police have blocked off marsdon at decatur, ditman to torresdale.if you're in this area, we've seen a lot of cars coming down, people trying to head to work, heading down decatur but they can't do it. a man is hold up inside his house with a gun, at least that's the last reports. we're checking with police to see if there's an update as to whether they've been able to make contact or not. live in the homesburg section of philadelphia, jesse gary, nbc 10 news. >>> this is also new from overnight. jesse gary was on the scene of this before that barricade situation popped up. water gushing in a section of northeast philadelphia after a water main broke this morning. this break happened along summerdale avenue behind northeast high school. workers have stopped the flow of water before it could do any damage. summerdale avenue is expected to be closed as katy just mentioned until they can make repairs later this morning. the good news, we're told everyone in the neighborhood there does have water. >> pennsylvania lawmakers are scrambling to get a budget

we're down at decatur street. you see a police suv and the woman who was trapped inside being held at gunpoint was inside that suv being interviewed by police detectives. that all took place literally within the past few minutes. s.w.a.t. has been notified. we've seen s.w.a.t. officers on scene. this barricade situation started around 3:45, 3:50 this morning here in the homesburg section in the 7900 block of mars, right at the intersection of decatur. a man said to be about 58 years old inside with a gun. we're not sure what type of gun but with a gun, was holding a woman. she was able to escape and is now being interviewed by philadelphia police detectives. they putting up additional barricades here in this area. we're moving through, people trying to get to work. if you're in the homesburg area, bear that in mind.ç ditman's the next street over that way. try to avoid the area altogether. we'll give you an update in a half hour or so. >>> a water main break in northeast philadelphia has some streets blacked off.

shellenberger is co-founder and co-owner of little shop of stories of children's bookstore located in decatur georgia. this year davis serving as a juror for the national book award and the young people's literature division so any authors out there this is the guy you need to talk to. besides becoming a great oak store for kids and their families little shop is in the development of the decatur book festival and marvelous festival the nations largest independent book festival. well i am with the miami book fair, one of the nations largest. [laughter] and on the same page and annual communitywide family reading initiative. thank you both for being here. the way are we going to handle this is we are going to have a little bit of a discussion. i'm going to speak to jim for a little while and the two booksellers will talk about what they might've done with some of the money that they got. then we are going to open it to the audience for questions and some of you who may have gotten some grants might want to tell us we have done and then we have a big announcement at the end as well because the n

david is co-founder of little shop of stories, a children's bookstore located in decatur, georgia. he is serving as a juror for the national book awards and the young people's literature division. in the author's out there, this is the guy you need to talk to. [laughter] >> besides becoming a great bookstore for kids and their families, little shop is most proud of its role in development of the decatur book festival, a marvelous festival, the nation's largest independent book festival. well, i am with the miami book fair. one of the nation's largest. [laughter] and on the same page in annual community-wide family reading initiative. thank you both for being here. the way we will handle this is, we will have a little bit of a discussion. i will speak to jim for a little while, and then the to booksellers will talk about what they might have done with some of the money that they got. then we will open it to the audience for questions and some of you who might have gotten grants might want to tell us what you have done, and then we have an announcement at the end because the next rou

. >> michael slover sr., he works at a power plant in the decatur area. and once he clocked out, he has no alibi after that time. jeannette slover, who wasn't employed or anything, she had no alibi or anybody to corroborate their alibi. >> 51-year-old jeannette slover detested her ex-daughter-in-law karyn, and everyone knew how much she loved her 3-year-old grandson, christopher. >> i think the relationship between jeannette and the boy was not normal, that jeannette treated the boy as her own and actually believed it was her own son. >> in fact, she told friends that after christopher was born, she began breast-feeding him. investigators checked telephone records and discovered that michael jr. called his parents 12 times on the weekend of the murder. also suspicious, the slovers owned a used car lot just one mile from their house. the lot, patrolled by two junkyard dogs, was always dirty and in disrepair. just after karyn disappeared, neighbors said the lot got a makeover. >> michael jr. and michael sr. were seen by the neighbors at miracle motors clean

and be happy about it but now we know how to be happy about it and finally we say zone that's to decatur to the future if somebody asked me a year and a half ago if i wanted to get married again at that time i would have said no i don't want to but now i probably consider this option. my city of. violence happens when you let it happen but i wouldn't allow anybody to abuse me anymore i simply won't let it happen again of the way we're supposed to it's like saying i ran into him completely by accident we were going to the clinic when he turned up and grabbed a policeman i had an umbrella in my bag and i started hitting him with it he just blinked his eyes you know all these abusers who beat women by cowards they get scared when the woman fights back. margo a lot of women think they can change men through it is no way you can change them but it's useless. when a man raises his head and no woman should. run from him while i live with an idiot. it's better to be a good. mistress only three idiots why are you what. did your husband call you or come to visit. i have hallucinations we were havi

we're at bittman and decatur. s.w.a.t. is moving down the back alley.we're told that a 58-year-old man is inside, barricaded inside a row home on this block with a weapon. early reports at least from police radio are that a woman was trapped, being held at gunpoint inside the home was able to escape. we believe she's with police. she escaped and now the man is inside right now. you can see right here, a philadelphia police van pulling up through the alley. we witnessed two s.w.a.t. officers making their way down the block, moving into position. s.w.a.t. has been notified at police headquarters. we'll stay on the scene and give you an update in a couple of minutes or so. jesse gary, nbc 10 news. >>> we have this story. jesse gary brought us these details just moments ago as well. a water main break in philadelphia has some streets closed at this hour. .break happened along summerdale avenue between shelmire and glendale. we are told that everyone in that area does have water this morning. >>> right now, the coast guard is still searching for a teenager w

it's now in the collection of milliken university in decatur.as a year later in indiana. so by 1902, 1903 the birds were gone from the wild. and that's significant because there were three captive flocks, one in milwaukee, one in chicago, one in cincinnati. a bird probably born in chicago in the backyard of professor charles otis whitman of the university of chicago was sent to cincinnati. it was a female. she lived there with other pigeons. eventually, as time went on, they all died until there were just two. there was martha and george, the zoo channeling the washington family in their naming of pigeons. and in july of 1911, george died which left martha the last of her species. and, you know, time passed, she became weak. they lowered her perch to a few inches above floor of the cage. but she was an attraction because people knew she was the last passenger pigeon, and stories have it that on weekends people would crowd around her cage and threw sand at her to get her to move. so they cordoned off her cage. and finally about 1:00 in the aftern

[cheering] and from decatur, georgia, it's the evans family.ybody's here trying to win their self a lot of cash and the possibility of driving out of here in a brand-new stylish ford fusion right there. let's play "feud."

cavalry and the lack of provisions for the army, he moved further east -- west to decatur, alabama, to cross the river there. and lowked sad spirited, some of the men were nearly barefoot. the weather being warm, they could stand it. rations were scarce, but they were ready to do or die in the attack. whole regiments are barefooted while blankets are the exception. there are some regiments who have not been paid in 15 months. the winning support for the war effort hampered supplies -- the waning support for the war effort hampered supplies. delays in dwindling supplies zapped the enthusiasm that had been exhibited by the soldiers. robert patrick roche, i have no confidence in hoods abilities. knowledge of military affairs that joseph johnston possesses. nobody knows where to find anything or anybody and there are no bread rations. the problem with food rations led a private from texas to write, we have suffered more for the want of something to eat than on any previous one. left no breakfast of champions for the soldiers to munch on. nathanpt waiting for bedford forrest to show up. the

decatur, mississippi is a sawmill town. james was going to the sawmill commissary with a very young charles evers to pay a bill. could barely read or write, but he could do numbers in his head. itn he got a bill, he saw was not right and he told the clerk it was not right. the clerk said are you calling me a liar? he starts to move back behind the counter where everyone knew the depth the dons -- he kept the guns. we'll james is standing next to thing of coke bottles, and he takes one out and shoves it at the clerk and tells them not to move. he orders charles to back out of the store, and he tells them to not run because some otherwise people were there and he said these people aren't nothing but cowards. and then he backed out holding the coat model -- coke bottle. why did and the white people attack him -- did not the white people attack him? because they do a lot of dumb things, but they do not mess with crazy. [laughter] biography, his whites are not prepared to die for white supremacy. it boils down to that. if you sh

carney is a great in decatur. we call him the canary in the coal mine -- great indicator. in the coal mine. carney -- >> the canadian canary. >> exactly. >> what are you expecting from the european economy? had data on unemployment in france that is disappointing. manufacturing pmi's are disappointing. is picking up. but the macro indicators art disappointing. how does that way into your view? disappointing on the short term basis. if you turn the clock back 12 months, you would be thrilled to have the data we are seeing. a bounce back now. >> even the levels of inflation? people fearing deflation? works you are seeing less deflation in the eurozone. having said that, the deflation is a great sign because it means the ecb is going to continue to be supportive for that market. pictures of dignitaries arriving in brussels. eu leaders meeting there today. ben-claude juncker could rubberstamped. does that fall into your hemisphere of interest? >> we have been watching that assess carefully. what itthat the ecb and is doing is more important to bond the markets. >> will it do a

president obama is visiting native american indian tribes in north decatur. -- dakota. >> ok. some company news as well. the owners of the largest spanish broadcaster in the united states is looking to sell. according to the wall street journal, univision has held elementary talks with time warner. led by a billionaire bought univision in 2007 for $14 billion. they won more than 20 billion for the network. for the second time in my city or, for his lower their fuel which economy estimates. they also will compensate more than 200,000 customers. 6 models are affected. and boeing is making a big sale in china. china eastern a line has agreed to buy 80 boeing 737s. the list price is $7.4 billion. chinese turn will get a discount. those are your company news headlines. >> front and center. we did not know this on monday. iraq crumbles. in the last 24 hours, the kurds have advanced on baghdad. they have moved the oil-rich region. baghdad. attacked we do not know what iran's involvement will be. peter cook is our chief washington correspondent. post beautifully captured the multiple

governors are signing executive orders passing laws to limit the state or city ability to comply with the decaturhat is extremely unfortunate to limit the ability of our people to do their job so i believe we need a fresh start each to evaluate how to refected they forced the racial laws and delayed clearer guidance that i intend to take that to the governors and the mayor's here is the enforcement priorities so you have no uncertainty anymore and we will do with them a better job because i believe the principle is a good one. >> my time is up. would have a wonderful job you have. >> secretary johnson can we talk about cyber? i have to topics one is quite to narrow and specific. d.h. us is the lead federal agency responsible for working with state and local government and local law enforcement in a variety of ways but specifically protecting the information system. it appears there has been a spate of recent cyberattacks on local law enforcement agencies. across the country small, rural, police departments don't have a lot of cyberresources available or even full-time information officers. it str

it's now in the collection of milliken university in decatur. later in indiana. so by 1902, 1903 the birds were gone from the wild. and that's significant because there were three captive flocks, one in milwaukee, one in chicago, one in cincinnati. a bird probably born in chicago in the backyard of professor charles otis whitman of the university of chicago was sent to cincinnati. it was a female. she lived there with other pigeons. eventually, as time went on, they all died until there were just two. there was martha and george, the zoo channeling the washington family in their naming of pigeons. and in july of 1911, george died which left martha the last of her species. and, you know, time passed, she became weak. they lowered her perch to a few inches above floor of the cage. but she was an attraction because people knew she was the last passenger pigeon, and stories have it that on weekends people would crowd around her cage and threw sand at her to get her to move. so they cordoned off her cage. and finally about 1:00 in the afternoon on se