and there is nothing wrong with joseph biden as a potential candidate. i will get off the air and listen to your response. good: yeah, sure, another point. it is traditionally the launching pad to the presidency. i just really think in 2008 there was this choice for democrats. .illary clinton or barack obama and there's a sense among democrats that they want to see -- glasss tubing ceiling shattered. they want to see a woman elected. that is a problem for biden, and that is what is propelling hillary clinton forward. ,ost: we will go to new york kyle, democratic caller. caller: good morning. -- you know,ffled as one of the left of the left, i'm baffled by the fact that we seem to be sidestepping the idea that we have less opportunity with obama having slipped through our fingers, how we did not energize the left that much and we let the right walk all over us. and now we are going to read rally with new energy to elect the next president that will save the world. host: do you doubt that can happen? have this energy for another democratic candidate? think

and there is nothing wrong with joseph biden as a potential candidate. i will get off the air and listen to your response. good: yeah, sure, another point. it is traditionally the launching pad to the presidency. i just really think in 2008 there was this choice for democrats. .illary clinton or barack obama and there's a sense among democrats that they want to see -- glasss tubing ceiling shattered. they want to see a woman elected. that is a problem for biden, and that is what is propelling hillary clinton forward. ,ost: we will go to new york kyle, democratic caller. caller: good morning. -- you know,ffled as one of the left of the left, i'm baffled by the fact that we seem to be sidestepping the idea that we have less opportunity with obama having slipped through our fingers, how we did not energize the left that much and we let the right walk all over us. and now we are going to read rally with new energy to elect the next president that will save the world. host: do you doubt that can happen? have this energy for another democratic candidate? think

and there is nothing wrong with joseph biden as a potential candidate.will get off the air and listen to your response. good: yeah, sure, another point. it is traditionally the launching pad to the presidency. i just really think in 2008 there was this choice for democrats. .illary clinton or barack obama and there's a sense among democrats that they want to see -- glasss tubing ceiling shattered. they want to see a woman elected. that is a problem for biden, and that is what is propelling hillary clinton forward. ,ost: we will go to new york kyle, democratic caller. caller: good morning. -- you know,ffled as one of the left of the left, i'm baffled by the fact that we seem to be sidestepping the idea that we have less opportunity with obama having slipped through our fingers, how we did not energize the left that much and we let the right walk all over us. and now we are going to read rally with new energy to elect the next president that will save the world. host: do you doubt that can happen? have this energy for another democratic candidate? think th

. >> ladies and gentlemen, the vice president of the united states, the honorable joseph r. biden >> mr. president, congratulations. and with your permission, i'll forego the barbra streisand serenade. but what i have to say is equally as much in the heart as her most melodic tunes. i heard a story, one us raisrae speaking to the other and the first one says, shimon peres only has three or four weeks left to go in his presidency. and the response was -- yes. but they are peres weeks. those weeks have gone on for long, long time, mr. president. you are absolutely relentless as everyone has pointed out, you've been minister, prime minister, you've occupied every office there is to occupy. in israel and i would argue, around the world, i've been so, so many conferences in other parts of the world with president peres that you're a force of nature, mr. president. you're a force of nature. every once in a while, a people produce someone who is beyond their office. a force of nature. i've watched you in switzerland, in germany, in england. i've watched you in the middle east. so many pl

there accomplishment and was the joseph biden railroad station. amtrak was able to accomplish this without any disruption to operations, including ticketting and reservation systems, training schedule and we expect amtrak will carry this renaming in the same manner. again, i want to congratulate and thank congressman fattah for honoring the legend of bill gray's strong leadership and steadfast support of amtrak. i urge my colleagues to support this bill and i reserve the balance. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. mr. shuster: our side has no more speakers. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from florida is recognized. >> i yield to congressman fattah. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. fattah: i thank the gentlelady and the chairman of the transportation and infrastructure committee. we had as an appropriator, we were going to proceed in an appropriations bill with this naming, but after consulting with the chairman, he felt that it was important that we pr

biden followed by the parade at 11:00 p.m. tonight rick williams, cesily tynan, adam joseph and karen rogers will bring you the 4th of july jamold me off by fireworks on the benjamin franklin parkway. >> reporter: the shore is iffy, can't rule out something creeping up into philadelphia this morning, the afternoon looks better. storm tracker 6 live double scan right now shows you two things, first of all we have that relatively speaking lighter shower activity to the northwest, but there's heavy rain bands coming in off the coast up through lewis, delaware, seaford and rehoboth beach getting this. and cape may picking up this, as well. not picking you mean lightening, i wouldn't be surprised to see lightning pop up, as well. that's a rain band from arthur. as we go out wider we have that cold front rain, kind of missing allentown, but reading getting that. the big issue is the band coming in from the south, because that's heavier rain. we as we look outside sky 6 while there are patches where the sky is looking bright, generally speaking a fair amount of clouds cover, things get better this afternoon. 73 degrees right now, it

the freedom ceremony attended by vice president joe biden and followed by the parade from 11:00 p.m. to 12 and rick williams, cesily tynan, adam joseph and karen rogers will bring you the wawa welcome america jam followed by fireworks. >> reporter: storm tracker 6 live double scan shows you most of the rain is in the northern and western suburbs, as we go into that two-dimensional view there's a little bit of showers pushing up the i-95 corridor. that's pushing through chester county and new castle county, the steadiest rain in berks county and lancaster county and allentown you're getting caught with a little bit of this same thing in bethlehem and easton. no lightning, but this is an early rain band we're expecting from arthur. looks like one is forming off the coast, but right now it's scattered stuff down there. we have cloudy skies the sun trying to break through some of the early cloud cover, that hams even when you have the deck of clouds over philadelphia. warm and muggy out there, dewpoint, 67. it's on the humid side. winds north/northwest at 10 miles per hour. overall it will be a breezy day. between 9 colorado -- 9:00, mat