good morning, jeannette.o thank you earlier for the weather here in new york. >> thank you, alex. it is going to be an absolutely gorgeous day across much of the northeast in the wake of arthur. many folks will be head to get beaches across the mid atlantic. although arthur is off to the northeast, be careful. a significant storm surge across sections of coastal new england. here is arthur continuing to push off to the northeast. notice it is still bringing rainfall across coastal sections of new england. farther south and west, high pressure is building in from the west bringing dryer and more tranquil conditions. it's going to warm up nicely throughout the course of the afternoon across much of the mid atlantic. center of atlantic, 60 miles or so packing maximum sustained winds of 70 miles per hour. as it continues to push off to the northeast, it's going to be reaching for colder waters of the north atlantic. it may be a post tropical system later today. again, rainfall still coming down across sections of

both are driving jeannette tejada gomez crazy.she reported the roller coaster ride on 39th street on ddot in april. >> in a few days the pothole was fixed, but there was a greater problem looking at the section. it was a strip of potholes. while part of it was fixed, the rest are not. >> reporter: around the corner on idaho avenue jeannette hadn't yet reported this pipetted water filled patch, worthy of the nick -- pitted water filled ditch, worthy of the nickname crater. meet pothole no. 4 in front of this temple his, maryland business. >> we've been attempting to get someone out here to cure the problem since early spring back in march. >> reporter: what's happened? >> we haven't gotten any response at this point. >> reporter: this is a job for prince george's county. we reported it. county officials say they try to make fixes within 24 to 72 hours. okay. time to check back on the d.c. potholes. drumroll, please. this is what pothole no. 1 on eastern avenue in northwest d.c. near the silver spring border looks like now and it wa

>> all right, jeannette.nk you, my dear, much appreciated. >>> coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," what could be the first good defense of the irs after that targeting scandal. how "the new york times" is pointing the finger back at the gop. and when we come back here, we're going to huddle around the water cooler with a presidential love affair detailed in writing. yeah, it's not what you think. let's just say this all happened long before there were even such things as twitter or sexting. but we've got the love letters to prove it, and it's going to be so much better than hashtags. i don't know how you hashtag some of the words that he used. we'll be back after this. each year, 95% of homeowners won't have a claim. that's why allstate claim free rewards gives you money back for every year you don't have one. and why if you're part of the other 5%, allstate offers claim rateguard. so your rates won't go up just because of a claim. no matter what comes your way, your home protects you. ...prote

. >> reporter: this is what it looked like when jeannette tejada gomez who works at aaa mid-atlantic's nearby headquarters filed a service request with ddot in early june. >> within a few days ddot painted orange xs, placed more cones and signs, but it's been over a month. >> reporter: today those cones sit on the side leaving this hole exposed to walkers. >> that's what lawyers call a tort waiting to happen. >> reporter: ddot says this is actually a vault used for deliveries to this building. problem is the building is vacant, so ddot needs to figure out who owns it so they can pay for the repairs to the vault. it could take up to 90 days. debra alfarone, wusa9. >> ddot also told debra they do not believe the vault is an imminent danger or about to collapse, but they'll check on it every so often to make sure the cones are in place while they locate the building's owner. got a road or safety problem? head over to tellwusa9.com. fill out the form. we'll get on it. >>> a consumer alert tonight for bmw owners, the automaker recalling 1.5 million of the 3 series vehicles because of air ba

. >> reporter: this is what it looked like when jeannette tejada gomez who happens to work at aaa mid-atlantic nearby headquarters filed a service request with ddot in early june. >> ddot came out in a few days and painted orange xs and placed more signs and cones on it. nothing else has occurred. >> reporter: today those cones sit on the side leaving this hole exposed to walk ers. we asked people at the intersection of 4 tonight and g streets northwest what they thought. >> -- 14th and g streets northwest what they thought. >> that is very unsafe. >> reporter: we called ddot to see when it would be xefid because people seem worried. >> looks like it could collapse any moment. >> reporter: ddot says this is a vault used for deliveries to this building. problem is the building is vacant. so ddot needs to figure out who owns it to pay for the repairs for that vault. it too kay up to 90 days. debra alfarone, wusa9. >> ddot told debra they tonight think the vault is in imminent danger of collapsing and will check it periodically to make sure the cones are in place while they locate the owner of th

. >> reporter: around the corner on idaho avenue jeannette hadn't reported this pitted water filled patch so treacherous it's worthy of the nickname jaws, so we did. the district promises to fill holes within three days. will they? hold on. first meet pothole no. 4. it's greeting clients in front of claude morrell's reality business. >> we've been attempting to get someone out here to cure the problem since back in march, early spring. >> reporter: what's happened? >> well, what has happened is we haven't gotten any response at this point. >> reporter: this is a job for prince george's county. we reported it. county officials say they try to make fixes within 24 to 72 hours. okay. time to check back on those potholes in d.c. drumroll, please. this is what pothole no. 1 on eastern avenue in northeast d.c. near the silver spring border looks like now and it was done even quicker than ddot's promised fix time of three days. pothole two is a series of pits on 39th street in northwest d.c. and when we got there, they were patched, but the ride is still a rough one with dips and bumps. around t

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products for that rare disease on the market because they have the patients ready, they have the jeannettees, investigators are trained, everybody is ready to go. that is one thing. another thing you may not be interested in but i am interested and i will bring in a because it has to do with jobs, drug manufacturing is a lot of innovation in drug manufacturing, have a big meeting in a few weeks about this. so right now we have drug shortages that are affecting hospitals across the country. we by many drugs from other countries and if something would happen we wouldn't be able to get those drugs anymore. jeter hostility, natural disaster, whatever comments and thirdly, that is another thing that is faced by developers. they have to scale up their manufacturing. it is very much like the chemicals trial system, very outdated, very cumbersome. there is now the technology available to do these continuous manufacturing and make things in the united states, they wouldn't have to be all over the place. it is environmentally friendly and it is the wave of the future the way drugs should be made, wh

seeing wind gusts, kate, take a look behind me, and can you see the waves have been crashing into jeannette's like this all morning long even as arthur moves away and up above the pier the turbines, the wind turbines that provide a lot of electricity for the pier, they have really been going all morning as well. we still have been seeing people come out here, as we have since early this morning. people have been coming out to check it out. more people are along the beach here as the day has -- daylight has come over nags head. more people want to come out and check it out here, but this is not an area that was under an evac aidation order so a lot of people stayed here and a lot of people had rentals for the fourth of july. they boarded up homes and got their bottled water and decided to ride it out. >> that's exactly right. many of the curfews they have lifted. folks will start coming out. we were talking to a county official earlier, they were just about to send out their own crews to give us a sense of where the damage and trouble spots are. talking to folks out of their homes, have they t

what was the jeannette expedition? i did a shift here because as a historian and as an american and someone who fancies himself as a bit of an aficionado of expiration narratives i came out of the background of working for outside magazine for years and years i thought i never heard of this thing the jeannette expedition. it's completely obscure today and along the commander i think if he think if you pulled one of the people you might get one person who has heard of him. historians are constantly looking for the stories that were consequential in their time but are kind of exterior and this fit perfectly. >> host: who is george washington to long? >> guest: george washington delong was the commander of the uss jeannette. he was very ambitious and made a name for himself with an earlier exploration into greenland. he had been able to convince the "playboy" publisher of the "new york herald tribune," excuse me the new york herald who leaders become "herald tribune" to fund this expedition. james gordon bennett the publi