that was one of the key things that led to the decision to summon the hartford convention. that was a regional conference convened in late 1814 to air new england long-term grievances,

that was one of the key things that led to the decision to summon the hartford convention. that was a regional conference convened in late 1814 to air new england long-term grievances, but more immediately grievances over the war of 1812. it is sometimes depicted as part of a scheme to pull new england out of the union, but this overstates i think secession sentiment in new england. in new england during the war of 1812, there was talk of withdrawing from the union. there was secession sentiment, but there was no serious secession cysel secessionist movement. you can see it was really confide moderate. fully half of that report was to airing grievances over the war, particularly the fact that new england now had to provide and finance its own defense measures. so a pretty moderate document. i don't really see a hint of secession in that document. now, the hartford convention did propose a series of amendments to the constitution designed to protect new england's interest in the future and prevent agmh recurrence of those policies of the republicans that the federalists thou

hartford and new haven. for the governor to be going around saying that crime is low and not a problem is insulting to those communities. we have to get crime rates down. people are afraid to leave their homes at night. young people are being shot and killed and businesses are being affected. the governor says everything is fine with crime. >> i did not say everything is fine with crime. that is why i was in new haven last friday with a mother who lost her son and her sister who had lost his son 10 years before. that is why i am encouraging communities to be reinvested in community police. something that is leading to a larger drop in crime for the national average. that is why we rot project leading inhich are the decline in the national average. timee down for the fourth in 45 years and we are going to do it again this year by all reports. that is real progress and i am proud of it. theye proud of the efforts are putting in to make schools stronger and make housing stronger. if you want to know what causes

and you can see that in the report of the hartford convention which was issued in early january of 1815 which was really quite moderate. and fully half of that report was devoted to airing grievances over the war. particularly the fact that new england now had to provide for -- finance its own defense measures. so a pretty moderate document. and i don't really see even a hint of secession in that document. now, the hart tuesday convention did propose a series of amendments to the constitution designed to protect new england's interest in the future and also prevent a rekuns of those policies of the republicans that the federalists thought were so utterly disruptive to new england and to the nation. for example, in the future would require a two-thirds vote to embargo or trade or to declare war. and in fact embargoes i think would be limited to 60 days. admitting new states to the union from the west, that would also require a two-thirds vote in congress. the whole point of these amendments was to protect new england's position in the union, also a recurrence of the most destructive of t

hartford and new haven. for the governor to be going around saying that crime is low and not a problem is insulting to those communities. we have to get crime rates down. people are afraid to leave their homes at night. young people are being shot and killed and businesses are being affected. the governor says everything is fine with crime. >> i did not say everything is fine with crime. that is why i was in new haven last friday with a mother who lost her son and her sister who had lost his son 10 years before. that is why i am encouraging communities to be reinvested in community police. something that is leading to a larger drop in crime for the national average. that is why we brought project longevity which are leading in the decline in the national average. we are down for the fourth time in 45 years and we are going to do it again this year by all reports. that is real progress and i am proud of it. we are proud of the efforts they are putting in to make schools stronger and make housing stronger. if

that was one of the key things that led to the decision to summon the hartford convention. that was a regional conference that was convened in late 1814, to air new england grievances. more immediately, grievances over the war of 1812. it is sometimes depicted as part of a scheme to pull new england out of the union. but this overstates the -- i think the secession of sentiment in new england. in new england during the war of 1812, there was talk of withdrawing from the union. there was secession sentiment. but there was no serious secessionist movement. and you can see that in the report of the hartford convention, which was issued in early january 1815. which was really quite moderate. fully half of that report was devoted to airing grievances over the war. particularly the fact that new england now had to provide for financing its own defense measures. so it was a pretty moderate document. and i don't really see even a hint of secession in that document. now, the hartford convention did propose a series of amendments to the constitution designed to protect new england's

then saturday, those strong thunderstorms go through new york city hartford, albany, boston, portland. wind damage is possible with the strongest of those storms. here's your weekend forecast. again, still feels like summer from texas through the southeast. right up the eastern seaboard. very warm and humid. then if that cold front comes through, chicago, kansas city, st. louis, you get your beautiful saturday. then new england in the mid-atlantic have to wait until sunday for your great weather and low humidity, and the southeast unfortunately, not yet. usually the deep south, we've got to wait until the end of september to get the cooler air. it's a little too early. >> all right. spreading it around this weekend. i give you the credit for it. you're doing it. great work there, bill. not. >>> just ahead, protecting nude photos and other personal stuff. tell what you apple is planning. >>> and is google reading your e-mail before you do? before using her new bank of america credit card, which rewards her for responsibly managing her card balance. before receiving $25 toward her balan

years northwest suburban hartford. out in kane county west or high school. rain has fallen there.re's a view from our southern suburbs. >> here is our model forecast showing the rain exiting the area. the clouds pricking as the afternoon goes on. a warm night with maybe a shower thunderstorm developing in the northern counties. some additional development tomorrow afternoon and evening ahead of the cooler air. but 60 percent of the area would have gotten a sharp letter time this day ends. mainly northern sections late tonight. about half the area can see a shower during the day on friday. if temperatures are going to surge against the sun comes up. southerly winds blow with cooler air and. you'll see these temperatures takeoff. 87 the kansas city. this is the air that has few of those thunderstorms. after a 83 yesterday and in 86 midway. 73 days above 80. 70 is normal. despite what appeared to be a cool summer we actually had more eighties this year than typically the case. >> we're in the '70s. it is cooler because of the rain. the dew points are steamy. up there in the '60s. . o

another low point was called the hartford convention. it gets a lot of play in the history books.ate 1814, early 1815, a group of new england federalists meet. one of their grievances is to limit the power of these embargoes which are hampering their trade. they want to limit congress's approval to declare war, sounds familiar. there are no records kept. but it is possible they talked about secession. lampooned as always in the cartoons of the day, on the lower left that is king george iii in open arms. he says, "jump in my fine fellows, plenty of molasses and codfish, plenty of goods to smuggle, honors, titles and nobility into the bargain." i did not want to end the war section on a low note, so let's end it on a high note. coming up next month, the battle of baltimore. that inspires the amateur poet, francis scott key. he had a friend captured by the british. he does out to try to get his friend free. the british nab him and put him on a ship. he is watching the bombs bursting all night at fort mchenry. in the morning, our flag is still there. he said it to a popular british so

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and aren't expecting to arrive in hartford until late they are evening. >> my mom was rushed to the hospital yesterday. we need to get there. >> reporter: philadelphia to wilmington was not affected by aum of this. this method here, the northeast corridor is how many local members of congress get to and from washington. delaware senator tom carper was here earlier. he wound up carpooling with another senator. we will stay on top of the delays and the suspension as it unfolds here. we are live in wilmington. i'm matt delucia, nbc 10 news. >>> we take a live look at center city. wi william penn, comcast center. we had the rain move through earlier. the clouds are moving out. looking great out there now. glenn "hurricane" schwartz is in with a look at how the rest of tuesday is shaping up. is is it going to be another cool one like yesterday? >> yes. cool for this time of the year, a little bit. but the sun is back out across a good bit of the area. still have clouds at the shore. but that will be changing, too. here is the comcast center. a little bit of blue in the sky. that's a sign of thing

that includes new york, hartford, boston, heading up into portland.watch that closely, again the potential for severe winds and power outages as well. the rest of the u.s. behind that front has turned cooler and much drier and quieter here. we have rain in the southwest. of course that in situation with norbert which we'll continue to follow here on cnn. george. >> ivan, thank you so much. >>> pope francis is again proving him to be a pontiff for modern times. he hosted a web chat for school children an the world. a 20-minute conversation in a google hangout. >> it's the one in a lifetime kind of opportunity. >> good day from australia. >> teenagers from five continents speaking directly with pope front sis through a google chat. the students from turkey, south africa and el salvador heard advice from the leader of the roman church speaking in his native spanish. >> translator: in life you can do either one of two opposite things. you can build bridges or walls. walls separate and divide. bridges get people closer. >> a student from is stan bull refle

we will continue to see the mild numbers and maybe record warmth tomorrow around albany and hartford. if you get these numbers in the forecast, it could be record highs. >> it's nice. >>> ahead apple responds to the bendgate backlash. before we go, a little science trivia that should blow your mind. new research suggests that 50% of the earth's water molecules were created more than 4.5 billion years ago, so that means the glass of water you are sipping right now could be older than the sun and the solar system, which makes it pretty wild, huh? $21. could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? i don't think so. well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. ♪ mmmmmmm. look out. now there's even more of the amazing cinnamon taste you love on cinnamon toast crunch. crave those crazy squares even more. capella university can take you even further, with skills and knowledge you can apply immediately to move your career fo

we like it more than hartford and you should be buying aig.ven in minnesota. >> caller: yes, sir mr. cramer how are you? booyah. >> how are you? >> caller: doing good. yesterday i bought starbucks $77 and overnight dropped. seems like starbucks is stuck in the mud. what do you think? >> the stock has been trading down and when i have been calling trying to find out what the story is stock is down $1 and change and i don't want to say it's a buying opportunity because no one knows what's going on. but my charitable trust owns it and we would be buying it tomorrow if i had not just talked about it because the rules of the charitable trust is that we're frozen unfortunately. that's a lot of great stock get frozen before we can buy them. ed in connecticut, ed. >> caller: jim, how are you doing, rax. >> you know there's so much chatter it's going to get a takeover bid i feel it's out of my hands. the stock is going to go down $5 or $6. if there is one it will go $6 clor $7. >> let's go to marsha. >> caller: i love your show. what is your opinion of

louis at the baggage claim and also in little rock, hartford, providence and las vegas.ort that said no. >> the public service announcement we sought to run in this airport which we run in other airports across the united states is no issue, promotes responsible firearms safety education. there is a picture of a pistol that has a lock on it so that it's secured, and that's the point of the safety message. >> the airport authorities said it does not allow any advertising here at reagan national that depicts weapons because guns are not allowed in the terminal or on the airfield. >> if they are not a howd in the airport, they shouldn't be advertising this in the airport. >> it is a reasonable public service announcement. it is unfortunate it is not being done in our national -- you know in our airport that is in our nation's capital. >> the university of maryland football making a statement. the team will sport new uniforms featuring a design honoring the 200th anniversary of the "star-spangled banner." the word triumph will be displayed on the back of the jerseys. the nca

five three-year old timothy wind met the the teen in an on line chat room and drove to hartford to pick her up and pick her up. since then police believed that the two have been living together. detective say even if the the girl went willingly, wind is obviously still in trouble. the teen is now home with her family. >>> memorial services will be held for the five children, who police say were killed by their own father. officials say timothy ray jones junior from south carolina was annex convict whose home was visited a dozen times in the past few years. if document released by department of social services caseworker noted single father was struggling and appeared to be overwhelmed. jones junior is expect in court today. >>> toronto mayor rob ford will remain in the hospital until results of the biopsy come back. ford was admitted wednesday after suffering stomach pains. doctors say he has an abdominal tumor. it will take a week for test results to come back. >>> nevada lawmakers approve a package of tax incentives to bring tezsla motors to the silver state. governor is expect to sig

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at we mentioned we could see severe weather through tonight from new york up the i-95 up through hartfordd boston and portland, maine, but look at the temperatures behind it, 72 degree in chicago that after the rough weather we saw yesterday. all right, pacific northwest. fire in corvallicorvallis. 94 degrees. going to be the high temperature in portland with gusty winds so red flag warnings remain posted there so fire danger will be high. that's for sure. warm there, nice across parts of denver, dallas, soupy as well. cool temperatures up in minneapolis with a high of 76 >> good rning, washington, one moreteamy day beforeome relief, part sunny and hum with strong aftnoon thunrstorms and t tomorrow, >> this weather report brought to you by ashley furniture which i think helped pay for that massive weather -- >> after the show we play video games on there. >> now we're talking. >> don't break it or we'll dock you. >>> coming up on "good morning america" he's rubbed shoulders with all sorts of celebs on "entertainment tonight" but he's back to do what he loves best, rob marciano. the newest

as we mentioned, we could see severe weather through tonight from new york up the i-95 up through hartfordough boston and portland, maine, but look at the temperatures behind it. it's going to be 72 degrees today in chicago, that after the rough weather that we saw yesterday. all right, pacific northwest, mentioned that fire in corvallis. unusual to get a fire on the west side of the cascades. we've got an offshore flow there. 94 degrees will be the high temperature in portland with gusty winds so red flag warnings remain posted there so fire danger will be high. that's for sure. warm there, nice across parts of denver. dallas will be soupy, as well. but there's your cool temperatures up in >> this weather report brought to you by ashley furniture, which i think helped pay for that massive weather wall. i love it. it's so amazing. >> after the show we actually play video games on there. >> now we're talking. now we're talking. >> and don't break it or we're going to dock you, okay? >>> coming up on "good morning america," he's rubbed shoulders with all sorts of celebs on "entertainment ton

we found that the top ten cities were all in the northeast, including providence and hartford, boston, new york. so you guys are in great shape. >> let's get down to -- if you're going to take the time to cut up the coupons, which category of products would you say you can expect to save the most on? >> well, the top ten cities, we found the most active coupon clipping activity in clothing and food followed by electronics and home and garden. i did a little digging this morning for d.c. in particular, you love your pizza. pizza deals were by far the most popular for you in the last year. >> not going to argue with you on that one. good insight. cannot thank you enough. for more information you can go on to retailmenot.com. appreciate the time. back over to mike and andrea. >>> 6:216789 here's another look at -- 6:21. here's another look at our question of the morning. there are only four u.s. states that do not have one of these. is it a, state income tax, b, a billionaire or c, colorful license plates. >> good morning, toni king, one of our facebook friends. c she writes. we'll have

with hidden cameras rolling, we found woodford in hartford, connecticut.s one of those witnesses that fled right after the shooting. >> i went to another friend of mine's house. i stayed there, i was just so scared. >> police did not locate woodford until five days later when he was brought in to view a lineup. at that lineup, he did not identify velazquez. in fact, police reports quote him as not positive about anyone. there is more. woodford admitted he was high on heroin during the crime. >> i've been going to jail all my life. >> but then it all changed. at trial, woodford testified he was sure velazquez was the gunman. today, woodford says he sticks to what he said in court. >> with the kid that i said did it, that's who did it. >> but he was surprised his testimony was all that important. >> i didn't turn him in. somebody else turned him in. all right? they had to have some kind of evidence. they didn't just take my word for it. >> detectives didn't take his word for it. they had several other witnesses. velazquez's new lawyers, celia gordon and bob

what they're seeing is about 15% upside for hig, hartford financial. >> citi getting an upgrade for huntsmana buy. >> that's easy for you to say. >> why? what do you mean? what's easy for me to say? >> nothing, apparently. just met with management and came away confident. target gez to 29. about five bucks of upside. the eu just cleared huntsman's buyout. >> okay. under the radar name of the day is one that we have talked about before. auxilium pharmaceuticals. >> it's not that under radar. jeffreys raised their target to 32. where the stock is now, they see 55% upside in the stock. the bad news is it's based on restructuring. unfortunately the way wall street often works is bad news sometimes means good news for investors. but look at the stock, that's been a bad news story for a long time now. >>> look at shares of facebook. nearly 78 bucks a share. the market cap is at $200 billion. for facebook. let's put that in context. because we like big number zblps for 200 million bucks you could essentially buy three ebays. facebook is worth nearly four times as much as starbucks. and you can almo

times," "chicago tribune," miami herald, and hartford current. larry's current book, "birdmen: the wright brothers, glenn curtiss, and the battle to control the skies," received starred reviews in publishers weekly and library journals. it was chosen as one of the best books of the year, so far, by "time" magazine, and was the subject of an entire column in "the new york times." it also received glowing reviews in "the wall street journal," the financial times, nature, "usa today," and the "christian science monitor." larry is an eclectic fellow and has been a teacher, a lecturer, a senior member of the wall street trading firm, a taxi driver, an actor, a quiz show contestant, and a policy analyst at the hudson institute. he currently lives in -- were very delighted to have larry and his wife, nancy, and in the east end of long island. please welcome larry goldstone. [applause] >> well, thank you, gene. that was wonderful. and thank you all for coming. as those of you are for me with my work and no, i don't specialize in any one topic. i've writt

let me first start by sending my thanks to the hartfords for funding and to the aarp foundation. thank you. this is an issue that the joint center identified for a number of years as one to spend more time on and the grant gave us the opportunity to do it and build the infrastructure and capacity. i also want to thank the folks we work with closely at the foundation. vivian and tyler who have been instrumental in helping marshall this through the process and have been certainly not funders but collaborators. they have been instrumental in helping us put together an advisory committee to shape the report and review drafts. i will not go through the process of naming them now but they are named on the website. their input was critical in terms of informing us and pointing us many the right direction. i would have to thank the joint center staff. a number of whom are here today. i won't call them out. i think the effort that goes into the report, our state of the nation report and the american housing report is phenomenal. i think we under estimated to some extent the amount of effo

they have shut down a lot of stores in places like providence, hartford, maine -- they've done well inkets but our franchisees are very competitive, as am i. far, the opportunity for them to go deep into america has yet to be proven. health along in the conversation? i'm looking at a coffee and i'm thinking to myself there isn't much nutritional value in either and we have seen how coca-cola experience -- experimented with the obesity debate. launchas tried to healthy snacks. is it better to do what you know? >> that is a great question. give people the choice. we have a smart menu which is low calorie items. coffee is very low calorie. give people all those options and let them decide. to go with aecide thing like a french crueler. the most important thing is to give people those choices. let the consumer decide. very consumer driven. but you don't want to play an active role question mark >> it is not our job to educate consumers. it's our job to follow consumer trends and listen to what our franchisees say who are in touch with the consumers will stop that is why -- our consumers sa

. >>> the hartford curent said officials are requiring fraternities to go coed.me. you remember him. we first told you about this little guy, the maltese mix last week. driver of a stolen van hit the puppy but after surgery and a fractured leg and pelvis gordo was cleared to leave the hospital. >>> and looking at the cover of pink floyd's new album "the endless river" the first in 20 years. this is an image of a ban on a boat in a river of cloud was created by a teenage egyptian artist. the album will be released in november. >>> he's back. george o'reilly bring his new book with a general pattonesque look at life. >> patton has little patience for soldiers that go at wore methodically. time the enemy, hit him fast to get him off balance then smite him down. that's tway. grip your weapon don't be gripped by supply. it isn't book, it's almost medieval, but it's the patton way but it works. >> that was a news report from cbs' own walter cronkite. patton himself would be taken down but not by a nasty bullet but after a car crash just seven months after nazi germany

. >>> the hartford curent said officials are requiring fraternities to go coed.im. we first told you about this little guy, the maltese mix last week. driver of a stolen van hit the puppy but after surgery and a fractured leg and pelvis gordo was cleared to leave the back. george o'reilly bring his new book with a general pattonesque look at life. >> patton has little patience for soldiers that go at wore methodically. time the enemy, hit him fast to get him off balance then smite him down. that's the way. grip your weapon don't be gripped by supply. it isn't book, it's almost medieval, but it's the patton way but it works. >> that was a news report from cbs' own walter cronkite. patton himself would be taken down but not by a nasty bullet but after a car crash just seven months after nazi germany surrendered. bill o'reilly lays it out in his new book "killing patton." good morning again. up said in the book first it was reported as a minor fender bender? >> yeah, the army treated it as just an accident, car accident. the general was paralyzed. he went to the hos

forme thank the hartford their funding of this report and to the aarp team.s is an issue that we need to spend more time on. this grant gave us the opportunity to do that. thank you. the folks wenk work with most closely at the foundation. they have been instrumental in marshaling this process. been not just funders, but collaborators. they have been instrumental in helping us put together a committee to help shape the report and review drafts. they are named on our website. their employee -- their input was critical. the joint center staff, a number of who are here today. the effort that goes into this is phenomenal. for this report, we underestimated the amount of effort that goes into learning all the issues that intersect housing.iors' we have been working very hard this summer. i have to give a special thank you to jennifer. she was the manager of this project and is passionate about this issue. blood, sweat, and tears into getting this report to what it is today. if it passes muster, a lot of the credit goes to jennifer. let me turn to the report itself

because what neil hartford said in his blogs, it's the size of the fines, the fact that they are fining, not just quantifiable numbers, but that's a risk he can't take. so very interesting. >> thank you very much for that. staying with us, you'll come back with a different hat on in a second. in the meantime, here we go. >>> shares in the stoxx 600 are in talks to make a sweetened offer for the deutsche unit as the french group posted a drop in first half profits. stephan has more in profits. good morning. >> good morning. the management will meet this week with some potential partners in order to sweeten its offer. it will meet with the private equity firm and could make an offer of at least $35 per share. the opener from the u.s. indicated it should mean minimum evaluation for this unit. the ceo managers have also indicated that the fair value should be somewhere around 35 and 40 dollars per share. iliad's first bid was rejected months ago offering $15 billion in cash for 56% stake in t-mobile in the u.s., that's $33 per share. and just before the weekend, as you mentioned, iliad post

hartford, new haven, and bridgeport. and you're happy to ignore them when it works for you. tom, people have looked at what you have said and what i have said about education spending. everyone says that when you said i was spending less money that you are not telling the truth. it is less than the percentage would be. but you're talking about federal program dollars. i take pride in the fact we have introduced obamacare better than any other state in the nation. and we started years before hand. and it cause federal dollars to come into the state and tom says we should compare. >> let me point out your down to 10 minutes now. -- you are down to 10 minutes now. >> we are talking about a lot of things. when you talk about education reform, it's all about doing a better job for children. to make better choices on behalf of the children, i'm for it. the governor apparently isn't. i do have an education policy and a plan that restoring pride and prosperity, maybe you haven't read it. i have a lot of initiatives for education reform that i think will make schools better and bette

grace kaldwood is from hartford county, maryland.s diagnosed with lymphoma. in spite of it all, when she discovered two young girls in her neighborhood were homeless, she decided them to give them her new back-to-school clothes. from there, she founded a charitable organization set about to bring happiness to homeless, sick and foster children. grace has a board of advisers made up of young people ages 7 to 18 who help her brainstorm and develop upcoming projects to provide help for kids in need. they donated more than 100 pounds of school supplies to orphanages in both kenya and in her community in maryland, collecting cash donations from her community for the sinai hospital's pediatric cancer clinics which took care of grace during her illness. and craft kids, pillowcases that young kids can decorate to cover their i.v. poles. grace is our foot soldier of the week. and to tell us more about what she is currently focused on, grace and her mother join us live from baltimore, maryland. good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >

newington last night for a couple of hours and welcomed welcome stripe burger, the director of the hartford regional office, as well as the district tofr of the va connected health care system to listen to our veterans, and not just about the delays, shared with the audience, very compellingly, his understanding that mr. veterans with vfw have received outstanding service, but that there is a lack of provitders, nurtss, doctors, staff, that have caused the delays and hindered veterans' access to care. i know that the veteran'sing session to care act to enable va to hire additional health care providers and clinical staff. but secretary mcdonald, you've identified the practical obstacles to meeting the needs and hiring more doctors and other professionals and that is one of the central challenges of our time. and i hope this committee will play a constructive role in that task and so many others that face you in this very challenging time, as well as rebuilding the facilitiefacilit infrastructure. as if the west haven hospital, where not just renovation, but rebuilding are necessary to repla

for a couple of hours, we welcomed william, the director of the hartford va regional office. the director of the va connected health care to listen to the veterans. not just about the delays, but the more fundamental gaps in care we have right now and we are all working hard. they had one example of kay robert lewis and the service office. the veterans shared with the audience. many veterans with the vfw received outstanding service and that there is a lack of providers and nurses and doctors. they have caused the delays and hindered veteran's access to care. i know the veteran's access to $5 billion to hire additional staff. meeting the needs and hiring more doctor and professionals. that is one of the central challenges and i hope they will play a constructively role with so many others that face you in this very challenging time. the infrastructures, the west haven hospital. not just renovation and rebuilding to replace. they cannot accommodate the most modern technology. the case for people in the fashion. i wanted to say i hope we will continue to be of a mind that the h

let me first start by sending my thanks to the hartfords for funding and to the aarp foundation. thank you. i also want to thank the folks we work with closely at the foundation. vivian and tyler who have been instrumental in helping marshall this through the process and have been certainly not funders but collaborators. they have helped put together a committee to shape the report and review drafts. i will not go through the process of naming them now but they are named on the website. their input was critical in terms of informing us and pointing us many the right direction. i would have to thank the joint center staff. a number of whom are here today. i won't call them out. i think the effort that goes into the report, our state of the nation report and the american housing report is phenomenal. i think we under estimated to some extent the amount of effort that goes into learning the issues that intersect with senior and older american housing. a special thank you to jennifer molinski, the manager of the project who is passionate about the issue and really put blood sweat and

hartford financial, i.c.e., amazon.com.out yesterday that amazon prime is going to be the -- the video is going to be finally streamed on android. the other big news out of amazon this week is its phone is going down to 99 cents. perhaps people are just -- >> that was monday, wasn't it? pre-emptively. >> the stock was down yesterday. >> on that news. that's kind of bombing. here's a stock that is way down. we're keeping a close eye on it today. radio shack falling again after an analyst lower t eered the pr target to zero, saying bankruptcy is likely. the company is reporting earnings tomorrow. this is not the first zero, right? what's the future of this company, david? >> i think you're seeing it right there. telegraph by the stock. usually when you get to 79 cents, not saying too much. but the question, of course, is do they enter bankruptcy? is it a reorganization? how many stores close? best buy is potentially a beneficiary, why that stock is up. >> all right. check out shares of twitter. doing well. the company got an

i had a town hall meeting last friday night for a couple hours and welcomed the director of the hartford va regional office as well as the director of the va connected health care system to listen to our veterans, and not just about the delays, but the more fundamental gaps in care that we have right now that we are all working hard to fill. just one example, k. robert lewis, a veteran service officer from the veterans of foreign wars, shared with the audience very compellingly his understanding that many veterans with the vfw has received outstanding service, but that there is a lack of providers, nurses, doctors, staff that have caused the delays and hindered veterans' access to care. i know that the veterans access to care act authorized $5 billion to enable the va to hire additional health care providers and clinical staff, but secretary mcdonald, you have identified the practical obstacles to meeting the needs and hiring more doctors and other professionals, and that is one of the central challenges of our time, and i hope that this committee will play a constructive role in that ta

"hartford cure rant. five connecticut hospitals could leave anthem's network on october 1." what about the people that go to those hospitals a this get their health care coverage that way? what are those people supposed to do? the president said, if you like your plan, you can keep yier plan. if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. if you like your hospital, you can keep your hospital. what about those people who may be losing their hospital come october 1? here's another side effect of the law that's hitting middle-class americans in their wallet. it is the part of the law that sates workweek is no longer 40 hours. now it's just 30 hours. that's what the law says. people who are working part-time, have had their hours cut to below 30 hours, and they are a getting lower take-home pavement i hear about this in wyoming, hair about it from school district workers, from folks who have had their hours cut, who are having to get by with less pay because if they have their hours cut, their take-home pay goes down. another side effect of this health care law. it's happeni

they follow trinity college and hartford which began doing that in 2012.n to use the men's room because it's discriminatory. there is sororities and there is fraternities. can't women stay where women go and men stay where men go? >> and in the case of the restroom, i would make the emergency argument. >> you could do that. >> i'm not sure if it holds weight for the fraternity. >> i love what dunkin doughnuts did. they just put a bathroom in. how do you feel about that? do you think weslayan university is on the right track forcing frats to take in women, or do you feel as though it's way overdue? >> i wonder what you think about that. >> frats invite women over just not to stay permanently. you make the call. tell me what your selective outrage is. >> let us know which of those particular stories bugs you the most, whether or not it's standing up, sitting down at the games, whether or not it's the dc council saying you got to get rid of the indian mascots at the schools, or that fraternities should now include their rosters. e-mail us or tweet us and you

new england on sunday, the strong storms come through your area, portland, boston, hartford, all the the storms will erupt and they could contain dangerous lightning and gusty winds. here's your weekend forecast. already we are watching that beautiful air heading into the northern plains today. unfortunately for the southeast, especially the beaches of east florida all the way up through georgia, south carolina and north carolina, not a good beach weekend. a lot of rain near the coast and even some waves. there's those storms in the east. and then finally on sunday, a lot of areas get some beautiful relief, starting to feel a little bit like fall out there. 82 in d.c. is more like it after a very hot, steamy week that continues this morning. we leave you with a shot of washington, d.c. you can feel that humidity creeping in. storms for you saturday night. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. i got this. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up the check? [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired. i hope he's saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters most to you

i hope to be in hartford in about four hours. >> we are going to have a blast. thank you so much. help out, please head to crowdrise.com/roker to donate to the uso. >> awesome, al. going to be a lot of fun. >> can't wait to see that. >>> up next, an eye opening look at t teens and prescription dru use. >>> 8:21 a we're backith more of our "secret lives of teens," how teenagers are abusing prescription drugs. many of them are taking the pills right out of their parents' medicine cabinets. specl anchor maria shriver spoke to a teen filmmaker who exposed the problem among his friends and he says it's happening everywhere. >> i'm 17 and i made this film to show parents what kids are really doing with prescription drugs. >> reporter: in his short film "out of reach," cyber stowe goes where no teen has gone before. >> i can go into my parents' bathroom and there are just rows and rows of pill bottles of pain meds. and that's where people get it from. >> reporter: in starting interviews with kids at his dallas high school, cyrus takes us inside this secret world of teens raiding their fa