campbell is a kentucky installation. in 1948, after more than a decade as either senate majority minority leader, they elected barkley to be truman's vice presidential running mate. two months after barkley took oath of office as the 35th ice president of the united states. now some of you may have heard term veep, especially hbo tly due to the hit with the same name. interestingly, barkley was the first recipient of this nickname creation of ed the it to his grandson as the story barkley's grandson thought the official title, the with vi president, was too much of a tongue twister and said, grandpa andtands for vice president why not stick in a couple of e's and call it veep. used as the nickname for vice president ever since. despite the title change from to vice president or veep, barkley remained close to senate.oved he was in fact the last vice president to spend most of his presiding up in the senate. ven as vice president, barkley's humor never left him. once while barkley was presiding the senate, tennessee mckel

this is known all over kentucky. this is what i did.n 1977, february the 18th, i was sent here to this prison because the other prison system couldn't control me. >> another inmate with a notorious past is fleece johnson. released after 31 years at ksp, he returned in 2003 on parole violations. >> they had a lot of gangs in here. there was random stabbings and killings, and there was violence in here unheard of. but that was right up my alley, you know. >> fleece johnson held probably the reputation of being the most violent inmate in the state. he has been known to tear sinks off the wall, toilets from the floor. you name it, he's probably torn it up. >> the prison locks up inmates like fleece johnson in solitary confinement, known as the segregation cell or the hole. >> i stayed in segregation, solitary confinement, for 12 years. and a lot of the officers that i fought, some of them quit. i assaulted one of the officers one day. i put him in the hospital for 30 days in serious condition. almost killed him. they gave me 15 years for it

but it happens to be in northern kentucky. in northern kentucky area of suburban cincinnati is the center of culture, arts in american history. it's the home to cincinnati kentucky international airport and gateway to the bluegrass state from the north. residents of the three counties up there, kent, boone and campbell, the area we refer to as northern kentucky live in a time of great opportunity. they have the benefit of living in a major metropolitan area of more than 2 million people with all the livability and charm of a small town. they can take advantage of the cultural amenities like the cincinnati zoo and botanical gardens, newport on the levee, newport aquarium and kentucky speedway to name a few, or they can take in a cincinnati reds games or cincinnati bengals nfl game or the cincinnati art museum. and over 25,000 acres of park land give free rein to recreation on a temporate day. and yet this proud community is also settled with a terrible distinction with being the very epicenter, the very epicenter of heroin addi

getting to know this obamacare is working just swimmingly and mitch mcconnell's home state of kentuckyand that's raising big questions about what the republican long game is when it comes to health care reform kentucky is in some ways the exception that proves the. rule it's a red state but unlike other red states it decided to go along with obamacare instead of trying to sabotage it expanded medicaid so that the working poor could have access to health insurance and it created its own state based health care exchange called knecht now just under a year into obamacare is implementation these decisions are paying quick dividends if you don't believe me take a look at these maps put together by kentucky's department of medicaid services here's kentucky before obamacare as you can see there's a whole lot of red that's uninsured people and ornge largely uninsured people only two counties have fewer than eleven percent uninsured rate now as check out kinetic kentucky right now after obamacare no red and almost no orange the vast majority of counties in that state have an uninsured rate of e

and despite -- it is certainly true that kentucky and delware hold out in ways that nobody expected. on the other hand, by the end of the civil war, five states apolish slavery. maryland abolishes slavery, louisiana, tennessee, missouri, and arkansas, abolish slavery. now, if one of the problems with the usual interpretations that focus so exclusively on military emancipation than the emancipation proclamation, and ignore this other policy, the one that caused the war to begin with, is that's have no use for the 13th amendment no explanation for why a 13th 13th amendment is necessary. if you believe, as i do -- i think increasingly historians are coming to realize that emancipation wasn't enough, which is what lincoln was saying all along. what does it take to get a 13th named to get any constitutional amendment ratified? 500,000 slaves are emaps pate bid the civil war, by the time of the war, but the number of slavessed freed isn't help inflame getting a constitutional amendment passed. what you northeast is states -- you need three/fourths of the states to ratify. there you're not

and as we look now at live radar, parts of kentucky, ohio, eastern tennessee, west virginia, and pennsylvania are under tornado watches, and what could be a very tough and dangerous night. we'll get the latest guidance on the storms in a moment. >>> but first, nbc's john yang tells us what they've done so far. >> reporter: large hail, intense lightning, high winds and dangerous thunderstorms pushed through several states, including illinois and kentucky. triggering a tornado warnings and watches. a tornado touched down in central connecticut this afternoon with estimated winds of 85 miles an hour. several homes were damaged in wolcott. heavy rains caused flash flooding in worcester, massachusetts, drivers pushing through several inches of rain on roadways. >> these severe storms will bring large hail, damaging winds. maybe even a strong tornado. there's also potentially deadly lightning with these storms. >> reporter: meteorologists at the national weather service headquarters in jackson, kentucky, remain on high alert. these meteorologists monitor severe storm systems, the potential for floo

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the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield five minutes to the gentlelady from texas, kay granger, who is the chairman of the foreign operations subcommittee on appropriations, but more importantly here, accepted the responsibility of the speaker to put together a task force to investigate the problem on the border and to recommend collusions and she has, with great success. so let me recognize, or yield five minutes to the gentlelady from texas, kay granger. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for five minutes. mr. ranger: thank you, chairman. for yielding. madam speaker, as we speak, unaccompanied minors continue to be sent from central america through drug cartel smuggling networks across mexico and through our southern border. families are being lied to and manipulated by the coyotes. the $6,000 their families spend to send their children to the united states go into the bank account of the most powerful drug cartels in the world. since october, over 58,000 unacc

of course, there is always the potential of deadly lightning. >>> meteorologists in jackson, kentucky, we main on high alert. these meteorologists monitor severe storms, the potential for flooding, damaging winds and any dangerous weather in the region. they train for days like today working with emergency management teams and sending out warnings and advisories to residents in danger zone. >> we use radar as primary tool. when we see something on radar, we want more information, we have storm spotters and we also have chasers out there we can get the report as well. >> reporter: this round of dangerous weather produced a string of severe thunderstorms that made its way from canada to the great lakes and now stretches to the southeast. people in morning 18 states are bracing for the threat of dangerous storms expected to continue throughout the evening. john yang, nbc news, chicago. >>> for the path of the storms, let's bring in weather channel meteorologist kim cunningham. kim? >> we've had already over 160 reports of severe weather today. look at this radar. look at all the is sever

kentucky is one of the states that actually still has an electric chair.the warden, you know, i want to make sure we get a shot of the electric chair. so we go to the end of the corridor in 3 cell house where they keep the execution chamber, and i remember he opened the door, and there was old sparky. and it was unforgettable. >> this is the electric chair, which is maintained by the kentucky state penitentiary in order to complete executions by electrocution. it was originally built somewhere in the 1900s. >> it's just leather and wood and metal. like any other chair. but there's this unmistakable feeling, you know people die there. >> some of kentucky's death row inmates can choose between the electric chair and lethal injection. that's also the case in the neighboring state of tennessee. and when we visited there, we met a death row inmate who soon would face that decision. and as far as daryl holton was concerned, the sooner the better. >> yeah, i was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder. my children. >> throughout the entire interview holto

the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: and that i may include tabular material on the same. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield myself six months. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for six minutes. mr. rogers: i rise today to present h.r. 5230, which provides immediate short-term funding to address the southwest border crisis. in total this bill provides $659 million to meet urgent border security and humanitarian needs for this fiscal year ending on september 30. thousands of illegal immigrants, including unaccompanied children, have flooded our borders and overwhelmed our current facilities and personnel this includes a staggering number of children arriving with no family, who are being smuggled across our borders by criminal organizations. subject to abuse and violence. we need to put safeguards in place to prevent them from taking this dangerous squour nee , as well as provide the resources needed to take care of them and process them appropriately.

i'm knee to knee with the most dangerous man in the state of kentucky.chained to anything. all of a sudden all of my questions, everything i prepared for the interview, went completely out of my head. >> victor, tell me what, originally what your crime was that brought you to kentucky state penitentiary, how long that sentence is, and then how long of that sentence you have served? >> i'm in for murder. life sentence. convicted in 2001. >> are you proud of that notoriety? i mean, we've heard you are one of the most dangerous guys here. how does that -- >> that's what i hear. i'm actually one of the most laid-back guys here. >> as all officers, i've received threats from different inmates for bodily harm. he's the only one that's actually ever tried to follow through with it. >> come on in! i'll show you what a redneck can do! >> hiatt's refusal to cooperate with officers has resulted in numerous violent cell extractions. >> they tell you to back up to the door. and if you back up, you're a bitch. if you make them come in and get you, you get a little bit

davis county is where owens borrow, cboaowensboro, kentucky, is. to replace him, the county planned to hold an election to pick a new sheriff, but in the meantime, they needed somebody interim. they needed somebody to fill the now suddenly vacant job of the county sheriff when the sheriff died. and a local judge decided that the most expedient thing to do would just to be ask the dead sheriff's widow if she would fill in for him after his death. her name was florence schumaker thompson. she was asked if she would fill in and become the sheriff in her husband's absence. she said yes. she was sworn in in davis county the day after her husband's funeral. and as unusual as it was at the time, in the 1930s, to have a woman sheriff in the united states, the reason florence schumaker thompson became nationally famous as a local county sheriff in kentucky at the time is because while she was sheriff of that county, she had to carry out a hanging. just a few weeks after she was sworn in, an african-american man named rainy bathea was sentenced to die in dav

we will bring you two truly stunning ones ahead. >>> it's a record-setting day for kentucky's alisonundergan-grimes giving mitch mcconnell a run for his money. she may be the most promising democratic challenger in the current election cycle and today she cemented her status as a fund-raiser to be reckoned with announcing a second-quarter haul of more than $4 million smashing kentucky state records. grimes is running neck in neck with mcconnell in the polls. she recently got a visit on the campaign trail from progressive star elizabeth warren. just last week she released her last attack ad, mitch mcconnell over his support for medicare changes in paul ryan's budget. >> i'm alison lundergan-grimes. >> senator, i'm a retired coal miner. i'd like to know how you could have voted to raise my medicare cost to $6,000. how are you wife and i supposed to afford that? >> you can tell when an attack ad draws blood by the level of defensiveness. on a scale of 1 to 10, i'd say this was about a 10. >> as barack obama's kentucky candidate, alison grimes repeats the same falsehoods obama does, but

and even in the midst of war, that doesn't -- i know you say that i states do that, but kentucky, for instance, does not. delaware does not. even though we are very few enslaved people in delaware. and so how likely, i know this is counterfactual but i'm still going to ask anyway, how likely would it have been that slavery would have been extinguished that way, given that these estates of absolute are not willing to go in that direction? >> no, i don't know. nobody knows because if things had been different, things would have been different. but the truth is that i don't think any interpretation of slavery's demise works without the war. the war changes everything. war makes things possible, right? i don't think the emancipation proclamation is capable without war against its a war measure. i don't think slavery would've died on its own without a war. i don't believe that interpretation. i don't think the scorpion sting would've worked without a war. on the other hand, wars don't automatically lead to slavery abolition. they never did in the past and there's a reason to think it would

. >>> senate minority leader mitch mcconnell of kentucky running for re-election has run into problemshen answering questions about health care. >> should connect be dismantled? >> hmm. take away health care coverage for nearly half a million kentuckians, or hand the microphone over to rand paul? you want to take this one, buddy? >> should connect be dismantled? >> i think that's unconnected. >> he's done it again. that's ahead. a reality for over 19 million people. [ susan ] my promotion allowed me to start investing for my retirement. transamerica made it easy. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. transform tomorrow. transamerica. hey, i heard you guys can help me with frog protection? yeah, we help with fraud protection. we monitor every purchase every day and alert you if anything looks unusual. wow! you're really looking out for us. we are. and if there are unauthorized purchases on your discover card, you're never held responsible. just to be clear, you are saying "frog protection" right? yeah, fraud protection. frog protection. fra

that people were helped in a state like kentucky. by the way, i think this whole senate picture is going to come down to kentucky. they extended medicaid in kentucky. those people need to turn out. if they don't turn out, then allison grimes doesn't have a chance against mitch mcconnell in a race where she's in a dead heat right now. >> you talk about turning people out. tomorrow the senate democrats holding their first vote in response to the hobby lobby decision led by senator patty murray. what she wants to do is something she's calling the protect women's health from corporate interference act. it would basically roll back that hobby lobby decision that found for the first time in history that corporations have some sort of imagined religious right. people may wonder, wait a minute, can congress roll back a supreme court decision? you bet they can when the decision rested on the interpretation of a law. in this case, the religious freedom act, where they said that protection meant corporate protection, even though we'd spent deca

this is the republican senator from kentucky mitch mcconnell leading the charge in the senate.there are a lot of funny stories about what brought the senator to hemp. one of them as it is reported suggests that the senator's colleague in kentucky promised not to run 18 party candidate against him in a primary if he would get defined a hemp. so whatever it takes. the reason why i include my rent aside here is we are all kind of western ranchers and i've always thought that it was a little bit unfriendly. i have to say for those of you that can't see this is my sort of black diamond driveway. well, announcing your arrival avoids accidental gunfire and unexpected nudity. beware of ghosts elite co. -- goats. i have a sympathy. i am one of you so i am really here to help as colorado gets going introducing people as processors after the inaugural expo last week a terrific event that a bunch of people were at. i was approached by just an engineering guy that said i wanted to start one of those specifications, provide a gasification facility for the processors. so these are people that

strongest storms tod will be in southern ohio, eastern kentucky and west virginia.ertainly possible. otherwise, the cloud to ground lightning is dangerous. keep an eye to the sky. damaging wind gusts and the possibility of hail as well. tomorrow, we are going to see a slight risk of strong storms along the gulf coast and into the southeast. we're also looking at scattered showers lingering to the northeast and it does start to cool off 71 degrees in chicago for a high tomorrow. well below average without much humidity. that's a look at the weather across the country. here's a peek out your window. >> good morning. i'm storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell still dy outside in the metro area and rain showers from culpepper to fredericksburg. that shoulberagff over the next couple hours. low to mid 70s, warm and humid first thing this morning. highs reach mid to upper 80s with 80% chance of thunderstorms, some likely to be strong to severe, this afternoon and into this eve. a weatheale aday on nbc 4. complete check >> and for "today's" top spot, it is around the corner

former president bill clinton returns next week for his second kentucky campaign swing with grimes.made mcconnell a top target and are throwing everything they can at him but the respected blue grass poll in kentucky shows mcconnell up two points but not good for grimes who led by four points earlier this year. plus mcconnell virtually tied among women. at the start of this election year democrats were counting on conservative tea party politics to the senate seats in georgia and kentucky would flip democrat. there are still a few key primaries left overall republicans are you night and gaining momentum and the election is 97 days from now. >> countdown is on. >>> it did not take long for the corruption trial of virginia's former governor and his wife to veer into unexpected territory. defense attorneys say bob and maureen mcdonnell's marriage was broken and the state's first lady had a crush on johnny williams the businessman lavishing them with gifts. mcdonnells are charged with 14 counts for taking those gifts. >>> stocks today struggled. dow lost 70. the s&p 500 was down nine. n

. >> when we met matthew campbell, he was serving 12 years for armed robbery and assault at kentucky state penitentiary. but his troubles began much earlier. >> the first time i went to jail was 15 years old, i burned the elementary school down. it was pretty much downhill from here. >> as an openly gay man, campbell's time behind bars has had its challenges. >> being gay in prison is really hard. i mean, it's hard enough to do time in here. but the fact that everybody knows that you are gay, it is constant pressure for sex. you have a lot of people here that -- now that they're in prison, they resort to what they have to as far as sex. i have to say there's very few people here that are gay on the streets and gay in here as well. there's a lot of people that say they don't mess around. but then when they get you by themselves, it's like hey, man, what's up? >> one of the things that struck me about matthew is how comfortable he was in his own skin. i mean, here's an openly gay inmate in a southern prison, and he didn't have any problems with it. but when we went out to the yard to t

talk about those racessism i think kentucky is a tough task for the democrats.nell should be considered a strong favorite. a state strongly republican as kentucky the idea of flipping to the president's party in a midterm election would be exceedingly unusual from political history. i think kentucky is tough for the democrats not impossible but tough. georgia is easier. and it's in part because of demographic change. georgia has a growing latino population and black turnout has risen a lot. i think michelle nun has a shot to win that race which would be important for the democrats. >> one of the things we see is that with so many tight races one point or two points yes our estimates point in one direction and think of this as a baseline. we are not trying to make predictions but gauge with the panel where we are today but it tells me that the local campaigns are really going to matter. because one or two points here can move easily. and we are going to track it and i suspect we will come back and see back and forths which should be fun to watch >> schieffer: i w

the spin associated with he upper level low over the great lakes, the cold front from ohio through kentucky. the cold front the rest of this evening a few scattered showers and thunderstorms but severe.othing lower humidity moves in for the things will be much calmer the middle of week. and warnings, thunderstorm watch in effect for most of pennsylvania and tornado watch west virginia and down through kentucky but i think that may be canceled a little early. tomorrow morning most of the showers will be out of here starting with partly cloudy little patchy fog in a few low-lying areas. bryzgal breezy, warm, an isolated shower be ruled out but most of us will be dry. you will notice the wind, breezy. overnight temperatures generally in the 70's. tomorrow 84 to 89. it will be warm. but the humidity levels drop a slight e day and chance for a passing shower. tuesday sunny high around 80 degrees. about 10 degrees below the average for this time of year. humidity will be low. >> i'm curious whether it is ndicative of what is ahead in august and september. > we are not done with summer yet. i thin

only in america, can a boy born in a single-room cabin in rural kentucky work hard and become the 16th president of the united states. and only in america, can the great-grandson of an italian immigrant who came to the united states as an indentured servant, work hard and be elected by his colleagues to serve as the majority whip of the house of representatives. because of my great-grandparents' sacrifices, i was born into a middle-class family in new orleans.

the deadliest accident took place at the kentucky darby mine. investigators concluded that methane, undetected, leaked through a wall that had been improperly constructed to seal off an abandoned part of the mine. the gas was accidentally ignited by a blowtorch. the explosion was horrific and killed melissa lee's husband, jimmy. >> he lost the top of his head. he had an o2 tank impaled through his body. the force was so magnificent, it shot him backwards so fast, it pulled his pants over top of his mining boots. it tore his hard hat into 45 different pieces. he laid dead and stepped over top of, not even recognizing it as a human body. he left me with two babies to raise by myself. >> jimmy's wedding ring was never recovered. >> he wasn't supposed to die yet. >> neither was stella morris's husband, bud. he died at harlan county's h&d mine after an underground coal car ran him over. >> from the reports, it said that it knocked his body in the bucket. you know, it amputated one leg and crushed the other. >> with the price of coal up dramatically,

the 500-foot replica of noah's ark will be bringing to kentucky. of course, many readers of the old testament will not consider the new ark to be a replica at all, because to be a replica of something, that something would have had to have actually existed before. and the whole noah's ark thing the bible is to explain what the really bible means when it says that thing no one believes anymore. the bible is littered with death penalties that no one believes anymore. the bible says the penalty for not observing the sabbath is death. no one believes that anymore. but we still have millions of people who claim to be literal followers of the bible when in fact they are not. many republicans came to be literal followers of the bible, but not one has ever called for a known adulterer, even a politician, to be put to death because they don't believe that anymore. and the only way the ark park will be able to keep some people believing what they're seeing is a replica of what noah actually built is to, let's say underplay certain aspects of the story of noa

represent us has already raised $20,000 through indigo go in a bid to crash the kentucky senate race.ver. and to knock off senator mitch mcconnell and his rival alison lundgren grimes, represent us has enlisted the help of the nation's most honest politician. his name is gill fulbright. >> hi, i'm gill fulbright the people that run my campaign have made this commercial and i'm in. this campaign is not about me. it's about crafting a version of me that will appeal to you. a version that visits random work sites with paid actors pointing at things. a version of me that doesn't find old people loathsome or pointless. has a conventionally attractive yet curiously still family. listening to my constituents legislating, these are things i don't do. what i do is spend about 70% of my time raising funds for re-election. >> see, an honest politician. joining me josh silver the director of represent us. good morning, sir. >> good morning, carol. >> so explain what you're trying to do through this ad and through your other efforts? >> so kentucky is our distribution the target of gill fulbright

but in kentucky, an exception here. although the democrat leads mitch mcconnell by seven points with women, mcconnell's advantage is more pronounced. for whatevers nasty or positive

then he wanted to continue northward through kentucky, drive across the ohio river, and reunite with lee in order to drive grant out of the trenches at petersburg. he thought that the very threat of his presence in the region would force grant to leave lee alone. although many historians have called this plan pure fantasy, scripted in never neverland, and the delusions of a drug-addicted buffoon, the confederate populace at the time had a very different reaction. one newspaper wrote, in either event hood's movement is as promising as it is bold and daring. actually, hood had conceived part of this plan as far back as the spring of 1864. in a letter to jefferson davis he wrote, my heart was fixed upon our going to the front and regaining tennessee and kentucky, to regain tennessee would be of more value to us than half a dozen victories in virginia. if hood had found the success that he wanted, the confederacy might achieve a series of stunning victories to prolong the war to the point of northern disillusionment. yet if hood failed any hopes of confederate success in the west would l

. >> a source of pride for louisville, kentucky has been the revitalization of downtown. marked by new high rises, residential and retail centers. but it also has been a busy time for another downtown landmark. the louis metro department of corrections jail books about 45 thousand men and women each year, and many of them have been through the process several times before. >> so is the life of a criminal. since the time i was 18 i've been in prison for all my life. it's all i know. >> terry says his history at louisville metro is base odd a near life-long struggle with drug use. he's been arrested 27 times and has been convicted of charges including trafficking, possession, robbery and assault. now he's been arrested after failing to appear in court on his latest drug possession charge and must begin the familiar process of booking. >> i come in here and this is what we call the grill, this is where we do our pad searches. we have the inmate stand here with his back to the wall and that officer basically tell them take everything out of their pockets. any jewelry, watches

and for kentucky tobacco farmer and state senator paul hornback, it's the best thing for 'em. >> it's long days. it's in the heat. it's out there in the sun. some days it may be 100 degrees, but that's not bad. there are lots of places to get shade to, cool off to, rest for a little while. >> what would you say to people, "this work is too dangerous far 12-year-old?" >> children need to experience things, but not tobacco farming, according to a new report by human rights watch. they're pushing for a law to ban the practice. >> we don't need more laws on the books to try to protect everybody from everything that there is out there. >> kids are tougher than we give them credit for? >> that's exactly right. when i was a seven-year-old, i was wanting to work. i was wanting to do what the men were doing. >> he was right. working on family farm fills me with pride. and no one knows better than these three tobacco-pulling scamps who have enjoyed working on a different tobacco farm in north carolina since they were 12. so tell me about your

kentucky could pick one. ohio could pick another. 44 states did, and accountability standards. thecombination of race to top and waivers for no child left behind have created a national school board. the u.s. department of education has got you over a barrel. if you need relief from no child left behind -- which all of you -- you have to ask permission and then they require you to do a lot of things. have certainyou to standards. they require you to have certain performance targets. the require you a certain way of dealing with low performance schools, and they require you to do teacher evaluation a certain way. here are the teacher evaluation requirements during -- requi rements. here is my point. i went through this teacher , 1980tion stuff in 1983 4, 1985, 1986. teachers -- asked 10,000 teachers voluntarily to go up a career ladder. if we had the federal government second-guessing us all the way up, we could not have done anything. they don't know how to do it any better than we do, and they don't know how to do it at all. we are all pioneering a little bit when we try to fi

to the midterm battleground, where alison lundgren grimes, looking to unseat mitch mcconnell in kentuckyis smashing fund-raising records. she raised 4 million bucks last quarter, breaking the minority leader's own record. mcconnell is raking in money as well. he pulled in about $3 million, bringing his total to $25 million this cycle. by comparison, he raised $20 million at the end of the entire 2008 race. >>> in audio obtained by mother jones, senator mcconnell takes a shot at lundgren grimes for her strategy in targeting female voters and is raising eyebrows for comments about women's progress in shattering the glass ceiling. >> we've, you know, come a long way in pay equity. there are a ton of women ceos now running major companies. more women are graduating from college now than men. i could be wrong, but i think most of the barriers have been lowered. and i'm a little skeptical about arguments that, particularly people like my party who are hostile to women. what kind of nonsense is that?" >> mother jones points out that the fortune 500 companies headed by women set a new high water

one of the -- i want to talk about some of the things that happened in kentucky since we're doing an update and i'm proud of the experience we had so far in my state. but there was actually some pretty astounding news early whier this week regarding the trustees of medicare coming from them about the prospects for viability of the medicare trust fund. are you familiar with that information? >> yes, i am, congressman. >> could you tell us what has happened? as i recall, when we passed the affordable care act in 2010, the trustees were projecting the trust fund would be insolvent by 2017. >> i believe if i'm not mistaken that the -- in summary the projection is that the trust fund was -- life expectancy extended to 2030. >> that's pretty astounding in four years the projection extended the life -- the viability of medicare by 13 years. and there is also some really fascinating and i think impressive data about expenditures they essentially were flat year to year, no increase when historically they have been running at somewhere between 5% and 10% annually. is that correct? >> that's co

well, if washington official won't come to kentucky, kentuckians will come to washington.ext week the administration plans to hold one of its listening sessions here in washington. i plan to testify. and so do several of my constituents, even though they'll have to travel hundreds of miles to get here. these kentuckians will make washington understand that they are more than just some statistic. they are neighbors, they are moms and dads, and they refuse to be collateral damage in some eliseist war dreamed up in a bureaucratic boardroom here in washington. mr. president, today i want to celebrate the life of a kentucky airman who lost his life while wearing our country's uniform. lieutenant colonel john did not darin lot ofit's of paducah, kentucky, a 17-year veteran of the air force, was killed on february 25, 2012, in an attack on the interior ministry in kabul, afghanistan. he was 44 years old. for his service in uniform, lieutenant colonel lot of it's received -- loftit's received several awards and decorations including the bronze star, the purple heart, the meritorio

the chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky. mr. massie: i rise today to offer an amendment that would stop the district of columbia from taking any action from citizens using, possessing or transporting a firearm. despite the u.s. supreme court decision in district of columbia versus heller that struck down the d.c. handgun ban as well as the unconstitutional gun lot provision, it is still difficult for d.c. residents to exercise their rights to bear arms. congress has the authority to legislate in this area pursuant to article 1, section 8, clause 17 of the u.s. constitution which gives congress the authority to quote, exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, unquote, over the district of columbia. through unreasonable regulation, arbitrary time limits and waiting periods and a ridiculous registration renewal process for guns that have already been registered, the government bureaucrats continue to interfere with the district's residents' rights to self-defense. the district of columbia has passed the first law ever

these two have been going at it, kentucky senator rand paul and texas governor rick perry.what dick cheney now says about these two and about the use of president obama's executive actions. [ babies cry ] it's not mine. no. um... [ male announcer ] life's bleachable moments need clorox bleach. >>> some shocking new revelations as lawmakers investigate the veterans affairs scandal. allegations of serious misconduct and also retaliation against workers who were willing to blow the whistle on what was going on in those hospitals. chief congress. al correspondent mike emanuel live on capitol hill. what do we expect to hear in terms of new findings today by these investigators? >> reporter: we expect that the assistant inspector general will tell about the findings at one regional va office, destroying military return mail, hiding mail within the mail office, cherry picking and processing claims out of order and staff failing to address 32,000-plus electronic inquiries. the person chosen to clean up the va mess says he's committed. >> i will make sure where we have documented wi

strongest storms today will be in southern ohio, eastern kentucky, and west virginia.tainly possible. otherwise, the cloud to ground lightning is dangerous. keep an eye to the sky. we're also looking at damaging wind gusts and the possibility of hail as well. now, tomorrow, we're going to see a slight risk of strong storms down along the gulf coast and into the southeast. we're also looking at scattered showers lingering to the northeast and it does start to cool off, 71 degrees in chicago for a high tomorrow. so well below average, without much humidity. below average, >>> we're watching some summer showers moving across the bay area from south to north west to san jose and offshore watching a chance of some thunder showers some moving south to north approaching the monterey peninsula. the extra cloud cover will help to keep our temperatures down as well so some showers to start the day. probably decreasing once we pass lunch time. temperatures today 80s to low 90s with more humidity. mid-80s near san jose. close to 70 in san francisco. we're heading over to readingto

strong gton, kentucky, storms led to downed trees and lines. on one street a roof on a garage was ripped off and thrown into a yard.bor's no injuries were reported. s stay with us as we track the storms. watch app andtorm you can get the latest in alerts from us. eileen will have an update on storm's track in a few moments. we want to get to the new etails in the veterans affairs scandal. the chairman of the house and senate veterans affairs reached a tentative agreement on a plan to improve the health program. jeff miller and bernie sanders have a news conference tomorrow plan.k about the their bill is expected to authorize billions of dollars in spending. it would be used to lease new linics, hire more doctors and nurses and make it easier for care.ans to get outside the v.a. has been dealing with allegations of long patient wait records.d falsified to montgomery county now where a neighborhood woke up to a nightmare. swat officers stormed a home on hallmark court in gaithersburg to find a woman dead inside. police say they have a man in this

barr from kentucky. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. barr:i thank the gentlelady for yielding. i appreciate her leadership as the chairman of the financial institution subcommittee and for her support of this important legislation. i rise in support of h.r. 5062, the examination and supervisory privilege parity act. i want to thank the gentleman from colorado, my friend, mr. perlmutter, for working with me in a bipartisan fashion to introduce and advance this legislation. in central kentucky one of our signature industries is the auto manufacturing industry. no place exemplifies this proud fact more than toyota motor manufacturing of kentucky, and the plant that is located in my district in georgetown, kentucky. with over 7,300 toyota team members and their families dependent on these high quality jobs in that facility, i'm committed to doing everything i can to support these kentucky workers. this legislation does that. h.r. 5062 is, as my friend from colorado said, a technical fix. but it is an important piece of legislation because i

. >>> a violent storm damaged homes in lexington, kentucky.to emergency calls after lightning disabled their communications. it knocked down trees and power lines in central kentucky leaving thousands without electricity. >>> an early morning hailstorm pummeled central wisconsin sunday morning. that's hail. you are looking at the pictures correctly. hailstones, two inches across, some of them t. 15-minute storm blanketed the streets with ice. >>> more severe weather is in the forecast. let's get an early look at that with jennifer gray. >> the severe threat is going to focus on the southeast. we could see severe storms from the carolinas to the gulf coast, including south louisiana. large hail, damaging winds and a slight possibility of an isolated tornado or two. we'll watch that. in the meantime, nice, comfortable cool air filtering in across the north. chicago reaching a high temperature of 71 degrees. later today, 79 in minneapolis. 82 in kansas city. in the northeast, temperatures in the 80s. boston at 80 degrees. new york city at 82. tom

. >> western kentucky university in bowling green, kentucky. some students say homecoming weekend means three things. parades, pig skins and partying. >> there's a lot of people that get drunk and do really stupid things. >> this student witnesses one such thing up close and personal during western kentucky's 2010 homecoming. early saturday evening, october 30th, medford stops by a subway on campus for a bite to eat. there a young man later identified as dennis wade crane is making a scene. >> the woman behind the counter told him to leave and he wouldn't. >> medford, sensing trouble, calls police and begins recording craig with his cell phone camera. that's when craig jumps over the counter and storms into the kitchen where the manager is trying to reach campus police. >> you could see in the video she's dialing the phone. craig followers her back there, yanks it out of the wall. >> tessa covered the story for the university paper, the herald. >> you don't hear a lot about phones being yanked out of walls. soon craig reappears in the seating a

how about kentucky, the state of kentucky? the home state of our republican leader. well over 400,000 kentuckians have signed up for coverage through the affordable care act. that's not a state with a population of illinois or new york, california or texas. it's a partially populated state, mr. president. 400,000 kentuckians have signed up for coverage. and even republicans love it. the commonwealth fund that i referred to found that 74% of newly insured republicans are happy with their obamacare health coverage. but instead of embracing the good that obama has done -- i should say obamacare has done and working with democrats to address any necessary fixes, republicans would rather file a foolish and meritless lawsuit. is there anyone that believes this lawsuit is -- has some basis? it's a sham. an effort to apiece the tea one yale law professor was questioned, here's what he said. i see this every day now. being covered as if it's real, as if it's somehow not a joke. it's a joke. another law professor from harvard said -- and i quote -- "the lawsuit will almost cer

democrats are going to try kentucky and georgia.od luck, you know, with both of them because i think it'll be tough. in both cases. but they're going to try those two. other than that, there's really nothing the democrats can pick up. they'll be lucky to pick up one of those two. the republicans have all the opportunities. we already know, really, which ones they are. so it's a question of where the electorate moves, you know? does that generic ballot number move up or down between now and the time that things start solidifying in september and october? >> speaking of money, alex, what's different this time with the midterms and the big donors? >> well, i think what's, what we're going to see change over just the next three and a half months is that the balance of spending in this campaign is going to start shifting away from the outside groups and towards the actual campaigns and candidates. the folks you heard from on the priest panel, you're going to -- previous panel, you're going to start seeing a lot more of their work and a l