in connecticut these companies don't generate power. don't control the power lines. they don't even read the meters. that's still up to the state's two regulated utilities. what these third party providers do is buy energy wholesale, then try to sign up retail customers with offers like these. >> call now and earning money back with 3% back plan. >> states passed laws deregulating their electricity markets. 15 states including texas and most of the northeast. >> it's as if the electric utility is owning the roads and charging you tolls but you can choose which cars to drive on. >> ellen katz heads the office of consumer council in connecticut which has fielded hundreds of complaints about electricity suppliers. >> the marketers who go door to door during the day or get on the phone during the day there's reports of them saying things like, "well i'm from the electric company and you need to make a choice," or "the governor wants you to switch." just outrageous claims. part of what we're doing is trying to crack down on the marketing statements, where they know who th

basketball tournament in indianapolis and the men's head basketball coach at the university of connecticut decided not to attend some ncaa events connected with the championship. the university's president says yukon's coach will abide by a travel ban in place for state workers imposed by connecticut's governor. we spoke earlier with sports journalist gerad about the impact of protests and status of gay rights in the sports world. >> the magnitude of progress when a player comes outs of the closet is matched or maybe even surpassed possibly by the statement of the university of connecticut. the yukon huskys last year were champions of the tournament and coaches do attend this weekend for the national association of basketball coaches convention so i think it's a glaring absence, it's a large statement and maybe connecticut is taking an opportunity here to make a statement at the right time. at some point somebody in a powerful position like the needs to step up and say, folks, come on can we please move on with times? this is a sledgehammer to the wall which still has not come down. we've

of the closet is matched or maybe even surpassed possibly by the statement of the university of connecticutmember the yukon huskys were the champions of ncaa tournament and coaches do attend this weekend for the national association of basketball coaches convention so it's a glaring absence and a large statement and maybe connecticut is taking an opportunity here to make a statement at the right time. >> would you expect other coaches to follow suit and not go to that coach's conference? >> i guess it's on everybody, it's not for any man to tell another how he should act. i think it's critical what yukon is doing, what the state did starting with the governor maloy and the university president and passing this on to the coaches. at some point somebody in a powerful position like this needs to step up and say folks, come on, can we please move on with times? because at least from my perspective the mentality against this what is going on in indiana is archaic. >> you personally came out as gay while you were working at espn and when we are talking about sports and the gay community you and i

they want to stay in connecticut.never want to go back to new york where they said people just turned their backs on them. they are they are now searching for a home. they want help from our audience to help them find a home. any places that stick out to you in connecticut. bill: sound a little bitter toward the folks in new york. that is unfortunate but it's nice of a lottery goes to someone that needs it. >> i'm glad they won the lottery. someone is got to when it. >> jealous much? >> am always jealous when somebody wins the lottery. ♪ >> that's good. >> a couple becoming a little famous. going to a battle for the ages. the age-old story, couple falls in love, couple gets married, couple gets pregnant, couple get it the fisticuffs over what to name the child. he is greek. she is belarus. his grandfather's name was #spirit of. bill: spirit gone. >> #spirit gone. first name #. sp why are i deal in. let me get into both sides of the argument. >> a really great tradition. >> i don't want my child to be named michael. >>

that's not what happened in new milford, connecticut.n fact, bills increased dramatically. >> he told me it was going to be a fixed rate and a specific rate. they told me it was a two-year contract. >> reporter: gretchen master yani owns theo's downtown diner in new milford connecticut one of a growing number of consumers upset with their new electric supplier. >> it ended up not being a fixed rate, not even starting at the rate that they gave me and it ended up being a 36-month contract. >> reporter: so it's not what you were promised? >> no. from the very first bill because it tells you what they are charging you per kilowatt hour. since i was expecting 4 and change. the first one is 8.13. >> reporter: within months she was paying five times of the rate she had been promised, costing her thousands of dollars, almost bankrupting her business. do you feel like this company was, like -- >> ripping me off? yes! a lot! >> reporter: connecticut was among the first states to give the green light to deregulated power in 2000, allowing third pa

. >> good afternoon ann department of public health so an this connecticut can contract for our cop machines with the controller's office was reference we have a number of copy machines throughout the department and we weren't fully monitoring the usage to validate the invoices we've received we're receiving summary reports from connecticut can but those reports are not providing the kind of information we need right now and what we're planning to do is access software that will louse allow to go online for the usage of the machines that's to occur in the future when we get assess to the software once we have the tool we'll have live online access to monitor our usage and then to review our invoices more adequately if you have any questions, i'll - >> no questions thank you. >> thank you. >> in intuitively my office audited the records social security numbers communication program which was created to fill the state requirement to create a public version of the records r0rd with the social security numbers that will protect individuals personal identification and the audits found the records

gentleman from connecticut. the click amendment. >> the clerk will pass at the amendment and without objection the amendment will be considered as red. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i am trying to give them a chance to ask at least a fair number before we start discussing some of us have the chance. >> the gentleman from connecticut is recognized for five minutes to discuss as a member. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it's a pretty simple amendment to strike language in the mark with a new change to the modernization program the chairman referred to a minute or so ago. in framing this amendment i want people to recall when we passed the omnibus in december, the congress enacted a shipbuilding modernization program for again a bone of contention with committee and the administration in the navy over the last four years. i want to start isolating mr. forbes "forbes" in terms of leadership in making sure cruisers that are an essential part are protected. we saw this recently with the uss theodore roosevelt iranian ship y

we have told you about this connecticut girl.lowed for several months. >> now she is reportedly not allowed to see her family. >> good morning to all of you at home. we've been bringing you updates on her story since the beginning. now a heart breaking twist days before the easter holiday. the 17-year-old known only as cassandra is free of cancer at a children's hospital. a judge just ruled she cannot go home or visit with her mother. the teenager has been in state custody since december. receiving treatment for highly curable form of cancer. at first she refused the chemotherapy but the state won a battle to force her to complyism that's when they took her away from her mother and placed her on lock down. now cassandra wants to finish up her treatments at home. peter johnson jr., says it may be risky. >> so the first feeling is a 17 or 18-year-old is i've done it i'm in remission and cured. time to go. adios. see you later. my concern is they better continue. they better have a psychiatrist take a look at her and see if she'll c

if you need to go west on connecticut avenue you will have to cross the street once you get topside. >> look both ways and cross the street carefully. >> reporter: and there are some people who are a little concerned about the crossing at connecticut avenue. this is a very busy section of connecticut avenue lots of cars lots of pedestrians but folks are going to just have to get used to this. metro says they'll keep an eye on the situation to make sure everything goes smoothly in the area. they will adapt if they have to but bottom line here is that the work gets under way on may 4. back to you all in the studio. >>> this just into the live desk metro rail today is taking four new safety actions in the wake of january's deadly smoke incident. here they are, we want to show them to you. a multiyear maintenance program on all 88,000 lights. second creating a dedicated maintenance crew to clear the tunnel passageways. a review of alarm protocols and a process to test the much-talked about ventilation system which did not work properly on the day a tunnel filled with smoke near l'enfant

he had grown up on a farm near guilford, connecticut. it made him a bit unusual in the union army, he had grown up in an abolitionist family. he wrote to his brother during that first year of the war -- if i had money enough to raise a few hundred contraband meaning escaped slaves, and armed them, i would get up and insurrection among the slaves. i told the captain i would desert to do it." that is a bit of bravado, i expect. he did not lead any mutinies that we know of or organize a set of contraband's for insurrection. at the root -- the letters kept going. in 1861 and 1862 he starts denouncing lincoln and denouncing the administration. he's angry that the war is not officially a war to free the slaves. he does not get it. why are we not fighting to free the slaves? he writes home early in 1862. "this will settle the question as to whether the constitution or the rebellion shall triumph. the great heart wound, slavery will not be reached. " " he's impatient. he's angry. he writes to his brother saying that he wishes he had the moral co

coach will not attend any of the final four games and will follow a travel ban put in place by connecticut's governor. >>> d.c. mayor muriel bowser also issued a ban for city employees. the executives ban them from traveling to indiana on official city business. >>> it's four after the hour. we're beginning to get a more complete picture of the events that lead to woosen assaye's

how a connecticut yankee public career in journalism and failed attempts at fiction suddenly decides he wants to be a historian. but not only that he wants to write about comanches and the great plains which is as far from connecticut as the frozen moons of jupiter. i will not bore you with the details of my literary past but to put it as briefly as possible i had my little epiphany in the spring of 1970. i had just been admitted to princeton university and i was traveling there for a weekend where you see if you want to go there. it was a glorious day in america. -- day in may. just like this morning and the spring was in full bloom. i had taken a train and the last leg was on a smaller train which was the princeton to princeton junction that took the right to the campus. i happen to be reading of book by f. scott fitzgerald called "this side of paradise." about life there princeton in it is absolutely a magical book for me. i cannot even read two smell. -- cannot read even two paragraphs now. but at the time it was magical i finished it just as the train pulled into the station . p

idea was to reveal both who was the connecticut leader and the number of connecticut members becauseences was claiming this drive had been enormously successful. he had 300 plus new members. but at this secret meeting there were only a dozen or so biker types. so it blew his whole, you know pr thing right out of the water. c-span: here is gus chase, a scene with flora who are they? >> guest: gus is a freed slave -- c-span: but he's a white man in black face in this thing. >> guest: yes, absolutely. i think he embodies and symbolizes -- because he's lusting after flor rah, a maid in virginal young white girl and, i think -- c-span: flora cameron? >> guest: yes. c-span: who is a part of the cameron family. we saw her brother -- >> guest: her brother is the -- fought for the confederacy. and gus, i think, is again, the symbol of, you know what any black man -- according to griffith -- is after. and that is a white woman. and so he spends the -- it's one of the most famous scenes in the movie, the so-called gus chase scene. because he, gus confronts plora says basically i want you. flora

connecticut in white never trailed after it was 9-6 irish.uskies knock-down eight three-pointers. made the difference. connecticut wins its third nal title, 10th overall over notre dame. the duke blue devils back in durham less than 24 hours after beating wisconsin. 8000 fans packed cameron indoor stadium on campus to celebrate and show their appreciation. marshall plumlee brought out the truthophy. the player said they have to make room for the fifth title. the orioles in tampa bay to play the raise tonight. after the birds took the 6-0 lead, this became a ballgame. tropicana, steve pearce off to a blistering start. he went yard for the second time in two games, gone, two run shot6-0 baltimore, but then the euros had to hang on -- but then the o's had to hang on. birds are now 2-0. tiger woods has caused quite a buzz. his game looks tight and ready to make a run. if he makes the cut it will be a step in the right direction. you will find out early and tiger is motivated. a, tiger, what is your greatest motivation? >> my greatest motivation?

i grew up in connecticut in massachusetts. a part of the country were native american tribes were subdued a long time ago. i was aware of the indians on cape cod, even playing summer baseball. they cease to exist as the free tribe 100 years before my ancestors got off the boat and nobody really knew about the mohicans or at all a consequence because too much time had intervened. nobody had a conceivable memory of them. the frontier was not part of my upbringing. in texas, where i moved in 1994, the whole sense of the frontier and native americans was radically different. in fact, i never would have written this book or have gone near this book if i had not moved to texas. one of those circumstances that happens to you when you move around. in texas it was part of my job , to travel the state and write the stories for "time" magazine then texas monthly. i met a lot of people who told me about the comanches. one lady who sat next to me at texas monthly had both of her great grandparents were killed and a comanche raid. i knew my

several states including new york and connecticut have barred state funded travel to indiana. the coach of the defending national championship men's basketball team the university of connecticut's kevin ollie says he won't tlafbl weekend to the final four and nascar said it's disappointed by the legislation. adriana diaz has more from indianapolis. >> we have a perception problem here because some people have a different view and we intend to correct that. >> reporter: indiana governor mike pence bowed to public pressure saying his state's new religious freedom law needs to be clarified. >> the smear here against this bill is that it created a license to discriminate or license to deny services and that's just completely false and baseless. >> reporter: pence passedhas asked his legislature for new language. he wants it on his desk by the end of this week. governor, were you expecting this type of backlash to the law? >> was i expecting this kind of backlash? heavens, no. >> reporter: protests and boycotts led by gay and lesbian groups who fear the law would allow discriminati

. >>> meanwhile the university of connecticut coach is boycotting the final four in indianapolis this week uconn is not competing but olli was suppose to attend a coach's conference. it's a boycott by connecticut's governor because of the new law. >>> sky 6 hd is looking live over temple university and it's breezy and chilly but at least the sun is shining, lets head to karen rogers we'll take the sunny day. >> i'm with you wall-to-wall sunshine, it's bright and beautiful, we started with temperatures below freezing in much of the region we are rebouncing nicely lets look at satellite 6 along with action radar we have clouds to the north and allentown stuck with the clouds for a while and most of them have dissipated and we are in the clear for much of the day we'll see nothing but sunshine and we have a good looking day ahead and the winds are a factor and the temperature is 43 in philadelphia and 48 in pittsburgh and it's colder up to the north and with that northerly flow, we feel a cool breeze out here currently the wind speed is 10 miles per hour in philadelphia and 12 in trenton

i did apiece on this you may recall newitt connecticut. urging president obama to go for gun control immediately. the lame-duck session and they didn't. they went into commission. they were unable to do it. i don't remember. i am sorry. i do remember incidentally the university of texas. the president said. one of the jobs is to make sure. all of the grants and everything that we are doing that you are feared in the university of texas. jake, jacobson was you no he what he means by fair. damn sure. we did. we did. my question is. in the last election we heard a governor from a southern state proposed to eliminate three agencies of government. couldn't remember which agencies to get rid of it. and the sentiment of wanting to really eliminate so much of the government. we heard a lot of in the last couple of decades. that drives people that may be would aspire to public service away. oh you would you comment on that? well, i don't know. i mean. can you make the government more efficient? sure you can. there is no question about that. and the

> that behavior does not describe the aaron hernandez that many remember growing up in bristol, connecticut where his family was celebrated as a local sports dynasty. >> i don't think there was another family more familiar in bristol. aaron was our golden boy. he had the family traits. his father and uncle were outstanding athletes. >> his older brother d.j. was a sports hero too. bob montgomery covers high school sports for the "bristol press." >> aaron did track in addition to football and also did basketball. he was great in any sport he played. >> brad mcmillen played basketball with aaron beginning in middle school. >> he was twice the size of me. we were the same height, but he was much more athletic. he practiced like all the time. >> practiced because his father dennis pushed him constantly. >> his father was pretty strict, he would make him shoot 500 shots before he went to play with some of his friends. his dad kept him anchored. i saw a closeness with them i had not seen before. there was something about dennis and aaron, the way they intertwined. it was just magic in my eyes. >>

summoning them from connecticut to massachusetts. >> this is a text you're looking at. >> at about the, he's texting lloyd to arrange a meeting. >> i'm coming to grab that tonight. you going to be around? >> lloyd agrees to meet. he types, all right. where? after midnight, cameras show wallace and his side kick and carlos ortiz. video shows him inside walking through his house with what appears to be a gun. >> in this photo, you begin to see the outline of a firearm. >> and at 1:12 a.m., the men drive away in a rented nissan altima. at 2:10 a.m., they're heading towards odin lloyd's house when they stop at a gas station. >> he went to buy guns. >> blue cotton candy gum. outside, hernandez is seen pumping his arms in the air. apparently feeling good. about 20 minutes later, right after a black cat walks nearby, odin lloyd's younger brother, s shakila, sees the car. >> what did you see? >> the car in the driveway. >> at that time, did your brother get in the car? >> yes. >> cell towers and a toll booth camera track the car as it travels towards a secluded area of an industrial park. at 3

connecticut won the machine's men's title last year. >>> new details from the university of virginia on its new interim policy designed to clearly define sexual assault. it urges victims to immediately contact law enforcement and spells out expectations for all employees and students when it comes to reporting sexual assault or harassment. uva says nearly 600 people responded with their input to help create this new policy. that is the latest from the live desk. back to you. >>> sexual assault victims in frederick county who anonymously want a forensic exam now have up to one year after the exam to decide if they want to press charges. until now the holding time for anonymous rape kits was 30 days. >>> joe morrissey says he will challenge his party's decision to block his senate bid, that's according to the richmond times dispatch. a democratic committee ruled yesterday many of the signatures he submitted aren't valid. morrissey is already in trouble for moving outside of his district to run for the senate. he currently faces felony charges related to a sex scandal involving a minor

you can't visit connecticut without heading to yale university or make that the yale sustainable foodct. >> the yale farm is an urban market garden that has about an acre inside and we grow food here. >> where green thumbs unite. >> plus turning food into power using restaurant grease to fuel cars. >> biodiesel is a replacement for traditional fossil fuels. >> then, taking it out of the

the men's head basketball coach at the university of connecticut has decided not to attend some ncaa events connected with the championship. the university's president said uconn's coach kevin oli will abide by a travel ban in place by state workers imposed by connecticut's governor. >>> negotiators in switzerland are still talking right now hours after a deadline passed to reach a framework deal over iran's nuclear program and there are mixed signals over where weather any real progress has been made. simon mcgregor wood has the latest from lausanne, switzerland. >> reporter: it is clear that talks in lausanne from tuesday to wednesday morning has made progress on key issues but it is not clear that there has been an enough progress for a full framework of agreement. leaving the talks the iranian foreign minister spoke of his optimism. >> we've been working since 7:30 in the morning and it has been a very long day for all delegations. we have accomplished quite a bit, but people need to get some rest and start over early in the morning. i hope that we can finalize the work on wednes

. >>> i'm joined by democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut, who has been supportive of efforts to reach a >> fair enough. thank you, sir. >>> i'm joined by democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut, who has been supportive of efforts to reach a deal with iran's senator. welcome back to "meet the press." let me ask you this. you heard prime minister netanyahu not obviously -- he wants to see a better deal. do you believe the united states should be negotiating for a better deal? >> well, i think we have a pretty remarkable deal on the table today. if you look at what our parameters were, at the outset, for negotiated agreement, you see the outlines of them right now. we have increased breakout time to a year. we have significantly rolled back their enrichment capability, we're dismantling the potential plutonium path at iraq and have an inspections regime that is absolutely unprecedented. that will allow us to find a covert program if it exists outside of the known research facilities. the idea that we should just go back to the negotiating table and put back sanctions into

"teen kids news" is working on a special series for the connecticut tobacco and heath trust fund. in this, our first report, emily takes a look at teens and tobacco products. >> smoking isn't cool. it's not something you want to do. it can scar you for life. >> smoking is not cool. >> it's gross. it smells bad. >> if you play sports or do any of that, it affects all that stuff. >> i think that i'm never gonna do that. >> a lot of kids don't admire when you smoke because it's disgusting. >> smoking can ruin your life. >> and while most teens seem to agree that smoking is bad for you, a surprising number still light up. in fact, according to the federal government, every single day, about 3,200 kids will try smoking for the first time. to give you an idea of just how many that is, 3,200 is more than the entire population of the town of goshen, connecticut. there's a lot of kids that smoke over on the skate park. >> i don't personally know anybody who smokes, but i've seen people do it. >> i see people around the school smoking a lot after school and even before school. >> either the

the terps women lost to the university of connecticut in the final four. maryland was coming off of a 28 straight win season but they lost by more than 20 points. sophomore lexie brown has now made to the final four twice without a championship. >> we have you willall the confidence. we just have to believe that we can compete with uconn and notre dame. my two years, those are the only two teams that have gotten enten in my way. >> uconn and notre dame facing off in the championship tomorrow. why the terps believe they will will be even better next year at 4:50. >> congrats on an awesome season. >>> today the nats play their homeowner. we're counting down to the first pitch at 4:05. today the nats take on the new york mets. if you're headed to the game you'll notice some new security measures as you're walking inside the park. megan mcgrath will have more on that live from nats park coming up at 5:00 a.m.. so excited for opening day. >> tom and i knew that you were going to be down there for opening day, so we wanted you to have the best possible weather.

connecticut is of them. he's got a big mouth.ow when you get to those games they always within by 20 to 30 points. where is the women's game competitive? what is he talking about? >> geno, just shut up, all right right? >> howard has had it. >> i think i mean i think the men's game needs improvement who are you to talk when there's no can he in the women's game? nothing against the girls that play by the way. >> all right. >> that does it for us now at 6:00 o'clock. >> we'll see you right back here at 10:00v a great night. inside edition is up next. ♪ >> the epic teacher cheating scandal. >> guilty. guilty. guilty. >> they were all found guilty, except for her. >> do you believe justice was served? >> exclusive. and then there was one. >>> then is this any way to pull out a tooth? >> it's unbelievable. >> and wrong-way highway horror. it's happening everywhere. the national phenomena. >> oh, my god. >> plus, mystery over music legend tony mitchell's emergency hospitalization. does she really think threads are growing out of her b

we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's als

why were passengers losing consciousness aboard a flight from chicago to connecticut.t on the emergency landing in buffalo. ♪ ♪ lori: and welcome back to the willis report. i'm lori rothman in for gerri this evening. the latest on the sky west plane's emergency landing in buffalo with unconscious passengers on board. time now for a look at other stories in the news. president obama says he takes full responsibility for a cia drone strike inadvertently killing an american and italian hostage held by al-qaeda. the president says the men were killed during a mission targeting an al-qaeda compound. the white house spokesman says the us government will be offering payments to the family of lo porto and weinstein. after more than five months, loretta lynch has won confirmation to become the next attorney general. the 56-43 vote makes lynch the first black woman to hold the post. the nasdaq crossing into record territory today. stocks in the green. the nasdaq crossed since the record march of 2000. just before noon today. the s&p 500 also reached a new high. well after a grea

. >> i'm here in newtown, connecticut to speak with the people and make sure that a tragedy like thesandy hook elementary never happens again. on december 14, 2012, six teachers and 20 elementary school students lost their lives at sandy hook elementary. i sat down with the people of newtown to hear their story. >> i am walking around looking for this little brown had and i don't see it. sure this is not a thought in your mind anything could happen to your child. >> she never did find his little brown head. her son, jesse lewis, lost his life on that day. >> i guess i felt numb. i felt like, ok, it's survival mode. it's you know two years later -- i will -- it will always be incredibly difficult. >> as i think we proliferate our society with more weapons or opportunities to get terrible weapons, we may see the body count go up. >> the weapons that were in adam lanza's hand on 24 teen -- on december 14 should never have reach his hands and hopefully will not reach the hands in his mental state ever again. >> limiting the size of the magazines would not have made a difference. it did m

uconn up six and lewis pushes a lead to nine with three over 15 points and no surprise here, the connecticut women win yet again their third straight national title. >> to baseball, nats off, orioles starting 2 & 0 in florida, bats are not having a problem earlier this season. adam jones with the o's fourth consecutive hit to start the game tonight. two runs score on the double. second inning, steve pierce continues his hot start two games, two home runs, baltimore scores six times in the first two innings and then hold on for a 6-5 win over the rays. >> the number one female tennis player in the world serena williams hit the court today with donald trump, not some weird mixed single but the two unveiled trumps new state-of- the-art indoor facility in his golf club in sterling. serena was wisked away in trumps helicopter right after so we didn't get a chance to chat but i grabbed myself a serena selfie. she couldn't have been nicer, signing autographs for everybody but it was nice of her to come in and cut the ribbon. >> i was thinking what it would be like to be a junior on that connecticut

connecticut has essentially the same law in place. that is what is going on here. it is the height of hypocrisy. positions held a few years ago by democrats are now considered antigay. and bigotry. >> juan the initial push was these laws and the people who supports them were being intolerant. you then heard a push back, later especially this week that to insist someone do something that violates their world moral conviction is intolerant. how do you balance that? >> it is hard to balance. someone who has religious beliefs i want them respected but we are a nation of law. we are not a nation religious beliefs. everyone in our country can have their religious beliefs. you is to come back to civil laws and liberties. as such, i don't think there is any question that if the law specifies you are open for business, whether it is gays or makes that under our laws public accommodation laws, et cetera, you have to treat people equally and fairly. that is the basis of our understanding. i say in response to jason, there has been a tremendous s

but it ignored one reality in connecticut which is probably not exclusive to connecticut i bet you it plays out in places like chicago and los angeles which is that often the 40-mile car ride brings you into new york city. which is a root that veterans from many parts of connecticut are not going to make, and frankly should not make. but because they are technically 40 miles away from a new york va facility, they don't get access to va choice in their, in their hometown because they technically could get in their car and wait in traffic for three hours to try to get to manhattan or queens or the bronx. i know this is tough to solve for because what you're essentially trying to figure out is adding the ways in which people commute to the, to the very basic numbers that you've signed based on mile anl. but is this something that you're think abouting in terms of how you make sure that you're bringing as many people into the program as possible? >> yes we're looking into having the flexibility to terminate geographic burden, and that would solve the problem that you're describing. >> you

that means that one of connecticut's players will not be joining to play in the final four.johnson, head of athlete ally this is a group that focuses on ending athlete prejudice in sports. you say this takes months of planning and tons of issues nevertheless, should the ncaa change venues this weekend? ashley: therefore values are fairness, respect, inclusion and we have asked them to not have any final four in any state that has these religious discrimination laws, and predatory -- and prioritize states that encourage diversification. alix: are they listening? ashland: they definitely are listening. alix: just the amount of power and rhetoric we have seen behind this movement, but from not just the ncaa, but from walmart and apple, we are -- : carl -- carl: we are seeing voices that are definitely being heard, and definitely in arkansas, clearly in arkansas and -- clearly in indiana, and leisure, hospitality, and tourism are the and affected, so this will really put a strong finger on the sweet spot that is going to cause these politicians to react accordingly. alix: and yo

connecticut has essentially the same law in place. so that's what i think is going on here. it is the height of hypocrisy, positions held just a few years ago by democrats are now considered anti-gay and bigotry in place. >> juan, let me pick up on that because the initial push was that these laws and the people who supported them were being intolerant, the idea that a private business could discriminate, let's say, against participants in a gay marriage, that that was intolerant, but you began to here a push-back later, especially this week, that insist that someone do something that violates their moral conviction, that that's intolerant. how do you balance those two? >> i think it's very hard to balance because, you know, someone who has religious beliefs might say i want them to be respected. i do think we're a nation of law. and we are not a nation of religious beliefs. everyone in our country can have their religious beliefs but you have to come back to civil laws and liberties. and as such, i don't think there's any question th

down to the south you see connecticut avenue. down here is lafayette square. that's where the cave dwellers were living. first of all, the area was not a very attractive. there was a stream running through it. it came down from 17th street and down towards 17th. it made all this land pretty mucky and swampy. john little who was a butcher put his butcher shop at the top of the stream. he would throw the awful and blood into the stream and it would slowly work its way down until it ended in rock creek down here. strangely enough in the second half of the 19th century, there was kind of a swamp that had formed here which is the site of the may flower. it's a very popular swimming hole. go figure. standards have changed since then. notable resident, one of the first was william o'neil or billy o'neil. he had a very famous daughter peggy who was the genesis of petticoat scandal which caused jackson his administration due to an unfortunate marriage she had shortly after her first husband died. it was proved she was having an affair with this gentleman while her husb

now the issue is 75 more passengers getting to hartford connecticut. >> okay. stay with me jean casarez, as you get more information. one of our aviation analysts pilot, joining me now. david, a couple points here as we're getting all this. number one, when you hear pressurization problem, what does that tell you? >> well what it tells me is that the pressurization inside the cabin has gotten above what is normally able to breathe for a passenger. so the descent they described just now was indicative of a loss of pressurization and the aircraft getting down to 10,000 feet as quickly as possible where the passengers would have breathable oxygen and normal pressurization. that does indicate there was that lack of pressurization. what's concerning is one of the passengers did lose consciousness. we don't know yet enough to know whether that was from the fact they had lost consciousness due to the lack of oxygen if they didn't put their mask on as was directed i'm sure. that could have been part of that. we'll wait to see what happens with that passenger. >> again,