such a linear colony story in new england of the puritan founding, the decline of puritanism, a sense of building religious crisis in the early 1700s, and then in the 1730s and '40s an outburst of new religious commitment as signaled in the great awakening. # # so a lot of what i am going to talk about, about the background of the great awakening, is really tracing the story most specifically of colonial new england, which is the epicenter of the great awakening in america, but the other colonies are definitely affected by the great awakening. okay? why do they have a sense of religious crisis? well, one reason you see here is a rise apparently in greed, immorallity. we've already talked about this, about the signs that people were falling away from their puritan commitment. the pastors are talking all the time about how people are consumed with business affairs and are forgetting about their love for god. they are worried that society is becoming dominated by agreed, business, and the kinds of immorality that they see coming along with that. another reason for the sense of religious

it's hard obviously to judge people's hearts, that there is some evidence that at least new england is becoming more diverse, not just exclusively puritan. now you remember that we talked about that in the 1690s, england started acquiring massachusetts to tolerate other kinds of protestants. and not just puritan, but now you have to tolerate quakers and baptists and other kinds of protestant troops. there are some intriguing pieces of evidence about rising, at least access, sort of immorality in the 1680s it looked like boston probably gets it first brothel. it is characteristic of cities in london at the time, but puritan boston gets a brothel, a house of prostitution and it's horrifying to a lot of people. occasionally, our dancing classes being offered. so, the puritans were not keen on dancing. especially between unmarried couples. so there are actually some pieces of evidence that you could look at and say well, maybe this is becoming a more diverse, non-puritan type society. maybe there is something there to that. maybe there's something to that jeremiads theme. probably the most

most were from new england. this idea of the importance of the mayflower becomes crucial to the whole thing. any questions? thoughts, comments? >> do you think the domination of the pilgrim narrative over jamestown was conscious or do you think it just kind of happened? idea -- one of the things you see happening is knowing glint is losing out in population and political -- is not only losing out in population and political influence. they are not getting the political significance they feel they deserve. they can give themselves of the national significance of the history. they presidents come from down there but the nation comes from here. what it stands for comes from here. there is a kind of confrontation. there is a section called bad settlers and that is about virginia. there is something conscious about the idea she does not like what they did down there and if america stands for that, that is not a nation you want to stand for yourself. it inn kind of talk about a way to move on from it and ignore it or

especially in new england. and it's the easiest story to tell about the coming of the great awakening. there's such a lineal colonial story about the puritan founding and the decline of puritanism. a sense of religious crisis in the early 1700s and then in the 1730s and 40s, an outburst of new religious commitment as signalled in the great awakening. so a lot of what i'll talk about is tracing the story, most specifically of colonial new england which is the epicenter of the great awakening in america but the other colonies are effected by the great awakening. okay? why do they have a sense of religious crisis? well, one reason is a rise apparently in greed, immorality. we already talked about this. about the signs that people were falling away from their puritan commitment. the pastors are talking all the time about how people were consumed with business affairs and are forgetting about their love for god. they're worried that society is becoming dominated by greed, business, and the immorality that they see g

with lawrence settled by people from new england, there was an organization called the new england immigrant company, and included people who were antislavery or abolitionists, to settle in lawrence. they would raise money to help people travel out here, and they built a building called the free state hotel to house them until they could build their homes. that was the start of lawrence. and people are coming across the border from missouri, with the idea kansas should be a slave state. there were tensions between them. in laterrted to mount years, 1855, 1856, by that time lawrence was seen as the center of what was known as the free state movement. beple who wanted kansas to free from slavery. and lawrence became a target. of the first territorial election, where voters came across the border from missouri, kansas ended up with a proslavery territorial constitution. and their capital was set up not far from lawrence, here in douglas county. but the official government was potent -- proslavery and a shadow government was set up in lawrence that was antislavery. as it turned out the sheriff o

them get support from places like new england and support anti-slavery settlers. he went on to become the first governor of the state of kansas when it entered the union. chair. a rocking it reflects the way people in lawrence have lived. they really built a community that would have built at home somewhere in new england. they focused on arts and culture, on knowledge and education. they wanted to live a sophisticated lifestyle. artifacts.e other he immigrated here from wales. we worked to rebuild the state hotel after was burnt in 1856. the miller to family, who are actually south carolinians. but they didn't believe in slavery. to move outspired here to do their part. and the farm they established on the eastern edge of town was a stop on the underground railroad. is from what is known as constitutional hall, which was the original site of the kansas territorial legislature. vote that original brought about a proslavery government in territorial kansas . it was clear the majority of voters in kansas supported kansas as free territory. a territorial government w

not in new england, of course.phins shocking new england on the final play of the game. 69-yard pass and double lateral play that give the dolphins an improbable 34-33 win over the patriots. >> touchdown! kenny drake. a miracle. >> kenyan drake getting it done. rob gronkowski not. he was out there for a possible ha hail mary. that is not what they got. "the boston globe" calls it the immaculate dejection. >>> and president trump giving "saturday night live" plenty to have work with. >> two crimes with a person identified as person number one. we don't know who individual one is, but let's say things are getting tense over at individual one tower. >> trump is now calling for an end to the mueller probe which -- i got to admit -- it's worth a shot. you don't want to go to jail and find out you could have called it off the whole time. >> president trump announced that john kelly, his chief of staff, is leaving his position at the end of the year because kelly requires extensive surgery to remove his palm from his face

royalty, to the providence of new england.ey end up in texas? >> i think in both wanted to escape their families in new england. george bush had offers to work for family firms on wall street. he didn't want to do that. barbara bush was very, admired very much, her mother-in-law but her mother-in-law was forceful and a city older, accustomed to giving a lot of advice and they wanted to strike out on their own. he talked to barbara bush that he wanted to do something real. not something in finance but something he could see and feel. so they went to texas where a lot of people were going in those it days to make their fortune in the oil patch. it was really a remarkable leap of faith. they moved to odessa, texas. they moved into half of a house. the other half was a mother and daughter prostitutes. they shared a bathroom and she told me one of the most frustrating things was, it was like a jack and jill bathroom, and the other side when one of the clients of the women who lived there would use the bathroom they would leave thei

and more winter weather is possible even in northern had new england.n the southern section of the country, especially in louisiana and mississippi and alabama, we are watching out for flooding. flash flooding is occurring there now. light snow falling across much of the plains, it's the heavy rain we are watching as the system trains in like cars on a railroad track. it will continue to bring a lot of precipitation. we see seven inches on the ground already. >> have to be safe out there. thank you. just ahead only in louisiana, this is a pot of gumbo, you have never seen before. wrinkles just won't. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair's derm-proven retinol works so fast, it takes only one week to reveal younger looking skin. making wrinkles look so last week. rapid wrinkle repair® pair with new retinol oil for 2x the wrinkle fighting power. neutrogena® take prilosec otc and take control of heartburn. so you don't have to stash antacids here.... here... or here. kick your antacid habit with prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. stock upat

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and it ok, you know, the republican party was thomas wey, was the new england, was the new york, was the upper crust, right, ofhis new england patrician party and george h.w. bush was t first emigrant from new england to the sun belt. and lo and behold, look at t party today. >> that's one of the marvelous things about his life. because in many ways, the country has been governed from 1932 to 201 a by kind of figurative conversation between fdr and reagan. even president obama governed under that. then geoe h.w. bush and his son's story is both ar mir and a -- they were both a mirror and a maker of that political journey. senator prescott bush, senator from connecticut, very much a new england republican, george h.w. goes to texas. he was the first sane seed of texas politics. >> i said he washe seed. >> but there was one -- >> don't f >> there was one republican congressman who was -- in one of te ways that bush ce into the story was drive the john birch society, an extremist, cold war, they thought that george marshall and dwight eisenhower and fdr were communist conspirators. >> t

flooding to the south takes aim at the entire east coast today. 33 million people from florida to new england in the storm zone. millions more across t country facing major travel delays. dylan has the very latest forecast just ahead. >>> mystery i the sky an ererie blue light stuns onloers in new yor this morning what officialsay caused that strange glow and shut down one of the nation's busiest airporve. >>> massi manhunt. an intense search launched in california for a suspect shooting death of a small town police officer. >> my department is hurting. we are struggling through this. >> the alleged gunman in the country illegally. what we are learning about him and the victim. a husband and father gned down just hours after celebrating christmas with his family. >>> all that, plustl b over the baby. the colorado oan accused murdering hissi mng fiancee comes fa to face with her parents. the courtroom shutdown over the custody of the young daughter. >>> doing the impossible. an american's record setting solo journey across antarctica. this morning he is joining us exclusively from t bottom of

finish it came in from new england. after four stormy weeks of the ocean, it arrived in dover filled with barrels of tar sent over by john hancock. they had leaked all over the hull. the price of the east india company's stock began to fall. the following day, the press have the just of what had happened in boston. in a few days, they had the whole story. they also knew that a similar fate was likely to default any tea that reached charleston, new york, or philadelphia. out of this shouldn't come as a surprise, and yet it did. two weeks before christmas, lord dartmouth had received a bundle of papers reporting the riot. but it was holiday time. he sat on the letter for nearly a month. in the new year, the company alerted dartmouth. but he did not share this with his colleagues. parliament nothing about the protests. then suddenly, the news was out. the press instantly saw how serious it was. the tea party became the biggest story. the month, parts of the press were saying that six regiments were already on their way to

the book printed a recommended menu for things giving dinner that included new england classics as well as sweet potato pudding. her hope for a national thanksgiving wasn't based on a desire to see people feast on the same food on the same day, of course, but she was realistic to know the culinary appeal of thanksgiving was another selling point for her vision of a shared celebration. at the same time she was promoting it, she wrote hundreds of letters to presidents, governors, members of congress, and other influential members across the nation, soliciting their support for a national thanksgiving. this is where we come to lincoln. in 1863, lincoln wrote a letter marked private -- hale wrote a letter marked private to president lincoln. permit me to request a few minutes of your precious time. we made a national and fixed union festival. the editor asked the president to issue his proclamation for a day of national thanksgiving for the last thursday of november. she also implored him to appeal to the governors of all the states to do the same. she concluded, plus the great union festiv

people lawrence and in the other -- in ther communities that were anti-slavery, but they were also new england. people mailed them to their relatives to let them know what was going on. it was the voice of the free state movement and it hoped them get support from places like new inspire anti-slavery settlers to come from places indiana. or an attack on those presses was stop the way to movement. >> one of the founders of the movement was charles robinson nd he went on to become the first governor of the state of kansas when it entered the union state and this is a rocking chair that belonged to family, and it reflects really the way that people in lawrence lived. we were a town out on the frontier, people didn't live in houses for very long. here in lawrence they built a have been hat would at home somewhere in new england. focused on arts and culture, on knowledge and education. wanted to live a sophisticated lifestyle. in this case here we also have artifacts that relate to early families in lawrence. a man named ong to lewis how and he immigrated here from wales. he was a carpenter and he

i mean,trhisches all the way from florida up through new england.we've got a lot of rain that's going to be pushing through our area. that's why we're weather alert. welso have a flood watch that goes into effect this morning. it depends on your location. it continues until tomorrow morning. you can see the rain across the areaight now. just some light stuff, heavier stuff toward the eastern shore. light stuff. i' seeing a breakn some of the precipitation as we go into gintral va and we may see a little bit of that. i don't think we're going to be dry by any stretch of the imagination. we'll have occasional drizzle. we have waves of rain that will coinue to pound o area today. flood watch through sunday morni morning for absolutely everybody. temperatures aroundh 50 w northeast winds at 10 miles per hour. it's mild out there if you're headed to wreaths across america. listen, bring extra, dry socks. temperatures in the low 50s. showers. it's not a steadily, heavy rain all the. showers throughou t

heavy rainfall that will be tracking east throughout the course of friday and then across northern new england bringing rain all the way up into southern canada. it's a warm storm system and strong gusty winds as well. we'll see those in those from baltimore to new york. from hartford to boston will likely see delays and cancellations with that. combination of the wind and heavy rain. also a chance for record highs as many towns top 60 degrees here in late december. it will be a one-day stand. the one chance for snow back into the storm, some upslope snowfall here into the appalachians. there will be some snowflakes involved with this storm. then things quiet down over the course of the weekend. chance of a few snow showers going through the great lakes especially heading into sunday. and more rain across the pacific that will be the hot spots as we make our way through the next few. but temperurot all that much colro right on up through christmas. there won't be any severe pockets of chilly air, most of the country running warmer than average. christmas eve, most of the storminess across the

he was from texas, but he was a new england republican.servatives. >> yes, absolutely. he was born in massachusetts, grew up in xwrgreenwich, connecticut. it was a rough thing for him, and when he went on to ronald reagan's ticket, reagan asked that question, before i make you vice president, this is the december of 1980, i have to know if you're going run on the platform. he was talking about, above anything else, abortion. and bush, who had been pro-choice, changed his mind. >> that was the first time that issue was put into a political context. so to have reagan make that point was part of his compromise. >> right. >> you saw the compromising of this new england republicanism to the submerging conservative push from the south. >> hue, we're talking about the role george h.w. bush played and sort of the two republican parties, if you will. he was the head of one, and he would try to bridge the divide between the two. fair in your mind? >> very fair. i wrote for "the post" today. i'm a bush republican. i was volunteering for him in '78 wh

police responding to roughout new england. and a driver plunging into deep water in hendersonville, north carolina. escaping out of the back of the sinking suv. here's gio benitez. >> reporter: tonight, that storm carving a path of destruction across the country taking aim at the east coast. multiple tractor trailers crumpled on icy interstate 89 in new hampshire. shutting down the highway. dozens of accidents near boston, cars flying off embankments, an oil truck on its side in fitchburg. it was hard just to walk around. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: this struck, submerged. more than 18 inches of snow in parts of minnesota. in st. paul, this police cruiser stops to help motorists. it's struck by a semi, which left the scene. in kansas, one person killed in a wreck on interstate 70. debbie huff among so many travelers that were forced off the roads by the blinding snow. >> zero visibility. when they said zero visibility, they meant it. >> reporter: you can see how foggy it is at jfk. more than 500 flights cancelled, and the numb

five time super bowl champions the new england patriots wrapped up the a.f.c. east title with a twenty four to two all when the over the buffalo bills for the first franchise in n.f.l. history to the pill for ten straight seasons i certainly don't take it for granted and i think i know it isn't. for my teammates and coaches that work stream hard to put us in a position to do a great job and when you have a lot of perspective and like i certainly do i realize that. you know it's incredibly difficult thing to do and i'm just very grateful steph curry is called in the last second to lift the golden state warriors two hundred twenty nine two hundred twenty seven went over the l.a. clippers in the n.b.a. elsewhere in this order twenty five points and have five assists to lead the boston celtics charlotte hornets boston one hundred nineteen two hundred three percentage . rookie sensation luka johnny shook off an injury free to return to the court with the dallas mavericks but he couldn't help them ha supporting trailblazers in lead with thirty three assholes who gave

. >> right, he was a modern-- moderate new england republican. those things are all an oxymoron how many republicans do we have in national office from new england these days? virtually none. and the other thing is that this ras someone who was known fo reaching across the aisle, known for not talking in over-done ways about himself, not getting into brawls with people. all those things seem very antique in 2018. rhaps you and i will e a day, hari, when those things are in faion once in. >> sreenivasan: do you think that the willy horton ad against michael dukakis ushered in a new era. now, while that is still a bad ad, when you look tat now,t seems tame compared to what kind of ads are on the air every twao >> it seems tame now, but that was something that hinted at racial animosity. it was certain no means george bush's best moment. in later years, heot proud of it. best he could say was, "i make a differentation between campaigning and governing." in retrospect, he nev have allowed the ad. actually, the willy horton ad was an inependent ad, bu

it's cold and windy in northern new england and that's it.e been dealing with rain in the pacific northwest. if you want to talk travel issues, this is the map. thursday afternoon, thursday evening thunderstorms going from tampa to orlando once again. by the time we get to friday we kick this rainstorms northwards. there's a little bit of wintery mix on the backside of this for anyone driving through the appalachians or ohio or kentucky but i don't think it's going to be too bad. i have yet to talk about a big december snowstorm across the country. doesn't look like it's going to happen. >>> still ahead the stock market's tough december gets even worse as u.s. markets get hammered once again. >>> ♪ only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® a lot will happen in your life. wrinkles just won't. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair's derm-proven retinol works so fast, it takes only one week to reveal younger looking skin. neutrogena® this is moving day with the best in-home w

it's massachusetts tree because lawrence was founded by the new england immigrant aid company, which was in boston. that's where they organized it to bring supplies to kansas after the act was signed in 1854. that opened kansas up to white settlement. and started off the problems that became bleeding kansas. prior to that, the decision on whether the state would be slave or free was up to congress and the campus made it up to a vote of the people. which brought people in from both sides and that's where the came from.>> today what is massachusetts street? >> is the main street of town it goes right down the middle of downtown lawrence. >> i'm seeing a lot of shops and restaurants and a lot of dependent business. is it kind of the spirit of lawrence? independent spirit?>> yes and there's been a lot of effort to keep the downtown. >> where we headed now? >> we are headed toward oak hill .emetery oak hill cemetery was founded in 1863 after quantrill dray, the cemetery didn't have the space for all the people in it. that many people dying at once you have to really look for places. if th

on sunday the new england patriots dallas cowboys used them texans and seattle seahawks all punch to get tickets the seahawks speak the kansas city chiefs thirty eight thirty one to return to the postseason after a year out it's five time super bowl champions the new england patriots wrapped up the a.f.c. east title with a twenty four twelve win over the buffalo bills the first franchise in n.f.l. history to a playoff berth in ten straight seasons i certainly don't take it for granted and i think i know art is and. i show greater appreciation for my teammates and coaches that work stream that hard to put us in a position to do a great job and when you have a lot of perspective and like i certainly do i realize that. you know it's incredibly difficult thing to do and i'm just very grateful. steph curry scored in the last second to lift the golden state warriors to one hundred twenty nine one hundred twenty seven when the los angeles clippers in the n.b.a. elsewhen kyrie irving school twenty five points and had five assists to lead the boston celtics past the charlotte hornets jason ta

rain all the way fromhe panhandle of florida all the way from northern new england, all the way back the ohio valley. it's really har to avoid this storm, and the windy conditions and the heaviest rain, theorst oft will be early this morning into areas of new york city and then it will be towards boston this afternoon. it's about a x-hour window in a lot of the airports from philly to new york and then hartford to boston where thet wof it will be there, and then it will clear out after that. back side of the storm is not too bad. a little rain around pets burg. maybe snowshowers later on tonight. then the stormineally b to exit overnight and saturday. just looks breezy, and we clea od up all the eastern hatch of the country. if you can wait, that's the aadvice. thatook at the big weather story of the day. now here's a closer look at the day ahead. well, we're fine today in areas lakes. great we'll see improving weather conditions there. obviously, the worse of it this morning right along the east coas and especially in areas of southern new england where it will be windy and heavy ra

from florida straight through new england, the highway wrecks. and the trucker sideswiping a state trooper, then taking off. >>> the major takedown. the suspect accused of fatally shooting a california police officer. authorities saying he was in the country illegally. president trump weighing in. tonight, how they tracked him down. several others arrested. and the emotional moment the officer's brother thanked police. >>> the president's threat, saying he'll close the southern border if democrats don't give him billions for his wall. as questions mount about the treatment of children in border patrol custody. >>> inside the massacre. disturbing new timeline details and images from the parkland shooting. and new questions about the response. >>> hotel confrontation. the moment caught on camera. a white hotel security guard calls the police on a black hotel guest who was sitting in the lobby. >>> out of the blue. the electrical show that captivated millions. the night sky glowing above new york city. what exactly happened? >>> and good evening. it

for example new englanders have been subject to some of the highest electricity costs in the nation well above national average because of resistance to infrastructure development but the trump administration's infrastructure plan release earlier this year is set to change all of that with an aggressive one point five trillion dollar plan that includes a sophisticated energy pipeline but an unexpected hurdle has been president tromps recent twenty five percent tariff on steel and ten percent tariff an aluminum as tariffs on pipeline materials could be especially problematic for the industry since a large share of these products are imported at another major development and holding back the building of new pipelines has been funding we did grow from american shale in recent years the industry estimates that roughly one trillion dollar is needed in infrastructure costs over the next two decades in order to keep pace with increasing oil and gas production demands with one third of that being spent on new pipelines but the good news is that direct capital investment for the construction of n

on sunday the new england patriots dallas cowboys used to take sons and seattle seahawks all punch they take it the seahawks speak the kansas city chiefs that he had thirty one to return to the postseason after a year out and five time super bowl champions the new england patriots wrapped up the a.f.c. east title with a twenty four twelve win over the buffalo bulls the first franchise in n.f.l. history to earn a playoff berth in ten straight seasons i certainly don't take it for granted and i think i know art is and. i show great to appreciation for my teammates and coaches that work stream the hard to put us in a position to do a great job and when you have a lot of perspective and like i certainly do i realize that. you know it's incredibly difficult thing to do and i'm just very grateful. couple of the oldest champions river plate's have returned home to a celebration from their fans in when are sirees river beat local rivals baka juniors in the final of south america's biggest club competition earlier this month that match was controversially moved to madrid following an attack on p

we are still watching still in new england a few icy spots pushing into higher elevations.d of that storm as we go early throughout the day today. we still have a lot of significant weather on the west coast we're going to be dealing with. one of those little pieces of energy from those storms comes down and we get more rain returning to areas from texas to louisiana and then this mess thursday into the southeast, friday on the east coast. again, if you have travel plans on those days it's not an ice or snowstorm but there will be some thunderstorms, there will be some heavy rain and there will be some travel delays at the airports. >> rinse and repeat, huh, bill? spidey spins his web to the top of the box office. you're watching "early today." . that's a win. but it's not the only reason i switched. the geico app makes it easy to manage my policy. i can pay my bill, add a new driver, or even file a claim. woo, hey now! that's a win-win. thank you! switch to geico®. it's a win-win. only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fa

rain all the way from the panhandle of florida all the way from northern new england, all the way backo the ohio valley. it's really hard to avoid this storm, and the windy conditions and the heaviest rain, the worst of it will be early this morning into areas of new york city and then it will be towards boston this afternoon. it's about a six-hour window in a lot of the airports from philly to new york and then hartford to boston where the worst of it will be there, and then it will clear out after that. back side of the storm is not too bad. a little rain around pets burg. maybe snowshowers later on tonight. then the storm really begins to exit overnight and saturday. just looks breezy, and we cleared up all of the eastern a of southern new england where it will be windy and heavy rain. the risk of some flooding. the southeast will clear up this afternoon. it's amazing that the rest of the holiday forecast was a million times better. we'll talk about that coming up. >> at least we got that. thank you. >>> social media this morning is praising a young wal-mart cashier after he took ca

takes aim at the entire east coast today. 33 million people from from a to new england in the storm zone. millions more all across the country facing major travel delays. dillon has the latest forecast just ahead. >>> mystery in the sky. an eerie blue light fills the new york skyline stunning onlookers. what officials say skaus caused that glow and shut down one of the nations busiest airport. >>> massive manhunt. an intent search in the shooting the defgt a small town police officer. >> my department is hurting. we are struggling through this. >>> the alleged gunman in the country illegal. what we're now learning about him and the victim. a husband and father gunned down just hours after celebrating christmas with his family. >>> all that plus battle over the baby. the colorado man accused of murdering his missing fiance coombs face-to-face with the parents. the courtroom showeding over custody of the young daughter. doing the impossible an inside look at an american's record setting solo journey across antarctica. and feeling lucky. we have 348 million reasons to get excited for the fi

he came from new england, good, puritan stock. people said the same thing after barbara bush died. the two of them represented a stallwart, stern, modest character that one associated with new england, from the founding of the country onward to a lot of these families, bush was from a famous political family, went to yale, went to a prep school in new england. but finally he went off to find his own way after enlift inning the may you i have, world war ii -- navy, world war ii. he went to make his career in texas. back then, texas was still the frontier. he was a risk taker. paul: you talked to two things there. i want to talk about the military background. he en enlifted at 18. you had a conversation you mentioned earlier with a current member of the military, talking about how much they reveer the george h.w. record. tell me about that. >> i was talking to a friend of mine who is a former fighter pilot in the navy, flew off aircraft carriers in iraq, and he was telling me that to this day, george bush remains a he revered and iconic figure in the navy, especially among the fighte

heavyain from miami, tampa, jacksonville a the fwhie tway i the northeast and new england. a melting snow risk increases that flood threat in the carolinas. as far as impacts on the roads and thepo as, possible delays on thursday for chicago, st. louis, detroit, d.c., new york, boston. likely delays for atlanta, charlotte, on into parts of orlando. and look at the roads. i-75, miami to atlanta, atlanta to raleigh on i-85 and i-95, miami up to washington, d.c. we move into thursday when it's really going to be busy. the airports that most lelely will sees, boston all the way to d.c., raleigh, charlotte, and atlanta. possible delays back through chicago and on i-77 fro charlotteo cleveland. i-80 from chicago to new york. i-95 from raleigh all the way up to boston. we look for delays. it will be a real mess. it's het of here by saturday. by then damage will have been done. back to you. >> thank you. >>> craig is here joining us with new developments on a story we are following. >> good morning. cbs announcing that the investigation into sexual misconduct allegatio against forme

so much for the myth of the stamped episcopalian new englander. george bush was so stoic. he developed his own teary-eyed reputation as the founding member of what the bush family calls the ball brigade -- that would bawl. he was considered, people thetic, and kind. and the bushes passed on these values to their children. they nurtured a family of leaders whose contributions have enriched this country even more. few men so powerful would have even thought to call for a kinder, gentler nation. even fewer could have lived it themselves. his words literally lifted our spirits. his example inspired us. a quarter century after george bush left the oval office, his legacy continues to directly inspire not just a thousand points of light but millions of volunteers who serve others. so, madam president, in war and peace, in public and in private, in high office and in family moments, george bush stayed the course. the greatest generation indeed. the grand heroism that saved our nation. the quiet diligence that built it up, and the basic goodness that sustains it, all in one. today

sunshine from new england all the way down into northern florida.ll get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. this is a problem headed out around the tri valley. this is a look at 580 in dublin. dense fog drifting by and fog in parts of the north bay. other than that, we are seeing some mostly clear conditions and we'll get some sunshine peeking out from behind the clouds later on today as our highs reach into the upper 50s and low 60s. unsettled weather moves in going into the start of the weekend. by friday, we're seeing some showers. saturday is looking dry, and then by sunday, another storm system brings us rain by christmas eve. weather. >>> al, thank you. coming up, who had the latest what led investigateers to return to that missing mom's home in colorado. >>> and the congressman who was offended by a pete davidson joke, is now lending the "snl" star an ear in his time of need. ♪ toyland, toyland ♪ little girl and boy land ♪ while you dwell within it ♪ you are ever happy there

made $11 million, more than bill belichick, who coaches the new england patriots the top basketball coaches make seven oring my million door a year, people say, well, these sports programs also campus, they're making money, they're giving back to the academics. well, they're not. maybe the should but they're not. the money is used to pay the coaches, and to build these gilded facilities, locker rooms, practice facilities, weigh rooms with hot and cold tubs. so the money that is generated by the programs, they spend it. >> host: go back to college basketball. want to talk about the nan's decision to put a cap to stop -- to not allow high school players to good droningly into the nba. did that create this one and done they call it? that create this culture in the knack? >> the nba, when they decided to you couldn't go right from high school to the nba, as lebron james famously did, created this weird thing called one and done where the top player goes and just play one year in college, traded all kinds of unintended consequencees. not a great thing bus no onening reasonably say that a kid is

we're talking 1 to 3 inches in the northeast and new england. damaging winds, power outages from the southeast all the way into the northeast. look for wind gusts of 50 miles per hour to 60 miles per hour, especially as you get into new england. if that's not enough, back behind it, we're talking snow along the spine of appalachians. there could be upwards of 6 inches, guys. a lot of impact through saturday. back to you. >> all right, al. >>> now, we're going to turn to the storm's impact on your travel plans. gabe gutierrez is in atlanta, in one of the busiest airports. good morning. >> reporter: things are hopping in atlanta. but the lines are running smoothly. the biggest disruptions, in northeast. la guardia, newark, facing delays so far. yesterday, we saw 7,000 delays and 250 cancellations. today, we've seen several hundred delays so far. tsa is expecting to screen 2.7 million travelers through tomorrow. if you look at the big board here in atlanta, we can see no major delays so far. everything seems to be on time. the major airlines are no

and then on the 19th a ship came in from new england. after four stormy weeks in the ocean, the haley arrived at dover filled with barrels of tar sent over by john hancock which perhaps as an omen had leaked all over the hold. the day after she dropped anchor, the price of the east india stock suddenly began to fall as traders with inside knowledge rushed to sell. the following day the press had the gist of what had taken place in boston. by the weekend they had the whole story complete with the mohawks and meetings of the old self and number of tea chests tossed in the harbor given precisely. they also knew a similar fate was likely to fall to any tee that reached charleston, new york and philadelphia. none of it should come as a surprise and it did. two weeks before christmas lord dartmouth had received a bundle of papers from thomas hutchinson reporting the first of the riots but it was holiday time and dartmouth set on the letter for a month before telling the governor to keep his nerve. in the new year the company alerted dartmouth

it was thomas doey, was new england, the upper crust, right, new england pa trigs party, and george h.w things about his life. in many ways the government has been funded by a conversation. even president obama governed under that. then george h.w. bush and his son's story is both a mirror and a -- they were both a mirror and maker of that political journey. senator prescott bush from new england, very much a republican, george h.w. bush goes to texas, he was the first sane seed of texas politics. >> i said seed. don't forget seeds get wild. >> there was one republican congressman. the one way bush came into this story was to drive the john burch society, an extremist cold war that they thought that george marshall and dwight eisenhower were big conspirators. >> they were a bigger problem in dallas rather than houston back in the day. >> george h.w. bush, his first job was chairman of the republican party. he ran in '64 and then was in the house from '66 to '70, but he was, i think -- in fact, one quick story about tim mcbride, anita's wonderful husband, who was the body mar for george

that for this country, and everything he did for americans with disabilities, and really a true new englander through and through. from let's go to lewis salisbury, north carolina. caller: good morning. i also would like to give my condolences to the bush family. what they have gone through this year alone, i know that man truly loved his wife. you can see just through the passing of one, how recent this gentleman just past. george h.w. bush was a very good president and he truly served our country. you never heard him speak badly of anyone, especially the media, especially other opponents that he had to go against. this shows you he is truly an american that loved america and our constitution. he will be missed, i am sure. thank you for my opportunity to give condolence to their family. host: one of the things we have not talked much about this morning as president george h.w. bush's love of sports. here is a tweet we see from core ofwho found a box yale versus fordham where he writes, one of my favorite box, april 12, 1941, yell captain george h.w. bush at first, a kid name vin scully in th

ral and northern new england. and then your lake effect snow could produce two to outhree, f inches especially near sacuse and across parts of pennsylvania as well. on the west coast, we hav another storm system that's going to move eastward. this will guarantee a white christmas for areas in the rockies. this moves eastward, the higher elevations could see as much as 2 ihes of snow through the northern sierra. also the cascades, too, and this will dive down into the four corners and produce some rain andlso some higher elevation snow. and that could be enough to make for that white christm in the mountains. >> good news for some. we'll have a white christmas. dylan, thank you. >>> there is much more to getto including supreme court ginsburg.th bader she's up and working as she recovers from cancer surgery. she's at memorial sloan-kettering here in new york after she had two malignant growths removed from her left lung on friday. doctors eound nodence of any remaining cancer but they haven't said when the -year-ol

from florida straight through new england, the highway wrecks.nd the trucker sideswiping a state trooper, then taking off. >>> the major takedown. the suspect accused of fatally shooting a california police officer. authorities saying he was in the country illegally. president trump weighing in. tonight, how they tracked him down. several others arrested. and the emotional moment the officer's brother thanked police. >>> the president's threat, saying he'll close the southern border if democrats don't give him billions to pay for his wall. as questions mount about the treatment of children in border patrol custody.

. >> as a teenager, he excelled at andover, an upper crust new england prep school.e graduated in 1942 and joined the navy to become a fighter pilot in world war ii. >> the time i was in the service was critically important to me because i came out of it admittedly privileged background. next thing i know i was thrown into combat or going to preflight school. i was 18. just turned 18. >> he barely escaped death after being shot down. he was rescued by a navy submarine. the whole scene captured on film. >> i think natured in those days. i think i became a man from that experience. >> he returned home to proud parents. his father prescott bush was a successful investment banker. and to his sweetheart barbara pierce. they married in 1945. he enrolled in yale. and in 1946 with the birth of george w., he became a father himself. he was a standout at yale, captain of the baseball team, graduating in 1948. but he left his new england roots and with family help got into the oil business in texas. >> hellhello, everybody. i'm prescott bush, republican candidate for the united