the lower third off. you can see a guy right there his backyard still mowing the lawn with a tornado in back of him. his wife took the picture and he said he had some chores to do and he had to get them done. this fellow out in alberto, canada said he was keeping an eye on the weather situation. jackie: what? janice: i didn't believe it when i saw it but it's real. jackie: who does that. janice: they said it looked closer than it really was. that's tool close for comfort. rob: gutsy move. janice: those canadians are gutsy folks. jackie: well a fox news alert for you. coming up, the second terror attack in days. will finally combat the threat of radical islam. rob: plus, some in the ma

ones they're going to be buying are mostly in the northeast, the mid-atlantic and then in the southeast. so up and down the eastern seaboardbe the properties the that walgreens is picking up under this alliance. they say that they expect it to be accomplished rather soon. and they expect it to be accretive to walgreens let's see, they expect it to be accretive in the full first year after the closing, in terms of adjusted earnings per share. >> got it. >>> in the meantime, 34 of the nation's largest banks are getting the green light for buybacks and dividends kayla tausche joins us now with the financial stress relief and some big gains for many of these banks as a result, kayla >> and for many of these companies, a longtime company. this is the first time the fed did not object to one of those capital plans since the financial crisis the fed saying seven years after these stress tests were put in place, the banks now finally is have sufficient capital and can give all the money they earn back to shareholders there was one bank the fed did find some issues with. capital one passed conditionally, meaning it has to resubmit

seaboard, hot and dry. the western two-thirds of the country. we move into sunday, mid-atlantic states.nd florida. western half of the country looking pretty good. on july 4th, thunderstorms through the midsection of the u.s. out west, showers down in the southeast on that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> we are in sreoric weathvecef e holidayween in the mid 70s now. up into the upper 80s and the low 90s. in the low 90s pretty good likelihood of thunderstorms here tomorrow afternoon. some of those could be strong so keep a weather eye to the sky and your nbc washington app ready go. if you're beach bound, only a slight chance for a few showers mainly on saturday night. great weather for sunday, monday, tuesday. ♪ >> the citi concert series on "today" is you by citi. >> all right. the time has arrived, charlie puth is getting ready to take over the citi concert stage, but first, a look at his rise to the top of the charts. watch this. ♪ ♪ it's been a long day without you my friend ♪ >> singer/songwriter, producer charlie puth sky