think it will, we have made substantial progress, we on tuesday reached an agreement with the bakers union, they will put it out for a vote, let the employees vote, it rests in the employees' hands. neil: unions say you are putting it all on them, bad management, bad decisions and bad times that did it. and a health-conscious society that did this. >> the last part i do not buy, we would not have chocolate companies, who would sell and make chocolate if that was an issue, that is not a huge issue for hostess,. neil: your biggest seller? >> you almost have to look at geography, with drakes cakes and dolly madison,. neil: i think that ding dongs are your staple. twinkies could be, what scares me, how long have they been around, when i open a package, i suspect they have been open for decades. >> not that particular one. neil: they have a long shelf life. >> they do but not as long as people think, that is one reason we have a good thrift store business. as to your question about cost and blame, i think in this case, i have done this for 29 years, everyone shares in the blame, there is no one

supporters, including labor unions and executive, baker, say the state would be crazy to turn its back on the thousands of new jobs and the hundreds of millions in revenue that expanded gambling would bring at national harbor. getting down to the final hours now, it appears the debate is underway, but there are many, many amendments being brought. so the outcome of this is by no means a sure thing. stay tuned. reporting live in annapolis, 9news now. >> we can't forget the governor, he wouldn't call this session unless he had the votes lined up. if it doesn't go through, very embarrassing. >> we should note that a few moments ago, the house of delegates did give a preliminary thumb's up. lawmakers did make changes to a similar bill that was approved last week by the senate. one of which narrows the strict liability standards to the owner of a dog that is not on a leash. all this in response to the state's highest court ruling in april that all pit bulls are inherently dangerous. >> angry leaders from across the region slammed the board that runs the airports and the areas biggest constr

that still looked at the soviet union even under gorbachev as at least a potential enemy that it is no question about that but i'm talking about president bush sr. and baker our secretary of state the people who had the real power they did everything they could to support gorbachev and including a speech in kiev august first that one of our journalists called his chicken kiev speech because he advised the ukrainians and the others to sign gorbachev union treaty now obviously we had no real influence there but what we had we said left the three baltic countries regain their independence keep the rest. separate by that time because a we all understood you have the you know gorbachev knew that the baltics were nowhere. like we call it in russia of the cotton loaf it is little more but the others he wanted people to get to know them. do you think that the u.s. really did win the cold war was what happened with the soviet union result of the cold war were or no there was no way everybody won the cold war really yes and nobody lost and nobody long so we're going to talk to my or not is a good book nice a second book is named reagan and gorbachev how the call wa

. >>> the union that represents professional firefighters and paramedics says the chronic understaff problem is finally being addressed. >> we've been working with the baker administration over the last 18 months to work towards a long-term plan to improve our staffing which will ultimately translate into improving the safe of our members and the safety of the citizens of the county. >> geographically aspirin george's is the largest county in maryland. it said the combined department is the biggest in the country. it hopes that by trying to improve the responsible it willb considered one of the best. >>> visitors to the wing of the air and space museum in chantilly museum pay $15 to park. now authorities say for years some of that money has been going into the pockets of three parking lot attendants. detectives arrested two women from virginia. they've been charged with stealing more than $400,000 in parking fees over the past three years. all of them were caught on camera unplugging the automatic vehicle counters so the stolen money wouldn't be miss ed. >>> as of this morning, beltway construction is finished. that means there are now five travel lanes i

union in 1787. september 17th, 245 years we celebrate that and a couple of weeks. so the document was finished. those testified in the document like james madison and george baker and others that had a hand of crafting that would participate at virginia made a contribution. a ratification of 1788 a document that has grown an immense amount of good for 300 plus million people of the united states. this year the platform as i assume the chairmanship we felt because of some of the assaults on the united states constitution by this administration and because of the need to reaffirm our belief in the incredible time of this constitution, so we would do what no other platform has done at least to have a separate section solely on the united states constitution. those principles have protections not ignored but others based on the area of health or crime. it was incredibly important to focus the constitution, and many from states felt that was important as well to have the support section dealing. whether it is the big government or excess of care for various mandates on states on the system of federalism that jefferson and madison and others thought were important in