particular recording i want to play for you is called "when you and i were young, maggie", by john mccormick this is a victrola nine. ♪ ♪ >> you can close the doors to modi modify the sound for the horn here, and also you can close the lid and have the same effect. and i'll re-open the lid, re-open my doors, and you have, of course, extra volume again. ♪ >> and it was also very important to johnson to bring this new available machine to the masses. he really was very much wanting to make sure that music was, was heard by anybody who would like to hear it. so in the ensuing years, he did manufacture machines that were talking machines that were very well priced, so to speak, meaning most people could afford them. >> the machine i'd like to show you now, now that we've seen the other two, was referred to at credenza, and it was produced between 1925 and 1928. and what makes this machine so very special was the fact that in 1925, the victor company had a big promotion, referred to as victor day, and on that day, customers were invited to go to the local victor stores and buy the very first, wha

department of agriculture and service.forest 50 years ago, speaker of the thee john mccormick began tradition of the capitol christmas tree to celebrate the season and share a little holiday spirit. capitol christmas tree, which annually hails from one of forests, is a good reminder to all of us of the conserving our forests and our national resources. the tree is also an example of american can-do spirit. each year, hundreds of contribute thousands of hours to help transport to our national of capitol.o the this year's tree comes from the chippewa national forest, established by theodore roosevelt as the first national mississippi.f the the forest is at the headwaters of the river. ofcontains 400,000 acres wetlands and lakes and provides sandhill cranes and the largest breeding population in the lower 48. the forest has also been home to native americans for thousands years and contains outstanding cultural resources. that makes today's celebration because theportant, lake band of ojibwe has played a partnering with the forest service to bring the tree here. indeed, i'm told there are member

joining us our political panel abc political director rick klein the national journal's josh and john mccormick, rick, how much would you have liked to have been the fly on the road at that mcconnell obama meeting? >> maybe they should have had bourbon maybe it would have helped things. michigan mcconnell is on to something about the president's tone. not left, right but the president leaning forward in the face of a pretty bad defeat a month ago. yes, is he a liberal and obviously pushing things to the left and his policies as you would expect. mostly it's the aggressiveness of his actions in standing up against the tax bill and moving forward on immigration despite the election results. the signal from him has been they are going to need something stronger than bourbon to get something done. >> interesting he just got a she lacking the democratic party did. you would think the president would want to negotiate. instead he does this move where he does executive action which enraged the republicans. like after he won the election inauguration in 2008 he said to republicans i won. he has this at

. >> joining us our political panel "weekly standard" john mccormick and byron york. byron, do you think she meant by that? >> i don't know. it doesn't make any sense to me when you think about our actual enemies. when you take isis, for example, we should study isis. we should analyze it and try to understand them so we can more effectively destroy them. but elm if empathize with them t doesn't make a lot of sense. also, you have to remember mrs. clinton has been somewhat hawkish when she was secretary of defense. remember muammar gaddafi came we saw he died. pretty happy about that. >> maybe it was a very poor choice of words, empathy. maybe what she meant i'm trying to think like what in the world could she mean is that it has really helped to really know your enemy because then you know the enemy strategy and then you can beat the strategy i think hillary clinton had a poor choice of words. beyond that she is going to have more of a problem distancing herself from the obama administration when she runs for president because she did serve as a chief architect for s

forest service. 50 years ago, speaker of the house john mccormick began the tradition of the capitolas tree, which annually hails from one of our national forests, is a good reminder to all of us of the importance of conserving our forests and our national resources. the tree is also an example of the american can-do spirit. each year, hundreds of volunteers contribute thousands of hours to help transport to tree from one of our national forests to the capitol. this year's tree comes from the chippewa national forest, established by theodore roosevelt as the first national forest east of the mississippi. the forest is at the headwaters of the river. it contains 400,000 acres of wetlands and lakes and provides habitat for sandhill cranes and the largest breeding population of bald eagles in the lower 48. the forest has also been home to native americans for thousands of years and contains outstanding cultural resources. that makes today's celebration even more important, because the lake band of ojibwe has played a critical role in partnering with the forest service to bring the tree

john the baptist church. reporting live from manayunk. annie mccormick, "channel 6 action news." >> jim. >> philadelphia police arrested a suspect in murder of wayne ellington senior never 9 in germantown. ellington the father of los angeles lakeers basketball player wayne ellington junior was found shot to death in a car. in custody tonight is carl white police describe him as career criminal. >> surveillance shows gunman open being fire last week. police are releasing this video tonight in hopes of identifying the shooter. in this first incident on november 25 the man fired shots through the window fortunately nobody was hit. but he came back the next day opened the door to all star studio and wounded four them barrage of bullets. one was wounded critically. >> 110 years behind bars that's sentence foreman convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl and killing her 6-year-old brother. rivera broke into the victim's camden home 2012 while the children were asleep. he raped and slashed amber anduhar who we're identifying tonight at family's request. when ambe

john the baptist church in manyunk. for now live in manayunk annie mccormick for "action news" at 10 on phl17. >> any. thank you. >> there is now arrest in murder of wayne ellington senior father of la lakeer from philadelphia who shares his name. carl white is suspected of shooting ellington in the head as he sat in the car in 5200 block of merion street in allentown. he was high on pcp at the time. court records revealed that white has served time for drugs, weapons, attempted murder and other crimes dating back to 1998. they're investigating now whether he may be involved in other shootings. >>> clouds arrived and the rain is taking its time to get here. meteorologist cecily tynan is live at the big board with the accuweather details, hey, ces. >> no rush with the rain. we finally got a dry day today after two days of dreary weather. satellite 6 and action radar showing the clouds moved in quickly. you'll notice north of philadelphia they are thinning out dramatically and this is really having a big impact on temperatures. where you get the clouds it insulates the earth and traps in heat of the ear