when i finished my first book on the johnstown flood, the johnstown flood was a horrific, awful event that need never have happened. and i was questioned often what's your theme? i had no idea. it was only toward the end that i realized my theme and my theme was never assume it can be mistaken and perilous that because people are in positions of responsibility they're therefore behaving responsibly. can't assume that. [ applause ] the dam in the mountain that is broke need never have broken. if people had been carrying on their responsibility, none of it would have happened. 2,500 people died. that's as many as in new york at 9/11. >> 9/11. >> it was a worst disaster that ever hit the country. it need never to have happened. right after my book was published i was approached by two different publishers. one wanted know do the san francisco earthquake and the other wanted me to do the chicago fire. i was only 32 and i was already being typecast as bad news mccullough and i didn't like that. so i thought, why don't you try to find a subject that's a symbol of affirmation? and that's whe

we have another batch of moisture across western portions of pennsylvania slicing through johnstown, altoona, pittsburgh, looks like that will dive off to the southeast and go into washington and mitch rond. maybe over the next couple of hours we'll see showers with the once we get into 10:00 a.m. that will be gone. delaware, new jersey, the same area will be hit with this. we're seeing minor flooding at this point, smaller creeks and streams, some roads are starting to flood, as well. rainfall totals generally in the two to four inch range. some areas are seeing more. close to the atlantic city airport picked up 4 to 5 inches. future tracker 6, look at how nicely this pushes out to sea. we're seeing peeks of sunshine north and west. 2:00 p.m., same general idea north and west, clearing, south and east, damp and cooler, breezy, as well. 7:00 p.m. we're seeing peeks of sunshine south jersey and delaware. sunday looks very, very nice, low humidity levels, high temperatures struggling to get into the low 80s and nice gentle breeze. morning rain, clouds and peeks of sun, 75 degrees that'

across southeastern pennsylvania and another round across western pennsylvania, pittsburgh, altoona, johnstown heavy rain that will dive off to the southeast and steer clear of the delaware and the lehigh valleys. 10:00 a.m. we're seeing peeks of sun well north and west in the lehigh valley and the poconos. lots of clouds south and east, maybe leftover showers and patchy drizzle. 2:00 p.m., same thing, the general idea skies brighten up north and west, cloudy skies across south jersey and delaware. everybody will see the skies brighten up a little bit, even the jersey shore will see sun before sunset. sunday looks beautiful, wall-to-wall sunshine from start to finish. 9:00 a.m., hardly a cloud in the sky. low humidity temperatures in the low 80s. heavy rain gradually tapering off by mid morning. breezy and cooler, brighter skies north and west of high temperatures, delightful for this time of the year, 75 in philadelphia. allentown, 78. cape may, 75. dover, 74. the general idea is for gradual improvement each and every hour here, leftover rain by 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m., 72. cloudy skies by 4:00

line for to the centrist, roger in johnstown, pennsylvania. is r, do you think there passion among centrists right now to make what mort kondracke talking about can happen? caller: well, it depends on what you're meaning and definition of centrist is. what i think is happening here a group of opportunists trying to basically road heir middle of the position centrist when in eality you have to put in context of basically a corporate alogargy, that is not a center, that is on the right. a balance uld be between the public and private absolutely moment we do not have. we have it so shifted to the for the private domain, that is not anywhere center.e what we really need is a revolutionary center, which restore the balance and then would also reequalize some imbalance and this inequity and recenter that. host: got your point. guest: there was a book written "radical center," 10 or 12 years ago. the radical center is directed problems, of making class for prosperous, some of the policies conservative and some are liberal. seems to me that when you'r

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with my first book, the johnstown flood. and she was reading i think next to the last chapter of my book about theodore roosevelt. she suddenly stopped and said there's something wrong with that sentence. i said, well, read it again please. she read it again. i said no, there's nothing wrong with that sentence. she said yes, there is. i said, give me that. this is not one of my better moments. i read it aloud. see. she said no, there's something wrong with that sentence. i said, well, just go on. keep going. so the chapter was finished. the next chapter was finished. the book was finished. she sent to the publisher. it was published. it came out and was reviewed. and it got a very nice review in the new york review of books from gorvy dahl. but toward the end of the review, he said, sometimes, however, mr. mccollough does not write so well. listen to this sentence. [ laughter ] rosalie, where are you, sweetheart? please stand. stand up. [ applause ] i am -- i feel very strongly that education is one of the most important asp

these are rain amounts that our weather watchers are talking about, perkasie, johnstown we have a tenth of an inch. again north of the city not too bad. we have just shy of an inch of rain in northern delaware. those folks in southern delaware a couple inches for them. but john in philly saying just shy of .4 of an inch, lou in eagleville, he actually doesn't have a tenth of an inch of rain. cherry hill across town from a quarter to about a third of an inch, and lynn's house a quarter, jenny's house a third again, further south you go the more rain we're getting as we see at this point and outside right now here in philadelphia, while it is a little bit wet, it is not overly kind of heavy rainfall, that is coming down. this is from the library looking, logan circle here this morning in center city. you can see the sheen on the road. there is moisture out there, again, a few light showers, still pushing through the philadelphia area here this morning, and we are still going to watch for that across philadelphia and across much of the delaware valley as we go through morning hours with th