news" reporter diana rocco has that story. >> reporter: hometown girl and self-made designer torey birch is back in philadelphia. >> i never imagined where it would be today and i actually wanted to open one shop and five-year plan of three more. >> reporter: according to forbes magazine, torey is worth a billion dollars and talk about her rise from the fashion industry. >> if it noise the the scary on your heart doesn't race you are not dreaming big enough. >> reporter: they are partnering with bank of america offering mentorships and millions in low interest loans so businesses can grow, and hire and jump start the local economy. >> we are hearing more and more women entrepreneurs have had trouble accessing capitol. that has been one of the real barriers to their expansion. >> reporter: more than 100 women received one on one time with the established entrepreneurs at writ even house hotel on tuesday. >> video production is primarily a male dominated field but we have really found a niche market. >> reporter: virginia necessary braxton started video production company with to friends a

. >>> fashion designer torey birch returns home to philadelphia to help woman grow their businesses. >> more than a hundred people gathered at rittenhouse hotel yesterday for one on one time with the established entrepreneurs, torey birch foundation is partnering with bank of america to offer mentorship and millions in low interest loans to help woman grow their businesses. >> we're hearing more and more that women entrepreneurs have had trouble accessing capitol that has been a real barrier to their expansion. >> if something negative happens learn from it and then move forward. >> other advice, includes having the right attitude and never giving up. >>> nice to see her coming back helping out local ladies. >> absolutely, torey birch umbrella. >> yes. >> we could use anything at this point. >> rain slickers. >> yes, cute. >> so fashionable. >> you want the rain gear for the rest of this week because it has been a very stormy week in the area and it will not change at least through friday. today looks to be precipitation minimum of the week meaning showers and storms mainly off to th

. >> he joins the john birch society it was of his dad because he seemed taken by the john birch society. he created one of the goals of the birch society was to create a series of christian science-like reading rooms around the country. they called them american opinion book stores. charles and a family friend started an american opinion bookstore in wichita. i also heard an entertaining story how deep their anti-communism ran in the coke household which is that family friend comes to the door of the house carrying a copy of ernest hemingway's the "sun also rises" and there is a hesitance there and the charles responds politely, you got to leave the book outside and this is because hemingway, they considered him to be a communist. even that type of literature was not allowed inside the house. >> one of the people back in the back of all your source notes you tell us who you talked to and interviewed, one of the people you interviewed was a name michael oliver. who was he? >> he was an artist in wichita, kansas. he meets mary coke in the 1980s and really becomes her very close companion

the birches. >> ah. the forest of birch. >> ah, what a place. ♪ >> all hail, the maximum leader. let's dance. ♪ >> okay. thank you. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting col r colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la la >>> whatever you think of this guy, his dead, affectless eyes, his smooth pulled tight like a snare drum face, he ain't going anywhere. look at him. he's the russian superman, the kgb middle manager desk jockey turned expression of greater russia's hopes and dreams. he lets no opportunity to take his shirt off pass him by. pose with a large gun? he's there. and no matter how transparently autocratic, vengeful, oblivious to even a thin veneer of democracy, russians love him. they seem to feel about him like new yorkers used to feel about giuliani. he may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch. it's february 2014, and the sochi olympics are just coming up when i arrive in moscow. it's a diff

we continue to follow the breaking news of the house fire on birch street in delaware.e fire crews is giving a briefing to the media right now. let's listen in. >> at the time of arrival, the fire was too fierce. because of the fact the building had started to collapse, we couldn't send any more firefighters into the building. they did make entry in the rear of the building into the kitchen area and couldn't go further than that. >> other people do live at this home, they just weren't home at the time? >> it's unconfirmed. there were three residents of the home. what we're told, there's constantly individuals coming and going from the home. until we're absolutely sure by looking through all the debris, we don't know. >> we don't know if it was apartments or one home. >> it's one home. >> the house fire in wilmington on birch street. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. >> we're watching some clouds move out of the area. we started off with a few rain drops in philadelphia. now 73 degrees, the rain has ended. and the temperatures will b

fashion mogil tour roo birch returns home to help women grow their businesses. "eyewitness news" reporter diana rocky has the details. >> hometown girl and self made designer tori bump is back in philadelphia. >> i never imagined where it would be today and i actually wanted to open one shop and five year plan of three more. >> according to forbes magazine tori is now worth about billion dollars and she's talking about her rise in the fashion indust industry. i often say if it's not scary and your hear doesn't raise you're in the dreaming big enough. >> tour row bump foundation is partnering with bank of america. >> we hear more and more that women under pures have had trouble accessing capital. that's been one of the real barriers to their expansion. >> more than 100 women received one-on-one time with the established entrepreneurs at the written house hotel tuesday. video production is a primarily mail dominated field. but we have really found like a initiate market. >> 53ness is a braxton started a video production company with two friends at 23 and hasn't lo

fashion designer torey birch returns home to philadelphia. know she was from the area, philadelphia girl. she's here to help woman grow their businesses. >> more than a hundred people gathered at rittenhouse hotel for one on one time with the established entrepreneur. the torey birch foundation is partnering with bank of america, to offer mentorship and millions in low interest loans to help woman grow their businesses. >> we're hearing more and more that woman entrepreneurs had trouble accessing capitol. the that has been a real barrier to their expansion. >> something negative happens learn from it and see how to move it forward. >> other advice from mentors including happening the right attitude and never giving up. >> good advice. >> yes. >> absolutely. >> coming up, do you ever get angry when you have not eaten when your hung are pains change your mood and make you angry. it is a common problem. >>> coming up in today's what's up doctor segment we will look at how you can prevent this from happening. >>> a new high tech trend using smart

le and the yellow birch. sugar maples support the maple sugar industry but also drew leaf peepers in the autumn. as new hampshire as and neighboring states get warmer, the trees' geographic range moves north. future warning will mean more production of maple syrup in canadian canada and less in the united states. bad news for the sugar houses. and mr. french points out in the 1940's and 1950's most of the furniture in new england was made out of yellow birch and it remains a valuable hard wood drawing good prices for the timber business. french fears the consequences for his industry if yellow birch and sugar maples are urnd pushed out by warmer weather trees. will there be a wood product industry, he asks, will there be a maple sugar industry in a climate changed new england? there's going to be a lot less of one, he concludes. new hampshire biologist eric orff is witnessing one of the most drament ig changes. he studies the moose, an animal bred to survive harsh winters. but what he says is a catastrophic d

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has talked to the john birch society. he is going further from that. they are the sorts of associations -- remember, for a moment the church barack obama went to almost took him out. no, really. there will be problems with the way he deals with certain questions. who knows what will come up that he could fumble? i revert a time when we were covering rick perry's 20 point lead in the presidential primary and he who four questions -- he blew four questions and it destroyed him. i think there is a bigger donor class that believes in these things, and the rising millennial vote, when you are asking them if government can't hack it, they have seen government as post-9/11 and obamacare. if they are not necessarily pure republican, their vote is sympathetic to someone who makes the rand paul case. finalal cut, michael -- word, michael? >> i think the issue that will come out is rand paul has a base that he picked up from his father and it was heavily subscribed to by younger people at universities and colleges and it was reminiscent of how barry goldwater was

he was a leader of the john birch society, controversial guy in his time. he came under scrutiny during his era. i think that caused him to become quite private. threat -- that rent sans has really carried over into his sons. >> jon: they don't really fit. at first they were with the more libertarian frame. there is a skimp with that and that move more to the republicans now. where do you see them shaking out? >> what they were really part of building the libertarian movement of the 1907s, but it got kooky. you had the dungeons & dragons nerds in there. you had all these kind of strains. and the anarchists, the disaffected sds members. what they really wanted was to legitimize libertarian ideology. now, as you referred to, there because big crack up in the libertarian movement in the 1980s. they glaf at the present time more towards republican politics, but the interesting thing is they're thought of as republican power brokers, but on a lot of key issues they don't align with republicans at all. david koch has said he's pro gay marriage. they're pro reprod

. >> still ahead, our next guest got in early on companies like buzzfeed, birch box. he says now is the best time for early tech investing in 20 years. but could a bubble be forming? and walmart holding its annual shareholder meeting today. plenty of pomp and circumstance in bentonville, arkansas. we're going to go there for the very latest. that and much more straight ahead on "the halftime show" live from new york stock exchange. with all the opinions about stocks out there, how do you know which ones to follow? the equity summary score consolidates the ratings of up to 10 independent research providers into a single score that's weighted based on how accurate they've been in the past. i'm howard spielberg of fidelity investments. the equity summary score is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. call or click to open your fidelity account today. >>> welcome back. time for trader blitz. stocks making news today. first up, u.p.s. appointing david abny as new ceo. >> what is interesting, he, before this job, previous job, he was head of in

it's a birch box for dogs. they have over 200,000 customers and ship more than 1 million boxes.tomers, and how much more room is there for the company to grow? matt meeker, the cofounder and ceo of barkbox who cofounded meet up.com. you have 200,000 people paying $20 a month for dog treats. >> yes. >> who are the people? >> people who love their dogs. dogs are their children. we have a a long way to go. there's 45 million with dogs, 80 million dogs. we have a long way to go. >> i mentioned the price, what comes in the box in the service? >> everything that makes your dog happies, toys, treats, bones, sticks, anything to make them happy and healthy. >> what's the price? >> about $20 a month. >> 20-30. >> it ranges. >> how many boxes? >> every month. >> so $20 or $30 a box? >> that's right. >> how many are subscribers try it once and how many continuely do this month to month? >> oh, no, month. we offer longer-term plans and more than 80% sign up for a longer term plan than a month. >> is it free samples? >> no, it's full-size products. dogs want the full thing. and they go throug

one of his closest friends was an active member of the john birch society, but it's judy is going toback away from them after the presidential campaign. it seemed as if john birch society was in one direction and barry goldwater was in another victim identity needed them probably in the caucasus that had helped get his nomination in 64 but that they also discard him for other heroes after 19 secure george wallace loomed big for them in 1968 and beyond. and so i think that was sort of the parting of the ways along with the fact that you mentioned civil rights bill which he opposed on constitutional grounds. and i'm not sure if history has proven him right or wrong but it seems he might even on losing edge of history in terms of how that is all played itself down. but he was on the right of so many other things i don't think we should begrudge them on this. i had a student wants was talking about goldwater said a professor told her that barry goldwater was a segregationist. i said i'm probably one of the people you will ever meet a new barry goldwater a little bit of and he was an inte

. >>> plus woman love her hand bags, shoes and clothes we could go on but torey birch is from philadelphiaing up the designer comes home to inspire other women. >>> bob and kate returns with traffic and weather together on the three's, we are back with you in just two minutes.

one of his closest friends was an active member of the john birch society. it is true that he will back away from the mass of the presidential campaign. it seemed as if the john burch society was in one direction and barry goldwater was in another. it might have been that he needed them in the caucuses that helped to get his nomination, but they also discarded him for other heroes after 1964. george wallace would loom big in 1968 and beyond. i think that was the parting of the ways, along with the fact that you mentioned the civil rights bill that he opposed unconstitutional grounds. i am not sure if history has proven him right or wrong. he might have been on the losing edge of history, but he was on the right edge of so many other things that i do not think we should begrudge him on this. i actually had a student wants , when i was talking about goldwater who said a professor told her that barry goldwater was a segregationist, and i corrected her, and i said i'm one of the few people that knew barry goldwater that you will ever meet and he was an integrati

he was literally present when the john birch society was founded and charles coke was a member, influential in his day. >> he turned against them because of the vietnam war. >> charles was influenced by the fledgeling libertarian movement. charles coke takes out on anti-vietnam add in the wichita paper. it enraged people. he was pushed out. i think he left on his own volition. he was on to different things. that was the break between his dad's politics and the libertarian movement which was an ideological matter. >> and david who ran against ronald reagan, which didn't make them popular with republicans. >> they were trying to find a third way, demolish the two-party system and were reaching out to the left and the right. that's what the movements goal was, they wanted to find people that were advanced freedom in all its forms, whether it was reproductive rights or pro-gay issues to free market ideologies. that's a misconception. that they - you think of them as right wing tea partiers down the line. they are not that conservative on social issues. >> no, they are not social conservatives a

joining me is the ceo, andrew birch. thank you for joining us. why start in the netherlands?therlands has some of the highest electricity prices in the world. you are seeing rapid rising in prices across these northern european markets. eon has 26 million customers. we are going to pilot in the netherlands with e.on. we think we can offer customers a lower price for clean energy and grow the business. >> there is so much regulatory uncertainty. how do you plan for the unknown? >> we are without subsidy now. the falls we have seen in seller ints, solar is now a parody eight of the european markets we studied without subsidy. we are selling energy lower cost. >> so you are saying solar -- give me the coal cost efficient -- the whole cost efficiency and analysis. directly't compete with nuclear. >> versus wind and some of the others? >> we sell customers the ability to generate their own energy. we are competing against the net retail price which is what utilities charge for centralized energy today. that is the $.27. we offer customers a lower price than that. customers get goo

his father has talked to the john birch society. he is going further from that. they are the sorts of associations -- remember, for a moment the church barack obama went to almost took him out. [laughter] no, really. there will be problems with the way he deals with certain questions. who knows what will come up that he could fumble? i remember a time when we were covering rick perry's 20 point lead in the presidential primary and he blew four questions and it destroyed him. i think there is a bigger donor class that believes in these things, and the rising millennial vote, when you are asking them if government can't hack it, they have seen government as post-9/11 and obamacare. if they are not necessarily pure republican, their vote is sympathetic to someone who makes the rand paul case. >> final thought, michael? >> i think the issue that will come out is rand paul has a base that he picked up from his father and it was heavily subscribed to by younger people at universities and colleges and it was reminiscent of how barry goldwater was so well-received receiv

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this fire started around 10:30 on the 100 block of birch street near maryland avenue.se gary is live on the scene. you have new information and also new video? >> they have begun the recovery of the body. you can see where they have the red tarp up. that's where they're trying to remove the body. this is video from a second particular. you can see how much damage there is toed collapsed area and they are trying to remove the body of the sole victim, his body buried under two floors of rubble. two women injured. they suffered severe burns at crozer-chester medical center. this is a view from skyforce 10. destruction. we'll have more coverage on nbc 10 and nbc10.com. jesse gary, nbc 10 news. >>> today, cooper university hospital will announce a new program designed to shorten health care wait times for veterans in our area. katy zachry is live with details on how they plan to make veteran care a priority. tell us more, katy. >> after talking to veterans following the v.a. hospital scanneding earlier, they had their own personal stories of extremely long wait times to see

there is the pennsylvania dutch festival out at kutztown, so break out the birch beer. that will be a fun one, sue serio. >> i started thinking about the weekends. >> i think of that, actually. >> good one. >> yes, it really is fun, and i that i we'll have decent weather for it. of course, you know me, i am such a dork, i like to look at the quilts. >> fascinating, and always a story. county by county temperatures from yesterday, we want to see who else made it to 90, because we d they got close in allentown, with 89 degrees. there is 09 degrees in philly, chester, pa, bensalem both made it to 90, as well. but, at the shore, we stayed in the mid 80s, with 84 degrees, yesterday, in cape may. that was then. this is now. well, sort of, sort of then and now, looking at this loop over the last six hours, so much lightning and thunder, so many heavy downpours, as this line of thunderstorms moved through in the overnight hours, through philadelphia, and then through southern delaware, and over the last hour or so, all of the rain has pulled off shore. so we'll probably finish

his father has talked to the john birch society. he is going further from that. they are the sorts of associations -- remember, for a moment the church barack obama went to almost took him out. [laughter] no, really. there will be problems with the way he

officers and many had outgrown their rank but could not become commissioned officers in the 369 dan birchansferred out and they wrote about the resentment they had because these inexperienced underqualified less competent white officers were placed in the regiment over them. stay maxilla the battle of henry johnson i notice you put quotes around it but with roberts you did. >> good point. it was actually to man henry johnson and roberts that was involved in the of engagement as the party came up on the outpost matt johnson and roberts were manning. and one was knocked out pretty yearly in the skirmish but continued to throw grenades and was carried off and henry a. johnson who had shot some of ready with their rifles gm to use the but on another guy then they were tracking roberts away the before henry could get to help lead german came up and he patted him with the bolo knife and hater he jumped on top of the germans and dragging him away then took his knife to jimmy it through the head of one of the germans and with that it was time to make a hasty retreat. what happened to that in fact

. >>: happening this morning we should learn more about how the public feels about the new birch trains the and possible new fleet. and they're also voting the key design choices as well as authorizing with the fair will be for new the new art. visibility at advocates are upset about what the barriers are for access. 948 red now the world cup kids often just a few hours. the demonstrators the door in the same police using reckon the four protesters. things are getting pretty crazy there was is servants a short hours of go the police and the, the up and arrested one person the processors are start moving and the police ended up shooting teargas. >>: eric and come back up now adjutancy they did they shot the teargas this is obviously getting very tense place said the third and keep a perimeter of the least , not to get much coal to than that. a long time and the to to read back to the story when a los canvassers in her a piece of cancer from the tear gas hit her and she still stood there in the report prepared by everybody's they're ready to us do the training and everything and sarah are

making the announcement on monday the white house secretary john birch says the new order would build upon existing protections against discrimination based on race and ethnicity or religion. an exact time frame for when the president will sign this new order was not announced but lawrence says the president decided to act on his own since antidiscrimination legislation was stalled in congress. >>: them hundreds of thousands of people signed up for health insurance under obama care will be asked to verify their enrollment information. federal officials say they found inconsistencies of about 2 million insurance iii the region up to consort sumers to confirm their eligibility for subsidies provided by the government. anyone found to be ineligible may have to return those subsidies are paid to them >>: speaking of health coverage and does your health insurance doesn't leave much to be desired. >>: 1 website your health insurance company stocks, or dog or cat should say is a campaign aims to find that answer to that very question the method slate has more. >>: this funny looking is the l

. >> tackle grab is a lot like birch box. stuart: fishing guys. i have to get to the financials.ers in the two years? >> 6000. stuart: that is all? >> it is not so bad. they were only able to acquire 1000 members. they went to 125,000 members over an 18 month time frame. stuart: is it your name? >> it is the earnhardt brand. we are using nascar. we have created a lifestyle brand of outdoors. they love fishing, hunting and racing. why not reach out to that market? stuart: absolutely. there are fewer hunters out there. i suspect that there are fewer fishermen, to. >> that is not the case. 60 million that enjoy fishing on and annual basis. stuart: people who have gone fishing maybe once in the past year. >> it is more than that. people fish on a regular weekend is roughly half of that. that number that represents the u.s. economy is close to 48 billion. the sales that we are targeting is 6 billion. stuart: what is in the box? can you personalize it? >> you fill out a profile based on your tech meeks and what you fish for. they put tog a box for you. stuart: one bucks a month for six

john birch society. he has gotten further from that. they are the sorts of associations -- remember, for a moment the church barack obama went to almost took him out. no, really. there will be problems with the way he deals with certain questions. who knows what will come up that he could fumble? i remember a time when we were covering rick perry's 20-point lead in the presidential primary and he blew four questions and it destroyed him. i think there is a bigger donor class that believes in these things, and the rising millennial vote, when you are asking them if government can't hack it, they have seen government as post-9/11 and obamacare. if they are not a necessarily pure republican vote, their vote is sympathetic to someone who makes the rand paul case. >> michael, final word, ? >> i think the issue that will come out is rand paul has a base that he picked up from his father and it was heavily subscribed to by younger people at universities and colleges and it was reminiscent of how barry goldwater was so well received received wh

patricia birch was professor at george washington medical center, and i've has a real job looking for cures for cancer. also i want to thank the national press -- also rebecca, if you raise your hand because rebecca be carrying the microphone around to the audience and that would the media will also given to get advantages of the questions from the audience. i know that's important to c-span also. i want to thank the national press club's executive director bill mccarron, joanne booze, staff liaison for this committee, and is noel st. john still there? the club photographer does a spectacular job and when you standing volunteer award for the whole club this past year. and/or audio people at the club. so we will lead first with the senate, senator rob portman. >> thanks very much, bob is why we work together in the past. we can sit in and honorary ohio and having spent some time in overland and it's always good to be with them. he worked with the drug czar for a while and he's worked with republicans and democrats on the drug issue and he has been an advocate for not the current approa