we talked about mark hatfield be, part of the hatfield school of government. hatfield was governor and then u.s. senator and he was a republican but very liberal. bob packwood was a liberal republican, u.s. senator. the most important politician in the state, the one that everyone talks about in the newspaper and always -- the newspapers and others say why aren't politics like they used to be back in the '70s was tom mccall. tom mccall was the governor of the state in the 1970s and probably what we might call sort of the golden era of oregon politics. it's when some of the most important progressive reforms were taking place, and mccall was at the forefront of that reform effort. and so routinely when people talked about oregon, oregonians talk about our political history, they talk about tom mccall. one of the interesting things about tom mccall is that while he was governor, he was republican, very moderate republican. the treasurer was a fellow by the name of bob straub who was a democrat. he was the leading democrat in the state for many years. he ran for

added to become an independent and a democrat and then to talk about hatfield part of the hatfield school of government and then governor then u.s. senator to be a republican but very liberal. and the one that the everybody talks about it with those politics back in the '70s and to be called the senator of oregon politics. en to give it the reform effort. so to talk about organ and political history and the interesting thing about tom mccall is and bob was the leading democrat for many years. and was the governor four times when -- reenforce times and then elected once. and then say that is a good idea we should do that. but just to match that in the republican turns around to say that is a good idea let's do that. but that is what looked like in the '70s and '80s. >> soul in the 1990's to be better more effectively so throughout the 1990's that day have to respond and he became very effective he turned the process into a business so innocence could make money without putting initiatives on the ballot so then you see one initiative after the other so he was the most important player. beca

mark hatfield served, but if mark hatfield heard about the cutbacks in antihunger programs, mark hatfield, a republican, would say no and so will the congresswoman and i. [applause] >> thank you. you want me to stand up? i am deborah. i live in northwest portland. thank you both for all you have been doing and for being here. senator wyden, i really appreciate your questioning of attorney general jeff sessions. thank you. [applause] and that brings me to my concern. health care is a huge issue, hunger is a huge issue. but i really worry about the country as a whole and the damage that is being done. trump has nominated someone who doesn't believe in public education in charge of public education, someone who thinks poverty is a state of mind running urban development and housing. the list goes on and on. the director of the office of government ethics resigned today. so, i am terrified about the damage that is going to be done from a macro level, not just a program, but to our way of life and also our standing in the world. rep. bonamici: thank you for here and sharing those concerns. i j

mark hatfield served, but if mark hatfield heard about the cutbacks in antihunger programs, mark hatfield, a republican, would say no and so will the congresswoman and i. [applause] >> thank you. you want me to stand up? i am deborah. i live in northwest portland. thank you both for all you have been doing and for being here. senator wyden, i really appreciate your questioning of attorney general jeff sessions. thank you. [applause] and that brings me to my concern. health care is a huge issue, hunger is a huge issue. but i really worry about the country as a whole and the damage that is being done. trump has nominated someone who doesn't believe in public education in charge of public education, someone who thinks poverty is a state of mind running urban development and housing. the list goes on and on. the director of the office of government ethics resigned today. so, i am terrified about the damage that is going to be done from a macro level, not just a program, but to our way of life and also our standing in the world. rep. bonamici: thank you for here and sharing those concerns. i j

prosecutors announced a homicide investigation into hatfield township. looking into the death of a 31-year-old man found on east orvilla road. officers made the discovery before midnight. police did not say how the victim died. his identity is being withheld pending the notification of his family. >>> now to developing news in cheltenham township an early-morning house fire has turned deadly. an elderly couple was found inside a home that quickly went up in flames. >> bob brooks is live in elkins park with the details. bob, a heartbreaking story here. >> reporter: nydia and gray so tragic the couple that passed away, they were both 98 years old, roy and helen finestone. their home caught fire this morning. the investigation is underway to see what happened, i can tell you that the roof collapsed and the couple was trapped inside. >>> by the time crews got to the scene of the 600 block of spring avenue it was too late, the roof collapsed. the couple inside wouldn't make it out. they passed away a husband an wife that almost lived 100 years old. the family

. >> police in montgomery county are investigating a homicide in hatfield township.happened last night on east orville road. officers were called to the home for a report of a shooting. there they found a 31-year-old man dead. investigators say the shooting was the result of a disturbance. the man that shot him remained on scene. no word if charges have been filed. >> new information about the fire that claimed the lives of a montgomery county couple that lived to be almost a hundred years old. we know that the blaze was caused by an electrical problem in the home. bob brooks is on the scene. >> by the time firefighters got there, it was too late. the roop collapsed and they couldn't make it out. they were a husband and wife, roy and helen finestone, 98 years old. >> the call came in at 4:45 this morning. fire detectors were inside the home but not sure if they were functional. >> please check your detectors to be sure they are operational t. >> a neighbor says it didn't take long before the flames started shooting out of the home. >> you could seal the intensity, th

hatfield is free on $25,000 bail. >>> a funeral services are set for a recent high school graduate who was shot during a road rage encounter. a service for bianca roberson will be held this morning. david desper shot her in the head on sunday. she graduated from high school and planning to attend jacksonville university in florida this fall. >>> the father of a 9-month-old girl is faces charges of child endangerment after the baby had to be treated for a drug overdose. the baby rolled over in her father's bed and stuck with a hypodermic needle. the needle was still stuck in the baby's leg when she was found unresponsive and rushed to the hospital. she had to be revived with narcan. >>> a teacher is charged with having sex with a student in 2015 and 2016. >>> comedian bill cosby will stand trial on november 6. his first high profile court battle on sexual assault charges ended in a mistrial. his attorney disliend -- declined to comment whether they would be involved in the retrial. cosby will be 80 years old. >>> we have rain out there this morning, what does the rest of the day hold. >

. >>> police are investigating a homicide in hatfield township. officers were called to east orvilla road when they got a call about a shooting. the person who shot the man did remain at the scene. there's no word on whether or not any charges have been filed. >>> happening today, kelly hodge will be sworn in as philadelphia's interim district attorney. hodge takes the oath at city hall at noon. she will be the city's first african-american woman to serve as d.a. hodge was assistant d.a. under lynn abraham in 2004. the court of common pleas elected her to finish the term of seth williams after his guilty plea and corruption conviction. voters will elect a permanent d.a. in november. >>> turning to accuweather, seriesous flooding issues you tell -- serious flooding issue 0 out there. >> reporter: it has been, we have flooding on roads and the creeks and screens. storm tracker 6 live double scan, obviously all the yellow toward the east right now. in philadelphia we're drying out behind the overnight rain. we did get 2 to 4 inches of rain across the

from hatfield toward buckingham and north hampton, that's where we're watching right now for this storm is headed. and we have had reports of trees snapped. so we are concerned about this particular storm. the tornado warning earlier has expired. . that did you want mean these can't produce a tornado. not a huge damaging one, but a spin up is possible. this is being warned on for damaging winds and hail. we have seen some of this very, very large hail. this is sort of the cross section. this is a scan, if. you drew a line through the middle, what you be looking at. we put these in the atmosphere. we're right around 50,000 feet. the cloud tops up. but that's where we're seeing moisture. what we're seeing with the darker of red, that would be the hail and heavy rain we're looking at. you can't make out if you'd have a tornado shaft. but they have strong enough updrafts to be pulling stuff into the atmosphere. so that's what we're looking at. huge rain producers and wind producers. we're going to watch these moving off to the east. here's a good look at the entire system in motion. you can

and former obama regional director robin tackled both the health care showdown and the real life hatfield and mccoys white house edition. and did anybody notice what putin did this morning? the white house leader booting we overwhelmingly voting for new sanctions. hedge fund guru bill has tangled in a bloody way with vladimir putin. the ceo helped put the last nail in the coffin as he testified on capitol hill about russia's deadly ways yesterday. he is with us live just as the bill has been delivered to the white house. we'll ask. will president trump sign it? and the house, not waiting for health care anymore as it moves on to tax reform. freedom caucus mark sanford on about a trillion reasons tax reform is far from a slam dunk. on wall street, look at this. we do have markets at a shot of closing at record highs, even as tobacco stocks get smoked by a new clamp down on cigarettes. we're less than an hour to the closing bell on this friday. let's start the countdown. ♪ ♪ we do get confetti, fireworks, or a big fat nothing. well, it depends on which index you're talking about. right now,

. >>> police in montgomery county are investigating a homicide in hatfield township. it happened last night just before midnight on east orovillea road, officers were called to the home for a report of the shooting, and they found a about 31 year-old man dead. investigators say shooting was a result of the disturbance and person who shot him remained at the scene. but there is no word on whether any charges have been filed. >>> also, in montgomery county , a tragic end for a couple who lived to be almost 100 years old. they died this morning when fire broke out in their elkins park home. "action news" reporter bob brooks, has the details from this scene. report report by the time crew s got to the scene in the 600 block of spring avenue it was just too late. roof had collapsed, couple inside, would not make it out. they passed away and now we have learn that they are a husband and wife who almost lived to be 100 years old, the family confirms the victims are roy and helen finestone, both 98 years old. fire officials say that the call to findstone home came in at 4:45

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. >> hatfield, montgomery count county, authorities are investigating a shooting that killed a 31-year-old man. the guy that pulled the triger is actually the one that called 911. he waited at the scene until police got there before midnight on the 2400 block of east orvia road. some kind of disturbance broke out before the shooting and the details are sketchy. no word on any charges as of yet. >> happening now it's another twist in what seems to be a never ending saga when it comes to trump administration and ties to russia. another chapter will be added soon to the probe into possible russian ties when the president's son and former campaign manager go in front ever the senate judiciary committee. fax news garrett steny tells us what to expect. >> senate judiciary committee says there's no need to surprise paul manafort and president trump jr. because they agreed to be interviewed behind closed doors. that was scheduled for wednesday. with ongoing negotiations it's highly inlukely it will happen then week. however president trump son-in-law and advisor jared kushner is scheduled to testi

include allentown west north and east norton emmaus quick your town perkasie bedminster chalfont hatfield greenville dublin still valley green lane pleasant valley and freaks remain alert for a possible tornado tornadoes can develop quickly from severe thunderstorms if you spot a tornado go at once into the basement or small central room in a sturdy structure for your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building in addition to large hail and damaging winds frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm moved indoors immediately remember if you can hear thunder you are close enough to be struck by lightning repeating a severe thunderstorm warning has been issued until seven thirty pm for the following counties in pennsylvania burke's books in montgomery. unanswered and i think that's hopeful going forward i who enclosed by the fact that the trumpet administration didn't cut the budget for nasa well there were some there was some weirdness in there yes the net the budget was not cut we were delighted to hear that he's a fan of space but there was ta

environments when the law is not providing justice, that people take the law in their own hands, the hatfields. how do you interrupt that. >> i've heard it time and time again where they said i'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by six. when people are getting killed, people feel the sense that they need to protect themselves. what happens when your brother, sister, someone in your family were killed, the police aren't there, you go defend yourself. we tend to judge people without respect to their circumstances. they're out there in the community every single day as outreach workers trying to empower people in their community about their rights. they have changed from years' past. they would be the first to tell you might not recognize them from back then to today. when we don't recognize that how can we help them empower themselves to help their communities. that's missed all of this. the chain of causation, the flow of illegal guns, the lack of true criminal justice. police aren't getting held accountable for shooting people in the communitie and the cycle continues on and on. >> the acco

a crash along 70 eastbound approaching hatfield is jamming us up and bellmawr a crash at the black horse pike to 295. that ramp is shut down at this hour. we'll check it again if the next half hour. >>> more ahead on "action news" at 5:00. chaos at the white house the newest reports of who is in and who is out as infighting in president trump's inner circle goes public. >>> and the successful transplant chain that doctors celebrated if a big way today. >> and jeff skversky live at the nova care complex with a big day at eagles training camp. >> hi guys, the eagles believe they could be one of the best offenses in the nfl that is good news, we'll hear from carson wentz and their top target alshon jeffrey coming up in sports. >>> health check tonight a new debate for antibiotics, whether you need to finish the doses when you feel better. ali gorman is at the big board to explain. >> reporter: as a nurse i told you have you to finish the whole course that is prescribed the thinking if you don't bacteria would be left behind or come back and be worse and now experts say there is not a lot of

mark has skilled was part of the government, a governor and then or mark hatfield was a govern and then a senator, very liberal. bob packwood was a senator. the most important politician in the state, the one everybody ,alks about in the newspaper was tom mccall, the governor of the state in the 1970's. we might call that the golden era of oregon politics. it's when some of the most important progressive reforms are taking place, and mccall was at the forefront of that reform effort. routinely, when people talk about oregon, they talk about tom mccall. of the interesting things about, call is that while he was governor, he was a republican, a .ery moderate republican a fellow by the name of bob democrats the leading in the state for many years. he ran for governor four times and was elected once. he would often make a suggestion of something the state ought to say,nd the mccall would that's a good idea, we should do that. you can just imagine in the world today, a democrat saying we should do something and republican saying that's a good idea, we should do that. it's almost unimaginable

nobody was injured. 6:06 a.m., police in montgomery county are investigating a homicide in hatfield township. officers were called to east orvilla road for report of a shooting. they found a 31-year-old man dead. investigators say the shootings was the result of a disburses and the person who shot him remained at the scene. there's no word on whether or not any charges have been filed. >>> and philadelphia police are searching for the driver who hit and killed a man on the schuylkill expressway saturday night. the man was hit on the montgomery drive exit lane. the victim has been identified as 30-year-old sean patrick granger whose last known address was in berks county. he was pronounced at the scene. the police are looking for a dark colored nissan with damage to the front passenger side. >> happening today, kelly hodge will be sworn in as philadelphia's interim district attorney. hodge takes the oath at city hall at noon. she become the city's first african-american woman to serve as d.a. hodge was assistant d.a. under lynn abraham in 2004. court of common pleas elected her to finish the

police air waiting autopsy results of the victim of the deadly shooting in hatfield montgomery county late saturday night. the guy who pulled the trigger is one who called 911. he waited at the scene until police got there on the 2400 block of east oroville a road, police say some kind of disturbance broke out before the shooting. in word on any charges just yet. >>> todays is sentencing day for a man quick of shooting a police officer in west philadelphia william novland in april, william was, found guilty in the shooting of philadelphia police officer daniel costik. it happened during a traffic stop at 50th and master in april 2015, officer costik was able to return fire. the suspect could face as long as 40 years in prison. >>> how about this story out of san antonio, texas. nine people are now dead in a sweltering truck. temperatures in the truck reached 150 degrees, officials calling it a case of human trafficking. >>> plus a robbery at star bucks turns violent but not suspect who delivers the blows , see who steps into stop this would be robber. >>> we're riding the storm out wi

this one in hatfield township. a viewer shot this video. working to emore details on what happened here. you can tap the app and stay with us on-air for updates. >> this warning sign comes from the family of a philadelphia woman who was killed by a neighbor in a double shooting. her loved ones are calling for that neighbor to face charges. lauren mayk is live at philadelphia police headquarters just hours after the victim's family held an emotional vigil. what can you tell us? >> it's now been one week since that shooting. no charges have been filed. and the family of one of the shooting victims speaking out now about what they want to see, and taking their case directly to the district attorney's office. last night, loved ones and friends held a vigil at the spot where august dempsey and her boyfriend were killed in frankfurt last weekend. a sign on the porch of their home reads warning, the murder of bob and aug is still free. a relative made this emotional plea to authorities. >> this is a communal walkway for that neighbor and that neig

. >>> lets go tout hatfield, montgomery county police are investigating a shooting that killed a 31 year-old man. >> here's what police say happened, there was a person who pulled the trigger who actually called 911 as well and waited until police got there and it all happened before might night on the 2400 block of east oroville a road, there was a disturbance, shooting, we don't know yet about charges. >>> also coming up on 5:20 investigators are trying to figure out what start aid fire that killed a couple married, they were a hundred years old, nearly. >> great grandparents and beloved in their community. >> so, our jenny joyce has spoken with the heart broken neighbors in elkins park. >> reporter: roy and helen finestein, 98 year-old of elkins park married 70 plus years, parents, grandparents, great grandparents, two long lives that ended tragically this morning. >> we didn't expect anything like this. i mean this is pretty much big time. >> reporter: neighbors were caught off guard when fire engines stormed the 600 block of spring avenue just after 4:30 a.m. >> it sounded like a firepl

intelligencer montgomery county man told federal he stole 40 million-dollar in bit coins, theodore price of hatfields self described computer hacker and this one could be the largest virtual currency heist of all time. that is a lot newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >>> well, happiest place on earth has new fleet of cars for visitors who want to ride in fashion, disney world in orlando introduced these new polka dot rides called minivan s named after mini mouse. gets can book one using their smart phones and then disney character will take them to anywhere in the resort. >>> all right. >>> coming up next half an hour of "eyewitness news" how to save money on health insurance. >>> plus he is known as a fighter and now senator john mccain is in the bolt of his life, we will have more on the cancer he is fighting and how washington is reacting. >>> here in philadelphia a woman steals a taxi cab overnight and then picks up a passenger, we will have more, meisha. >>> we are looking outside nice dry red ways budd we have a couple disable vehicles, bridge inspections and construction as

. >>> over in hatfield, montgomery county police are investigating a shooting that killed a 31 year-old man. >> police say person who pulled trigger is actually the one who called 911, he waited at the scene until police got there just before midnight, there is the scene the the 2400 block of east oroville a road there, was a disturn answer that broke out before the shoot bug no word on what the charges may be. >>> time 20:00. three people dead after a shooting near erie, pennsylvania. violence broke out yesterday morning. authorities say they are not searching for any suspects, at this time, and they are also not releasing any information about the people who died, or the relationship between them. >>> 4:20. how about this one a purple heart on a long journey home. >> road to get there, it was a long one after decade of searching, how it was finally return to the solder's family. >>> good morning i'm sean bell football's back, training camp starts today for eagles. rookies, quarterbacks will be in cam top get to hear from carson wentz this is afternoon phillies and brewers howie kendri

right now, i think about, it's just under 50% of our patients, >> my name is vicki hatfield, i'm a certified family nurse practitioner and a certified diabetes educator. once we started seeing more patients qualify for medicaid, they were able to come in and we were able to start getting them caught up on their preventive screenings and health promotion activities, and just be able to treat their chronic illnesses that had been neglected. the increase funds for medicaid services brought more revenue into the clinic, so that allowed us to hire more people here. it also allowed us to do some other things in the community to promote healthy living. >> we have a farmers' market every saturday. >> we also had a community gardens start. we see more people growing their own vegetables. >> and then we have a community 5k almost every month. >> now as we watch what's happening with possible repeal or replacement of the affordable care act, it's very concerning. i know patients are concerned, particularly patients who had chronic diseases. >> i've got a head injury, i've got a sleeping disorder, i've

also in hatfield township. check in with the schuylkill here.ere on the westbound side from the vine to the blue route. 24 minutes. >>> new jersey's pineland commission will hold a public hearing in tom's river. disputed pipeline project. previous disputes brought out crowds like this. stop the gas pipeline being built through the pipeline. >>> workers back out this morning to fix a water main that pro broke on penway street in philadelphia. closed the road and left 45 customers without water. >>> musical wicked opening tonight. yesterday we got a look behind the scenes at what it takes to set up the show. production runs through the end of august. n nch. >>> we'll have another update coming up in 25 minutes. meanwhile, join us every morning from 4:30 to 7:00 a.m. vai sikahema. today show continues in just a couple of minutes. see you at the bottom of the hour. >>> it's 8:00 on "today." coming up, breaking overnight, health care setback. the senate rejecting the latest effort to repeal and replace obamacare. just hours after john mccain returns

the gop for lack of a better description is essentially the hatfields and the mccoys. they may wear the same jersey, but these -- there's so many factions inside washington within the gop. it does make it difficult to sort of coalesce and get major items over the finish line. you saw the house getting its repeal effort. that was herculean, the task. it will not be easy 18 months as we look forward to the mid-terms. if nothing else, they know what their marching orders are now and they have a president willing to pull trigger on change if that's what it takes. i've been telling my colleagues here, president trump reminds me a bit of george steinbrenner. if you're a baseball fan from the 70s. you remember all the times that he fired billy martin and brought him back, this is the kind of leadership. he's welling to make change for change's sake and sometimes has an impact. >> i hope he doesn't try to sign jesse barfield. >> well-done. >> i have to ask you one more question. i know you said that was the last thing. don't give me the silent treatment. i can't read much from

. >> breaking right now a montgomery county prosecutor has announced a homicide investigation in hatfieldownship. they are looking into the death of a 31-year-old man found inside a home on the 2400 block of east orvilla road. someone called 911 and officers made the discovery before midnight. police have not said how the man died. his identity is being when he would pending the identification of -- withheld pending the notification to his family him we'll bring you more information as we get it. >> developing news coming in from can antonio, texas a horror story involving the trafficking of undocumented immigrants. they found an oven hot tractor-trailer with 8 people dead two were children. >> we got a call from an employee who was approached by someone from the truck who was asking for water. he called police, we arrived on the scene and found 8 people dead in the back of that trailer. >> 20 others are in extremely critical condition or very serious condition. 8 others had non-life threatening injuries. yesterday's afternoon temperature in san antonio hit 101. police arrested the truck

. >> reporter: i mean, was this like the hatfields and the mccoys? what happened?there was no communication, no associations with them, you know. that -- that was basically it. that they became estranged. >> reporter: which made it difficult for tina, who was still married to sam's older brother, armando. case, but the fact was, they had no solid leads. they weren't even close to arresting anyone. but then two years after cathy torrez was murdered, an unexpected meeting put this investigation in the fast lane. an explorer scout with a familiar last name inspires a renewed search for a killer. >> that is a weird convince coincidence. >> we don't believe in coincidences. ♪ (woman) one year ago today mom started searching for her words. and my brother ray and i started searching for answers. (vo) when it's time to navigate in-home care, follow that bright star. because brightstar care earns the same accreditation as the best hospitals. and brightstar care means an rn will customize a plan that evolves with mom's changing needs. (woman) because dad made us promise we'd