cunningham was told by doctors at chop, there was nothing they can do for his little girl. >> turning the energy to propel me into what i'm doing, just brought the anger to the gym. the family learned that children's hop in pittsburgh would but kennedy on the tran plant list and now they await a new heart. >> no doubt this little girl captured your heart and as she prepares for the battle of her life, listen to her motto. >> he needs to go, and pack up and go. it's time to be fighting somewhere. >> the thought of losing her, man that goes into our faith, but right now we are in fight mode, the fight is not over and we are throwing punches and chairs. we are taking steroids and doing everything to win. >> jaime apody, channel 6 "action news." >> we are all pulling for her, as soon as the heart becomes available, the cunninghams have to jump on a plane and be in pittsburgh for the surgery and relocate there. >> we'll all say prayers. >> thank goodness, thank you. >>> the fbi took on a different challenge today, at the mander playground in strawberry mansion, they taught how they investi

. >>> jamie apody has the story of steve cunningham. >> reporter: west philadelphia steve cunningham has been inside the ropes fighting his toughest battles, but nothing like his daughter kennedy. born with hypo plastic left heart droam, she spent most of her -- syndrome, she spent most of her life in the hospital. >> it's exciting, but it's very risky and all these mix of emotions that's the rollercoaster we've been on with kennedy. >> reporter: cunningham was told by doctors at chop there was nothing they could do for his little girl. >> i have to turn that anger into energy to propel me what i am doing. >> reporter: he run a ten round decision, and they learned that kennedy would be put on the transplant list. she prepares for the battle of her life. listen to her motto, one she took from her dad. >> you need to go, it's time to be a fighter right now. >> the thought of losing that, that goes into our safe. right now we're in fight mode, we're throwing punches we're throwing chairs, we taking steroids we're doing everything to win. >> reporter: jamie apody channel 6 "actio what ca

. >> my name is melissa cunningham.y family started our books and a blanket drive. we were trying to brain storm ways to help the community and our daughters decided to give books. we started collecting small plastic crates and filled each one with ten to 15 books and a warm blanket. when turned to one side it looks like a small library. to date we have donated over 400 cartons containing about 6,000 books. different cities have heard about our drive and started doing the same thing in their own communities. we are working on becoming a formal nonprofit and hope to continue the books and a blanket drive for years to come. >> wow. we are so impressed. melissa cunningham is here with her daughters 10-year-old harper and 9-year-old maggie. >> and editor of "family fun" magazine. >> you were very young when the idea came to you. what happened to make the idea come about? >> we wanted to do a family project. i knew that some of the kids that school didn't have very many books so i wanted to give them books. and my sister, ma

back to you, lester. >> kim cunningham, thank you. >>> important medical news tonight. alzheimer's researchers report simple eye and smell tests may detect early warning signs of the disease. the findings of four studies were presented today at an alzheimer's conference in copenhagen. chief medical editor, dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: at 71 years old, jane says she has to work a little harder at remembering things. >> it's like i'm not keeping as much at my fingertips. >> reporter: she doesn't have alzheimer's disease, but for jane and millions of other americans, it's hard to recognize when the symptoms of normal brain aging are developing into something more serious. >> i hope that doesn't happen for my family's sake, for my children's sake. >> reporter: jane is participating in a new study that could help doctors detect alzheimer's disease earlier. for the last four years, more than 200 participants in the harvard aging brain study were given smell identification tests, along with memory evaluations, and brain scans. >> individuals that have worse smell identifi

the area outside of cunningham's is packed. in addition to the music, there is a special nighttime act, a fire breathing performance. >> we didn't know what to expect but we knew it would be probably exciting. >> fire breathing has long captured the imagination with its irresistible mix of dazzle and daring. >> fire breathing is something that captivates the crowd. it is the chance that something is dangerous but it is being controlled. >> it's that thrill, that excitement a lot of people really crave. >> performing that night are the member of a circus troupe. the highlight will be a french-canadian fire artist named aisha. >> to deal with fire, it is special thing that is kind of magical. >> aisha has years of training behind her. she learned the practice from her father, also a performer and has entertained crowds all over canada. now all eyes are on the stage at cunningham's. >> we were ready for a very nice show. >> it was a night that you just didn't want to end. >> as the performance begins, sherry turns on her camera. >

weather channel meteorologist kim cunningham is tracking it for us. kim. >> lester, we're watching this line develop now. we think over the next 36 hours a lot of you will have the potential for hail and damaging winds. we're watching this bow echo move off to the east. already some warnings into parts of illinois. we think that will spread east as the night goes on. if you live in indianapolis, it could get to you probably by 9:00 tonight, heading south now into parts of kentucky into southern ohio. it should weaken as it gets this far east. forecast for tonight severe storms, large hail, damaging winds, even heavy rain with some of these storms. now, tomorrow we watch another strong disturbance moving east. and as it does interacts with this cold front going to see more storms and a lot of moisture moving northward develop. and this is going to mean severe weather not just for cincinnati but now we're getting to the east coast, including d.c., new york city and into boston. that continues on monday as well. so please be vigilant the next couple of d

host: all right, paige winfield cunningham?t: there are provisions limit how much insurers can spend on overhead. it depends on the size of the 75% at, but it is 70% or least of that has to be spent on actually paying out health care benefits. so the law does contain measures trying to make sure that insurers are not profiting more than perhaps people think they should be. as far as the premiums, the caller is right, they have been going up for years. sometimes by double digits, often in the low double digits. host: are they expected to continue to rise? hard to say.s i do not think the projections perhaps, reliable or concrete, because we do not know how many people will be signing up and exactly who they will be. but what we are seeing right now, even with the low double-digit increases, that is really comparable with what we have seen for about a decade. host: minnesota, democratic caller. caller: first thing i want to say, i have been paying attention -- if you live in a state where they set up their own plan and the people

host: all right, paige winfield cunningham?guest: there are provisions that limit how much insurers can spend on overhead. it depends on the size of the insurer, but it is 70% or 75% at least of that has to be spent on actually paying out health care benefits. so the law does contain measures trying to make sure that insurers are not profiting more than perhaps people think they should be. as far as the premiums, the caller is right, they have been going up for years. sometimes by double digits, often in the low double digits. >> good morning everybody, how are you? david, i went you out here with me. why don't you come out here on the other side? um -- i am going to make a statement. then i need to rush out of here. i have a phone call in 10 minutes. i will leave david here with you. david is a nominee and not going to say anything at this point in time. i wanted to have a chance to introduce him to all of you. as we release the international religious freedom report, which we believe is a very important statement, that unders

. >> reporter: gary cunningham is head of inspections and enforcement.his agency partnering with police, the county office of law, and the state attorney's office to manage the growing problem. >> what we're going to do is look at these cases and determine which path they should take. criminal prosecution or something that should be done in civil court. >> in this case there were a number of families that thought they had legal leases, but have since had to move and start over again. cunningham says people in those situations are not to blame. >> they're victims of the crime, and that's the way they're treated. >> reporter: as for squatters, who knowingly and illegally take up residence in homes, the task force is tackling that issue as well. >> we've got a system in place of when those cases come in, we start to address them. >>> now, we're told that lee told her attorney that she was in the hospital today and that's why she wasn't able to come to court. they're saying that if she does not produce documentation supporting that by the close of business o

joining me now is kim cunningham. why are we seeing this type of freak weather all around the country right now and when will it sub side? >> luke, i have to say it is different to see this front coming in july. that's definitely somewhat rare. we had a very active pattern in july so far. these cold fronts coming all the way into the south in july, you don't see that too often. this is the one that helped bring severe weather, over 160 wind damage reports yesterday. today we've had 16 reports of severe weather. most in the northeast with the tornado around revere as well. to the south we're seeing storms pop up in georgia and alabama and hail and damaging winds will be the big threat there. the radar showing more storms tonight, actual aly few warnings to the west of boston. earlier we had a tornado warning with this cell right here, this thunderstorm but now it is a severe thunderstorm warning. hail and damaging winds the threat -- almost fell here. this watch in effect until 8:00 tonight. then we're watching in the

kim cunningham is tracking it. >> in the next 36 hours, a lot of you will have the potential for hail again. they are all ready for morning in parts of illinois. this will spread east through indianapolis and probably by 9:00 tonight and heading south into kentucky. this should weaken. damaging wind and even heavy rain with the storms. tomorrow we watch another strong disturbance moving east and as it does, they ought to see more storms and moisture and this will mean severe weather and now we will go to the east coast. new york city and boston continues on monday's route. that's what's going on the next couple of days. >>> here was a scene in the phoenix area as a massive dust storm caused a temporary halt of flights to the phoenix airport and knocked out power and reduced visibility in spots to zero. a big manhunt is under way in philadelphia for two carjacker who is stole a woman's car and crashed into a crowd on a street corner that killed three children. tonight his mother is fighting for her life. >> in philadelphia tonight, a memorial with the young lives lot of. >> that's my s

for more on all that, we're joined by the weather channel's kim cunningham. >> yes, we've picked up over five inches of rain in some parts of chicago. the taste of chicago canceled today. that's how bad it was. we had the heavy rain. now we're worried about severe weather. then we'll be worried about the cold. let's show you what's coming together for this. we have this dip in the jet stream. that will allow the cold air to come southward but also to actually get some energy to the front. we're already starting to see some thunderstorms developing ahead of it. we could see more severe weather into chicago later on tonight. so from kansas city to chicago, we'll be watching indianapolis this evening. then once that front goes through, the next one comes in. then we'll watch the cold air. we're talking 30 degrees, a big change for you guys. 10 on 20 degrees below average. detroit, houston, cincinnati. we'll see the temperatures only in the 60s for your highs including chicago by tuesday. 69 degrees, detroit at 72. so the cold air is on the way. it looks like it will last all the way through

. >> for the path of these storms, let's bring in weather channel meteorologist kim cunningham. >> hey, lester, we've already had over 160 reports of severe weather today. look at this radar. look at the severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings we're seeing here in parts of tennessee. the watch, as we mentioned earlier, in effect for almost all of ohio, kentucky, even parts of north carolina, until 9:00. even into pittsburgh. severe thunderstorm watch here for detroit. so tornadoes are possible with this as well. not just hail and damaging winds. here's that forecast for tonight. possibly seeing severe weather ramping up in eastern pennsylvania later on today. a watch may be expected there. watch the cold front move east tomorrow. behind it we'll cool down. ahead of it, still enough instability we may see more severe storms in the morning hours, including boston, maybe some of the higher elevations. isolated storms behind it. southeast also looking at severe storms as the front continues to push off to the south. as i mentioned, once this goes through, we'll see a much bigger

. >>> for the path of the storms, let's bring in weather channel meteorologist kim cunningham. kim? >> we've had already over 160 reports of severe weather today. look at this radar. look at all the is severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings we're seeing here in parts of tennessee. the watches we mention earlier in effect for almost all of the ohio, kentucky, even parts of north carolina until 9:00, even into pittsburgh. severe thunderstorm watch here and for detroit. so tore natnadoes are possible this as well. here's the forecast for tonight. possibly seeing severe weather ramping up in eastern pennsylvania here later on today. the watch may be expected there. so watch the cold front move east. tomorrow, behind it will cool down. ahead of it, still enough instability that we may see more severe thunderstorms in the morning hours especially in new england, including boston and higher elevations and a few isolate storms behind it. the southeast is also looking at severe storms as that front continues to push off the south. we're going to see a much bigger cooldown for ever

kate howard, the budget director and jason cunningham and leo chi, the analysts assigned tower office. controller's office, ben rosenfeld, [speaker not understood] who is also assigned to the department as you can tell there's a lot of people assigned to help us. and then of course my staff, [speaker not understood], my budget director carolyn walsh, my deputy chief of admin [speaker not understood], and over the last couple weeks working with the budget analyst's office, want to thank harvey rose and [speaker not understood] and company for the help. we're pretty close, we hope, and i'll get to that through the budget presentation. so, i'm going to do a budget overview, hiring plan updates as i know the board always wants to hear about that. there's already been some conversation about the new public safety building. i'll provide an update there. technology projects [speaker not understood] to the efficiency that have us making up for the lack of staffing that we suffered the last few years. capital improvement projects. and then the vehicle situation. the 14-15 budget is 529,9 78,00

. >> on the next washington hamid., shadi pagepolitical reporters winfield cunningham. in los angeles times investigative reporter david willman. and we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. journal, live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. tomorrow, secretary of state john kerry will talk about u.s. india relations at the center for american progress. we will have that live at 1:30 p.m. than the leaders from the largest jewish organizations will gather in washington dc to show support for the people of israel. include national security adviser susan rice, house speaker john boehner, the israelihy, and ambassador to the u.s. you can watch that on c-span three. on the communicators, two members of congress talk about their talk elegy legislation -- technology legislation. data,u can collect that and it is a lot of data, that may include americans but it cannot be the purpose of the data. if you want to search that lawfully acquired database for americans, you should get a warrant. not that you can i the information, get a warrant. premi

. >> gary cunningham, director of inspections and enforcement. his agency is partnering with police, the county's office of law, and the state's attorney's office to manage the growing problem. >> what we're going to do is look at these cases and determine which path they should take, whether it's a criminal prosecution or something that should be done through the civil courts. >> ron white lives in the upper middle class suburb and believes some people are squatting in $1.8 million home in his neighborhood. we won't show you the house because it's still under investigation. this is now one of the cases on the task force's list. >> the problem that we have with that specific property is there is no clear ownership. the owners cannot be located. the bank is not taking clear possession of it. >> then there are clear cut cases like the one involving shannon lee who pled guilty to several charges connected to her allegedly renting out foreclosed homes she did not own to unsuspecting families. >> there are agencies that are looking at the problem beca

to be bipartisan, duke cunningham, e-commerce and from san diego, he came in for an earmarked weapon system. he would literally pull out a schedule and the lowest schedule based on the value of your your mark was $140,000 and a yacht. i don't know where he got the odd thing, but in any event. to buy these people, it takes much more than $2600 and the effect on our system has been a tremendous distortion, driving money away from the most transparent sources. i think it is great that we have super pac's. i won the first case in the court of appeals saying that super pac's were legal. i am not in favor of driving .oney to them by having these low contribution limits, that is what we see. you cannot vote against a super pac. you can only vote against a candidate or the political parties' candidates. they are accountable. super pac's are, and of course, what john proposes and sports -- supports would continue to create that distortion. the other question on influence -- yes. i can see, and this is why i go back and forth on whether i really support contribution limits. i can see that ther

reporter page when field cunningham has details of a new study. 10 million people have gotten coverage of the health care law. the problems with the $40 billion ground midcourse defense system designed to protect the u.s. from missiles. you can join the conversation at facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. host: a $15 billion optimize that will make it through both chambers by friday because of the recess. miller and bernie sanders are going to outline their agreement this afternoon at 1:30 p.m. eastern time on c-span two. congress has other bills that would like to get to this week

to be bipartisan, duke cunningham, a republican from san diego, he came in for an earmarked weapon system. he would literally pull out a schedule and the lowest schedule based on the value of your your earmark was $140,000 and a yacht. i don't know where he got the yacht thing, but in any event. to buy these people, it takes much more than $2600 and the effect on our system has been a tremendous distortion, driving money away from the most transparent sources. i think it is great that we have super pac's. i won the first case in the court of appeals saying that super pac's were legal. i am not in favor of driving money to them. by having these low contribution limits, that is what we see. you cannot vote against a super pac. you can only vote against a candidate or the political parties' candidates. they are accountable. super pac's are, and of course, what john proposes and supports would continue to create that distortion. the other question on influence -- yes. i can see, and this is why i go back and forth on whether i really support contribution limits. i can see that there are some

. >> my name is melissa cunningham. were very young when the idea came to you. what happened to make the idea come about? >> we wanted to do a family project. i knew that some of the kids that school didn't have very many books so i wanted to give them books. and my sister, maggie, also knew that they didn't have much warmth. so she decided to put blankets in, too. >> what a great combination. >> did you get to see families who got your books and blankets? >> sometimes we got to go to the schools where we gave out the crates but sometimes wouldn't. >> but you know they are out there, don't you? >> what did you do to raise these girls? >> i don't think i can say one thing. as a family we try to give back. this was just a small project. it was supposed to be tiny and it has just exploded i think because the concept is so simple that people are enthusiastic about it. >> so many people have books sitting around that could be a great blessing to someone who has nothing. >> we are connecting the dots between children who don'

though cunningham has the details on a news story that says that 10 million people have gotten coverage under the health care law. times"geles investigative reporter talks about the problems with a defense system that was designed to protect the u.s. from missile attacks. you can join the conversation on facebook or twitter. "washington journal" live at 7:00 on c-span. next, a house hearing with acting house veterans affairs secretary sloan gibson. then "q&a." questions and comments on washington journal. on thursday, the house veterans affairs committee talking about assessing health care. witnesses included sloan gibson, wouldnounced that the va need an additional $17.6 billion years.e next few the senate committee voted to unanimously confirm robert mcdonald as the secretary of veterans affairs. portion of the house hearing is two and a half hours. >>> good morning. welcome, everybody, to trust. i want to ask unanimous consent also that representative michael fitzpatrick from the state of pennsylvania be allowed to join us at the dis today and participate in today's hearing. without

we interviewed a texas rancher doug cunningham and his wife and a friend of theirs who live right on the rio grand. spectacular ranch overlooking the rio grand river. and they constantly have people coming through who cross the river. that they believe are doing drug deals or simply immigrating to the united states, migrating to the united states. he is a former border patrol agent. will actually go out and pick people up and turn them in. he suspects the border patrol is not doing enough in that regard. and that when they do act that they are sloppy that they mess up his property and so forth. at the end of our conversation, we were standing next to his american flag that he has posted outside of his house. >> rose: right. >> and he said i'm not sure it's always going to be an american flag flying here. that there is going to be some question of this country changing. that people's loyalties will be different. that people's loyalties will change. that's a really complicated thought it gets to sovereignty. it gets to national identity. it gets to race. there are a lot of things wrapp

shad hamid, and page win field cunningham and affordable care act. ... >>> thanks for being with us todaye hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend. agency are right at the middle of the crisis at the border. be resting youll issues for the associated press. as we are taping, congress is an conference, considering legislation. as the tea leaves are being read, there will be a stalemate between the house and senate and the break begins. where does that put the president shrub border plans operationally if there is no money? >> certainly we have concerns about that. in border protection along we surged resources.

to be bipartisan, duke cunningham, e-commerce and from -- republican from san diego, he came in for anearmarked weapon system. he would literally pull out a schedule and the lowest schedule based on the value of your your mark was $140,000 and a yacht. i don't know where he got the yacht thing, but in any event. to buy these people, it takes much more than $2600 and the effect on our system has been a tremendous distortion, driving money away from the most transparent sources. i think it is great that we have super pac's. i won the first case in the court of appeals saying that super pac's were legal. i am not in favor of driving money to them. by having these low contribution limits, that is what we see. you cannot vote against a super pac. you can only vote against a candidate or the political parties' candidates. they are accountable. super pac's are, and of course, what john proposes and supports would continue to create that distortion. the other question on influence -- yes. i can see, and this is why i go back and forth on whether i really support contribution limits. i can see

to be bipartisan, duke cunningham, republican from sand yea owe -- san diego, he came this for an earmarkof a weapons system, he was chairman of the house armed services committee. he would literally pull out a schedule, and the lowest schedule based on the value of your earmark was $140,000 ask a yacht. -- and a yacht. i don't know where he got the yacht thing, but in any event, you know, so to buy these people, you know, it takes much more than $2600. and the effect on our system has been a tremendous distortion driving money away from the most accountable and transparent sources. you know, i think it's fine, you know, great that we have super pacs. i won the first case in a court of appeals saying that super pacs were legal. but i'm not in favor of driving money to them. and by having these low contribution limits, that's what we see. you can't vote against a super pac. you can only vote against a candidate or maybe the parties, the political parties' candidates. and so they're accountable, super pacs aren't. and, of course, what john proposes and supports would do, you know, continue